Mirza Yawar Baig – Wisdom of Luqman AS #2

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The speakers discuss the importance of listening to the Quran and the difference between Jana and Jana in the market. They stress the need to focus on good deeds and reward them. The importance of counting and recording good deeds for one's own safety and productivity, and the need to avoid unnecessary rebellions and make changes to achieve a "hasn't been met" feeling. The speakers also emphasize the importance of staying true to one's beliefs and expectations, making conscious changes, and avoiding unnecessary rebellions.

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			hamdulillah alameen wa sallahu wa salam O Allah Shara filmbay vermouths Ali,
		
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			Mohammed Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa aalihi wa sahbihi wa sallam
		
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			doesn't even Kaziranga sera
		
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			abajo My dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			I thought that we record this in this very beautiful location. And
		
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			that's a little bit of the, of the water behind me of the sea.
		
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			And I hope the picture is not crooked or something.
		
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			I'm trying to
		
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			trying to keep your spirit
		
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			this
		
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			tripod that I'm using
		
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			is something that was gifted to be my my interview, Hamza Ahmed, may Allah Subhana data, reward him
and give him the
		
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			Hassan ad for all the times I use the tripod and also for all the times that I don't use it.
		
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			Just
		
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			we are
		
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			looking at the life of laquan alehissalaam not his life so much as his advice to his son, which a
lot of our data mentioned for us in Oregon. And as I mentioned to you,
		
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			Mali Salam is
		
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			what somebody whose advice was so
		
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			beautiful and it was so good that Allah Subhana Allah Jalla Jalla, who
		
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			gave it to us. And he mentioned it was, so that we may learn from it.
		
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			Now, I remind myself when you let us
		
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			think about this,
		
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			and
		
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			many times people ask me about children about parenting. And they say how can I
		
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			ensure that my children are pious that they are
		
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			that they do not fear anyone other than Allah, that they are wise, and that they are dutiful to
their parents?
		
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			They are kind, they're polite.
		
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			You know, they are they have got good manners,
		
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			good communication skills, for example, and so on and so forth. And I have only one answer to all of
them. And my answer is children listen with their eyes, children who's listened with their eyes,
they don't care what you say until they see what you do.
		
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			So it is as simple as that.
		
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			All children, everywhere, every culture, every religion, every nationality every time and place.
children listen with their eyes.
		
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			They watch buttons they learn from looking at parents, I many of you would have heard my
		
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			hotbar last Juma
		
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			which I delivered
		
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			with the topic of the
		
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			Black Lives Matter protests that are going on here in the United States. And it so happened and of
course it so happened is not a matter of a coincidence or something. Because nothing is a
coincidence. Everything is by the isn't and the will of Allah subhanho wa Taala
		
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			somebody sent me I think it was
		
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			I can't remember who it was. But anyway, somebody sent me
		
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			a small video clip on WhatsApp
		
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			which is a video made by a mother about her little daughter and the mother is obviously quite proud
of what the daughter is saying.
		
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			In this video, this little girl, she's some cakes. So the mother is holding the that little packet
of cupcakes, which is empty.
		
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			And she's asking me well, so she says who ate these cakes? So the little one says not me.
		
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			So the mother says, so did somebody break into the house and eat the cakes?
		
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			So this girl says yes.
		
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			So the mother says, You are telling me that somebody broke into this house, and they didn't steal
the TV. And they didn't steal jewelry. And they didn't steal money. And they only ate these cakes.
The girl says yes.
		
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			And then she says it was a black man.
		
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			Now my point is here, this girl who must have been who's probably about two years old.
		
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			If that
		
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			here is this little two year old girl
		
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			was saying it was a black man.
		
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			Now, what does that girl know about a black man?
		
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			I can probably safely say that that girl probably never saw a black man in her life in her life.
		
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			So she's, she's associating crime and stealing and so on with a black man, because of what she hears
in her home from her own mother and father.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So people ask me, How can we bring up good children, you can bring up good children by being good
people yourself. There is no other way. Unfortunately. I mean, I wish there was a, I could have
said, you know, eat Tylenol every morning and you will, your children will not give you any
headaches. No, it doesn't work like that. Right? doesn't work like that. You want to have good
children, you have to do something about it. And that something is the good people yourself.
		
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			This is what the Quran is teaching us. And this is what sort of the last one teaches us. In Surah
laquan, Allah subhana wa Taala
		
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			is mentioning the advice that is given
		
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			by local analysts Allah to his son, to be which is related to how to be successful in this world and
the next.
		
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			And it is that beautiful advice, which Alhamdulillah by the mercy of Allah subhanaw taala We have
with us to follow it.
		
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			Now, therefore, the way of reading the whole Quran, everything in it, but especially of this surah
and especially of these ayat
		
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			is to read them
		
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			and one at a time, and to reflect on it and to think about it and to then look at our own lives and
say how does my life
		
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			map on to the advice that laquan or a Salaam gave me
		
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			because if I accept and if you accept and inshallah we do accept that this advice is advice that
makes you successful.
		
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			And then I take my life and I map it on this advice, and I discover that my life does not map on to
this advice.
		
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			But this advice is here and my my my life is somewhere here. What does that mean? It means that my
life is not going to be successful, simple as that, I think it can mean one of two things either the
advice is wrong. Now, as we learn this is the Quran, this is Allah subhanaw taala telling us we
cannot be wrong,
		
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			then I'm wrong.
		
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			Now, this is I want you to hold this in your mind
		
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			throughout all of these lectures,
		
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			so that we we can continuously Look at this, the these lectures also are of the same format like all
the others that we have been doing, which is that we are looking at, what is it given what we are
learning, what is it that I need to start doing, what is it that I need to stop doing? And what is
it that I need to continue to do consciously in my life as a result of listening to these lectures.
So I request you to keep that in mind also. Now,
		
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			I pride myself in you please reflect on why Allah subhanaw taala chose to mention these words of
advice of laquan Elisa Lam to his son,
		
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			which Allah subhanho wa Taala liked so much that he gave the benefit of this advice to all mankind
until the last day.
		
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			We like to think of ourselves as being very connected and networked. But what we don't realize is
the actual extent to which we are really connected. We are not connected, simply in this world by
means of social networks. But we are connected with the next world by means of our actions. What we
do in this world affects the outcomes that we will face in the next world. You know, I always give
this rather simplistic example but it illustrates that when you move your mouse on the mousepad, the
cursor moves on the screen. And when you find with the cursor to something and you click on the
mouse pad, something happens in the
		
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			In the background and your computer now opens a page or it searches something or an app comes into
being and so on and so forth. Now,
		
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			all of this is something that we need to keep in mind and think about and say, What do I learn from
this, what whenever our life is like this, what I am doing here sitting
		
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			insha Allah, Messiah has an effect on my accent when I meet,
		
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			when you are sitting and listening
		
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			to these lectures, and then you bring about changes in your lives, then inshallah Allah subhanaw
taala will reward you and that will have an effect for you in the market. So all of us are like
this, we whatever we do every word, that's what I'm saying, if you smile at your brother, this is
soccer right? Now you know, and I know that soccer is something that Allah will reward us for. So
think about this, that I am smiling at you and you are smiling back at me and insha Allah, this has
now been recorded in my and your
		
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			book of deeds as a good deed
		
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			which will be for us when we meet Allah subhanaw taala. Now, what is a good deed you might say,
Well, you know, one good deed How important is that? Tell me what is the importance of one good deed
I mean, those of you who have been listening to me for all these years, you know the answer to that,
what is the what is the importance of one good deed? The importance of one good deed is that one
good deed is the difference between Jana and Jana
		
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			net one good deed is the difference between Jana and Jana
		
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			that is how important it is.
		
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			So we need to hunt for and look for and collect good deeds and for whatever better example whatever
for example, I'd say like we collect money, I mentioned this before I mentioning it again.
		
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			In the
		
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			days when I in my youth
		
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			we had we lived in a place in Hyderabad in a colony called Czech colony near Alban Metalworks the
old factory.
		
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			And in that colony, even though it was called a Czech colony, there was no checks in it even with
people from Czechoslovakia
		
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			It was called to check on the Czech colony because
		
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			the factory at one point during the war used to make bread guns and Czechoslovakia and engineers
worked there. Also the factory had used to make the made the first
		
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			refrigerator that was manufactured in India, it was called all when pressed cold.
		
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			So this colony was built for the sake of Slovakian engineer, so this was
		
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			there was four bungalows to an acre of land. So each bungalow had a quarter of an acre of land
around it. And these were beautiful colonial style bungalows, and with a big garden, and I used to
do a lot of gardening in those days, so around around the house was
		
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			was the garden and so on. And it was very, very beautiful
		
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			place to grew up in a very beautiful place to, to live in. Now.
		
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			By the time we came to live there, all the Czechoslovakia engineers and so on, were gone. And all in
fact, we used to make
		
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			bus bodies for the AP in those days and British British Transport Corporation apsrtc.
		
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			So these,
		
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			that colony now was had had no Jughead only Indians. And we were I think it was it was us and one
other Muslim family, the everybody else was Hindu. And it so happened that all were at that time was
owned by The Beatles. And this was a colony for their senior management. So they were all bodies,
right? Everybody in that family except for for ourselves. And there was another Muslim family called
hands. Other than that everybody in that colony was in Morocco. And I remember I was I mean at that
time, I was still in school, so about a 16th.
		
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			And I must have been about
		
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			about 10 years old or 10 or 11 years old at this at this time. Because I was in class I was in grade
grade five, grade six. So I was I would have been in grade five, I was about nine. So about that
age.
		
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			I remember one day my father was Yeah, it was he was walking along with there was a club there and
my father played tennis, badminton and I used to hang out, hang out with him. So we were going to
the club and one
		
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			My father's friends one of these Bharati guys he was walking along with us.
		
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			Now in those days you had coins. Today all of this has disappeared. But anyway in those days you had
a one on one map is just what it used to be called map is a new person. So there was a one Peiser
coin, there was a superstar coin, there was a five price acquire 10 price coin. Then there was a 25
price coin, which was like a quarter which was called a 70.
		
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			And there was a 50 price coin which was called an attendee. And then there was a one rupee coin
right. So all of these coins were there. I do not remember whether we had one rupee notes.
		
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			Voila, I'm not sure now whether we had them you might like to Google it and see if they were one
rupee notes in
		
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			in the in the 60s. Today in 2020. I don't think we have one rupee notes and not for the same reason.
I mean, because one rupee buys you nothing in those days one price have bought you something in
which to buy those things called Fatah foot, which was a little ball of children with some sugar on
it, and it was delicious. Absolutely. So one person to price our things which actually bought you
something they had some monetary value. Anyway, so
		
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			we were walking along and there was a five pie sign on the road that somebody brought to 5% this
borrower in front of others, he picks it up, he does city, rubs it on his shirt, cleans it, he
kisses it, he touches his to his eyes, he touches to his forehead and he puts it in his pocket.
		
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			So my father said what is it what is the thing you're doing? It's a 5% coin.
		
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			He says Lakshmi Lakshmi hey, yeah, patch patch by Assad junkie garaventa.
		
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			Lakshmi is the
		
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			the Hindu goddess of wealth. So, he says this is the Goddess of wealth. And he says it is these five
five coins which collect together and make crores they make millions. Now think about this, I
remember this incident and I'm not narrating this incident to you to
		
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			to propagate that mentality, except that
		
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			here is somebody who is treating something which normally, maybe you and I would treat with disdain,
which is five points or coinomiti it is it is something I'm going to pick up actually pick up from
the ground.
		
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			I want to apply this to good deeds,
		
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			many times we do not do a good deed because consciously or subconsciously, we don't consider it
worthwhile
		
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			right, that small thing. Now, if I tell you that dinner tomorrow is led to color and you know we are
all gathering in the masjid. So, let us all come there and you know, we are going to have kiambu
Lane and then we are going to have this discourse, this sermon, this preaching this lecture this,
		
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			this was this band, right? And then we will have a minefield of zeker all of his very nice, everyone
will collect you will come in. But if I tell you, you know when you talk to somebody, it's fine.
		
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			It's fine. I mean, don't be a person who needs to be taken to a dentist to see their teeth right? I
mean, sure your teeth.
		
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			Smile if even if you want to smile we do that because when a human being smiles, it looks like a
smile. So it is for some people. So smile at people that smile at people. Just be good to people say
salam first. It is not my advice. This is this is what love is Allah subhanaw taala does after Salah
he said spread the Salah, and he said feed the people and he said Stan in the night when everybody
is sleeping, and Allah will make your path to gender easy.
		
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			How easy is that? Right? Feed the people doesn't mean you have to you know feed 100 people feed one
person, give one person one doughnut, right? Give one person one piece of bread. Whatever you can do
Islam is so easy my brothers and sisters you know this and I know this.
		
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			It is so easy.
		
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			Do what you can do.
		
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			What is the basic principle in Islam? As far as the publishers are concerned? Stop. Just don't do
it. As far as the
		
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			good things are concerned as far as the recommended things are concerned, do as much as you can do.
		
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			Nobody said that you will have to do necessarily so many good deeds to gather before anything is
accepted No. Do what you can do.
		
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			So let us treat our good deeds like this gentlemen.
		
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			To get money that knows more, no coin is too small to let go.
		
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			So, let us think about it and say, no good deed is too small to let go. One Subhana Allah said, with
sincerity with your class, for the pleasure of Allah subhanho wa Taala alone
		
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			will spell the difference between one level of Jenna and another level.
		
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			And the difference between the levels of Jana, they asked us our assumptions, what is the difference
between one level of Jannah and and the next level
		
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			it is like the distance between the heavens and the earth.
		
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			It is like the stars that you are seeing
		
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			that is how much the differences meaning what is in that journal is to that extent superior and
better and greater.
		
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			See, Allah subhanaw taala gives us glimpses of whenever I sit in place, that's why I love the
outdoors.
		
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			I love nature whenever I'm sitting whenever I'm sitting like this, I think a lot smarter said
Jonathan 30 min Tatiana, think about this visual that you are seeing here. Remove me I'm spoiling
the picture for you. And unfortunately what I had to I have to do this in my lecture. But think
about these years this beautiful grass. Here is this tree that is quite strong breeze and I hope it
doesn't blow my phone off the rock that I'm
		
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			that I placed it on.
		
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			And then there is water behind me Just imagine this scene without that water. Supposing there was
sand, right? Supposing it was just cropland, believe me that this this picture this visual you're
seeing wouldn't be one 10th as as beautiful as it is now. And that beauty is added by that water
Jannat integer even Tatiana Allah said you will be in gardens and the which and through which rivers
flow
		
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			right this is not a river See, but the in the general inshallah they will be diverse because this
will be water, which is good to drink, and it will be water, which is pure water, which is
beneficial.
		
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			So just as I want to say to you that it's so important for us to focus and concentrate on every
single good deed, no matter how awful it is. Keep track of it. It's a very good idea.
		
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			You know, sometimes people think, Oh, I'm just gonna do a lot of good deeds, and I just, you know,
Allah will reward me inshallah I don't have to count them. I suggest you count them, not because you
have to count them and give an account or lacinato. But because if you start counting, then you will
give it more importance. You will give it more important, you will say, How many did I do today?
Right? Because you are counting? If you're not counting, then shaitan also will put this thing into
your mind is Oh, no, I did a lot of good stuff today. He says, Can you please recall? What did you
do at nine o'clock in the morning? What were you doing? 10 o'clock in the morning? What we do? We
		
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			don't know? I don't know. I have no clue. I didn't think of that. It wasn't my consciousness. So
what do you mean, you did a lot of good deeds, you know, I'm saying. So instead of that, if you
count them if you actually count them, write them down somewhere. But today, we have got a bunch of
apps that we can use for accounting, all this just count the number of goods, every single little
good deed, don't tell anybody because we want to have a class. This is not for you to put on your
Facebook account your own personal
		
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			notes, which nobody sees, right? Let them let you be the only person I lost martellus is that and
that's underlined. So keep, make this
		
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			a habit to say you're going to actually count and record every good deed that you do every good deed
that you do. So every time you smile at somebody every time you say Salaam to somebody every time
you are nice to somebody, every time you give charity whatever the good deed is if you say it's a
$100 you're not counting for the sake of God don't get into all this every time every once in a
while I get this you know somebody's
		
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			making the statement and saying no but you know where is the value to say you should count i'm not
i'm not i'm not giving you a fatwa. I'm not giving I'm giving you have a suggestion in terms of the
Amal
		
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			This is what the
		
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			this is what we used to be done when people went to a chef for the skin tarbiyah this is one of the
most shocking I'm not I'm not one of them
		
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			I'm nowhere in the picture are nowhere close to them
		
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			in terms of their of their stations and I'm just trying to have a little parrot who is repeating
this the lessons that I learned when I used to be with Messiah along the line I still am I still
have
		
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			people who are Mr. hain who do my stuff and and to whom I'm able
		
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			to seek correction for myself. So I say I'm saying that this is what I've been taught that keep
track of your good deeds.
		
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			When you count them, you will become conscious of them. And then you will also think so well at the
end of the day,
		
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			when you do your mahabhava, and this is what also you should do is keep that book and in the night
Look at his book and say, well today,
		
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			what did I how many goodies I do? And then you say yesterday, how many? Oh, well, you know, I did so
many yesterday, today, I am too short. Now, how did that happen? Why am I Why am I short? Now? What
must you do immediately? What are the things you can do straightaway, and you must do that is to
free your heart from all ill feeling about anybody, and has been medical vilano says that also lies
are sort of set to one day he said, Oh, my son, imagine he said he's calling on husband.
		
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			He said, Oh, my son, Shall I tell you something which will help you and I was Marisa jasola. Please
tell me, he said, if it is possible for you to go to bed without any rancor without any bad feeling
for anybody. And if it is possible, meaning of course it is possible, meaning be conscious of this,
forgive everybody.
		
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			forgive everyone don't carry that garbage with you. When you go to sleep. Right clean your heart,
clean your heart before you go to sleep. And this is the advice given by an Amazon seller. So what
good deed can I do? When I'm not looking at my track record my,
		
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			my sheet before I go to bed, my my book, and I discovered and I find out that I had
		
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			I am short of a few good deeds today. We'll do them right then. Which is forgive other people, make
some thicker, read some Koran, bring it up and say that there should not be a day that passes when
my good deeds for today are less than my good deeds for yesterday.
		
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			Right? make this into a into a rule for yourself that every day, I am going to do at least one extra
good deed.
		
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			What I did yesterday must be more must be. I mean, what I do today must be more than what I did
yesterday, even if it were even if it is by one single thing. So track them, count them because this
is good for you. It is good for me, it is good for us to be conscious of the good that we do.
		
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			You're not as again, as I said, You're not doing it to show anybody you're not doing this for to
feel arrogant with and then you are going to wipe out your good deeds. So it's not a question of
being arrogant, you won't be humble, you will to keep this secret, it will die with you. Right.
		
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			But make sure that that book of good deeds that you start one and you maintain it.
		
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			Now brothers sisters,
		
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			a day will come when we will meet a lot.
		
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			And until that day, we have the chance to make the changes that we wish to make.
		
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			We know that that day will come. But we don't know when
		
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			I think one of the greatest
		
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			favors that
		
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			that COVID has done for us is to make us conscious of our mortality.
		
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			One of the biggest things that has happened to us right and I say Codelco is not as a COVID is some
creature which came to do a favor. I'm just saying that this is one of the things which has
happened, which is that it has made us suddenly very conscious of our mortality.
		
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			We have become suddenly very conscious that we can die any time we can die any day. Now we know
this. So as a Muslim, I always tell you why I'm so surprised when a solar solar cell told you this
1400 years ago
		
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			1400 years ago solar cells Allah told us that one day you will die. He said live your life like a
traveler. A traveler is not attached to the station that he passes through.
		
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			He will get off the train at that station maybe to buy some food maybe to get some water maybe to
fulfill whatever little need he has at the at that moment. And then he gets back on board the train.
		
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			He gets off his plane he will go to the shops in the airport. No matter how beautiful that airport
is. And some of the some of the airports are in Singapore airport, for example is so beautiful.
Right? dubai airport is so beautiful. But no matter how beautiful the airport is,
		
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			nobody, no traveler will get on this plane and say, you know, this Lounge is so fantastic. Well, I'm
gonna spend the rest of my life in this lounge you will not because if you try to do that, you will
spend the rest of your life in jail because if you don't board the next flight, then they're going
to go looking for you. And if you are lounging in the lounge, then they will help you to lounge in
the jail. Right? Because you would have you you have no visa you've got no permission to stay there.
And that's exactly
		
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			What happens to us when we are here? If I if you say, Well, I want to stay here longer, then
somebody comes to take you away.
		
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			In this case, you're not you're not going to miss the flight because, you know, they come and take
you away to the flight.
		
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			So it's very important for us this is what I wish Ellison told us. He said, This world is not
permanent. This world is not permanent. Your your being here is not permanent. So don't treat it or
don't act as if it is permanent because it is not.
		
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			He said stay as a traveler, he's they asked him He said, I am like a traveler who's been who's going
through the desert is going through the from point A to point B, long journey on my horse, and I
stopped under a tree under the shade to get some rest. And then what is he going to live there for
the rest of your life? No, I'm a traveler, I have to get to that destination, and I'm focused on
that destination. So I stopped here for a little bit, I
		
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			really enjoy the scenery, I lay down, I rest for a while, then I'm off, then I'm off.
		
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			This is our nature, this is the whole the whole struggle, the whole point of life is to live life in
this way
		
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			is to live life like this.
		
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			Right?
		
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			To understand that this life is a journey.
		
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			And to treat it like a journey. So COVID comes out and reminds us that you know what, you're not
going to be here forever. You're going to die. And suddenly Muslims have become aware of this.
		
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			The first thing we need to
		
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			I think the first thing we need to do is to make a lot of stuff. And we say to Allah subhanaw taala
Allah We apologize to you we are contract we are ashamed, that what you told us about and what you
reminded us about and what maybe Elisa labs Allah has reminded us about what every person who came
in our life, every person of religion, every person of wisdom, divided us about, we chose to ignore.
And they all said the same thing. They all said the same thing called do not exert control mode.
		
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			Every living thing will die and you are a living thing am a living thing. Every living thing will
die.
		
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			But we just ignore that.
		
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			Well, you can choose to ignore it, but it won't go away.
		
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			Because I don't want to accept it, it will not vanish, it will not disappear.
		
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			Right.
		
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			So what must I do? accept the reality and say Alhamdulillah so here comes COVID and COVID reminds me
that I have to die is Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil aalameen. If Allah subhanaw taala has
		
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			has mentioned, if Allah subhanaw taala has decreed this for me, and hamdulillah I asked the Lord to
save me from it and ask I'd love to save you from it. I asked a lot of monitor to cure all those who
are affected by it and give them a good help and give them a long and productive life. But at the
end of that long and productive life is what
		
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			is death not necessarily by COVID but by something else.
		
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			All of these are only excuses. All of these are only means
		
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			if I want to get from this side of where I'm sitting here to that thing on the other on the other
side is a is an island. If I want to get onto that island, the means can differ I can go in a canoe
I can go in a board I can you know I can swim across but I can't but I mean somebody who can swim
that loncon pseudo Supercross if I've got enough spiritual power, I can walk on the water whatever
the point me just means defer. The fact is that one day I am going to go from here to there.
		
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			Now why is that so difficult to understand?
		
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			We have seen it happen to everybody.
		
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			Today I mentioned the other day also one of our very very dearest friends Marina Qureshi write me
back, he he passed away in Bahrain May Allah tala give Jonathan for those who are the ladies up. He
was a man who was attached to the Quran
		
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			and the Quran inshallah We ask Allah to name the Quran, he Shafi for me the Quran is intercessor
before Allah subhanaw taala and this there's nothing more powerful than
		
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			the column of Allah subhanaw taala is intercession for the one who was loyal to the Colombian Moon
Bay was was very, very close and very loyal to the Quran will carry.
		
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			Gone across.
		
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			I am sitting here making this law and I hope one day when I'm gone, you will make this for me.
		
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			But we all go.
		
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			So COVID is reminding us of that. So we say Alhamdulillah This is a great reminder, this is a
reminder that I
		
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			needed, at least I needed, it's important for us to understand that and we say, let me therefore,
check and live my life in a way, where this reminder becomes a means of benefit for me,
		
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			right becomes a means a benefit for me. Now, this is very important for us to,
		
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			to think about and do. And
		
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			I keep touching the screen and so the thing changes a bit.
		
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			And then make the changes that we make, we know that this day will come, we know that this day will
come and this is all the whole point of sort of the Look, man is this, that it is reminding us of
this.
		
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			There's a very beautiful thing about the advice of Ali Salaam to his son, which is that Monalisa
lambs advice is to his son about what he should do in this life, which will affect him positively in
the next life.
		
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			So let's call this life and Mazel Akela he said this life is the tilt, it is the it is the
agriculture of the ACA, right? So
		
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			if I'm a farmer, and I want a great crop, then what must I do, I must tell by fields.
		
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			At the time I am killing my fields of the time I'm planting the seed or the time and watering it,
and so on and so forth. I'm not seeing any harvest, the harvest will come later.
		
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			But if I say I'm focused on the harvest, but you find that I'm not tilling the fields, and you're
going to ask me what is the meaning of saying you are focused on the harvest, because you are doing
nothing to get this harvest.
		
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			So at the time of harvesting, when everyone else is cutting their fields, and harvesting the grain,
you are going to have a barren piece of land, you're not going to have anything there because you
have not done anything then what is the harvest the harvest is directly proportional to what effort
is made before the harvest. So if we make enough effort before the harvest, we have a good harvest
if we have not made enough effort before the harvest, we do not have a good harvest this is not
rocket science, this is absolutely clear logic, understanding what anybody
		
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			should should be able to understand and this is the thing we need to ask ourselves in what is my
work and effort today. So it makes the grid sense therefore, to ensure that we make the changes
while we can and not delay them until we reach a point of no return.
		
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			a point of no return is in two ways. One is when we are dying, because now when the angel of death
has come when the curtain has been lifted over is not accepted. The second
		
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			in my view, even more dangerous point of no return is for those people who have been rebellious for
so long that the doors of their the doors of guidance are shut for the
		
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			longest run again I mentioned this in my last run. I said when they exceed
		
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			their rebelliousness
		
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			when they exceed their rebelliousness, when they ignore all the warnings that have come to them,
		
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			then what happens? does Allah punish them? Yes, but how does Allah kill them? No. Allah said fatahna
la him.
		
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			Then we open on them the doors of all blessings.
		
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			People who are who continue to be rebellious people who refuse to accept guidance and direction,
people who continue to indulge in what is prohibited by Allah subhanho wa Taala people who continue
to be cruel people who continue to be aggressive people who continue to deal in interest based
banking, lending and borrowing people who continue to promote all kinds of evil or are not making a
list of the litany of stuff that we do. People who continue to do this should remember
		
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			what happens what Allah subhanaw taala opens the doors of everything, all goodness on them,
		
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			they will not die they will not shrivel up they will become wealthier, they will become more
powerful, they will become stronger, they will become more influential, they will become more
popular.
		
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			They will get more follower more followers on Twitter and Facebook.
		
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			That seems to be our only means of determining the the value of somebody you know how many followers
do they have?
		
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			Our lives are so completely diametrically opposite from from what the salon salaried from what our
pious predecessors had for years. And let's say we open the doors and then what happens and then
Allah says then they add the time we seize the button instantly from mobile soon and then at that
time, they are broken in spirit. Because the time to make Toba is over
		
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			the fate is sealed.
		
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			Let us not even give them an opportunity to seek forgiveness. May Allah protect us from this.
		
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			Those who think that they can they are going to live forever. Think about those like you
		
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			who
		
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			made arrogant statements?
		
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			Right, who talked about and who lived on this earth, as if it would never end.
		
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			As if they are here forever.
		
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			Nothing is forever.
		
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			Everything perishes, everything finishes.
		
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			So the advice of sooner to laquan the first and foremost advice of sort of the law of man is to be
conscious of our meeting with Allah subhanaw taala.
		
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			And to live our lives in a way when that day will be the best day of our lives. I make dua to Allah
subhanaw taala May Allah Subhana Allah bless you, and may Allah be pleased with you. And may Allah
never be displeased with you may Allah subhanaw taala protect you from all evil that you know, and
that which you don't know, we are not gonna grant you all that you asked him we had an idea and then
made a lot of manual data add to it from His Majesty and grace, asked you to make a lot of drama for
the oppressed people of this world.
		
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			I asked you to make a lot of drama for the people who are suffering for no fault of theirs, except
because they are of the within quotes wrong skin color, or they follow the wrong God now, because
they have a certain religion, or for whatever reason, ask Allah subhanaw taala to relieve them of
that suffering. And I asked me to make the offer that asked you to make a lot of work for us to be
relieved from this test and from this difficulty and mercy but of COVID-19 ask Allah subhanaw taala
to protect all the frontline workers, all the medical people, all the doctors and the nurses and
everybody else who, knowing the danger of this, they do not hesitate to leave their homes and they
		
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			go into the hospitals to help and serve and cure the people and to work to cure the cure comes from
Allah, but to work to to administer to the people who are affected by COVID-19 just think about
that. If those doctors and nurses say sorry, I'm not going to the hospital tomorrow from tomorrow
morning because my children are important. I don't want them to be infected. So therefore if I'm
going to the hospital coming back every day my children might be affected might be infected. So I am
not going to go if all the doctors and nurses stopped going what would you do tell me
		
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			what would anybody who was infected by this COVID-19 What would you do? Could you hold a gun to
their head and say I go there or I will shoot you or so shoot me? There whatever.
		
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			They don't do that. Imagine these are these are people I mean what kind of hearts do they have?
Think about that. Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah hamdulillah I am so proud and I'm so happy and I'm so
grateful to Allah subhanaw taala that there are people in my own family closest to me my blood
		
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			who are doing this work Alhamdulillah
		
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			so have appreciation for that may may make sure that that you that you show your appreciation.
		
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			You ask lots of photos do we ask a lot of you please we do whenever we dismiss her and see you next
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