Mirza Yawar Baig – Islamic Parenting

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The crisis of parenting and the importance of honoring Islam's relationship with the creator is emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the need to be aware of the relationship between the individual and their religion to avoid negative experiences. The importance of praying and being a servant of Islam is also emphasized. The speaker discusses various bird migration routes and the impact of the pandemic on people.

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			Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen Wa Salatu
		
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			wa Salamu ala Sharafil Anbiya wal Munsalin Muhammadur
		
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			Rasulullah Sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sahbihil
		
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			salam Tasliman kathiran kathiran My brothers and sisters,
		
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			if there is, if you ask me to
		
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			name the one single biggest, most critical, most
		
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			dangerous crisis that is facing us today, I
		
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			would say it is the crisis of parenting.
		
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			The crisis of parenting.
		
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			And the reason for that is because we
		
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			have tried to, and for a lot of
		
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			us, we have managed to factor Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala out of the equation.
		
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			And I want to therefore begin with this
		
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			statement.
		
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			Factor Allah into the equation because he is
		
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			in it anyway.
		
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			Factor Allah into the equation because he is
		
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			in it anyway.
		
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			By equation I mean every decision in life.
		
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			Factor Allah into that equation.
		
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			Meaning, be concerned about my decision, my action,
		
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			my speech, my, you know, where I spend
		
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			my time and so on.
		
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			Does it please Allah or not?
		
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			Is it something which is likely to displease
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or not?
		
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			This is something which must be top of
		
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			the mind for us which must be in
		
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			every single thing we say or do and
		
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			this is the thing which is hugely missing.
		
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			Now, adults, parents, people of, you know, my
		
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			generation, even younger ones who have children, they
		
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			tend to place all the blame on the
		
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			children.
		
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			They say, this is what is wrong with
		
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			the young generation, this is what is wrong
		
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			with the youth.
		
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			I say the problem begins with you.
		
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			It's not what is wrong with you, it's
		
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			what's wrong with you.
		
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			Because that younger generation did not come from
		
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			Jannah.
		
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			It didn't come from heaven.
		
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			You raised them.
		
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			So, if there is a problem with them
		
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			and believe me, they have got serious problems,
		
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			those problems were either created by you as
		
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			parents or you failed to deal with them
		
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			at a time when they could be dealt
		
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			with.
		
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			So, let's see how do we connect our
		
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			children to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because
		
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			first things must come first.
		
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			I say to myself and remind myself and
		
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			you that Islam is the name of a
		
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			relationship.
		
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			It's not a theology, it's not a philosophy,
		
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			it is a relationship.
		
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			When we say, ashadu an la ilaha illa
		
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			Allah, you say, I bear witness that there
		
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			is no one worthy of worship except Allah.
		
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			And when I say that, when I say
		
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			I bear witness, it means that therefore I
		
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			worship Allah.
		
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			I do not worship anybody else.
		
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			When I say I bear witness that Muhammad
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is the messenger of
		
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			Allah, the last and final of them, after
		
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			whom there is none other, when I say
		
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			ashadu an la Muhammad Rasulallah, it means, I
		
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			say I bear witness, meaning, I say and
		
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			I bear witness and I prove and I
		
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			bear witness that I follow Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam only and not anybody else.
		
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			Meaning that if there is a way that
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did something or
		
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			said something or or behaved in a certain
		
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			way and somebody else who behaves in a
		
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			way which is contrary to that, then I
		
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			will not follow that contrary way.
		
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			I will follow the way of Muhammad sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			So, the shahada, when we take the shahada,
		
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			this is an act of accepting that relationship.
		
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			Islam is the name of a relationship.
		
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			The shahada is the action of accepting that
		
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			relationship and we say, yes, I am in
		
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			this relationship.
		
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			And being a Muslim and Islam is to
		
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			fulfil the rights of that relationship.
		
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			Because every relationship has rights.
		
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			Every relationship has rights and every relationship grants
		
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			us certain privileges.
		
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			We have those privileges as long as we
		
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			continue to fulfil those rights.
		
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			Right?
		
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			If you stop fulfilling the rights, then the
		
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			privileges are taken away from us.
		
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			And this is what has happened to us.
		
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			Our privilege was that Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala would listen to us.
		
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			Our dua was accepted.
		
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			Today our dua is not accepted because we
		
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			have removed the responsibility of fulfilling the right.
		
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			The dua of the person who is connected
		
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			is fulfilled.
		
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			When you break the connection, dua is not
		
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			fulfilled.
		
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			Acceptance of dua is a privilege, fulfilling the
		
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			right of Allah to make Allah number one
		
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			in our lives.
		
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			This is the right which must be fulfilled.
		
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			Now, this is important, this relationship with Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala and with his Rasul
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is because this is
		
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			the only relationship that transcends this life.
		
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			All our relationships end with death.
		
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			Some end before death, but with death everything
		
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			ends.
		
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			Our relationship of parent and child, our relationship
		
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			of a spouse, our relationship as employer, employee,
		
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			citizen, ruler, what not.
		
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			Every single relationship ends with death except our
		
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			relationship with Allah.
		
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			And that is why this is the first
		
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			question in the grave, man rabbukh?
		
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			They are not asking you, ma rabbul alameen?
		
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			They don't say, who is the Rabb of
		
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			the heavens and the earth?
		
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			They say, who is your Rabb?
		
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			It's a question which is focused at the
		
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			relationship.
		
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			Who is your Rabb?
		
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			The malaika know who Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala is.
		
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			They don't have to ask you for that.
		
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			They are asking you, who is your Rabb?
		
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			Man rabbuka?
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned this relationship
		
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			and He said, wal ladheena aamanu ashadduhubbalillah.
		
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			The nature of the relationship Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala mentioned and He said, this is
		
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			a relationship of love.
		
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			Not just love, ashadduhub, the superlative form of
		
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			shadir, the most sincere love, love with great
		
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			intensity.
		
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			Allah said, but the true believers, the mumineen,
		
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			they love Allah more than anyone and anything
		
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			else.
		
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			Question I have to ask myself is, do
		
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			I love Allah?
		
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			And if the answer is yes, then there
		
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			has to be evidence.
		
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			What is the evidence that I love Allah?
		
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			If the answer is no, then it's big
		
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			babal, big problem.
		
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			What am I going to do to change
		
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			that?
		
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			There are two benefits of loving Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			One is a sense of awareness of being
		
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			in the presence of Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala which comforts the heart.
		
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			How can anything harm me when my Rabb
		
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			is with me?
		
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			He said, fa'inama kuntum, fasamma wajhullah.
		
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			He said, wherever you look, you will see
		
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			the wajh of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			the face of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			You will see the signs of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			He said, wa huwa ma'akum aynama kuntum.
		
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			He is with you wherever you might be.
		
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			And this sense of awareness of the ma
		
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			'iyyat of Allah, of the presence of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala in our lives, this
		
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			is a huge, huge, huge comfort.
		
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			It takes away all stress.
		
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			It takes away all kinds of tension.
		
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			It takes away all depression.
		
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			It takes away all anxiety.
		
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			Because my Rabb is with me.
		
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			My Allah is with me, so who can
		
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			harm me?
		
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			My Allah is with me, so what else
		
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			do I need?
		
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			My Allah is with me, so how can
		
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			I lack for anything?
		
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			My Allah is with me, so how can
		
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			anything threaten me?
		
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			My Allah is with me.
		
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			Second big benefit is, it is a shield
		
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			against sinning.
		
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			A shield against disobeying Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			Because if my Rabb is with me and
		
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			I am aware of that, how can I
		
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			lie, how can I cheat, how can I
		
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			do anything which incurs the displeasure of Allah?
		
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			Right?
		
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			Allah is always with us, but we don't
		
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			have that awareness, we don't have that sense
		
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			of that.
		
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			But when a person loves Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, when the person is mentally and
		
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			in his heart and spiritually engaged with Allah,
		
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			in dhikr, in remembering Allah, in seeing his
		
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			signs, in saying subhanAllah, such a person will
		
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			have great difficulty committing a sin and that's
		
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			a good difficulty to have.
		
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			This is the essence of Islam.
		
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			The essence of Islam is to be aware
		
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			of this relationship between the Abd and the
		
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			Rabb and to fulfil the rights of that
		
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			relationship.
		
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			So, how can we know Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala?
		
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			In two ways.
		
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			One, by the way in which Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala introduced Himself.
		
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			Because nobody can introduce Allah as He introduced
		
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			Himself.
		
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			And number two, by reflecting with gratitude, with
		
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			shukr, on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's creation
		
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			which surrounds us and we are also His
		
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			creation and by reflecting on His blessings on
		
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			us.
		
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			For each of us, these blessings are different.
		
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			It is very important to remind ourselves of
		
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			this.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, وَإِن تَعُدُّوا
		
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			نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ لَا تُحْسُهَا Allah said, if you
		
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			try to count the blessings of Allah, you
		
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			will not be able to count.
		
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			So, let us at least make an attempt.
		
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			At least make an attempt to count the
		
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			blessings of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			I remind myself and you to make this
		
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			self-test of faith.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in Suratul
		
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			Anfal, إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِرَ اللَّهُ وَجِلَتْ
		
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			قُلُوبُهُمْ وَإِذَا تُلِيَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ هَيَاتُهُ زَادَتْهُ إِمَانًا وَعَلَىٰ
		
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			رَبِّهِمْ يَتَفَكَّلُونَ الَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ صَلَاةً وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ
		
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			مِنْ فِقُولٍ Five things Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala described.
		
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			He said the true believers are only those
		
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			whose hearts shiver and tremble with the glory
		
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			and majesty and awe of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala whenever Allah is remembered, whenever Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala is mentioned.
		
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			And whose faith increases with His mention, with
		
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			His revelations, when the ayat of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala are recited to them, when
		
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			they see the signs of Allah in the
		
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			creation, the faith of these believers whose hearts
		
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			are responsive to Allah, the faith increases.
		
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			And they have tawakkul on Allah.
		
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			They have complete and total reliance on Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And they are those who establish the salah.
		
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			يُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ مِنْ فِقُولٍ And who
		
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			donate and who spend from what we have
		
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			provided them.
		
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			Five qualities, self-test for us, do I
		
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			have iman or I don't have iman.
		
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			Now, I will recite for you some ayat
		
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			where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala introduced Himself.
		
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			You know all of these ayat, so I
		
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			will not translate them for you.
		
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			Just focus on your heart and see if
		
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			anything is happening to your heart or not
		
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			as you listen to the recitation.
		
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			Believe me, it has nothing to do with
		
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			the recitation.
		
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			It has nothing to do with the hand.
		
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			It has nothing to do with the sound
		
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			of the voice.
		
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			It has everything to do with the state
		
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			of our hearts.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, لَهُمَا
		
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			فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ مَن ذَلَّذِي يَشْفَعُ
		
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			عِنْدَهُ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهِ يَعَلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِهِمْ وَمَا
		
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			خَلْفَهُمْ وَلَا يُحِيطُونَ بِشَيٍّ مِنْ عِلْمِهِ إِلَّا بِمَا
		
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			شَاءُ وَسِعَ كُرُسِيُهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَلَا يَعُوذُهُ عِبْزُهُمَا
		
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			وَهُوَ الْعَلِيمُ الْعَظِيمُ الله أكبر الله أكبر لا
		
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			إله إلا الله الله أكبر الله أكبر ولله
		
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			الحمد هو الله الذي لا إله إلا هو
		
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			عالم الغيب والشهادة هو الرحمن الرحيم هو الله
		
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			الذي لا إله إلا هو الملك القدوس السلام
		
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			المؤمن المهيم العزيز الجبار المتكبر سبحان الله عما
		
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			يشريكون هو الله الخالق البارئ المسبر له الأسماء
		
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			الحسنى يسبح له ما في السماوات والأرض وهو
		
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			العزيز الحكيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قُلْ هُوَ
		
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			اللَّهُ وَأَحَدُ اللَّهُ الصَّمَدُ لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ
		
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			وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ كُفُهُ وَأَنَا أَحَدُ The first
		
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			was Ayatul Kursi as you know the second
		
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			one were the last ayat of Suratul Hashr
		
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			and the third one is Suratul Ikhlas Please
		
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			look up the meanings The key thing is
		
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			what happened to my heart when I was
		
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			listening to this My brothers and sisters It
		
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			is critical when you are talking about connecting
		
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			your children to the Quran It is critical
		
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			to understand one very important thing And that
		
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			is to connect your children to the Quran
		
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			You have to be connected to the Quran
		
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			To connect your children to Allah You have
		
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			to be connected to Allah It doesn't work
		
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			otherwise We can only give what we have
		
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			If I have no connection I cannot give
		
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			it to you I can only give you
		
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			the connection If I have a connection So
		
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			it is the whole point is to focus
		
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			on parents Rasulullah s.a.w. did not
		
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			run a makhtam He did not run a
		
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			primary school He did not run a creche
		
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			He did not run a day care center
		
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			Parenting is a contact sport Parenting is not
		
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			a remote control exercise You cannot outsource parenting
		
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			to somebody else To the masjid, to the
		
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			imam To the maulvi sahib, to the school
		
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			To the whatever Parenting has to be done
		
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			by parents That is the reason why parents
		
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			have this position in Islam Not because biologically
		
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			You are the means by which the children
		
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			were born But because of what you do
		
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			To connect them to Allah s.w.t
		
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			Their tarbiyah And that tarbiyah cannot happen By
		
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			people who don't have tarbiyah themselves So taskiyatun
		
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			nafs Must begin with myself I have to
		
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			do my own taskiyat I have to purify
		
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			myself Before I purify anybody else So I
		
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			remind myself and you Please focus on yourself
		
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			What is the state of your heart When
		
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			you listen to the Quran Does anything happen
		
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			to your heart?
		
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			If it doesn't happen, there is a big
		
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			problem There is a sickness The heart has
		
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			hardened The heart has become deaf to the
		
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			kalam of Allah s.w.t What's the
		
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			plan to change that?
		
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			Allah s.w.t mentioned Himself And He
		
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			said Allah
		
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			s.w.t said in surat al Imran
		
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			Indeed in the creation of the heavens and
		
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			the earth There are signs And in the
		
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			alteration Of the day and the night There
		
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			are signs For people of reason People of
		
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			intelligence And then Allah described them He said
		
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			who are they?
		
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			Two criteria Which are joined They are those
		
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			who remember Allah s.w.t Standing, sitting
		
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			and lying down And reflect on the creation
		
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			Of the heavens and the earth And they
		
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			make dua Two
		
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			criteria Of intelligent people Please apply it Does
		
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			it apply to you?
		
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			Does it apply to me?
		
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			Zikr of Allah Standing, sitting and lying down
		
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			What does it mean?
		
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			It means Do we remember Allah s.w
		
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			.t In every aspect of our lives?
		
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			Also by definition Therefore If I am remembering
		
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			Allah s.w.t Standing, sitting and lying
		
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			down Then I cannot be committing sins I
		
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			cannot be earning and eating haram Standing, sitting
		
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			and lying down I cannot be disobeying Allah
		
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			s.w.t When I am in the
		
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			zikr of Allah s.w.t So it's
		
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			not just a matter of Walking around with
		
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			the tasbih It's a matter of having Allah
		
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			s.w.t The sense and awareness Of
		
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			Allah s.w.t in the heart Constantly
		
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			engaged with him jalla jalaluhu In praising him,
		
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			glorifying him And being grateful and thankful to
		
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			him And Who focus on The creation of
		
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			the heavens and the earth People who are
		
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			interested in science And technology, people who are
		
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			interested in In how the world Allah s
		
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			.w.t how he created it And how
		
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			he runs it and so on All of
		
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			these things When the believer, and remember the
		
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			sequence of it First know Allah First obey
		
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			Allah, first have taqwa Then go into science
		
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			The result of that is Rabbana maa khalaqta
		
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			haza batilan subhanaka faqina azabunna O Allah you
		
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			have not created all of this in vain
		
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			All glory to you Save me from the
		
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			fire When this is not there When the
		
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			sequence is reversed Or there is only one
		
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			focus On the world On science and technology
		
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			On the creation of the world Then you
		
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			have people who are scientists Who are atheists
		
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			Because they don't see the signs of Allah
		
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			They see the thing by itself They don't
		
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			know where it came from And they Have
		
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			all kinds of Ridiculous statements And explanations for
		
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			it So what did Allah give us three
		
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			things One, Allah created a bird Called the
		
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			bar-tailed godwit And when I say called
		
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			This is the name we give to the
		
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			bird Bar-tailed godwit It's about this size,
		
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			the size of your hand It's the size
		
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			of a snipe Long, long, big bird It's
		
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			what's called a shore bird This bird flies
		
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			From Alaska To New Zealand 11,500 kilometers
		
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			And it has non-stop flight In nine
		
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			days and nights What does that mean?
		
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			It means the sun rises, the sun sets
		
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			The sun rises, the sun sets, and the
		
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			bird is flying There are oceans underneath The
		
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			bird is flying There are forests underneath, the
		
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			bird is flying There are deserts underneath, the
		
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			bird is flying There are cities underneath, the
		
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			bird is flying Nine days and nine nights
		
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			No food, no water No sleep Allah created
		
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			the brain of the bird in such a
		
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			way that half the brain sleeps and half
		
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			the brain is awake while the bird is
		
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			still flying.
		
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			It's not an albatross coasting on a 12
		
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			-foot wingspan.
		
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			It's a small bird.
		
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			It's beating its wings.
		
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			Nine days and nights, nonstop flight from Alaska
		
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			to New Zealand.
		
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			Ask yourself, why?
		
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			If you say it's going because of food,
		
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			it does not have to go all the
		
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			way to New Zealand to get food.
		
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			There's plenty of food much closer to Alaska.
		
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			The bird does not need to go all
		
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			the way to New Zealand.
		
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			So, why is this bird going all the
		
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			way to New Zealand from Alaska to New
		
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			Zealand?
		
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			Why is it flying nonstop?
		
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			Why doesn't it stop on the way somewhere?
		
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			Ask yourself, why?
		
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			Second bird, the bar-headed goose.
		
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			Bar-headed geese, they take off again from
		
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			Alaska.
		
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			They go straight up, hit the jet stream
		
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			and head south.
		
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			The jet stream is at a height of
		
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			33,000 feet.
		
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			The temperature there is minus 59 degrees Celsius.
		
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			Minus 59.
		
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			And they fly a thousand miles a day.
		
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			That's the speed.
		
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			Now, the last time I checked, these geese
		
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			were not carrying oxygen cylinders on their backs.
		
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			So, how do they fly?
		
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			In an atmosphere at that height of 33
		
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			,000 feet, the atmosphere is almost devoid of
		
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			oxygen.
		
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			There's very, very little oxygen.
		
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			Temperature of minus 59.
		
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			The same goose, if you get your hands
		
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			on it, say, Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim,
		
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			put it in your freezer, at minus 4,
		
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			minus 6, it freezes.
		
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			At minus 59, it flies.
		
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			Ask yourself, why?
		
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			Ask only why this one bird does this?
		
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			Third, one of my favourite, the ruby-throated
		
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			hummingbird.
		
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			Flies from the Amazonian rainforest, from Chile, from
		
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			South America.
		
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			Migrates from there to the bank of the
		
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			Mississippi River in North America.
		
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			Part of that migration route is across the
		
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			Gulf of Mexico, a distance of 600 miles.
		
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			This bird covers that distance non-stop because
		
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			it's a little, it's a little bird that
		
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			big.
		
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			It's not a water bird.
		
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			If it lands in the water, it becomes
		
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			fish food.
		
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			So, it must cover the whole distance.
		
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			It does that in a time period of
		
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			26 hours of non-stop flight.
		
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			What does that mean?
		
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			It means the bird takes off at dawn.
		
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			As the sun rises, the bird is flying.
		
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			Sun is at its zenith.
		
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			Hot afternoon, bird is flying.
		
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			Sunsets, bird is flying.
		
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			Through the night, the bird is flying.
		
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			It's a dark night, no stars, no moon,
		
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			the bird is flying, does not lose energy,
		
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			does not lose direction.
		
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			Two hours into the new day, it lands
		
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			on the other side of the Gulf of
		
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			Mexico, in the United States of America without
		
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			a visa.
		
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			That is the ruby-throated hummingbird.
		
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			Again, ask the question, why?
		
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			If you say for food, then remember, it's
		
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			coming out from the South American rain forest,
		
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			which is like living inside a bar of
		
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			chocolate for the bird.
		
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			It has all the food in the world
		
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			it needs.
		
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			Why does it go north?
		
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			My submission to it is, all of these
		
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			things, and there are many, many, many more,
		
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			that Allah swt created in His creation.
		
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			All these birds, they are so that we
		
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			understand the kalaam of Allah.
		
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			When Allah swt said, وَلَمْ يَرَوْا الَّتَّيْرِ فَوْقَهُمْ
		
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			صَافَةٍ وَيَكْبِذًا مَا يُمْسِكُنَّ إِلَّا الرَّحْمَٰنِ إِنَّهُ بِكُلِّ
		
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			شَيْءٍ بَصِيرٍ Allah says, who holds them up?
		
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			Who holds them up?
		
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			Remember, think about this.
		
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			The little bird, and it's not one of
		
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			them, all of them, flying in the night,
		
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			pitch dark, across the Gulf of Mexico, who
		
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			knows the world is there, except the one
		
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			who created it, except the one who looks
		
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			after it, except the one who protects it.
		
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			I remind myself, when you think about what
		
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			Allah swt gave us, at a personal level,
		
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			at a personal level.
		
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			I wrote a poem the other day, and
		
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			the title of the poem is, We know
		
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			you O Allah, by your bounties uncounted.
		
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			By the rays of the sun, by the
		
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			light of the moon, by the vast empty
		
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			space and stars that dwell therein, by the
		
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			rain and the snow that help our gardens
		
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			grow, by the trees, by the fruits, by
		
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			joys and sorrow, we know you O Allah,
		
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			by your bounties uncounted.
		
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			By the life-giving rain, by sunshine likewise,
		
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			by the dew drop on the thorn in
		
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			the light of the dawn, by the fire
		
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			of sunset, as it lights up another land,
		
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			by the bugle of the stag, by the
		
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			beating of my heart, we know you O
		
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			Allah, by your bounties uncounted.
		
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			By dreams that came true, by dreams unfulfilled,
		
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			by prayers answered, sometimes in unexpected ways, by
		
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			prayers unanswered, for which we thank you today,
		
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			by parents, by siblings, by children, especially teenagers,
		
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			we know you O Allah, by your bounties
		
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			uncounted.
		
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			By the silence of the forest and the
		
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			grandeur of mountains, by the depth of the
		
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			ocean, hiding treasures unknown, by the fish, by
		
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			the birds, by the black-capped chickadee, by
		
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			the cardinal in the snow, by the waiting
		
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			blue heron, we know you O Allah, by
		
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			your bounties uncounted.
		
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			By the marlin as he rises on his
		
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			tail and throws the hook, by the song
		
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			of the loon on the night of the
		
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			full moon, by the storm, by the typhoon,
		
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			by COVID, and still being alive, by waking
		
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			every morning, by sleeping every night, we know
		
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			you O Allah, by your bounties uncounted.
		
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			By a future that looks dark, promising a
		
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			dawn very bright, inshaAllah, by our values, our
		
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			compassion, our courage, by the truth, by those
		
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			who lift us when we fall and fight
		
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			for us when we can't, we know you,
		
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			we love you, we thank you and worship
		
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			only you, we know you O Allah, by
		
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			your bounties uncounted.
		
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			We know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also
		
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			by through Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, laqad manna
		
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			Allahu ala l-mu'minina idh ba'sa fihim rasulan
		
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			min anfusihim yataluhu alayhim ayatihi wa yuzakkihim wa
		
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			yu'allimuhumu l-kitabu wa l-hikmah wa
		
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			in kanu min qawluhu la fihi Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala said that verily and truly,
		
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			Allah has indeed conferred a great favour on
		
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			the believers by raising a messenger from among
		
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			them, reciting to them his revelation, purifying them
		
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			and teaching them the book, the Quran al
		
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			-Karim and teaching them wisdom, for indeed they
		
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			had previously been clearly astray.
		
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			There are detailed lectures of mine on this,
		
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			so I won't go into those details here,
		
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			but let me assure you as far as
		
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			this deen is concerned that Rasulullah ﷺ is
		
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			the only ni'mah of Allah, the only blessing
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala himself called his blessing.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala called this, called
		
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			the Nabi ﷺ his blessing.
		
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			Allah did not do this with anything or
		
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			anybody else, he did that with Muhammad ﷺ.
		
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			So I ask myself and I ask you
		
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			to ask yourself, to what extent do I
		
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			obey the Rasulullah ﷺ?
		
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			To what extent do I have the sunnah
		
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			of Rasulullah ﷺ with me?
		
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			Because to follow the sunnah of the Rasulullah
		
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			ﷺ is to have the Rasul with you,
		
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			alaihi salam.
		
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			What's the benefit of having Rasulullah ﷺ with
		
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			us?
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us.
		
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			Allah said, wa maa kanallahu liyu'adhibahum wa
		
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			anta fihim, wa maa kanallahu mu'adhibahum wa
		
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			hum astaghfiru.
		
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			He said, but Allah will never punish them
		
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			while you, O Muhammad ﷺ, are in their
		
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			midst.
		
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			While you were with them, Allah will never
		
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			punish them.
		
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			In today's life, to have the sunnah of
		
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			the Nabi ﷺ in our lives is to
		
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			have the Nabi ﷺ in our lives.
		
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			And then Allah said, nor would He ever
		
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			punish them if they sought forgiveness, if they
		
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			prayed for forgiveness.
		
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			So let us make a lot of istighfar.
		
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			Astaghfiru Allah illa li la ilaha illa huwa
		
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			alhayru khayrun wa atuwwilayh.
		
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			Let us make a lot of istighfar.
		
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			So finally, what must we do to connect
		
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			our children to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
		
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			Three critical steps.
		
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			Number one, as I mentioned before, get connected
		
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			to Allah yourself.
		
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			You cannot connect unless you have a connection.
		
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			And for that, make tahajjud fard on yourself.
		
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			No matter where you are, whether you are
		
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			traveling, whether you are buqeem in your home,
		
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			whether you are well or sick, make sure
		
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			that you pray tahajjud at least two rakat
		
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			every single day without fail.
		
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			Talk to Allah, man.
		
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			Talk to Allah because Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala understands that.
		
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			He understands us.
		
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			He listens to us.
		
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			He knows our languages.
		
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			He knows what's in our hearts.
		
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			Tell Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala your story.
		
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			Allah knows the story anyway, but this is
		
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			the position of the abd, the position of
		
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			the slave, the position of the one who
		
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			is bonded to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			that he tells him a story.
		
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			Make tahajjud fard on yourself.
		
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			Talk to Allah.
		
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			Number two, follow the sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam in your life.
		
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			Follow the sunnah in your life.
		
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			Every single thing that you try to do,
		
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			do it according to the sunnah.
		
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			For that, it is essential to study the
		
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			seerah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, to
		
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			study his biography, to understand what did he
		
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			do, why did he do it, why did
		
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			he do that, what kind of challenges did
		
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			he have in his life.
		
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			His life is so beautiful, so composite.
		
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			Any situation in your life, you want to
		
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			know how to be a great father, look
		
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			in the life of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			As a great parent, father or mother, look
		
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			in the life of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			You want to know how to be a
		
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			good son or daughter, look in the life
		
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			of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			You want to know how to be a
		
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			good employer, employee, how to be a teacher
		
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			or student, how to be somebody who is
		
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			a leader, how to be somebody who is
		
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			a follower, every single aspect of life, how
		
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			to earn a living, what to do with
		
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			that money, all of that and more is
		
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			in the life of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, so please study the seerah.
		
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			It's absolutely critical, please study the seerah and
		
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			make the following of sunnah again and follow
		
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			yourself.
		
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			You have to follow somebody, follow Muhammad sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, follow the best example that
		
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			ever existed.
		
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			And finally, focus on your own actions and
		
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			behaviour.
		
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			Because children listen with their eyes, they don't
		
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			care what you say until they see what
		
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			you do.
		
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			They don't care what you say until they
		
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			see what you do.
		
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			And finally, finally, finally, make dua for your
		
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			children, specifically make dua for your children.
		
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			There is nothing more powerful than the dua
		
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			of the parent.
		
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			Make dua for your children.
		
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			You owe it to them and this is
		
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			the greatest blessing that you can give them.
		
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			And nobody other than you can do that
		
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			because only you are their parent.
		
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			So make dua for your children.
		
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			Earn halal, eat halal, make dua for your
		
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			children.
		
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			I ask Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to
		
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			help us to do that which is pleasing
		
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			to him and to help us to stay
		
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			in a situation, live in a situation where
		
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			he is pleased with us and we ask
		
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			Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to take us
		
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			in a situation when he is pleased with
		
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			us.
		
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			Wa sallallahu ala nabiyyil kareem wa ala alihi
		
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			wa sahbihi wa nabiyyin wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.