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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
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the Most Merciful.
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All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
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the worlds.
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And peace and blessings be upon the messengers
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and messengers.
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Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings
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be upon him and his family and companions.
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Peace and blessings be upon you.
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My brothers and sisters, Allah created the universe
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and He made the laws that govern, that
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run the universe.
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We call them the laws of physics, call
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them natural laws, whether it is gravity, whether
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it is aerodynamics, whether it is thermodynamics, and
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whatever it might be, all of these are
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natural laws, physical laws of physics, which Allah
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created to run the universe.
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The world operates according to these laws.
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Similarly, Allah created laws for human success.
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And these laws that Allah created for human
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success are also the creation of Allah.
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And they are also as unchangeable, unimitable as
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the laws of physics.
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And they affect whoever is in the purview
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of that law equally.
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It doesn't matter whether you are Muslim, non
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-Muslim, whether you believe in Allah or don't
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believe in Allah, it makes no difference.
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These laws will operate on you just like
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they operate on anybody else.
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If you jump out of a plane at
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20,000 feet in a skydiving session, if
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you don't pull your parachute at the right
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point, you will die.
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There is no other thing that will happen.
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You can say, I'm Hafiz Qur'an, I'm
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Mufti Azam, I have memorized all the Siyasitta,
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all the books of Hadith, seven books of
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Hadith, I'm the Imam of the Haram, you
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can be anybody.
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If you don't pull the ripcord of the
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parachute, you are a dead man.
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As simple as that.
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The law of Allah does not change because
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you know the Qur'an.
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The same principle applies to the laws of
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success in life.
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The benefit is that when those laws of
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success in life are applied, are worked on
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by a Muslim and he adds on to
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that with the Ibadah of Allah, with Zikr,
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with Shukr, then they give him Barakah.
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But without operating within the law, if he
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only does Ibadah and Zikr and Shukr, nothing
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will happen.
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That's the reason why Sayyidina Khattab came into
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the Masjid one day at a time and
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it was not time for any Salah and
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there were some young men sitting there and
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he said, who are you?
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Why are you here at this time?
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They said, we are the people who make
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Tawakkur.
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Allah, Sayyidina Umar, whacked them with a Dura
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and said, get out.
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Go and work.
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He said, Dinar and Dirham don't fall from
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the sky like rain.
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And he said, the bird leaves the nest
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and goes out in search of food and
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comes back with a full belly.
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Allah feeds the bird but not in the
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nest.
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You have to get out.
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You have to go and do some work.
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So the first and foremost law of human
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success is that we must make an effort.
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We have to stop talking and start walking.
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Right?
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You have to make effort.
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Second law of human success is that to
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influence, you must be involved.
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To influence, you must be involved.
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You cannot influence from the outside.
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If you want to win the game, right,
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where should you be?
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On the field.
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You should be playing the game.
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Then you can decide, can I win the
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game?
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How can I win the game?
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If you are standing outside in the stands,
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you can want anything, that doesn't matter.
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You don't change the outcome of the game
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because you are not a player.
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The players decide whether the game is won
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or lost.
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It is by their effort.
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It's not by the screaming of the spectators.
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So if you want to win the game,
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you must be involved in it.
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So if you want to influence, you must
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be involved.
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The more involved you are, the more influence
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you will have.
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The less involved you are, the less influence
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you will have.
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So get involved.
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Volunteer.
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Show what you can do.
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Contribute.
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And then people will listen to you.
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When you say something, people will listen because
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you are there.
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They are seeing you as a helper.
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They are seeing you as somebody who was
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with them in good and bad times.
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So then they will listen to you.
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Second point.
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Third point is in order to influence, you
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must be able to speak in the language
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which makes sense to the people.
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And by language I don't mean Arabic or
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English.
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I mean how you present your case.
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And for that I have a formula.
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My formula is WIIFM.
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WIIFM.
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What's in it for me?
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What is in it for me?
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If I want you to do something for
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me, I must show you how it will
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help you.
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Straightforward way is of course to say, well,
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do this for me, I will pay you
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$10,000.
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Okay.
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But not everything can be done that way.
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Not everyone has a price.
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Right.
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You can't go to somebody and say, do
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this because I will pay you.
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Okay, I don't need your money.
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Show how doing, going by your recommendation, show
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how doing what you are advising them to
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do will help them.
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What's in it for me?
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It's not a matter of deceiving anybody.
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We're not deceiving anyone.
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It is the truth, but not everyone sees
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the truth the way you want them to
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see it.
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So show it to them.
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They say, this is how it will help
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us.
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You're seeing a classic example today, for example,
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of what is happening in Gaza and Philistine,
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where everybody's talking about how bad the situation
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is in Philistine.
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And people are saying, stop the wall.
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Alhamdulillah, very good.
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But is the wall stopping?
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No.
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It's not stopping.
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I'll tell you why it's not stopping.
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Because we are not able to show the
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people who are, I won't say fighting the
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wall.
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There's no fight.
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This is just massacre.
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The people who are massacring, we are not
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able to show them how stopping that will
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help them.
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We're just saying stop it because it will
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help us.
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They don't care.
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If they cared about you, they wouldn't do
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it in the first place.
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No?
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You think they care about you?
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No.
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Are children dying?
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Of course.
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Let them die.
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How can you show what's in it for
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them?
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This is an extreme example because we are
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seeing it today.
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But take a very simple, normal example.
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Supposing you have a business and you've got
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your employees who are working.
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And you tell the employee, you must come
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on time.
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The shop opens, the factory opens, the business
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opens at 9 a.m. You should be
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here at 9 a.m. Show him why.
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What's the benefit?
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We tell people, get involved in the masjid.
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Why?
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What's the benefit?
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You might say, well, no, this is kind
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of dumb because you mean to tell me
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I need to explain to you why you
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should come to the masjid?
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You don't understand the benefit?
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No, you don't understand the benefit.
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This is the reality.
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If we understood the benefit, you would be
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here.
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So we have to go outside our comfort
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zone and show people what's in it for
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them.
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Communication is the key to success.
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Communicating in an inspiring way.
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The way you can get people inspired to
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stand up and do something.
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Rasulullah s.a.w. is a beautiful example
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of that.
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He was able to inspire people to dedicate
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their entire lives, literally.
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To give their life for the sake of
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his dawah, dawah to Islam.
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He didn't pay anybody anything.
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Nobody did that for a salary.
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No one did that for a bonus.
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No.
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He sent Musa bin Ubaidah al-Anwar to
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Madinah to preach Islam.
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Did he get a salary?
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Did he get a bonus?
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He did it his whole life.
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He finally got Shahada in the Battle of
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Uhud.
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All the people, all the Sahaba who died
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before Fatah Makkah, they died before they could
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see the Fatah of Islam.
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Before the success of Islam.
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But nobody gave up his work.
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No one said, I'm tired.
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So Rasulullah s.a.w. was able to
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inspire them in such a way that they
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continued to work despite all the difficulties.
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So communication.
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Inspiring communication.
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Getting people to understand the value for themselves
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in what you want them to do.
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And the fourth principle of success is think
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about the benefit for others.
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Allah s.w.t. created a cyclical process.
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If I benefit you, I get benefited automatically.
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But if I say, what can I get
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out of it?
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Then you will fail.
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Say, what can I contribute to it?
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What can I do to help others and
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serve others?
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And you will find that things will come
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back to you.
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Always.
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Things will always come back to you.
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If you serve, you will get the return.
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So we ask Allah s.w.t. to
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help us to practice what we hear and
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what we speak.
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And to benefit us from that.
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We are seeing in the world today the
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results of contribution over a long period of
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time.
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The people who, today we say, oh they
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are underworld, they have this power, they have
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that power.
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You forget the fact that of what they
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did for the last 100 years.
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From the First World War, 1947 onwards.
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1938 onwards.
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That is paying off now.
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Now you are seeing the results.
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Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of investment.
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Not small investments, but hundreds of millions.
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So when you are sitting on a pile
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where you have invested hundreds of millions, then
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you get to call the shots.
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Whether anyone else likes it or not, that
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is reality.
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Now you don't want to invest that money,
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but you want to call the shots.
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Go fly a kite.
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There is no magic.
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There is no magic.
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There is investment and return.
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Invest per return.
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You invest, you get a return.
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For three, four generations you invest your children
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into making them attorneys, into making them legal
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experts, into putting them into academia, they become
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professors, shaping their minds.
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You get the payoff.
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For generation after generation you pamper your kids.
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Doesn't matter if they don't work.
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Because you have money, you feed them, they
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get the best gadgets.
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And then what happens?
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They fall by the wayside.
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They get an odd job here, odd job
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there.
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They open their eyes and say it is
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because daddy paid for it.
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The other guy is riding a bicycle.
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Believe me, they are not equal.
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They are not equal.
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I always tell all my students, from the
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minute you are 18 years old, I say
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18 because that's when I started.
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From the time you are 18 years old,
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if you are taking money from your father,
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you are a beggar.
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And what he is giving you is charity.
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Bheek.
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Begari hai, bheek lena hai.
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Aur kuch nahi.
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If you take one dollar from your father,
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you are a beggar.
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Earn it.
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Earn your own money.
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I never took from the time I was
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18 years old, nothing.
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Earn your own money.
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You will learn.
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That's when you get, that's how you get
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confidence.
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Earn your own money.
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Get jobs, earn money, whatever you want.
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Never go back to your father for anything.
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Here you are in your 20s, sometimes even
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30s, wearing branded clothes.
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Who paid for it?
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Daddy.
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Driving a fancy car, who paid for it?
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Daddy.
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Credit card in the pocket, who pays the
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bill?
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Daddy.
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Who puts gas in the car?
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Daddy.
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Who pays the phone bill?
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Daddy.
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Top of the line phone, paid by whom?
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Daddy.
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La, how long I could tell you.
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And then you think somehow magically you are
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going to be sitting as the president of
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this university, on the board of that university,
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in Congress, in Parliament.
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Dream on, boy.
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Dream on.
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This is what we are seeing.
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This is what we are seeing today in
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this world.
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Whether you like it or not, this is
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what we are seeing.
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People who put their life and soul into
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it.
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I can tell you, they have written case
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studies, people who were billionaires, they made their
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children cycle to school.
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The guy could have bought the whole school.
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No?
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You would get onto a regular bus, you
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would go to the school.
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You get on a bike, you go to
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the school.
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Daddy, you are driving a, you know, whatever,
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Bugatti, yeah.
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I paid for the Bugatti.
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When will I drive a Bugatti when you
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pay for the Bugatti?
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My father told me this.
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Not a Bugatti.
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My father taught me to drive a car.
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He got one of his drivers from his
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factory.
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He taught me to drive a car.
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My father had a Fiat.
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So I got a license.
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And that's 1977.
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Before Avadi was born.
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1975 or 77.
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My first license.
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So I was very happy.
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Then one day I wanted to go somewhere.
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So I went to my dad.
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I said, can I borrow the car?
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He said, whose car?
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I said, your car.
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He said, how?
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Why would you want to borrow my car?
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He said, I have to go to a
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friend's place.
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He said, no.
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Get on a bus and go.
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So I said, but you taught me to
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drive.
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He said, yes.
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That's a skill.
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You should know how to drive.
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So I said, when will I drive a
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car?
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He said, when you buy your car.
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Literally.
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He said, you will drive a car when
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you buy your car.
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Period.
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May Allah bless you.
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Parents were tough.
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Parents were tough.
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I fell off a horse.
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It's a long story.
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I fell off a horse, dislocated my shoulder,
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came out.
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There was another friend of mine.
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The horse ran away.
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There was a friend of mine.
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So I told him, hold my hand.
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Hit me hard here and jerk.
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The shoulder came back into the socket.
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Right?
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So the horse ran away.
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Now this shoulder is paining like this on
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fire.
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Fire or no fire, you cannot leave your
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horse to run away.
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You have to get your horse.
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So my friend and I, we go.
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Round up the horse.
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Catch the horse.
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I get back on the horse.
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Take it back to the stable.
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And then I get home.
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Now when I get home, my shoulder is
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like a football.
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It's huge.
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So my mom is sitting there.
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So I go over to my mother.
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I tell her, this is what happened.
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I am like, I would have been about
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15.
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I said, this is what has happened.
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My mother, when she sees the whole thing,
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she recites one line of poetry.
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May Allah bless my parents.
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They were both tough.
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My mother says, Girte hain shahis awaari maidaan
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hain jung mein.
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Wo tipul kya girega jo khudno ke bal
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chale.
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My mother says, only the knights fall in
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battle.
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What will a child, how will a child
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fall who is crawling?
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So this is finished?
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She said, go to the hospital, get it
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bandaged.
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That's it.
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She didn't say, oh my son, oh my
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God, what happened, nothing.
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She said, go to the hospital, get it
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bandaged.
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I said, alhamdulillah.
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I had parents like this.
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No, no, no, no, pandering and, oh, my
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poor child.
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No, no, poor child.
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You are a man, behave like a man,
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period.
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So I remind myself and you, Allah's laws
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don't change.
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Allah's laws are the same.
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You want to succeed in this world?
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Learn, respect your elders, take advice, stop acting
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like a *, do some hard work, and
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you will succeed.
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You don't want to do that?
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You want to sit around?
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You want to get your parents to pay
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for you?
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You want to disrespect elders?
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You don't want to learn from people?
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No problem.
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No problem, brother.
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It's your life.
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But if you think you will succeed, not
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only, I told you, you don't want to
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die, pull the ripcord of the parachute, otherwise
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you are a dead man.
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Same principles apply to life.
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We ask Allah to help us to learn
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and understand and to live lives which are
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successful and to live lives where we leave
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behind a legacy of success.
