Mirza Yawar Baig – Know the blessings of Allah

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The rainbow's history and characteristics are discussed, including the collision of the Earth with the iron and water, which is created by the rainbow's collision with the Earth. The rainbow is seen as beneficial for humans and has three states, creating a source of life and beneficial for humans. The speakers stress the importance of shaping people to become Masjids into places of worship and reflect on the greatness of Allah. They also discuss the use of Sir Alaihi wa sallam as a place for entertainment and hesitation to use the word "sallacts" to express desire to be in the presence of Allah's.

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			I was saying to you that there are
		
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			two substances, two things that Allāh subḥāna wa
		
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			ta'ālá sent on the earth.
		
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			Of course with that we know about whatever
		
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			else Allāh sent.
		
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			And one of them is iron.
		
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			Allāh mentioned this in the story of Ḥadīth.
		
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			that we sent down iron.
		
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			And the second thing Allah sent was water.
		
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			This water which we use which is in
		
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			any form, you drink it, you wash with
		
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			it, you do whatever you want with it,
		
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			you sail your boats on it, hopefully you
		
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			don't waste it.
		
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			This water is at least four billion years
		
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			old.
		
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			Because that is when two things happened.
		
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			One was, there was a collision with a
		
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			planet called Theia, which was about the size
		
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			of the earth.
		
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			And subhanAllah, amazing how Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala caused this to happen before he created
		
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			us, otherwise nothing would have existed when that
		
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			collision happened, obviously.
		
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			So Theia collided with the earth and it
		
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			accreted into the mantle of the earth.
		
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			And Theia was iron.
		
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			So that's when iron came to the earth.
		
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			The second thing which happened was Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala sent water.
		
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			And this came as a, as the geologist
		
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			says, again these are educated guesses based on
		
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			evidence, but obviously nobody was there to see
		
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			it, in Allah.
		
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			So water came as massive thunderstorms or imagine
		
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			a whole portion coming and hitting.
		
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			So billions and billions and billions of gallons
		
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			of water came and it hit three planets
		
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			in our solar system.
		
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			It hit Mars, it hit Mercury, and it
		
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			hit the earth.
		
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			On Mercury it instantly evaporated because of the
		
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			proximity to the sun, it's too hot.
		
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			On Mars it froze.
		
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			So now when they go to Mars and
		
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			they do the mass probes and so on,
		
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			they're saying we're finding they are buried or
		
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			underground oceans in Mars.
		
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			Well, guess what?
		
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			That's what it is.
		
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			And the third place it came to was
		
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			the earth.
		
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			And thanks to the tilt of the axis
		
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			of the earth, earth had the kind of
		
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			climate required for this water, neither to evaporate
		
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			nor to freeze, but to be in its
		
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			liquid form.
		
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			Now water is also, very interestingly, as you
		
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			can see here, water is also the only
		
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			substance that can exist and does exist in
		
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			simultaneously in three states.
		
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			In a liquid state, in a solid state
		
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			as ice, and in a gaseous state as
		
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			steam and as water vapor.
		
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			No other substance can do this.
		
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			Now that's important also because, for example, a
		
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			lake like this has fish.
		
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			So if it gets cold, and if this
		
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			water froze all the way to the bottom,
		
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			froze solid, one big chunk of ice, then
		
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			all the fish would be dead.
		
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			All life forms in the lake would be
		
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			dead.
		
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			But that doesn't happen.
		
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			What happens is, the top three to four
		
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			feet will freeze.
		
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			Of course, that depends on the temperature.
		
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			But below that, the water remains liquid.
		
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			And the reason it remains liquid, and the
		
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			reason ice remains on top and doesn't go
		
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			to the bottom is because of what is
		
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			called a phenomenon called the anomalous expansion of
		
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			water when it freezes, or rather, you can
		
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			say it's anomalous expansion of ice, where when
		
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			water freezes, it expands in volume.
		
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			That's why if you fill a glass, and
		
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			don't try it, but you fill a glass
		
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			and cap it and put it in the
		
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			freezer, it will freeze and the glass will
		
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			break because the ice, the volume of ice
		
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			is more than the volume of water, it
		
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			expands.
		
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			The reason I'm saying this is because this
		
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			is unlike every other substance.
		
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			Every other substance, when it melts, it expands,
		
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			when it freezes, it contracts.
		
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			Everything freezes, contracts on freezing, volume decreases, except
		
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			water.
		
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			Water expands on freezing.
		
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			Now, the benefit of that is that because
		
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			it expands, it becomes lighter.
		
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			So it floats on top.
		
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			Now, when water floats on top, what it
		
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			does is, it becomes like a jacket.
		
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			It's an insulator for the water below the
		
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			ice, so the water below the ice does
		
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			not get to zero degrees Celsius.
		
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			It remains roughly around four degrees Celsius.
		
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			So it remains liquid, and therefore, life form,
		
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			which again, materially exists, move out, feed, and
		
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			so on.
		
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			See the nizam of how Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala created this world, and Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala created everything in it, and
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then made all
		
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			of his subservient to his laws, and Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala made these laws for
		
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			our benefit.
		
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			I said I want to give my point,
		
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			my separate argument, that the laws are for
		
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			our benefit, because so much, nothing can benefit
		
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			him, nothing can harm him, but he, he
		
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			is the madruh, he is illallah, nothing can
		
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			harm or benefit him except Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created these
		
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			laws for the benefit of his creatures.
		
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			In this case, the creatures, the ocean, the
		
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			water.
		
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			So this is something that we need to
		
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			reflect on.
		
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			One of the things that I, that's why
		
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			I come out in these places, and may
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless, or reward
		
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			my great companion on these walks, because it
		
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			gives us a time to reflect.
		
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			That's what we talk about.
		
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			We don't talk about any, in any case,
		
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			we don't talk about, but you know, we
		
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			talk about the greatness of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, we talk about reflection, we talk
		
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			about khudrat of Allah, we talk about the
		
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			firamina of making masjids into places of worship
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and places
		
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			of worship, and there's always this pressure to
		
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			say masjids must have something entertaining to do.
		
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			Think about that.
		
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			Ask yourself, what is a YMCA?
		
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			Huh?
		
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			All YMCA's belong to the church.
		
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			How many, have you ever heard of a
		
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			service, a religious service happening in a YMCA?
		
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			So if you want to make your masjids
		
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			into YMCA's, do that.
		
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			But one masjid to be, masjid, place for
		
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			sakhay, place where people come for the love
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			They don't come to do anything else.
		
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			They come to listen, listen to and talk
		
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			about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			That is the place of masjid.
		
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			See the beautiful hadith, where Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam, he came to a group of
		
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			sahaba who were sitting together, and obviously, whatever
		
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			they were doing was being done silently, or
		
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			in a low tone.
		
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			It wasn't loud, so he didn't see, he
		
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			didn't hear what they were saying or doing.
		
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			And he came to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam and said, I will make dhikr of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, I will
		
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			make dhikr of Allah.
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, when Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala inspired me, told me
		
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			to go and sit with you.
		
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			Meaning to give the barakah of my presence
		
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			in your gathering.
		
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			Because this is a gathering of dhikr of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So they were not yelling and making zikr
		
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			and dancing, they were doing zikr in a
		
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			divided manner, in soft voice or in a
		
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			silent voice.
		
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			Then the doctor ordered the people to go
		
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			out of their houses and eat the paraka
		
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			of his blessed company Tosfi.
		
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			So what was the activity?
		
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			And this is a non-saladam activity, obviously,
		
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			because non-saladam activity was not some game,
		
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			but some zikr.
		
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			Their entertainment, I hesitate to use the word,
		
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			it's called this, because of the other issues,
		
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			but entertainment was difficult one.
		
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			Something in peace, coolest guys, the coolest guys,
		
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			we have, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
		
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			when you have difficulty, He said, take the
		
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			help of Sabr and Salah.
		
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			Now, you take help when?
		
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			When you need help, when you need help,
		
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			when there is trouble, when there are problems.
		
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			So Allah is saying, when you have problems,
		
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			take the help of Salah.
		
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			So Salah is what?
		
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			Salah is something which will give me comfort.
		
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			Salah is something which will help me.
		
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			Salah is something which I turn to for,
		
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			you know, to get out of my stress,
		
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			my depression, my whatever.
		
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			But we have made Salah into a cause
		
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			of stress.
		
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			Right?
		
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			May Allah have mercy on us.
		
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			I'm saying, many of those who pray, for
		
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			them, Salah is a musibat.
		
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			Finish it.
		
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			How do you finish Salah?
		
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			Salah is something you go to with love,
		
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			you go to with great anticipation.
		
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			You go to Salah with, you know, really
		
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			wanting to be there, to be in the
		
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			presence of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, to
		
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			be in the presence of the one that
		
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			you look forward to meeting, the presence of
		
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			the one that you love over and above
		
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			and more than anyone, anything else in the
		
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			world.
		
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			This is the thing for us to think
		
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			about and to cultivate in our lives.
		
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			How will we love Allah more than anyone
		
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			or anything else?
		
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			By being in the company of Allah.
		
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			How do you be in the company of
		
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			Allah?
		
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			By dhikr of Allah.
		
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			By reflecting about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			by reflecting about his Qainat, by reflecting about
		
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			his creation, by reflecting about all the ni'mats,
		
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			all the blessings that Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala has bestowed on us.
		
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			Right?
		
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			That is the way.
		
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			Believe me, this is not rocket science.
		
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			I didn't discover this.
		
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			This is what, from day one, this is
		
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			what the Qur'an teaches us.
		
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			This is what Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			taught us.
		
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			This is what we learn from the Salaf
		
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			as-Salehi, from all the teachers.
		
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			And this is the truth.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			help us to understand the truth, to live
		
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			by the truth and to die on the
		
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			truth.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			take us in a state when we are
		
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			on the truth.
		
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			Inshallah.