Mirza Yawar Baig – Spend to get

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The speakers discuss measuring success and failure by looking at what is spent and gained, emphasizing the importance of profit and personal success. They also discuss the transfer of wealth through giving it to others, the benefits of a temporary investment, and the importance of living in a modest environment and not spending too much money. The speakers stress the importance of spending less to achieve more, ensuring one is spending less to achieve more, and transferring wealth to home countries.

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			Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, Wasalatu Wasalamu
		
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			Ala Sharafil Anbiyai Wal Mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullah Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wa Sallam, Tasbeeran Taqfeeran Kafiran.
		
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			Walaikum Assalam, my brothers and sisters.
		
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			I remind myself and you that if you
		
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			want to measure success and failure in life,
		
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			how do you measure it?
		
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			Any ordinary person, I want to measure, say
		
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			take my career, if I have a, you
		
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			have a successful career or my career going
		
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			down the drain, how do I measure that?
		
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			Marriage, is it successful or not successful?
		
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			Children, I am raising children, successful or not
		
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			successful?
		
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			How?
		
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			Compare with others, that is one way, peer
		
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			reviews, peer comparisons.
		
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			Effectively, whether you do it comparatively, you do
		
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			it with peer reviews, you do it some
		
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			other way, you are basically measuring your assets
		
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			and liabilities, right?
		
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			What did I gain?
		
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			What did I lose?
		
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			So, what did I spend to get what?
		
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			What is profit?
		
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			Profit is where you spend less to get
		
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			more.
		
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			You cannot measure profit only by looking at
		
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			what you have, you have to see at
		
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			what cost did I get it.
		
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			So, if I got something which has high
		
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			value at a lower cost, then I made
		
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			a profit.
		
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			But if I got the same thing at
		
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			its regular cost, then it is not a
		
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			profit, I got the market value.
		
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			If I paid more for it, then I
		
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			have actually the same thing, but I made
		
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			a loss.
		
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			I remind myself and you that when we
		
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			stand before Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
		
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			'la, it is the same standard, the same
		
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			criterion, the same measurement, measuring stick we should
		
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			use.
		
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			What did you spend and what did you
		
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			get?
		
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			What did you spend, what did you get?
		
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			In this world, in our life, we have
		
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			the opportunity to do two things.
		
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			One is we have the opportunity to spend
		
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			things which have everlasting value or we have
		
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			the opportunity to spend something which has temporary
		
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			value.
		
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			So, if you spend something which has temporary
		
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			value and get something which has everlasting value,
		
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			then you are on to a good thing.
		
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			That is the best way of living life.
		
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			I am giving something which I would have
		
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			lost anyway and I got something which is
		
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			mine forever.
		
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			But if I do the opposite, I am
		
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			giving up something which I could have had
		
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			forever to get something which I am going
		
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			to lose anyway.
		
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			Makes no sense, right?
		
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			If I give up something which I could
		
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			have kept forever, an earning asset which would
		
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			have been mine forever, I gave it away
		
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			and I got something which at the most
		
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			is temporary, I will lose it anyway.
		
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			That's a dumb deal.
		
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			But the opposite, if I am spending something
		
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			which is temporary, in any case I would
		
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			have lost it and in exchange for that
		
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			I get something which is going to be
		
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			mine forever, that's a fantastic deal.
		
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			Just to give you an example, we talk
		
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			about charity.
		
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			You are coming to Ramadan, so you are
		
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			going to get some fundraising here, right?
		
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			We talk about charity.
		
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			So, give in the path of Allah.
		
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			Sacrifice in the path of Allah.
		
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			I tell people, forget this word sacrifice.
		
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			It's a lie.
		
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			There is no sacrifice in Islam.
		
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			What are you doing?
		
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			You are taking some part of your wealth
		
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			which Allah gave you and let's face it,
		
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			how many of us stand here and give
		
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			the equivalent of the value of your car
		
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			which you are driving?
		
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			I am not saying nobody does it, but
		
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			how many?
		
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			So, you give something and in addition, by
		
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			giving that, what are you getting?
		
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			You are getting an everlasting reward with Allah.
		
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			Allah said, this is with Allah and Allah
		
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			will return it to you in keeping with
		
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			His Majesty's embrace.
		
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			The minimum of that is, someone who brings
		
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			one hasana, Allah will give him ten likewise.
		
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			And then Allah said, He will multiply that
		
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			by 700.
		
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			So, you say, okay, if I don't give
		
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			that, sure, it's your wealth, you can keep
		
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			it.
		
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			It's not haram not to give, but even
		
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			if you keep it, how long will you
		
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			have it?
		
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			You don't have to die to lose it.
		
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			You lose it probably before that in many
		
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			ways.
		
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			Whereas, if you take this and give it
		
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			in the path of Allah, effectively, what am
		
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			I doing?
		
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			I'm transferring my wealth.
		
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			Whenever I think about charity, I think of
		
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			it as wealth transfer.
		
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			I'm taking it from this account and putting
		
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			it into another account.
		
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			That's it, wealth transfer.
		
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			It's very easy to understand for those of
		
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			you who have spent any time in the
		
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			Middle East.
		
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			It's very easy to understand that because in
		
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			the Middle East, there's no such thing as
		
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			a green card.
		
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			There's no such thing as permanent residency.
		
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			There's no such thing as citizenship.
		
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			If you stay there for 100 years, they
		
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			still won't give you citizenship.
		
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			You still have to go back to wherever
		
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			you came from.
		
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			So, people are used to this concept of
		
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			earning, working very hard, living in very…
		
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			deliberately living in very modest circumstances and transferring
		
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			all the rest of their surplus money back
		
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			home to whichever country, Pakistan and India or
		
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			Bangladesh and, you know, Egypt or wherever it
		
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			is, Sudan, they send the money back to
		
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			their home country.
		
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			They can actually afford to live in a,
		
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			you know, they don't stop you from doing
		
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			that.
		
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			I mean, in Dubai, you can afford to
		
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			live in…
		
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			or any country, it doesn't matter, any of
		
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			the Middle Eastern countries, you can afford to
		
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			live in a palace if you like.
		
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			No problem.
		
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			You can't own the palace, but you can
		
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			live in it, you can rent it.
		
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			But even your own friends will tell you
		
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			what kind of stupidity it is, why are
		
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			you spending all this money?
		
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			You won't be here.
		
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			Even if you tell them the…
		
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			one day I had this discussion with a
		
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			friend I proved to him that it is
		
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			stupid to do what he's doing because I
		
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			told him you're going to be working.
		
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			He came to Saudi Arabia at the time,
		
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			he was 25 years old.
		
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			I said you will be here, say, let's
		
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			say, let's, you know, stretch it and say
		
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			you would be…
		
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			you will work for 40 years.
		
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			Usually it's not 40 years, usually about 30,
		
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			but say they take 40 years.
		
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			By 40 years, you will be 65 years
		
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			old.
		
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			Let's give it another five years, 70 years
		
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			old.
		
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			When you go back to India at the
		
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			age of 70, how long do you expect
		
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			to live?
		
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			Another 40 years?
		
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			I mean, maybe you live five years, maybe
		
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			you live 10 years.
		
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			So to live for 10 years, you are
		
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			living in hardship for 70 years or 40
		
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			years or 45 years in order to have
		
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			some level of luxury for 10 years.
		
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			Doesn't make sense, but we still do it.
		
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			We still do it.
		
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			It would make much more sense to live
		
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			in luxury here for 40 years and then,
		
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			you know, go and live.
		
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			After all, when you are 80 years old,
		
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			what do you want to do anyway?
		
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			All you need is a, you know, it's
		
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			a small house and you're fine.
		
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			But we don't think like that.
		
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			But with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this
		
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			is what we are saying.
		
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			Weigh every moment of your life, your time,
		
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			your assets, your money, your company, your efforts,
		
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			and wait and say, what am I spending
		
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			to get what?
		
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			I'm spending time to get what?
		
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			I'm sitting in this company to get what?
		
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			Alhamdulillah, every second that you are sitting here,
		
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			Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, the one
		
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			who's in salah, as long as he stays
		
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			in the place of salah and as long
		
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			as he's not discussing worldly matters, as long
		
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			as he's remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			that entire period is counted as if it
		
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			is in salah.
		
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			So the time up to the salah, so
		
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			he comes early, he's sitting there in dhikr
		
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			and so on and so forth, he prays
		
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			salah.
		
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			After salah, he's sitting in dhikr, he's sitting
		
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			in akhatira, he's sitting reciting Quran or whatever
		
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			he's doing until he leaves.
		
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			The entire time is considered as being an
		
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			act of worship, as salah.
		
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			So unless you are going off from here
		
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			directly, you know, you have some burakh waiting
		
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			outside to take you to the haram to
		
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			make tawaf, there is nothing better you can
		
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			be doing than sitting here.
		
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			So you spend some time.
		
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			How much does it take?
		
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			Even if I talk for the next one
		
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			and a half hours, there's still about, you
		
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			know, one and a half hours.
		
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			Compared to what?
		
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			That's what we need to do.
		
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			We need to analyze and say, I'm spending
		
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			something to get something.
		
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			This is a standard.
		
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			Whatever you're doing, consciously, unconsciously, you're spending something
		
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			to get something.
		
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			What am I spending to get what?
		
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			And always ensure that you are spending less
		
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			to get more.
		
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			You're spending something which is temporary to get
		
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			something which is permanent.
		
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			Make sure you do that.
		
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			Inshallah, we are home and dry.
		
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			We ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
		
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			'la to help us to live lives which
		
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			are productive, which are beautiful, which are beneficial
		
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			for us and for all those around us.
		
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			We ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
		
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			'la to help us to invest in our
		
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			lives and then to make those investments multiply
		
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			in keeping with His Majesty and Grace.
		
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			We ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
		
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			'la for His safety and protection.
		
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			We ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
		
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			'la for His help from sources that we
		
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			cannot imagine.