Majed Mahmoud – The Story of Prophet Shuaib & the People of Madyan

Majed Mahmoud
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The segment discusses various political and economic topics including the rise of Islam as a Christian religion and the potential solution to inflation. The segment ends with a brief advertisement for a marketing campaign.
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So are you ready to hear how Muhammad

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sallallahu alayhi wasallam defined who is a Muslim,

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ready?

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He says the Muslim, مَنْ سَلِمَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ مِنْ

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لِسَانِهِ وَيَدِهِ The true true Muslim is the

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one, ready?

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Because now you can check, am I a

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Muslim or not?

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The Muslim is the one, has two attributes.

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The one whom the people feel safe from

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his tongue and his hand.

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I don't understand.

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The true Muslim is someone, let's say for

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example I choose Majd, may Allah grant you

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Jannah, see what I mean?

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So if he's a true Muslim, that means

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when I give him my back and I

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walk away, I feel safe, he will not

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hurt me with his tongue, as in backbite,

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as in gossip about me, as in talking

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trash about me.

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Not just the tongue, also physically.

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He will not try to harm me in

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any way, shape or form.

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So if the people feel that way towards

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you, then it's a sign you're a true

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Muslim.

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Now there's an upgrade to that.

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What's the upgrade?

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Not the main cabin, there's the Delta Comfort

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Plus.

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Alright, first class.

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What's the first class?

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The same hadith.

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Rasulullah ﷺ says, do you know who is

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the Mu'min?

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Oh, that's next level.

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Al-Mu'min is a different level.

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Ready for the definition?

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Rasulullah ﷺ says, al-Mu'min man aminahun naas.

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The one whom the people feel safe trusting

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him with their money and their life.

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Have you reached that inshallah?

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May Allah make you all reach that.

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Say amin.

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You reach a point, someone can leave $10

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,000 in front of you to go use

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the washroom, come back and they will not

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lose it.

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Someone is comfortable giving you the keys to

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his house when he's going to hajj and

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trusting you with his money and his life.

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Allahu Akbar.

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May Allah make us all reach that level

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of Iman.

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Why did I start with this introduction?

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Because this story is a lot more heavy

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in a way than the previous two.

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The first nation we spoke about was the

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nation of Aad.

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Who was their prophet?

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Who was the prophet of Aad?

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Hud.

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And then we spoke about the nation of

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Thamud.

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Who was their prophet?

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Salih.

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Aad had one punishment.

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It was a strong wind and severe calamity,

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right?

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Wind.

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The people of Thamud did more crimes.

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So they got not one punishment, they got

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two punishments, right?

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The earthquake, Ar-Rajfa, and a very screeching

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loud blast noise that made them lose everything

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and die from it.

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Today or tonight, it's a group of people,

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they won't get one, they won't get two,

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they'll actually get three.

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And that's not very common in the Quran.

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Why?

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What's so different about them?

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They are people who didn't just not believe

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in Allah, they went against the definitions we

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provided.

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And you will see that shortly, inshallah.

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Today's people are the people of Median.

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Median is a city that was named after

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the family's name.

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You guys with me?

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Some scholars say today's city of Median is

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actually in southern Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, known

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as Ma'an.

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Known as Ma'an.

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That's what some scholars have said.

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Now Median, that was the family name of

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the people we're about to talk about.

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And when were they living?

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What's their era?

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Anybody knows?

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Around which time are they after Nuh?

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Before, obviously, Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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Are they after Musa?

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What's your take?

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Who knows?

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Anybody can help me out?

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The people of Median, when did they come?

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Take a shot at it.

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Go ahead.

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After Salih Alayhis Salaam, this man is a

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smart man, may Allah bless you.

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Fantastic.

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Anybody can get me a little bit closer?

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Go ahead.

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Before Musa Alayhis Salaam, inshallah, that's a correct

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answer.

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Allah says in the Quran, The closest nation,

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they came right after Prophet Lut Alayhis Salaam.

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So Prophet Lut Alayhis Salaam, he was the

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closest to them.

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Pay attention.

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In terms of time, like right after, and

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in terms of location.

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In terms of time and in terms of

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location.

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Famously known, the people of Lut Alayhis Salaam,

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where did they live?

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Near the Dead Sea, right?

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In Palestine.

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In Arabic, it's called Sadum.

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In English, I think it's called Sodom.

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S-O-D-O-M.

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But besides these, we don't have a confirmation

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in the Quran, so we'll move past that.

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But they're close to Prophet Lut in time,

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and Prophet Lut in what?

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In location.

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Fantastic.

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What were some of their blessings?

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala shares with us

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certain blessings.

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And the way, inshallah, we're going to go

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about this is as follows.

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We told you about the people of Median

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a bit.

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I will tell you the blessings Allah gave

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them.

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Then what do you think I'll go to

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next?

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How they misused the blessings.

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Then they misused the blessings.

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Then Allah, from His mercy, will send them

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someone to teach them.

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Fair enough?

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You see the process?

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Yalla, what are some of their blessings?

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says they had

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so many resources.

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They were bikhayr.

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They had every mean that you can think

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of.

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They had the wealth.

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They had the health.

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There was no plagues and diseases.

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None of that stuff.

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They had so much power, Allah says.

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And they had so many people.

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The population was big.

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And they had a lot of children.

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Do you think that's a blessing?

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Children are a blessing?

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What do you guys think?

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I don't know if I share this or

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not.

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But children are a blessing.

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The kids are saying yes.

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What about parents?

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All right?

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I was writing the notes.

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And then my daughter, she said, she saw

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something along the lines of, you know, how

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children are a blessing.

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She's like, Baba, we're not a blessing.

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She said, we are a waste.

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We are so annoying.

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And we're a waste of money.

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I'm like, Allahu akbar.

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Allahu akbar.

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All the money that we spent is khalas?

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La wallah.

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They're not annoying, inshallah.

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Nor are they a waste of money.

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Why?

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Because the Prophet taught us something.

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Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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The best dollar you ever spend is on

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your family.

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The best penny they ever spend.

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The best.

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Why?

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Because you're doing something of, quote unquote, like

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charity and act of worship.

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And they are your family.

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So you get double.

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Allahu akbar.

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May Allah make us generous to our family.

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Say ameen.

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You know, not being generous is quite a

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tough situation.

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Even Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, a woman

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went to him and she asked him, Ya

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Rasulullah, you know, I got a few men

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proposing to me.

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And she detailed the names of the men.

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And one of them was stingy.

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And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says,

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he's no good.

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Allahu akbar.

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So you got to be careful, brothers.

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Ready?

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Be very generous, inshallah.

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So next time you go to a restaurant,

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don't always order water.

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Because we do that just for the bill.

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I know, not healthy.

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Not healthy like that.

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You want to eliminate so bad that it

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was $6.50. I feel you.

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Right?

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You see?

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Alhamdulillah.

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And the dessert is a whole other story.

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Let's move on, inshallah.

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So they had so much blessings in children.

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Now unfortunately, the way people look at children

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sometimes actually can be different.

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And I'm not exaggerating if I tell you,

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I was shocked when I took a marketing

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class at the University of Windsor.

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Not too far from you.

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And then the professor was talking about the

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issues in the world.

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Like he just went all like so sad,

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depressing way.

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And he's like so negative.

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It was so painful.

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The financial calamity.

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The inflation.

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Look at the situation.

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Look at even, you know what?

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The pollution in the world.

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He mentioned all the problems.

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After he mentioned the problems, you know what

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the professor told us?

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I was in class.

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He says, what do you guys think the

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solution may be to this?

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What's the solution?

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What do you guys think the solution?

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Go to Mars.

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Fantastic.

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You have Elon Musk revision too.

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MashaAllah.

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Okay, fantastic.

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What's the solution to all the problems?

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Be optimistic.

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Ihsan.

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Fantastic.

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What is it?

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The solution are children.

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May Allah bless them.

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Say ameen.

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Children, do you agree?

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Go ahead.

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What's the solution here?

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To not have children.

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To not have children.

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Allahu Akbar.

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Actually, to be honest with you, that's exactly

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what the professor said.

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And he was dead serious.

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But he said it in a quite adult

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mode.

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Right?

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And he said, do not have children.

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Stop having kids.

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Enough.

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That's why they're causing inflation.

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That's why all these problems.

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And I thought it was a joke, but

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he kept going and going.

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Then he moved on to the next point,

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which was very disappointing.

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But in Qur'an, Allah gives you two

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verses.

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Ready?

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How many?

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Two verses.

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Look how beautiful.

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Allah says in the Qur'an, أعوذ بالله

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من الشيطان الرجيم.

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For you who have children right now, and

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you're scared of the present situation, this ayah

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is for you.

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وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُم مِّنْ إِمْلَاقُ نَحْنُ نَرْزُقُكُمْ وَإِيَّاهُمْ

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Allah says, do not kill your children for

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the fear of poverty.

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Don't let that financial situation gets you so

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nervous that you're willing to ruin and destroy

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your child.

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May Allah protect us.

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And this killing of children, not just in

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the past where Allah puts it in the

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Qur'an, Allah says it, that they used

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to bury their own kids, right?

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Out of fear of poverty, I cannot afford

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having a kid.

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They would actually bury the kids.

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That's one of the reasons.

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But even today, some people can kill their

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own children.

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Yes?

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And we're not talking about medical reasons and

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so on and so forth.

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But a reason that inshallah, all of us

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can agree as Muslims, it is not appropriate

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to choose to kill a child in the

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womb of a mother for the fear of

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not having enough money.

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Correct?

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Because this happens and more common and more

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common.

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And this is unacceptable in every way.

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Allah says, don't kill your child for the

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fear of lack of money.

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Fair enough?

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But what about the other ayah?

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Not about the fear of the present, but

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the fear of the future.

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Some people say, I don't know about the

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future.

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I cannot have any more.

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Things are becoming very expensive.

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Oh, you who's worried about the future, this

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ayah is for you.

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Allah says, وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقُ نَحْنُ

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نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ إِنَّ قَتِلَهُمْ كَانَ خِطُؤًا كَبِيرًا Khalas,

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you're expecting, when a soon, no, Allah says,

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we will provide for the child, then we

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will provide for you.

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It's a little bit detailed.

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So pay attention.

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Ready?

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The first ayah I said, Allah said, I'll

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provide for you parents, then He says, I'll

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provide for the children.

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Because that's present.

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The ones worried about the future, Allah says,

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I'll provide for your children, then provide for

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you.

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And if you ask almost anyone in this

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auditorium or theater, oh, you who was expecting

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a child or just had a child, you

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see how Allah opened the doors for you.

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Yes or no?

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Some nods, yes?

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Every single one of my kids, I have

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a story for you.

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First job that ever got full time was,

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was when Maryam came.

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Allahu Akbar.

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Right?

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Another child I had, I got something else.

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Another child I had, I got this.

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It's just unbelievable.

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And I'm not the only story.

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Every parent here has a story.

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So next time you get a promotion, a

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raise when you're about to have a kid,

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please do not attribute it to your hard

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work.

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Another in terms of having a child, that

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is the work.

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May Allah grant us all Jannah.

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Say ameen.

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Fantastic.

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Why do you spend so much time on

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this?

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Because Allah highlights it in their story.

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Having kids is a blessing.

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Having a big family is a blessing.

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And remember, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, an authentic

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narration, he used to dislike or he used

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to push against being single.

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And that's what Anas Ibn Malik said in

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an authentic narration.

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He never used to like people just to

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remain single.

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And he says, Tabattul, as in like for

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the reason of being devout worshipers.

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That's authentic narration.

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So people say, I don't want to really

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get married until I perform Hajj.

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I don't want to really get married until

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I like, you know, I go to Medina

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and Al-Aqsa and so on.

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Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he doesn't like that.

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That's why Anas Ibn Malik said, Nahyan Shadeedah.

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He was very strict on it.

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Don't do that, devout worshiping.

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What if he hears some of our people

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saying, I don't want to get married until

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I travel the world.

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If like going to Hajj and stuff, the

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Prophet didn't like that.

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I want to be the type of guy

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that prays all night.

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I don't want a spouse to ruin that

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momentum.

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The Prophet says, don't do that.

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Imagine like, let me just go until I,

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you know, go up further in the ladder

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in the company.

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Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was against that.

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Fair enough.

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So I don't want no one to tell

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me because it happens very frequently.

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I tell a brother who's a 23-year

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-old guy.

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So where's marriage in the picture?

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Where's the to-do list?

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He's like, no, I'm only 23.

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You're only what?

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You're only 23.

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What do you mean?

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I'm only 23.

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What is it supposed to mean?

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All right.

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It should be on the to-do list.

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Dua.

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Some serious dua.

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Ya Allah, grant me a righteous spouse even

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younger than 23.

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Put it on a dua list until Allah

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make it possible.

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May Allah grant you all righteous spouse.

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Say ameen.

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You want some marriage advice?

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Last one.

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Because I'm seeing your eyes like undivided attention.

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This is pretty bad.

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Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah.

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All right.

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May Allah grant you all Jannah.

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Say ameen.

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Fantastic.

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What's the last blessing?

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They had lessons learned from those before.

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I don't understand.

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They were educated about what happened to Prophet

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Lut.

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They knew what happened to Prophet Salih's people.

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He knew what happened to Prophet Thamud's people.

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And they know what happened to Prophet Nuh's

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people.

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How is that a blessing?

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Tell me, how is that a blessing?

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Who thinks?

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Who can give me a suggestion?

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How is that a blessing?

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Go ahead.

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Fantastic, right?

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When you see someone making a mistake, it's

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just logical that you're in a way a

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step ahead to an extent, right?

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So they don't have one story, they have

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four, that Allah mentions in the Quran.

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So when you see other people's mistakes, take

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this as a blessing.

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That you were not the mistake to learn

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from, you can learn from other people's mistakes.

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So may Allah make us intelligent.

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Say ameen.

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Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when Allah was teaching

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him about them, Allah shows how they used

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all these blessings against Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta

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'ala.

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And what makes them different is what?

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Is that their issue with the Creator, and

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the second issue with the creation.

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That one more time, this is very important,

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because it's the highlight.

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Their problem, what makes them so bad, is

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the problem they had with Allah, and with

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the creation.

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That's why the punishment will be tripled.

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May Allah protect us, Ya Rabb.

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And the thing that they used to worship

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was a tree.

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Have you ever read in the Quran, Ashab

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al-ayka?

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You heard that before?

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Ashab al-ayka, the people of the tree,

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that's them.

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They were the ones that used to worship

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this tree, and seek blessings from it.

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All the advancement.

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But they still had this inclination to idol

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worshipping.

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Some people today, may Allah guide you and

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me, say Ameen.

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And if you're someone like that, you may

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have never known before, but maybe this opportunity

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is for you to know inshaAllah.

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Ready?

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Some people, inshaAllah, accomplished people and so on,

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and you see on their social media, on

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their bio, such and such and such and

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such, such and such and such and such,

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then the blue eye.

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I don't inject my bio, right?

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No.

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Or for example, they put a story of

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them playing with their children, then they go

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on the emoji section.

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I actually had to confirm this before the

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lecture.

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I actually went on this.

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Instagram stories, to add a gif, or I

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don't know, what is that?

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Then I put blue eye, and I get

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the blue eye.

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It's a thing, even to non-Muslims.

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SubhanAllah.

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It's not an Islamic thing, but many of

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the people relate to it.

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So the point being is that, as educated

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as you may be, do not resort to

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these things, only Allah can protect.

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Fair enough?

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Don't put a LeBron James on us.

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What do you mean?

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May Allah guide him, say Ameen.

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But one time a reporter was talking like,

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you're so clutch, I don't know what, and

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you're the best, the go, and he's like,

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knock on wood.

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Yeah, LeBron, you are worth over a billion

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dollars.

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But still knock on wood.

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So may Allah educate us, say Ameen.

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And this comes to show you that everyone

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in this room, including myself, we have this

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inclination of spirituality.

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No matter how much we decline God.

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May Allah make us be spiritual in the

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right way, say Ameen.

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So this is with Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala, and Allah calls them the zalimin.

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Allah says those who worship other than Allah,

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those who prioritize people over Allah, they're oppressors.

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No, you're not oppressing Allah.

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Allah says in the Quran, وَمَا ظَلَمُونَ وَلَكِن

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كَانُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ Allah says you're oppressing no

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one but yourself.

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When you do not prioritize Allah in your

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life, you're causing yourself oppression.

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You're harming your own self.

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Allah's free from all of us.

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Allah doesn't need any of us.

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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us

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Jannah, say Ameen.

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So we all, this is your haq, your

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right.

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Your right is to go to paradise if

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you worship Allah.

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It's a right that you have.

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You guys know that.

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It's your right to go to Jannah.

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Not just that, everyone here has a house

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in Jannah.

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Wallahi, it's built.

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I swore by Allah.

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But the thing is that, well, you go

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ahead inshaAllah and just turn that key.

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Well, maybe there's no keys because there's no

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issues inshaAllah.

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Go right to the Jannah.

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You know what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam said?

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He says everyone in my ummah goes to

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Jannah, to paradise.

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Everyone goes to paradise except the ones that

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do not want to.

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So the Sahaba said, who doesn't want to?

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He says whoever obeys me goes to Jannah.

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And whoever disobeys me chose not to go

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to Jannah.

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So may Allah make us of those who

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obey him.

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Say ameen.

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Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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When it comes to the creation, there was

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a very big highlight of their crimes.

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And what was it?

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They were cheaters.

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They used to play games with the scale,

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with the balance.

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How can you relate to this to today's

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time?

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You know, for example, they have a weight

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that shows five pounds.

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But in reality, it is seven pounds.

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That's when they sell.

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Like, oh, you got seven pounds off for

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oranges.

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But actually the thing is five, but they

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changed the number on it.

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How can you relate this to today's time?

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People cheating in their business.

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How?

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Well, we're good these days.

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Halal fish?

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Oh, fantastic, right?

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Actually, that's pretty good.

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That's actually a really good one, right?

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The guy gets a beef.

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Forget beef, pork.

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Then he puts a halal stamp.

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Halal.

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What do you mean halal?

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What is halal?

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Right?

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Just put a sticker halal and don't even

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verify, don't even know what's going on.

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So that's actually a very good example.

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How many people they roll up or they

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change the odometer of a vehicle?

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Right?

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It's 100,000 miles.

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He plays around with it, makes it 79

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,000 miles.

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So the price goes up.

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But you know, the value is not what's

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actually you're sharing with the people.

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Allah says these people are not fair.

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They're so unjust.

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May Allah protect us.

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Say ameen.

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And this happens, you know, in the automotive

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industry in 2015, there's a very famous German

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car manufacturer that was exposed and admitted that

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they played with the emissions of the car.

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Let me explain a little bit.

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So the car is a diesel type of

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vehicle and it releases emissions that are horrible

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to the society, okay, to the environment.

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They installed something in the car that when

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someone tests the emission of the car, the

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software turns on and shows to the tester

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that it's a pure, clean diesel engine.

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This was in 2015, probably very famous.

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Some of you know about Volkswagen.

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SubhanAllah.

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So eventually they got, taban, the whole news

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knew about it and it went viral.

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A big company like that.

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And you know, that's a lot of damage.

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You know, how bad was the emissions?

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It was 150 times more than the regular

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car.

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SubhanAllah.

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So when people do these damages, don't say,

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oh, I'm just harming myself.

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They're harming society at large.

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This was a chaotic situation.

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Then you have another story.

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2016, Wells Fargo.

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They revealed that 5,300 employees.

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You know how many human beings that is?

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5,300 employees.

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What about them?

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They secretly opened phony bank accounts.

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Why?

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So they can achieve their goals.

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Like, oh, I was able to manage seven

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credit cards and open this many accounts.

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Oh, we're fake.

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SubhanAllah.

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So all that.

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Now, okay, well, how did this harm you?

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Well, their stocks go up because they're doing

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well.

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Then eventually they get exposed and all your

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retirement account drops.

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And it's a disaster for all of us.

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So you see how cheating goes very far?

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Many people are just, you know, short-sighted.

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Let us be very farsighted with that.

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Rasulullah ﷺ, he dislikes and he is so

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angry when people cheat.

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One time he walked in the mall, like

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let's say a group of stores.

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So he went to a store that was

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selling grain.

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Focus with me, may Allah bless you.

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So when he saw the grains, it was

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a custom that people actually grab the grains

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or the huboob and so on.

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And they actually see it and they test

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the quality of it.

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When the Prophet ﷺ placed his hand into

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that bucket and he took his hand out,

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the tip of his finger was wet.

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The tip of his finger was what?

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Wet.

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What does that mean?

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Something, this is not supposed to be wet

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because if it's wet, it will ruin.

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Rotten the seeds.

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It would rotten these items.

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So the Prophet ﷺ, I want you to

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all learn inshallah from that and I learned

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from it.

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Ready?

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He didn't say, why is there water?

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Like, no, this is, no.

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He says, مَا هَذَا يَا صَحِبَ الطَّعَامِ Can

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you have an explanation for this?

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Why is it when I put my hand,

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there's water at the bottom of this?

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He wants to verify.

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So this man got nervous.

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Why is there water in this bucket?

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Okay, I'll admit.

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Ya Rasulullah, it was raining and the rain

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hit the top of the seeds.

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And then for me to hide because if

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it got wet, it got rotten, people will

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not buy it.

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I don't want to lose my money.

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So I emptied, look at the top.

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I emptied it into another bucket.

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So what was wet on the top became

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in the bottom.

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So the Prophet ﷺ says a line which

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perhaps many of you heard before.

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This is the hadith where it came from.

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Ready?

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He was so angry and he said, ﷺ

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أَفَلَا جَعَلْتَهُ فَوْقَ الطَّعَامِ كَي يَرَاهُ النَّاسِ You

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should have kept it in a way that

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it's wet.

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So people can buy.

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Then he says, مَنْ غَشَّنَا فَلَيْسَ مِنَّا Whoever

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cheats us is not one of my people.

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You're not one of my ummah if you

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cheat people in business, transactions.

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And don't put a value to it, please.

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Don't say, oh, just two dollars.

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No, no, no.

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Oh, he's rich.

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Who cares?

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What's a hundred dollars to him?

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That's not your business or my business.

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Cheating is cheating even if it's a penny.

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Are you guys with me?

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Whether intentional or unintentional.

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Did it ever happen that you guys, for

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example, borrowed something from someone and you forgot

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to give it back.

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Then you went back home, you're like, oh,

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my God, I have their watch, I have

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their pen, I have this.

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Who cares?

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They can afford it, whatever.

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I can benefit from it.

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No, don't do that.

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As much as you possibly can.

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Why?

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Because you never know what will happen to

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you on Al-Qiyamah and Dunya.

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I remember one time we went to Chicago

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and we had lunch.

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And I realized, some of you may think

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this a little bit extreme, but inshallah, it's

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not at all.

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Trust me.

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We were given the bill and to pay

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for it.

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And Jazallah khair, one brother invited me and

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he paid for the bill.

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Accidentally, he kept the pen.

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Then we left the restaurant, we started driving

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around and he's like, oh, the pen.

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So I said, you know what?

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We either have to go back to the

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restaurant and return the pen.

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Worst case scenario, at minimum, we call them

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up to tell them, we will have your

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pen.

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How would you like us to deliver it?

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Not ask, do you want it?

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See, very different.

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So then I call up the restaurant.

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I said, you know what?

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My apologies.

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We kept the pen that we signed the

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bill with.

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How would you like us to send it?

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It's okay if we get another 30 minutes

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because we're in a different store.

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Don't make it seem like it's an option

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that if they say, yes, bring it, they

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seem evil.

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You go ahead and I'm going to give

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it to you, but would you mind if

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I wait 30 minutes because I want to

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finish my thing?

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They said, oh, just the pen.

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Don't worry about it.

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That's it.

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Thank you, thank you.

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Right?

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So if we try our best to practice

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as much as possible, wallah, we'll be in

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a much better place.

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Agree.

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And I have stories where I failed, which

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I will not share with you, of course,

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right?

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Even if it's a finale, it doesn't matter,

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right?

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May Allah grant us all Jannah.

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Say Ameen.

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So Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he says that

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you should not cheat the people.

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Otherwise, you're not one of us.

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Now, what did they also do?

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They were robbers.

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Now, this is three categories.

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Allah says in the Quran that they used

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to sit in every path.

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Let me explain that.

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What does it mean?

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Any possible way the people of Median can

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take your money, they will take.

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Taxes, customs, oh, taxes are haram?

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Don't get us in trouble, right?

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I know there's a lawsuit.

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I was reading there's a lawsuit against taxes,

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but whoever sued the government, obviously lost, right?

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Anyway, let's move on.

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But with the taxes that is being referred

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to here, it's called Maksin.

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Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, whoever takes the

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money of the people, taxing them, taking customs

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from them without justification, as in not to

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really improve the roads or something of a

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need, they will not enter Jannah.

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These people were like that.

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I remember I went to a country and

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it was such a weird scenario.

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I hope I can show it to you

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as the way I saw it.

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So the guy was driving me.

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I was recording a series of videos for

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a TV channel.

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And while he was driving, there's some random

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guy with an orange cone.

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The orange cone for parking spots.

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So while he has this orange cone, he

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was walking.

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And then the guy who's driving me rolled

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down the window and told him, you know

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what?

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I'd like to park here.

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So I asked the guy, is he like

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the owner of this spot?

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Because this looks like a public area, like

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a public parking.

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You know, like some of them said $6

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.50 an hour.

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No, this is completely open.

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He's like, these people, man, they're crazy.

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They actually will not allow you to park

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unless you pay them.

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I'm like, who are these people?

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Some random people.

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Just have an orange cone.

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Imagine you go to Kroger with a guy

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with an orange cone.

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You can't park here.

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Who are you?

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Don't worry about it.

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Who am I?

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$5.50, $5.50, $5.50. This is

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the theft that they used to do, but

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at a higher scale.

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May Allah protect us.

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Ya Rabbal Alameen.

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Wa la taqoodu bi kulli salatan tuwa'idun.

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And what else did they used to do?

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Truth blockers.

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Anyone that tries to fix the wrong that

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they did, they would shut him down.

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You try to like, hey, I don't think

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that's fair.

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I don't think that's fair.

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Let us do our business, OK?

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You want 10%?

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We'll give you 10%, but don't get involved.

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May Allah protect us.

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So you have to be very, very sure

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that you don't fall into that even in

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this country.

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If you are not able to stop the

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evil, which is very likely many of us

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cannot, don't be involved in the evil.

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Fair enough?

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I'll share this with you.

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Bismillah.

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OK, I'm not sure if I shared this

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with you before, but one of my previous

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jobs, I was working on a certain component

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in a vehicle.

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And that component, there was a supplier from

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out of America.

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They used to supply that company with that

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part.

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Now that part, anytime they sent it to

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me for me to test it, that it

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works, I had to do validation and all

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that quality report, etc.

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Every time I test it on the vehicle,

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it doesn't work really well.

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Malfunction.

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So then I emailed them.

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I said, you know what?

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The part is not working very well.

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So please, you guys, fix it.

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So I give them another chance.

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They go.

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They do their thing.

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They send me three samples like five weeks

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later or whatever.

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I get the samples.

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I put it in the car.

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And is it working?

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It's not really working.

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So I tell them, guys, it's not working.

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This is a lot of waste of time.

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This is something that used to work or

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whatever the case is.

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Basically, we change suppliers.

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Anyhow, let's move on.

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Eventually, they send me a third sample.

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I'm like, Bismillah.

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I tried to put it in the car,

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turn on the switch.

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It's not working.

00:28:06 --> 00:28:07

So I said, no, it's not working.

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I have to eventually put a report together.

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We may have to move on, whatever the

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case is.

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So they come and fly three people, two

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guys and a girl.

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They come all the way to America.

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I used to live in Canada at that

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time.

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And when they came to America and they

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came right to my office or my desk,

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office sounds a bit fancy.

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It was a desk, okay?

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It's a cubicle.

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All right.

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So they came and the two guys were

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speaking like, you know what?

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Thank you so much for your patience, whatever.

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We're going to fix it.

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We promise.

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Give us another chance.

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Don't report it.

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Don't escalate the problems.

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Give us a chance.

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So I said, you know what?

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Because I actually, at one point, I was

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going beyond my working hours to go fix

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the problem.

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Two guys, they leave.

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Who stayed?

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The girl.

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Dressed up and everything.

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So she had a bag and she put

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the bag in front of me on the

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desk and she walked away.

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And as she's walking away, she says, this

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is a token.

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I remember, a token of appreciation.

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Token of appreciation.

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Oh, thank you.

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It's not a token.

00:29:02 --> 00:29:04

It's tokens, right?

00:29:04 --> 00:29:05

It was something very valuable, very expensive.

00:29:05 --> 00:29:07

Very expensive.

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So I said, I don't think I can

00:29:09 --> 00:29:10

accept that.

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Then she said, no, no, no.

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You worked really hard.

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You deserve it.

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Now, who came to me?

00:29:16 --> 00:29:17

Shaytan.

00:29:17 --> 00:29:18

Yes.

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They're kuffar anyways, right?

00:29:21 --> 00:29:21

No, no, no.

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Don't do that, right?

00:29:23 --> 00:29:25

So I'm like thinking, I'm like, I did

00:29:25 --> 00:29:25

work hard.

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Wallahi, but it's like this.

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I looked at it a couple of times.

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This is nice.

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So then I said, I know I can't

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take it because the company policy is that

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you're not allowed to take more than a

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$20 gift.

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And this is definitely more than $20, maybe

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another two digits next to it.

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They said, no, no, no, no.

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I said, you know what?

00:29:42 --> 00:29:44

Just for my comfort sake, let me call

00:29:44 --> 00:29:45

the manager.

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Look how naive this miskeen is.

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I know.

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No, don't call the manager.

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Don't call the manager.

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Keep it between us.

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That's it.

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Don't make it life complicated.

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I said, okay, let me just think about

00:29:56 --> 00:29:56

it.

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Okay, think about it.

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I'm leaving.

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Put me under pressure to accept it.

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So then when she left, I called a

00:30:02 --> 00:30:02

friend of mine.

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And he was actually a co-worker.

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So I called him up.

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I said, how are you?

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I'm good.

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I'm like, listen, this is a situation.

00:30:10 --> 00:30:12

I told him the story that I just

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shared with you.

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So I said, should I take you or

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not?

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He's like, what do you mean?

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Should I accept the token of appreciation or

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not?

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He said, he's like, brother Magid, you give

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us Friday khutbas.

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Tell me what you learned from my Friday

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khutbas.

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Tell me what did you learn?

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He's like, of course not.

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He's like, Magid, this could have been a

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plot against you.

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Huh?

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Yeah, go run after the lady and give

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her the bag.

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I'm like, okay.

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I hang up and I took the bag

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and start running.

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And they're like, you know what?

00:30:38 --> 00:30:38

Take it.

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I don't want it.

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So eventually, it should have been stronger.

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I told you, you have good stories, bad

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stories, right?

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So what's so evil is that when she

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left, about 6.30 p.m., I went

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back to Canada.

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I used to live there.

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I got a phone call from her.

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She said, where are you, Mr. Mahmoud?

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I'm like, I'm home, right?

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She's like, I would like to see you.

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I'm like, why?

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I want to give you a token of

00:31:01 --> 00:31:01

appreciation.

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I'm like, what's wrong with you?

00:31:04 --> 00:31:06

I just made a whole scene and the

00:31:06 --> 00:31:06

company, everything.

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She's like, yeah, look at this.

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She said, yeah, but now it's after hours

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and you're in Canada.

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May Allah protect us.

00:31:13 --> 00:31:14

May Allah protect us, right?

00:31:15 --> 00:31:18

At this point, I escalated the life out

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of this problem.

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So much so that it went too high

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up in the company that we used to

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get from them at least eight figures of

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supply of products.

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So the company, may Allah guide them all.

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See what I mean?

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Look, subhanAllah, some people have the amanah.

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They said, this is what we'll do.

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We will stop getting any parts from that

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company, not just that switch, everything else.

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So I told them, okay, but under one

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condition, don't mention my name.

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I actually was scared, subhanAllah, right?

00:31:46 --> 00:31:48

Because there's a sense of the cheating, the

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bribery that takes place.

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So these people lived on it.

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And if you try to stop them, they

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will cut you off.

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Literally and maybe verbally, may Allah grant us

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Jannah.

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Say Ameen.

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Last but not least, this is a bit

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nasty.

00:32:06 --> 00:32:08

And I'll mention this, then we can take

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a break.

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Though this was a quite short session.

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They used to paint the people that are

00:32:16 --> 00:32:17

righteous as unrighteous.

00:32:18 --> 00:32:21

They say to the liars, they're truthful, vote

00:32:21 --> 00:32:22

for him.

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And the truthful as liars.

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They tried to plot and make people fall

00:32:28 --> 00:32:31

into traps to ruin the image of righteous

00:32:31 --> 00:32:31

people.

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So may Allah protect you all.

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Say Ameen.

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Because when a person of a high figure

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falls, many of their followers, they fall along

00:32:38 --> 00:32:39

with that person.

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There's a very famous Christian preacher, I think

00:32:42 --> 00:32:43

his name is Jimmy Swagger, right?

00:32:44 --> 00:32:45

Whatever his name is, you don't have to

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look him up.

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A man who so many people in the

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entire country and continents used to look up

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to him.

00:32:52 --> 00:32:54

And eventually he was exposed with a huge

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scandal that was very much authenticized, not fabricated

00:32:57 --> 00:32:58

on him.

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And many of the people that used to

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follow him, unfortunately, they did the exact same

00:33:03 --> 00:33:04

sin afterwards.

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

So they tried to ruin that and plot

00:33:07 --> 00:33:07

for people.

00:33:07 --> 00:33:09

I'm not saying that they plotted for him,

00:33:09 --> 00:33:10

but the concept of being strong.

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May Allah bless you and grant you Jannah.

00:33:12 --> 00:33:13

Say Ameen.

00:33:13 --> 00:33:14

All right.

00:33:15 --> 00:33:18

Now, with all the corruption that they caused,

00:33:19 --> 00:33:22

it's absolute fasad in every level in the

00:33:22 --> 00:33:25

society, within the family, within the neighborhood, within

00:33:25 --> 00:33:25

the community.

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The people that are not doing much, they

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are still...

00:33:29 --> 00:33:30

Actually, there's no one not doing well financially

00:33:30 --> 00:33:31

in general.

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All of these people are spreading so much

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corruption and hurting other people that are trying

00:33:36 --> 00:33:37

to genuinely compete.

00:33:38 --> 00:33:39

And one of the best people that was

00:33:39 --> 00:33:42

honest in the midst of all that corruption

00:33:42 --> 00:33:44

was none other than...

00:33:44 --> 00:33:45

What's his wonderful name?

00:33:45 --> 00:33:46

Shuaib.

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Shuaib was amongst these people and he was

00:33:49 --> 00:33:51

known for his respect.

00:33:51 --> 00:33:53

He was known for his fairness.

00:33:53 --> 00:33:55

He was known for his justice.

00:33:55 --> 00:33:57

He was known to be a very well

00:33:57 --> 00:33:58

-spoken man, by the way.

00:33:58 --> 00:34:01

He's very famously known as Khatib-ul-Anbiya.

00:34:01 --> 00:34:04

The well-spoken, most eloquent of speakers amongst

00:34:04 --> 00:34:05

all prophets.

00:34:05 --> 00:34:07

Taba'an, Allah Ta'ala A'lam, not

00:34:07 --> 00:34:09

beyond Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

00:34:10 --> 00:34:11

Now, what happened in this case?

00:34:12 --> 00:34:15

By the way, would Allah not just punish

00:34:15 --> 00:34:15

them?

00:34:17 --> 00:34:18

Like, why did Allah send a prophet?

00:34:20 --> 00:34:21

Would Allah not just punish them and just

00:34:21 --> 00:34:22

destroy them?

00:34:23 --> 00:34:24

Give him a chance, right?

00:34:24 --> 00:34:25

And what's that chance?

00:34:27 --> 00:34:28

Someone, who said give him a chance?

00:34:30 --> 00:34:31

Okay, so you're right.

00:34:31 --> 00:34:31

Give him a chance.

00:34:31 --> 00:34:32

I sent you.

00:34:32 --> 00:34:33

All right, but give him...

00:34:33 --> 00:34:33

Like, what is...

00:34:33 --> 00:34:34

What's the chance looks like?

00:34:35 --> 00:34:36

A prophet, right?

00:34:37 --> 00:34:38

What is it?

00:34:39 --> 00:34:40

Repent, give him time.

00:34:40 --> 00:34:42

Now, I want you to memorize this part.

00:34:42 --> 00:34:42

Ready?

00:34:43 --> 00:34:46

Allah says in the Quran, وَمَا كُنَّ مُعَذِّبِينَ

00:34:46 --> 00:34:49

حَتَّى نَبْعَثَ رَسُولَهُ This is a rule of

00:34:49 --> 00:34:50

thumb with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

00:34:51 --> 00:34:53

He says, I would never punish a group

00:34:53 --> 00:34:56

of people until I send them a messenger.

00:34:57 --> 00:34:58

Fair enough.

00:34:58 --> 00:35:01

I would never punish someone until they become

00:35:01 --> 00:35:02

informed.

00:35:03 --> 00:35:06

So these people would not be punished just

00:35:06 --> 00:35:09

yet for they have not been completely and

00:35:09 --> 00:35:11

clearly informed.

00:35:12 --> 00:35:13

Though some of the stuff may be obvious,

00:35:14 --> 00:35:15

but this is the rule that Allah goes

00:35:15 --> 00:35:16

by.

00:35:16 --> 00:35:20

He will not punish someone until they are

00:35:20 --> 00:35:25

clearly informed and the person clearly comprehends the

00:35:25 --> 00:35:25

information.

00:35:26 --> 00:35:29

So if you say, pay attention, if you

00:35:29 --> 00:35:31

say, well, I told this brother about this

00:35:31 --> 00:35:32

is haram and everything like that and he

00:35:32 --> 00:35:34

kept doing it and he still worships this,

00:35:34 --> 00:35:35

he's going to hellfire.

00:35:35 --> 00:35:35

Relax.

00:35:36 --> 00:35:38

Because you may be so clear, but it

00:35:38 --> 00:35:39

doesn't mean that he completely understood.

00:35:41 --> 00:35:41

You guys with me?

00:35:42 --> 00:35:45

And so dangerous to tell people this person

00:35:45 --> 00:35:46

is a kafir.

00:35:47 --> 00:35:48

Allah will not tell you why did you

00:35:48 --> 00:35:49

not tell him he's a kafir?

00:35:49 --> 00:35:51

But Allah may question you, why did you

00:35:51 --> 00:35:52

say he's a kafir?

00:35:53 --> 00:35:53

Why?

00:35:54 --> 00:35:56

Because one of the scariest hadith about this,

00:35:56 --> 00:35:58

Rasulullah ﷺ, by the way, these people are

00:35:58 --> 00:36:01

kuffar, don't get me wrong, they are kuffar.

00:36:01 --> 00:36:02

But the issue is that when our brothers

00:36:02 --> 00:36:05

and sisters together, someone makes a mistake, gets

00:36:05 --> 00:36:08

a quarter, goes to Somerset Mall, there's a

00:36:08 --> 00:36:08

water, right?

00:36:08 --> 00:36:09

Like a pond, right?

00:36:10 --> 00:36:12

They throw the quarter, he's like, yeah, Allah,

00:36:12 --> 00:36:12

get me married.

00:36:14 --> 00:36:15

Right?

00:36:15 --> 00:36:16

Like this is shirk.

00:36:17 --> 00:36:19

You should ask Allah, you're throwing the quarter.

00:36:19 --> 00:36:20

You know what?

00:36:20 --> 00:36:21

I'll never pray next to you.

00:36:21 --> 00:36:22

Yeah, relax.

00:36:22 --> 00:36:23

Yeah, you are relaxed.

00:36:24 --> 00:36:25

You call him kafir because you throw a

00:36:25 --> 00:36:25

quarter?

00:36:25 --> 00:36:27

Make him understand.

00:36:28 --> 00:36:28

Why?

00:36:28 --> 00:36:34

Because Rasulullah ﷺ says, whoever tells their brother

00:36:34 --> 00:36:37

kafir, then one of them has to be

00:36:37 --> 00:36:37

a kafir.

00:36:38 --> 00:36:39

I'm confused.

00:36:39 --> 00:36:40

Don't be confused.

00:36:40 --> 00:36:40

InshaAllah.

00:36:41 --> 00:36:44

If someone tells another person, you are a

00:36:44 --> 00:36:47

kafir, one of them has to be a

00:36:47 --> 00:36:48

kafir.

00:36:49 --> 00:36:50

What are you trying to tell us?

00:36:50 --> 00:36:53

If you are wrong at the label, it

00:36:53 --> 00:36:55

goes against you, then you become the kafir.

00:36:57 --> 00:36:59

So be very careful when you go tell

00:36:59 --> 00:37:01

some parents that are trying their best and

00:37:01 --> 00:37:03

they might do something that is completely wrong.

00:37:03 --> 00:37:05

You put that blue eye that we referenced

00:37:05 --> 00:37:05

earlier on.

00:37:06 --> 00:37:08

Don't go into titles and label them just

00:37:08 --> 00:37:08

like that.

00:37:08 --> 00:37:09

May Allah protect us.

00:37:09 --> 00:37:11

We know for a fact, kuffar go to

00:37:11 --> 00:37:12

*, mu'minin go to Jannah.

00:37:13 --> 00:37:15

But don't go and mention by name just

00:37:15 --> 00:37:17

for you to be safe while keeping in

00:37:17 --> 00:37:19

mind there are differences of opinion.

00:37:19 --> 00:37:21

So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sends them

00:37:21 --> 00:37:24

Prophet Shu'aib alayhi salam, a wonderful man.

00:37:26 --> 00:37:29

Now I collected the set of advice.

00:37:29 --> 00:37:31

I'd like to say the word advices, but

00:37:31 --> 00:37:34

it's not possible to pluralize the word advice.

00:37:34 --> 00:37:35

So a set of advice.

00:37:36 --> 00:37:37

And the first thing he will do, he'll

00:37:37 --> 00:37:40

address the problems they have with the creator.

00:37:40 --> 00:37:41

Remember what I told you earlier?

00:37:42 --> 00:37:45

The thing about Median, unlike other nations that

00:37:45 --> 00:37:46

we spoke about, their issue was with the

00:37:46 --> 00:37:49

creator and with the creation.

00:37:49 --> 00:37:51

So what will he prioritize?

00:37:52 --> 00:37:54

Their issue with their creator.

00:37:54 --> 00:37:56

Because if you can fix your relationship with

00:37:56 --> 00:37:57

Allah, you can fix every relationship.

00:37:58 --> 00:38:00

So you have problems with your spouse, with

00:38:00 --> 00:38:01

your kids, with your workplace, everything around the

00:38:01 --> 00:38:02

world.

00:38:02 --> 00:38:04

I promise you that if you're able to

00:38:04 --> 00:38:07

fix your relationship with Allah, inshallah, everything will

00:38:07 --> 00:38:08

be fixed by the will of Allah.

00:38:08 --> 00:38:09

Fair enough?

00:38:09 --> 00:38:10

So he's a smart man.

00:38:10 --> 00:38:11

He's very intelligent.

00:38:11 --> 00:38:13

Let's talk about the rights of Allah over

00:38:13 --> 00:38:14

you.

00:38:14 --> 00:38:16

He says, يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ مَا لَكُمْ

00:38:16 --> 00:38:19

مِنْ إِلَهٍ غَيْرُهُ My people, my brothers, my

00:38:19 --> 00:38:20

sisters, look at the adab, the respect.

00:38:21 --> 00:38:21

You see?

00:38:22 --> 00:38:23

He says, worship Allah.

00:38:23 --> 00:38:26

You have no other deity worthy of worship

00:38:26 --> 00:38:27

but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:38:28 --> 00:38:31

And his mentioning in another surah is unlike

00:38:31 --> 00:38:31

other prophets.

00:38:31 --> 00:38:32

You know what he says?

00:38:32 --> 00:38:35

In another ayah he says, يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُوا

00:38:35 --> 00:38:37

اللَّهَ You have no other lord besides Allah.

00:38:37 --> 00:38:40

Then he says, وَرْجُوا الْيَوْمَ الْآخِرَ And why

00:38:40 --> 00:38:41

you got to think of the day of

00:38:41 --> 00:38:42

judgment?

00:38:42 --> 00:38:43

There's hisab.

00:38:43 --> 00:38:44

You'll be held accountable.

00:38:45 --> 00:38:46

You don't just live this life and just

00:38:46 --> 00:38:47

move on like that.

00:38:47 --> 00:38:48

No, you'll be held accountable.

00:38:48 --> 00:38:51

Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you know how

00:38:51 --> 00:38:52

some people say, well this person is so

00:38:52 --> 00:38:54

nice, I can't imagine they're going to hellfire,

00:38:54 --> 00:38:54

right?

00:38:55 --> 00:38:57

Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, the first

00:38:57 --> 00:39:00

thing Allah will hold you accountable for, the

00:39:00 --> 00:39:01

first thing is what?

00:39:02 --> 00:39:03

Is what?

00:39:04 --> 00:39:04

Salah.

00:39:05 --> 00:39:08

If your salah was done right, the prophet

00:39:08 --> 00:39:09

says, everything will be fine inshaAllah.

00:39:10 --> 00:39:12

But if Allah were to hold you accountable

00:39:12 --> 00:39:14

for your salah and you're not doing well

00:39:14 --> 00:39:17

at all in it, then everything else is

00:39:17 --> 00:39:17

meaningless.

00:39:18 --> 00:39:19

May Allah make it easy for us.

00:39:20 --> 00:39:22

So yes, worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

00:39:23 --> 00:39:24

especially when it comes to the salah, to

00:39:24 --> 00:39:26

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:39:26 --> 00:39:27

Then what does he say next?

00:39:27 --> 00:39:28

He's going to address the creation.

00:39:29 --> 00:39:29

What is he going to tell them?

00:39:31 --> 00:39:33

You guys need to really fix your tools

00:39:33 --> 00:39:34

up.

00:39:34 --> 00:39:37

The balance, the scale, playing up with the

00:39:37 --> 00:39:38

odometer, all these things, you have to be

00:39:38 --> 00:39:39

very careful.

00:39:42 --> 00:39:47

Do not charge people over the price tag

00:39:47 --> 00:39:49

of the real value of the item.

00:39:50 --> 00:39:50

Let me give you an example.

00:39:51 --> 00:39:54

Isn't it not possible for some doctors, with

00:39:54 --> 00:39:56

all respect to our physicians, may Allah grant

00:39:56 --> 00:39:57

you all jannah the way you help us,

00:39:58 --> 00:40:01

but are there not some physicians that may

00:40:01 --> 00:40:04

prescribe medication where the patient does not need?

00:40:05 --> 00:40:07

Is it possible they may exaggerate?

00:40:07 --> 00:40:08

Let's go a little bit deeper.

00:40:09 --> 00:40:09

Look who does that?

00:40:09 --> 00:40:10

Some people do that.

00:40:11 --> 00:40:13

We have some in Michigan, very famous ones,

00:40:13 --> 00:40:13

right?

00:40:13 --> 00:40:15

What's his name, Dr. Fareed?

00:40:16 --> 00:40:18

Right, he got sentenced for 45 years here

00:40:18 --> 00:40:18

in Michigan.

00:40:18 --> 00:40:19

Why?

00:40:19 --> 00:40:22

This loser, may Allah guide him, may Allah

00:40:22 --> 00:40:23

see whatever is best with him.

00:40:24 --> 00:40:29

He used to prescribe chemotherapy and tell people

00:40:29 --> 00:40:31

they have cancer when they never did.

00:40:32 --> 00:40:35

Like how obsessed do you have to be

00:40:35 --> 00:40:39

and corrupted to tell a family, unfortunately, your

00:40:39 --> 00:40:42

parent, your son, your daughter has cancer.

00:40:42 --> 00:40:44

You see how bad corruption is?

00:40:45 --> 00:40:46

And this happened in Michigan and now he's

00:40:46 --> 00:40:48

sentenced for 45 years.

00:40:48 --> 00:40:50

So these people, they go above and beyond.

00:40:51 --> 00:40:54

Not just that, he tells them, وَلَا تَبْخَصُ

00:40:54 --> 00:40:57

النَّاسَ أَشْيَاءَهُمْ And now when you, in a

00:40:57 --> 00:41:01

way you're the seller, okay, do not lowball

00:41:01 --> 00:41:03

them in a way that is unjust.

00:41:03 --> 00:41:05

How many times it happens, may Allah forgive

00:41:05 --> 00:41:07

us, يا رب العالمين, you want to go

00:41:07 --> 00:41:09

buy an item, the item in the store

00:41:09 --> 00:41:10

is $95.

00:41:10 --> 00:41:11

What are some people saying?

00:41:13 --> 00:41:16

Wallah, brother, I saw this online for $85.

00:41:17 --> 00:41:18

He never saw it online for $85.

00:41:20 --> 00:41:21

He's like, I sell it for $95.

00:41:22 --> 00:41:23

If it's $85, go online and buy it.

00:41:23 --> 00:41:24

He's like, no, I'll show you.

00:41:24 --> 00:41:25

Okay, show me.

00:41:25 --> 00:41:27

If you show me that it's actually $85,

00:41:28 --> 00:41:28

I'll match the price.

00:41:29 --> 00:41:30

You get your phone, and you're like, oh

00:41:30 --> 00:41:31

my God, I don't have it.

00:41:31 --> 00:41:32

You know, you got Wi-Fi?

00:41:32 --> 00:41:33

Oh, my phone died.

00:41:34 --> 00:41:35

He's like, okay, whatever, I'll give you $85.

00:41:36 --> 00:41:38

That $10 that you saved, you think there's

00:41:38 --> 00:41:39

barakah in that?

00:41:40 --> 00:41:41

There's no barakah in that.

00:41:41 --> 00:41:43

Wala tabkhasu an-nasa ashya'ahum.

00:41:44 --> 00:41:45

Do not defraud people of their property.

00:41:46 --> 00:41:50

Ever went to a restaurant, and then the

00:41:50 --> 00:41:52

waiter comes like, hello, guys, what's the occasion

00:41:52 --> 00:41:54

for coming to Applebee's?

00:41:55 --> 00:41:56

Nothing is halal or haram.

00:41:56 --> 00:41:56

Relax.

00:41:58 --> 00:41:58

Right?

00:41:58 --> 00:41:59

You should pay me for this.

00:42:00 --> 00:42:01

So like, oh, occasion.

00:42:02 --> 00:42:07

I heard Applebee's gives on people's birthdays free

00:42:07 --> 00:42:08

appetizer and desserts.

00:42:08 --> 00:42:09

It's true, by the way.

00:42:09 --> 00:42:12

Now, watch what happens tomorrow.

00:42:13 --> 00:42:14

All bearded and hijabis walking.

00:42:17 --> 00:42:18

January 1st, for some reason.

00:42:18 --> 00:42:19

Right now, let's move on, let's move on.

00:42:19 --> 00:42:20

You guys know what I'm talking about.

00:42:20 --> 00:42:21

January 1st.

00:42:21 --> 00:42:23

May Allah grant Jannah to our parents, say

00:42:23 --> 00:42:25

I mean, and grandparents.

00:42:26 --> 00:42:26

All right?

00:42:27 --> 00:42:29

So then you walk in, oh, occasion, yes,

00:42:29 --> 00:42:30

well, it's my son's birthday.

00:42:32 --> 00:42:33

My birthday.

00:42:33 --> 00:42:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah, he just turned 16.

00:42:36 --> 00:42:37

I'm just, no, I'm quiet.

00:42:37 --> 00:42:38

Yeah, he just turned 16.

00:42:39 --> 00:42:40

Oh, my goodness.

00:42:40 --> 00:42:41

All right.

00:42:41 --> 00:42:42

Do you have the ID with you?

00:42:42 --> 00:42:43

Oh, no, my printer.

00:42:44 --> 00:42:45

SubhanAllah, subhanAllah.

00:42:45 --> 00:42:46

Right, right.

00:42:47 --> 00:42:48

And then they give you like a 10

00:42:48 --> 00:42:49

% discount on a free dessert.

00:42:50 --> 00:42:50

Really?

00:42:52 --> 00:42:53

I'm giving you a smaller scale, but there's

00:42:53 --> 00:42:56

even larger scale of companies and corporations.

00:42:56 --> 00:42:57

They're not fake your resume.

00:42:59 --> 00:43:00

They're not fake your resume.

00:43:00 --> 00:43:01

Proficient at PowerPoint.

00:43:01 --> 00:43:02

You don't even know how to open it.

00:43:04 --> 00:43:05

You have a MacBook.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:08

There's no PowerPoint unless you install it.

00:43:08 --> 00:43:10

But don't fall for these things.

00:43:10 --> 00:43:10

Why?

00:43:10 --> 00:43:12

Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling

00:43:12 --> 00:43:13

these people, إني أراكم بخير.

00:43:14 --> 00:43:15

What does that mean?

00:43:16 --> 00:43:17

Shu'aib tells his people, you guys do

00:43:17 --> 00:43:19

not need to do this.

00:43:20 --> 00:43:22

You don't need an extra $100.

00:43:22 --> 00:43:24

You don't need to scam someone over $1

00:43:24 --> 00:43:24

,500.

00:43:24 --> 00:43:25

You don't need to do that.

00:43:26 --> 00:43:27

إني أراكم بخير.

00:43:27 --> 00:43:29

You guys are doing very, very well, guys.

00:43:29 --> 00:43:31

You're doing just fine to get yourself a

00:43:31 --> 00:43:32

halal job.

00:43:32 --> 00:43:34

So don't say, oh, I have this excuse.

00:43:34 --> 00:43:35

So he's cutting the excuses for them.

00:43:35 --> 00:43:36

You see what I'm saying?

00:43:36 --> 00:43:37

He cut the excuses for them.

00:43:37 --> 00:43:38

إني أراكم بخير.

00:43:39 --> 00:43:41

So if I want to expand on this

00:43:41 --> 00:43:42

meaning, but don't take it personal.

00:43:42 --> 00:43:42

We're family.

00:43:43 --> 00:43:44

We've been doing this for years.

00:43:46 --> 00:43:47

So إني أراكم بخير.

00:43:47 --> 00:43:50

I do see you in prosperity now.

00:43:50 --> 00:43:52

Also means you have the capacity to change

00:43:52 --> 00:43:53

jobs.

00:43:54 --> 00:43:56

Don't say, I've been here for 10 years.

00:43:56 --> 00:43:58

I know I have this house that I'm

00:43:58 --> 00:43:59

paying off.

00:43:59 --> 00:44:02

If I stop this corruption that I'm doing,

00:44:02 --> 00:44:04

I won't be able to continue my payments.

00:44:04 --> 00:44:05

I have a kid in school.

00:44:05 --> 00:44:06

إني أراكم بخير.

00:44:06 --> 00:44:08

You have the capacity to leave.

00:44:09 --> 00:44:11

So we, as Muslims, have to leave the

00:44:11 --> 00:44:13

mindset of poverty if we can.

00:44:14 --> 00:44:15

إني أراكم بخير.

00:44:15 --> 00:44:16

No, you guys are doing very fine.

00:44:16 --> 00:44:16

You can do this.

00:44:17 --> 00:44:18

Get out of that mindset.

00:44:18 --> 00:44:20

As Muslims, رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

00:44:20 --> 00:44:23

used to ask Allah, I beg you, ya

00:44:23 --> 00:44:25

Allah, don't ever make me poor.

00:44:26 --> 00:44:27

Ya Allah, I beg you not to make

00:44:27 --> 00:44:29

me very dependent on people.

00:44:29 --> 00:44:32

Now, all of us here will have to

00:44:32 --> 00:44:32

depend on people.

00:44:33 --> 00:44:34

But we're trying to tell you, minimize that

00:44:34 --> 00:44:35

dependence.

00:44:35 --> 00:44:35

Fair enough?

00:44:36 --> 00:44:37

Minimize the dependence.

00:44:37 --> 00:44:38

May Allah grant us all Jannah.

00:44:39 --> 00:44:40

The other thing he told them.

00:44:41 --> 00:44:41

So that's number one.

00:44:42 --> 00:44:43

He said, you guys don't have to do

00:44:43 --> 00:44:43

that.

00:44:43 --> 00:44:43

Why?

00:44:43 --> 00:44:45

Number one, إني أراكم بخير.

00:44:45 --> 00:44:46

What's number two?

00:44:47 --> 00:44:50

وإني أخاف عليكم عذاب يوم عظيم.

00:44:50 --> 00:44:51

And I'm terrified.

00:44:51 --> 00:44:52

I'm really, I love you guys.

00:44:52 --> 00:44:53

I love you so much.

00:44:54 --> 00:44:55

I know what you guys are doing and

00:44:55 --> 00:44:55

everything.

00:44:55 --> 00:44:58

I'm so terrified for you from a very

00:44:58 --> 00:45:00

severe punishment that may come to you.

00:45:00 --> 00:45:02

Because whatever goes around comes around.

00:45:02 --> 00:45:03

Don't think you will get away with this.

00:45:04 --> 00:45:05

Your actions will have a way to come

00:45:05 --> 00:45:07

back at you and haunt you down.

00:45:07 --> 00:45:08

If not tomorrow, maybe in a year.

00:45:08 --> 00:45:10

If not in a year, in 10 years.

00:45:10 --> 00:45:11

If not in 10 years, it will come

00:45:11 --> 00:45:12

before you pass away.

00:45:12 --> 00:45:13

May Allah protect us.

00:45:13 --> 00:45:14

يا رب العالمين.

00:45:14 --> 00:45:17

إني أخاف عليكم عذاب يوم محيط.

00:45:17 --> 00:45:19

You know, Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم, and

00:45:19 --> 00:45:20

look how the wording he says.

00:45:21 --> 00:45:22

He says, do you know who's the bankrupt?

00:45:23 --> 00:45:24

It's all business and things of that sort.

00:45:25 --> 00:45:26

So he said, يا رسول الله, the bankrupt,

00:45:26 --> 00:45:28

المفلس, the one who has no money and

00:45:28 --> 00:45:29

no assets.

00:45:29 --> 00:45:30

That's a bankrupt, nothing.

00:45:30 --> 00:45:31

He says, let me tell you the bankrupt.

00:45:31 --> 00:45:33

Remember what I said early in the session?

00:45:33 --> 00:45:35

Collect the definitions of the Prophet.

00:45:35 --> 00:45:36

Oh, that's a great one.

00:45:36 --> 00:45:37

May Allah make it possible for us to

00:45:37 --> 00:45:38

understand it.

00:45:38 --> 00:45:39

Say, I mean, and I pray to Allah,

00:45:40 --> 00:45:41

يا رب يا الله, help me put it

00:45:41 --> 00:45:41

together.

00:45:41 --> 00:45:42

يا رب يا رب.

00:45:43 --> 00:45:44

He says, let me define what's a bankrupt.

00:45:45 --> 00:45:46

He says, the bankrupt is the one who

00:45:46 --> 00:45:48

comes on the day of judgment with a

00:45:48 --> 00:45:51

lot of prayers, a lot of fasting, a

00:45:51 --> 00:45:51

lot of charity.

00:45:52 --> 00:45:53

This is a good brother.

00:45:54 --> 00:45:55

He looks great to the sight of the

00:45:55 --> 00:45:56

people.

00:45:56 --> 00:45:58

But however, that person, that man or that

00:45:58 --> 00:45:59

woman, they come on the day of judgment.

00:46:00 --> 00:46:01

وقد قذف هذا.

00:46:01 --> 00:46:02

وقد شتم هذا.

00:46:02 --> 00:46:04

وقد قتل هذا.

00:46:04 --> 00:46:06

وقد أكل ما لهذا.

00:46:06 --> 00:46:08

However, that person, that same person who was

00:46:08 --> 00:46:10

praying, right, the mu'min that you mentioned, right?

00:46:10 --> 00:46:12

This man was praying, was fasting, was giving

00:46:12 --> 00:46:14

in charity, but he used to rob people.

00:46:14 --> 00:46:15

He used to cheat people.

00:46:15 --> 00:46:17

He used to be like that guy, true

00:46:17 --> 00:46:19

story, who used to fix garage doors.

00:46:19 --> 00:46:20

And I have my close friend of mine

00:46:20 --> 00:46:22

worked for him in that company.

00:46:22 --> 00:46:23

And then he said to me, he said,

00:46:23 --> 00:46:24

I had to quit.

00:46:24 --> 00:46:25

I'm like, why did you quit so fast?

00:46:25 --> 00:46:27

He said, the owner of that garage door

00:46:27 --> 00:46:29

company, he went and he actually broke something

00:46:29 --> 00:46:30

in the garage.

00:46:30 --> 00:46:32

I thought these stories are not maybe as

00:46:32 --> 00:46:32

common.

00:46:32 --> 00:46:33

I never really witnessed it personally.

00:46:33 --> 00:46:35

I never heard it from someone that I

00:46:35 --> 00:46:35

know.

00:46:35 --> 00:46:37

He's like, I saw him and he broke

00:46:37 --> 00:46:37

it.

00:46:37 --> 00:46:38

I said, why would you do that?

00:46:38 --> 00:46:39

Why would you break this part in the

00:46:39 --> 00:46:40

garage?

00:46:40 --> 00:46:41

He's like, just be quiet.

00:46:42 --> 00:46:43

I'm not going to make this trip to

00:46:43 --> 00:46:44

this house for over $10.

00:46:47 --> 00:46:48

He went and broke the garage to buy

00:46:48 --> 00:46:49

a whole system.

00:46:50 --> 00:46:51

Then you have to leave.

00:46:52 --> 00:46:54

So with being that person, والله بصلي first

00:46:54 --> 00:46:56

row, first row in the masjid, you think

00:46:56 --> 00:46:57

that will help him out?

00:46:58 --> 00:46:59

You're like, well, you told us.

00:46:59 --> 00:47:00

Well, I got you, brother.

00:47:00 --> 00:47:01

This is being recorded.

00:47:01 --> 00:47:01

What do you mean?

00:47:01 --> 00:47:05

You told us if someone prays well, then

00:47:05 --> 00:47:06

everything else will be fine.

00:47:07 --> 00:47:08

Oh, you're focused.

00:47:09 --> 00:47:11

But they pray well.

00:47:12 --> 00:47:15

Because a good prayer stops you from cheating.

00:47:16 --> 00:47:18

I had a 15-year-old boy come

00:47:18 --> 00:47:19

to me, or man.

00:47:20 --> 00:47:21

And he says, brother, Allah says in the

00:47:21 --> 00:47:24

Quran, إن الصلاة تنهى عن الفحشاء والمنكر He's

00:47:24 --> 00:47:25

like, Allah says in the Quran is that

00:47:25 --> 00:47:29

when you pray, you stop doing foul language

00:47:29 --> 00:47:32

or saying it and stop doing evil actions.

00:47:33 --> 00:47:34

He's like, I've been praying for 15 years.

00:47:34 --> 00:47:35

You're 15.

00:47:35 --> 00:47:36

But I moved on.

00:47:36 --> 00:47:38

I didn't address that.

00:47:39 --> 00:47:40

So he's like, I've been praying for 15

00:47:40 --> 00:47:40

years.

00:47:41 --> 00:47:42

I still curse.

00:47:42 --> 00:47:43

I still do this.

00:47:43 --> 00:47:44

I don't see any improvement.

00:47:44 --> 00:47:46

So there is one of two issues.

00:47:47 --> 00:47:47

One of two or maybe two.

00:47:48 --> 00:47:48

Ready?

00:47:48 --> 00:47:49

So this is the equation.

00:47:50 --> 00:47:51

If you really want salah to help you

00:47:51 --> 00:47:53

become a better person, there's two things you

00:47:53 --> 00:47:53

have to do.

00:47:53 --> 00:47:54

A little bit of math.

00:47:54 --> 00:47:55

Is it okay if we do math at

00:47:55 --> 00:47:58

8 to 35 p.m.? It's okay.

00:47:59 --> 00:48:01

X plus Y equals Z.

00:48:02 --> 00:48:05

X is the external actions of salah.

00:48:05 --> 00:48:08

So for example, you know, Isha is four

00:48:08 --> 00:48:08

rakaat.

00:48:09 --> 00:48:10

You say, Allahu Akbar.

00:48:11 --> 00:48:13

You say, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alim, Al Fatiha.

00:48:13 --> 00:48:14

You do sujood, the ruku.

00:48:14 --> 00:48:15

No, no, no, that's not ruku.

00:48:16 --> 00:48:17

This is something else.

00:48:17 --> 00:48:18

This is stretching or something.

00:48:18 --> 00:48:20

This is ruku, right?

00:48:20 --> 00:48:22

Maybe this is what you're lacking.

00:48:23 --> 00:48:25

But there's another component because some of us,

00:48:25 --> 00:48:26

we master this.

00:48:26 --> 00:48:28

We take classes on this, which is important.

00:48:29 --> 00:48:31

But this is not the outer actions as

00:48:31 --> 00:48:33

much as the inner actions.

00:48:34 --> 00:48:35

So the X is the outer actions plus

00:48:35 --> 00:48:37

the Y, the inner action, which is focused.

00:48:37 --> 00:48:39

Khushu'a, qad aflaha al mu'minoon li yunhum

00:48:39 --> 00:48:39

fee salatihim.

00:48:40 --> 00:48:42

Khashu'un, believers are successful, the ones who

00:48:42 --> 00:48:43

are focused in their prayers.

00:48:44 --> 00:48:44

Right?

00:48:44 --> 00:48:46

The ones who pray sincerely for Allah subhanahu

00:48:46 --> 00:48:46

wa ta'ala.

00:48:46 --> 00:48:48

The ones that understand what they're saying.

00:48:48 --> 00:48:49

So that's the internal.

00:48:49 --> 00:48:51

If you have the external plus the internal,

00:48:51 --> 00:48:53

you get the fruit, which is what?

00:48:54 --> 00:48:55

Allah will help you become a better person.

00:48:56 --> 00:48:57

You see that?

00:48:57 --> 00:48:59

So when someone, when Allah, when the Prophet

00:48:59 --> 00:49:00

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says the bankrupt, the

00:49:00 --> 00:49:02

one who comes with salah and so on,

00:49:02 --> 00:49:05

their salah was not properly made to help

00:49:05 --> 00:49:07

them stop breaking that garage.

00:49:07 --> 00:49:08

I'm not saying he's going to *, guys.

00:49:08 --> 00:49:09

Relax, all right?

00:49:09 --> 00:49:10

Alhamdulillah, they didn't say the store's name.

00:49:11 --> 00:49:11

All right?

00:49:11 --> 00:49:14

But here, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says

00:49:14 --> 00:49:15

that man or that woman who cheated the

00:49:15 --> 00:49:16

people, guess what happens on the Day of

00:49:16 --> 00:49:17

Qiyamah?

00:49:17 --> 00:49:19

They have a lot of good deeds, a

00:49:19 --> 00:49:21

lot of hasanat, like loads, right?

00:49:22 --> 00:49:23

Now what happens?

00:49:23 --> 00:49:25

The person they cheated will come on the

00:49:25 --> 00:49:26

Day of Judgment.

00:49:26 --> 00:49:29

Ya Allah, this person, he lied to me.

00:49:29 --> 00:49:30

How do they know, by the way?

00:49:30 --> 00:49:31

How can they know that that person lied

00:49:31 --> 00:49:32

to them?

00:49:32 --> 00:49:33

How?

00:49:34 --> 00:49:34

Go ahead.

00:49:36 --> 00:49:37

They've seen their book, right?

00:49:37 --> 00:49:37

Right?

00:49:38 --> 00:49:38

Let me see your book.

00:49:38 --> 00:49:41

Oh, you're the one who stole the jewelry

00:49:41 --> 00:49:41

from my place?

00:49:43 --> 00:49:43

What a loser!

00:49:43 --> 00:49:45

And he came, oh, it's not me.

00:49:45 --> 00:49:46

We should call the cops.

00:49:46 --> 00:49:47

It was him the whole time.

00:49:48 --> 00:49:49

Ya, you are a loser.

00:49:50 --> 00:49:51

Right?

00:49:51 --> 00:49:52

So what happens?

00:49:52 --> 00:49:53

They will go to that person, Ya Allah,

00:49:53 --> 00:49:54

this person cheated me.

00:49:54 --> 00:49:55

This person ruined my life.

00:49:56 --> 00:49:57

So what happens?

00:49:57 --> 00:49:58

This man who has all the salah and

00:49:58 --> 00:49:59

the sadaqah and the qiyam, what did he

00:49:59 --> 00:49:59

do?

00:50:00 --> 00:50:00

Okay, okay, relax.

00:50:01 --> 00:50:01

How much?

00:50:01 --> 00:50:02

100 hasanat?

00:50:02 --> 00:50:03

Here, 100 hasanat.

00:50:03 --> 00:50:05

Then 10 people, they come.

00:50:05 --> 00:50:06

What do you mean 10 people?

00:50:06 --> 00:50:08

Then 100 people, they come.

00:50:08 --> 00:50:08

I cheated this.

00:50:08 --> 00:50:09

How can I cheat 100 people all at

00:50:09 --> 00:50:10

once?

00:50:10 --> 00:50:11

Well, your business was open for 10 years

00:50:11 --> 00:50:13

and you lied to everybody about the quality

00:50:13 --> 00:50:15

of the cement that you do for your

00:50:15 --> 00:50:16

concrete for the driveway.

00:50:17 --> 00:50:18

You said it's 4 inches, you did 3

00:50:18 --> 00:50:19

.8 inches.

00:50:20 --> 00:50:23

For every 0.2, was it worth it?

00:50:24 --> 00:50:25

You see what just happened?

00:50:25 --> 00:50:27

So that person gives all the good deeds,

00:50:27 --> 00:50:29

gives all the good deeds until someone else

00:50:29 --> 00:50:29

comes.

00:50:30 --> 00:50:31

He said, Ya Allah, this person cheated me.

00:50:31 --> 00:50:32

This person betrayed me.

00:50:33 --> 00:50:34

This person back-bit me, Ya Allah.

00:50:35 --> 00:50:36

So this person, I got no hasanat.

00:50:36 --> 00:50:37

What do you want?

00:50:37 --> 00:50:38

He said, well, okay.

00:50:38 --> 00:50:40

You don't have hasanat to give me.

00:50:40 --> 00:50:42

I will give you my sayyidat.

00:50:43 --> 00:50:45

And he gives sayyidat and sayyidat.

00:50:45 --> 00:50:46

So the guy who came with so much

00:50:46 --> 00:50:49

good deeds, the balance now is fixed, a

00:50:49 --> 00:50:51

lot of bad deeds, fayuqdafa fin nadhin, pushed

00:50:51 --> 00:50:52

into hellfire.

00:50:53 --> 00:50:55

Now the question that comes, you just said

00:50:55 --> 00:50:56

books, right?

00:50:58 --> 00:51:01

Why did Allah not resurrect the person with

00:51:01 --> 00:51:03

the whole calculations completed?

00:51:04 --> 00:51:05

Does the question make sense a bit?

00:51:06 --> 00:51:07

Like, what did I have to do the

00:51:07 --> 00:51:09

transaction, khud hasanat, give me sayyidat?

00:51:09 --> 00:51:10

Like, ha, so you come, and the book

00:51:10 --> 00:51:12

says you're going to *, you did this,

00:51:12 --> 00:51:15

you had 100,000 hasanat, you lost them

00:51:15 --> 00:51:15

all.

00:51:15 --> 00:51:17

Like, oh man, why do you have to

00:51:17 --> 00:51:17

experience that?

00:51:18 --> 00:51:19

What do you think?

00:51:22 --> 00:51:23

Fantastic.

00:51:23 --> 00:51:24

The real judgment is on the day of

00:51:24 --> 00:51:24

judgment.

00:51:24 --> 00:51:24

Fantastic.

00:51:24 --> 00:51:25

That's a good point.

00:51:25 --> 00:51:27

One of them is when you, when that

00:51:27 --> 00:51:31

person sees their good deeds leaving, accumulating bad

00:51:31 --> 00:51:32

deeds on the day of judgment, it's so

00:51:32 --> 00:51:32

painful, right?

00:51:33 --> 00:51:35

The regret is insane.

00:51:36 --> 00:51:38

Just to give you a taste of the

00:51:38 --> 00:51:40

pain you caused others that you cheated on.

00:51:43 --> 00:51:44

Remember the three things?

00:51:45 --> 00:51:47

You guys need to stop taxing people.

00:51:47 --> 00:51:50

You charge taxes on the most nonsense ever.

00:51:50 --> 00:51:52

Like, you're not even fixing the roads, you're

00:51:52 --> 00:51:53

not even doing anything, it's not even an

00:51:53 --> 00:51:55

urgency for you to collect money from people,

00:51:55 --> 00:51:56

so quit that.

00:51:56 --> 00:52:01

Number two, stop telling people that advise you,

00:52:02 --> 00:52:03

stop correcting me.

00:52:03 --> 00:52:06

No, be open to constructive criticism.

00:52:07 --> 00:52:09

And you're striving to make it appear crooked.

00:52:09 --> 00:52:12

Like, the right people have lost their mind.

00:52:12 --> 00:52:14

No, the right people, inshallah, have not lost

00:52:14 --> 00:52:15

their mind.

00:52:15 --> 00:52:17

May Allah give us the wisdom to deal

00:52:17 --> 00:52:19

with our businesses, with our families, with our

00:52:19 --> 00:52:21

kids, the way that is pleasing to Allah

00:52:21 --> 00:52:21

subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:52:21 --> 00:52:22

Say ameen.

00:52:22 --> 00:52:23

So he's going to tell him two things

00:52:23 --> 00:52:24

to help him out.

00:52:24 --> 00:52:26

So anyone who's struggling with anything, including myself,

00:52:27 --> 00:52:28

I'm going to remember this if I ever

00:52:28 --> 00:52:29

going to attempt to do a sin.

00:52:30 --> 00:52:30

Ready?

00:52:34 --> 00:52:36

Remember when you were few, then he increased

00:52:36 --> 00:52:36

you in number.

00:52:36 --> 00:52:38

Remember when I spoke about children and the

00:52:38 --> 00:52:38

blessings of that?

00:52:38 --> 00:52:39

As I told you, this is the main

00:52:39 --> 00:52:41

theme of this session.

00:52:41 --> 00:52:43

He says, remember where you came from.

00:52:44 --> 00:52:47

Because when you remember your humble beginnings, you

00:52:47 --> 00:52:48

will naturally become humble.

00:52:49 --> 00:52:52

And when you realize you're scamming someone who

00:52:52 --> 00:52:53

was at your situation.

00:52:54 --> 00:52:56

That young man who just finished college, want

00:52:56 --> 00:52:58

to buy his first ever car.

00:52:58 --> 00:53:00

He only has like five or ten thousand

00:53:00 --> 00:53:00

dollars.

00:53:00 --> 00:53:01

And you play with that vehicle.

00:53:02 --> 00:53:04

Or you do something with the switch and

00:53:04 --> 00:53:05

so on, just to make it seem that

00:53:05 --> 00:53:06

everything is fine.

00:53:06 --> 00:53:07

And then you go ahead with that.

00:53:07 --> 00:53:09

No, remember you were that student one day.

00:53:10 --> 00:53:11

One day you were the one struggling.

00:53:11 --> 00:53:13

And look at you now, you know, not

00:53:13 --> 00:53:14

going less than this type of amount.

00:53:14 --> 00:53:15

May Allah protect us, ya rabbal alameen.

00:53:16 --> 00:53:18

Then he says, وَانْظُرْهُ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَقِبَةُ الْمُفْسِدِينَ

00:53:18 --> 00:53:20

So number one, remember where you came from.

00:53:20 --> 00:53:22

Anytime you're about to commit a sin, may

00:53:22 --> 00:53:24

Allah make it easy for all of us

00:53:24 --> 00:53:24

to quit it.

00:53:24 --> 00:53:24

Say ameen.

00:53:25 --> 00:53:27

Please, please, take it from tonight.

00:53:27 --> 00:53:27

Two things to do.

00:53:28 --> 00:53:30

Number one, remember how you have been blessed.

00:53:31 --> 00:53:34

There's nothing that we use to disobey Allah

00:53:34 --> 00:53:37

with, except that you had to use a

00:53:37 --> 00:53:38

blessing he gave you.

00:53:40 --> 00:53:43

Anything wrong we do in our lives required

00:53:43 --> 00:53:45

Allah's blessings against him.

00:53:46 --> 00:53:48

The eye he gave us in what we're

00:53:48 --> 00:53:48

watching.

00:53:48 --> 00:53:50

The ears he gave us in what we're

00:53:50 --> 00:53:50

listening.

00:53:50 --> 00:53:52

The hands he gave us in what we're

00:53:52 --> 00:53:52

touching.

00:53:52 --> 00:53:53

The legs he gave us in where we're

00:53:53 --> 00:53:54

walking.

00:53:54 --> 00:53:55

And where we're not walking, where we're supposed

00:53:55 --> 00:53:56

to be walking.

00:53:57 --> 00:53:58

Remember where you came from.

00:53:58 --> 00:53:59

You were nothing.

00:53:59 --> 00:54:01

And remember now you can see and watch

00:54:01 --> 00:54:03

and clearly understand what's being said.

00:54:03 --> 00:54:06

And number two, remember the punishment.

00:54:07 --> 00:54:08

Remember, if I go ahead with this, what

00:54:08 --> 00:54:09

will happen to me?

00:54:10 --> 00:54:11

And this is why he told them, وَانْظُرْهُ

00:54:11 --> 00:54:14

كَيْفَ كَانَ عَقِبَةُ الْمُفْسِدِينَ You guys know exactly

00:54:14 --> 00:54:15

what happened to Prophet Luth's people.

00:54:16 --> 00:54:17

You know exactly what happened to Prophet Salih,

00:54:17 --> 00:54:20

Prophet Thamud, no, Prophet Hud, and Prophet Nuh

00:54:20 --> 00:54:22

a.s. You know who was one of

00:54:22 --> 00:54:24

the best people to ever apply this?

00:54:24 --> 00:54:25

Who is it?

00:54:26 --> 00:54:26

Guess.

00:54:27 --> 00:54:29

Who is one of the best people to

00:54:29 --> 00:54:30

apply this lesson?

00:54:33 --> 00:54:36

Yusuf a.s. Yusuf, yes.

00:54:36 --> 00:54:38

Without going into a lot of depth.

00:54:38 --> 00:54:40

Yusuf a.s, Allah says in the Quran,

00:54:40 --> 00:54:43

وَرَاوَدَتْهُ الَّتِي هُوَ فِي بَيْتِهَا عَن نَفْسِهِ There

00:54:43 --> 00:54:47

was a lady that was seducing him.

00:54:47 --> 00:54:50

And she had all the qualities to possibly

00:54:50 --> 00:54:53

seduce many men and attract them.

00:54:53 --> 00:54:54

So she's trying to push him.

00:54:54 --> 00:54:57

وَغَلَّقَتْ الْأَبْوَابَ And she locked all the doors

00:54:57 --> 00:54:59

and turned off all the cameras and nothing

00:54:59 --> 00:55:02

can be heard, nothing can be seen.

00:55:02 --> 00:55:04

There's no سَمِعْ and there's no بَصَرْ except

00:55:04 --> 00:55:05

her and him.

00:55:05 --> 00:55:06

That's it.

00:55:07 --> 00:55:08

You know what did Yusuf a.s. do?

00:55:09 --> 00:55:10

He actually said the following.

00:55:11 --> 00:55:13

Very similar to what you just heard right

00:55:13 --> 00:55:13

now.

00:55:13 --> 00:55:16

He says, مَعَاذَ اللَّهِ Number one.

00:55:16 --> 00:55:18

I seek Allah's refuge.

00:55:18 --> 00:55:20

This comes to show you Yusuf a.s.

00:55:20 --> 00:55:22

knows no matter how good I think I

00:55:22 --> 00:55:24

am, I'm nothing without Allah.

00:55:25 --> 00:55:26

I need Allah's help.

00:55:27 --> 00:55:28

Number two.

00:55:28 --> 00:55:31

He says, إِنَّهُ رَبِّي أَحْسَنَ مِثْوَى Allah blessed

00:55:31 --> 00:55:31

me.

00:55:31 --> 00:55:32

What did he do here?

00:55:32 --> 00:55:34

He remembered where he came from.

00:55:34 --> 00:55:34

He was in a well.

00:55:34 --> 00:55:35

He was about to die.

00:55:36 --> 00:55:36

Right?

00:55:36 --> 00:55:38

He was a slave.

00:55:38 --> 00:55:40

No one really, you know, give much attention

00:55:40 --> 00:55:40

to slaves.

00:55:40 --> 00:55:42

But then my master, the one who purchased

00:55:42 --> 00:55:44

him, because رَبِّي here can mean two things.

00:55:44 --> 00:55:46

Either رَبِّي as in my Lord or رَبِّي

00:55:46 --> 00:55:48

as in the master who bought me for

00:55:48 --> 00:55:49

when I got off the well.

00:55:50 --> 00:55:51

So he remembered that I was in a

00:55:51 --> 00:55:52

bad situation.

00:55:53 --> 00:55:54

So remember where you came from.

00:55:54 --> 00:55:54

It helps you a lot.

00:55:55 --> 00:55:57

Remember that you never had that laptop or

00:55:57 --> 00:55:58

that phone and now you can afford it.

00:55:58 --> 00:55:59

And that's what you do with Allah money

00:55:59 --> 00:56:00

that he gave you.

00:56:00 --> 00:56:01

May Allah make it easy for us.

00:56:02 --> 00:56:04

What's the last thing Yusuf thought of?

00:56:04 --> 00:56:05

Say one English word.

00:56:06 --> 00:56:06

The punishment.

00:56:07 --> 00:56:09

Then he says at the end, إِنَّهُ لَيُفِحُ

00:56:09 --> 00:56:12

الظَّالِمُونَ He says oppressors will never be successful

00:56:12 --> 00:56:13

because he knows if I fall for this

00:56:13 --> 00:56:15

sin, if I say yes to this girl,

00:56:15 --> 00:56:18

I'm a ظَالِم and I'm an oppressor who

00:56:18 --> 00:56:21

used Allah's blessings of my good looks or

00:56:21 --> 00:56:24

speech or as Yusuf a.s. And this

00:56:24 --> 00:56:25

is ظُلْم and oppression.

00:56:25 --> 00:56:26

So remember these three things.

00:56:26 --> 00:56:27

What did he do after that?

00:56:28 --> 00:56:29

Run for his life.

00:56:30 --> 00:56:31

So what helped him run from the sin

00:56:31 --> 00:56:33

is that methodology.

00:56:33 --> 00:56:34

May Allah make us all remember them.

00:56:34 --> 00:56:34

Say ameen.

00:56:35 --> 00:56:37

Think of the blessing and think of the

00:56:37 --> 00:56:38

punishment.

00:56:39 --> 00:56:40

Eventually as we move forward, he says something

00:56:40 --> 00:56:43

very profound and that's why I kept it

00:56:43 --> 00:56:44

just for one slide here fixed there for

00:56:44 --> 00:56:45

you inshallah.

00:56:45 --> 00:56:47

By the way, may Allah bless those who

00:56:47 --> 00:56:48

helped with the presentation.

00:56:48 --> 00:56:48

Say ameen.

00:56:49 --> 00:56:50

There's wonderful Aisha there sitting here.

00:56:50 --> 00:56:51

May Allah grant them Jannah.

00:56:51 --> 00:56:54

Shu'aib tells them مَقِيَّةُ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ

00:56:54 --> 00:56:56

إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ What is left as a

00:56:56 --> 00:56:58

lawful gain by Allah is far better for

00:56:58 --> 00:56:59

you if you are truly believers.

00:57:00 --> 00:57:03

Now this sentence, you may possibly never come

00:57:03 --> 00:57:06

across it in any university in the world.

00:57:07 --> 00:57:09

This is in the university of لا إله

00:57:09 --> 00:57:10

إلا الله This is the university of the

00:57:10 --> 00:57:11

Qur'an.

00:57:11 --> 00:57:13

Because I took an accounting class as an

00:57:13 --> 00:57:15

elective in my master's program.

00:57:15 --> 00:57:16

I took marketing class.

00:57:16 --> 00:57:18

They never tell you that if you make

00:57:18 --> 00:57:19

less, you can do more.

00:57:21 --> 00:57:23

They can never tell you, Oh, they can't.

00:57:23 --> 00:57:24

They never tell you like, Oh, there's a

00:57:24 --> 00:57:25

hundred dollars.

00:57:25 --> 00:57:27

You can do more with it than a

00:57:27 --> 00:57:27

thousand.

00:57:27 --> 00:57:29

No, but in Islam, we believe the hundred

00:57:29 --> 00:57:30

can do more than a thousand.

00:57:30 --> 00:57:32

Literally speaking, it is very possible.

00:57:32 --> 00:57:33

That's where the barakah comes in.

00:57:34 --> 00:57:35

I had my daughter, subhanAllah, just a few

00:57:35 --> 00:57:36

days ago.

00:57:36 --> 00:57:38

She said, Baba, I went and fear that

00:57:38 --> 00:57:39

person who she bought the cheesecake for.

00:57:39 --> 00:57:40

Don't take it personal.

00:57:40 --> 00:57:41

Okay, she's not upset.

00:57:41 --> 00:57:43

So she said, Baba, I bought someone a

00:57:43 --> 00:57:43

cheesecake.

00:57:44 --> 00:57:46

Will Allah send someone to buy me a

00:57:46 --> 00:57:47

cheesecake?

00:57:48 --> 00:57:49

Guys, please buy her a cheesecake.

00:57:49 --> 00:57:50

All right, let's move on.

00:57:50 --> 00:57:51

May Allah bless you all.

00:57:51 --> 00:57:51

Say Ameen.

00:57:52 --> 00:57:54

So I told her, Listen, Amina, I promise

00:57:54 --> 00:57:58

you, Inshallah, Allah will give you back the

00:57:58 --> 00:57:59

value of the cheesecake and much more.

00:58:00 --> 00:58:01

But it may not be in a cheesecake

00:58:01 --> 00:58:01

form.

00:58:02 --> 00:58:03

It can be in the form that you're

00:58:03 --> 00:58:05

about to slip in the playground and break

00:58:05 --> 00:58:07

your ankle and not be playing for next

00:58:07 --> 00:58:07

two weeks.

00:58:07 --> 00:58:09

But Allah saved you because of the cheesecake

00:58:09 --> 00:58:09

that you gave.

00:58:10 --> 00:58:12

It can be an exam that you had

00:58:12 --> 00:58:13

and you were struggling to answer the question

00:58:13 --> 00:58:16

and your cheesecake was being able to answer

00:58:16 --> 00:58:17

the question in the exam and make your

00:58:17 --> 00:58:19

parents happy and you yourself be happy for

00:58:19 --> 00:58:20

the accomplishment.

00:58:20 --> 00:58:22

So the cheesecake can be in different forms.

00:58:23 --> 00:58:24

It can be something that you make a

00:58:24 --> 00:58:25

deal with someone as adults.

00:58:25 --> 00:58:27

You did some barakah in your life.

00:58:27 --> 00:58:27

You know what?

00:58:27 --> 00:58:29

You're willing to be honest in a transaction.

00:58:30 --> 00:58:31

So like, How will Allah give this back

00:58:31 --> 00:58:32

to me?

00:58:32 --> 00:58:33

It can be when you want to go

00:58:33 --> 00:58:34

buy a car and you get a great

00:58:34 --> 00:58:35

deal.

00:58:35 --> 00:58:36

That great deal.

00:58:36 --> 00:58:36

You know why?

00:58:36 --> 00:58:38

You got it for $2,000 less.

00:58:38 --> 00:58:38

You know why?

00:58:39 --> 00:58:41

Because you were honest in $200 that you've

00:58:41 --> 00:58:41

done.

00:58:41 --> 00:58:44

So Allah saves you from purchasing and elsewhere.

00:58:44 --> 00:58:46

So it's not just you literally getting the

00:58:46 --> 00:58:46

money back.

00:58:46 --> 00:58:47

It's much more than that.

00:58:47 --> 00:58:48

Fair enough.

00:58:48 --> 00:58:50

So he says, بَقِيَّةُ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ إِنْ

00:58:50 --> 00:58:53

كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says

00:58:53 --> 00:58:55

a hadith which really tests our faith.

00:58:55 --> 00:58:57

It's a very heavy duty hadith.

00:58:58 --> 00:59:00

He says, البَيِّعَان The one who buys and

00:59:00 --> 00:59:01

the one who sells.

00:59:02 --> 00:59:04

If they were very transparent and honest in

00:59:04 --> 00:59:07

the transaction, بُورِكَ لَهُمَّ فِي بَيْعِهِمَا Allah will

00:59:07 --> 00:59:09

put barakah in a transaction.

00:59:09 --> 00:59:10

Allah will bless it.

00:59:11 --> 00:59:11

Just say, you know what?

00:59:12 --> 00:59:12

I'm gonna be honest with you.

00:59:12 --> 00:59:15

The AC sometimes works, sometimes it doesn't work.

00:59:15 --> 00:59:17

Sometimes the check engine light goes off and

00:59:17 --> 00:59:18

sometimes it goes not.

00:59:19 --> 00:59:20

What do some people do when there's a

00:59:20 --> 00:59:21

check engine light?

00:59:21 --> 00:59:22

They want to sell the car, unplug it

00:59:22 --> 00:59:24

from the battery, then plug it back again

00:59:24 --> 00:59:26

because the check engine light goes away.

00:59:26 --> 00:59:27

And it happens till this day.

00:59:27 --> 00:59:29

And there's an issue that subhanAllah I just

00:59:29 --> 00:59:29

came across recently.

00:59:30 --> 00:59:31

So you become clear.

00:59:31 --> 00:59:33

But brother, if I was honest that there's

00:59:33 --> 00:59:35

a transmission issue, I will make $3,000

00:59:35 --> 00:59:36

less.

00:59:36 --> 00:59:38

I'll make $7,000 instead of $10,000.

00:59:38 --> 00:59:40

Wallahi, that $7,000 will go a lot

00:59:40 --> 00:59:41

further than the $10,000.

00:59:42 --> 00:59:44

I remember there's an accountant I spoke to.

00:59:44 --> 00:59:46

I told the accountant, tell me something very

00:59:46 --> 00:59:49

interesting you came across in your accounting business.

00:59:49 --> 00:59:52

He said, I have a case.

00:59:52 --> 00:59:54

There's one guy has a store and that

00:59:54 --> 00:59:57

store alone makes $300,000 a year.

00:59:58 --> 01:00:00

And every time we do the accounting of

01:00:00 --> 01:00:02

that man, there's always in the minus.

01:00:03 --> 01:00:04

But we don't know how.

01:00:04 --> 01:00:06

Like he's making crazy amount of money but

01:00:06 --> 01:00:07

always not doing well.

01:00:07 --> 01:00:08

He's struggling financially.

01:00:08 --> 01:00:10

$300,000 from one store.

01:00:11 --> 01:00:11

So he said, you know what?

01:00:11 --> 01:00:14

I kept telling him, you're dealing with alcohol.

01:00:14 --> 01:00:15

You're dealing with lottery.

01:00:15 --> 01:00:16

There's no barakah.

01:00:16 --> 01:00:17

There's no barakah.

01:00:17 --> 01:00:20

And he says the moment he stopped and

01:00:20 --> 01:00:22

the numbers he made was a lot less.

01:00:22 --> 01:00:24

It was not $300,000 anymore.

01:00:24 --> 01:00:26

It was like $70,000.

01:00:26 --> 01:00:27

But he did a lot better financially than

01:00:27 --> 01:00:28

$300,000 came.

01:00:28 --> 01:00:29

Allahu Akbar.

01:00:29 --> 01:00:30

Just let go of that.

01:00:31 --> 01:00:31

That's what we learned from him.

01:00:31 --> 01:00:34

بَقِيَّةُ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ إِن كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ May

01:00:34 --> 01:00:34

Allah grant us Jannah.

01:00:35 --> 01:00:35

Say ameen.

01:00:35 --> 01:00:37

Then he says after that, come on, this

01:00:37 --> 01:00:38

is long but I'll read for you.

01:00:38 --> 01:00:40

When they heard all this advice, all what

01:00:40 --> 01:00:41

I told you was who's speaking?

01:00:42 --> 01:00:43

Shu'aib.

01:00:43 --> 01:00:44

All this was Shu'aib, don't do this,

01:00:44 --> 01:00:45

stop this, stop that.

01:00:45 --> 01:00:46

I collected it for you.

01:00:46 --> 01:00:48

So hear the response.

01:00:48 --> 01:00:50

Look what they say sarcastically.

01:00:50 --> 01:00:52

They tell him, أَصَلَاتُكَ تَأْمُرُكَ أَن نَتْرُكَ مَا

01:00:52 --> 01:00:56

يَعْبُدُ آبَؤُنَا أَوْ أَن نَفْعَلَ فِي أَمْوَالِنَا مَا

01:00:56 --> 01:00:58

نَشَاءٌ He says, does your salah tell you,

01:00:59 --> 01:01:02

does your salah encourage you to get involved

01:01:02 --> 01:01:04

in day-to-day activities?

01:01:04 --> 01:01:05

What are they trying to tell him?

01:01:06 --> 01:01:08

Take religion out of our lives.

01:01:09 --> 01:01:10

Don't put religion in everything.

01:01:11 --> 01:01:12

Let me do my wedding the way I

01:01:12 --> 01:01:13

want to do my wedding.

01:01:13 --> 01:01:15

Don't say, oh haram, she cannot dance in

01:01:15 --> 01:01:15

front of him.

01:01:16 --> 01:01:18

Religion on the musalla, the prayer mat, في

01:01:18 --> 01:01:20

بيتكم, in your house, in the masjid, and

01:01:20 --> 01:01:20

you cut it there.

01:01:21 --> 01:01:22

You log off after that, sign out.

01:01:23 --> 01:01:24

Don't get, does your salah tell you that?

01:01:25 --> 01:01:27

One of the scholars, he commented when he

01:01:27 --> 01:01:29

read the verse, he says, إِي وَاللَّهِ تَنْهَانَ

01:01:29 --> 01:01:33

وَتَأْمُرُنَا He's like, yes, our Islam involves us

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in everything in life.

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And we need to have that confidence.

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There's one of the most amazing ahadith.

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One of the most amazing ahadith.

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A man comes to one of the sahaba,

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a kafir.

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He is sarcastic, just like this man, sarcastically,

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says, so your prophet, your religion tells you

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everything?

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Like everything, everything, what to do this and

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what to do that.

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He said, حَتَّ فِي الْخَرَاءَةِ Even when you

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want to wipe yourself in the bathroom?

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That's what he told him, he told the

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Muslim.

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Even how to clean up yourself from number

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one and two?

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And he was kind of explicit.

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What did the man say?

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Come on, don't be like that, man.

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You know what he said?

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Yes.

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And he told us when we clean ourselves,

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we use the left hand and not the

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right hand.

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And we want to urinate or defecate, we

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try to avoid facing the qibla.

01:02:20 --> 01:02:22

And we try to wipe three times and

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not less.

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Look at the confidence and the barakah, yakhir.

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Yes, Islam in everything in my life, how

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I eat and how I drink.

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How I wake up and how I sleep.

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And everything, how to walk to the washroom

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and how to leave the washroom.

01:02:33 --> 01:02:36

And everything, how to fulfill a desire and

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how to be able to bury someone and

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how to buy and how to sell.

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Islam in my life, A to Z.

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May Allah make us like that, say ameen.

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So here he says, your prayer tells you

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not to have us worship Allah and how

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to deal with our money?

01:02:49 --> 01:02:50

Then what do they say here?

01:02:50 --> 01:02:53

إِنَّكَ لَأَنْتَ الْحَلِيمُ الرَّشِيدُ Indeed, you're such a

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tolerant, sensible man.

01:02:55 --> 01:02:55

Did they actually mean it?

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They're being sarcastic.

01:02:58 --> 01:02:58

Why?

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Why they're being like that?

01:02:59 --> 01:03:00

Why?

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Because you know, Shu'aib a.s, that

01:03:04 --> 01:03:07

we are living our lives on this rhythm,

01:03:08 --> 01:03:10

on this methodology for decades.

01:03:10 --> 01:03:13

You want us to drop everything and start

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a new page?

01:03:14 --> 01:03:14

Are you out of your mind?

01:03:14 --> 01:03:15

Do you know what you're talking about?

01:03:16 --> 01:03:17

You know what will happen to us?

01:03:18 --> 01:03:19

Now, look what he says, Shu'aib.

01:03:19 --> 01:03:22

أَرَأَيْتَمْ إِن كُنْتُ عَلَىٰ بَيِّنَتِهِ مَنْ رَبِّي I

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wanna ask you a question and you guys

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be honest with me.

01:03:24 --> 01:03:25

That's what Shu'aib is telling the people.

01:03:25 --> 01:03:28

He says, now that I know the truth,

01:03:28 --> 01:03:30

okay, I know the truth, and Allah gave

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me prophethood, does it make sense if you

01:03:34 --> 01:03:36

know what's right for you to no longer

01:03:36 --> 01:03:36

do it?

01:03:37 --> 01:03:38

Because they said you'd have no common sense.

01:03:39 --> 01:03:40

No, I have all the common sense because

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Allah gave it to me.

01:03:41 --> 01:03:43

Would it make sense to act now weird

01:03:43 --> 01:03:43

and so on?

01:03:44 --> 01:03:46

Then he says, وَمَا أُرِدُ أِلْدْ عَنْ أُخَالِفَكُمْ

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إِلَىٰ مَا أَنْهَاكُمْ عَنْ I'm not telling you,

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this is very powerful, I'm not telling you

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not to do things just for the sake

01:03:53 --> 01:03:55

of being argumentative.

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Because some people are like that by the

01:03:56 --> 01:03:56

way.

01:03:57 --> 01:03:59

وَإِنْ أُرِيدُ إِلَّا الْإِصْلَاحَ مَا أَسْتَطَعْتُ My ultimate

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goal is trying to reform, is trying to

01:04:03 --> 01:04:04

make this community a better place.

01:04:05 --> 01:04:08

Then he says, وَمَا تَوْفِيقَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ My

01:04:08 --> 01:04:10

success is in the hands of Allah SWT.

01:04:11 --> 01:04:14

وَعَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلْتُ وَعَلَيْهِ أُنِيبُ I trust Allah with

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the results.

01:04:14 --> 01:04:16

I'm gonna put all the means that I

01:04:16 --> 01:04:18

can, and I return back to Allah SWT.

01:04:19 --> 01:04:21

And this is everyone in this theater, that's

01:04:21 --> 01:04:22

your goal right here.

01:04:22 --> 01:04:26

وَإِنْ أُرِيدُ إِلَّا الْإِصْلَاحَ مَا أَسْتَطَعْتُ That's your

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job and my job.

01:04:27 --> 01:04:29

Your job is not just to be a

01:04:29 --> 01:04:30

good person.

01:04:30 --> 01:04:33

Because being a good person, just literally like

01:04:33 --> 01:04:35

that, will not save you.

01:04:36 --> 01:04:38

What saves you, is you being a good

01:04:38 --> 01:04:41

person and spreading the goodness to others.

01:04:41 --> 01:04:43

Because we're all this on the same earth,

01:04:43 --> 01:04:44

we're not in different planets.

01:04:45 --> 01:04:48

Rasulullah SAW gives the example of a ship,

01:04:48 --> 01:04:50

has two floors.

01:04:50 --> 01:04:52

The lower floor, and the upper floor of

01:04:52 --> 01:04:53

that ship.

01:04:53 --> 01:04:54

The lower floor, think of it as like

01:04:54 --> 01:04:55

a basement, alright.

01:04:55 --> 01:04:58

The ceiling, there's a ceiling on top, and

01:04:58 --> 01:05:00

the base is the actual bottom of the

01:05:00 --> 01:05:00

ship.

01:05:00 --> 01:05:04

So the Prophet SAW says, two groups, one

01:05:04 --> 01:05:05

goes up, one goes down.

01:05:06 --> 01:05:08

He says, the people on the top level,

01:05:08 --> 01:05:10

they can easily get water.

01:05:10 --> 01:05:11

Get a bucket, throw in the ocean, get

01:05:11 --> 01:05:12

the water, easy.

01:05:13 --> 01:05:15

The ones in the lower deck, right in

01:05:15 --> 01:05:18

the lower floor, if they want water, some

01:05:18 --> 01:05:21

of them said to each other, let's not

01:05:21 --> 01:05:25

disturb the people on the top, let's just

01:05:25 --> 01:05:26

drill a hole in the bottom.

01:05:27 --> 01:05:30

So the Prophet SAW, look what he says,

01:05:30 --> 01:05:32

if the people at the top, who have

01:05:32 --> 01:05:35

access to water, things are doing well, they're

01:05:35 --> 01:05:37

educated, whatever the case is, if they do

01:05:37 --> 01:05:40

not stop those in that basement, in the

01:05:40 --> 01:05:43

lower floor, and they do drill a hole,

01:05:43 --> 01:05:44

all of them will drown.

01:05:46 --> 01:05:47

All of us will drown.

01:05:47 --> 01:05:50

If you keep the goodness, and your knowledge

01:05:50 --> 01:05:54

just to yourself, there's no success in any

01:05:54 --> 01:05:54

of us.

01:05:54 --> 01:05:55

And I'll share with you this hadith, which

01:05:55 --> 01:05:57

is quite terrifying.

01:05:57 --> 01:06:02

Rasulullah SAW says, it's not usually that he

01:06:02 --> 01:06:05

says that, very frequently, he says, I swear

01:06:05 --> 01:06:06

by the one whom my soul is in

01:06:06 --> 01:06:07

his hands.

01:06:11 --> 01:06:13

You guys need to correct people with respect

01:06:13 --> 01:06:16

and wisdom and knowledge, and tell them what's

01:06:16 --> 01:06:17

right and what's wrong.

01:06:17 --> 01:06:21

Then he says, if you choose to keep

01:06:21 --> 01:06:22

everything to yourself, you see the wrong, you

01:06:22 --> 01:06:24

can do something about it.

01:06:24 --> 01:06:26

You can change it with your hands, if

01:06:26 --> 01:06:28

you cannot, then with your speech, that's wrong,

01:06:28 --> 01:06:29

you shouldn't do that with respect.

01:06:30 --> 01:06:31

And if you cannot do it with your

01:06:31 --> 01:06:33

hand, and you cannot change it verbally, then

01:06:33 --> 01:06:35

at least reject it with your heart.

01:06:36 --> 01:06:41

Then the Prophet says, or Allah will send

01:06:41 --> 01:06:42

a punishment.

01:06:42 --> 01:06:43

Who is he talking to?

01:06:43 --> 01:06:43

Sahaba.

01:06:45 --> 01:06:46

If you don't do that, Allah will send

01:06:46 --> 01:06:49

a punishment, on you guys, and you will

01:06:49 --> 01:06:53

make dua, and Allah will never accept your

01:06:53 --> 01:06:53

dua.

01:06:54 --> 01:06:55

Don't be selfish.

01:06:56 --> 01:06:56

I'm not being selfish.

01:06:57 --> 01:06:59

No, when you see someone doing wrong, and

01:06:59 --> 01:07:00

you're able to adjust, go for it.

01:07:01 --> 01:07:03

We go through, we miss many times, but

01:07:03 --> 01:07:05

go within your lane, may Allah make it

01:07:05 --> 01:07:06

easy for all of us.

01:07:07 --> 01:07:08

But there's a lot of ways to help

01:07:08 --> 01:07:09

out, a lot of ways to do your

01:07:09 --> 01:07:10

da'wah and the correction.

01:07:11 --> 01:07:12

Because people think I have to say it,

01:07:12 --> 01:07:13

I have to speak it.

01:07:13 --> 01:07:16

No, clearly said, with the hand, speech, with

01:07:16 --> 01:07:16

the heart.

01:07:16 --> 01:07:19

So for example, today's session, perfect example.

01:07:20 --> 01:07:20

All right.

01:07:21 --> 01:07:22

I'm calling to good and forbidding evil.

01:07:23 --> 01:07:23

Right?

01:07:23 --> 01:07:23

In a general sense.

01:07:24 --> 01:07:24

Sah?

01:07:24 --> 01:07:24

Is that right?

01:07:24 --> 01:07:25

Or am I not?

01:07:26 --> 01:07:28

Now you think, is it me just speaking?

01:07:28 --> 01:07:29

Am I the one involved here?

01:07:29 --> 01:07:30

Absolutely not.

01:07:31 --> 01:07:34

Someone had to help spread the goodness, by

01:07:34 --> 01:07:34

giving me a clicker.

01:07:35 --> 01:07:35

Sah?

01:07:36 --> 01:07:38

Someone had to help put the mic.

01:07:38 --> 01:07:40

Mother Allah came, adjusted the mic for me.

01:07:41 --> 01:07:43

Someone had to actually call the civic center,

01:07:43 --> 01:07:45

or the new name of it.

01:07:45 --> 01:07:45

Forgive us.

01:07:45 --> 01:07:46

Right?

01:07:46 --> 01:07:48

And call to reserve the venue.

01:07:48 --> 01:07:50

Someone actually had to come and do it,

01:07:50 --> 01:07:51

and pay for it.

01:07:52 --> 01:07:52

Right?

01:07:53 --> 01:07:55

And without Allah, then all of you, I

01:07:55 --> 01:07:57

promise you, we would have never had this

01:07:57 --> 01:07:57

session.

01:07:57 --> 01:07:59

So you'd have to be proud of your

01:07:59 --> 01:08:01

accomplishment, and know that Allah will grant you

01:08:01 --> 01:08:02

that success.

01:08:02 --> 01:08:03

Say Alhamdulillah.

01:08:03 --> 01:08:05

So we all play a role in that.

01:08:05 --> 01:08:07

If the least that you can do, for

01:08:07 --> 01:08:10

the sake of Allah, is attend, this goes

01:08:10 --> 01:08:10

a long way.

01:08:12 --> 01:08:14

A lot of people attending, is a lot

01:08:14 --> 01:08:14

of power.

01:08:14 --> 01:08:16

And I'll show you that very quickly, Insha

01:08:16 --> 01:08:16

'Allah.

01:08:17 --> 01:08:19

Allah says in the Quran, وَمَا تَوْفِيقِ إِلَّا

01:08:19 --> 01:08:20

بِاللَّهِ My success is in the hands of

01:08:20 --> 01:08:21

Allah.

01:08:21 --> 01:08:23

Now when he says that, he gets accused.

01:08:24 --> 01:08:26

قَالُوا إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ بِالْمُسَحَرِينَ You're possessed.

01:08:26 --> 01:08:27

You're bewitched.

01:08:28 --> 01:08:28

There's seerah amongst you.

01:08:29 --> 01:08:29

You're crazy.

01:08:29 --> 01:08:29

You're majnoon.

01:08:30 --> 01:08:32

And then they say, وَمَا أَنْتَ إِلَّا بَشْرٌ

01:08:32 --> 01:08:35

مِثْلُونَ وَإِنَّ ظُنُّكَ لَمِنَ الْكَاذِبِينَ لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا

01:08:35 --> 01:08:38

قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ The one who is clearly

01:08:38 --> 01:08:40

speaking, a prophet of Allah, now is bewitched.

01:08:40 --> 01:08:41

Remember what they do?

01:08:41 --> 01:08:42

Remember what I told you earlier?

01:08:42 --> 01:08:45

They change the truthful to a liar, and

01:08:45 --> 01:08:46

the liar to a truthful.

01:08:47 --> 01:08:49

So the one who is the wisest, becomes

01:08:49 --> 01:08:49

bewitched.

01:08:50 --> 01:08:51

And the one who is the most truthful,

01:08:51 --> 01:08:52

becomes a liar.

01:08:52 --> 01:08:54

May Allah protect us and keep us strong.

01:08:54 --> 01:08:54

Say ameen.

01:08:55 --> 01:08:56

Then when they said that to him, look

01:08:56 --> 01:08:57

what Allah says afterwards.

01:08:58 --> 01:08:59

Shu'aib replies.

01:09:00 --> 01:09:03

How would you reply if someone says something

01:09:03 --> 01:09:03

like that to you?

01:09:05 --> 01:09:06

أنا مجنون.

01:09:06 --> 01:09:07

إنت مجنون أو سيكستي مجنون.

01:09:08 --> 01:09:09

Right?

01:09:10 --> 01:09:10

Right?

01:09:10 --> 01:09:11

I'm a crazy man?

01:09:11 --> 01:09:12

No, you're crazy.

01:09:13 --> 01:09:16

I remember there's one time on Facebook, there

01:09:16 --> 01:09:18

was a sheikh that posted a video on

01:09:18 --> 01:09:21

whether brushing your teeth breaks your fast in

01:09:21 --> 01:09:22

Ramadan or not.

01:09:22 --> 01:09:22

What do you guys think?

01:09:22 --> 01:09:23

Does it break your fast?

01:09:24 --> 01:09:25

Please brush your teeth.

01:09:26 --> 01:09:27

All right.

01:09:27 --> 01:09:28

Let's make sure you don't swallow.

01:09:29 --> 01:09:29

All right.

01:09:29 --> 01:09:32

So then when the sheikh posted this video,

01:09:32 --> 01:09:35

there's a person, I actually have an exact

01:09:35 --> 01:09:36

text.

01:09:36 --> 01:09:37

I took a copy of it.

01:09:37 --> 01:09:40

So a person replied under the video and

01:09:40 --> 01:09:43

said, you're talking on whether toothpaste breaks people's

01:09:43 --> 01:09:45

fast or not when there's people dying out

01:09:45 --> 01:09:46

of hunger.

01:09:46 --> 01:09:49

That's your biggest problem to say whether toothpaste

01:09:49 --> 01:09:50

in Ramadan breaks your fast.

01:09:51 --> 01:09:53

There's bigger problems in the community to address.

01:09:54 --> 01:09:55

But why do you speak like that for?

01:09:56 --> 01:09:58

And what's sad is the next comment.

01:09:59 --> 01:10:01

The next comment was a reply to that

01:10:01 --> 01:10:01

person.

01:10:02 --> 01:10:03

Now look what that person did.

01:10:03 --> 01:10:08

When they replied back, it says, you brainless

01:10:08 --> 01:10:08

twit.

01:10:08 --> 01:10:09

I don't know what that means.

01:10:09 --> 01:10:10

Okay.

01:10:10 --> 01:10:10

And that's what they said.

01:10:11 --> 01:10:11

Okay.

01:10:12 --> 01:10:13

I know it's not like haram, haram, haram.

01:10:13 --> 01:10:14

Like maybe a little bit, right?

01:10:14 --> 01:10:15

May Allah make it easy.

01:10:15 --> 01:10:17

So you're brainless twit.

01:10:18 --> 01:10:21

You're thinking about the poor people and so

01:10:21 --> 01:10:23

on when you're eating your crab salad.

01:10:24 --> 01:10:25

Crab salad?

01:10:25 --> 01:10:26

How did they know?

01:10:26 --> 01:10:28

So I actually went and I clicked on

01:10:28 --> 01:10:30

that person's profile and they were having crab

01:10:30 --> 01:10:30

salad.

01:10:33 --> 01:10:34

I'm like, man, this is like some serious

01:10:34 --> 01:10:35

keyboard warriors.

01:10:36 --> 01:10:37

MashaAllah, TabarakAllah, right?

01:10:37 --> 01:10:39

But then you have a sister.

01:10:39 --> 01:10:42

Her name is Umm Yusuf, right?

01:10:42 --> 01:10:44

And then she had a nice paragraph.

01:10:45 --> 01:10:47

She said, you know what?

01:10:48 --> 01:10:50

Yes, there are poor people that are struggling

01:10:50 --> 01:10:52

and we should do our best to help

01:10:52 --> 01:10:52

out.

01:10:52 --> 01:10:55

And this Sheikh is helping us regarding Ramadan

01:10:55 --> 01:10:57

and how to fast appropriately because when we

01:10:57 --> 01:11:00

fast right, we feel more genuine towards poor

01:11:00 --> 01:11:01

people and we support them.

01:11:02 --> 01:11:03

Look at the love.

01:11:03 --> 01:11:04

Umm Yusuf, may Allah grant her Jannah.

01:11:05 --> 01:11:05

Say Ameen.

01:11:06 --> 01:11:07

And that's it.

01:11:07 --> 01:11:07

So see the difference?

01:11:08 --> 01:11:09

How will you react to that?

01:11:10 --> 01:11:12

Because one sister, she gave me advice when

01:11:12 --> 01:11:12

we did the review session.

01:11:12 --> 01:11:13

It was wonderful.

01:11:13 --> 01:11:14

I did not say it last session.

01:11:14 --> 01:11:16

Allah willed that I say it today.

01:11:17 --> 01:11:18

Remember that.

01:11:18 --> 01:11:20

Success is in the hands of Allah.

01:11:20 --> 01:11:21

You can have all the means in the

01:11:21 --> 01:11:22

world, but you still fail.

01:11:23 --> 01:11:24

And some of you are actually an evidence

01:11:24 --> 01:11:25

to that.

01:11:25 --> 01:11:27

You may have less means than your cousin,

01:11:27 --> 01:11:29

but you are far ahead in life than

01:11:29 --> 01:11:30

them.

01:11:30 --> 01:11:32

Because what they're missing, though they have everything,

01:11:33 --> 01:11:35

is they don't have Tawfiq, but you have

01:11:35 --> 01:11:35

it.

01:11:36 --> 01:11:37

You being here is one of the greatest

01:11:37 --> 01:11:41

signs in your life that Allah gives you

01:11:41 --> 01:11:41

Tawfiq.

01:11:41 --> 01:11:43

Not literally this session in the civic center.

01:11:44 --> 01:11:45

The fact that you attend a gathering where

01:11:45 --> 01:11:48

Allah is being honored, Allah is being praised,

01:11:48 --> 01:11:49

and Rasulullah is being mentioned.

01:11:50 --> 01:11:50

So rejoice for that.

01:11:50 --> 01:11:51

That's the real Tawfiq.

01:11:52 --> 01:11:52

You guys with me?

01:11:53 --> 01:11:54

So may Allah grant us Tawfiq forever and

01:11:54 --> 01:11:54

ever.

01:11:54 --> 01:11:54

Say Ameen.

01:11:55 --> 01:11:56

So what did that sister tell me?

01:11:56 --> 01:11:59

She said when someone starts to argue, like,

01:11:59 --> 01:12:00

you know, I said you're a magician, you're

01:12:00 --> 01:12:01

possessed, you're this and that.

01:12:02 --> 01:12:04

Usually this means that that person lost the

01:12:04 --> 01:12:05

conversation, correct?

01:12:06 --> 01:12:08

The moment you resort to insult, that means

01:12:08 --> 01:12:09

you have no more base to stand on.

01:12:10 --> 01:12:10

You lost it.

01:12:10 --> 01:12:14

So she said, I'm concerned that Muslims may

01:12:14 --> 01:12:14

do that.

01:12:15 --> 01:12:18

Because Muslims do have a very strong base

01:12:18 --> 01:12:20

in any discussion, anything about theology.

01:12:21 --> 01:12:23

But some of us as Muslims, when we

01:12:23 --> 01:12:25

get so angry and we start to curse

01:12:25 --> 01:12:28

and insult, we show the other person who's

01:12:28 --> 01:12:30

a non-Muslim or so, that we have

01:12:30 --> 01:12:33

no ground to stand on, so we resorted

01:12:33 --> 01:12:34

to insults.

01:12:34 --> 01:12:35

You see what she said?

01:12:35 --> 01:12:36

Very wise.

01:12:36 --> 01:12:38

So don't ruin the image of Islam with

01:12:38 --> 01:12:39

your behavior.

01:12:39 --> 01:12:42

Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, He says, لأن

01:12:42 --> 01:12:46

سوء الخلق, bad akhlaq, bad character, ruins the

01:12:46 --> 01:12:50

deed, the way vinegar ruins the honey.

01:12:51 --> 01:12:51

What does that mean?

01:12:52 --> 01:12:52

Let me explain that.

01:12:53 --> 01:12:54

You may be doing a great job.

01:12:55 --> 01:12:57

Let me, for example, who did I choose

01:12:57 --> 01:12:57

as an example?

01:12:58 --> 01:13:00

Let's say someone who set up this stage,

01:13:00 --> 01:13:00

all right?

01:13:00 --> 01:13:02

So let's say someone says, okay, get the

01:13:02 --> 01:13:03

thing here, get the podium, all right?

01:13:03 --> 01:13:04

Bismillah.

01:13:04 --> 01:13:06

The guy miskeen has, you know, a bulged

01:13:06 --> 01:13:07

disc and all the issues.

01:13:08 --> 01:13:09

He's helping out.

01:13:09 --> 01:13:09

May Allah grant him Jannah.

01:13:10 --> 01:13:10

All right?

01:13:10 --> 01:13:11

He's moving this.

01:13:11 --> 01:13:12

Did it happen today?

01:13:12 --> 01:13:12

This is an example.

01:13:13 --> 01:13:15

So while he's helping, someone else is helping

01:13:15 --> 01:13:15

him out.

01:13:15 --> 01:13:15

He's like, come on, bro.

01:13:16 --> 01:13:17

What's wrong with you, bro?

01:13:17 --> 01:13:18

You're so weak.

01:13:19 --> 01:13:21

You're doing a great job, but the way

01:13:21 --> 01:13:22

you're doing it is evil.

01:13:22 --> 01:13:24

So you won't get rewarded for what you're

01:13:24 --> 01:13:24

doing.

01:13:25 --> 01:13:26

And it's so sad.

01:13:26 --> 01:13:27

You left your family.

01:13:27 --> 01:13:29

You're volunteering in the masjid, or at this

01:13:29 --> 01:13:31

place, or the civic center, or whatever the

01:13:31 --> 01:13:31

case is.

01:13:32 --> 01:13:34

But that reward all goes to waste because

01:13:34 --> 01:13:35

of your attitude doing it.

01:13:36 --> 01:13:36

All right.

01:13:37 --> 01:13:39

So he says, وَيَقُومِ ٱلَّا يَجَلُ مَنِّكُمْ شِقَاقِ

01:13:39 --> 01:13:42

Don't let the hatred you have towards me.

01:13:42 --> 01:13:42

Why?

01:13:43 --> 01:13:45

Because they said, you're just a human being.

01:13:45 --> 01:13:47

So clearly, there's some sense of jealousy and

01:13:47 --> 01:13:48

envy.

01:13:48 --> 01:13:50

By the way, did prophets answer this question?

01:13:50 --> 01:13:53

Because all the many prophets, they're told, you're

01:13:53 --> 01:13:53

just a human being.

01:13:53 --> 01:13:54

You're just a human being.

01:13:54 --> 01:13:56

Did the prophets ever address this?

01:13:56 --> 01:13:57

What do you guys think?

01:13:58 --> 01:14:00

It's actually in chapter 14, verse 11.

01:14:00 --> 01:14:02

And I wasn't really aware of it until

01:14:02 --> 01:14:03

I actually prepared this session.

01:14:04 --> 01:14:07

The prophets respond to the question because people

01:14:07 --> 01:14:08

keep saying, you're just a human being.

01:14:08 --> 01:14:10

There's nothing special about you.

01:14:10 --> 01:14:14

They say, إِنَّحْنُ إِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِثْلُكُمْ You are

01:14:14 --> 01:14:14

right.

01:14:15 --> 01:14:18

Shu'aib, Nuh, Muhammad ﷺ, we're all human

01:14:18 --> 01:14:19

beings just like you.

01:14:20 --> 01:14:23

وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهِ يَمُنُّ عَلَى مَن يَشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ

01:14:23 --> 01:14:24

Allah chose me.

01:14:24 --> 01:14:26

I have nothing to do with it.

01:14:26 --> 01:14:28

So next time maybe we see someone that

01:14:28 --> 01:14:30

we might be jealous of or so, or

01:14:30 --> 01:14:32

shaitan whispers to you, realize that much of

01:14:32 --> 01:14:34

the skills that we have, to the extent,

01:14:35 --> 01:14:37

is literally given by Allah jalla jalaluhu.

01:14:38 --> 01:14:38

Correct?

01:14:38 --> 01:14:41

Like now that you're, mashallah tabarakallah, this height,

01:14:42 --> 01:14:44

how did you work hard on it?

01:14:44 --> 01:14:44

How?

01:14:44 --> 01:14:46

Like I drank milk.

01:14:46 --> 01:14:47

You drank milk all in your life.

01:14:47 --> 01:14:48

You'll be six, seven.

01:14:49 --> 01:14:49

Right?

01:14:50 --> 01:14:50

Allahu a'lam, maybe.

01:14:50 --> 01:14:51

I don't know.

01:14:51 --> 01:14:51

Right?

01:14:51 --> 01:14:53

But there's certain things, many of our blessings

01:14:53 --> 01:14:55

that we have, it did not involve hard

01:14:55 --> 01:14:55

work from you.

01:14:56 --> 01:14:58

Especially when it doesn't make sense is when

01:14:58 --> 01:15:00

we're, by showing off in general is wrong,

01:15:01 --> 01:15:03

especially when we show off over things that

01:15:03 --> 01:15:04

we have nothing to do with.

01:15:05 --> 01:15:07

So be as humble as you possibly can.

01:15:07 --> 01:15:07

May Allah protect us.

01:15:07 --> 01:15:10

So he says to the people that say,

01:15:10 --> 01:15:12

I am just a human being, but it's

01:15:12 --> 01:15:13

Allah who chose this for me.

01:15:13 --> 01:15:15

Just like how some of you are born

01:15:15 --> 01:15:16

into rich families.

01:15:16 --> 01:15:17

You have nothing to do with it.

01:15:17 --> 01:15:18

Wallah, I promise.

01:15:18 --> 01:15:21

Like you didn't do business deals in a

01:15:21 --> 01:15:23

'lam al-arwah, the world of the souls.

01:15:24 --> 01:15:25

Then you came back to this dunya.

01:15:25 --> 01:15:26

How was it, the business dad?

01:15:26 --> 01:15:27

You had nothing to do with it.

01:15:28 --> 01:15:29

And you who was born in a poor

01:15:29 --> 01:15:31

family, you also have nothing to do with

01:15:31 --> 01:15:31

it.

01:15:32 --> 01:15:34

So just accept where Allah has placed you

01:15:34 --> 01:15:37

and believe you have enough capacity to succeed

01:15:37 --> 01:15:37

in life.

01:15:38 --> 01:15:40

And ultimately the afterlife, may Allah grant success.

01:15:40 --> 01:15:40

Say ameen.

01:15:41 --> 01:15:43

Because remember, the one who was born into

01:15:43 --> 01:15:44

a rich family may lose everything.

01:15:45 --> 01:15:48

Just like the example of the passport, right?

01:15:48 --> 01:15:50

There's some people here that had the American

01:15:50 --> 01:15:52

passport by birth, correct?

01:15:53 --> 01:15:55

But there are people here sitting right now,

01:15:55 --> 01:15:58

they had their American passport but through the

01:15:58 --> 01:15:59

naturalization process.

01:16:00 --> 01:16:02

So you may be born at a very

01:16:02 --> 01:16:05

difficult circumstances, but inshallah you'll be able to

01:16:05 --> 01:16:07

grow out of it and reach that level.

01:16:08 --> 01:16:09

Not just that, the one who was quote

01:16:09 --> 01:16:12

-unquote example, born with a passport, it doesn't

01:16:12 --> 01:16:13

mean that you can always have it, correct?

01:16:14 --> 01:16:15

It can be taken away from you.

01:16:15 --> 01:16:15

Is that right?

01:16:16 --> 01:16:18

So don't let your beginning become an obstacle

01:16:18 --> 01:16:21

and make you disbelieve that you can grow

01:16:21 --> 01:16:24

further because there's no beginning to an extent

01:16:24 --> 01:16:26

more difficult than the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

01:16:26 --> 01:16:27

sallam.

01:16:27 --> 01:16:30

He had no father, no mother much of

01:16:30 --> 01:16:30

his life.

01:16:30 --> 01:16:32

His dad died before he was even born.

01:16:32 --> 01:16:33

And what happened after that?

01:16:34 --> 01:16:35

He became the greatest man ever walked on

01:16:35 --> 01:16:35

earth.

01:16:36 --> 01:16:36

So may Allah grant success.

01:16:37 --> 01:16:37

Say ameen.

01:16:37 --> 01:16:39

Because remember, success is in the hands of

01:16:39 --> 01:16:39

Allah.

01:16:40 --> 01:16:41

So after he says this, look what he

01:16:41 --> 01:16:42

says at the end here.

01:16:42 --> 01:16:46

وَاسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ ثُمَّ تُوبُوا إِلَيْهِ Ask Allah's forgiveness

01:16:46 --> 01:16:47

and repent to Allah.

01:16:47 --> 01:16:50

إِنَّ رَبِّي رَحِيمٌ وَدُودٌ This is ayah should

01:16:50 --> 01:16:53

bring everyone here so much hope and perhaps

01:16:53 --> 01:16:55

even go back to it throughout your life.

01:16:56 --> 01:16:58

Shu'aib is telling people that worship trees,

01:16:58 --> 01:17:02

people that are making fun of Prophets, people

01:17:02 --> 01:17:04

who saw and or heard what happened to

01:17:04 --> 01:17:06

other Prophet people, that punishment.

01:17:06 --> 01:17:10

People who have all that crime in their

01:17:10 --> 01:17:14

record, so much disgusting stuff they've done and

01:17:14 --> 01:17:15

he still tells them, you got room to

01:17:15 --> 01:17:16

change.

01:17:16 --> 01:17:18

Allah can still give you a shot at

01:17:18 --> 01:17:18

this.

01:17:18 --> 01:17:20

Wallahi not even in dunya's courts, they may

01:17:20 --> 01:17:21

give you a chance.

01:17:21 --> 01:17:21

Yes or no?

01:17:23 --> 01:17:24

This is who you deal with, Allah ar

01:17:24 --> 01:17:25

-Rahman ar-Rahim.

01:17:25 --> 01:17:26

And this is probably the only time in

01:17:26 --> 01:17:27

the Qur'an you see this by the

01:17:27 --> 01:17:27

way.

01:17:28 --> 01:17:33

إِنَّ رَبِّي رَحِيمٌ وَدُودٌ Though out of all

01:17:33 --> 01:17:36

the people who spoke about Salih and Hud,

01:17:37 --> 01:17:40

they were not perhaps as bad in the

01:17:40 --> 01:17:41

way it was mentioned in the Qur'an.

01:17:42 --> 01:17:44

And they got less punishment by the way

01:17:44 --> 01:17:46

than people of Shuaib as you will see.

01:17:47 --> 01:17:49

Yet as bad as they were, as nice

01:17:49 --> 01:17:51

as Allah was offering his rahmah.

01:17:51 --> 01:17:51

Incredible.

01:17:53 --> 01:17:58

رَحِيمٌ وَدُودٌ Allah tells Rasulullah ﷺ, there's one

01:17:58 --> 01:17:59

hadith I can mention about Tawbah, one hadith,

01:17:59 --> 01:18:00

just one.

01:18:01 --> 01:18:03

On a personal level, it's my favorite hadith

01:18:03 --> 01:18:04

on Tawbah.

01:18:04 --> 01:18:06

This is personal, but this is something Rasulullah

01:18:06 --> 01:18:07

ﷺ has mentioned.

01:18:08 --> 01:18:11

He says, let me tell you how happy

01:18:11 --> 01:18:14

Allah is when you apologize to him.

01:18:15 --> 01:18:19

Let me tell you how happy Allah becomes

01:18:19 --> 01:18:21

when you ask for his forgiveness.

01:18:21 --> 01:18:24

It's like a man who's traveling in a

01:18:24 --> 01:18:29

desert, all alone and on that camel and

01:18:29 --> 01:18:31

has all his stuff, the water, the food,

01:18:31 --> 01:18:33

the luggage, everything is on that camel.

01:18:33 --> 01:18:35

Then he goes and he takes a what?

01:18:36 --> 01:18:37

Quite some rest.

01:18:37 --> 01:18:39

So he goes and takes a little bit

01:18:39 --> 01:18:40

of a rest.

01:18:40 --> 01:18:43

So he sees a tree, goes under the

01:18:43 --> 01:18:45

shade, and he sits.

01:18:45 --> 01:18:46

And when he sits, what happens?

01:18:47 --> 01:18:48

When he sits, what happens?

01:18:49 --> 01:18:50

He falls asleep.

01:18:50 --> 01:18:53

And when he falls asleep, the Prophet ﷺ

01:18:53 --> 01:18:56

says, when he opens up his eyes, he

01:18:56 --> 01:18:58

sees the camel is no longer there.

01:18:59 --> 01:18:59

He panics.

01:19:00 --> 01:19:01

I'm in the desert, where am I gonna

01:19:01 --> 01:19:01

go?

01:19:02 --> 01:19:04

So the hadith says, يَأْتِي جِهَا He goes,

01:19:04 --> 01:19:07

travels one distance, so far away, he can't

01:19:07 --> 01:19:07

even see the camel.

01:19:08 --> 01:19:09

That's how far the camel went.

01:19:09 --> 01:19:11

That's how far the camel has gone.

01:19:11 --> 01:19:13

That's how far my resources are at.

01:19:13 --> 01:19:15

He goes one direction, under the heat of

01:19:15 --> 01:19:17

Arabia, or whatever the actual case may be.

01:19:18 --> 01:19:19

So eventually, he doesn't see it there.

01:19:19 --> 01:19:20

Then he goes other direction.

01:19:20 --> 01:19:21

He goes, he goes, he goes, he goes.

01:19:22 --> 01:19:22

He doesn't see the camel.

01:19:23 --> 01:19:25

Then he goes a third direction, and he

01:19:25 --> 01:19:25

doesn't see the camel.

01:19:25 --> 01:19:26

Then what happens next?

01:19:27 --> 01:19:29

He says to himself, let me go back

01:19:29 --> 01:19:33

to the tree, and wait for death to

01:19:33 --> 01:19:34

come to me.

01:19:34 --> 01:19:36

That's how hopeless he became.

01:19:37 --> 01:19:40

So the Prophet says, he went and then,

01:19:40 --> 01:19:43

فَنَامَ عَلَى سَاعِدَيْن He was sleeping on his

01:19:43 --> 01:19:45

hands, and then he actually dozed off.

01:19:46 --> 01:19:49

Then, he eventually woke up, and when he

01:19:49 --> 01:19:52

opened his eyes, what did he see?

01:19:52 --> 01:19:54

The camels were right there.

01:19:57 --> 01:19:59

فَمَسَكَ بِخِطَامِ النَّاقَةِ He grabbed the reins of

01:19:59 --> 01:20:00

the camel.

01:20:00 --> 01:20:05

And he says, Oh Allah, you are my

01:20:05 --> 01:20:08

slave, and I'm your Lord.

01:20:08 --> 01:20:11

And he said, I did not make a

01:20:11 --> 01:20:11

mistake.

01:20:12 --> 01:20:15

The Prophet says, أَخْطَأَ مِن شِدَّةِ الْفَرَحِ He

01:20:15 --> 01:20:17

made a mistake for how happy he was.

01:20:18 --> 01:20:21

The Prophet says, Allah is happier than that

01:20:21 --> 01:20:23

man, when you ask for his forgiveness.

01:20:25 --> 01:20:27

That's how happy Allah becomes.

01:20:27 --> 01:20:29

Something that you can't even do, like he

01:20:29 --> 01:20:30

doesn't comprehend, like what do you mean?

01:20:30 --> 01:20:31

He said, you are my slave.

01:20:32 --> 01:20:33

So happy.

01:20:33 --> 01:20:34

Allah is happier than that man.

01:20:35 --> 01:20:37

So don't lose hope in Allah, who is

01:20:37 --> 01:20:40

رَحِيم وَدُود to people that worship trees.

01:20:40 --> 01:20:42

What would he do to people that say,

01:20:42 --> 01:20:44

لا إله إلا الله Don't give up on

01:20:44 --> 01:20:45

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

01:20:45 --> 01:20:47

As we reach the end, they say, يَا

01:20:47 --> 01:20:49

شُعَيْبُ مَا نَفْقَهُ كَثِيرًا مِمَّا تَقُولُ Because he

01:20:49 --> 01:20:51

put him in such a situation, so much

01:20:51 --> 01:20:54

hope, so much love, so much fear, so

01:20:54 --> 01:20:56

much warning, so much good news, everything.

01:20:56 --> 01:20:57

There's a whole package.

01:20:58 --> 01:21:00

And every Prophet comes with a miracle.

01:21:00 --> 01:21:02

But the thing about Prophet Shu'aib, Allah

01:21:02 --> 01:21:05

says in the Quran, that I came with

01:21:05 --> 01:21:05

a miracle.

01:21:05 --> 01:21:08

But something interesting, mysterious about his story.

01:21:08 --> 01:21:08

You know what is it?

01:21:09 --> 01:21:12

Though Allah says Shu'aib had a miracle,

01:21:13 --> 01:21:15

but what's the mysterious part about it?

01:21:16 --> 01:21:18

That Allah doesn't tell us what is it.

01:21:19 --> 01:21:20

But it's enough for you to know.

01:21:20 --> 01:21:21

And what does it mean when Allah sends

01:21:21 --> 01:21:21

a miracle?

01:21:22 --> 01:21:24

It means anyone who sees the miracle knows

01:21:24 --> 01:21:26

for a fact that you're saying the truth.

01:21:26 --> 01:21:27

Are you guys with me?

01:21:27 --> 01:21:29

So for them to say, we do not

01:21:29 --> 01:21:31

comprehend much of what you say.

01:21:31 --> 01:21:33

That's what many people say when they actually

01:21:33 --> 01:21:34

comprehend everything that you've said.

01:21:34 --> 01:21:36

So may Allah make it easy for us.

01:21:36 --> 01:21:37

I don't know what you're saying, bro.

01:21:37 --> 01:21:38

Just anyways, let's move on.

01:21:38 --> 01:21:40

May Allah not make us escape the truth.

01:21:41 --> 01:21:42

So when you are corrected, address it and

01:21:42 --> 01:21:43

try to comprehend it.

01:21:43 --> 01:21:44

Don't be like these people.

01:21:44 --> 01:21:45

And look what they say.

01:21:46 --> 01:21:47

Ah, now there's two levels.

01:21:48 --> 01:21:50

قَالَ الْمَلُؤُذِينَ اَسْتَكْبَرُوا مِنْ قَوْمِهِ Listen, listen, listen.

01:21:50 --> 01:21:51

That's enough.

01:21:52 --> 01:21:54

If you do not go back to our

01:21:54 --> 01:21:57

faith, we will kick you out of this

01:21:57 --> 01:21:57

place.

01:21:58 --> 01:21:59

Exile.

01:21:59 --> 01:22:02

You and everyone that believes with you.

01:22:02 --> 01:22:03

We will kick you.

01:22:03 --> 01:22:05

أَلَا نُخْرِجَنَّكَ يَا شُعَيْبِ And those who believed

01:22:05 --> 01:22:08

in you or you go back to our

01:22:08 --> 01:22:08

faith.

01:22:08 --> 01:22:10

By the way, going back doesn't mean that

01:22:10 --> 01:22:11

Shu'aib was not a Muslim.

01:22:11 --> 01:22:13

But the majority of the people that believed

01:22:13 --> 01:22:14

in him were actually not Muslim.

01:22:15 --> 01:22:16

But then now they became Muslim.

01:22:16 --> 01:22:17

So they threatened to exile him.

01:22:17 --> 01:22:18

We will deport you.

01:22:18 --> 01:22:19

We'll send you back home.

01:22:20 --> 01:22:20

Whatever the case is.

01:22:21 --> 01:22:23

Then he says, قَالَ أَوْ لَوْ كُنَّا كَارِهِينَ

01:22:23 --> 01:22:27

Now you're really shoving down our throats your

01:22:27 --> 01:22:27

beliefs.

01:22:28 --> 01:22:30

Like I can't just live with you and

01:22:30 --> 01:22:32

just pray to Allah and carry on a

01:22:32 --> 01:22:34

regular human to human conversation.

01:22:35 --> 01:22:38

Now you're forcing me to accept what you

01:22:38 --> 01:22:38

believe.

01:22:39 --> 01:22:41

Just like in how some corporations today, may

01:22:41 --> 01:22:43

Allah make it easy for us, they shove

01:22:43 --> 01:22:45

it down our throats to put on our

01:22:45 --> 01:22:48

lock screen at work things that happened that's

01:22:48 --> 01:22:50

special about March and June.

01:22:51 --> 01:22:52

And just move on.

01:22:53 --> 01:22:55

قَالَ أَوْ لَوْ كُنَّا كَارِهِينَ قَدْ يَفْتَرَيْنَ عَلَى

01:22:55 --> 01:22:58

اللَّهِ كَذِبًا إِنْ عُدْنَا Shu'aib says, we

01:22:58 --> 01:22:59

will be the worst of people.

01:23:00 --> 01:23:00

What?

01:23:00 --> 01:23:00

What?

01:23:00 --> 01:23:00

Listen.

01:23:01 --> 01:23:03

Shu'aib says, myself and the believers, we

01:23:03 --> 01:23:05

will be worse than you if we go

01:23:05 --> 01:23:07

back to worshipping the tree.

01:23:07 --> 01:23:08

Why?

01:23:08 --> 01:23:10

Because those who know the truth and don't

01:23:10 --> 01:23:12

do it are a lot worse than those

01:23:12 --> 01:23:13

that never know about it.

01:23:13 --> 01:23:14

You see what I'm saying?

01:23:15 --> 01:23:17

Many of us here don't take it as

01:23:17 --> 01:23:19

a burden, take it as an opportunity to

01:23:19 --> 01:23:20

grow.

01:23:20 --> 01:23:22

Many of us here, we know more than

01:23:22 --> 01:23:23

many other people outside.

01:23:23 --> 01:23:23

Correct?

01:23:24 --> 01:23:25

Obviously, there's outside people that know more than

01:23:25 --> 01:23:26

you.

01:23:26 --> 01:23:28

So whatever has been said with you tonight

01:23:28 --> 01:23:30

and through the sessions that you take, you

01:23:30 --> 01:23:33

attend, will have one of two effects.

01:23:33 --> 01:23:33

There's no third.

01:23:34 --> 01:23:36

Whatever you will learn will either be an

01:23:36 --> 01:23:39

excuse for you to become a better person,

01:23:40 --> 01:23:42

an excuse for you to go to Jannah,

01:23:42 --> 01:23:44

or an excuse against you to go to

01:23:44 --> 01:23:45

hellfire.

01:23:45 --> 01:23:46

I wish I never signed up.

01:23:46 --> 01:23:49

Don't be like that person who was asking

01:23:49 --> 01:23:50

about music, is it halal, is it haram?

01:23:51 --> 01:23:54

And someone says, actually, I told the person,

01:23:54 --> 01:23:57

listen to this lecture about music, okay?

01:23:57 --> 01:23:59

And then, inshallah, you'll make up your mind

01:23:59 --> 01:23:59

after that.

01:24:00 --> 01:24:01

So he's like, bro, I think I know

01:24:01 --> 01:24:02

where this is going.

01:24:02 --> 01:24:03

You know what they told me?

01:24:03 --> 01:24:04

I don't want to listen to it.

01:24:05 --> 01:24:05

Why?

01:24:06 --> 01:24:07

Because if I listen to it and I

01:24:07 --> 01:24:10

continue listening to music, that's a lot more

01:24:10 --> 01:24:10

haram.

01:24:10 --> 01:24:12

If this guy who was not really practicing

01:24:12 --> 01:24:14

knew that, right?

01:24:15 --> 01:24:15

May Allah guide him.

01:24:15 --> 01:24:16

Say ameen.

01:24:17 --> 01:24:19

So he says, قَدْ يَفْتَرَيْنَ عَلَى اللَّهِ كِرِبًا

01:24:19 --> 01:24:21

إِنْ عُدْنَا فِي نُّذَتِكُمْ We will be the

01:24:21 --> 01:24:22

worst people ever.

01:24:22 --> 01:24:24

وَمَا يَكُونُ لَنَا أَنْ نَعُودَ فِيهَا Look, wallahi,

01:24:24 --> 01:24:26

this is one of the most beautiful ayat

01:24:26 --> 01:24:27

about steadfastness.

01:24:27 --> 01:24:29

He says, we will never go back.

01:24:30 --> 01:24:31

What does it say here?

01:24:32 --> 01:24:33

Read it.

01:24:33 --> 01:24:37

إِلَّا أَنْ يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ رَبُّنَا Unless Allah wills

01:24:37 --> 01:24:38

otherwise.

01:24:38 --> 01:24:41

If Shu'aib was not confident enough to

01:24:41 --> 01:24:43

say, I'm going to heaven, what about you

01:24:43 --> 01:24:44

and I?

01:24:45 --> 01:24:48

Shu'aib said, we will never allow ourselves

01:24:48 --> 01:24:52

to go back deviant ways unless Allah wills

01:24:52 --> 01:24:52

otherwise.

01:24:52 --> 01:24:55

So your whole life, you should be between

01:24:55 --> 01:24:58

hope and fear on how your life will

01:24:58 --> 01:24:58

come to an end.

01:24:58 --> 01:25:01

The only time you're 100% hopeful, 100

01:25:01 --> 01:25:03

% you're going to Jannah, you know when?

01:25:03 --> 01:25:04

When?

01:25:05 --> 01:25:06

When the angel of death comes to you

01:25:06 --> 01:25:09

and says, يَا أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّ Oh, you

01:25:09 --> 01:25:11

beautiful soul, come back to your Lord.

01:25:11 --> 01:25:14

Then, you're confident you're going to Jannah inshallah.

01:25:14 --> 01:25:14

Fair enough?

01:25:15 --> 01:25:16

May Allah allow you all to hear that.

01:25:16 --> 01:25:16

Say ameen.

01:25:17 --> 01:25:20

Then, the threat of death.

01:25:20 --> 01:25:21

And this was the ending.

01:25:22 --> 01:25:23

They told them the same.

01:25:24 --> 01:25:25

لَنَرَاكَ فِينَ الضَّعِفَ You're a nobody.

01:25:26 --> 01:25:28

And if it wasn't for رَهْتُك, the small

01:25:28 --> 01:25:31

group that you have, لَرَجَمْنَاكُ We would have

01:25:31 --> 01:25:31

killed you.

01:25:32 --> 01:25:34

So we're waiting for the last moment possible

01:25:34 --> 01:25:34

to kill you.

01:25:35 --> 01:25:37

So they went as far as exiling the

01:25:37 --> 01:25:39

people and now killing Shu'aib alayhi salam.

01:25:40 --> 01:25:41

And I want you to realize something.

01:25:41 --> 01:25:43

This is a very powerful gem we learned

01:25:43 --> 01:25:43

from our teachers.

01:25:44 --> 01:25:46

Some people are not dead yet, you know

01:25:46 --> 01:25:46

why?

01:25:47 --> 01:25:49

Because the ones that want to kill you

01:25:49 --> 01:25:50

cannot get away with it.

01:25:50 --> 01:25:50

That's the only reason.

01:25:51 --> 01:25:53

There's so many people that want to rob

01:25:53 --> 01:25:53

you.

01:25:54 --> 01:25:55

Some people that want to destroy you.

01:25:55 --> 01:25:57

So many people want to take you down

01:25:58 --> 01:25:59

tonight before tomorrow.

01:26:00 --> 01:26:02

But the only reason you're still here is

01:26:02 --> 01:26:04

because they're scared to be caught.

01:26:04 --> 01:26:05

So may Allah protect us from them.

01:26:05 --> 01:26:05

Say ameen.

01:26:06 --> 01:26:07

So they said, if it wasn't for your

01:26:07 --> 01:26:08

people, you know I said, even if you

01:26:08 --> 01:26:10

attend, there's strength in numbers.

01:26:10 --> 01:26:13

Clearly in Shu'aib's story, the aspect of

01:26:13 --> 01:26:16

his followers played a role for him to

01:26:16 --> 01:26:16

be respected.

01:26:17 --> 01:26:19

So there is strength in that.

01:26:19 --> 01:26:20

May Allah grant us quantity and quality.

01:26:20 --> 01:26:21

Say ameen.

01:26:21 --> 01:26:24

So now when they threaten to kill him,

01:26:24 --> 01:26:25

what do you guys think?

01:26:25 --> 01:26:26

Isn't that the end?

01:26:26 --> 01:26:29

At this point he says the following, you

01:26:29 --> 01:26:32

guys are scared about my followers and you're

01:26:32 --> 01:26:33

not scared of Allah.

01:26:34 --> 01:26:36

You're scared to be exposed by that person

01:26:36 --> 01:26:39

and the surveillance camera recording you, but you're

01:26:39 --> 01:26:41

not terrified that everything that you've done was

01:26:41 --> 01:26:43

documented in your book.

01:26:43 --> 01:26:46

You're worried about people over worrying about Allah

01:26:46 --> 01:26:47

jalla jalaluh.

01:26:47 --> 01:26:51

Then he says, stay, wait, you will see

01:26:51 --> 01:26:52

what will happen to you and what will

01:26:52 --> 01:26:53

happen to me.

01:26:53 --> 01:26:54

You see the tone changes?

01:26:55 --> 01:26:57

He was very gentle, rahim, wadood, everything.

01:26:57 --> 01:26:58

Not anymore.

01:26:58 --> 01:27:00

Things change, it's firmness mode.

01:27:01 --> 01:27:03

Then eventually, they do a foolish challenge with

01:27:03 --> 01:27:03

him.

01:27:04 --> 01:27:05

Okay, really?

01:27:05 --> 01:27:06

You know what?

01:27:06 --> 01:27:08

Then send us a punishment from the heavens.

01:27:08 --> 01:27:10

Cause deadly pieces of the sky to fall

01:27:10 --> 01:27:12

upon us if what you say is true.

01:27:12 --> 01:27:13

Oh, we're wrong.

01:27:13 --> 01:27:14

You'll see what will happen to you.

01:27:14 --> 01:27:15

Okay, show me.

01:27:15 --> 01:27:18

Now these losers, they could have said, the

01:27:18 --> 01:27:19

opposite, which is still wrong.

01:27:19 --> 01:27:22

If you're truthful, make it rain gold and

01:27:22 --> 01:27:22

silver.

01:27:22 --> 01:27:25

But when some people are so jealous and

01:27:25 --> 01:27:26

envious, they become irrational.

01:27:27 --> 01:27:29

It's like the guy who sees his neighbor

01:27:29 --> 01:27:30

buying a new car.

01:27:31 --> 01:27:33

And then the guy who bought a new

01:27:33 --> 01:27:34

car says, hey, try the car.

01:27:34 --> 01:27:35

He's like, I got a new car.

01:27:36 --> 01:27:38

Okay, how are you getting this money, this

01:27:38 --> 01:27:38

guy?

01:27:38 --> 01:27:39

Oh, a nice car.

01:27:40 --> 01:27:41

Hey, you wanna ride with me?

01:27:41 --> 01:27:43

Check out the car, how it drives.

01:27:43 --> 01:27:45

Sure, I'll get in the car.

01:27:45 --> 01:27:46

That guy's so jealous.

01:27:46 --> 01:27:47

How did he get the car?

01:27:48 --> 01:27:49

So he sits in the car, that jealous

01:27:49 --> 01:27:50

person.

01:27:50 --> 01:27:51

And the guy's like, how do you like

01:27:51 --> 01:27:51

it?

01:27:52 --> 01:27:53

It's good.

01:27:53 --> 01:27:55

Ya Rabb, Ya Rabb, make the car flip,

01:27:55 --> 01:27:55

Ya Rabb.

01:27:56 --> 01:27:57

You're in the car.

01:27:58 --> 01:27:59

You're in the car with him.

01:28:00 --> 01:28:02

So these people are so jealous.

01:28:02 --> 01:28:04

They tell him, if you're right, let God

01:28:04 --> 01:28:04

kill us.

01:28:05 --> 01:28:07

If you're right, let Allah honor us.

01:28:07 --> 01:28:08

Let Allah rain gold and silver.

01:28:09 --> 01:28:10

No rationality with envy.

01:28:10 --> 01:28:12

Because they lost the plot.

01:28:12 --> 01:28:14

They said, send upon us the punishment.

01:28:14 --> 01:28:15

It's Allah who sends it.

01:28:15 --> 01:28:15

Look what he says.

01:28:18 --> 01:28:19

Shu'aib says, it's not me who sends

01:28:19 --> 01:28:19

it.

01:28:20 --> 01:28:20

It's Allah.

01:28:21 --> 01:28:23

And Allah will send what you deserve.

01:28:24 --> 01:28:25

It's not up to me.

01:28:25 --> 01:28:27

I don't, not the judge here.

01:28:27 --> 01:28:27

Allah is the judge.

01:28:29 --> 01:28:33

Then they say, So they now shift from

01:28:33 --> 01:28:34

Shu'aib to the people.

01:28:34 --> 01:28:36

They tell the people of Shu'aib, they

01:28:36 --> 01:28:36

gave up on Shu'aib.

01:28:37 --> 01:28:39

And that's the importance of having a leader

01:28:39 --> 01:28:41

that doesn't give up, even if a sword

01:28:41 --> 01:28:42

is on his neck.

01:28:43 --> 01:28:44

May Allah make you all like that.

01:28:44 --> 01:28:44

See what I mean?

01:28:44 --> 01:28:46

May Allah never make us bend to no

01:28:46 --> 01:28:47

one but Allah.

01:28:47 --> 01:28:47

Say, I mean.

01:28:48 --> 01:28:49

So they saw Shu'aib is not breaking.

01:28:50 --> 01:28:52

We threatened to kill him, exile him.

01:28:52 --> 01:28:53

He didn't fall for it.

01:28:53 --> 01:28:55

So they went after the believers.

01:28:56 --> 01:28:58

If you follow Shu'aib, you'll be losers.

01:28:59 --> 01:29:01

At this point, you don't touch my people.

01:29:01 --> 01:29:03

So here Shu'aib makes the final dua.

01:29:04 --> 01:29:04

He says the dua.

01:29:04 --> 01:29:07

And this dua, everyone here, whoever tried to

01:29:07 --> 01:29:10

get their rights back, you went to court,

01:29:10 --> 01:29:10

got a lawyer.

01:29:11 --> 01:29:14

You went through the manager, HR, human resources,

01:29:14 --> 01:29:16

because of some harassment at work.

01:29:16 --> 01:29:18

You tried everything and it got locked.

01:29:18 --> 01:29:19

It was a dead end.

01:29:20 --> 01:29:21

You didn't get your right.

01:29:21 --> 01:29:22

There was no solution.

01:29:23 --> 01:29:24

Then I want to introduce you to this

01:29:24 --> 01:29:25

dua.

01:29:25 --> 01:29:27

This dua, you say, رَبَّنَا افْتَحْ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ

01:29:27 --> 01:29:30

قَوْمِنَا بِالْحَقِّ Ya Allah, every door is locked.

01:29:30 --> 01:29:31

I tried everything.

01:29:32 --> 01:29:36

Ya Fattah, O unlocker of locks, unlock this

01:29:36 --> 01:29:39

case and show the truth and expose it.

01:29:39 --> 01:29:41

وَأَنْتَ خَيْرُ الْفَاتِحِينَ And you're the best of

01:29:41 --> 01:29:42

those who judge.

01:29:42 --> 01:29:45

Indeed, as they came to that dead end,

01:29:46 --> 01:29:47

Allah unlocked everything.

01:29:47 --> 01:29:48

And here, the three punishments.

01:29:49 --> 01:29:52

Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam shares the story with

01:29:52 --> 01:29:53

his sahaba.

01:29:54 --> 01:29:56

And here, in books of tafsir say, the

01:29:56 --> 01:29:57

weather was so hot.

01:29:58 --> 01:30:00

So then, even the homes was not comfortable.

01:30:01 --> 01:30:03

So they went and they saw a cloud

01:30:03 --> 01:30:05

to protect them from the sun.

01:30:05 --> 01:30:07

When they went under the cloud, such a

01:30:07 --> 01:30:08

strange cloud.

01:30:08 --> 01:30:10

Perfect, this actually gave us some shade.

01:30:10 --> 01:30:12

Punishment one out of three.

01:30:12 --> 01:30:14

Under the cloud, all of a sudden, like

01:30:14 --> 01:30:15

a machine gun.

01:30:16 --> 01:30:18

Punishment comes every single one.

01:30:19 --> 01:30:21

Punishment, whether rocks or pain and so on.

01:30:21 --> 01:30:22

Remember what he said?

01:30:23 --> 01:30:24

Send us a punishment from the heavens.

01:30:24 --> 01:30:25

Here you go.

01:30:26 --> 01:30:27

Here you go.

01:30:27 --> 01:30:29

And the punishment comes and strikes every one

01:30:29 --> 01:30:29

of them.

01:30:29 --> 01:30:30

So what do they do?

01:30:30 --> 01:30:31

They run back to their homes.

01:30:32 --> 01:30:33

As they run back to their homes, what

01:30:33 --> 01:30:33

happens?

01:30:33 --> 01:30:36

A loud blast, a screeching noise.

01:30:36 --> 01:30:38

Sayha so loud.

01:30:38 --> 01:30:41

Because they tried to shut Shu'aib up.

01:30:41 --> 01:30:43

Allah shut them down.

01:30:44 --> 01:30:46

Every punishment was related to the sin they

01:30:46 --> 01:30:46

committed.

01:30:46 --> 01:30:47

You know what?

01:30:47 --> 01:30:48

A loud noise.

01:30:48 --> 01:30:50

So how do you understand now?

01:30:50 --> 01:30:51

Because they claim they never understood him, right?

01:30:52 --> 01:30:53

Can he now speak to the other?

01:30:53 --> 01:30:55

And the third but not least, last but

01:30:55 --> 01:30:55

not least.

01:30:56 --> 01:30:59

As they ran, then the earthquake took place.

01:30:59 --> 01:31:05

An entire houses, places, humans, collapse on the

01:31:05 --> 01:31:06

ground.

01:31:07 --> 01:31:09

Lifeless in their homes.

01:31:10 --> 01:31:11

Wow, that was pretty quick.

01:31:11 --> 01:31:12

That's how quick it was.

01:31:13 --> 01:31:13

They were all gone.

01:31:14 --> 01:31:18

Allah says, Allah says, as if they never

01:31:18 --> 01:31:18

existed.

01:31:19 --> 01:31:22

Allah says that punishment was so severe that

01:31:22 --> 01:31:24

they don't remember a single second of joy

01:31:24 --> 01:31:25

in their lives.

01:31:26 --> 01:31:28

So remember, when it comes to the sin,

01:31:29 --> 01:31:31

focus on the pain and forget the pleasure.

01:31:32 --> 01:31:35

When it comes to the good deed, focus

01:31:35 --> 01:31:37

on the pleasure and forget the pain.

01:31:37 --> 01:31:41

Because the most miserable human being on earth,

01:31:41 --> 01:31:43

as in like difficult life, when they are

01:31:43 --> 01:31:45

dipped in Jannah for one dip.

01:31:46 --> 01:31:47

Do you guys ever went to Dairy Queen

01:31:47 --> 01:31:48

and saw how they do the ice cream?

01:31:49 --> 01:31:49

The chocolate ice cream.

01:31:49 --> 01:31:50

You know how they do it?

01:31:50 --> 01:31:51

Such a scam, man.

01:31:51 --> 01:31:52

I'm just, right?

01:31:52 --> 01:31:53

You think it's a chocolate ice cream, but

01:31:53 --> 01:31:54

it was just a layer of chocolate.

01:31:54 --> 01:31:55

For those that know a little bit Dairy

01:31:55 --> 01:31:56

Queen, may Allah protect us.

01:31:57 --> 01:31:59

They get a vanilla ice cream and they

01:31:59 --> 01:32:01

dip it into like a chocolate syrup.

01:32:01 --> 01:32:02

Just one dip and they take it out.

01:32:02 --> 01:32:04

And one dip really quick.

01:32:04 --> 01:32:05

And then you have that chocolate around.

01:32:05 --> 01:32:07

And of course the vanilla, it's gone.

01:32:08 --> 01:32:09

Allah is the best of examples.

01:32:10 --> 01:32:12

He teaches us that the one that had

01:32:12 --> 01:32:15

the most difficult, difficult life on earth, not

01:32:15 --> 01:32:18

this year, on earth, they will be dipped

01:32:18 --> 01:32:19

in Jannah once.

01:32:19 --> 01:32:20

Take enough.

01:32:21 --> 01:32:23

Then that person will be asked, have you

01:32:23 --> 01:32:24

ever seen any difficulty in life?

01:32:25 --> 01:32:26

It's like, I don't know what you're talking

01:32:26 --> 01:32:26

about.

01:32:27 --> 01:32:29

One split of a second in Jannah made

01:32:29 --> 01:32:31

them forget every pain they experienced.

01:32:32 --> 01:32:33

But the hadith continues.

01:32:33 --> 01:32:35

An an'am ahl al-ard, the richest

01:32:35 --> 01:32:37

living being that ever walked on earth.

01:32:37 --> 01:32:39

The almost, almost, not exactly.

01:32:39 --> 01:32:41

He says been, almost becomes in the sense

01:32:41 --> 01:32:42

of commands everyone.

01:32:42 --> 01:32:43

But only Allah can do that.

01:32:43 --> 01:32:45

He had everything under his hands.

01:32:45 --> 01:32:47

Never seen a difficult day perhaps in his

01:32:47 --> 01:32:47

life.

01:32:48 --> 01:32:49

They will be dipped, where?

01:32:50 --> 01:32:51

In *.

01:32:52 --> 01:32:53

Dip and out.

01:32:53 --> 01:32:55

Have you seen any blessings in life?

01:32:55 --> 01:32:56

I don't know what you're talking about.

01:32:57 --> 01:32:58

So it's not worth it.

01:32:58 --> 01:32:59

May Allah protect us, ya rabbal alameen.

01:33:00 --> 01:33:03

Brothers and sisters, Shu'ayb final words, he

01:33:03 --> 01:33:04

walks away, he sees that.

01:33:05 --> 01:33:06

And by the way, this ayah brought me

01:33:06 --> 01:33:08

so much comfort on a personal level.

01:33:08 --> 01:33:09

Maybe it'll bring you comfort.

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Fatawalla anhum, he walked away saying, oh my

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people, indeed I have delivered to you the

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message of my Lord and gave you sincere

01:33:16 --> 01:33:16

advice.

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Check this out.

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How can I grieve for those who chose

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disbelief?

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How can I feel sad for you?

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When you chose darkness over light.

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When I spent all the time and the

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money to make you a better person.

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And you chose something different.

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You chose that.

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How can I feel sorry for you?

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But obviously this was at the end of

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their lives.

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May Allah grant us Jannah.

01:33:38 --> 01:33:41

Brothers and sisters, thank you very, very much.

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Jazakumullah khair.

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