What we own and what we dont

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Before I

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go into today's just a announcement that tomorrow

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inshallah I will do

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a 15 minute master class on decision making.

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In the

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tomorrow after

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And that will be useful for you in

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every major or minor decision that you need

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to make in life, whether it is marriage,

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careers,

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buying or selling property,

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business,

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you name it.

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I will teach you the basic fundamental principles

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of decision making which you can apply and

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Inshallah do it in a simple way in

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15 minutes.

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So that is for tomorrow Inshallah.

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For today I remind myself and you

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that one of the most important things in

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life is

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to

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know and be aware

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of what you own and what you don't

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own.

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What is yours and what is not yours?

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Now, it might seem like a simple thing

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and you might say what's so complicated about

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that?

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But it is complicated, and it is very

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important. I'll tell you why.

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The reason why it's important is because

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what you own,

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you can change.

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What you own, nobody can question you about

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that.

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Right?

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So supposing I own a car

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and I decide to take this car

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and

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dump it in a in a junkyard.

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Right?

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You may think I'm insane. You may say

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he's a crazy man or whatnot but it's

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my car.

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I decided to throw a junkyard. Who junkyard.

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What's it to you? Right? You think I'm

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crazy? You think I what do I care?

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I don't care about your opinion.

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I have a house. In my house, there

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is a tree. I want to cut the

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tree. I cut the tree.

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You might say, no. No. No. It's a

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bad thing. You should not cut it.

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It's my tree. I cut the tree. If

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I feel like cutting the tree, I cut

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the tree.

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I want a sheep. I decide to slaughter

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the sheep. I slaughter the sheep. It's so

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so unkind, blah blah blah. Poor sheep.

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No poor sheep. Buy sheep. I want to

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slaughter the sheep. I slaughter the sheep. Right?

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Even the one I'm making so if it

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belongs to me, I can do what I

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want with it and nobody can question me

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about it. You can think you can have

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an opinion. That's your opinion. Keep it.

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But what about if I have borrowed your

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car and take I'm taking it somewhere?

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Can I dump it in?

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I can, but then I'll deal with it

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after that. Right?

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So if I'm driving your car

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I mean, whichever car you're driving, you should

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drive it carefully. But if you are driving

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your friend's car

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and if you are a decent human being,

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believe me, there is something in your heart

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saying whatever happens shouldn't happen to this car,

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right? If it's my car, even if I

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knock it somewhere and so on, it's my

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story. But I take his car and I

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knock it somewhere and I gotta go and

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answer to him why I knocked his car

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and what happened and so on. I don't

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want all this. Right? So you are careful.

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Now when you are driving his car, are

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you enjoying the car? Of course.

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You're driving the car, you enjoy the car.

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It's you know, he's given it to you.

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He didn't say go here, go do what

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you want.

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But to take care of the car,

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he doesn't have to tell me that. He,

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I this is something that I should know

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as a decent human being, as a responsible

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individual.

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If I'm borrowing something from somebody, it's my

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job to make sure that in my care,

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it remains safe and it is handed back

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safely.

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Right?

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Now the reason I'm saying this is so

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important is because in life,

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in this life, we must be clear in

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our minds about what we own and what

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we don't own.

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Now in this life, what do we own?

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The best answer to this question,

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what do I own and what do I

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not own?

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That is the answer.

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What do I own and what do I

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not own? The answer is.

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We are from Allah and to Allah is

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our return.

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So what do we own? Nothing.

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My life I don't own.

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My wealth, I don't

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own. My health, I don't own.

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My wife and children, I don't own.

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Nothing.

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They belong to Allah. Everything belongs to Allah.

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So what must I do? Look after it.

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Take care of it because, like I give

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you the example of the car, if I

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go and I abuse it,

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if I go and I spoil it, if

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I go and I don't take care of

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it, then I've got to answer to the

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one who owns it

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because I have to return it. If I

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borrow his car, I can't keep the car

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forever. I'm borrowing it for a certain period

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of time. Right? When the time is over,

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I gotta go back and give the car

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to him. Then he he looks out to

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the car.

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This car I can't recognize the car. What

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do you what do you do with the

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car?

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Looks like you this whole car is something

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else.

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And this is the in one line, this

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is the fundamental

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is the

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fundamental

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secret or truth of our lives.

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Everything we have belongs to Allah

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and to Allah

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we have to return it.

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So while we have it, by all means

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enjoy it. Allah gave it to us. Humble

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Allah gave us help, enjoy your health, enjoy

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your wealth, enjoy your family, enjoy your position,

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enjoy your authority,

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enjoy your rulership and enjoy everything Alhamdulillah.

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But make sure you don't spoil it.

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Make sure that enjoyment is within the purview

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of

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what Allah permitted.

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If I'm driving his car, I can drive

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it at a 100 miles an hour,

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Oh, I'm enjoying it.

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Did the man tell you that you can

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drive this car at a 100 miles an

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hour and do wheelies on it on the

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on the highway, spit it around? He didn't

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tell you that. He does have to he

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does not have to tell you that because

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he's treating you like a honest and a

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and a responsible adult.

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It's something you don't need to tell people.

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Right?

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They should

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know.

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He knows that you will

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treat the thing properly because you are a

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sensible human being. So Allah

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gave us all of this

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and joy within the boundaries of

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what Allah

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has permitted.

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That is what our deen is. Our deen

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is a deen of boundaries.

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That that that does not mean that we

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are tied together and we can't move. No.

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It just means

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these are the safety nets.

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When you're driving in a car, you wear

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a seat belt. Nobody likes to wear a

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seat belt. A seat belt is a pain

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in the neck because it's, you know, it

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spoils your clothes. It's,

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it restricts you and so on. But the

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basic fundamental principle

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is freedom is inversely

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proportional to security.

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Right? In in in in the IT world,

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we said that freedom is inversely proportional to

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security. So if you have your your computer,

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for example, you will have a password, you

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will have a biometric recognition, you will have

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official recognition. Why? So that nobody else can

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get into that without your permission. You can

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say, no. No. All this is news. I

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don't I don't need all this. I don't

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want any passwords.

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No problem. Keep it like that. And

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Next thing you know, somebody's got into it

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and all your data is gone and corrupted

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and whatnot because safety

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is inversely proportional to,

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to freedom. Right? So freedom is inversely proportional.

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So

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more the freedom, less the safety, more the

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safety, less the freedom, but you choose

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you choose the the the the the the

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route of security

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because you are a sensible person. You don't

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want to lose. You say it's okay. I

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will put up with the inconvenience

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because of the greater benefit later.

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And that is what the deen is. The

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deen is to

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live our lives in this world

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with the understanding that one day when I

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go back to Allah

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and hand over myself to him, inshallah, Allah

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will be pleased with

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me.

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Because this life my brothers and sisters, like

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we said the other day, this is going

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to end.

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We all know this here. I mean, I

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don't see that anyone in the world, even

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someone who's atheist

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will deny God, but he won't deny death

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because he's seen death.

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It's not a question of of denying. It's

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a question of saying, therefore, what will I

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do with my life?

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If I really believe that I'm going to

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die, how is that reflected in my life?

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That is the

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question.

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And that is what I want to, to

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share with you. To say that, therefore,

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when we look at this deen

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and yet live them in a way where

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Allah

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will be pleased with us when we meet

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Allah

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So we live a life which is honest

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to the one from whom nothing is hidden.

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That's the main thing, in Islam the main

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thing is this awareness

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that nothing is hidden from Allah

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So it's not a question of, you know,

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saying okay I will do something quietly and

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this will sound. No, there is no quiet.

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There is no place that Allah does not

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know. There is nothing that we can do

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which Allah is not aware of. And therefore

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we live our lives in a way where

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we don't we do not have to fear

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for that.

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That does not mean that we, our lives

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are perfect. They will not be perfect. We

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will make mistakes.

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So if you make a mistake, we seek

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forgiveness from the person, from Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala.

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Inshallah,

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala promised to forgive, so

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you will forgive.

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But

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there's a difference between making a mistake and

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doing something deliberately wrong. You know it is

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wrong still. It's a big mistake.

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One is a mistake, the other one is

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a crime. Knowing

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doing the same thing is a crime, and

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the crimes are punished.

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So we don't do crimes. We do. Mistake

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is a mistake. We are human beings. We

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make mistakes.

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Ask Allah. Allah will forgive you. So we

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ask Allah to help us to

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get this principle right in our minds of

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what do I own and what do I

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not own.

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The big benefit of this and tomorrow maybe

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tomorrow we do the, the other,

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lesson and day after tomorrow we'll talk about

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that. There's

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also

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a enormously

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freeing

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sense in knowing what I own and what

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I don't know. We will talk about that

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inshallah.

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So the point I am making here is

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we ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta therefore to

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enable us to live our lives in a

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way that is pleasing to Him, to make

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it easy for us to give us the

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suhula and that to

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protect us from our mistakes, from ourselves

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and to take us when we meet him

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us.

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us.