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The importance of Islam is highlighted, with animals and birds being key to one's life and the need for a better life. The success of Islam as a source of wealth is discussed, along with the importance of learning to be a good Muslim. The segment also touches on the use of heat to heat up meat and the importance of finding the right time to do so. A busy day at a royal wedding with guests is also discussed, along with protecting people from a fire and showing a photo of a guest's face.

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fill out another evil hamdulillah al Alameen wa sallahu wa salam ala Shafi the VA will mousseline Muhammad Rasul Allah is Allah Allahu Allah He right Ali he was able to sell them to Steven Bethune cathedra from Nevada all my brothers and sisters we just finished Ramadan which Allah subhanaw taala sent us to make us motorhome. I remind myself in you that all the promises of Allah subhanaw taala for the motorhome. So it is worth the effort to become a moto T and benefit from this in Nevada and we reminded ourselves that we are Muslim that we have submitted our will to the will of Allah subhanaw taala. By following the order of Allah, we held ourselves back during the specified hours

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from things which are otherwise haram.

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This reinforces the meaning of being Muslim, someone who submits to the will of Allah subhanaw taala This is the secret to the greatest wealth which is the Lookman Allah connection with Allah subhanaw taala

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and that is the topic of my fourth birthday wishes. Feel Allah subhanaw taala in your heart to this yoga and next inshallah we will talk about this. What does it mean to really know that Allah is with me to feel Allah subhanaw taala in my heart

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it is in this connection that Allah subhanaw taala told us

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the story of his Khalil Rahim Allah He set up

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I want you to watch this happen I want you to put yourself in that position and watch it happen unless around that as a what it's called a Brahim rugby or any guy event or he'll Mota call out to me in

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call Achillea to buy in call we call a whole hour worth a minute to a reversal on ELEAGUE Major Allah Allah collegia Valley mean one Jews,

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mother on Deena Khazaria why lemon law as easily on hiking

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alerts around a data set. And remember whenever I'm on a Samsung, Myra, show me how you give how you give life to the dead. How do you bring back the dead and he Allah's Valentine has said, Don't you believe?

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And he arrives at Elisa lab? Yes, I believe, but to be stronger in faith.

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And then he geladeira who Allah's Rana tell us a day for birds, then caused them to incline towards you than slaughter them, cut them into pieces, and then put a portion of each of them on every hill and call them and they will come to you in haste

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and know that Allah subhanaw taala is almighty or wise.

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Oh, you know what always strikes me in this ayah is how natural this conversation is.

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What does it say about the sense of Allah subhanaw taala has

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presence in the life of Ibrahim Ali salah.

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What does it say about the sense of Allah's presence the revivalist must have felt that he simply asked the question.

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This is not a formal dua in Salah it is just a natural conversation between two who know each other very well.

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It shows such a level of comfort that I can only marvel at it. I can only marvel at it.

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Even I myself must be a young boy when he asked this question. Unless about I love that so much that he answered him in such an affectionate way. Don't you believe?

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It's next somebody say a very dear close friend of mine is asking me. Where's your house? says a word. You don't have a house

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is like saying you are asking me this question. I mean, you You're my best friend. How come how is it that you don't know what else? You don't know where I live?

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It shows such a closeness and such so much of love.

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And improvised answer also is yeah, of course. But no no I of course I believe but just to strengthen my feet

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Hello, voila. Well, I can lay it why not?

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Well, luckily, yet we're in Nepal

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and that is why

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Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said

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that if you got to him and he said um could ask this could could say this.

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Then we have an even greater right to say it.

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Meaning that he is the head of Allah. He's

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so close to Allah subhanaw taala if he had to say this to send them my way, so me as I, then we should be able to say even more, and of course, the courage of Allah Himself.

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So Allah subhanaw taala gave me primalist. Think about this.

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If I were to ask the question,

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now,

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how do you bring back the red

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toe laws around Delgado

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has done that, okay, here is something which is living in it, bring it back life is how it happens.

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No, Allah gave him a whole project to answer this question. Take four birds of four different species. Remember, He's not asking him to get domestic birds, chickens, ducks, geese. These were very reserved, lived in an agrarian society, agricultural society. So birds and animals are part of their lives.

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All agrarian societies, birds and animals are very much part of the lives of the people. It's nothing new for them to have, you know, chickens and

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cats and dogs and cattle and sheep and so on is all around it.

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Allah did not say take well, that is it fine for birds, wild birds.

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Then tame them, inclined them towards you mean what means tame them, they become your pets.

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Again, remember, free flag but he didn't say catch the bird put in a cage. No, no cages, free flying bird. Take the word tame it. So it comes to you. Now, I sometimes wonder why we don't do this as a class project when teaching this Tafseer of this idea to the children.

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To return to the story. This means that the Bible is Allah must find the nests of four birds because there's no way you can catch a wild bird in timid, you need to get that bird in the nest when it is still a chick fledgling.

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So he has to now find four.

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Identify four different species of birds, he has to go and find their nests way to the nest. Some nests in trees, some nests in the ground, some nesting holes of trees, some nests in houses, different birds,

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some less high in rocks.

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So he has to find these robots, he has to identify the nest, he must figure out

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their

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the lifecycle meaning, you know, when do they lay eggs, how long does it take for the eggs to hatch.

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All of this will be different versions for different words. And then he has to take one check out of each of those nests at the exact right time.

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If he

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takes it too young, it will die. If he takes it but it is too old. Either it will fly away he can catch a river if he catches that same situation in the country.

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He has to take the chick out at the exact character

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who's guiding all this?

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Well, Islam doesn't have some search engine to charge the PTE or Google or something required by law.

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And then he has to figure out what does that bird eat because all these birds eat their summer seat heaters among meat eaters are warm eaters are different kinds of years to figure out which word is what.

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And then he takes the chicks with the home feed them, give them raise them. Now they're free flying their adult birds, they come to him and he calls them and all of these take time.

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It won't take you know years. But obviously it takes in some cases it might take months in indefinitely it will take weeks.

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Then when all of this is done that Allah Serrano does is he was slaughter them jump up,

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mix it all up,

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make it into piles, and we don't know exactly how many piles and put them on top of

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the different hills around that.

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And

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so you've got the head of one bird dealer, one bird in the entrails and the bones and the feathers and everything else spread all over. And then he comes back down in the middle of all those hills and he calls them and they all come to

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me let's just think about this. You know you got some on one here. You've got the interstates the one burden, the same boards, the legs or the feet are on top of the hill. So you invited all this stuff happening? I don't know did you see it happening? Did it just just come to him? So hold on, let me now put yourself in this position and say what do you think will happen to you? Just thinking of this makes my skin tingle with excitement and joy and by just imagine you were able to surround who would happen

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this is the me

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means of connecting trauma.

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This is the meaning of feeling a loss when

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I think about this, wherever Islam was not the only one was this question.

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Actually the ideal before this inshallah Allah subhanaw taala told us or another man who asked the same question, but in a different tone. The toward he asked the question was, well, it was almost like, almost like Uber almost like do they, how can it happen?

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That kind of was that kind of tour. I was gonna do less Ogunleye the Murata audiotheme where you have to know who she had gone to and now you're he had the level bar mot for Amato low Miata is my birthday. Color come love is stuck on enemies to yoga yo callable. Tamiya. is

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Edith or amico is your army Columbia doesn't was or Isla Hamer, Erica, you know, you're either guy Tallinn was a real Arizona Amica if I don't She's whoo ha. So Maddox who? La Ferla Madaba Jana who call them one Allah, Allah, Felicia Cody,

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last round that is dead or like the one who passed by our town. And it was a ruin it had it had tumbled over its roofs. He said oh, how will Allah ever bring it back to life after?

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That's the the tone of this. How will How can this happen? Meaning it cannot happen? How does this How is it even possible? That's the kind of tone is asking.

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Here this is very different from caver to he'll motor

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cable to your motors? Of course, I know you're going to show me how.

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The question here is not we're not whether you can do it or not. The question is, show me how it is done.

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Let me see it happen.

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When this man is I will let me get out in depth, meaning it cannot have a very, very important

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how to ask a question

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that Allah says, so Allah caused him to die for 100 years.

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You want to see how to have us die? Then you bring it back?

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So are like the man who passed by our town and he tumbled over its rules? Is it how will Allah ever bring it back to life after its death? So Allah caused him to that 400 years, he remained there once, and then He raised Him up again. And he said, How long did you remain? dependent? How long was how long? Do you remember? The answer? Well, maybe I remained dead for a day or part of a day. He said, No, you have remained dead for 100 years.

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Look at your food and your drink. They show no change your food and drink as remain fresh as it was for one or two days. And look at your donkey.

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And thus we have made for you a sign for the people.

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Look at the boats, how we bring them together and clothed them with flesh.

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When this was clearly shown to him, he said I know now that Allah can do all things.

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So one man got

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his hands.

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Imagine this whole situation.

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He asked this question and dropped it.

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And 100 years later he wakes up and he's seen before his eyes his donkey is disintegrated.

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Completely designated God maybe the couple of bones are there.

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But then in front of his eyes are collected the flesh is forming on the bones and longer stabbed up.

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And his food and drink is just like that.

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What do you think will happen? Just think about it. What do you think will happen if I die just now? And I wake up one or two days later on in 2123?

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What will I find? All my relatives and friends will be dead.

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Everyone, whoever I love in this world whoever is alive today will be dead in 2123 There's no doubt about this.

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My money and God's word work my clothes will be outdated. I will have no ID I'm not even sure if I will understand what people are saying at the time. What what will be the language

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New World new ways new gadgets, new technology, everything strange everything a challenge.

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I will be totally your team cut off powerless, vulnerable alone.

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And that is what would have happened to that man.

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That is what will happen to that man. I love that I made you assigned for people.

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So when he goes to the town now they say well you walk 400 years old already. So you came here.

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What will happen is when

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he got his answer, but how

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That's why different strokes for different folks, my gestures to say it out allele, build your dialogue with Allah and it is not what happens normally that will happen to what happens to you depends on who you are in the sight of Allah. So build your connection with Allah and He will give the world into your hands.

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I remember in 2008 I was invited to speak at the International Health Conference

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in Makkah

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so my wife and I went

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and

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when we were going there one of our very dear friends

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he gave me some documents he says enjoy going to Georgia Can you hand these over to so and so is another was another very dear friend of ours.

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And

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so when you do that

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so now

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many of you are all of you Abdullah you've been to Egypt the Yeoman farmer I mean for Hajj and this is type of heights. What what is the scene generally

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I remember the advice that my good and different Bucha gave me when I

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meant for Hajj first 1979 in 1997 1997

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he said to me

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forget time

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I used to wear a watch in those days he said take away your watch

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put it in your luggage I don't take it with you at all

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forget I

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just go and relax said you will learn in the airport is a nice big place for people to to be there is a place to pray the Salah the food there are battles

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so he said if you time for prayer pray you want to go to the bathroom go to the bathroom you will agree with some get some for the visit up lay down sleep on the on the salah sleep on the on the cupboards

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relax

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I said why he said because it will take it's endless

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it will take you hours

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don't be surprised if the airport immigration we by the time we get into the into the bus alone will take you maybe three four hours and then you get into the bus and to go to Makkah doesn't take so long. But then once you are nasty to over a monka Domina Minato to alpha alpha was deliver was delivered back to me now he said this will take hours and hours and hours. You would Don't be surprised he was sitting in the bus in the parking lot in in Arafat for six hours.

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And so when all of this happened was all of this and more happened to us.

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Right? The reason I'm saying this is

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in 2008 when my wife and I went on the invitation from the Zero Hedge from the Ministry of hedge as guests of the king. And in those days was His Majesty King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz route allele.

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We were met at the door of the play

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by a representative of the Ministry of arts he came he says that Alec was one who said I was going to have your passport your passport. Please come with me. He took me and in the immigration

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lounge as we come in there. I was going towards the towards immigration does he said Oh no. Please come with me. It takes us into a VIP lounge and say please have a seat big so far. And so on. There is Gowa there is this data organizer, please help yourselves. And I'll be back shortly. And literally minutes. He comes back passport stamped. Gonna have your boarding pass. You can have your luggage tags, please. Yes, yes, the luggage tags. Please go with me. Within minutes. We are outside with the luggage. And we are going home.

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I met my friend i given those documents and I find you know he's laughing. He's got a z is very, very amused especially on his face. So when we got we came out of the airport and there is a huge big GMC there's a driver and a translator there waiting for us. The our our escort in the airport, he says this guidance for you. And this is your driver interpreter. They will take you to Makkah and this guy will remain with you for the entire duration of your trip.

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Right same hedge same things. Now when we got into the car, I called my friend. I said why are you so amused? He says we are way so the aapke luggage

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and he doesn't be the Saudi guy who carried your luggage?

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I have a poor Miskin Hindi

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not in your life will you see this? But then when the

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Word musky in Hindi, is a guest of the King of Saudi Arabia. He is no longer a poor poor Miskin Hindi

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when you are connected to power, the rules of the game are changed for you.

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They don't apply to.

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So then my my jet was to say, build your connection with Allah, and he will give the world into your hands.

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Fast forward to the time when a young man who is evangelists are untied up securely with ropes sitting in the cover was about to be launched into a huge fire kindled to burn him alive. stand there and look at his face. What do you see? I see your face which is totally calm with a smile on the face to say.

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Let us see what my Rob wants to show me now.

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Suddenly, you realize Hello appears to him. And he says

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what can I do for you tell me now remember, these are friends. Right? He has seen people before

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delivery service not a new person to him.

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What do I see? I see this vial is now growing is bigger and more beautiful.

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And to DVD service there's nothing Thank you very much.

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There's like a lot of energy nothing

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inside you say and now he's connected upwards it's connected to his village. So instead of saying you know we better than either myself What did you think I would say to every Elisa

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who of course he doesn't know Marxism. Judaism disappears. God Allah subhanaw taala who of course knows everything

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NCRB Yarra Oh my not your Holly Hill is about to be burnt alive. I asked him if I would help him. He refused to tell me please do something

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that was around that it says Go now and tell him the rice empty. And I want to know what he wants from me.

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So the village robbery appears.

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And he says why you're absent me and wants row what you want from him.

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And that's my aid is now like the sun.

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And he says, Yeah, my friend. Myra doesn't need to ask

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why Rob does not need to ask.

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And in his heart, he's saying yeah, Robbie, it's not what I want is what you want.

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It's not what I want.

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It's what you want. Because I want whatever you want.

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The way that was

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when the slave remove the means, from between himself and his

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his younger brother who addressed the fire directly, and he commanded Cola, Ja Rule Cooney burden was salam ala Ibrahim,

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and we said all via view,

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the can become cool as and safety.

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Think about this, what were the options to save a rain? Well is tundra burst that extinguishes the fire.

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The cloudburst

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that extinguishes the fire.

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The will is Rob is ordered to pick him up from mirror and take him away.

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I'm sure that would make for some nice camera footage.

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Or maybe a tornado comes in sucks. I'm the king of the people who are trying to burn him and throws him to the fire that would be quite dramatic and symbolic.

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Or maybe sudden attack by enemies. Which reorders obviously, all the priorities

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or maybe something else. But none of those would have accomplished Allah subhanho Danis purpose, which was to demonstrate his fire, which was to show that the fire can do nothing, the whole hour hold.

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The fire can do nothing. unless Allah subhanaw taala gives you the power to do something.

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Allah does not need to change the thing in order to change its effect.

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Remember that you are a bystander watching all this happening? What do you see?

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You see a huge fire and nobody can go near that it's so massive that they have to launch the rival is

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into eight with a CD machine. You see him sitting in the cabinet every day with a huge smile on his face, which gives going brighter. You wonder what kind of a man is this? What's wrong with it? Can't you see the danger that he is in? What is it that he doesn't understand? Or if you can think that far? Then maybe you're asking another question. You're asking yourself, what is he seeing

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Then I can't What does he know? That I don't

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mean while you see this massive crowd being for his blood huge noise imagine a soccer match and multiply that 100 times

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the waiting for the King to give the signal for the to shed with fired the king raises his hand and chops down and the temperature is released. Even ever esalaam flies through the air and fall into the fire and disappears from the side of the crowd and from your side

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there is a massive cheer as people now rejoice and their success finally they got rid of this problem calling Rahim the birdie.

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Nobody, not you. Not anyone there saw the reality of what happened.

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Until in the fullness of time. Eventually Salah walks out of the fire. Safe Hands on his rope had incinerated. But not a hair on his body was even cinched.

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So who was successful?

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What did it look like to you?

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But what was the reality?

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What does success look like to you today?

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But what is the reality?

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The stories

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are not for entertainment. They are to reflect a bar and apply to our lives. Our fires our interest based banking and haram businesses and eating and drinking haram or doubtful things monography cigarettes, lotteries, drugs and alcohol fornication

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add to this list

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all of these are legal in this land.

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But all are haram with Allah Subhana Allah

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What will you choose?

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What will we will we do

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to get Allah subhanaw taala to save us

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from our fires or will our fires consumes? That is our choice.

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I remind myself when you and Allah subhanaw taala created us to worship

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and he said Obatala to Jilla gin Nolin sila Yeah, but I love to ginawa Dhindsa elderly ma What do you mean home mill risk? Mere risk what would you do? Are you terrible in Allah was awful the quality Mateen Allah said an eye Allah created not the Jinn of humans, except that they should worship Me alone.

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I seek not any provision from them for themselves or my creatures, nor do I ask that they should feed Me or feed themselves or my creatures. Verily Allah is the odd provider. The order of power, the strongest. This is the greatest secret. Do your job. When we do the job that we are supposed to do. To give us sustenance is the responsibility of the one who gave us the job. In this case, who created us for that job? What more can we ask?

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What more can we ask you for every salaams stories a beautiful example of this, which Allah subhanaw taala narrated for us, so that we may take heed. Ask Allah subhanaw taala for his help for us to live a life in total obedience and submission to Him General. Salah Hassan Abdul Karim Allah Allah He was with me to go