Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect on the Quran #22 Surah Al Fajr Ayah 1 to19

Mohammad Ali Hazratji
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The speakers discuss the negative consequences of actions such as creating chaos and wasting energy, creating a need for people to not let anyone exceed bounds, and the importance of not letting anyone exceed bounds. They also touch on the negative consequences of actions like drinking and drinking in large quantities, and the need for people to be reminded of the consequences of their actions. The speakers emphasize the importance of not letting anyone exceed bounds and remind people of the law of their time.
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Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah Allah

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Allahi wa sahbihi wa Manuela

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along Mufti Masami aku alumina, Crick, Allah marinelle haka como

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Lucknow, Tibba, oriental bowtie, la Battilana, Dylan Audiokinetic

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Inaba.

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They allow open the hearing channels of our hearts, to your

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remembrance to your words, and show us truth as truth. And most

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importantly help us to follow it and act on it and show us

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falsehood as falsehood and help us to stay away from it.

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I mean, so continuing with our

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early makin sutras, in the Sierra of the Prophet sallallahu, sallam,

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early makin few believers, a lot of opposition, lots of ridicule,

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torture, all of that. Allah subhanaw taala is strengthening

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the believers by sending down Quran and giving examples in real

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time, so that the early Muslims may have strength. And this holds

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true for all times, especially when people are facing

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persecution, which seems to be the hallmark of this ummah at all

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times including today. Okay.

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So in order of revelation, this is around the ninth or 10th.

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And the themes in this as you will see is of the message the

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rissalah, the attributes of Allah subhanaw taala, and most important

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accountability in front of Allah subhanaw taala. He said,

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There is Hadith about this. One of the Father, I love the surah is

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that one day, one of major companions of the Prophet

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salallahu Alaihe Salam by the name of Madiba gerbil or the Allah Han

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who was sent later as a governor of Yemen by the Prophet salallahu

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alayhi salam, this is the companion who when the Prophet

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salallahu Alaihe Salam sent him to Yemen, he walked with him as he

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left Medina, and Ma was on his on his ride and the Prophet salallahu

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Alaihe Salam was walking on the floor and on the ground and was

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felt very uncomfortable with this. But the prophet said, No, you are

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traveler and then he said something very beautiful, which

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people would die for. He said, I love you Yamaha.

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And then he said, Perhaps when you come back to Medina, you will pass

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by my grave. So it was an indication that the Prophet

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salallahu alayhi salam knew that by the time he came back, he would

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have passed away. So this is more odd.

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So one day moth or the Alana was leading Salah in the masjid. And

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the young man came and started praying with him. And after a

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while, he kept reciting, reciting this young man left and went to

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the side, and did did some Salah and he left.

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After the salah ma notice this, he said, This man must be a

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monographic a hypocrite, that he left the seller.

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So he went and he complained to the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam

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that there was this young man who came prayed behind me and then he

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left. So the Prophet salallahu Islam called this young man

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said, Now look at this. Here's my dad who was so close. But he

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doesn't jump to any conclusions. You have to learn this. He calls

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this young man said, Tell me what happened.

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So he said, Yeah, rasool Allah, he was reciting so long that I

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couldn't wait. Because I had to take care of my camel water my

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camel and do other things that I have to do. So I left him I did my

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own Salah and I left. Now the response also Allah salAllahu

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alayhi salam

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he said Yarmouth? Are you trying to put people in fitna? You

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putting them in trial? Why don't you recite Surah? Like Allah al

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Fajr, a Shams a level, which are not very long. In other words,

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he's teaching him moderation in your own personally by that night,

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you want to recite Surah Baqarah and one Raka. You do that. But

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when you've got people following you, is in the dean, don't burden

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them with a long, long recitation because somebody might need to go,

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somebody's got a bad back. Somebody's busy. So do what's

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required. So this is the surah that Prophet salallahu Alaihe

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Salam mentioned.

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So the surah starts with

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Oxfam or persons or oats, okay.

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Whenever

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It starts with Wow. And there is a casserole or Zerafa or something

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that's a custom. So well fudgy

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well Leyland Ash was chef a well what? Well lately it is. So Allah

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subhanaw taala starts with a series of oats. The first one,

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Allah is the only one as you know, who can take an oath by his

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creation. We cannot say, I'm telling the truth, while Fajr

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you know, we can say well lie we can only the creation can only

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take an oath by Allah. But Allah takes oath by His creation, to

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show you the importance of those things. Every time there is a

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series of customs that Allah takes, there is something called

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gerbil chasm, which means the punch line, if you will, that's

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coming, that all of this art is being taken to catch your

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attention. You see what's coming, what's coming, what's gonna, this

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is the message. So that's called Java will cousin which will come

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after. So Allah subhanaw taala swears by Fajr. And everybody

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knows what Fajr is, it's the break of dawn, or

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early morning, if you want to. So when you sit, we say, well, Fajr

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it's Fajr. It's just Fajr. But what does it take to create Fajr?

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What is this creation of budget budget is a creation. Look at the

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light of the sun. Look at the rotation of the Earth. Look at the

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speed at which it's coming, that Allah subhanaw taala gently brings

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in light into our lives.

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It's not like a switch. Suppose you're fast asleep and suddenly

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the sun shining on your face comes as a shock. Allah so gentle with

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his. That's his so Latif subtle. So gently, Allah subhanaw taala

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brings the

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Fajr the dawn.

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And what does it take to bring the dawn if you look in the, in the,

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in the universe, how many forces are in interplay, what

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mathematical calculations are required, that for 4.5 4 billion

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years Fajr has been coming.

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Same predictable, Fajr same

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perfect system that's been running, what complexities what

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laws of physics day after day.

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Now Fajr that Allah takes the oath. We also know that in the

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spiritual world, certain things happen at budget time, like what

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it is a change of shift time of change of shift of the angels

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assert time and Fajr the angels of the night who have been with you,

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recording you will go back to Allah and a new set of angels who

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will record you during the day will come and the next shift will

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come at a set time will go till fajr. So this is a time where the

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angels are sent to Allah subhanaw taala. And Allah subhanaw taala

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frequently he already knows, but just to make them feel good that

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they're doing their job, if you will. He says, What did you find

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my servant to do? My servant because each one's angel is there

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to my two angels who record it. See Ya Allah. When I went there at

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the time, he was doing Salah to you. And when I just left him at

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Pfizer time, he was doing celerity now if this report reaches there

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isn't the beautiful report. That's why we have to be conscious of

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this, because 5g is a very special time of the bad.

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And that's why we also mentioned that the best time for reciting

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the Quran is the time that you start your day with an act of

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obedience of Allah subhanaw taala. Now some of the commentators have

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opined that this is specifically for the 10th of the hedge. This is

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the Fajr of Ebola. And some have said that this is the Fajr of the

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first of Muharram, the beginning of the year. Those are some

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opinions.

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Now those are the commentators I'll share a reflection this is

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only a reflection of the record. This is not from the books.

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When you think of this

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physical light,

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you should also think of Allah can prayers, no light with guidance.

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Right. And this is an early makansutra smackAh and the whole

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world was in darkness Jai Leia of ignorance. In that time, Allah is

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taking an oath the Fajr in other words, the dawn is

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Hear the dawn of guidance, okay? That there is arrival of spiritual

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light and therefore, ultimately, the result is expulsion of the

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darkness on Earth. But also we should reflect in our own lives

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because each one of us frequently except those who Allah has

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protected from birth has had a Fudger of their own life or

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spiritual awakening at some point.

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And if you reflect you might be able to identify when was my

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spiritual Fajr

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and when we think of that there was a special the jelly or Grace

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of Allah on me that from whatever I was doing Allah Subhana Allah

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brought me to this reality and then we should also think

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consequently now that there has been a Fajr that's why you are all

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sitting here we are sitting here.

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How bright is the light shining? Can I see things as clearly as I

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should?

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Okay, just like the sun

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or do I still have shadows and doubts? I don't know what I see.

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Well, alien ash Allah subhanaw taala says and by the 10 nights

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now the majority of major opinion is that these are the first 10

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days of the month of the hijab and which is the month of dal Hijrah

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number,

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the last one the 12 month, I'm tempted to ask our sisters to

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tell us the 12 months in order but I'm going to let it go because in

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the interest of time, what month are we in right now? Raja Raja?

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Mashallah, mashallah, what comes after Roger, then, then

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then.

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Then we'll hedge then Mahara. Okay, so the 10 days of don't hija

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up to the 10th Okay.

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Because the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam has said that there

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are no days in the year in which deeds are more beloved to Allah

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subhanaw taala than that 10 days of the ledger first 10 days when

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people go for Hajj till either Lada.

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And then somebody said to him, these are the questions you want

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to know questions that era Sula. Even better than a person who

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isn't goes to hajj or to jihad, because that's the ultimate. He

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said even Jihad except for the majority who goes with his life

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and wealth and doesn't return.

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Okay, so this is a special time Allah takes oath.

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Some have said that this 10 nights are the last 10 nights of the

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month of Ramadan. That's another opinion. And some have said that

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it is the 10 nights the first 10 nights of Muharram drill Ashura,

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because these are all sacred months.

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When does this reveal which month was it revealed? That's not

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we don't have access to any information like that. We know

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it's early Mecca. So other than the beginning of the revelation in

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the month of Ramadan, there is very little information of which

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months what was revealed, and they can only be extrapolated, because

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this is the last and we know when the Prophet salallahu Salam passed

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away, or this this was revealed right at the time of Hajj, or when

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he was coming from on the day of alpha, then we know those ideas,

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but in general, we don't have that information.

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Some commentators have said that it's only the 10th night

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you know, not 10 Nights, but the 10th night which would be in

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Ramadan, they called it the Laylatul Qadr. But the night of

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Musa alpha, because between the ninth and 10th That's the 10th

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night and that's a very special time anyway. So essentially what

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we are all the opinions are that these are special times of worship

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that is determined and chosen by Allah subhanaw taala in his

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infinite wisdom, which are full of special rewards and spiritual

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gifts for people who want them and these are special times that we

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therefore what should I do? Take advantage this is my to do list.

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Take advantage of these special times but they are not just those

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months because there are special times monthly. There are special

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times weekly such as

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Joomla

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there are special times

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Daily such as we just mentioned, are certain Fudger there are

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special times daily which we covered in Surah Al zamil.

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last third of the night tahajjud. So there are daily opportunities

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and today, as our sister reminded us, we are in another one of the

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four sacred months which is called Raja. So the Prophet salallahu

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Alaihe Salam and today's now the third of Raja he said Allahumma

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barik Luna fie Raja. We're Shaban. We're maligna Ramadan. This is the

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daughter of the prophets

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who Allah bless us in this month of Raja and in Shaban and help us

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by a grace to reach Ramadan. In other words, we want to be able to

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get the rewards reach Ramadan we don't know if we will live there

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so he used to make this da so please make the door

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now, you might ask that you're talking about first 10 days from

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off don't hedger but Allah saying 10 Nights he's not saying 10 days

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he's not saying

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a Yamanashi.

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What do you think because you, you do that night anymore. Because

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that may be the nights have more spiritual benefit than the day

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because in the daytime, we are busy again. If you attended Surah

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Al Muzammil Allah subhanaw taala set in a Nasha Layli here I should

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do what our Acoma Pilla, in the daytime, you're busy, but at night

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rising in the night is much more you are much more focused and your

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words are clear. So, when he says this, it means day and night, but

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especially at night because it's a special time of worship.

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What chef ate well water what is shuffle?

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You even even number where there is parity with their

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board number Okay. So, some of the commentators have said so, if we

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take the pre first interpretation that this is the first 10 days of

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the hedger and say that this is Otto is connected to that what

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would you consider as the chef

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of not of the first 10 days of one hedger?

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Which is the chef

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the 10th because that is the greatest day of the year, either

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nada, the Yamaha Okay, Allah has called it the greatest day.

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It Akbar, okay.

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And what is the odd, the wetter?

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The ninth, which is the day off

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the day in which Allah releases more soul forgives more people

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than any other day.

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And the day that shaitan is most distressed about is the ninth,

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that all these people are going to come and cry and Allah is going to

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forgive them all my whole job is made useless. So

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one interpretation of schaffen what is that it is the 10th and

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ninth of the ledger, the two greatest days of the year.

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Now you think of Witter in another way, what is the ultimate of

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winter? Or what the roboter

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what is ultimate OD?

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Oh Allah.

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Allah and this is not something I'm saying because the Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi salam said in Mala withdrawn where you have bull

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with

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Allah is with them. I'm not going to use the word odd because it has

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other meaning. Allah is better and he loves with

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no, okay. Because one that is indivisible in any way.

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Number two, that there is no two qualities in it. He's just there

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will be no in opposite injustice in.

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He has kindness, he's not going to have cruelty.

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He is the Most High he is not going to be low. He is Generous,

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he's not going to be stingy. Whereas in the chakra,

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the parity Allah has created as Allah subhanaw taala says in the

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Quran, he says Did we not create you in pairs that Allah created

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everything in pairs. Now you can take it like male and female in

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all genders, but you also take it as pairs up and down.

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Hot and cold.

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I have so opposites are also happy and sad.

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So Allah subhanaw taala is the ultimate of winter and everything

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the creation is in pairs. Okay. So Allah has create swearing in this

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interpretation by himself and all of His creation.

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And then there is

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a narration about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam he said

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that some of the Salah he didn't say that this is interpretation of

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this he says some of the Salah are shafa and some of them or waiter.

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So this could be also interpreted as a lob swearing by Salah because

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which is the waiter Sarah?

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Margaret, Margaret, all the others chef, okay.

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Well lately either yes or no Allah subhanaw taala saying the night

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Yes, sir. Who that travels. Now does night actually travel?

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All the time.

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This is metaphorical. Okay. But you can see this if you're out in

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space.

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It looks on the globe as it's rotating like the night is moving

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across, right? Doesn't it look like you see it on the airplane

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sing they sing nights coming, you know. So it looks like that ALLAH

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SubhanA. Allah is giving us a view from above that that it looks like

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it is metaphorical. It doesn't really travel. Because it's, it's

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the rotation. Okay?

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Now we can reflect on this also, these are the odds Allah started

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with Fajr. And the ends with the night as it leaves as it travels.

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What does this mean? This means from Fudger everything else till

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the end of the night, that's 24 hours of your day. So if you put

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them all together, you could say, well, Allah has sworn by the

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entire day,

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which is our life.

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Our life is this one day after another after another from birth

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to death, that all of these powerful oaths should force us to

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reflect on how we use each unit of our life, which is from Pfizer

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tuition. This is another job action to reflect at the end of

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the day. What did I do

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in one day of my life, which is never coming back?

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Right? What should I do tomorrow that's better than today. So this

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should lead us to reflect that and do it with the perspective of not

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what did I earn today here? But what did I do to achieve the goal

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of my life? And what is the goal of my life that we don't set a

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goal of our lives low? That will I want to be this I want to have

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this much I want to be financially so these are lonely goals, which

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are okay, but what is the ultimate goal?

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proximity with God, you know, to be Allah subhanaw taala says to be

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Abdullah to be amatola male and female slaves of Allah, that's

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what he created us for. Do I will fulfill that goal did I do

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everything that is required from this slave today, that Allah gave

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me this day? If he gives me tomorrow, what am I going to do?

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So we don't plan five years. You know, they tell us you know, you

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should be long sighted five years, 10 years. That's a foolish thing.

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Why? Because you don't know you're going to be the

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checkout today. Focus on today and plan for tomorrow if you have it.

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And once we look at this, our how we spend our day we should say

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that this is what he's taken an oath with. I wonder what the job

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of discussing is going to be? What's coming that here Allah

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Swanton has said all of this, okay, now, Allah subhanaw taala in

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this surah normally the job of the custom comes right after this, the

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custom, but Allah smart Allah has kept us in suspense here.

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Now he gives us some things lessons from history. Then he

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brings the develop of cousin because it's related.

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First, before we go to that Allah subhanaw taala says healthy Delica

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personally, the hedger

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Allah He asks a rhetorical question, is there not sufficient

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proof or an oath for hedger is an intelligent mind that knows how to

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protect and restrain itself? Is there not enough in this reminder

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of these oats for an intelligent mind? Reminder for

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What

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to restrain themselves to recognize when you see all of

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these phenomena that I mentioned have Fudger and, and night and

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those special moments, spiritual moments, to recognize the creator

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in these things and to have all Kusha of him to be fearful of

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visibility to punish and to lead our lives in full awareness of

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him. Okay, and thereby make the correct right choices and protect

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ourselves from the displeasure of Allah subhanaw taala from his

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wrath from his anger, and from his punishment, and that we know

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through these that Allah has the mighty and ability to punish the

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disbeliever the rebellious and the disobedient, because that's what

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comes next, unless one of the law says LM Terra kafer for Allara

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Buka behad have you and this is mentioned as second person

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singular to the Prophet sallallahu listen, I'm Tara, you have you not

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seen how your Lord dealt with the people of odd?

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No ad was a creation of Allah subhanaw taala after no La Silla

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they inhabited the southern part of of Arabia and their ruins were

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found just I think it's in 1991 or something because it was seen by

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satellite and they found some things that suggests that that's

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where they were in what is the area of Hadramaut and Western Oman

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in that area southern Okay.

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Allah smart Allah says Allah tierra que Farfalla rabuka bayaud

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And we know what happened to the people who are Allah subhanaw

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taala sent them a messenger by the name of

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our this the tribe

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so you're the now who delay Salah Okay.

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Allah smart Allah sent through the salam to them, to call them to

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heed to tell them to stop all the evil that they were doing the

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corruption that they had spirits, and they did not listen. And

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ultimately he promised them that they will be punished. And Allah

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subhanaw taala unleashed on them for strong wind. hurricane force

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wind, for he says in the Quran, seven nights and eight days, seven

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nights and eight days of 200 miles an hour. Wind if you will.

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category six hurricane

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left nothing

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completely unless one two law says. Now it's interesting. Look

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what he says and this is not just for Rasulullah salah, but it's for

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us whoever reads the Quran. Have you not seen how Allah your Lord

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dealt with the people of God? Did the prophets Allah and Islam see?

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Did we see? Then why is he saying the answer is no. If Allah says

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have you not seen Have you not seen me said the answer is no.

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Then why is this?

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Because even though you haven't seen it, this is to give you

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certainty it. It is so certain it is as if you had seen it. So Allah

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saying Haven't you seen it? In other words, it's so well recorded

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that you know that it happened. Okay, so this is for certainty

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that Allah is saying, and I'm Tara as if you saw it.

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Okay.

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Yeah, my dad still had

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Iran, there are different opinions. One opinion is that Iran

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was the name of the capital of the main city of the tribe of AD.

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There is another opinion that this was the name of a person who was a

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descendant of from Nuala salaam, his son, Sam, his son house, his

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son, and their descendants ad so that's another opinion. Okay. So

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anyway, that is a mad mad means, from

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Imad means. pillars, pillars, pillars, okay.

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pillars, Allah subhanaw taala says allottee lum your luck Mithila.

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Phil, beloved, that Allah had not created any race, like he created

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this. The people have odd because of their elsewhere in the Quran,

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Allah said they were given bus they were huge. They were like

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giants. Okay, so some of the people have said that the ROM is

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actually representative. They were like pillars, they were massive.

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Others have said that they were so massive because they were a

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nomadic tribe, to move their tents, they need to have huge

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poles because they couldn't get in there. So this was a big huge

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creation of Allah

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Asma Tala from the HomoSapiens that he gives special stature to.

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And therefore when you're given that much strength and all and we

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know other Malay salaam, originally for the, for the arm's

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length, so these people were also huge. So when you are that big and

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strong, what happens to you?

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are against you forget that who created you?

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And they claim that in the Quran Allah says they said, Who has

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more? Who has more Kuba than us who can mess with us? Allah says,

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Allah has more.

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So anytime, fast forward, you see people with a lot of power today,

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we don't have those physical powers, but whether it's military

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strength, whether it's economic strength, or any kind of power and

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might people think, just remember who has more power.

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Okay, just remember that anyone who's gets out again, the fall is

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coming, fall is coming, but Allah has his own timeframe.

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So Allah Subhana Allah mentions them, that they are the ones with

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the stall architecture in which they lived. And Allah subhanaw

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taala destroyed them. Then Allah smart Allah mentions the second

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group of people, but some of the Latina Jabu, Sakura Millward,

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say alum Tara that alum Tara also goes with Ahmed means Did you not

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see how your Lord dealt with samode? The tribal Simone is that

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was in southern Arabia. This was in northern Arabia and the ruins

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of samode are about 400 400 kilometers north of Medina. If

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you're going from Medina to Tabuk Okay, from Medina, you come to

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high bar from high bar halfway, a little bit more to the west or the

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ruins of samode.

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In a what is now called the mount assalam. If you if you in the it's

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called mohareb in the valley of Allah Allah if you Google those

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you may see some pictures of huge rocks and boulders in which there

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are carvings of homes because Job was Sakura Sakura means huge

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rocks, boulders job comes from

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what is this in Arabic, jab, jab pocket means who made openings in

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rocks, who made jabs to live in jab was Sakura.

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Beloved in the valley, so there is a valley in which there are

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massive boulders in which there are carvings of people and there

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are actually writings of the thermodyne.

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To next time we go for ombre, we take a detour up there. But we

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don't go there for these places as

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normal tourists.

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We don't go as tourists even when you go see the pyramids, you don't

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go Wow.

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What do you go out and see these things for? For Abraham? To take

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lessons. Look, they did this and look at the end. What happened who

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was in charge?

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Well, fair honor the low tide. And Allah subhanaw taala brings those

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pyramids in there. And the third he mentions from history around

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the altered altered means takes something that's firmly stuck in

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the ground and its tall. One narration is that all the people

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that he wants to torture and punish, he would have them pinned

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and nailed on these big wooden stakes.

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wooden sticks high, so people could see. And he would, you know,

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punish them to death on those. And then some others have said that

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these Oh, Todd could also mean the pyramids themselves. And they were

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built to show the power

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of them.

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So Allah subhanaw taala destroyed the people of Thamud. By by the

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way who was sent to the people of Thamud.

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Say you're the North Salia Hala Salaam and there was a special

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event that took place after he won them. They they made a funny,

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funny remark. They said we will believe in you because they lived

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among those rocks. If you see this big, big rock Boulder, if you make

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a female camel come out of this rock

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jokingly made ridiculing.

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He said okay, Allah subhanaw taala made this Naka of Allah the female

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camel came out

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and he said she will drink one day. You will drink one day. Don't

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mess with her. She will graze wherever she wants. The moment you

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do harm her in any way.

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Allah's punishment.

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So what do the mob mentality do like they're doing these days in

00:35:07 --> 00:35:12

some countries? They said, they got one of their goondas. And they

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said, Go and hammer, they took her hand strung, cut the leg.

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And he said, You've called your death and Allah subhanaw taala

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shook the earth so much that that was the end of massive earthquake

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destroyed them.

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And of course, for the frown, what was his destruction?

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drown him and his people in the sea, open the sea, not just an

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average drowning.

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Open the sea, show the signs of Allah.

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Come in, and then you go into your own watery grave.

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Then Allah subhanaw taala after mentioning these three

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specifically, he says Alladhina Tao, Phil beloved, all of these

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three tavole Phil Billa dugout means to exceed all bounds to

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overflow the transgressed or limits of Allah, these people were

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given a lot of lot of opportunities. This is called

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totalitarian rule, I will do whatever I want, whether it's

00:36:18 --> 00:36:24

individual, or as a nation, the Tolkien this, this exceeding of

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bounds, transgression is a recipe and is a precursor of disaster.

00:36:30 --> 00:36:31

Allah's punishment is coming.

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That's why this de Leon has to be

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held back.

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We all have desires, we all have things that we can do. They flow

00:36:45 --> 00:36:45

like water,

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water gives life. But water also destroys sometimes what do you

00:36:51 --> 00:36:55

need to have, you have to regulate the flow of water. So you put

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dams, you only allow a certain amount of water to go through, so

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it doesn't flood and destroy. We need to have dams for ourselves,

00:37:04 --> 00:37:08

that I don't let myself exceed the bounds that Allah subhanaw taala

00:37:08 --> 00:37:13

boundaries has, has set for me, because I'm going to harm myself.

00:37:15 --> 00:37:21

For x for x through fee held facade, and they were excessive,

00:37:21 --> 00:37:27

they did corruption and mischief and depravity on Earth in massive

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dimensions means complete

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all the evil and facade that they did their times and happens after,

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it's not just then.

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Now sometimes people ask, is evil a creation of Allah?

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Does Allah creative?

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Allah subhanaw taala tells us

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the horrible facade to fill bergerie Will Buhari be Makassar,

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but a the nurse that facade corruption and evil has spread on

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the bar, and bar on land and sea, because of the actions of man,

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Allah does not create evil, but he has created a law that says that

00:38:14 --> 00:38:18

if you do this evil, if you do this, these will be the

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consequences and they are all evil, and they will come back to

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only harm and corrupt you. So evil and facade is the creation of man.

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In every dimension today, we say, you know, the polar caps are

00:38:36 --> 00:38:39

melting. This is a facade whose action is it?

00:38:41 --> 00:38:47

Is my action, how much energy, fossil fuels I'm burning, what I'm

00:38:47 --> 00:38:51

wasting all of those things. So everything that the pollution, you

00:38:51 --> 00:38:57

know, all of this facade is the consequence of not the creation of

00:38:57 --> 00:39:02

Allah, but the consequence of our actions. Allah subhanaw taala law,

00:39:02 --> 00:39:06

your humble facade, whether you have been Mufson Allah does not

00:39:06 --> 00:39:09

like facade love facade, or a person who creates facade

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as

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people of Tawheed as Muslims, we are not people of if sad doing

00:39:17 --> 00:39:24

facade, we are people of Islam, we do good and Muslim should spread

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goodness not evil and corruption and all of that.

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So ALLAH SubhanA, Allah says in this ayah, that corruption has

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appeared on land and sea because of what people's hands have

00:39:35 --> 00:39:40

earned, in order to make them taste,

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what they have done the consequences of what they have

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done, so that they may return that once they get involved with all of

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this and they start suffering, they will realize and maybe turn

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back to Allah and Toba, but many of us don't.

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So what is the response of Allah subhanaw taala

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for these three tribes, he said for Saba la him, Rob Buka sell

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them, for Saba Saba means to pour on them in massive quantities.

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Salt, salt, salt is like a whip

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on somebody's back that Allah has poured his punishment on them in a

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great punishment, a scourge of punishment.

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And the description of these outcomes is a response of Allah

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against tyrants.

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And you know that anyone who exceeds bounds this is going to

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happen. For the early Muslims, these ideas were a means of

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comfort. Why? Because they were being tyrannized by the kuffar.

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This game that more than these people have Koresh around and this

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tribe and that tribe that they knew of Allah destroyed them. So,

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these people will also taste we have to hold steadfast. So it was

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a means of strengthening comforting and reassuring the

00:41:06 --> 00:41:13

believers and this should also be comforting and reassuring to the

00:41:13 --> 00:41:17

people, the Muslims of China, the Muslims of India, the Muslims of

00:41:17 --> 00:41:22

Kashmir of Burma everywhere, that yes, all of this is going on. But

00:41:23 --> 00:41:24

now comes

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after describing these consequences comes the Java will

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custom that we were waiting for. In Rob baccala Bill Miller FOD

00:41:35 --> 00:41:39

indeed your Lord is Ever Watchful

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closely watches

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so there are two consequences of this one it reassures you if evil

00:41:49 --> 00:41:52

is being done against you that Allah is watching. He's not

00:41:52 --> 00:41:56

unaware that what they're doing. Who is this is doing? Yes, he's

00:41:56 --> 00:42:01

watching. It's not out of control. Number two for me,

00:42:03 --> 00:42:08

on my daily schedule, allies ever watchful What do I say and

00:42:08 --> 00:42:09

watchful means?

00:42:11 --> 00:42:12

Yes, now?

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Well,

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he will pursue, he hears and he sees

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every detail of every creation in every dimension, whether it's

00:42:25 --> 00:42:29

galactic or subatomic, every single thing, this is the punch

00:42:29 --> 00:42:33

line, if you will, Joab of Kasam all of those when we were saying

00:42:33 --> 00:42:37

what is it what is Allah trying to say? In Arabic Allah Vilnius.

00:42:39 --> 00:42:45

Allah is watching, ever watchful, he, it also implies an ambush.

00:42:47 --> 00:42:51

That Allah allows these people to exceed bounds, and it's just

00:42:51 --> 00:42:51

waiting

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to catch them at the worst moment of their lives.

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Because the proportion of what you are doing, it will be

00:43:00 --> 00:43:03

proportionate to that. And I give the example that sometimes the

00:43:03 --> 00:43:06

unmarked police car keeps following you and keeps pushing

00:43:06 --> 00:43:10

you. So from 80, you go to 85, you go to nine when you go to 95. Now

00:43:10 --> 00:43:13

it turns it on because we can give you a ticket for that instead of

00:43:13 --> 00:43:17

just for it. So this is in

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Rob Bacala, Bill Marsan, Allah Subhan Allah says and we give them

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and we give them and then we suddenly grasp them.

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So this word Mossad, you should remember this is the devil person,

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Allah is Mossad every day, remind yourself morning, before you are

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going anywhere,

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before you attempted to do anything, like in, in rugby,

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I will miss my Lord, not just your lord, my lord remind me is

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watching

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what I'm doing

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okay because we are weak.

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Therefore, our Aqeedah tells us that Allah is Aware of all details

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of all of our existence in all the dimensions. Yes, now why era he

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sees and he hears and therefore we should always be immersed in this

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awareness of Allah subhanaw taala in all circumstances, and also

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remember that Allah's punishment that Allah brings in this world is

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also near to the insolent, tyrannical and corrupt

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communities. This is a law of nature. And Allah asserts this law

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confirms this law by the oath that he is taken out of time.

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So let the believers be reassured always that Allah will deal in

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time, with all corruption and tyranny.

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Now we come to the second part, is it something we should just

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postpone for the next or Yes, so we're going to stop here in sha

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Allah and we will cover the rest of the soul

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In two weeks,

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we can shall ask you to review this part and read ahead with that

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thinking of what we have learned from the first part, keeping that

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frame of mind, go ahead

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and inshallah we will cover that in sha Allah Bismillah in two

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weeks

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