Mohammad Elshinawy – Best of Stories – Study of Surat Yusuf #14

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The speakers discuss the importance of dream interpretation and the use of words and phrases to describe the spiritual experience of the creator. They stress the need for being patient and avoiding being too honest in the beginning of conversations. They also emphasize the importance of avoiding mixing with people and finding a way to make up for false assumptions. The segment emphasizes the importance of not giving up on false information and finding a way to make up for mistakes.

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			some 1100 11 Sato Ceylon also de la COVID-19 we get the name of Allah all praise and glory be to
Allah and a sweetness peace and blessings be upon His messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
and his family and his companions and all those which are at his path. We asked a lot to make this
gathering this virtual gathering and all of our scales, and make us among those about whom the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said no people gather together in the house of Allah. And we
were intending, were it not for COVID to be in the house of Allah right now. There are no people who
get together in the house of Allah reciting the book of Allah and studying it together, except that
		
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			he explained that four things happen. So in my heart, he was alone.
		
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			He said that a lot of zoa Jin
		
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			causes sakeena tranquility, to descend upon them, and mercy Rama to blanket them, and the angels to
surround them and a Lazo agenda to mention them in the highest company that is with him. So panda
home athon. And so we pray that this gathering is among those gatherings by virtue of our intentions
and our
		
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			dedication to his book every Friday night. So we welcome everyone back to the 14th session now on
the discussion of the best of stories, the story of use of Allah Islam,
		
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			in particular, and we are concluding now the discussion that took place behind bars, Yusuf Alayhi
Salam with the other two inmates that approached him regarding the interpretation of their dream.
Last week, we spoke about how he took advantage of them not in a selfish way, but for their own good
		
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			by prefacing his explanation of the dream with where he got that explanation from, and that was a
wedge for him to give them what they needed. What was more important for them, though, they mean,
they may not have been looking for it was more important for them than the meaning of the dream,
which is the meaning of life, the purpose of life, and the worship of Allah devotion to our lives.
		
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			And so the dour discussion, and the super why's that our techniques were there in last week's
session, if you want to go back to it, but now he interprets the dream. He says to them, yeah, so I
have a sausage. Oh, two companions of the prison cell or the prison with me. Um, how do Kuma as for
one of you two, four is the robber who Hummer, he will give drink to his master and give a drink to
his master of wine, he will give wine to his master to drink.
		
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			Well, MLF Haru. And as for the other, if I use lebu, he will be crucified.
		
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			For that could have played him and that's it. And then the birds like the vultures, or the Ravens
will eat from his head.
		
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			Fully Alhamdulillah. The fee, the staff the end, the matter about which you inquired has been
decreed is finalized.
		
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			And so I said that I would speak a little bit about how the scholars that are specialized and I'm
certainly not a scholar, nor specialized at all
		
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			in dream interpretation, but some of the rules they took from this principles regarding dream
interpretation.
		
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			So he said to them, if you remember from last week, one of them saw in a dream that birds were
eating bread off his head. And the other one he saw himself was he was squeezing pressing grapes.
		
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			And so they wanted the interpretation of these dreams. So they said I'm here said one of you will be
giving wine and you know, wine is made from grapes, we'll be giving wine to his master to the king.
This was the buffet and the baker of the king if you remember, and as for the other one, the birds
will eat his head, a little
		
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			literally eat from his head eat parts of his head, and the matter is finalized. So what can we learn
from this? Regarding dream interpretation? They said number one,
		
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			it's the Laila to *.
		
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			Which is
		
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			the, the inductance that are provided by the condition of the questioner, you see, because two
people,
		
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			two different people can see the same dream. And it can mean different things for each of them,
because who they are their condition,
		
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			effects how the interpretation of the dream
		
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			will happen. And I'll give you an example it is said that
		
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			Mohammed ethnicity environmental law was probably the most celebrated dream interpreter
		
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			in Islamic literature, and to the point that's the famous book of his dream interpretation, how many
adversity is the author on the cover of the book, some have even said some historical critics
Muslim, have said that that may not even be his book, but he was just such an authority, Muhammad
ethnicity in this territory, that someone just put his name on his own book to get the book to
spread farther, which would be dishonest Of course, but just to show you how authorised and how much
of an authority he was in this in this field. So it is said that Mohammed Hussein was approached by
a man once and said, I heard and then the event, the call to prayer in my dream.
		
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			And so he said to him, you will go to Hajj, soon you will go to Hajj. That's what the meaning of
your dream is. And then at some point at a later time, doesn't have to be right after another man
said to him, I heard the event in my dream. He said to him, you will lose your hand
		
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			you will lose your head. And so the people around him that heard two different interpretations of
the same dream, wondered like how can this mean two different things? He said the first man, the the
signs the traces of righteousness were evident on him. He looked like a righteous person. And
therefore the event for a righteous person
		
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			means Hajj because Allah Subhana Allah Allah said in the hold on whatever the infinitesimal Hajj and
call make event proclaim to the people and answer the people with halogen so righteous people feel a
sense of calling
		
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			from within them, Allah carries to them if you will, the call of Ibrahim Ali said I'm generations or
millennia later. So him hearing the the event, a lot called the call to hedge event and he was
righteous and so he connected it that way.
		
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			The other person he seemed to be the indicates were that this was a miscreant or a criminal or
someone that had some
		
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			troublesome qualities that were obvious about him. And so he said to me, he would lose his hand
because in Surah Yousuf Allah subhanho wa Taala said that later on in the story, we have reached a
spark of venom of the unknown I yet to hierro. In Nakula, Surya phone, a caller called out it's the
same word event, which just means loud proclamation in the linguistic sense. And I then was made
saying what not la la, la la la and I van was made saying, oh, caravan among you are those who are
stolen, and of course, the theft of stealing the I'm sorry, the punishment for stealing
		
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			his his amputation. And so he got from his personality, hearing the event that he would suffer, what
a person that still suffers. So
		
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			what does this have to do with user validation and interpretation of the dream here? Well, he said
to the man, you are going to give drink to your master, the kink? Why the kink, he must have
understood that this man he must have asked or found out and based on that took the fact that he saw
himself squeezing grapes
		
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			to make wine. That's what grapes were used for. When they were squeezed to connected with the fact
that he would get his job back. And this is a very unlikely thing. And he's you will see it will
come true, like a person who is accused of trying to assassinate the king, you know, him being
absolved cleared of the accusation is enough, right.
		
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			This will be more than being cleared of the accusation.
		
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			Sorry
		
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			that he will actually get his job back and return to serving the king wine. And so UCLA said I made
that connection, on the other hand,
		
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			so he understood the man's occupation plus his dream equal you will
		
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			Return to that, because there's no place in the dream where it says I'm giving it to the king, just
as I'm pressing wine. So usually said, I'm showing us that you need to know the person's condition
to be able to connect his dream with his realities.
		
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			And so he knew his former job before coming into prison and connected it that way. And then he said,
As for the other one, you're going to get executed. He was he told him, he said it to him straight,
the birds are going to eat from your head. And so there's some interpretation, there are some
principles here for dream interpretation. of them. The scholar said, is then a little Majora.
		
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			The the the indications of proximity, meaning.
		
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			Dreams are vague, naturally, right? They're symbolic. And so when something happens in a dream, it
may resemble what will happen right next to it. And so he understood that birds eating bread from
his head. By proximity, it meant that birds are going to eat his head. And that meant what execution
because that's another one that I like to either when do people, which is the the indiquant, or the
principle of customs? What when do birds customarily land on a person's head? Right? And so bread
basket? No, it was actually the head was intended, the proof was the narrowness, where was the
bread, so it wasn't really about the bread, it was the location of the bread. So the bread that
		
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			usually brings birds, is actually bringing birds from his head, his head is going to be the bread
		
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			because it was sitting near his head. And then he realized execution, because usually birds don't
eat from the head of a person while he's alive. They usually eat from his head, his actual head, or
his body, like vultures or otherwise when you're dead.
		
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			And so these are some of the principles that the scholars derived from this sort on a variety of
many different places on how to interpret dreams. So the condition of the person is important, what
is happening around the scene, don't get bogged down by the details, because dreams are vague and
you know, indirect to begin with.
		
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			And the the indicative of customs, when do these things usually happen? Because there is a message
here, right, there was a connection to be made.
		
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			Stepping out of the principles of dream interpretation. Another important lesson here is that he
told the man straightaway what the men probably didn't want to hear the second man which is what
you're going to get executed.
		
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			And that must have been difficult for the men to hear and use valet Sam knew that was probably
difficult, but he was nice enough to say that to him. But what do we learn from this? honesty always
wins, even when it's difficult to be honest. He had to be honest with him. Sometimes it's bitter in
the beginning, but the fact that he told him
		
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			the truth is you're going to get executed is what gave him credibility when they came found out
about him later on. They're gonna say he said exactly what was gonna happen even before you guys
decided to execute them and even before you guys decided to,
		
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			to kill him. And so and that is also why if you notice later on in the surah, Yusuf Ali Salaam, they
call him what when they pull him out of prison, you Hasidic use of also the omen of truth or
confirmer of truth, and the Prophet alayhi salaatu wa sallam said this, I like him to stick to
truthfulness, honesty,
		
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			in a radula Yes, don't wait.
		
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			For a man will be truthful and insist on being truthful meaning even when it's hard, will insist on
being truthful, had you covering the lies of the ACA, until he is written with a lot as a slight dip
as a confirm of truth or a man of truth.
		
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			And so those were certainly important lessons from from this sorta.
		
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			And then the eye ends. Interestingly, it says fully a levy fee, the CFD and the matter about which
you have sought fatwah the CFD and means you, you asked for a fetter. And so dream interpretations
are not a light matter. I'll call them ephedra, like a religious edict.
		
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			And so we should be careful, as I've said many times regarding dream interpretations, but there's
another reason not just because they're federal, because the word here said to pull the alarm, the
matter is finished. Why is the matter finished? And why did he say that? So our beloved Mr. Rude or
the Allahu anhu said that once he gave them the interpretation of the dream, the guy who was going
to get executed said no, no, nevermind, I I didn't actually see that in my dream. He tried to walk
back his his request of the interpretation. But usually Sam said to them, it's over. You asked for
the interpretation.
		
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			So what does that mean? Does that mean his dream
		
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			is what
		
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			meant that he's gonna get executed or
		
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			His interpretation of the dream that finalize the reality
		
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			the interpretation, there's a hadith inshallah Vania Rahim Allah including so I had Gemma, though
it's controversial in this chain, it is
		
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			wherein the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said earlier, Allah originally thought it in
		
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			mellem to above a two fossa to either a Bharat
		
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			wakad
		
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			oakum Apollo la Salatu was Salam that the
		
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			dreams are indefinite originally thought it means they're on the foot of a bird that's just an
expression Arabic That means instability. You know birds are all over the place, right? They're not
settled.
		
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			They fly, right? So it's just an Arabic expression. So he said la sotto, salaam dreams are
unsettled, until they're interpreted. And so once they're interpreted, they unfold that way.
		
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			And that is of the reasons By the way, when a dream scares you.
		
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			You're not supposed to go looking for an interpretation. Perhaps this is why, or of the reasons why.
And so they wanted to, he wanted to make sure it doesn't materialize. So he wanted to walk it back
when he said that's it. You already asked for the interpretation.
		
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			And so it's over. The next verse, Allah subhanho wa Taala says what I love the one na and he said to
the one that he thought or knew the word Londoner here means presumed or was certain It has two
interpretations. And each of them and each of them there's a lesson but he said to the one that he
thought would be saved of the two of them of gardening and Arabic mentioned me with in front of your
master meaning go tell the king about me that I'm in here wrongfully. I'm wrongfully accused fencer
who shade lawn with the canopy and the shade on the devil made the men
		
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			who the the butler would be freed made them and forget to mention use of Allah He set them to the
king. Fell Evita is Sydney with icynene. And so he had to remain there in the prison for several
years before I've seen in several years. So what can we take from this quickly, we only have 10
minutes left. Number one, Shay athon. For sure Allah allowed him to, for a greater wisdom in the
grander scheme of things. But she was successful at making the man forget Yusuf alayhi salam, the
moment he left. So that use of Allah said I will not exit the prison.
		
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			Shay Thawne loves to separate the righteous from the masses. You know, when you smile, they said I'm
rejoined the masses, everything is gonna head in the right direction. shavon loves to separate the
righteous from the masses. And this is something that has happened historically. Right? When the
righteous go and live in isolation away from the people, well, if the best of society are going to
separate voluntarily, right from the rest of society, how will society ever know right from wrong
anymore? How will they ever walk back their mistakes? How will they ever find, you know,
encouragement.
		
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			And so, and that is why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to us, I lead the movement, the
believer and whether you hide it from NASA or elsewhere or dies at home, who mixes with the people
and endures their harm is patient in the face of their arm, hiatal, Minelli, Mino Levy, and meaning
levy law, you heard it from NASA, while else we're all at home is better than the believer that does
not mix with the people and does not enjoy their heart. And so, if you're not going to be able to be
patient, then you will you can seclude yourself to the degree that is absolutely necessary.
		
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			That's why seclusion in the age of chaos, when there really is nothing to be done. is warranted it
is in the center. And so yeah, you don't mix at that point that there's no way to be patient.
		
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			Or you mix in a way that is minimal, minimal means was mandatory. means like, you don't have that
many conversations with people anymore. You don't socialize anymore. You just do the bare minimum is
gonna keep ties with family at the bare minimum, make muscle often the message at the bare minimum,
especially for the men, there's a minimum right like Joomla. So But otherwise, you isolate that's
when there's no good to be made. But ordinarily, there is good to be made and there's going to be
harm involved that you want to endure. shaitan is going to always try to trick you away from that so
No, no, no, no the people are lost. The people are finished, just save yourself. He'll always try to
		
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			get you to misread that so be very careful and and don't make the exception the rule. The believer
who mixes with the people and is patient with their harm is better than the believer doesn't mix it
the people doesn't mix and doesn't show patients in the face of their harm. shaitan didn't want him
to mix with the people he wanted to keep use of Allison
		
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			forgotten for as long as possible. fencer who shavon shavon made him forget us of for many years,
and then allies, so he remained in prison for several years. That's interesting, right? Because a
lot of zildjian knows exactly how many years, Allah subhana wa tada
		
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			knows before he goes in, and while he's that he knows all of this. So why does it say but I seen in
several years, not nine years, not eight years, not 10 years, not 20, just in several years. And
Bill, there is anything from three to nine in Arabic.
		
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			And so the scholar said, What Eliza gel is teaching us not to get caught up with
		
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			unimportant information. And to not get into the habit of sharing inconsequential, right?
information, facts don't make a difference. facts that will not benefit facts that could distract
facts that could harm. And so it is not important. It is not one of the lessons to be learned how
many years were there, don't get caught up on it was important, a lot would have mentioned. So this
is an important rule. And you reflect on hold on always tell yourself, Allah is teaching me through
the things he mentioned to me. And he's teaching me through the things he withholds from me. There's
always a lesson to be had. There's no fillers in the world and ever.
		
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			And then, let me rewind in my last point here,
		
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			he said to the man that he thought would be safe out of those two guys. I mean, you're not the
baker, but the butler.
		
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			He I'm interpreting it as thought, because one could be conjecture, and one could be certainty. So
why did why did he only assume think that he would be saved? When he is an infallible prophet?
		
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			Maybe this is from his great humility, right? That
		
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			he did not want to be overconfident in his interpretation. Maybe more was going to get to reveal to
him maybe a lot xojo is going to correct him. Yes. And so if you're not a prophet, please, after
getting trained, don't be so sure about your interpretations of dreams or of Deen. If it's not a
matter that's agreed upon by the scholars. Just lower your wings, take it easy. And never forget
that your assumptions or assumptions no matter how strong your assumptions are, never confuse
concreteness with possibilities and assumptions.
		
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			That's
		
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			the one interpretation the other interpretation of he said it to the one that he was certain was
leaving his because he, it was revelation from Allah subhana wa Tada. So however you interpret it,
there's a lesson to be learned. But he said to the man mentioned me to your master, mentioned me to
your master.
		
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			Some of the scholars said that it was not right for him to say mentioned me to your Master arrazi
Rahim Allah mentioned as an associate.
		
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			And he said, although this may be permissible for an ordinary person,
		
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			this was unbefitting of the closest servants of God to ask, have the servants of Allah subhanaw
taala help? And for sure, there there is a field of operation for this sort of principle that don't
ask of the people ask Allah subhanho wa Taala. And it is a little bit subjective meaning it varies
from person to person, and it varies from what you're asking for.
		
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			But it should never mean that it is impermissible for you to engage your reality sometimes it is
even mandatory on you to engage your reality of course, engaging your reality withdraw as part of
that, but I mean other ways than just so arrazi rahimullah He even said that ever since I was young,
never that I asked him that people have something except that I it always came back to bite me and I
was always disappointed. And every single time I decided you know what? I'm not going to talk to
anybody about this. I'm just going to talk to a lot of religion is that except that I found above my
expectations. And so there is a place for this for sure. But uh sadly, Rahim, Allah and other
		
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			scholars at FCM say no allonzo agenda was actually showing by this verse, the very opposite, that it
is permissible for you to ask people what they can usually get done. Right? Like speak to someone on
your behalf or write you a prescription write things that can ordinarily customarily be done by
them.
		
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			It is permissible for you to ask them these things. And this verse is actually proof of that. It's
proof that you should and can be asking of people.
		
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			When it is possible to ask them such a thing. You're not gonna ask a person for rain. You might ask
a righteous person to make up for rain. Yes, though, but if it's possible, it's within the realm of
possibility. This is
		
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			Some chance for them to get their award as well. The province also loves that his farewell to
General
		
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			de la hora is saying that he Masha, intercede for each other, and you will be rewarded by Allah for
putting in a good word for each other. Right? And so he him saying mentioned me to your Lord is not
shameful whatsoever according to that interpretation that I can't help but leading to it is
demonstrating the permissibility, even for a profit
		
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			to ask for help from human beings, so long as our heart is locked upon the reality, which is if this
works, it's because a lot made it to work. He is what gives everyone their influence and their power
and their agency. But that doesn't mean we don't seek it through the direct means that I love put in
front of us himself. And so that
		
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			he said, he mentioned me to your Lord, so shaytaan made him the first interpretation of a Razzie
would mean that this was sort of the reason why he was set back and spent longer in prison. But
according to the second interpretation, which I'm leaning to what my leanings mean nothing, it would
mean and but after that, and so the next point in the story, it's not cause and effect it's just and
so when he did that, it didn't work out because shaytaan did shaitan intervene and cause them to
forget. I hope those are of benefit and allows eligible knows best panic alone and commendations I
learned I learned tressa photocatalytic see you everyone next week. Salaam Alaikum warahmatullahi
		
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			wabarakatuh