Wisdom of Luqman #19

Mirza Yawar Baig

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The speakers discuss the importance of principles of the Koran and technology for teaching, including the use of phones and the need for data collection and reporting. They emphasize the importance of accountability and personalized information sharing, as it is crucial for society. The speakers also discuss the concept of accountability and how it applies to everyone, including those living in a culture that doesn't believe in Islam. They stress the importance of measuring one's quality to avoid dangerous behavior and offer advice on how to measure one's success and failure.

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hamdulillah salat wa salam, O Allah should have an MBA with mousseline Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam just even considering kathira abajo My dear brothers and sisters,

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they are on the lesson of wisdom from So look, man, the wisdom of laquanda is salam, which Allah subhana wa, Tada. Side fit and considered, it's so important that he

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narrated that story for us in the Koran, and enumerated the points of

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points of reference enumerated the

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pieces of advice that Lamar Lee Salaam gave to his son.

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We're looking at now the part of his advice

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where

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he's fed that

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which which relates to the issue of accountability.

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Where he said yeah, but a year in, and Takumi scholar have bought him in quarterly for takuan fees, rotting out of his samovar to fill or the Yeti behala in the Lucha Latif on hobby. He said to his son, or my son, or my son, if, if it'd be anything equal to the weight of a grain of mustard seed. And even if it is, in inside a rock, though it be in a rock, or in the heavens, or in the earth, anywhere in the heavens and yet, Allah will bring it forth, very alive subtle in bringing out that grain and subtle in bringing out anything which is hidden no matter how small it is, no matter where it is hidden. well aware is Allah have its place.

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Now

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examples of the most powerful tools for teaching and in this advice Ramallah Salah mentions two things, the magnitude of a deed and its visibility.

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I will say that Hoda Delano said that rasulillah salam said if any of you does something performs a deed, inside a solid rock that has no door or hole, his deeds, whatever they are, will come out to the public. And this is a very good thing to remember. This is a very good and very, for anyone with Eman for anyone with a iota of faith with an iota of human. This is something which is

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which will shake you to the foundations of your being. That solar Solar System said this, that nothing but nothing is hidden from Allah subhanho wa Taala.

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That whatever it is that you do, no matter how well you think you have hidden it, if Allah subhanho wa Taala wants to make it public, Allah subhanho wa Taala will make it public. Nevertheless Adam said it will be brought out in the public space.

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My brother just does.

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This is the fundamental core belief belief in accountability before Allah subhanho wa Taala. In the day of accounting, young will Akira yamaoka Yama

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where Allah subhanaw taala will

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will weigh our deeds. Allah will not count them Allah will weigh them, he will cause them to be weighed and we will be rewarded in accordance with whatever we bring before Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah Masha Allah and we ask Allah subhanaw taala for his mercy

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and not for His justice.

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My brothers sisters, Allah subhanaw taala said for my family Miss Carla beratan hiren Yara mama Yamal muscala in Sha, Allah Allah said you will be shown you will be shown what so what so whoever does good equal to the weight of an atom shall see it and whoever does evil equal to the weight of an atom. We'll also see it my brothers and sisters.

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As I mentioned in our world today it is easy to understand this I remember seeing a

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very interesting

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small video clip about

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traceability and this man takes two phones with him. One which is first of all, both of us are on airplane mode which means that they are not linked to the internet. They are they are technically speaking

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they are as good as you know traditionalist as too smart for this with him and the

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Both in airplane mode, so they are not linked to the internet.

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And to top it are one of those phones, he also switches it off. So the both the phones are in airplane airplane mode, and one of them, he switches it off. And he has these two phones in his pocket.

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And then he goes for a drive. And I think if I'm not mistaken, this was in, taken in Washington DC. So he goes for a drive. And he drives to several different

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places, he goes to hospital, he goes to a library. He goes to I think the Capitol building, and so on. So he goes to five or six different places, it's a multi destination

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route. And then he comes back, and then they take these two phones.

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And they use the they have a program which they analyze what is the data that these two phones collected, and which they then gave to Google?

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What was what really amazed me, I mean, obviously, even if the phone is, you know, on airplane mode, at least as I know, I know that must technology to know that. It doesn't mean even though it's not accessing the internet, all that it means that you can't access the internet, it doesn't mean the internet can't access you. So I know that. So I expected that the phone which was turned on.

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But on airplane mode would still collect some location data, which it did. So it everything it collected the data about where the man went, the actual geographic location, the street address, and it collected also the data about and reported data about how long he spent there. So he was he was in this hospital for so long. He was in library for so long. So um, so So all of this data was collected and posted by the fall way which had the which was on airplane mode, which means it was disconnected from the internet. Interesting thing was, and that's what blew me away.

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The phone, which was on airplane mode, and which had been switched off

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actually collected more data than the phone which was switched on. I mean, that's completely, you know, I wouldn't have imagined that if I hadn't seen that video, I really wouldn't know that this actually happened this, this phone, which should have been dead, three years, the phone we just switched off. And it's also on airplane mode, you put it on airplane mode and switch it off. Yet that phone is active yet that phone is receiving and transmitting data. And it collected data about this person where all he went, and how long he stayed there. And when they compared to the phone, which was switched off actually did more than the phone which was switched on. Incidentally, in

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passing I was I was asked all the aeroplane pilots and

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all the cabin staff and all the plane company people and so on who are watching this video and watching me as well as you know, watching that video he was asking this question when you tell people to switch off their phones in the plane when it's taking off and landing. And you say that otherwise it interferes. What does it interfere with because even if this was the Foreign Office, still doing the is still doing all that stuff is still transmitting and receiving data. Anyway, that's a different point. It's not my point here. My point here is that for us today, given whatever technology we have, it should be very easy to believe that Allah subhanho wa Taala who is our

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Creator and the creator of our brains, which created the technology so therefore he is our Creator and he is also the creator of the technology.

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What must be his systems?

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What all is Allah subhanho wa Taala able to do? What all is Allah subhanho wa Taala able to measure what all is Allah subhanaw taala able to access so it is to me, it is not even a matter of the way to say that Allah subhana wa tada is able to see something and so on so far, because I mean even our own technology does that. Today what we have in our pocket and I'm not talking about some, you know great high security technology or instruments or apps or hardware or software that is usually all that very high security stuff is never with anything good. It's always with the military. So is you know with the military

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has that and nobody know I'm talking about what you and I carry in our own pockets. I'm talking

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About the phone on which this video is being recorded, this phone is transmitting data

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back and forth even when it is switched off.

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So for us to believe that Allah Subhana Allah, who created all of this, how easy it must be for Allah to do what he promised to do, which is to record every one of our deeds, and then to play it back for us ensures to show us what we did. In case we deny that so there's no denying there's no running away and saying, Oh, no, no, no, but you know, I never did that. And somebody Miss reported and or I never met that Allah subhanaw taala knows what we do. And Allah knows why we did that Allah knows what's in our hearts, Allah mumbi that is sudo. Allah Subhana Allah knows our motivations.

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Allah knows our thoughts and emotions which went behind the actions that we actually performed. Our sisters, I remind myself when you let us not play games with Allah subhanaw taala. So here, look, man, listen, I'm saying this to his son, where he's saying that, you know,

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that Allah subhanaw taala

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can see, whatever we

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we say and do.

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And

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Allah subhanaw taala therefore is the one we worship and the one

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who is

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the one who is

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to whom we are answerable. Right. So I asked Alice rantala, to make us obedient to Him. And to help us to do that, which benefits us because this is the whole, the whole thing is to understand is that

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whatever we do, or choose not to do, at the end, it's only we who will benefit or who will be harmed. So let us not, let's not, you know, deceive ourselves. Now.

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Think about this, that.

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Even with this technology today, we do this now think about 100 years from now, 1000 years from now, if technology still develops and so on so forth, what all will be possible, believe me, one of the one of the aims of technology is to enslave us. And that's why in Islam, we are only about of Allah, Islam does not enslave us Islam prohibits slavery to anyone other than Allah subhanaw taala. But in the name of security, and so on and so forth. Today, people are talking about implanting chips in human beings. So that somebody somewhere believe in somebody, somewhere, is watching whatever that chip is collecting. And there will always be a small coterie of people at the top who do not have

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chips

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implanted in their bodies, and their families and his children will not have chips implanted in their bodies. Those chips are for people like you and me, who will be monitored, who would be controlled. This is the whole concept behind you know, paperless offices, paperless banking transactions. This is why governments are against cash, because cash gives the person freedom. So governments don't like freedom. They want people to be controlled to this No problem, spend whatever you like, but it has to be must be through a bank. every transaction must be traceable, every transaction must go through a credit card or must go through a bank account. You can't just pay

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cash, you want a hamburger? No problem, it costs two and a half dollars pay that two and a half dollars through a credit card. And this is implemented. I mean, this works even today. But the overall

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more motivation behind this, you know, by saving money, well, why does the government care one way or the other, if I'm spending 200 bucks in cash over them spending it through

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through a bank account, the government not interested whichever government is not interested in your two and a half bucks, the government is interested in your ability to do deals without the knowledge of the government. So not that the government is watching every single transaction because they don't do that. But they want the ability to be able to do it if they want to. So if they want to freeze your bank account, they should be able to do that, which means that you will be you will be within quotes worth millions, but you will at the same time be on the street naked because your bank account got frozen. And they you cannot do any transactions and you don't have any cash because that

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is what was taken away from you the freedom to spend cash money, right? So this is this is the whole

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point of a lot of technology. And this is the whole point of all technology that comes to you in the guise of security. Whatever security is

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physical security information security. Financial Security means only one thing, which is that somebody else is going to control what you do with your life, with your money with your, with your ability to do things, right. It doesn't mean that you are dishonest. And you might be you might be an I hope you are. And certainly I would like to think of myself as somebody who was, I mean, I can safely say, I've never broken a law in my life, and I have no intention of doing it. But the point is not that the point is not the government, not looking at you one individual and say, oh, here's a law abiding guy, let him loose. No, no, no, this is this is general rules, which apply to everybody.

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And the purpose of that is only one which is control. So here Islam is saying that the only one who has the right to control you is the one who created you. And therefore, his control is total control is absolute. His control applies in all at all times, in all places. He sees everything, he knows everything. He listens to everything, he hears everything, real time 24 seven, and he is the one who will call you to account for every single thing that you say or do.

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hamdulillah he's also unlike governments, he is also All Merciful. He is all forgiving. And if you turn to Him, if you repent, if you have done something wrong, if you if you make amends, then Allah subhanaw taala will forgive you right and as I said, this is not a human tendency. This is not a human capability. This is only an only Allah subhanaw taala who is merciful enough to do that for us all and we ask Allah Subhana Allah for his mercy and for his forgiveness. So this concept of accountability is the one that the the missionary Keno Macau and solo Sallam brought Islam brought the Quran. The one thing which stuck in their craw was the concept of accountability to Allah

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subhanaw taala. Because they live their lives and they wanted to live their lives to say that look, we are, we are not answerable to anybody This is I'm free to do whatever I want. And effectively, whatever I want meant, what it meant that I am the master of whatever I own. So I'm the master of my

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Oh, somebody

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along just went off anyway. So I'm the master of whatever I own. So meaning, I'm the master of it. This was the days of slavery, these are the master my slaves, I can treat my slave any way I want. If I want to kill my slave that's up to me, I can do that. No questions asked.

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Even if abortion is not my slave, if that person is weak, if that person does not have any friends and any supporters in society, then I can do whatever I like to that person. And no questions asked when Abu Jamal killed.

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Kill

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Alia Alia Sir availa, vellano abou Omar, and he killed sumaiya de la Honda.

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They were not his slaves, but he killed them. And he killed them because he could kill them. He did it because he could get away with it. And there's so many such cases where people just did that. There are so many cases cases today, where people who are in power and authority do whatever they like. And really, if you look at it from a purely worldly context, and I can give you I can I can name people I can name incentives, I'm not gonna do that, because that's not the purpose here. But and also because you know exactly what I'm talking about. There are cases where the people are sad to say, including Muslims, who have

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committed the worst atrocities that have been imagined on other poor helpless people, right, in some cases, Muslims are in are in a lot of cases.

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Or even I can say in today's world, the majority of cases, it is the Muslims who are at the receiving end, but we have also seen Muslims committing all kinds of atrocities on other people, right on on on people who are for example, Christians, who have been

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who have been harmed by Muslims, for example, other people, you know, atheists or, or Hindus or whatever. My point is, Islam does not, does not does not justify and does not permit a Muslim to harm in non Muslim let us be very clear about this. There is absolutely nothing in Islam to say that a Muslim has the has the authority has the permission has the freedom to harm another person as long as that person is not a Muslim.

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Muslim, Islam does not permit a Muslim to harm a non Muslim, no way. Islam says a Muslim cannot harm and must not harm anybody. Islam doesn't even say that Islam says that no human being must harm any other human being. Islam goes to the point of saying this in the famous either sort of my that which all of us know where Allah subhanaw taala said that to kill one person, he did not say to kill one Muslim, he did not say to kill one Hindu or Christian or Sikh or atheist. So, he said to kill one person, in the sight of Allah, in the estimation of Allah in the regard of Allah, to kill one person unjustly, is equal to killing of all humanity. So in today's world, if you are saying that the

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population of the world is 7 billion people, to kill one person, unjustly, whoever that person might be rich or poor, man or woman, Muslim or non Muslim, black or white, anywhere, any geography, any nationality, to kill one person unjustly, is equal to killing 7 billion people, it is equal to wiping out the entire human population. And the Quran goes on to say, to save one person to save the life of one person, once again, without any boundaries, is equal to saving the lives of the entire human race.

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Whatever may be the actual head count of the number of human beings who are in the world at that time.

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This is the extent to which Islam

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is focused on the preservation of human life. And that is why we say even here now in Kunduz COVID times, if you are in a public place, if you are in a inside a building, in a public building, if you are in coming into contact with people, then always wear a face mask. Even if you are not worried about COVID, even if you take the view that anyway, one day I have to die, it doesn't matter to me, it may not matter to you, but Islam orders you and compels you to wear a mask, because it is your responsibility also to ensure that no action of yours is harmful to somebody else. So it is not only about you, it is also about other people. So a Muslim is not permitted to harm anyone or to behave

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in a way which can be detrimental or harmful to other people. And a Muslim is not permitted to harm himself, which is why suicide is haram suicide is prohibited in Islam is no we do not have seppuku and harakiri in Islam.

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So here,

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this issue of accountability, so Daddy, the mccanns, the maca, mushrikeen, the polytheist people, volunteers, the people in America.

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They,

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they have no problem with worshipping Allah, as you know, one more God, we fall for somebody who is worshipping multiple Gods one more is, you know, more the merrier. Their issue was this whole concept of accountability, where I will be redirected and I will be held accountable and I will be questioned, and I will be rewarded or punished based on the outcome of those questions, that this is something that they

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found difficult to believe and they didn't want to believe. Now those who believed, of course, Alhamdulillah they became Muslim, Allah subhanaw taala said, we know the believers are successful. Those who did not believe that did not believe and this is the accountability. So therefore, I'm saying to you, that in my view, the distinguishing feature of Islam is this concept of accountability to Allah subhanho wa Taala. After we have died, after this lifespan is over, we will be made to debrief this before Allah. And we will be we were made to look at it and say, Well, what do you do? Now, this is what laquan les Salaam is saying to his son that in that process of debrief,

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do not believe that anything is hidden, don't believe that you can get away with anything. It is this is a think about this. This is also such a beautiful and comforting concept because as I mentioned a little bit earlier, there are people today in this world who have committed the worst atrocities who have

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killed not one person, not 10s of people, not hundreds, not 1000s, but hundreds of 1000s of people, right. They've killed hundreds of 1000s of people. They have been the source of the death and destruction of millions, thanks to their actions.

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You know, millions of people have been rendered homeless. I take

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For example, in Syria, what's happening?

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I said what Assad is doing, if you just look at what he's doing here is a man because of whose actions, somebody says that the only place, which is like, where you can go to hell without dying is Syria, right you can go to if you want to go to hell without dying, go to Syria, that is how bad it is. Now, here is this man who created all this, who is the root cause of all of this. And he's sitting pretty, I mean, he's as far as I know, and he's not hurting for anything, right? So what happened to him? Now imagine he died a natural death, like his father did. May Allah protect us from all of these dictators, each one was worse than the other

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right now.

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And then I did a list of them with a list of them. And very sad to say, many of them are Muslim names. And now my point i'm saying is that what happens to these people? So here is a man who lives in a palace, he dies in a palace, His heart is gone. And he directly or indirectly, he destroyed the lives of so many people. Take the take the the classic one, which, you know, we are now in the month of Muharram. And we talk about the Shahada of

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St. minardi rhodiola. Juana What about the people who killed the grandson of Rosado, Salah? What about the people who kill the family of rusada? Salamis, his grandson and his and his children? What about them? Who killed them? These are all Muslims. Right? At least they had Muslim names.

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And if you read history, nothing happened.

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Nothing happened to them.

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They lived they lived there. They lived there ruled I mean, yes, he was a ruler.

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ruler. He died as a ruler. He lied and he died in his palace. So what so so what's gonna happen is you're gonna get away.

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This is why the concept of accountability to Allah subhanaw taala is such a comforting concept because we know for a fact it's not that we are fooling ourselves. It's not that we are, you know, we just want to believe this was Jacob. No, no, no, no, no, this is the Huck This is truth.

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That one day

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all of us will stand before our last panel. And the one who was killed will ask for what crime he was killed.

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Right.

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So who sent him the ID? Or the Allahumma? is going to ask Allah subhanaw taala.

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For what crime he was murdered, he was he was killed by Jezebel.

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Believe me, that's not a place you want to be.

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That is not a place that you want to be.

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You don't want the family of Rasul Allah wa salam to demand to demand justice, to request justice to beg for just before Allah against you.

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May Allah protect us We are anila We are not in that. Right.

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And I've said this a million times and those are my Shia brothers and sisters want to believe that the Sudanese are with us please go correct yourself. Go correct your your own beliefs.

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And not a living Sunni in the world. Never was and never will be. Who would stand with yazeed against Jose live nearly Raja Lama, not one.

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Not one single Sony alum, Jonah Hill, whoever

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every single Sunni Muslim in the world

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will prefer to die not once, but 1000 times before one single hair in the beard of Hossein in any of their law

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could be happening.

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And I'm the law. I would like to say I'm the first of them but I did not say that because I know that there are people who are far superior to me who said that they are the first of them.

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He said of love for the family of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. His love for the family of Rasulullah Sana Salah

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is what makes you share that I'm the first of this year.

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Anyway, we are not in the in the in the Shia Sunni issue here. The reason I mentioned this was because is this is a is a prime example. It's a classic example of understanding the concept of accountability and that nobody but nobody is going to get away

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with doing something wrong, no matter whether it is something as huge and massive as murdering the fabulous or solemn

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Or murdering 1000s upon 1000s upon hundreds of 1000s and millions of people, and young and old and rendering them homeless and so on, whether it's something as bad as bad as that as big as that, or it's something as small as doing some, some backbiting some nama some you know living in so called White Lies

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This is our English language. Even a lie when it becomes white, it's slightly less worse than a blacklight La La, La Bella how much of racism there is in our language itself. We need to change that.

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My brother sisters, accountability is the single biggest and most important differentiating factors of this Deen of ours.

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And therefore, I remember myself when you let us remember that.

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And let us ask Allah subhanaw taala to enable us to live lives where we will not be held accountable by him jealous Allah because we do our best to live our lives in obedience to Him, which means on the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam.

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This is just really, I,

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therefore are not really Therefore, let me give you a little

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system. I'm a great believer in documentation and in in systems and structures.

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The the secret of efficiency in life is to have structures. If you have a structure, if you make a rule for yourself, this is what I'm going to I will do today. And then you fit everything else around that, then you are sure that your day has been productively spent, otherwise, you're going to find that, you know you the day passes, and then your work gets left over and you haven't done it. And the reason for that is because there's no structure. So what is it this is this, that every month, take one hour off. Remember, you're not giving it to somebody else, it's for you, your life, you owe this to yourself, don't

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deceive yourself, do not steal from yourself, it is your life, take one hour in one month, right to that is 24 multiplied by 30. Take one hour out of that.

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And that one hour is yours. So what must you do that one hour, go and sit quietly in someplace, if you have some outdoor place to sit,

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if the weather permits, if you have the outdoor place access, I would suggest that because at least for me, I find sitting outdoors, you know under trees and so on and so forth is far more relaxing and far more productive than sitting indoors, inside the house and so on. So sit outdoors.

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Take a notebook with you take a notepad with you. And in that notepad write down the following. First, ask yourself this question and say in the last one month, what was the state of my sense of accountability to Allah subhana wa?

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Was I did I live my life in a way where I held myself accountable to Allah subhanaw taala not when I took decisions, when I decided to do something or decided not to do something, was the top of top of the mind thought in with me Was it will displease Allah or will it displease Allah? Why did this happen? And then I want you to give yourself some marks on a scale of 10 on a scale of zero to 10 give yourself some marks, don't be Don't be overly critical and don't be overly Don't fool yourself in a positive sense, so don't say I know a nine out of 10 No, you're not nine or 10 and you will also not zero Alhamdulillah inshallah, so therefore, give yourself so much then what you do is

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whatever match Okay, so one thing is am three out of 10 Okay, very good. So there's a lot of room for improvement. Angela, I have done something. Now in this three. You say okay, I held myself accountable. And I thought, Oh, my accountability to Allah before I took some decisions. What were those decisions? So in your notepad, I want you to write that down. This is for you. This is not to show anybody This is not to show anyone at all. It is between you and Alyssa. So write down. This was the decision. I had the option of eating a doubtful chicken and I said no, I'm not gonna read that because I'm not sure is it? It is. Is it hands slaughtered or not? I was going to eat some

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cheese but I was not sure does it have rennet or not? I was I was going to drink something but this thing said secret indie ingredient. I don't know what's in it. So I didn't I didn't do that because I am holding myself accountable dollars. Nutella. I had the option of watching this particular thing on the internet or on my phone or something. But I know it is it is you know, it is probably not

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permissable. So I didn't know what are those incidents, which tell you that you held yourself accountable. I want to list that down for yourself. Because really, what you can't measure you don't know what you cannot measure you don't know what you don't know you can't control what you can't control you cannot you cannot guarantee. So, quality is the outcome of measurement. What you do not measure you cannot control so there is no way of of, of guaranteeing quality. So, therefore, make this this is what I'm going to I'm going to make sure that I write down those and so first thing is accountability. Allah subhanaw taala what are the incidents which tell me that I held myself

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accountable? Number two, with regard to my Salah

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what was the first one? Did I pray on time? Or did I I prayed but you know, I delayed my prayer. I did this I did that I was busy as watching some gamers busy in the office ad was doing some great deal of or whatever it was right? I was just lazy. Did I pray on time? So that's a yes or no answer.

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And in that case,

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the time that you didn't pray on time, look at look and see what is it that prevented you from praying on time, the time that you did pray on time or hamdulillah or party? Then you go next, third one. Second one, we just prayer the Salah, then say what was the condition of my Salah? Did I have kosher in my Salah? Was I conscious of Allah subhanho wa Taala presence in my Salah. When I was standing there and I was praying I was deciding for an I was making dua I was just standing in the Presence of Allah was aware of the growth of the glory and majesty of Allah. Was I aware of where I'm standing? What is happening to me? I'm standing in the Presence of Allah subhanaw taala? How

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does my skin feel? How does my heart feel? Is there any if somebody attaches some,

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you know, some some measuring devices to my body? Will my blood pressure fluctuate? Will my

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you know electrical

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impulses in my brain? Will they show that there is something happening here in my life? Now you might say, Well, you know, this looks all sound very freaked out. It's not freaked out at all. Believe me, if you are sitting in front of the television, or if you're sitting in a movie theater, or even on your phone, if somebody attaches measurement electrodes to your brain and your heart and if they are measuring your pulse and your temperature that will vary depending on what is happening in that movie. I can guarantee you that is scientifically provable. If it's a sad movie, it's a if it's a violent movie, if it's a you know, if it's whatever the nature of that film,

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it registers in measurable physiological changes in your body rhythm.

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So how come that doesn't happen when we stand before our last 100?

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Let me give you another even easier example. Tell me if somebody yelled at you. If somebody

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if you say Salaam and somebody does not reply, alright, I'm being very mild. Let me be a little more less mild, a little less mind if somebody curses you.

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Okay, what happened? Does anything happen to you, but it happens. And again, once again, if that if those physiological changes in your mental activity and in your in your heart rate, and so on. So, if they were measured, if all of this was done in an in lab situation, and then Believe me, they would have actual printouts of what changes were happening in your body. When these things were happening to you. I asked myself and you if they uttered the same electrodes to us, same measurement stuff to us when I'm standing in Salah? Will it have any difference? Or will it be just one low but one one language?

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And if that is the case, what does it tell us about the connection with Allah subhanaw taala.

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And even if those things were going fluctuating, even if you're getting some freaked out results of those on those machines, where I'm standing in front of in front of a lion, and I'm standing in Salah, and if somebody would also check what was causing that, was it harsher to law?

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Was it Mahalla? Or was it some other thought, which was in my mind taking me somewhere else? While apparently physically I'm standing before a loss of animal data, but my mind is awareness. Which one was it?

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Yes. The the the the physiological reports that came out of

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My Salah showed there was activity but what was the activity related to? Was it related to worship Allah?

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Or was it related to something else?

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Believe me, Allah knows all of this. That's the point I'm saying accountability of accountability to Allah subhanaw taala.

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Allah knows all this Allah knows if there was any thing any change happening in me when I'm standing in salah and allows knows why that changes.

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Sisters, this is a glimpse about the meaning of accountability, which is such a beautiful central concept of our V. Remember if everybody lived their life, I mentioned I said the Vasa stands today and he should do it. If he asked himself a simple question, it was a stand in front of the mirror and he versus the observers him simple questions. What will happen to me when I stand before online? And if he's honest with his with himself, what do you think he will do? And how much how wonderful that would be for millions of people who today are affected negatively because of what he's doing.

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I'm not even mentioning the non Muslim

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shaitan 's who are ruling different countries because they don't even believe in Islam. They don't believe in the concept of accountability. I mentioned in the Muslim not because I'm apologetic about not knowing or mentioning non Muslim dictators or aspiring dictators, because that doesn't apply to them. They don't believe in it. I am saying Muslim dictators, Muslim rulers, Muslim Muslim employers, Muslim men and women in their family relationships, Muslim teachers, Muslim students,

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right?

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All of these

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it applies to everybody. I'm only mentioning Assad then and a couple of others, because these are no names and these are the the the I mean, their effect, that negativity is massive.

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But this applies to everyone.

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What is how beautiful Do you think this world would be? If we all accepted that we are accountable to Allah. So therefore, from this point onwards, whatever else I did till now that is gone, so I'm going to I'm going to make a step far I will make Toba but from now I will change my life. If we did that. How much more beautiful this world would be.

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Well, Sedona will carry while he was

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alive.