Mirza Yawar Baig – Goals of learning #2

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The importance of reading Seems blessed in order to practice learning about life is emphasized, along with the importance of practicing the lessons in a small way. The Seems of Islam is a foundation and pillar of their business, and the love for Muhammad S.A.W. is a part of their faith. measuring time by metrics and learning from the sun is also discussed, along with the importance of emulation in measuring love for one another. Emulation is used to indicate love for one another, and practicing it can improve one's life.

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			The Seerah, therefore, is a required reading.
		
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			It is a part of the education of
		
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			the Muslim.
		
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			Unfortunately, it is highly neglected, and that is
		
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			something that we need to change.
		
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			So next question, next benchmark for yourself is,
		
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			what do I know about the Seerah?
		
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			I will also post some links to books
		
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			of the Seerah that you can start with,
		
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			Inshallah.
		
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			So read those books, Inshallah, it will give
		
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			you an idea about the life of Rasulullah
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			Now, when you're reading the book, key thing
		
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			to understand is you are not reading it
		
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			for information.
		
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			You're not reading it to get some names
		
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			or mention or remember some dates.
		
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			You are reading it only with one purpose,
		
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			and that is to say, how can I
		
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			practice this in my life?
		
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			Inshallah, Allah ﷻ will put barakah in our
		
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			lives if we do that, and therefore we
		
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			must read and study.
		
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			When I say read, that's only the first
		
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			part, just reading.
		
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			But the key thing is not just to
		
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			read, but to study it in detail, and
		
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			then to implement it in our lives.
		
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			So this is a very important thing to
		
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			do.
		
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			Second thing is, also take this into the
		
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			family.
		
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			Get the children, get your spouses, everyone involved
		
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			in that, and practice it in the smallest
		
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			ways.
		
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			You sit down to eat, you say, are
		
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			we eating in the way that Rasulullah ﷺ
		
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			used to eat?
		
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			And then have a little like a quiz.
		
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			You say, well, how did he eat?
		
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			So he ate with his right hand.
		
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			He said, Bismillah, before he ate.
		
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			And he did this, and he did that,
		
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			and he did that.
		
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			Whatever he used to do, we do that.
		
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			And make sure that we remember those things
		
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			and we practice it.
		
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			So what is the learning from the Seeratun
		
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			Nabi ﷺ?
		
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			Now, in the course of this same discussion
		
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			and thinking about the Seerah, which will come
		
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			automatically, it will happen if you are studying
		
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			the Seerah, this is something which is bound
		
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			to happen, which is, talk about the Akhirah.
		
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			Because this is a reality which nobody denies.
		
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			People deny even Allah ﷻ, they deny the
		
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			Nabi ﷺ.
		
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			They deny everything, but nobody denies death, because
		
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			we know one day we will die.
		
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			We have seen others dying.
		
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			We have seen others dead.
		
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			We have attended Janazahs.
		
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			We have gone to the Qutub-e-Mawwarah,
		
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			to the Khabar Ashtan, and we have buried
		
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			people, and so on.
		
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			So we know this.
		
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			So what is our preparation for that?
		
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			So have these discussions.
		
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			Talk about it.
		
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			The reason I'm saying this is because the
		
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			reality is that in life, you will find
		
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			whatever you talk about remains.
		
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			What you don't talk about disappears.
		
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			Just a very simple test.
		
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			If I ask you, tell me the name
		
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			of your maternal great-grandmother, that is, your
		
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			mother's grandmother, right?
		
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			Your mother's grandmother.
		
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			I can bet you that most of you
		
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			will not even know the name, because the
		
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			name is never spoken, right?
		
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			At the most somebody will say Nanija, Nanima,
		
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			some such thing, you know, Jada, but nobody,
		
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			usually the name is not there.
		
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			So it disappears.
		
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			It is as if she never existed.
		
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			She existed, that is why you exist.
		
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			You have got her genes in your blood,
		
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			you have got her blood in your veins,
		
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			but you do not even know the name.
		
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			So that is a very important thing.
		
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			So therefore, as far as the consciousness of
		
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			the Akhira is concerned, the same rule applies.
		
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			If you mention it, if you talk about
		
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			it, the consciousness will remain, and the consciousness
		
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			is only the first step.
		
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			It is not simply enough to say I
		
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			am conscious, I am conscious means what?
		
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			So therefore I need to run my life
		
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			in a way where on the Day of
		
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			Judgment I will not be humiliated before Allah
		
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			SWT.
		
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			The Sahaba used to discuss, they used to
		
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			talk to the Prophet, many many hadiths where
		
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			they asked the Prophet, Ya Rasulullah, how is
		
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			Jannah?
		
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			What is the water like?
		
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			What is the size of the pomegranate fruit?
		
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			What is the size of the grape?
		
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			What is this?
		
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			What is that?
		
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			I mean they used to ask many many
		
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			questions.
		
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			Nabi S.A.W. said there will be
		
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			people in Jannah who will have palaces which
		
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			are floating in the air.
		
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			Imagine, you are sitting on the ground, the
		
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			palace is up high up in the air.
		
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			Huge beautiful palace, as Sahaba said.
		
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			And see the questions also that they asked.
		
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			They show the level of Iman and Yaqeen.
		
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			When Nabi S.A.W. said that there
		
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			will be palaces, people will have palaces which
		
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			are floating in the air, they did not
		
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			ask how is it possible, how can something
		
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			float in the air?
		
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			Today if I throw a stone up, it
		
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			comes down, there is gravity, is there no
		
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			gravity in Jannah?
		
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			They didn't ask all this.
		
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			They said, Ya Rasulullah, how will we get
		
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			into that palace?
		
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			So he said you will fly up like
		
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			a bird.
		
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			Imagine, so the fact that there will be
		
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			a palace floating in the air is a
		
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			matter of Yaqeen for them and should be
		
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			for us only because Rasulullah S.A.W.
		
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			said so.
		
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			Now all of this will happen if we
		
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			study the Seerah, if we understand the Seerah
		
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			because the love for Rasulullah S.A.W.
		
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			is an article of faith.
		
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			It is something which is a foundation, which
		
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			is a pillar of our Iman.
		
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			The love for Muhammad S.A.W. is
		
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			not a discretionary thing, it is not something,
		
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			if it is good to have, if you
		
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			don't have it is okay.
		
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			You know I love him more, somebody loves
		
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			him less.
		
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			No, to love the Rasulullah S.A.W.
		
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			is a part of faith.
		
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			If a Muslim says I do not love
		
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			Muhammad S.A.W., he ceases to be
		
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			a Muslim.
		
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			If a Muslim has a doubt about love
		
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			for Muhammad S.A.W., this man's Iman
		
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			is in serious doubt.
		
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			His Iman is in great danger.
		
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			Now that is the reason we need to
		
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			study the Seerah because obviously, logically speaking, you
		
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			cannot love somebody you don't know.
		
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			You can only love someone you know.
		
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			And the beauty of the life of Rasulullah
		
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			S.A.W., and this is true also
		
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			of the Sahaba, is that unlike normal people
		
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			today, there is a proverb in English, familiarity
		
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			breeds contempt, which means that the closer you
		
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			know somebody, the more you know somebody, the
		
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			more you are familiar with somebody, you will
		
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			lose respect for them.
		
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			Because, may Allah protect us, our lives are
		
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			like that.
		
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			If somebody comes to know the details of
		
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			your life, then it is likely that they
		
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			will uncover all kinds of not very nice
		
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			details and they lose respect for you.
		
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			So it is better to be at an
		
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			arm's distance.
		
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			But not in the case of Nabi S
		
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			.A.W. With Rasulullah S.A.W., the
		
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			more you learn about him, the more you
		
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			love him.
		
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			The more you know about him, the more
		
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			you love him.
		
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			And this is one of the evidences and
		
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			proofs of his Risalah also, that Allah S
		
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			.W.T. created him in such a way
		
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			and gave him such Akhlaq, which Allah S
		
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			.W.T. himself praised.
		
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			And Allah S.W.T. said, you are
		
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			on the best of Akhlaq.
		
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			So therefore, reading and studying the Sunnah of
		
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			Rasulullah S.A.W. with the intention of
		
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			practicing it, and then actually practicing it in
		
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			your life.
		
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			And the important thing there is to monitor
		
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			that.
		
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			As I said, two things.
		
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			One is things that you don't mention, you
		
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			forget.
		
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			You don't know.
		
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			You lose consciousness of that.
		
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			Second thing is that what we monitor, what
		
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			we measure, is what we value.
		
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			There's a guy called Michael Harry who invented
		
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			the Six Sigma quality standard.
		
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			He used to work in Motorola.
		
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			He said, a famous quote, he said, if
		
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			you want to see what people value, see
		
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			what they measure.
		
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			If you want to see what people value,
		
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			see what they measure.
		
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			So we like to say time is money.
		
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			But time is not money because if we
		
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			really value time like we value money, just
		
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			to give you a short example, if you
		
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			drop a hundred dollar bill and you lose
		
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			it, then you will feel the pain of
		
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			that.
		
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			Although a hundred dollars is not such a
		
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			great amount of money, it's okay, you lost
		
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			it, lost it.
		
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			But no, you will feel that pain because
		
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			you have a value for that hundred dollars.
		
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			You might feel the same pain for twenty
		
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			dollars.
		
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			But how much time do we spend on
		
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			useless social media?
		
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			How much time do we spend on just
		
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			browsing the net or watching TikTok or watching
		
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			YouTube shorts or something?
		
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			At the end of that one hour, two
		
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			hours, time just flies.
		
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			And at the end of that two hours
		
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			or one hour, if somebody says, please write
		
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			down three things that you learned from this
		
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			one hour of your lifespan that you donated
		
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			to TikTok free of cost so that TikTok
		
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			can make money, what did you gain from
		
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			these three things that you can count?
		
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			I can bet you there is not one
		
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			person who will be able to write these
		
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			things because it's just mindless looking at the
		
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			screen.
		
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			And that's very, very important for us to
		
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			keep this in mind and say, what do
		
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			you value?
		
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			And the way you value is by metrics,
		
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			by measurements.
		
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			So when you say I value the sunnah,
		
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			the thing to do is now measure how
		
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			much of the sunnah am I practicing in
		
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			my life.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's not enough simply to say, you know,
		
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			the people who claim to love Rasulullah s
		
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			.a.w. and their love of the Nabi
		
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			s.a.w. is on one day in
		
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			the year, they will sing nasheed and whatnot
		
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			and they will have a function and they
		
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			will call it miladunabi or what.
		
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			I'm not even going into the, you know,
		
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			aspect of whether to celebrate milad, maulud, whatnot
		
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			on the 12th of Rabiul Awal, whether this
		
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			is sunnah or widah.
		
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			Forget that.
		
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			Point is, if you value the Nabi s
		
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			.a.w., if you love the Rasul s
		
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			.a.w., what is the evidence?
		
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			And the evidence can be only one, which
		
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			is I emulate him, I follow him.
		
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			The love for the Rasul is shown by
		
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			following his way.
		
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			So we need to measure that and say,
		
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			well, how many sunnah do I follow in
		
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			my life?
		
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			And is that increasing?
		
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			Like I said to you about the Qur
		
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			'an, how much Qur'an did I know
		
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			last year?
		
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			How much do I know this year?
		
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			Is there a difference?
		
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			If I don't know more this year than
		
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			last year, then something is wrong.
		
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			I need to memorize some more.
		
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			Until I finish, inshallah, the complete Qur'an
		
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			al-Karim, I become Hafiz al-Qur'an.
		
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			No matter how long it takes, inshallah, we
		
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			have the hope with Allah that Allah s
		
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			.w.t. will grant us the level of
		
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			a Hafiz.
		
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			Even if we did not make it, if
		
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			we died before that, because we had the
		
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			niyyah and we made the effort.
		
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			Similarly with the sunnah, I make this into
		
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			a niyyah to say, I want to be
		
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			as close to the Nabi s.a.w.
		
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			as possible.
		
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			So how many sunnah of his sunnah do
		
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			I follow?
		
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			So in my appearance, in my speaking, in
		
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			my dealings, in my earnings, in what I
		
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			eat and how I eat, how I sleep,
		
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			how do I deal with my family, how
		
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			do I deal with my children, my neighbors,
		
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			my employer, my employees, the whole thing, the
		
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			beauty of the life of Rasul s.a
		
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			.w. is that there is an answer for
		
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			every person, no matter what that person's own
		
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			situation is in life.
		
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			If a king wants to know how must
		
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			I rule, there is an answer in the
		
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			life of the Nabi s.a.w. If
		
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			a beggar wants to know what must I
		
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			do, I'm in a destitute condition, I want
		
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			no money, there is an answer in the
		
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			life of the Rasul s.a.w. If
		
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			an employer, if an employee, if a soldier,
		
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			if a general, if a married person, if
		
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			an unmarried person, if a man or a
		
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			woman, a child, whoever has any issue, any
		
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			question in his life and say, how must
		
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			I do this in a way that will
		
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			please my Rabbi s.a.w., the answer
		
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			is in the life of Rasul s.a
		
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			.w. And that is the reason why it
		
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			is so important to study his life in
		
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			such detail.
		
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			So Inshallah this is your second metric.
		
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			First metric is the Quran, the second metric
		
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			is the Seerah of Nabi s.a.w.
		
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			with the intention of practicing it in our
		
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			lives.
		
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			I want to close with the Basharah and
		
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			the promise that Allah s.w.t. gave
		
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			to the one who emulates, the one who
		
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			emulates, not only obeys, who emulates the Nabi
		
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			s.a.w. Allah s.w.t. said,
		
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			Allah s.w.t. said, Say to those
		
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			who claim to love Allah s.w.t.,
		
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			say to those who say we love Allah,
		
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			emulate me, emulate Muhammad s.a.w. Emulate,
		
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			not only obey, emulate.
		
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			Emulation is a sign of love.
		
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			Obedience requires an instruction.
		
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			You cannot obey unless there is an order.
		
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			But emulation requires no instruction.
		
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			Emulation happens because we love.
		
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			So people will imitate film actors, they will
		
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			imitate sportsmen and sportswomen and they will dress
		
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			like this fashion icon and that fashion icon,
		
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			not because that person told them to do
		
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			that, but just because they love that person
		
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			and they want to be like that person,
		
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			therefore they emulate that person.
		
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			And if we emulate Muhammad s.a.w.,
		
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			what will happen?
		
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			Allah s.w.t. said, I want, I
		
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			remind myself and you, let us sit with
		
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			this statement.
		
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			Allah will love you.
		
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			Who is saying this?
		
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			Allah is saying it.
		
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			Allah s.w.t. is saying, I will
		
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			love you.
		
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			What is the meaning of this?
		
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			What is the value of this?
		
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			What does it mean to say that Allah
		
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			loves me?
		
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			Just think about it in one simple context,
		
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			which is that if in fact Allah s
		
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			.w.t. loves me, then if I raise
		
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			my hands to ask Allah for something, what
		
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			is the absolutely unwavering, faultless result?
		
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			That is that whatever I ask Allah will
		
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			give me.
		
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			Because what is the meaning of love?
		
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			If Allah is loving me and then if
		
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			I ask him for something he doesn't give
		
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			me, then where is the love?
		
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			So Allah will give.
		
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			This is the beauty.
		
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			So think about this and say, Allah said,
		
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			And the minimum condition of that is, Allah
		
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			will forgive your sins and Allah is the
		
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			most forgiving and most merciful.
		
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			So the boundary condition, the first step of
		
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			Allah loving me is that Allah will forgive
		
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			my sins.
		
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			This is the beauty of the Sunnah of
		
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			Rasulullah s.a.w. I ask Allah s
		
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			.w.t. to enable us to live our
		
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			lives in a way which is pleasing to
		
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			him and his glory and majesty and to
		
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			live our lives in a way which emulates
		
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			the way and method of Rasulullah s.a
		
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			.w.