Mirza Yawar Baig – Benefit of Perspective Part 2

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The importance of perspective in life is essential for achieving success, and most humans have a single purpose to live for. The importance of living for a purpose rather than just living for money or pleasure is emphasized. The importance of praying five times a day to get Jannah, but not associated with sex or partner, and praying for partner's health and productivity is emphasized. The importance of praying for partner's health and productivity is also emphasized.
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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

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Allah Almighty sent a bearer of glad tidings

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and a warner, a caller to Allah by

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His permission, and a shining lamp.

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Then he said, O you who believe, fear

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Allah as He should be feared, and you

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will not die except as Muslims.

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And he said, O you who believe, fear

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Allah and say the right words.

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He will amend for you your deeds and

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forgive you your sins.

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And whosoever gives to Allah and His Messenger

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has indeed attained a great success.

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And the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be

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upon him and his family and companions, said,

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The truest hadith is the Book of Allah,

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and the best gift is the guidance of

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Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.

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And the worst of things are its innovations,

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and every innovation is an innovation, and every

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innovation is a misguidance, and every misguidance is

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a fire.

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My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders, this is

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the second part of my khutbah which I

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did last week, which was called the benefit

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of perspective and this is part two.

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Perspective, for those of you who were not

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there last week, perspective is the ability to

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hold two pictures simultaneously in your mind, where

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you are and where you want to be.

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Perspective is critical and essential for you to

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find direction, any direction.

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For example, if somebody calls you and says,

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I want to come to ISWM, give me

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directions, what will you say?

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Where are you?

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He says, I don't know where I am.

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It's okay, then I can't give you directions,

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because unless you tell me where you are,

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so you can say, okay, then in that

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case, if you don't know where you are,

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get to the Springfield Railway Station or bus

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stand, and then from there, I will give

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you directions.

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So, you need to know point of origin

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and the destination.

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This ability to hold these two pictures in

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mind is called perspective, and this applies also

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to life.

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If you say, I want to succeed, fantastic,

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define success.

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Where are you now?

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What is the delta?

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What is the gap?

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How will you bridge it, right?

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To reach a goal, we talked about goals

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and we talked about the importance of goals

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last week, and I want to say to

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you and remind myself that to reach a

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goal, we must have a goal.

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Now, that seems to be self-evident, but

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let me ask you, how many of you

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have a written down life goal?

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If it is not written down, it's not

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a life goal, believe me.

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How many of you have a written down

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life goal?

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If you don't have a written down life

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goal, don't go to sleep tonight until you

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write it down.

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It doesn't matter what age you are, doesn't

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matter.

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You don't say, oh, you know, I'm so

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old now.

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No, no.

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What is your life goal?

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Write it down.

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Because if you don't have a life goal,

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then ask yourself, what are you living for?

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What are you working for?

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Because just to eat and drink and satisfy

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desires and die, that is what animals do.

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To live for a purpose is not what

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most humans do, but what most…

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but what all humans are supposed to do,

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to live according to a purpose.

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Not just eat, drink and die.

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The truth is that for most humans, there

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is little to distinguish them from animals.

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Other than that, they are the only one

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who wear…

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only ones who wear pants and who show

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their teeth when they are happy.

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Animals show their teeth when they are angry.

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So please invest some time in yourself and

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write down a life goal that excites and

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energizes you.

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Something you really seriously believe is worth dedicating

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your life to.

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Because that is where the rest of your

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life, no matter how old you are, that

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is where the rest of your life will

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begin from that moment onwards.

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Either live by default or live purposefully.

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The choice is yours, the choice is ours.

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Because the result is also ours.

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So choose wisely.

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Because to live is not merely to breathe.

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It's not merely to draw breath.

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They say you only live once.

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But that's not true, you live every day.

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You don't live once.

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So that, live deliberately and consciously.

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And live for a purpose.

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And live to please Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala.

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And live to leave a legacy of honor.

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The first part of the puzzle, where I

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am, we saw last week.

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The second part of that, a perspective, is

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where am I going?

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala defined the parameters

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of success very clearly.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, أَنْ كُلُّ

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نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ وَإِنَّمَا تُوَفَّوْنَ أُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ

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الْقِيَامَةِ فَمَنْ زُحْزِعْ عَنِ النَّارِ وَأُدْخِلَ الْجَنَّةَ فَقَدْ

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فَازْ وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا مَتَاءُ الْغُرُورِ Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Every soul will

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taste death.

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And you will only receive your full reward

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on the Day of Judgment.

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Whoever is spared from the fire and is

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admitted into Jannah, will indeed triumph.

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Whereas the life of this world is no

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more than the delusion of enjoyment.

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Nothing can be clearer than this because Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned three things.

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Everyone will die.

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If you are alive, you will die.

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No matter who you are, no matter where

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you are, no matter how old or young

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you are, everyone will die.

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And everyone will be called to account and

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rewarded or punished.

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We ask Allah to save us from His

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punishment.

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Number two, success means only one thing.

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Success does not mean money or power or

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authority or beauty or anything.

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Success means only one thing, which is to

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be protected from the punishment of Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala and be granted Jannah.

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فَمَنْ زُهْزِ عَنِ النَّارِ وَأُوذُ خِلَ الْجَنَّةَ فَقَدْ

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فَازْ Only that person.

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And the third one is, life of this

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world is deception.

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What appears is not what it is.

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Reality is different from what we are seeing.

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So let's begin with the first statement of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, كُلُ رَسْلِ زَائِقَةُ

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الْمَوْتِ Allah said, every soul, every living being

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will taste death.

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First thing to do, I remind myself and

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you to ask ourselves, does it apply to

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me?

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Do you think you will die?

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Sounds like a dumb question, right?

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It's not.

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It is not a dumb question.

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It's a very, very important question.

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It's a very wise question.

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It's a critically important question.

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So ask this question to yourself.

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If you like, stand in front of a

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mirror and look at yourself in the eyes

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and ask, will I die?

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When?

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Do that, right?

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Shut the door so nobody thinks you're crazy,

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but do it.

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And then tell your wife and your children

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and your husband and everybody you do.

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Answer this question for yourself.

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Will you die?

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When will you die?

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Ask yourself, will I die?

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And ask when?

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And really, if I truly believe in the

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core of my being, not just intellectually, that

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I can die at any time and will

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have to answer to Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala, then I will remember that at every

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decision point and will never do anything that

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I know displeases Allah.

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Let us remember that when we stand before

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it is our

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bodies which will speak and our bodies will

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bear witness against us or for us.

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I'm not making this up.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us this.

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Allah said in Surah Yaseen, Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala said on that day,

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on this day, we will seal their mouths

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and their hands will speak to us and

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their feet will speak to us and they

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will testify, they will bear witness to what

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they used to do.

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The right hand will say when I was

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sitting in the masjid and I was supposed

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to be listening to the khutbah, this man

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was playing with the phone with his right

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hand.

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Seriously, I'm not joking.

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Do this.

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Do this as an exercise.

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Alhamdulillah we have, we had Shuyukh who used

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to make us do this as part of

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our muraqabah.

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He said look at your right hand and

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imagine the right hand speaking.

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What is it going to be saying?

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Then look at your left hand and imagine

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your left hand to be speaking.

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What is it going to be saying?

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Look at your feet.

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Look at your eyes.

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Look at your ears.

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Look at your skin.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned the skin

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will speak.

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That's why I read the Quran.

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My brothers and sisters, the time to change

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is now.

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If your body is going to be saying

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good things about you, alhamdulillah.

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Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for istiqamat.

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Allah keep me this, keep me here.

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My body is all, every organ and every

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part of my body is saying good things

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about me.

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Alhamdulillah, you're good inshallah.

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Stay there.

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Ask for steadfastness.

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If the opposite is true, don't worry.

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It's okay.

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Allah gave us the door of tawbah.

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Make tawbah.

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You're done.

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You're free.

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I came to the majid.

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I was looking at the phone in Jummah.

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I will not do it again.

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You are good for good.

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Alhamdulillah.

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This is over.

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Finished.

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Allah wiped it out.

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Allah will turn it into a good deed.

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MashaAllah.

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Just don't repeat it, right?

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us the

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door of tawbah and istighfar, of repentance and

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returning to him until Malakul Maut comes.

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Once we see Malakul Maut, that door is

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shut.

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Then it's not opening.

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You can't say, I want to go back.

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No.

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Rabbana abusarra wa sami'ana farji'ana na'mal

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salihanna muqinoor.

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They will say, oh Rabb, we have seen

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and we have heard.

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On the Day of Judgment, they will see.

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They will see and you will see and

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I will see.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the one we

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believed in unseen, we will see him.

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One of the great wise people of this

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world, Saint Francis of Assisi, who went and

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he went in the third crusade.

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He went and met Malikul Kamil, who was

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the khalifa.

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And the khalifa, he actually, Saint Francis of

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Assisi went to meet Malikul Kamil, hoping that

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he would be killed so he would become

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a martyr.

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Malikul Kamil honoured him and sat him down

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and gave him gifts and all kinds of

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things and so on and sent him back

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in safety.

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Now one of his sayings, very important saying,

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he said, faith, faith is to see what

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you believed in unseen and know that it

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is true.

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The truth remains the same no matter who

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says it.

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So people will see, all of us will

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see.

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Those who denied Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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will see.

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Those who believed in Allah will see.

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Those who cursed Allah will see.

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Those who praised Allah will see.

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Everyone will see Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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on his throne.

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And they will say, Rabbana absarna, oh ya

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Rabb, we have seen you.

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Wasamana, we have heard and we have whatever

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is happening on the day of judgment.

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Farajana, send us back.

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Send us back into this life.

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Na'mal salihan, we will do good deeds.

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We will pray, we will worship you, we

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will fast and we will do this and

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that and give charity.

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Inna muqilun, we will become very obedient slaves

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and servants of yours.

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No.

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One way street.

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Once you go past that gate, the gate

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is shut.

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But those who want to repent, those who

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want to turn towards Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala, see what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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must say.

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See what Allah said.

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Allah said, In tajtanibu kabaira ma'atun hawna

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anhu nukaffir ankum sayyiatikum wa nudkhilkum mudkhalan kareema.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, if you

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avoid and if you don't do the major

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sins that have been forbidden for you, we

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will forgive you your lesser misdeeds.

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Even without making tawbah.

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Allah said, we'll forgive you the small ones.

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Don't do the major ones.

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And we'll admit you into a place of

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honour, which is Jannah.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said about those

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who commit sins and who want to repent,

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Qul ya'ibadi alladhina asrafu ala anfusihim la

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taqnatu min rahmatillah inna allaha yaqfirul dhunuba jami

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'a innahu huwa alghafuru raheem.

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Allah said, say, O Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam, O my slaves who have transgressed against

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their souls, who have committed sins, who have

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harmed themselves, because believe me, when you commit

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something, if you disobey Allah, you're not harming

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Allah, you're harming yourself.

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So Allah says, say, O Muhammad sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam, say, O my Prophet, to those

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who have harmed themselves, who have transgressed, who

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have committed sins, do not lose hope in

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the mercy of Allah.

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For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgives all

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sins, and He is indeed all-forgiving and

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most merciful.

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So we thank the one, we make shukr

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to the one who calls those who transgressed

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against him, my slaves.

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If somebody does something, disobeys you, you distance

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them.

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Look at that, they're not mine.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is drawing you

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close, see the mercy of Allah.

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He says, the ones who have transgressed, my

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slaves.

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How can we thank the one who promised

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to forgive the one who seeks forgiveness and

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to forgive the one who did not even

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seek forgiveness, as long as he does something

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good?

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What do you say to the one who

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still doesn't seek that forgiveness?

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That's the other big problem.

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Knowing all of this, I still continue on

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my wrong path.

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Then what?

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, illa man

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taaba, for the one who makes, seeks forgiveness,

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which is what I told you just now.

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You can smile.

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Halal.

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Very good.

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Allah said, illa man taaba wa aamana wa

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amila amalan salihan fa ulaika yubaddilullahu sayyi'atim

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hasanat wa kaanallahu ghafoorur raheema.

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Allah said, as for the one who repents

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and believes and does good deeds, they are

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the ones whose evil deeds Allah will change

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into good deeds.

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For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is all

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forgiving and most merciful.

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I asked you if you have a written

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down life goal.

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I'm asking you a second question.

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For how many of you, if I asked

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you to write down three of your top

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priorities as you sit here, do it as

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an exercise.

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I am letting the cat out of the

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bag right now, so you won't have the

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fun of that.

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But do it as an exercise and then

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try it with your friends, with your family.

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Tell them, write your top three goals in

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order of priority, one, two and three.

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And see if they put Jannah as number

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one.

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Do it seriously.

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See if you put Jannah.

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Ask yourself, if I asked you without telling

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you this, if I'd asked you to write

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three goals, would you have put Jannah?

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I've tried this many, many, many, many, many

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times.

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I have never had, never.

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I tried even my corporate practice in leadership

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courses, write down three goals.

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Never have I had any Muslim write Jannah

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even as one of the three.

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Forget about the first one.

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My question is, if Jannah is not even

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on my list, then what am I going

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to do to get there?

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My brothers and sisters, the

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first thing Allah said was, the second thing

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Allah said is that you will be rewarded

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in full when you get to Allah.

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And the reward is both positive and negative.

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It's up to us whether we want it

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to be positive or we want it to

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be negative.

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The trap of Shaitan is that the part

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of life, as you know, our life doesn't

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end with death.

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Death is a transition, Intiqal, moving from this

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life to the next life.

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So, our life is this whole continuum.

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Part of the continuum is in this world

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and the rest of it is in the

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Akhirah.

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Now, the trap of Shaitan is, Shaitan has

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convinced us that the part which is not

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in our control is in our control.

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And the part which is in our control

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is not in our control.

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So, he has moved successfully, may Allah protect

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us from Shaitan and from our own actions.

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Which is even bigger than Shaitan.

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He successfully moved our focus from the part

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which we can control and therefore we should

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focus on it and control it, to the

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part we cannot control.

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So, no matter what you do, that's not

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going to change anyway.

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For example, just to give you a very

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simple example.

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For example, how many of you are worried

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about how much money you have?

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Right, everybody.

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How much do I have?

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I have more, I have less, I should

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get more and so on.

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How much quantity?

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How many of you are worried?

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Everybody.

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How many of you are worried about how

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am I earning that money?

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From what source?

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It's hard.

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I won't take a poll on that.

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Now, out of these two things, quantity, is

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it in our control?

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No.

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Allah SWT has said very clearly, Say to

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them, it is your Rab who decides the

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quantity.

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To some he gives more, to some he

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gives less.

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Allah decides, you don't decide.

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But most people don't know.

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What is in our control?

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How to earn it?

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Will I take it from a haram source

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or will I go to a haram source?

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Completely in our control.

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And that this choice will not affect the

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overall quantum.

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Make no mistake about it, not my opinion.

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This is what your and my Rab said,

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Jalla Jalaluhu.

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This is what Rasulullah SAW taught us.

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Quantity, not in our control.

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You will not get more if you go

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into a haram area.

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You will still get the same thing.

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You will just get it with what comes

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with haram, which is punishment.

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If you go and seek the same rizq

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in a halal way, you will still get

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the same thing with barakah, with benefit, with

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khair, with aafiyah and with the Rida of

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Allah SWT.

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Dull choice, but we do it all the

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time.

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This is the problem.

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Our problem is, believe me, our problem is

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not faith.

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We have faith.

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We ask Allah SWT to just wipe off

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everything and just give us Jannah on the

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basis of faith.

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Alhamdulillah, Inshallah, right?

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We ask Allah.

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I'm not saying Allah will do it.

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Don't look so happy.

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Faith is not the issue.

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Knowledge is also not the issue.

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I sometimes tell people, I say, you know,

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from today until the day you die.

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Seriously, I'm telling you, today's modern people, all

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you guys sitting here, from today until the

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day you die, even if you do not

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learn one single new word, not even one

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single word.

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I'm not even talking about ayahs, several words.

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Even if you don't learn one single new

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word in Islam, what you know already is

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enough to get you into Jannah without hisaab,

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Inshallah.

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You don't need to learn.

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Don't go to any halakah.

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Don't do anything.

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Don't go to any class.

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Don't do anything.

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You will still get to Jannah, provided we

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practice what we know.

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That's it.

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But where is our focus?

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This halakah, that halakah, this one, that one,

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we are not doing anything in masjid.

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We must, this masjid, we have got five

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times salah.

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There is not anything.

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You got Jummah, you got two Jummahs.

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There is not anything.

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The problem is, you want more and more

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and more.

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And to do what?

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Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said in a

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sahih hadith, he said, Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala says, hadith qudsi, he said, Allah says,

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if my slave worships me five times a

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day as I have prescribed and does not

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associate partners with him on the day of

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judgment, it is my responsibility to forgive him

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and enter him into Jannah.

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And if he does not do that, then

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I don't take this responsibility.

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Just five times.

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Just five times salah on its correct time,

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don't associate with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

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no shirk.

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Is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala setting a

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thing to say, you must know 50 ayat

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with the takhrij, you must know 200 ayat,

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you must memorize two juz of Quran.

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Nothing, nothing.

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Just pray five times a day on time.

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Again, I'm not saying it, hadith qudsi.

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But shaitan moves our attention away.

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Yesterday I was talking to somebody, I said,

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do you pray Jummah?

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No, sir, no time.

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Jha, why is there no time?

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Where do you, where do you work?

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This place.

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I said, there is a masjid literally five

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minutes from where you are, five minutes.

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And I told him, Hamza, I'm asking, from

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where the guy is working?

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Five minutes.

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Jummah is forth.

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Just go there, pray, go back to your

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work.

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I remember almost 25 years ago, I was

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in Jawaat, one place, and we stopped in

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the masjid, which has a, it's an old

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bank, it has a bank vault in front

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of the imam.

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So the door is always open.

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Bridgeport, Bridgeport Masjid.

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So we were in Bridgeport Masjid, and opposite

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Bridgeport Masjid, there's a little street.

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I mean, that street is like, like we

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literally jump off across the street, it's so

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small.

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Opposite the thing is a convenience store.

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So we went to buy, Dr. Ali, Dr.

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Ali and I, we went to buy some,

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you know, something, I don't know, water or

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some such thing.

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So there was this young man there on

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the convenience store.

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So conversation, just as I asked him, I

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said, you know, isn't it a wonderful thing,

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you arrived opposite the masjid?

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He said, yes, yes.

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So I said, so I'm sure you are

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getting all the five prayers by Jummah.

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He said, no.

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I said, why?

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He said, no time.

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They're okay.

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I said, what about Jummah?

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No, no time.

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I said, literally, it's not even a hundred

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meters, not even a hundred meters from where

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you are standing, and masjid is here, you're

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looking at it from here, and you don't

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pray in the masjid at all, any salah,

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and you don't go for Jummah?

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He said, no, no time.

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I said, what do you do if you

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need to go to the toilet?

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Spontaneously.

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And he also didn't think, he said, I

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put a sign there saying, close for, you

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know, I will be back and I go

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to the toilet.

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So I said, then in that case, going

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to the toilet is more important to you

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than going before Allah.

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Your salah is worth less than going to

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the toilet for you.

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Subhanallah, and my point is, if this is

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our state, how are we going to meet

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Allah?

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Subhanallah.

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He said, I am Muslim.

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Inshallah.

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May Allah give you Jannah.

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Allah won't give you my Jannah.

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May Allah give you Jannah.

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No problem.

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I got no problem with that.

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But you know, and I know, and I'm

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only telling you what Allah subhanallah told us.

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Allah will look at the amal.

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Allah will not look at, you know what?

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Naqtimu ala fahim.

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All these claims of this and that, and

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I love Allah, I love Rasulullah.

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No problem.

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Your claim, if you love Allah, where is

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the sign of that?

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If you love Rasulullah, where is the sign

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of that?

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And if I don't have any of those

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signs, and all my actions are the opposite

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of that, then believe me, my brothers and

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sisters, we have a problem.

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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Jalla

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Jalaluhu to help us to live this life

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in the way of His blessed messenger, Muhammad

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that

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we ask him, at least 17 times every

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day, we ask Allah to live by that

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kalam.

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Let us not, let our tongue not bear

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witness that we were lying and cheating when

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we said, and then we went off into

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some other sirat.

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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

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give us the integrity to follow what we

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ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for.

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We said, Allah guide us to the path

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of steadfastness.

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Allah guided us, but we said, no, we

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don't want that.

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We want something else.

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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

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give us sincerity.

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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

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give us integrity.

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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

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forgive us.

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We ask, we seek forgiveness and we ask

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Allah to forgive us all that we ask

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him to forgive us for and all that

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we forgot.

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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

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forgive us for all that we do intentionally

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and unintentionally.

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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

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convert our bad deeds into good deeds and

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to put us on the sirat al-mustaqeem,

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on the path of steadfastness, whether we like

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it or not, and to force us to

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keep us on that until we reach janma

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inshallah.

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A

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'udhu Billahi

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Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.

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A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.

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