Mohammad Elshinawy – If We Were Refugees

Mohammad Elshinawy
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The speakers discuss the importance of showing gratitude for Allah's forgiveness and the importance of a positive attitude and being patient. They emphasize the importance of having a plan for one's life and being a beneficiary of one's actions. The speakers also emphasize the importance of being a beneficiary of one's experiences and not getting locked out of them. The speakers stress the importance of being a beneficiary of one's actions and not just a victim, and encourage others to act gratefully and not wasteful in their behavior. They also emphasize the importance of community and family, and how they can help alleviate suffering. The speakers encourage others to act gratefully and not wasteful in their behavior.
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How Allah Has Subjected Everything For You Brothers

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and sisters, Allah Azzawajal says, أَلَمْ تَرَوْا أَنَّ

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اللَّهَ سَخَّرَ لَكُمْ مَا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي

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الْأَرْضِ Have you not seen how Allah has

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subjected for you, meaning placed at your disposal,

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made the world livable, subjected for you everything

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above you and everything beneath you.

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This universe was created conducive to life.

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But then He says, وَأَسْبَغَ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعَمَهُ ظَاهِرَةً

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وَبَاطِنًا And then for each and every one

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of you specifically, aside from the world that

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we come and go from, you specifically, He

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has lavished you with His favors inwardly and

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outwardly, within you and around you, His favors,

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His نِعَم.

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The word for favors is نِعَم, and it's

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relevant here.

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Can a person ever be grateful for the

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نِعَم of Allah عز و جل سبحانه وتعالى?

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Absolutely not.

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Not grateful enough.

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The Qur'an points to this reality from

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many different directions.

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Of them is that when Allah was praising

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the unique status of Ibrahim عليه السلام, Allah

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said, إِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ كَانَ أُمَّةً قَانِتًا لِلَّهِ Ibrahim

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was an ummah.

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Of what that means is a leading example.

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An example to be followed after, قَانِتًا لِلَّهِ

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in his devotion to Allah.

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The next ayah says what?

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Why was he a leading example for humanity?

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He says, شَاكِرًا لِأَنْعُمِهِ Because he was grateful

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to the an'um of God, of Allah.

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But he didn't say ni'ma, he said an

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'um.

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And there's a difference.

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In Arabic, there is a ni'ma, there is

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a blessing.

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And there is an'um, which means several

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blessings, plural.

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Then there are ni'ma, which is the big

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plural, which means many blessings.

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So Allah lavishes us all with more blessings

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than we can count.

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And Ibrahim ﷺ was unique because he was

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able to show due gratitude for some of

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the blessings, not for all of them.

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How can anyone show gratitude for all of

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them when a humanity cannot even count them?

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As the other ayah says, وَإِن تَعُدُّوا نِعْمَةَ

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اللَّهِ لَا تُحْصُوهَا And if you were to

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try to count the favors of Allah ﷻ,

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you would not be able to come across

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them all.

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إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَغَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ Certainly Allah is most

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forgiving, most merciful, most forgiving that He doesn't

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hold you to that standard, doesn't hold you

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to that duty, that moral duty, you get

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a reduction in it.

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To simply recognize that you can't.

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He's forgiving, He's merciful, and the context is

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our inability to count let alone thank the

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blessing.

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In fact, this is why some of the

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scholars took from this ayah, the reason why

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we are taught in the sunnah, in the

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prophetic lifestyle of our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, that

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when we exit the bathroom, after leaving yourself

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in the bathroom, every Muslim must know that

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they're supposed to say, غُفْرَانَكْ غُفْرَانَكْ غُفْرَانَكْ O

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Allah, your forgiveness, your forgiveness, your forgiveness.

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Why are you seeking Allah's forgiveness upon exiting

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the bathroom?

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Of the reasons to be brought to mind

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is that your ability to remove that poison

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were it to remain in your body.

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Those toxins, were they to stay in there,

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they would kill you.

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Your ability to leave them behind.

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How could you ever thank Allah for that

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one alone?

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So you walk out saying, forgive me O

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Allah, meaning for my inability to thank you

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for the magnitude of this blessing.

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How could we ever even break even, let

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alone win the greatest prize?

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And this is also why, maybe one final

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ayah to quote in this regard, because the

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Qur'an does address it from so many

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different angles.

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This one concept, this reality about the inability

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to show thanks properly to Allah, that the

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people that do get the grand prize, the

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people of Jannah, they say what in Jannah?

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وَقَالُوا الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَذْهَبَ عَنَّ الْحَزَنِ And

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they say finally in the eternal abode of

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bliss, in paradise, they say all praise be

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to Allah, and all thanks be to Allah

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who did away with our sadness, the sadness

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we all experience in this world.

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Then they say, إِنَّ رَبَّنَا لَغَفُورٌ شَكُورٌ Our

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Lord is most forgiving, most thankful, most forgiving,

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most appreciative, most forgiving, most grateful.

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He is forgiving because you will never break

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even to actually deserve it.

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But those who recognize they don't deserve it,

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and try to do what they can, Allah

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will forgive and appreciate their attempt to appreciate.

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Allah will thank you for trying to thank

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Him, for recognizing you can't thank Him.

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It was reported that Dawud عليه السلام once

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said to Allah عز و جل in a

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dua, O Allah, how can I ever thank

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You when even this thanks of mine is

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another blessing from You?

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Who inspired me to say thank You?

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Who guided me to say alhamdulillah?

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It was You.

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So I'm saying alhamdulillah about something, but even

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my saying of alhamdulillah, even my heartfelt gratitude,

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You put that there.

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So how can I ever get over?

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How can I ever turn the corner?

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How can I ever begin to fulfill?

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And so Allah عز و جل revealed to

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him, O Dawud, you recognizing that is thanking

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me.

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This is how you thank Allah, by recognizing

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you cannot.

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Brothers and sisters, you know, I spent three

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days this week in refugee camps all over

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Jordan, the country Jordan.

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And the short and long of it is

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that words cannot describe it.

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Until you experience it yourself, you cannot begin

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to grasp what life would be like if

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Allah had destined that we be refugees ourselves.

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If I were to tell you that I

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met a young boy from Gaza who lost

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his father and was living with his sisters

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in this refugee camp with his mother.

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And then his mother suffers heart failure, and

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as she's dying in the hospital, her sister,

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his aunt, brings him over, and she dies,

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the mother dies, and she brings him over

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to their apartment, and the apartment, a makeshift

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mud house, collapses on top of them.

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This is like their day to day, this

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is their month to month.

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If I told you I met a father

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who has been living in the desert for

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10 years since the war started in Syria.

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And when we visited his tent, the ceiling

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of his wishes, you know what his greatest

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ambition in life is?

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It is a chain to tie up his

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son.

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Because his son suffers from special needs, he

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has a mental handicap, and he keeps running

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out in the middle of the night, and

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getting attacked by dogs.

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We're asking, what can we provide for you?

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How can we help you?

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What is your most pressing need?

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I want a chain.

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He didn't say bring me to America, he

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didn't say like get me a stipend for

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food, I just want to be able to

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tie my son down.

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I met a 16 year old girl that

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said to us in the middle of her

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classroom, a classroom of students from kindergarten to

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12th grade if you will, that half of

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which don't have shoes, don't have clothes, don't

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have regular meals, don't shower, hardly have access

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to anything of the dunya or the deen.

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And as she was explaining to us how

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her mother puts everyone to sleep, and tells

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them she ate and she had never eaten,

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and then sneaks around to pick up our

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leftovers, she catches herself and says, but don't

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get me wrong, I'm not saying I'm special,

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everyone here is like this, maybe the only

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difference I have, is that I don't have

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someone to say baba to.

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I don't have a dad to cry on

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his shoulder.

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What's the greatest thing we can do for

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you?

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She took us to her house, which is

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several sheets, bed sheets, stowed together with twigs,

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not even thread, to show us what their

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toilet looks like.

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A hole in the ground, surrounded by a

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bit of fabric that is stuck together with

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sticks.

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She says, we wish we could just conceal

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ourselves when we're using the bathroom.

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If I have to use the bathroom at

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1 AM, my mother has to come out

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with me to hold the fabrics around me,

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just so I can use this hole in

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the ground.

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Just a toilet, that's my biggest dream in

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life.

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I just want a toilet, with four walls,

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that's it, nothing more.

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And we stopped by a fourth tent of

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a mother who walked there from Syria when

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the war started.

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She said, this kid next to me, she

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had an 11 year old boy with her,

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he was 20 days old when I walked

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those two days, fleeing the war.

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My husband had left on his motorcycle to

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pick up some bread for us, and he

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never came back.

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They told us he died, but Allah has

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not said that to me yet, I don't

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know for sure.

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And they left.

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This boy is 11 years old now, in

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the desert.

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He has grown those 11 years.

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These are children that if you were to

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bring them to a shower, and this has

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actually happened, the spout of the shower, the

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shower head, they think it's a phone.

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They have not seen the world as you

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know it.

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And next to her was her 16 year

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old daughter, who picks tomatoes from 5 AM

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to 6 PM, three days a week, to

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make the equivalent of 4 US dollars.

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So that for the two other days of

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the week, she can spend two of them

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to take herself and her sister to school.

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So that she can become a doctor one

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day.

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So that she can somehow break the cycle

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her mother has been in.

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Living in the merciless heat.

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And she told us, if you could do

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one thing for me, I always wanted a

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tarp.

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A tarp to cover just the ceiling of

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this tent.

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Like forget the scorpions on the ground, forget

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the snakes, just at least, let's just get

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some cover above.

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Because the winter is coming.

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أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله العظيم لي ولكم

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الحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا

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نبي بعد أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله

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وحده لا شريك له وأشهد أن محمداً عبده

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ونبيه ورسوله Brothers and sisters, I shared some

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of these scenes with you.

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Of course because I feel a sense of

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responsibility to do so, having been taken there

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by a relief organization.

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But also to bring closer what I already

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told you can never be brought fully to

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you without you experiencing some of it.

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We always ask Allah عز و جل to

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spare us.

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But you need to know that your test

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is harder than theirs.

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Abdurrahman ibn A'uf رضي الله عنه, the

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great companion of the Prophet ﷺ, he said,

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ابتلينا مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

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بالضرائب الصبرنا We were tested when we were

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alongside the Prophet ﷺ with so much suffering

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and we were patient.

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وابتلينا بعده بالسراء فلم نصبر And we were

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tested after him with ease, with some comfort,

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relatively speaking, some comfort, and we were not

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able to be patient.

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You see, it's not exactly like, you know,

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patience for hard times and gratitude for good

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times.

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Gratitude requires patience.

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To be patient upon gratitude is so hard.

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So you need to have a plan for

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it.

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You need to have a project for it.

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They say, الحمد لله more than us.

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That 16-year-old girl says, I never

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go to sleep at night without saying رضيت

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بالله ربا I'm content with Allah as my

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Lord.

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وبالإسلام دينا With submitting to Him as my

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way of life.

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وبمحمد النبي And with Muhammad as my Prophet

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ﷺ And so how do we do this,

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brothers and sisters?

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Yes, yes.

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A person can reach the station of those

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patient through difficulties using their gratitude or by

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way of their gratitude in comfort, in blessings.

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This is true.

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Sulayman ﷺ, Ayub ﷺ, both of them are

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described the same way in the Qur'an.

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نعم العبد What an excellent servant إِنَّهُ أَوَّاب

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He's always turning back to us.

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Those two.

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But there are far more believers in this

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category.

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Patient through difficulty than those who are grateful

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in their blessings.

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Number one, for how to do that, make

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sure you never disconnect yourself from those beneath

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you in this world.

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Allah ﷻ told us, وَاصْبِرْ نَفْسَك Hold yourself

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patiently, put up with being around, right?

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Those who are calling upon their Lord by

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night and by day.

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This is often the poor sector of society.

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And the Prophet ﷺ said, if you want

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your heart to soften, not to rust and

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corrode and die, he said, why caress the

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head of the orphan?

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Visit the graveyard.

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Have some compassion with the needy and feed

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them from your food.

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Share a meal with them.

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You know sometimes, brothers and sisters, it is

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local, it's right under our nose.

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There are people in vulnerable sectors of society

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here that have food insecurity.

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And otherwise, you are the greatest beneficiary of

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making sure you never get locked out of

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that.

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Subjecting yourself to the bursts of mercy from

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Allah that only exist there.

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Let it start there at least, start locally.

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You know why?

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Because to be honest, all of us, all

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of us, once the video disappears, that person

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disappears.

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Right or wrong?

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Secondly, you need to have time where you

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just unplug and ask yourself, why am I

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here?

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Why was I born into this family?

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I could have been born randomly, in any

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random family.

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Why do I feel like I'm inherently better

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or I'm supposed to always have food available

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for me?

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You know I was reflecting on the past

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few days, I was thinking of the hadith

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of the Prophet ﷺ, الحمد لله الذي أطعمني

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هذا ورزقنيه من غير حول مني ولا قوة.

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All praise be to Allah.

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You say this after you eat.

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And he promised your sins would be forgiven.

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All praise be to Allah who gave me

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this food of mine and provided me with

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it.

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It's mine, it's halal for me, I didn't

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have to steal it.

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I didn't have to worry about it.

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I didn't have to go a day without

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it.

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All praise be to Allah who provided me

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with this and fed it to me.

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I don't have an illness and I don't

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have non-access.

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من غير حول مني ولا قوة.

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Without any might on my behalf, without any

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agency over this, it's not me, it's not

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me.

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Allah diversified the test for a wisdom He

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ultimately knows.

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And the last thing I will say, brothers

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and sisters, act gratefully.

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Be conscientious in your behavior.

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Sometimes we look at people and say, those

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devils, how can they do this to people?

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How can they be so heartless?

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But being wasteful in how you consume, in

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what you buy, in what you throw out,

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just because it happens to be leftovers.

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Dare I say for us to be negligent

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in how we prepare meals till they rot

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and we say, oh, it was leftovers and

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it rotted.

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That is devilish behavior.

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Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala said, إِنَّ الْمُبَذِّرِينَ

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كَانُوا إِخْوَانَ الشَّيَاطِينَ The wasters are the brethren.

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They look like them in behavior meaning.

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They are the brethren of the devils.

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وَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ كَانَ لِرَبِّهِ كَفُورًا And the devil

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was ever ungrateful to his Lord Subhanahu wa

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Ta'ala.

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So may Allah write us among the grateful.

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May Allah Azawajal help us never take His

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blessings for granted.

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May Allah help us upon the greater test

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He has given us.

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The test of patience upon gratitude.

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Allahumma ameen.

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May Allah use us to alleviate suffering all

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over the world.

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May Allah Azawajal never allow us to live

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just for ourselves.

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May Allah Azawajal make that the intention behind

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our actions by night and by day.

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May it be the reason why we build

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community.

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The reason why we build family.

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The reason why we have children.

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Allahumma ameen.

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وصلى الله وسلم وبارك على نبينا محمد وعلى

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آله وصحبه أجمعين

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