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In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the
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Merciful.
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All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
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all the worlds.
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And peace and blessings be upon the Messenger
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of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.
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Peace and blessings be upon you, beloved Huzoor.
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My brothers and sisters, how many of you
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like to have fun?
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Everybody, right?
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What is fun?
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Can you define what is fun?
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Good time?
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Okay, what else?
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So give me some examples.
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Example of fun or fun activity.
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Basketball.
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Basketball.
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Horse riding.
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Horse riding.
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Swimming.
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Swimming.
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How many of you actually do swimming and
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horse riding?
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I don't think anybody does, no?
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You just think.
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What you do, I'm talking about.
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Swimming you do, okay.
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Song time.
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Water, okay.
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Soccer, okay.
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Anything else?
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Gym.
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Gym, okay.
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YouTube, now you're getting some truthful answers.
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Truth, TikTok, right?
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I thought we got a bunch of people
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who never see YouTube, never see TikTok.
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Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.
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When you say basketball and soccer, are you
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professional basketball players?
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Do you intend to be one?
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No.
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Point I'm making is very simple.
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My point is all of us have a
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defined number of hours, minutes and seconds on
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this earth.
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Everyone, right?
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We don't know the exact number.
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How many I have, I don't know.
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But I know I have so many breaths.
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And when I take my last breath, whether
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it's coming in or going out, that's it.
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So in this time, Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala does not subtract all the time that
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goes into something which is not really getting
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me any real benefit.
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Right?
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So the things that you described, for example,
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tell me what is the real benefit of
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watching basketball for somebody who is not a
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professional basketball player?
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Enjoyment.
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Enjoyment.
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So what is enjoyment?
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To be happy.
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Right?
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Do you think Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
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enjoyed life?
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Do you think he had fun?
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Do you think the Sahaba had fun, they
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enjoyed life?
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So how can they enjoy life when they
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are standing in Salah the whole night?
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Here we have a situation where the Qari
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in Ramadan, I'm not exaggerating, I am witness
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to this, you all.
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When the Sheikh, no matter how beautiful the
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Qirat, if the Salah is three minutes more,
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four minutes more, five minutes more, we complain.
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Sheikh, please tell him to recite longer.
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Please tell him to recite faster.
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That's why I give up.
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I go and sit in that corner and
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I say, don't talk to me.
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Yes or no?
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Am I exaggerating?
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Am I lying?
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So how was Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
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getting fun out of this thing?
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Strange, no?
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Same Qirat, did the Qirat change?
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What Sheikh Abdullah is reciting, is it different
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from what came to us?
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Same thing.
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So how come he got fun out of
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this?
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How come the Sahaba got fun out of
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this?
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They would stand behind Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
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sallam.
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There is a beautiful Hadith where Abdullah bin
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Masud, and Usaid bin Khudair, they came and
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they decided one day to pray behind Rasulullah
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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
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So they came and stood and he, in
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that Salah, in the whole of that Salah,
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he recited only one Ayah.
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Which Ayah is that, anybody remember that Hadith?
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Which Ayah did he recite?
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Only one Ayah.
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If you torment them, then they are far
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from you.
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And if you forgive them, then you are
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indeed the Mighty, the Wise.
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Whole Salah, he repeated and repeated and repeated
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and repeated and repeated.
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So the next day, between them, they said,
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we should ask, he said, no you ask,
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you ask, you ask.
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Usaid bin Khudair radiallahu anhu was an Ansari,
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Abdullah bin Masud radiallahu anhu was a Muhajir.
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So then, Usaid bin Khudair said to Abdullah
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bin Masud, Nabi Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam loves
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you very much, he loves you more than
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he loves me, so you ask him.
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So he asked him, he said, ya Rasulullah,
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we came and prayed behind you and you
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recited only one Ayah.
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Why did you recite that?
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Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, I was
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making Dua for my Ummah.
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This was my Dua for my Ummah.
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Now the Ayah itself, as you know, is
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Isa alaihi salam, this is what Isa alaihi
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salam will say to Allah, Jalla Jalaluhu on
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the Day of Judgement.
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If you want to punish them, they are
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your slaves.
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But if you want to forgive them, Innaka
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Anta Al-Azizul Hakim.
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You are the All-Powerful and you are
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the All-Knowledgeable and the All-Wise.
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And Isa alaihi salam said, I was reciting
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it as my Dua for my Ummah.
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The point I want to make for you
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and me is that we live in a
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world where we have made society, we have
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made life itself so hard and harsh and
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toxic that we need time out to go
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and do something else to forget this life,
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to detoxify ourselves.
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People say work-life balance.
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I have always found these terms to be
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ridiculous.
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When people ask me what is work, I
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say what is work-life balance?
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What is work-life balance?
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Have you heard this term, work-life balance?
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What is that?
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I love my work.
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So what is work-life balance?
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The point I want to make is we
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have a specific number of hours, minutes and
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days, days, hours, minutes, seconds.
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Not one second more, not one less.
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Whatever we use that resource for, it is
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from the same, there is no extra thing
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for it.
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You can't say, Allah, I am not a
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basketball player, I will never be a basketball
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player, but I am going to spend one
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hour watching basketball, don't take it out of
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my life, give me some from somewhere else.
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Have you ever seen a team win because
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there were people sitting in the stand and
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screaming?
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Does a team win because of that reason?
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Yes or no?
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I will tell you how basketball teams win.
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I was watching an interview of Kobe Bryant.
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They asked him what time do you wake
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up?
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He said four o'clock.
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He said why four o'clock?
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He said because if you wake up at
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eight o'clock, by the time you get
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ready to go to the gym, it's about
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nine, you go to the gym, work out
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for two hours, eleven o'clock, you come
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back home, you take two hours off to
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recover, eat something and so on, that is
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one, you go back to the gym at
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one, by the time you get there, it's
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two to four, and you get maybe two
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hours of shots or two workouts.
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He said when I wake up at four,
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in the whole day I can get six
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to eight workout periods in the 24 hours
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for my game.
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Now my point is that is how you
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win basketball, not by watching basketball.
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By spending eight to ten hours in the
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gym, practicing and working out, you win basketball.
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Now if you're not going to do that,
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then you are kissing goodbye to that one
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hour or two hours of your life span
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to get what?
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To get what?
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Enjoy, what enjoy?
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What is the enjoyment in seeing somebody throw
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a ball into a hoop?
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For God's sake, right?
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What's so enjoyable about that?
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Some guy throws a ball into a hoop,
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where do you go?
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This is all mental conditioning, believe me, we
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have been conditioned.
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What is enjoyable about seeing somebody throw a
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ball into a hoop, for God's sake?
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Doesn't even sound enjoyable.
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Likewise for somebody kicking a ball around in
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the field, I mean, you know.
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We have been conditioned to do this, why?
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Because somebody makes money.
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Think about that, when you are giving up
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your lifespan of two hours, someone is going
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to the bank with that.
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You're donating your life to someone else to
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make money.
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Why do you think that, why is this
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thing broadcast on primetime TV?
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Because it makes money.
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You know what primetime TV costs in this
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country?
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Go and look up the numbers.
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They have hours of that.
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Why?
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Because it makes money.
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Why does it make money?
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Because you sit there and donate your life
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to it.
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It's your life.
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It is your life.
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So my reason and point I'm making is,
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fun, you must define what is fun.
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Have fun, but have fun doing something which
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is beneficial.
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Have fun running.
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I have fun walking.
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Sometimes I might do my khateras on those
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walks.
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So those of you who watch these things
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on our channel, you will see nice videos
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of sceneries and so on and so forth
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because I'm doing the khatera while I'm walking.
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My submission to you is, please, value your
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time.
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Value your time.
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My point is, when opportunities are provided and
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you don't take advantage of that, then don't
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blame anyone if your life goes down the
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drain.
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It will.
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I guarantee you it will.
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Because Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is just.
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Somebody who is putting effort and energy into
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his life, who is learning, who is improving
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his skills and competence and so on and
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so forth.
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And you are not doing that.
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You are watching basketball or soccer or God
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knows what.
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Believe me, you are not equal.
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You are not equal.
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So you choose.
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You want to look back on your life
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and say, I was the greatest basketball watcher
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in the world.
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Or you want to say, I was a
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rocket scientist or I was a brain surgeon
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or something.
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Those are options.
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Every single one of them is an option.
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I tell people, develop a skill.
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Do you know in this country, in this
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city of West Springfield, a qualified plumber with
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a license makes more money than one of
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the physicians in the state.
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Do you know this?
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That poor doctor spends 12 hours, 12 years
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learning, but he says he makes less money
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than a plumber.
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So why don't you learn plumbing?
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Why don't you learn plumbing?
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Seriously, my brothers and sisters, take your life
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seriously.
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We have whatever span Allah gave us, for
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every one of us, it is reducing.
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Somebody my age is almost gone.
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But we can't say that about younger people
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because you don't know how much age you
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have.
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So the Prophet said, for everyone who has
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treated it like it is gone.
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He said, don't think you will say Salaam
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on this side, which means what?
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So treat it, your life, I'm not talking
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about myself, your life.
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Treat it with respect.
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Value the time which Allah has given and
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make sure you account for every minute of
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that and say, what did I get out
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of this?
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This one question, just ask one question.
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What did I get out of this time
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I spent?
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Whatever it is, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, one
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hour, two hours, what did I get out
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of this?
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I'm sitting at my Xbox and I'm doing
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foreign games, what did I get out of
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that Xbox?
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What did I get out of whatever I'm
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doing?
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If you are satisfied with that answer, Alhamdulillah,
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good for you.
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But if you are doing something which is...
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I'm not talking about haram, please understand this.
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I'm talking about halal.
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It's not haram to watch basketball, but it's
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a waste of time.
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It's a waste of your life.
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It is not haram, you do it, but
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it is a waste of your life.
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That same one hour you spend reading a
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useful book, you are getting knowledge.
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Same one hour, run on the street, in
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one hour you'll do at least...
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if you are walking, you'll do four miles.
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If you are running, you should be able
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to do eight or ten miles, right?
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Then see your body after one month.
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Same one hour, multiple uses.
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Same one hour, stand in salah and say,
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Ya Allah, I want to get close to
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you.
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I want to close with this, recently somebody
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sent me a TikTok of this interview with
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this very senior priest.
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He had been preaching for 40 plus years.
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So the interviewer was asking him, what is
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your advice to young priests?
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What's your advice to young priests?
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Guess what he says.
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He says, tell them, forget seminary.
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Forget all their seminary degrees.
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Do only two things.
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He says what?
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He says, read the Bible and pray a
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lot.
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Read the Bible and pray a lot.
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He says, the way to get close to
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anyone is to spend time with them.
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So pray a lot.
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If I simply change the word from Bible
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to Quran, I could be saying that on
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the member.
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Say one hour, stand in salah.
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I remind myself, this time we have, he's
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not coming back.
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He is not coming back.
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There is nothing extra.
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You can't buy it.
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So use it with respect for yourself.
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And ensure that you can account for every
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minute that you spend and you have an
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answer to say, what did I get from
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this?
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Peace be upon the Prophet and his family
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and companions.
