Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Reflect On The QurAn – Surah Al Kahaf – Ayah 52 To 59

Mohammad Ali Hazratji
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The speakers discuss the importance of guidance in the Bible and avoiding mistakes, as well as the use of "rowling" and negative emotions. They stress the need for guidance and resetting behavior, as well as the importance of regular deeds and avoiding jeopardizing one's deeds. The conversation also touches on deeds and the importance of taking things seriously and finding time to sit by oneself.

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			Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala continuing on
		
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			the theme of the Day of Judgment, He
		
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			says وَيَوْمَ يَقُولُوا نَادُوا شُرَكَئِيَ الَّذِينَ زَعَمْتُمْ فَدْعَوَهُمْ
		
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			فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَهُمْ وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُمْ مَوْ بِقَامٍ Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and on that
		
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			day Allah will say to the people who
		
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			worshipped other than Allah, bring your partners that
		
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			you thought were partners to me, call them,
		
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			call them.
		
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			نَادُوا شُرَكَئِي Call those who you took as
		
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			partners to me.
		
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			الَّذِينَ زَعَمْتُمْ whom you thought, that same, you
		
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			know, mistaken notions.
		
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			فَدْعَوَهُمْ and they will call.
		
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			They will call on those that they worship.
		
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			فَلَمْ يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَهُمْ and they will not respond.
		
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			There will be no response.
		
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			وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُمْ مَوْ بِقَامٍ Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala says, and we will put between them
		
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			a terrible barrier which is Jahannam.
		
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			And this barrier, some have said, is between
		
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			the one who is calling and who is
		
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			being called, which is the idols and everything
		
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			that is worshipped.
		
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			And some have said that this is the
		
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			barrier Allah puts between the disbelievers and the
		
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			believers.
		
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			That Jahannam is here.
		
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			This is the separation of the people.
		
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			وَرَأَ الْمُجْرِمُونَ النَّارَ and the criminals will see
		
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			the fire.
		
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			فَذَنُّوا أَنَّهُمْ مُوَاقِعُوهَا and they will now know
		
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			that they are certainly going to fall in
		
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			it.
		
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			وَلَمْ يَجِدُوا عَنْهَا مَصْرِفًا and they will find
		
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			no escape from it.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us
		
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			all from that.
		
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			Protect our progeny till the Day of Judgment.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala never allow
		
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			any of our offsprings till the Day of
		
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			Judgment to go in a state of kufr
		
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			or shirk or major disobedience of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			وَلَمْ يَجِدُوا عَنْهَا مَصْرِفًا and they will not
		
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			find it.
		
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			It's in past tense.
		
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			It means certainly there will be nothing.
		
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			مَصْرِفًا means escape.
		
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			Something that helps you avoid the Jahannam.
		
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			So this is the scene.
		
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			Now interestingly Allah ends with this مَصْرِفًا in
		
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			the next ayah he starts with the same
		
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			root وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَا مَصْرِفًا صَرَّفْنَا فِي هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنِ
		
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			لِلنَّاسِ مِن كُلِّ مَثَلٍ Same root صَرَفَ but
		
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			صَرَّفْنَا means something that is repeated in many
		
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			different ways.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says and
		
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			indeed صَرَّفْنَا فِي هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ In this Quran
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has presented things
		
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			in many different ways.
		
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			Why?
		
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			So that our thick skulls might be able
		
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			to allow it to penetrate so that we
		
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			can understand the reality.
		
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			وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَا فِي هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ لِلنَّاسِ مِن كُلِّ
		
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			مَثَلٍ Everything, every kind of parable, every answer
		
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			to every problem of all of humanity, not
		
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			just to believers, in this Quran لِلنَّاسِ for
		
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			all of humanity.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Everything.
		
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			So what Allah is saying in the Quran
		
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			is a solution for everything you face in
		
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			your life, guidance for everything.
		
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			It is there.
		
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			This is what Allah said.
		
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			Now we don't find it because our hearts,
		
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			the receptor, the waves are there.
		
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			The receptor isn't ready to receive it.
		
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			Well, first of all, if I don't read
		
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			the Quran, where am I going to find
		
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			it?
		
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			Second of all, when I face a problem,
		
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			do I turn to the Quran?
		
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			Or do I turn elsewhere?
		
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			Do I turn to Google?
		
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			Right?
		
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			Allah is saying answer to everything in the
		
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			Quran for every human being is in the
		
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			Quran for those who want to seek it,
		
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			who purify themselves to be able to extract
		
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			that.
		
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			That the Quran speaks to them.
		
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			This is not stories, you know, the two
		
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			men of the, you know, the people of
		
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			the cave.
		
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			These are not stories.
		
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			This is everything should speak to my heart.
		
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			When I face something like that, when I
		
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			have two gardens, when I have wealth, this
		
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			Quran should be speaking to me.
		
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			This is your responsibility.
		
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			This is what you need to do.
		
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			So if it is not, if we are
		
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			not extracting those lessons, if we are not
		
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			interacting with the Quran, it is because our
		
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			hearts are diseased and we are not ready.
		
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			وكان الإنسان أكثر شيء جدلا There is the
		
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			problem.
		
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			That indeed, mankind in general is the most
		
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			argumentative.
		
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			جدال If, but this, that, does it, arguing
		
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			about everything.
		
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			And this argument leads to a lot of
		
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			problems.
		
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			All the conflicts, the anger issues come from
		
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			arguments, the divorces come from, starting from the
		
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			union.
		
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			Then the countries are arguing with each other
		
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			and civilizations are arguing and the wars come
		
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			as a result and so on and so
		
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			forth.
		
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			So Allah SWT just says, telling us a
		
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			characteristic of mankind is وكان الإنسان أكثر شيء
		
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			More than anything else, man is argumentative, Allah
		
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			says.
		
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			Angels don't argue.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Nothing, man is always argumentative.
		
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			And to what degree?
		
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			There is narration.
		
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			One day Rasulullah ﷺ, it was night time,
		
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			he went to visit, and if you've been
		
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			to Medina, the house of Sayyidah Fatima and
		
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			Ali was very close to the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			It's like from here to that room.
		
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			So in the night he goes to them
		
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			and he finds them sleeping.
		
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			Is there anything wrong with that?
		
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			No.
		
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			So he says to them, You're sleeping?
		
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			You're not praying?
		
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			You're a different standard for his daughter and
		
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			son-in-law.
		
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			It means it's night time, you should be
		
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			up in Qiyamul Layl, you should be in
		
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			tahajjud.
		
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			Right?
		
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			He said, you're sleeping?
		
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			So Sayyidah Ali says, Ya Rasulullah, our souls
		
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			are, you know that, our souls are with
		
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			Allah SWT.
		
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			If he wants, he'll send the souls back
		
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			to us.
		
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			Did he say the right thing?
		
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			Yes, that's a fact.
		
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			So Rasulullah ﷺ turned around and he started
		
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			walking away and Sayyidina Ali says he hit
		
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			his thigh, his own thigh, and said, Man
		
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			is always argumentative.
		
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			So he took that as an argument that
		
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			Ali should have said, I'm sorry I fell
		
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			asleep, I should be praying.
		
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			But he said, Allah has taken our souls.
		
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			So, you know, this is telling us one
		
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			level, but we have got bigger problems than
		
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			that of not getting up for tahajjud.
		
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			We have much greater problems.
		
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			And we argue about different things.
		
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			Does this mean things?
		
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			And we argue about meaningless things which will
		
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			not affect our way of doing things because
		
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			what we need to do to please Allah
		
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			SWT is very clear.
		
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			There's no mutashabih, there's no doubts about it.
		
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			So, we need to just make things, take
		
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			things seriously.
		
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			Then Allah SWT says in ayah number 55,
		
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			I think we are running on schedule.
		
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			وَمَا مَنَ عَنَّاسَ أَن يُؤْمِنُوا إِذْ جَاءَهُمُ الْهُدَىٰ
		
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			وَيَسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّهُمْ إِلَّا أَن تَأْتِيَهُمْ سُنَّةُ الْأَوَّلِينَ أَوْ
		
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			يَأْتِيَهُمُ الْحَذَابُ قُبْلًا وَمَا مَنَ عَنَّاسَ And what
		
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			prevents mankind أَن يُؤْمِنُوا إِذْ جَاءَهُمُ الْهُدَىٰ When
		
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			guidance comes, what prevents man from accepting it?
		
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			Believing.
		
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			We all make mistakes.
		
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			What keeps them?
		
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			إِلَّا What keeps them?
		
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			إِلَّا except أَن تَأْتِيَهُمْ سُنَّةُ الْأَوَّلِينَ أَوْ يَأْتِيَهُمُ
		
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			الْحَذَابُ قُبْلًا It's their arrogance.
		
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			They say, well, what happened to the old,
		
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			to our ancestors?
		
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			Let's see if that happens to us.
		
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			Or, they're waiting, like they used to challenge
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ in this Makkan Surah.
		
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			You know, okay, if you say Allah will
		
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			punish us, bring it on.
		
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			Bring it on.
		
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			And all nations before have done this.
		
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			Allah ﷻ says, guidance has come to you.
		
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			It's an opportunity.
		
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			It's a blessing from Allah.
		
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			It's Allah's gift.
		
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			Whatever you've done, ask for forgiveness.
		
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			يَسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبُّهُمْ Istighfar is so important.
		
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			We should always be in istighfar.
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ, who is sinless, who is ma'soom,
		
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			you said that I do istighfar to Allah
		
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			70 times, 100 times a day.
		
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			He is doing istighfar.
		
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			How much do we need to do?
		
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			And istighfar removes every kind of difficulty.
		
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			Every kind.
		
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			If you read in the Qur'an, there
		
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			are ayahs in Surah An-Nu, about the
		
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			benefits of what istighfar does.
		
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			If you have famine, istighfar.
		
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			If you are barren, can't have a child,
		
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			istighfar.
		
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			If you are poor with nothing, istighfar.
		
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			Everything istighfar has, asking because you're removing those
		
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			sins which are holding back Allah's blessings from
		
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			you.
		
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			Istighfar, Allah ﷻ says, and Allah ﷻ says
		
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			in the Qur'an that we will not
		
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			punish them, Rasulullah ﷺ, till you are with
		
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			them.
		
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			Or if they are in istighfar, Allah's punishment
		
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			will not come.
		
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			So we can prevent Allah's punishment by being
		
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			with Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			He is not going to be with us.
		
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			What does it mean?
		
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			That if Allah looks on the earth, and
		
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			He does, and He sees the sunnah of
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ alive, in your house, why would
		
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			Allah send a punishment to that house?
		
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			And He sees the residents of that house
		
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			in istighfar.
		
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			But if He sees households where there is
		
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			not one single sunnah of Rasulullah ﷺ, in
		
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			other words, we have thrown him out of
		
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			our house, ﷺ, then we are asking for
		
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			Allah's Allah.
		
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			So Allah ﷻ saying nothing prevents them other
		
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			than that obstinate arrogance that okay, we'll see.
		
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			Do what, you know, bring what you promise.
		
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			Or Allah says, or the punishment of Allah
		
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			is brought face to face before their own
		
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			eyes.
		
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			And some of the scholars have said that
		
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			this, it was a reference to the Battle
		
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			of Badr because this was the Makkan Surah,
		
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			that they will see Allah's punishment and most
		
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			of these leaders, the real criminals among the
		
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			Quraish, were killed in that Battle of Badr
		
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			like Abu Jahl, Utbah, Shaybah, and Walid ibn
		
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			Mughirah.
		
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			And all of them, most of the major
		
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			leaders were killed in this.
		
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			Allah ﷻ says, وَمَا نُرْسَلُ الْمُرْسَلِينَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّرِينَ
		
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			وَمُنذِرِينَ And we have not sent messengers except
		
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			as warners and givers of glad tidings, warning
		
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			them of what might happen by disobeying and
		
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			disbelieving and giving glad tidings for the believers
		
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			who do good deeds of what Allah has
		
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			promised.
		
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			So if you are saying, bring on to
		
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			the messenger, bring on punishment, Allah ﷻ said,
		
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			we didn't send him to punish you.
		
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			We sent him as a warner and as
		
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			a giver of glad tidings.
		
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			وَيُجَادِلُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِالْبَاطِلِ لَيُضْحِدُوا بِهِ الْحَقِّ And
		
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			the disbelievers, they argue with false arguments to
		
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			poke holes into the truth, al-haqq, which
		
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			Allah has sent.
		
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			They are trying to confuse people, argue against
		
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			the truth using false arguments.
		
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			وَاتَّخَذُوا آيَاتِي وَمَا أُمْذِرُوا هُزُوًّا And they have
		
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			taken my ayaat, here Allah ﷻ uses ayaati,
		
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			personal, my ayaat.
		
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			Ayaat is the verses of the Qur'an
		
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			and the signs that Allah has created.
		
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			There are two books, the book in the
		
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			universe, the ayaat signs, and the book which
		
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			is the written book.
		
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			The written and the apparent revealed, open book
		
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			of the universe.
		
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			They have taken them and وَمَا أُمْذِرُوا what
		
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			I have, the warnings I have sent as
		
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			huzuwa, as joke, as a mockery.
		
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			Oh, you promise fire?
		
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			Fire in the heavens?
		
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			We don't see any fire.
		
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			You talk about Day of Judgment?
		
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			It's not going to happen.
		
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			So they make a joke out of it,
		
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			out of everything.
		
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			I always get this thing, oh, so you're
		
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			working for the 72 virgins?
		
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			Quite, no problem.
		
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			We are doing this.
		
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			Oh, you think we are going, we are
		
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			all going to, those polytheists, may Allah guide
		
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			them.
		
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			Oh, you think you are the only chosen
		
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			ones?
		
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			We are all going to be.
		
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			We are, you know, everybody is going to
		
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			be in good shape, whatever their concept of
		
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			it is.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, you
		
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			take my warnings and my ayaat as a
		
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			joke and you make mockery of it.
		
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			And sometimes, unfortunately, Muslims make mockery of Allah's
		
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			descriptions of Jahannam and of Jannah, especially of
		
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			Jannah.
		
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			Okay, we don't take these things seriously.
		
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			If we are making mockery of it, then,
		
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			you know, we have to be prepared for
		
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			the consequences.
		
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			Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَمَنْ
		
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			أَذْلَمُ مِمَّنْ ذُكِّرَ بِآيَاتِ رَبِّهِ فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهَا And
		
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			who, this is a rhetorical question, and who
		
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			does greater wrong or greater injustice than one
		
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			who is reminded of the ayaat of his
		
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			Lord, reminded of this, فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهَا and he
		
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			turns his back.
		
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			In other words, he ignores it.
		
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			I don't believe in it.
		
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			That's the ultimate, or doesn't say, I don't
		
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			believe, just turns their back to it.
		
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			In other words, does not follow through on
		
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			what that ayah is telling us to do.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, And who
		
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			does a greater wrong than one who is
		
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			reminded, ذُكِّرَ There is another reminder that one
		
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			of the reminders to believe in Allah is
		
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			because our souls had made a covenant with
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when they were
		
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			first created.
		
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			أَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ قَالُوا بَلَا شَهِدْنَا Allah says, We
		
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			are reminded of that, that you made a
		
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			covenant to worship Allah alone and now you
		
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			have turned around.
		
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			And our covenant, when we say, لا إله
		
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			إلا الله محمد رسول الله that we will
		
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			worship you alone and lead our lives according
		
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			to Muhammadur Rasulullah.
		
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			And when we turn our backs on that,
		
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			it's the same thing.
		
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			Allah is saying, Who is doing a greater
		
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			wrong?
		
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			And who is this zulm being done on?
		
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			On Allah?
		
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			On ourselves.
		
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			Because the consequences are for us.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Then, another important thing.
		
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			وَنَسِيَ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَا And this person forgot
		
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			what he has sent forward with his hands.
		
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			In other words, the deeds.
		
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			So, not only does he turn back, but
		
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			he has forgotten all the sins that he
		
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			has done.
		
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			نَسِيَ Forgot.
		
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			نَسِيَ Insaan come from the same root.
		
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			Insaan is forgetful.
		
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			That how many sins we have committed in
		
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			our lives that we have forgotten about.
		
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			And that we will see in that book
		
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			that we have just heard about.
		
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			Allah SWT says, He forgot what he has
		
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			sent, what he is going to see.
		
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			And he is just arrogantly going about life.
		
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			So, one of the blessings when Allah SWT
		
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			loves someone and wants khair for him, Allah
		
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			reminds that person of his sinful or her
		
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			sinful deeds that they have done.
		
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			Why?
		
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			So that you can do tawbah and ask
		
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			Allah's forgiveness.
		
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			And be reminded never to do that again.
		
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			So, this is a favor from Allah SWT.
		
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			And sometimes, when you are standing in Arafah,
		
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			وَاللَّهِ الْعَذِينِ إِنَّهُ الْحَقِّ Something will come to
		
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			you which you hadn't thought in 40 years,
		
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			and suddenly it came.
		
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			That's Allah reminding you, standing in Arafah, you
		
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			forgot that sin that you have not asked
		
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			Allah for.
		
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			Do it now.
		
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			Sometimes these things come.
		
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			Sometimes you are thinking, you know, some bad
		
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			thought comes because of something that you have
		
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			done before.
		
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			It's not just, oh, I'm entertaining.
		
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			No, I'm not entertaining bad thoughts.
		
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			Inshallah.
		
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			Allah is reshuffling those memory so that, files
		
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			so that we can ask and do istighfar.
		
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			So, Abdullah ibn Mubarak, one of our saintly
		
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			scholars from the earliest generations, he stressed the
		
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			most important thing for a person to make
		
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			any progress.
		
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			He says, مَعَارَفَةٌ نَفْسٌ To know your own
		
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			self.
		
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			Know your own self is not like that,
		
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			oh, how are you?
		
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			Oh, I'm good.
		
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			I'm, you know, six feet tall and 175
		
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			pound only muscle, 1% fat and I
		
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			can bench press 300.
		
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			That's not knowing yourself.
		
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			Or I have an IQ of 168.
		
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			Knowing yourself means, what sins have I committed?
		
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			Prophet ﷺ said, if you look and you
		
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			find something good that you have done, say,
		
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			alhamdulillah.
		
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			And for everything bad you have done, ask
		
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			for acknowledge and ask for istighfar.
		
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			And blame yourself.
		
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			He says, and if you find, وَجَدُوا غَيْرَ
		
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			ذَلِك means, he didn't even say if you've
		
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			done bad.
		
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			In his nice way, Rasulullah ﷺ said, and
		
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			if you find other than good, then blame
		
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			yourself.
		
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			And blame yourself that I did it and
		
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			ask Allah for forgiveness.
		
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			Now, what is a normally thing happens to
		
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			us in our society?
		
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			When something good happens, who do we give
		
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			the credit to?
		
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			Us.
		
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			When something bad happens, who do we blame?
		
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			Complete opposite.
		
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			And this is how we need to, I
		
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			mean, it's not good enough to, you know,
		
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			we need to reset these things, you know.
		
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			We need to reset these things.
		
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			There's another saintly scholar by the name of
		
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			Sari As-Saqati, who was the mom of
		
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			the maternal uncle of Al-Junaid Baghdadi, the
		
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			great saint of Islam.
		
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			So, Sari As-Saqati was his mamu, his
		
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			maternal uncle, as well as his teacher of
		
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			Junaid Al-Baghdadi.
		
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			And in one of his saying related to
		
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			this, he said, there is nothing more destructive
		
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			to good deeds, nothing that causes more corruption
		
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			of the hearts and is quicker in destroying
		
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			a servant and perpetuating harms to others and
		
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			closer to being hated by Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala and causes a person to be
		
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			stuck with, you know, hajj, this arrogance and
		
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			ostentation and showing off and thinking highly of
		
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			yourself, narcissism, all of that, and the love
		
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			for leadership.
		
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			Then he said, قِلَّةِ مَا مَعْرِفُ الشَّخْسِ بِذُنُوبِهِ
		
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			That a person is not acquainted with his
		
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			own sins.
		
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			قِلَّةِ Very little acquaintance with that rather than
		
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			being fully acquainted with the sins that you
		
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			have done.
		
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			He said, this is the single thing that
		
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			leads to all of those things.
		
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			Because when you don't think you are, then
		
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			you think you are great.
		
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			You become arrogant and I am this and
		
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			I am that.
		
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			And that leads to many of those things
		
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			and it destroys good deeds and it corrupts
		
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			the hearts and therefore the heart never gets
		
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			fixed because I think who I am.
		
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			So, we should do the opposite instead of
		
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			Allah saying, وَنَسِيَ مَا قَدَّمَتْ We should never
		
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			forget we should do the opposite.
		
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			Ask Allah, Ya Allah, remind me of the
		
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			sins I have committed so that I may
		
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			seek your forgiveness.
		
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			Then Allah says that when people do this,
		
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			وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِنْ ذُكْرِ They are reminded, they
		
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			turn their back.
		
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			إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا This is the consequence.
		
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			إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ أَكِنَّةً أَنْ يَفْقَهُوهُ وَفِي
		
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			آذَانِهِمْ وَقْرَىٰ That Allah says, we have made
		
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			a veil over their hearts and we've made
		
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			their ears deaf.
		
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			What does it mean?
		
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			They hear good things?
		
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			No, it makes no impact.
		
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			Their hearts are presented with all the evidence.
		
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			They do not accept because there is a
		
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			veil.
		
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			It does not allow that.
		
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			وَإِن تَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَىٰ الْهُدَىٰ فَلَيْن يَهْتَدُوا إِذَا نَبَدَىٰ
		
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			And if you, Rasulullah ﷺ, call them to
		
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			guidance, Allah says, they will never be guided.
		
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			Now somebody might say, well, if Allah has
		
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			sealed the heart, then what's my choice?
		
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			Well, this seal is a consequence of the
		
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			choices you made of rejecting the truth.
		
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			عَرَضًا When you were reminded, you turned away
		
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			from the truth.
		
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			So, Allah's law of cause and effect takes
		
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			effect.
		
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			That was what you did.
		
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			This is the effect.
		
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			So some of the people, this is where
		
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			some of the people in the Aqidah went
		
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			astray.
		
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			They said, well, there's a group called the
		
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			Qadiriyya who said that we have, we can
		
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			do whatever we want.
		
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			And there's a group called the Jabiriyya that
		
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			we have no control.
		
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			Allah has sealed our hearts.
		
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			We can do nothing.
		
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			But the truth lies somewhere in between that
		
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			you don't have complete.
		
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			It's all what Allah allows you to do.
		
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			So Allah has made laws.
		
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			He has given us guidance.
		
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			He says, if you do this, this is
		
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			going to be the consequence.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So the choices we make match up with
		
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			the Qadr that Allah has destined for us.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			But ultimately, we have limited choices.
		
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			That's why we are going to be judged.
		
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			So Allah has now said, they will never
		
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			be guided.
		
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			Now look at the next ayah.
		
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			And your Lord is the ever forgiving, full
		
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			of mercy.
		
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			He said, they will never be guided.
		
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			And yet Allah leaves the door open.
		
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			Just in case.
		
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			Well, Allah says, He's telling the Prophet, and
		
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			your Lord is Al-Ghafoor.
		
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			He forgives.
		
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			He is merciful.
		
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			If Allah were to take them to task
		
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			for what they do, He would have hurried
		
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			for them their adab.
		
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			He would immediately punish them.
		
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			You know, the first time the fly sits,
		
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			you swat it right there.
		
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			Allah could have done that.
		
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			So the fact that He didn't do that
		
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			is part of His rahmah.
		
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			He is giving even those people who are
		
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			rejecting continuously chance to believe, to turn back.
		
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			No, but for them, there is an appointed
		
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			time.
		
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			Allah says, for them, there is an appointed
		
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			time that Allah has given.
		
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			That time.
		
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			And they will never find any refuge at
		
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			that time.
		
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			So this is the wisdom that Allah SWT,
		
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			in spite of people persisting, the atheists, the
		
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			rejectionists, the enemies of Islam, the wisdom of
		
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			Allah, the forgiveness of Allah, the rahmah of
		
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			Allah, is He gives time till that appointed
		
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			time.
		
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			Even if a person turns around on the
		
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			last day he is saved.
		
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			Now look what happened.
		
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			We have the story from the Seerah.
		
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			Abu Sufyan, the leader of the Quraysh.
		
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			He wasn't killed in the Battle of Badr
		
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			because he was taking the caravan.
		
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			He fought against the Prophet ﷺ in Uhud
		
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			and Khandaq.
		
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			He came as the leader and he continued
		
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			to all of that and Allah still gave
		
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			him time.
		
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			Remember his wife Hind.
		
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			What did she do?
		
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			She had the beloved uncle Hamza r.a
		
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			assassinated.
		
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			She had so much hatred that he had
		
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			a mutilated and chewed his liver.
		
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			The Ikramah, the son of Abu Jahl.
		
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			There was Khalid bin Walid, the son of
		
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			Walid bin Mughirah.
		
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			These were enemies of Islam fought Rasulullah ﷺ
		
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			over and over again.
		
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			If Allah wanted, He could have destroyed them
		
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			but He gave them time and guess what
		
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			happened in that time?
		
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			All of them accepted Islam.
		
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			So Abu Sufyan r.a, Khalid bin Walid
		
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			r.a, Hind r.a, Hind accepted Islam
		
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			and the Prophet ﷺ showing the Rahmah of
		
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			Allah at a human level.
		
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			When he entered Mecca, what did he say?
		
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			When Abu Sufyan came to say, what would
		
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			happen?
		
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			What did Rasulullah ﷺ say?
		
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			No punishment on you.
		
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			No retaliation against you.
		
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			Anyone who is in the Ka'bah, in
		
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			the Haram is safe.
		
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			Anyone who is in their homes is safe
		
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			and that would be enough and anyone who
		
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			is in the house of Abu Sufyan will
		
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			be safe.
		
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			He honored him.
		
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			Forgave everything.
		
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			This is how Allah is.
		
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			Ghafoor.
		
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			Hind.
		
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			She came to Rasulullah ﷺ asking for a
		
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			fatwa that my husband Abu Sufyan does not
		
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			give me my rights, my financial rights.
		
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			Can I take it from him?
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ sat with this woman who had
		
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			done this and gave her a fatwa.
		
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			Ikrimah ibn Abu Jahl ran away.
		
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			Many years later, he came into Islam and
		
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			when he came, Rasulullah ﷺ welcomed him and
		
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			he said, I knew some good would come
		
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			from Abu al-Hakam, which is Abu Jahl's
		
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			name because he used to be called Abu
		
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			Hakam, the father of wisdom.
		
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			He said, I knew some good would come
		
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			from him, which is your son, which is
		
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			Ikrimah and Khalid bin Waleed.
		
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			So this is Allah's maghfira and his rahmah
		
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			manifested in the seerah of Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			That's how we have to be when people
		
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			wrong us to forgive them, to show mercy
		
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			to them and move on.
		
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			Allah ﷻ wants us to do that.
		
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			So Allah ﷻ has left the door of
		
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			forgiveness open till the end.
		
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			Now, in the end doesn't mean wait till
		
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			Firaun did.
		
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			When he was drowning, that's when he said,
		
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			I believe in the Rabb of Bani Israel,
		
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			of Musa.
		
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			That's too late.
		
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			It has to come before that.
		
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			Till then, every door, this is Allah's mercy.
		
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			وَتِلْكَ الْقُرَىٰ أَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ لَمَّا ظَلَمُوا وَجَعَلْنَا لِمَهْلِكِهِمْ
		
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			مَوْيْدًا Allah ﷻ says, and those were the
		
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			cities, the nations, أَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ whom we destroyed in
		
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			the past, like the people of Ad and
		
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			Thamud and people of Lut ﷺ and Midian
		
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			and all of those that we destroyed.
		
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			لَمَّا ظَلَمُوا When they did injustice and they
		
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			reached the end of that.
		
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			Nuh ﷺ for 950 years.
		
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			Allah ﷻ could have destroyed them with the
		
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			flood in the beginning.
		
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			No, He gave them 950 years to come
		
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			to Him.
		
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			وَجَعَلْنَا لِمَهْلِكِهِمْ مَوْيْدًا Allah says, and we have
		
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			set a time for their destruction if they
		
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			don't come.
		
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			So, that's the ayah number 59 and next
		
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			is the ayah that starts the story of
		
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			Musa ﷺ.
		
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			So, we are going to stop there and
		
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			let us take some lessons from what we
		
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			have learned.
		
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			First, we need to reset our values about
		
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			the importance of this dunya compared to the
		
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			akhirah, number two.
		
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			Number two, we need to look at our
		
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			own.
		
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			I need to look at what I have
		
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			done.
		
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			If I see some good that I'm doing,
		
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			I make sure that it is with ikhlas,
		
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			with sincerity for Allah and ask for His
		
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			acceptance and thank Him for being able to
		
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			do that.
		
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			When I finish the salah, I should say,
		
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			Ya Allah, thank you for the opportunity and
		
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			the ability to do it because I could
		
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			be prevented.
		
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			If I'm being given an opportunity to do
		
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			a charitable action, I thank Allah for the
		
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			opportunity that you have given this to me
		
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			to increase my wealth and my ability to
		
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			earn good deeds.
		
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			So, we have to look at it in
		
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			that way and when we see anything, we
		
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			should be prompt in asking any sin that
		
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			is committed.
		
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			In the past, we do tawbah.
		
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			We do generic tawbah.
		
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			Ya, every sin, every major minor, everything that
		
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			is done, open and closed and secret and
		
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			forgive everything but then as we remember each
		
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			one, we should ask, Ya Allah, I did
		
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			this on such and such time.
		
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			Forgive me for this.
		
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			I did this.
		
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			Forgive me for this and be sincere about
		
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			it and we learn that we need to
		
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			have a repertoire of good deeds that we
		
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			do regularly.
		
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			It's not enough to know, okay, you know,
		
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			if you do Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, first thing to
		
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			do, make sure that we anchor ourselves with
		
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			the five salawat of the day, okay, that
		
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			we make sure that we pay our zakat,
		
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			that we fast, we do extra and we
		
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			are coming closer to Allah.
		
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			So, all of those, morning and evening, dhikr
		
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			some of these when you are traveling, Subhanallah,
		
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			la ilaha illallah, istighfar, many, many times istighfar,
		
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			very, very important.
		
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			So, that's another thing we learn and that
		
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			we should keep that day of judgment in
		
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			front of us that there is a book
		
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			whose author is me and I will read
		
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			it.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says elsewhere in
		
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			the Quran, iqra kitabak, read your book.
		
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			He will say to us, each one, he
		
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			will say, read your book, what you wrote
		
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			and that I only want, inshallah, to find
		
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			good in it, okay, that we have erased
		
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			everything and Allah is ghafoor, He erases everything.
		
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			So, that's another thing that we should keep
		
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			in mind to cleanse ourselves of any delusions
		
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			about ourselves that I am so good and
		
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			I am this and I am good and
		
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			there are people worse than me.
		
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			Yes, there are people worse than me but
		
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			there are many people better than me.
		
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			So, we need to look up to the
		
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			people who are righteous, who are doing good
		
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			deeds and compete with them rather than rest
		
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			on our laurels looking at people who are
		
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			doing nothing.
		
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			So, I pray at least three deeds, prays
		
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			nothing.
		
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			No.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So, those are things and we need to
		
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			look internally and we need to be serious
		
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			about these matters.
		
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			It's not a matter of a Quran halaqa
		
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			or a lesson and you know, it was
		
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			good and it wasn't good or I got
		
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			bored, it was too long.
		
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			No, it's not about that.
		
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			This is a serious matter.
		
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			We need to take it seriously.
		
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			How long did we go to become, to
		
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			medical school to become doctors?
		
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			I mean, there are a dime a dozen
		
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			doctors here including myself.
		
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			How many years?
		
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			Many times patients ask, Doc, how long did
		
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			it took you?
		
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			You say, well, if you take college, if
		
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			you take this, if you take this, take
		
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			that.
		
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			How much effort have I spent for my
		
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			akhira?
		
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			And if I haven't done it now when
		
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			90% of my hair is white, when
		
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			am I going to do it?
		
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			When am I going to do it?
		
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			Maybe 10% of my life is left
		
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			but that 10% can change the other
		
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			mess 90%.
		
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			So, we need to sit, you know, we
		
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			need to have time to think.
		
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			If you're constantly in front of a screen,
		
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			if you're constantly on the phones, if you're
		
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			constantly busy in halal things, forget about the
		
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			haram things, then we still don't have time.
		
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			We need to find time to sit by
		
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			ourselves, look at what is my situation, what
		
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			is my status with Allah if he were
		
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			to take me today?
		
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			And it can happen just like that.
		
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			Young and old, young and old.
		
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			What would I be facing?
		
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			What have my hands sent forward?
		
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			What do I, you know, my greatest pride
		
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			and possession is my phone.
		
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			What is that phone going to do?
		
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			Other than be evidence against me 99%
		
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			of the time.
		
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			99% of the time.
		
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			We need to take things seriously.
		
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			And we need to have moderation.
		
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			Nobody says don't earn a living, halal living,
		
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			yes.
		
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			Earn it properly, but balance in life.
		
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			It shouldn't take our salah away.
		
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			It shouldn't take our Jummah away.
		
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			Our children shouldn't push us to do things
		
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			that are haram.
		
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			No, I want to please, you know, my
		
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			child will do.
		
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			Teach the children the right things, the right
		
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			value.
		
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			Don't wait till they grow up and then
		
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			say, oh, my child is doing this.
		
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			The tree needs to be fixed when the
		
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			plant is just growing.
		
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			Then you put a little stick, put it
		
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			straight, then it grows straight.
		
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			Now when it becomes rigid and bent this
		
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			way, now you try and straighten it, you're
		
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			going to snap.
		
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			Now, if I say something, my child barks
		
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			back at me.
		
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			Too late.
		
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			These are all responsibilities, amanah that has been
		
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			given to us.
		
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			Our life is an amanah.
		
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			Our wealth is an amanah.
		
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			Our health is an amanah.
		
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			Our time is an amanah.
		
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			Our children are an amanah.
		
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			Our eyes are an amanah.
		
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			Everything.
		
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			And Allah says in the Quran, and you
		
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			will be asked about every one of your
		
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			amanah.
		
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			What did you do with your eyes, with
		
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			your ears, with your tongue, most important?
		
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			What did you do with your children?
		
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			You wanted children?
		
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			I gave you children.
		
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			What did you do with them?
		
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			You wanted guidance?
		
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			I gave you.
		
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			I gave you guidance.
		
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			What did you do with the guidance?
		
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			So may Allah make us among those who
		
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			turn our faces, tawajjuh, wajj, towards Allah.
		
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			If we turn our faces towards Allah, then
		
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			Allah will show us the right things to
		
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			do and will protect us if we are
		
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			sincere.
		
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			May Allah make us those who make Allah
		
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			as the priority in our lives.
		
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			His pleasure, His obedience, and the following of
		
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			the sunnah of Rasulullah ﷺ, which is what
		
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			Allah loves and is pleased with as our
		
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			lifestyle.
		
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			What is your lifestyle?
		
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			I have an alternative lifestyle too.
		
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			My alternative lifestyle is the sunnah of Rasulullah
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			And that's the best alternative.
		
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			So may Allah make us sincere in seeking
		
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			His pleasure.
		
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			May Allah forgive all of us, our parents,
		
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			our grandparents, all of our relatives that have
		
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			preceded us to Him in the journey of
		
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			Bani Adam back to Allah.
		
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			May Allah take us in a state of
		
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			Iman in doing the best of our deeds
		
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			at that time.
		
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			May Allah be generous and merciful to all
		
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			of us.
		
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			May Allah protect our children and our grandchildren
		
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			and the progeny that's going to come from
		
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			them and make us among those who fulfilled
		
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			the amanah that was given to us, to
		
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			our arwah, to our souls, and the amanah
		
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			of this deen.
		
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			May we fulfill it in the way that's
		
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			pleasing to Him so that when we meet
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ on that day where there is
		
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			no shade on that level ground, that he
		
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			will be pleased to see us and we
		
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			will see a smile on his face when
		
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			he sees us as opposed to those from
		
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			whom he will turn his face away as
		
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			the hadith says.
		
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			Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdik wa nashadu wa la ilaha
		
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			illallah wa astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih.