Mirza Yawar Baig – Fill our hearts with Allahs Glory

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The physical and mental state of Islam is discussed, including the journey of the sun and the split galaxy. The speaker describes various bird breeds and their potential harm to the environment, including a chipmunk and a robin. They also mention a woman who buys starlings and breed successfully. The speaker describes various bird breeds and their potential health risks, including the chipmunk and its egg.

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			Think about this.
		
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			Everything begins with the of Allah
		
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			in our hearts,
		
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			with the glory and majesty of Allah in
		
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			our hearts.
		
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			The glory of and majesty of Allah in
		
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			our hearts ensures
		
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			that our hearts are then free from all
		
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			worry and stress and all
		
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			kinds of negativity.
		
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			And also that our
		
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			mind is then focused on pleasing Allah
		
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			And anything that does not please Allah
		
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			is something that we will avoid.
		
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			So who is Allah?
		
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			He is the 1 who created our earth,
		
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			which rotates on its axis at a 1000
		
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			miles per hour, 1600
		
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			kilometers per hour.
		
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			In addition to spinning on its axis, the
		
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			earth also revolves around the sun.
		
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			We are approximately
		
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			93,000,000
		
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			miles, a 150,000,000
		
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			kilometers
		
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			from the sun. And at that distance,
		
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			it takes us 1 year,
		
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			365 days to go around
		
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			once.
		
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			We are travelling on the earth's orbit
		
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			of 600,000,000
		
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			miles,
		
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			970,000,000
		
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			kilometers at a rate
		
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			of 66,000
		
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			miles per hour. It's a 107
		
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			1,000,000 kilometers per hour.
		
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			At this speed, you could get from San
		
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			Francisco to Washington DC in 3 minutes.
		
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			As they say on TV, please don't try
		
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			when this fast without serious adult supervision.
		
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			Our son is just 1 star among
		
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			several 100,000,000,000
		
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			others
		
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			in the Milky Way galaxy.
		
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			This is our immense island of stars, and
		
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			within it,
		
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			each star is itself moving.
		
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			Each star is itself moving.
		
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			In addition to the individual motion of the
		
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			stars within it, the entire galaxy
		
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			is split is spinning
		
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			like an enormous spin wheel.
		
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			Although the details of the galaxies
		
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			spin out
		
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			complicated,
		
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			stars at different distances,
		
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			move at different speeds,
		
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			we can focus on on the speed of
		
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			the sun around the centre of the Milky
		
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			Way Milky Way galaxy.
		
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			It takes our sun approximately
		
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			225,000,000
		
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			years to make the trip around the galaxy.
		
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			This is called a galactic year.
		
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			Since the sun and the earth first formed,
		
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			it is estimated that about 200
		
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			that 20,
		
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			not 200, that about 20
		
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			galactic years have passed. We have been around
		
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			the galaxy 2 20 times.
		
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			To complete this journey, the sun moves at
		
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			483,000
		
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			miles per hour.
		
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			792,000
		
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			kilometers
		
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			h. On the other hand, in all recorded
		
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			human history, we have barely moved around the
		
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			Milky Way. Allah
		
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			said about the reason to educate
		
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			ourselves
		
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			and told us how to do it. And
		
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			he said,
		
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			Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and
		
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			the earth, in the alternation of the day
		
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			and the night, there are signs for people
		
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			of reason, people of intelligence, people who reflect.
		
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			These people are those who remember Allah
		
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			while standing, sitting and lying on their sides
		
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			and reflect on the creation of the heavens
		
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			and the earth, and they pray, they may
		
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			go and they say, O Arab,
		
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			you have not created all of this without
		
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			purpose in vain.
		
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			Glory be to you. Protect us from the
		
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			torment of the fire.
		
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			The idea of educating
		
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			in general and science in particular
		
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			is to open our eyes to the greatness
		
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			and glory of our creator of Allah so
		
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			that we love him and appreciate what he
		
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			wishes us to do and do it with
		
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			joy and
		
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			to and to remember that 1 day we
		
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			will meet him and he will deal with
		
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			us
		
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			justly and give us what we deserve. We
		
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			ask Allah
		
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			in addition to that,
		
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			for his mercy.
		
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			Because if Allah
		
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			treats us with justice alone,
		
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			then we will not survive that because
		
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			we have no way in which we can
		
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			fulfill
		
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			what we owe to Allah
		
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			But we ask
		
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			Allah for his mercy. We say Allah give
		
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			us
		
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			with your mercy and forgive us whatever we
		
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			have
		
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			not fulfilled
		
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			of our,
		
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			of of what is made compulsory for us.
		
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			However, just just look around yourselves. Where I
		
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			am sitting here now,
		
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			I have 2
		
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			purple hydrangea bushes.
		
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			Now calling them purple hydrangea bushes
		
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			is a bit of a misnomer because
		
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			they're not just purple. That purple
		
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			flowers of different ages
		
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			have different colours. It's all purple, but different
		
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			shades of purple. And even that
		
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			individual
		
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			petal of the flower
		
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			has the shade varying from the edge going
		
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			to the center.
		
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			I'm also looking at beautiful
		
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			yellow and bright blood red
		
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			dillies,
		
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			which
		
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			are standing in front of me.
		
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			I'm looking at a little, tiny little,
		
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			Carolina Ren
		
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			female
		
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			who has made a nest,
		
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			you know, rather nested in my nesting box.
		
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			And she's alone. I'm wondering where her mate
		
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			is because they they mate for life
		
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			and she seems to be alone. So, you
		
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			know, where is her mate?
		
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			And,
		
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			without the mate and this nest is not
		
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			going to be doing
		
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			do a much good. Anyway,
		
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			so she's there and every
		
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			time she goes for a little flight, comes
		
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			back, and then she sits there on the
		
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			perch
		
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			and sings this beautiful tune,
		
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			which is which is so lovely.
		
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			Little bird
		
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			makes,
		
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			this wonderful tune and she's
		
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			quite loud. If you,
		
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			you you would have you probably will hear
		
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			some of her,
		
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			singing in this,
		
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			in this lecture while I'm talking.
		
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			Then I have
		
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			a whole family
		
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			of,
		
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			of orange finches of rose finches, not orange,
		
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			rose finches.
		
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			It started, what,
		
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			2 years ago, I think, or so or
		
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			3 years ago. It started with 1 pair.
		
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			That is the only 1 pair that I
		
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			used to see around
		
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			here. Now there are dozens of them.
		
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			So, obviously, they find this place,
		
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			conducive
		
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			and,
		
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			you know, they're raising the young.
		
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			So the whole lot of them,
		
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			you know, fighting over the food in the
		
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			the feeding,
		
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			feeding boxes.
		
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			I give them black,
		
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			oil sunflower seeds, which are high in protein,
		
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			high in fat. They love it
		
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			and they're fighting the the the males
		
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			have this,
		
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			wonderful
		
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			red,
		
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			head and,
		
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			chest.
		
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			The females are
		
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			just plain
		
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			gray brown,
		
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			rather drab,
		
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			But the males are,
		
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			are very colorful because they have this,
		
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			they have this, you know,
		
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			they have this lovely color.
		
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			Then I have,
		
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			what I do have? I have sparrows.
		
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			I have what I call old world sparrows.
		
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			Now they're called Old World Sparrows because they
		
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			came across
		
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			the Atlantic on the sailing ships that
		
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			the original settlers came from from Britain.
		
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			They also got to Britain from somewhere.
		
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			We know they are there in India,
		
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			so they would have got imagine these little
		
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			birds,
		
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			they're crossing oceans,
		
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			not by flying across them across the ocean
		
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			themselves, but by
		
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			getting onto ships.
		
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			Now obviously the bird getting out of the
		
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			ship is not planning to go to America.
		
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			The bird is getting out of the ship
		
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			because the ship has food, it is probably
		
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			has grain and so on, so the bird
		
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			is there and the next thing you know
		
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			the bird is America.
		
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			And then they get they get off the
		
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			ships, they,
		
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			they fly around here, they get,
		
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			and they breed successfully.
		
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			So I have those. Then I have a
		
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			whole bunch of
		
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			starlings.
		
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			It's interesting. I I was doing some little
		
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			bit of research on this. Now how did
		
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			Stalin get here? There was somebody who,
		
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			in in the beginning at, when,
		
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			the the British started settling,
		
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			in America,
		
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			Where somebody who decided to bring all the
		
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			birds in
		
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			Shakespeare's,
		
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			plays and his writings. All the birds that
		
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			Shakespeare mentioned, 1 of them is starlings. So
		
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			he brought some starlings and,
		
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			and left them here.
		
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			They're highly successful. They breed like nothing
		
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			on earth.
		
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			And,
		
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			like any
		
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			introduced
		
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			species, they're also very harmful because they this
		
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			this the starling result in
		
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			in 1,000,000,000 of dollars worth of crop loss
		
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			and and all kinds of stuff. So, you
		
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			know, but
		
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			that's 1 side. But but they look at
		
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			they look lovely. They sing beautifully. They're, you
		
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			know, amazing. Then I have on the ground
		
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			a chipmunk,
		
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			which looks like 1 of our Indian squirrels,
		
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			but very small,
		
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			who's also a seed eater. So he what
		
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			he does and this is how the whole
		
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			system works. We have the feeders hanging from
		
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			the top.
		
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			The squirrel so squirrels and chipmunks can't get
		
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			up there. But the birds who feed on
		
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			the feeders, they are very wasteful feeders. So
		
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			they they eat 1 seed. They drop,
		
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			you know, 2 or 3 seeds on the
		
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			ground.
		
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			So wasteful in that sense, but that is
		
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			how the ground feeders, which are chipmunks, which
		
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			are squirrels, which are,
		
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			doves. We have a a whole bunch of
		
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			morning doves here.
		
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			I at any time, I can see about
		
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			maybe 7 or 8 of them,
		
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			who are who eat off the
		
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			off the ground under the fetus.
		
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			The chipmunk just now is filling his cheeks
		
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			with,
		
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			and and he's got 2 lumps on his
		
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			either side of his face.
		
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			Filling his see his cheeks with the seed.
		
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			Then he will run, carry them down into
		
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			into their burrows,
		
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			and and leave them there. And then through
		
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			the winter, they survive on that. Finally,
		
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			I have in before me now, this year
		
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			particularly,
		
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			the robins, the,
		
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			American robin
		
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			have done very well with their broods.
		
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			So for the first time, usually I would
		
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			see,
		
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			in through the summer, spring and summer, I
		
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			would see maybe 1 or 2
		
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			1 or 2,
		
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			juveniles, you know, chicks. But this time I
		
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			have I'm seeing about maybe maybe 12 or
		
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			or more.
		
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			And, just yesterday I discovered a ramen nest,
		
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			which is,
		
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			sitting on top of a post,
		
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			which has,
		
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			2 tiny,
		
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			babies in it, and it has,
		
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			1
		
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			bright blue egg.
		
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			And this morning I saw the mother sitting
		
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			there on this egg,
		
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			trying to hatch it.
		
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			You know, I wish them all the best.
		
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			They're wonderful, wonderful birds.
		
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			Amazing,
		
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			birds singing
		
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			and praising Allah all the time.
		
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			They're the first birds to start their zikr
		
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			in the morning and they're last that I
		
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			hear,
		
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			in the night before before it becomes completely
		
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			dark.
		
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			Now the reason I'm mentioning all this is
		
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			all of these are the signs of Allah
		
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			So on the 1 hand you have all
		
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			these huge things at a galactic level,
		
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			galaxies and suns and so on,
		
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			stupendous sizes,
		
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			spinning at stupendous speeds,
		
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			traveling and traversing the stupendous distances.
		
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			On the other hand, you have these wonderful
		
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			beautiful things which are in our
		
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			in our midst and in front of us
		
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			on a daily basis. We ask Allah
		
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			to fill our hearts with His glory and
		
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			majesty
		
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			and to
		
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			love for himself and Nabi salawasullam.