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The importance of action and permanent action in Islam is emphasized, along with the need for permanent action and making it a habit. Development is also discussed, including waking up early to start the day, reading the Quran, spending 2 hours on worship, and pursuing the Sun Shall we? to achieve peace of life. The speaker emphasizes the importance of avoiding overemphasizing the importance of obtaining the blessings of Islam and not seeking the father of Islam's which is the only way to be accepted. A positive attitude towards actions is also emphasized.

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My brothers and sisters, I am reading from,

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translation of this, book,

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of

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which is called the devotion.

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And,

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some very beautiful

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lessons, which I think are well worth

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us to think about and reflect on and

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implement in our lives.

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The Hadith of Rasool,

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where he said, which means if I direct

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you to do something, do what you are

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able to do.

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Now based on this hadith,

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Imam Anawir Rahman Tullalli,

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the great

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scholar

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of Islam

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and

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the author of many, many books.

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One of the

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most famous of them is,

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or 2 of them. 1 is,

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and the other one is, Arbain and Nawia,

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the 40 of Nawirang Tlal Ali and,

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which I think all of us are aware

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of and, we have read in part or

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completely.

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He says that

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anyone who gains knowledge of an excellent act

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should put it into practice at least once

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in order to be counted among the people

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who did it.

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It is not proper to learn of something

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good and then fail to put it into

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practice.

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So it is very important to

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the whole focus in Islam always is on

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action

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because it's only action that you can

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take to the market, so to so to

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speak.

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He

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says

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and,

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of making dua to Allah

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He says the meaning of which is Allah

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has not required any obligatory act of worship

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farida,

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of his slaves, but he gave it a

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well known limit, hadd, hadd,

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of when, where, and how it is to

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be done,

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while granting valid excuses to people who are

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unable to do it except in the case

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of the zikr of Allah, remembrance of Allah.

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Allah

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did not set a limit which one must

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always adhere to, and Allah did not excuse

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anyone for leaving it aside

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unless his intellect is overpowered by illness or

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incapacity. Meaning, unless a person, you know, go

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goes into dementia or or something like that.

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The person is not exempt from making zikr.

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On the contrary, Allah

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commanded

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his slaves to make his zikr

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in all situations.

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And he said,

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and what a glorious one is he to

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speak.

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He said, so make mention of Allah

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standing, sitting, and lying down on your side.

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Allah

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said mentioned in in the famous of Surat,

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Al Imran also.

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These are the intelligent people

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who remember Allah

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standing, sitting, and lying on their sides.

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And then Allah said,

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oh, who you believe,

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remember Allah

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a great deal.

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So that is during the night and the

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day, on the land, on the sea, in

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the air, when you're traveling and at home,

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and you are if you are if you

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are wealthy and healthy, and if you are

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poor and and and sick,

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silently and and allowed and in every state.

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This is very important to remember and do.

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Now it's also in,

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accordance with the sunnah

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that,

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we,

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set aside a certain

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time

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also to make askar. Now in this, we

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have the askar of the morning, askar of

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the evening, the askar we make after, salat

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al fajr, the askar we make after.

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The askar we,

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askar is the is the plural of.

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Askar we make, before we go to bed,

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the recitation of,

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for example,

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and,

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and for those who want to do that,

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the recitation of

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in the warning. And all of this, these

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are all and many and many more, obviously.

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These are all,

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you know, recommended.

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Definitely the

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making,

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repenting to Allah

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and seeking Allah's

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pardon in that.

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Many, many times a day, in which we

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have the

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where he said, I seek pardon from Allah

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70 times a day. The said we also

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counted a 100 times. So imagine what we

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need to do.

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Also sending

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to the Sharif,

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more and more and more as much as

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possible.

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All of these things are

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are highly recommended,

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and these are things which we must make,

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a

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permanent part of our life. This is something

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that we must do,

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on a daily basis without fail.

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Now,

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so never never leave them out.

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The benefit of, having these as fixed, say,

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for example, you say, I will send

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salat and salaam on the resource and salaam

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beside the roof shalif

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100 times a day. I will make istighfar

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100 times a day,

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and so on.

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And I will do the,

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after,

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the first salah, which was the sunnah of

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Ravi.

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You know, all of these things, we must

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make this into a permanent part of our

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lives.

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Take for example, the,

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Alkar,

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the the

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remembrance of Allah of Allah which

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did after every salah.

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After every first salah, he would recite he

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would say 3 times, then he would recite.

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So,

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you can vary the order of this, but,

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you know, this is the the the usual

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order.

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He would recite,

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then he would recite

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the,

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and the,

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in all the,

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one time each, except for and

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where he would recite these 3 times each.

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And then he would,

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do

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which is

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and allah wakbar 33, 33, and 34 times.

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And then he

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would say,

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He would do this 10 times,

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and then he would,

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then he would make dua. Right? So the

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point is that,

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many times we see people who

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immediately after after the first salah, they raise

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their hands and they make Dua and they

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make Dua loudly.

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They sometimes insist on the imam,

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that he should also make dua, and if

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he doesn't make dua, then they criticize the

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imam.

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But

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the the established

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Sunnah of Rasool Salam, which is to make

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the Azkar before making Dua.

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This, we

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forget. We don't do this.

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Also, the fact that

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after making Dua after for salah,

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this is something which

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and the Sahaba, they did it, but they

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did it individually,

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and they did it silently.

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Now there were times when because of need,

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Rasulullah

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also made dua publicly,

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and loudly,

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but he did not make dua only after

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farsalah, and he did not make dua after

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every farsalah as a habit. He never did

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that. So insisting on that can amount

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to starting a in Islam, which is highly

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reprehensible.

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So, anyway, without going into all that, the

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point I'm making here is that these and

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and others,

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including

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reading some portion of the Quran every single

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day. This is another very, very important thing

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to do.

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Some portion of the Quran. So I always

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recommend that

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we wake up for the Hajjut.

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Wake up 1 hour before the time for

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starts.

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At least 4

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or 6 or 8,

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and then read

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1 juz, 1 sibara of the Quran,

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and then go to the masjid for.

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And this whole process will take, you know,

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2 hours. It

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but remember that those 2 hours are 2

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hours spent in worship. These are 2 hours

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for which you and I, if we do

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it, will be rewarded by

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Allah on the day of judgment.

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Right? Every breath we take in those 2

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hours is worship. So, it's not something to

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be seen as a burden. Oh my god.

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2 hours. Think about that. 2 hours in

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the beginning of every single day,

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when you start the day, you begin with

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2 hours of worship of Allah.

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What can be more Mubarak than that? Right?

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What can be more blessed than that?

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And with what else can you,

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expect,

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the mercy of Allah,

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than with doing this. So

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we need to develop an attitude of

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searching for and running after

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the

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the the blessing and the father of Allah.

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He says supplications,

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duas have which

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hold them up. The means like buttresses or

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or pillars which hold them up. They have

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wings that let them fly up to the

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heaven.

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They have special times for acceptance and special

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conditions as bad for success.

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If a person plants

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the arkan, the buttresses, the pillars firmly

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and in the right way and sets the

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wings

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loose to fly,

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the dua, the supplication, mounts up towards heaven.

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If he makes them at the right times,

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he will reap great rewards. If he makes

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them under the right conditions, he will receive

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great success.

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The pillars of the supplication,

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the pillars of the dua

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are the presence

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of the heart with Allah

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Meaning

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of Khushu

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with Allah SWT holding Allah SWT

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in Khashu

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in Khashyat of Allah

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in

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His awe fearful awe

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being self effacing,

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being humble and broken before Allah

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and having perfect

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hope in Allah's infinite generosity.

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The wings of supplication of Dua are truthfulness

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and eating what is lawful and pure. Believe

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me, I cannot possibly overemphasize this.

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Every single

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scholar of Islam starting from Rasool alaihi wa

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sallam, who is the greatest and the finest

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and the best of all of them, and

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then going, you know, after him to the

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and

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others.

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Every single person has always and always

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emphasized

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the fact that if you earn halal and

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if you eat halal only

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will your dua be accepted. If you are

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earning haram and you're eating haram, then your

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dua is not accepted. It is rejected.

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Eating something which is

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not lawfully slaughtered, meaning eating something that is

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not is

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hara is hara. It's like eating a roadkill.

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It's like it's like eating a dead body.

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So please understand

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this. So he says,

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the wings the the the the things that

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take the dua up to the to Allah

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are

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truthfulness, not telling lies, and

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eating, meaning earning and eating, physically eating and

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eating as in earning

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that which is pure, lawful halal.

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It's special times, the special times of Dua

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are your free times that is when your

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heart is free from everything

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other than Allah. And the times when you

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are by yourself such as the time during

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the last 3rd of the night. Again, we

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come back to the importance of the Hajj.

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Its conditions are

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to first send salutations upon

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meaning

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to first glorify Allah

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and then to send and

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then

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making your dua because as

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said, duas which are,

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are duas are never rejected

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if

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they are

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if they have,

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and Salam on the,

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before and after them. So imagine that this

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is like a like a like, you know,

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making parenthesis or brackets,

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between which your Dua is, and our Dua

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is sandwiched. And then, inshallah, this Dua is

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never rejected. We ask Allah to

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grant us Dua's which are never rejected

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and to accept our duas and to grant

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good for us.

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good for us.