Mohammad Elshinawy – Purification Of The Soul Special Event

Mohammad Elshinawy
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The speakers discuss the importance of Islam and forgiveness in the United States, as well as the use of god in one's life. They also touch on religion, including the importance of strong faith and love for God, expressing one's love for God, following natural rhythm, and following the natural rhythm of the heart of faith. They stress the importance of expressing one's love and deeds in public, as well as the use of god in one's life. Additionally, they mention the wide range of meaning for "has" and "has" to describe a situation or situation, and emphasize the importance of understanding both the meaning and context of "has" to avoid confusion.

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			Assalaamu alaikum everyone, bismillah walhamdulillah, wassalatu wassalamu ala
		
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			rasoolillah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in,
		
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			we begin in the name of Allah, all
		
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			praise and glory be to Allah and may
		
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			his finest peace and blessings be upon his
		
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			messenger Muhammad and his family and his companions
		
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			and all those who adhere to his guidance
		
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			while asking Allah azza wa jal to make
		
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			us among the best of those who adhere
		
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			to his guidance, Allahumma ameen.
		
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			Jazakallahu khairan for the gracious invite extended by
		
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			VRIC and the men's committee in particular and
		
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			as our brother mentioned this event has taken
		
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			place in collaboration with Mishkah University which is
		
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			the Islamic University of North America which is
		
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			a wonderful opportunity for all of us whether
		
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			we are seeking a bachelor's or master's degree
		
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			in Islamic studies from the comfort of our
		
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			own homes or simply seeking to see where
		
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			life will take us, just starting on the
		
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			path of sacred knowledge, enhancing our ability to
		
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			align ourselves with Allah's pleasure in our everyday
		
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			lives, Mishkah University for instance has two semesters
		
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			dedicated to tazkiyah, tazkiyah one and two are
		
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			together a one year program dedicated to the
		
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			how of spiritual purification, spiritual refinement, spiritual development,
		
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			healthy Islamic spirituality.
		
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			Tonight's program will be essentially a snapshot from
		
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			that course that I teach at Mishkah University
		
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			but also in hopes of setting us up
		
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			in the best way possible for the incoming
		
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			month of Ramadan inshallah ta'ala.
		
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			Allow me to begin here, Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala says in the Qur'an and
		
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			warned them all oh Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam about the day of regrets, the day
		
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			of regret is the day of resurrection, the
		
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			day of judgment and it was called the
		
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			day of regrets because every single person even
		
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			the people of paradise at least until they
		
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			make it into paradise they will be recalling
		
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			their regrets, I had wished I had done
		
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			more but not just that, on that day
		
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			people will not just wish they had done
		
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			more they will also wish that they had
		
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			loved Allah more, they wish they had loved
		
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			him the way he deserves to be loved,
		
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			Allah the glorified and exalted, the mighty and
		
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			majestic, the one who creates and others are
		
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			worshipped, the one who provides and others are
		
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			thanked, the one whose goodness and generosity and
		
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			favors descends upon humanity unending stream while the
		
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			sinful acts that fill the scrolls of humanity
		
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			are ascending up to him at the same
		
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			time constantly, Allah who afflicts at times people
		
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			with adversity, suffering, some difficulty so that he
		
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			can even against their will sometimes bring them
		
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			closer to a state of piety, a state
		
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			of cleanliness from within, a state of purity
		
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			azza wa jal, the one who was drawing
		
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			closer to his servants even though he has
		
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			no need for them and they flee from
		
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			him even though they cannot fend for themselves
		
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			for a moment, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			who every time he saw good in any
		
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			person he guides and he forgives and he
		
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			loves them all over again because that's who
		
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			he is, al-ghafoor the most forgiving, the
		
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			unimaginably forgiving, al-wadood the most affectionate, the
		
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			most loving, the one about whom the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, inna allaha yabsutu
		
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			yadahu bin nahari liyatuba musi'ul layl, Allah
		
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			extends his hand every day so that those
		
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			who sinned by night may redeem themselves, may
		
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			repent and he extends his hand by night
		
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			so that those who sinned by day may
		
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			repent and he continues to do this until
		
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			the Sun rises from the West, he continues
		
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			to do this until the demise of the
		
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			universe, you know brothers and sisters there comes
		
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			a time when even your parents stop extending
		
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			their hand, there comes a time that even
		
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			your parents stop waiting for you, Allah azza
		
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			wa jal does not, could be 20, could
		
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			be 30, could be 40 years, the moment
		
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			you begin to U-turn, it's as if
		
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			nothing has happened, a person recalls all of
		
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			this on the Day of Judgment, perhaps begins
		
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			to think how can the human being, right,
		
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			get Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or have
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala do all
		
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			this for them, the human being who came
		
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			from what, from a handful of dirt, right,
		
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			the human being who was produced by a
		
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			drop of flimsy fluid, the human being who
		
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			only arrived at this world after passing through
		
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			two passageways, out of their father, out of
		
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			their mother, the passageways that impurities pass through,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, no, they
		
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			know full well what they were created from,
		
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			they know how it all started, they know
		
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			how you began and you entered this world,
		
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			how can a human being that was so
		
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			weak, that was so fragile, that was so
		
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			momentary, how can they ever have value, Allah
		
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			deemed it, that those who believe in Him
		
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			and those who seek His pleasure, they become
		
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			the most valuable of His creation, they become
		
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			people that He commanded His Prophets to pray
		
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			for even before they arrived in this world,
		
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			right, the Prophet Nuh Alayhi Salaam Noah said
		
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			what, رَبِّ اغْفِرْ لِي وَلِي وَالِدَيَّةِ O my
		
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			Lord, forgive me and my parents, وَلِمَنْ دَخَلَ
		
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			بَيْتِيَ مُؤْمِنًا and for every believer that entered
		
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			my house, وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتَ and grant your forgiveness
		
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			to every believing man and woman, we got
		
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			in on his dua, Allah made him make
		
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			dua for us and then the Prophet Muhammad
		
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			Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam, Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala said to him, فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ
		
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			إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَاسْتَغْفِرْ لِذَنْبِكَ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتَ
		
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			know, be certain, know for certain that none
		
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			is worthy of worship but Allah and seek
		
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			forgiveness for your sins and for every last
		
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			believing man and woman, not just them, the
		
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			throne bearers of Allah, the angels that bear
		
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			His throne, He told us in the Quran,
		
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			وَيَسْتَغْفِرُونَ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا they seek forgiveness for the
		
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			ones that have believed, that was for you
		
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			too, not just that, the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi
		
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			Wa Sallam told us that when you go
		
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			visit your sick brother in the daytime, Allah
		
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			sends trailing you 70,000 angels praying for
		
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			you until the night and if you visit
		
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			them at night, He sends behind you 70
		
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			,000 angels that stay after you and continue
		
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			praying for you by your side, making dua
		
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			for your betterment until the morning, all of
		
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			that, Allah who after you spent one hour
		
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			at night for Him, even in Taraweeh, He
		
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			brags to the angels that don't sleep for
		
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			the blink of an eye, don't stop worshipping
		
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			Him for an instant, He brags about you
		
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			to them, look at my servants, look at
		
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			them, fighting off fatigue for me, Allah the
		
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			one who you fast a few short hours
		
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			for Him in Ramadan, may Allah allow us
		
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			to see Ramadan and He brags to the
		
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			angels that don't eat or drink ever, look,
		
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			look at how the scent in their mouth,
		
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			the odor of their mouth is sort of
		
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			changing a bit, look at how they're inconveniencing
		
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			themselves for me, look at how they're discomforting
		
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			themselves for me, a person may recall all
		
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			of this on the day of judgment, he
		
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			did so much for me, I did so
		
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			little for him or when Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala said in the Quran, so mention
		
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			me and I will mention you, you know
		
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			both of these are amazing, the fact that
		
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			we can mention Allah is already amazing, right?
		
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			Because who are we with these tongues that
		
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			do so much wrong, how do we ever
		
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			qualify to be allowed to mention Allah, think
		
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			about it, you know when like someone mentions
		
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			your cousin and you don't even like your
		
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			cousin, you tell him don't you dare put
		
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			my cousin's name on your filthy tongue, right?
		
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			How this sort of lying, sort of showing
		
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			off, backbiting, suspicion spreading, rumor circulating tongue can
		
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			just, without Clorox, without anything, you can just
		
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			mention the name of Allah, it's already amazing,
		
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			what a privilege, but what's more amazing than
		
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			that is what, I will be mentioning you
		
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			every time you mention me, the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam told us that Allah azza
		
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			wa jal said, I am right there with
		
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			my servant, when he mentions me, when he
		
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			remembers me and his two lips part with
		
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			my remembrance, Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi,
		
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			rahimahullah, he used to say about this, he
		
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			says, oh oblivious person, oh foolish person, like
		
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			you have no idea what's going on, he
		
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			says, if you could just hear the scraping
		
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			of the pens, meaning in the heavens, writing
		
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			your name down when you mentioned your Lord,
		
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			you would have died out of longing for
		
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			your Lord, in other words, that's just the
		
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			pen, imagine you would hear Allah speaking about
		
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			you, subhanahu wa ta'ala, he did all
		
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			of that for us, and then we turned
		
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			away, and then we hesitated, and then we
		
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			foot dragged, may Allah forgive us and rectify
		
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			our condition, this will be a great source
		
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			of regret for us on the day of
		
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			judgment, even those of us that will be
		
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			admitted into Jannah, may it be all of
		
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			us, not the regret, but rather the admission
		
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			into Jannah of course, one of the poets,
		
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			he captures this conundrum between man and his
		
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			maker, in poetry form as if Allah is
		
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			speaking, and he says, servants that have turned
		
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			away from us, even though we did not
		
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			commit any crime against them, nor is there
		
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			any logic to them turning away from us,
		
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			can they like survive without us, nor any
		
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			logic to it, he says, and they suspected
		
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			the worst of us, they think if we're
		
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			going to get closer to God, we're going
		
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			to be miserable, being religious means being uptight,
		
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			right, being restricted, being limited, they suspected the
		
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			worst of us, if only they had assumed
		
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			better, he continues to say, and if they
		
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			turn back to us, we already turn back
		
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			to them, over, done, let's not even talk
		
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			about it, it's over, right away, and if
		
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			they have betrayed us, we have never betrayed
		
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			them, we would never betray them, and then
		
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			he says, and if they have no need
		
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			for us, then we have less of a
		
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			need for them, oh you who has turned
		
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			away from us, know that you're turning away
		
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			is because of us, sometimes it's a punishment,
		
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			if we wanted you, we would have made
		
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			every ounce of you want us, Allah Subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala is not in need, brothers
		
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			and sisters, for anyone to love him, the
		
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			entire universe glorifies him, the clouds above our
		
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			heads, the deer in the forest, the crustacean
		
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			in the oceans, the righteous in every time
		
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			and every place, he does not need it,
		
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			and this is why he says, oh you
		
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			have believed, whomever of you turns his back
		
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			on his religion, then Allah will bring about
		
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			another people, he will replace them with another
		
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			people, that he loves them and they love
		
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			him, and notice he mentioned his love for
		
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			them, before their love for him, because it
		
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			is out of Allah's love for us, that
		
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			he extends for us opportunities to love him,
		
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			that he invites us to love him, but
		
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			the invitation needs to be accepted, the response
		
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			needs to be meaningful, and the response begins
		
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			of course with asking him, as the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us to ask,
		
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			look this dua up, commit it to memory,
		
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			chant it in your sincerest moments, he would
		
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			teach us to say, oh Allah I ask
		
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			you for your love, and the love of
		
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			those who love you, and the love of
		
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			actions that will bring me closer and closer
		
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			to your love, and of course brothers and
		
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			sisters, Ramadan is an opportunity for everyone to
		
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			renew their faith, but especially in the capacity
		
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			of tonight's reminder, I want you to think
		
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			about renewing your faith, in line with renewing,
		
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			reviving, repairing your love for Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, because that is the most precise
		
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			definition of faith, didn't Allah say in the
		
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			Quran, وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ أَشَدُّ حُبًّا لِلَّهِ and as
		
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			for the believers, they are those who are
		
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			more intense in their love for Allah, it's
		
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			an open-ended sentence, more intense in their
		
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			love for Allah than what, doesn't say, because
		
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			that blank, you fill it with anything, it
		
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			still stands true, more intense in their love
		
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			for Allah than their children, more intense in
		
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			their love for Allah than their career, more
		
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			intense in their love for Allah than their
		
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			lives, it becomes their ultimate love, that is
		
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			the definition of the believer, as for the
		
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			believer, they are more intense in their love
		
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			for Allah than anything and the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			said to us, no one will taste the
		
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			truest sweetness of faith, until Allah and His
		
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			Messenger are more beloved to them than everything
		
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			else combined, and for the remainder of these
		
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			short few minutes we have together, I wanted
		
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			to read to you summarize for you, Ibn
		
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			Al-Qayyim's discussion in Al-Madarij, Madarij Al
		
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			-Saliqeen is a book that is discussed in
		
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			this course at Mishka, The Ranks of the
		
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			Divine Seekers, you can purchase it, excellent translation,
		
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			has been produced by Dr. Omer Anjum and
		
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			his team, but the station of muhabba, the
		
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			station of love, this is a hundred stations
		
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			of those seeking at heart, nearness to Allah
		
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			and His pleasure, so this station of muhabba
		
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			as Ibn Al-Qayyim captures it, is one
		
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			of the most soul-stirring discussions you will
		
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			ever come across, I have ever come across,
		
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			every time I revisit it, in the past
		
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			20 years, on this topic, of the core,
		
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			the nucleus, the heart of faith, which is
		
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			muhabbatullah ta'ala, loving Allah the Exalted, so
		
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			he strikes this parallel between the tree of
		
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			faith, you know the Quran speaks about the
		
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			tree of faith, this blessed tree, its roots
		
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			are very firmly entrenched, firmly established, anchored in
		
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			the ground deep, and its branches extend all
		
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			the way into the skies, it gives, offers
		
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			its fruits, all the time, year round, by
		
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			the permission of its Lord, so he speaks
		
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			about the love of Allah, essentially being the
		
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			seed of that tree, you get it, so
		
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			he says, when you plant, let us now
		
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			say in the capacity of Ramadan, when we
		
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			replant, right, that seed, correctly, into the heart,
		
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			he says, it becomes firmly rooted, and then
		
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			emerges into a tree, that its end, its
		
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			pinnacle, is at Sidratul Muntaha, you know what
		
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			Sidratul Muntaha is?
		
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			It is the tree, the Prophet ﷺ was
		
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			brought to, after he was elevated through the
		
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			seven skies, the utmost tree, it is the
		
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			brink of the universe, as we know it,
		
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			it is the end point, before the world
		
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			of the hereafter, paradise, right, so he says,
		
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			it's so deep in his heart, you know,
		
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			only when it gets deep, the foundations of
		
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			a building determine how high the building can
		
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			rise, right, so he says, deeply rooted in
		
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			the heart, such that its branches reach Sidratul
		
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			Muntaha, the tree at the apex of the
		
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			universe, so imagine now, your heart now is
		
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			connected with the heavens, nothing in this world
		
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			can break you anymore, of course, right, he
		
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			says, and this tree now is watered, of
		
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			course, you don't water a tree once, you
		
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			have to keep watering, continuously, with sincere devotion
		
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			to Allah, sincere devotion, dedication to Allah, he
		
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			says, that is when it bears its fruits
		
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			all year round, you know, there's no off
		
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			-season for the believer, there's a high season,
		
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			it's called Ramadan, it's called Hajj, okay, but
		
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			there's no off-season, that's why it renders
		
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			fruits, yields its harvest all year round, what's
		
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			also very beautiful to incorporate here, is the
		
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			fact that hubb, love, comes from the same
		
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			root as the word habb, which is seed,
		
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			you see, it's not just intellectual gymnastics, it
		
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			is all tied together, right, the seed, of
		
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			course, needs a fertile earth, it needs a
		
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			good environment, so does your faith, by the
		
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			way, right, and it needs constant watering, it
		
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			needs this devotion, remember, it's sincere devotion, and
		
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			it also needs what?
		
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			Sunlight, regular sunlight, and the light that Allah
		
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			sent down is what?
		
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			The light of the sun and the light
		
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			of revelation, so you need the right environment,
		
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			you need to be watering it, putting in
		
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			the work, and you need constant exposure to
		
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			the revelation, right, that's the way your seed
		
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			is going to blossom, and the tree of
		
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			faith, the tree of loving God is going
		
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			to thrive, but he doesn't stop there, he
		
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			says elsewhere, but I'm going to pull it
		
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			together for you, the word ins, like ins,
		
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			insan, human being, comes from the word uns,
		
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			some say nisyan, forgetfulness, but perhaps the more
		
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			correct opinion grammatically, it's from uns, uns means
		
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			what?
		
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			Company, the human being loves company, he loves,
		
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			he's social by nature, or social creatures, but
		
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			it's not just our need to socialize with
		
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			people, we have an inherent need to feel
		
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			near to God, we're built to have a
		
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			relationship with him, I need to know he's
		
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			with me, I need to see his face,
		
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			that is a whisper inside the soul of
		
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			everyone, some people act on that claim, and
		
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			some people they bury it, so loving Allah
		
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			is not just at the core of faith,
		
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			it is not just the seed, love is
		
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			the seed of faith, and the tree of
		
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			faith, it is also what it means to
		
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			be human, it is to respond to your
		
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			innermost reality, the ghaybi, the metaphysical, the spiritual
		
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			yearning that is hardwired in every human being,
		
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			everyone would say generally, I love God, but
		
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			are you true in your love for God,
		
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			will you put in the work to really
		
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			build a relationship with God, what's more important
		
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			than you loving Allah is what?
		
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			Him loving you, so he continues to say,
		
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			the claimants who said they loved God were
		
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			many, and so he sent them an exam,
		
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			in the form of his words, say
		
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			to them O Prophet, if you really love
		
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			Allah, then follow me, follow the Prophet Muhammad,
		
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			if you love Allah, Allah will love you,
		
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			he starts with the more important one, Allah
		
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			will love you, and forgive you your sins,
		
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			you don't have to be perfect, but you
		
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			got to follow Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, you
		
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			got to try your best, right, and forgive
		
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			you your sins, you'll still have sins, and
		
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			Allah is most forgiving, most merciful, he says
		
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			so Allah declared in that ayah, you can
		
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			claim whatever you want, but the only currency
		
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			we will accept is sacrifice, are you going
		
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			to sacrifice to follow Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			or not, because you know that's what it
		
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			means, if you love someone, you give up
		
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			what you like for what they like, you
		
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			know, if I love my kids, I'm not
		
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			going to think too much about, oh it's
		
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			2am, I'm really not going to get him
		
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			his medicine right now, because I have work
		
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			in four hours, it doesn't work like that,
		
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			why?
		
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			Love makes sacrifice a no-brainer, selfless for
		
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			the ones we love, not selfish, and then
		
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			claim that we love, so Allah said if
		
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			you really love me, you follow Muhammad Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam, Allah will love you, he says
		
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			so when he set that standard, very few
		
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			among humanity rose, yes we will follow Muhammad
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, so the believers are few,
		
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			but he's about to explain that among the
		
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			believers are those whose belief is compromised, whose
		
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			hypocrisy has flared, who the disease has spread
		
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			inside of, may Allah cleanse our hearts and
		
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			yours, he's a few among humanity rose and
		
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			said we will follow your beloved Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, so Allah says back to them, are
		
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			you sure you will follow him, he just
		
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			went off into the battlefield, prove to me
		
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			you will still follow him, where does he
		
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			get this from, this storyline from?
		
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			From the Quran, the ayah I recited earlier,
		
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			it says, O you who have believed, whoever
		
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			reneges on their deen, Allah will bring about
		
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			another people, he loves them, they love him,
		
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			what does it say, they are humbled with
		
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			the believers, but they are ferocious with the
		
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			disbelievers, of course those who are at war
		
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			with them, no one's going to outdo a
		
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			believer in his civility, in his compassion, but
		
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			on the battlefield, no one's going to outdo
		
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			the believer in his fearlessness either, in his
		
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			valor, in his courage, so he says, ferocious
		
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			with the disbelievers, meaning in that context, they
		
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			fight in the path of Allah, and they
		
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			fear not the blame of the blamers, they
		
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			couldn't care less about the criticism of those
		
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			that are criticizing them, you know also when
		
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			someone's in love, they don't care what you
		
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			think about them, or if they should not
		
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			or not, should have or should not have
		
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			eloped, ran away with their beloved, right, I'm
		
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			in love, I don't care about the blame
		
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			of the blamers, it's irrelevant to me, so
		
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			long as I have my beloved, secured, so
		
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			Allah is saying they fight now, behind their
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, in the path of
		
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			Allah, and they don't fear the blame of
		
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			the blamers, Ibn Al-Qayyim says, so then
		
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			when he set the standard higher, you say
		
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			you follow, well now are you going to
		
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			follow only when it's convenient, are you going
		
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			to be a selective follower of Muhammad Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam, or are you going to follow
		
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			him through thick and thin, he says that
		
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			at that point, most of the few who
		
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			rose, most of them stepped back, and only
		
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			the warriors stepped forward, the warriors who went
		
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			to war with themselves, and their emotions, and
		
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			their fears, went to war with the enemy,
		
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			if the context sanctioned that, and so when
		
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			the warriors stepped forward, Allah said to them,
		
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			your souls no longer belong to you, your
		
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			wealth no longer belongs to you, now come
		
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			sign the contract, you've agreed that no matter
		
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			what it's on the table, you're going to
		
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			sacrifice it, now come sign the contract, what
		
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			is the contract, that Allah has certainly
		
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			purchased from the believers their lives and their
		
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			wealth, so that for them will be paradise,
		
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			souls he created, souls he does not need,
		
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			he still buys them back from you, in
		
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			exchange for paradise, and a person is to
		
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			stop here of course and say, if I
		
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			have not sold, do I deserve the payment,
		
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			what proof do I have that I have
		
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			actually sold, the rights to my soul, the
		
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			rights to my wealth, the rights to my
		
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			decisions, I've truly unconditionally submitted, so long as
		
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			I get that Jannah, and if you have
		
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			not sold, why have you not sold, have
		
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			you found a better buyer, so Ibn Al
		
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			-Khayyam says, that when he said to them,
		
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			come sign the contract, they realized that the
		
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			contract was no flimsy contract, you see, Allah
		
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			did not accept anything but advanced payment for
		
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			this contract, he said, Allah purchased lives and
		
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			wealth, so that for them will be paradise,
		
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			you got to pay up front, you know
		
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			when something is cheap, they tell you, take
		
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			it off the lot, I need to get
		
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			rid of it, and payment installments, because it's
		
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			losing value, I need to bring the new
		
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			wave of cars in, right, this is not
		
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			one of those items, it's not a flimsy
		
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			thing, Allah said, but the payment has to
		
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			be, do you trust me or not, do
		
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			you believe or not, you got to pay
		
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			in advance, so that for you will be
		
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			paradise, Ibn Al-Khayyam says, so the coward
		
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			stepped back, I don't know about this contract,
		
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			and the stingy, no, I want immediate payment,
		
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			right, the stingy stepped back, it's as if
		
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			Allah was telling them, this is the contract,
		
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			if you're a coward or you're stingy, stand
		
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			down, this contract is not for you, the
		
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			love of Allah is the grand prize, you
		
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			need to be ready to pay for it,
		
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			and I'll read to you here this final
		
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			line, he says, when they realized at that
		
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			moment, the greatness of the buyer, and the
		
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			superiority of the price, and the majesty of
		
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			the one who sealed the contract, he's the
		
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			one that brought us the contract, they understood
		
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			the value of the commodity, and its significance
		
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			became clear to them, and they recognized that
		
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			it would be a great loss to sell
		
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			it for some trivial price, and so they
		
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			swore their allegiance, and when the contract was
		
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			completed, and when the goods were surrendered, they
		
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			were told, since your souls and wealth now
		
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			belong to us, we return them to you
		
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			many fold better than ever, in this life
		
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			before the next, only through dedication to Allah
		
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			can you live the best life here, now
		
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			that you've sold it, now you can enjoy
		
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			life here, and then at the end of
		
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			your term here, your life will only be
		
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			upgraded there, you know, subhanAllah, brothers and sisters,
		
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			the reality is that this world demands from
		
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			us so much, and returns to us so
		
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			little, whereas Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala demands
		
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			from us so little, and he is offering
		
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			us so much, and may Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala allow us to realize, and continue
		
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			to realize, and keep remembering the weight and
		
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			depth of those words, Allahumma ameen, and then
		
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			he says, and I will not be able
		
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			to expound on this much, I'll have you
		
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			explore it on your own, and with your
		
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			families, he says what is it that generates
		
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			the love of Allah, that gets us started
		
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			on this road, out of his love he
		
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			gives us an opportunity, now how do we
		
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			generate some love, and then it becomes a
		
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			virtuous cycle, he'll love us more, and enable
		
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			us to love him more, and love us
		
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			more, and enable us to love him more,
		
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			and it becomes this beautiful virtuous cycle, he
		
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			said there are 10 things, for those of
		
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			you writing, or those of you who will
		
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			come back to the recording, take note of
		
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			them, 10 things that will generate the love
		
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			of Allah, he says the first of them
		
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			is the Quran, there's nothing like it, it
		
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			has no equivalent, deep reflection on the Quran,
		
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			look for while you're reading, even the translation,
		
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			how do I act on these words, let
		
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			me figure out a way, understand these words,
		
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			exert an effort to explain the Quran to
		
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			yourself, as if you were explaining it to
		
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			a crowd, trying not to embarrass yourself, right,
		
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			I gotta, I can't like look like I
		
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			don't know, I'm gonna, explaining the Quran to
		
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			yourself like that, don't skip a word, or
		
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			don't skip a phrase, say it's not important,
		
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			I'll get back to it some other time,
		
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			next Ramadan or something, don't do that, Quran
		
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			with deep reflection, that's number one, number two,
		
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			he says is to do deeds, nafl, beyond
		
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			the obligatory deeds, but of course beyond he
		
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			means after, in addition to, because Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala said in the authentic hadith
		
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			Qudsi, my servant does not come closer to
		
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			me with anything more beloved, love, beloved to
		
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			me than what I have obligated him with,
		
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			and my servant does not stop coming closer
		
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			to me with these nafl deeds, meaning every
		
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			rak'ah, every sadaqa, every sajda, he'll continue
		
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			to get closer to me with those nafl,
		
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			after the fara'id, until I love them,
		
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			meaning in an exceptional way, in a distinguished
		
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			way, number three, constant dhikr, never allow your
		
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			tongue to go dry from the remembrance of
		
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			Allah, subhanallah and alhamdulillah and la ilaha illallah
		
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			and allahu akbar, you're not trying to remember
		
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			someone absent, you're trying to revive yourself from
		
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			the coma, you're trying to resuscitate yourself to
		
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			the actual reality that Allah is more real
		
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			than us, we're just being absent-minded, he's
		
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			not absent, this is the purpose of dhikr,
		
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			the more dhikr you make, the more glorification
		
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			of Allah will land in your heart eventually,
		
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			and we are born to love what is
		
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			glorious, we love glorious things, we love powerful
		
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			things, we love mighty things, we love perfect
		
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			things, we love beautiful things, Allah is the
		
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			epitome of all of that, so the more
		
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			you recall it, the more your love for
		
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			him will grow, subhanahu wa ta'ala, number
		
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			four, he says and this was the summary
		
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			of today's topic, but sacrificing and jumping hurdles
		
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			to prioritize his love, there's going to be
		
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			roadblocks, that's your booster moment, that's how you
		
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			get closer than ever, you're going to be
		
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			tested, are you only going to do it
		
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			when it's smooth sailing or are you going
		
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			to power through on the day you're feeling
		
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			a little heavier, a little more sluggish, a
		
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			little more down, I'm still going to pray
		
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			my fajr, I'm still going to restrain my
		
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			anger, I'm still going to keep my pledge,
		
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			you know when Allah says, those who fight
		
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			towards us, fight to come closer to us,
		
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			fight to please us, we will surely guide
		
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			them to our paths, that means what, if
		
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			you don't fight, you will not be guided
		
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			to the paths, number five, he says meditating,
		
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			meaning spending a long time reflecting on his
		
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			names and his attributes, for whoever does that,
		
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			loving him becomes inevitable, you are incapable of
		
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			not loving Allah, you will not be able
		
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			to resist loving him, if you spend time
		
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			reflecting on his names and his attributes, what
		
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			makes them perfect, what makes him so unique,
		
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			number six, is noting his favours, again, it
		
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			is irresistible to love, to not love, right,
		
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			those who give you gifts, even when you
		
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			have a problem with someone and they give
		
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			you a gift, you start developing a soft
		
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			spot for them and that's why the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, exchange gifts, it
		
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			will increase the love between you, it'll break
		
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			the ill feelings, break the grudges, give gifts
		
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			and this is why Allah tells us about
		
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			his favours, his gifts to us on every
		
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			page of the Quran, so just note them,
		
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			most of the gifts of Allah go unnoticed
		
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			and most of those few that are noticed,
		
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			get forgotten again, so push back against that,
		
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			number six, number seven, expressing one's brokenness before
		
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			him, as this is the greatest shortcut to
		
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			God, it's true, he used to say, there
		
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			is no path between a servant and his
		
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			Lord that is shorter than expressing your brokenness,
		
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			because you know, when you say, oh Allah,
		
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			I can't, it's you saying, you can, it
		
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			is the other part of glorifying him, so
		
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			express that there's nothing glorious about me, you
		
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			are the one who validates me, you are
		
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			the one who maintains me, you are the
		
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			one who mends me, you are the one
		
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			who saves me, so expressing one's brokenness before
		
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			him, you know, even if you don't know
		
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			what to say, that's part of it too,
		
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			say, yeah Allah, I don't know what to
		
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			say, yeah Allah, forgive me, I don't know
		
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			how to speak to you, yeah Allah, I
		
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			don't know, I don't care, find the words
		
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			in any language, say these things, hear yourself
		
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			saying them, number eight, seclusion with him during
		
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			the sacred hours, the sujood time, the end
		
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			of the night, right, because this also creates
		
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			an awe inside you, that's why it's part
		
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			of our sacred framework, our sacred devotional framework,
		
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			this wasn't just someone's bright idea on this
		
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			is how you can try to get closer
		
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			to God, Allah sent his Prophet, peace be
		
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			upon him, to show you how to get
		
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			access, these times where you have intimate conversations
		
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			with him, at the same time you are
		
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			ultra reverent of him, you're making your wudu
		
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			and you're facing the qibla and you're in
		
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			private because you're certain that he hears you
		
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			as you whisper into the carpet, so times
		
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			of seclusion, number nine, adhering, meaning keeping the
		
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			company of genuine lovers of Allah, people who
		
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			are very cautious, guarding of their relationship with
		
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			Allah, people very vigilant, afraid to fumble their
		
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			status with Allah, because it's contagious, right, it's
		
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			inspiring, he says people who pluck the finest
		
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			fruits of their words, meaning they pluck their
		
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			words the same way they choose a fruit,
		
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			I don't care how long it takes, I
		
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			need to pick the word that Allah is
		
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			going to hear me say, right, who pluck
		
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			the finest fruits of their words and they
		
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			only speak after confirming that speech outweighs silence
		
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			or it is of benefit for them or
		
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			for others, and number 10, avoiding all that
		
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			counteracts the heart's progress and hinders it from
		
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			Allah, you're flushing in the fresh water, you're
		
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			rinsing out the residue, you're sort of detoxing
		
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			the heart and the pollution in the heart
		
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			with the love of Allah, you got to
		
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			plug the holes and sort of make sure
		
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			it doesn't come in from the other side
		
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			or else you build one day and destroy
		
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			another or build one moment and demolish another,
		
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			may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us
		
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			his love and the love of those who
		
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			love him and the love of actions that
		
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			will bring us closer to his love, Allahumma
		
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			ameen, may Allah allow us in these final
		
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			days of Rajab to plant our seeds and
		
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			to water them in the month of Sha
		
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			'ban and to harvest the best of the
		
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			best of Ramadan, Allahumma ameen, may Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala make the Quran and our
		
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			daily reflections on it a means of having
		
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			our sins forgiven, having our hearts purified, having
		
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			our minds illuminated, having our burdens lifted, having
		
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			our anxieties and our grief and our distress
		
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			dispelled, Allahumma ameen, ameen, ameen, wa sallallahu wa
		
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			sallam wa baraka an nabiyyina Muhammad wa ala
		
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			alihi wa sahbihi ajma'een.
		
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			Jazakallah khairan.
		
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			Yes, there can be questions, if you need
		
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			to leave, leave, take your time and hurry
		
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			up, go quietly, you're not insulting me, please,
		
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			I will not be offended in the least,
		
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			but whoever wants to stay behind for questions,
		
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			we'll leave some time for questions as requested.
		
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			Anybody have a question?
		
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			Can I run away?
		
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			Oh, there is a brother that has a
		
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			question here.
		
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			Jazakallah khair brother.
		
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			I just want you to expand on khushu
		
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			and seclusion.
		
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			Khushu and seclusion.
		
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			Seclusion.
		
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			You have one too, can I answer his
		
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			question first?
		
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			One second.
		
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			So khushu and seclusion.
		
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			Seclusion means to be alone, to be secluded
		
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			means to be separated, like secularism, to separate
		
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			church and state, right?
		
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			So seclusion means to be alone, okay?
		
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			In our deen, we are not isolationist, we
		
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			are not told to separate ourselves from society
		
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			altogether, because then what?
		
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			The bad people get worse.
		
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			No one's checking them anymore, right?
		
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			So no, it's not what we're taught.
		
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			We are taught that there are moments that
		
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			are necessary for seclusion.
		
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			You have to step away for some moments
		
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			to make your five salah, and you're encouraged
		
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			to step away into the darkness for qiyam
		
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			ul-layl, and if you can, to step
		
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			away altogether for just 10 days out of
		
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			the year perhaps, in the last 10 of
		
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			Ramadan, that's seclusion.
		
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			Because it helps what?
		
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			Khushu.
		
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			It helps the presence of heart.
		
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			Khushu is a word that is translated as
		
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			concentration, it's translated as humility, it's translated as
		
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			awe.
		
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			I like translating it as stillness.
		
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			Stillness.
		
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			It's what helps the heart become still and
		
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			focused.
		
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			That's the linguistic roots of the word khushu.
		
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			Khushu means to be present and to be
		
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			poised in your interactions with Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			There's no interference, there is no noise.
		
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			You're trying to get as much of that
		
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			as possible, that's what khushu is, and Allah
		
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			knows best.
		
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			Who else has a question?
		
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			The sisters have questions too, by the way.
		
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			There's some hands going up on that side.
		
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			I don't know who's the the mic wielder.
		
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			Question, and this may seem odd, but I'm
		
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			a reader.
		
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			So you know the dua in Surah Ibrahim,
		
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			where we're supposed to pray for our parents,
		
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			since my parents are not Muslim, how does
		
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			that work?
		
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			The sister is asking about the dua of
		
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			Ibrahim alayhi salam for his parents.
		
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			How does that apply to someone whose parents
		
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			are not Muslim?
		
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			So in Surah Ibrahim, we have that Ibrahim
		
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			alayhi salam prayed for his parents.
		
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			Elsewhere in the Qur'an, Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala says that Ibrahim alayhi salam's dua
		
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			for his father was not except for the
		
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			fact that he promised to pray for him.
		
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			Then it says, but then when it became
		
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			clear to him that this was off limits,
		
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			he stopped doing that.
		
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			And so it is important to note that
		
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			when someone passes away and they're not Muslim,
		
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			even though we will not be praying for
		
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			them, we are also not allowed to conclude
		
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			anything about their fate.
		
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			Meaning they are with Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala and he is the ultimate judge.
		
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			Just as you are not allowed to pray
		
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			for them, you are also not allowed to
		
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			say this individual is doomed.
		
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			That is also prohibited in Islam.
		
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			But it is just a matter of we
		
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			have no ability in this world except to
		
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			judge on what's apparent.
		
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			Otherwise we would be paralyzed.
		
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			I wouldn't know who's Muslim and who's not
		
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			Muslim, who's a believer, who's not a believer,
		
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			because I don't have access to people's hearts.
		
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			So I leave the hearts to their maker
		
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			and I leave people's ultimate destination to Allah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But in this world, these rules are judged
		
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			based on what is apparent to us.
		
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			He's apparently Muslim, so he can apparently marry
		
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			my daughter.
		
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			Right?
		
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			He's apparently Muslim, so I can apparently eat
		
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			his meat.
		
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			I need to know these rules, right?
		
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			This person is not a Muslim, so I
		
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			can pray for them.
		
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			They become Muslim and be forgiven of their
		
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			sins by becoming Muslim.
		
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			They're non-Muslim and they pass away, then
		
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			I don't make dua for them.
		
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			But at the same time, I don't have
		
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			to believe, rather I am not allowed to
		
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			believe that they will certainly not be saved.
		
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			We trust Allah's justice and his judgment, even
		
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			if we're not allowed to pray for the
		
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			forgiveness of someone that has apparently passed away
		
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			a non-believer.
		
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			Does that help?
		
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			Does it answer the question?
		
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			Tabna, ask your question.
		
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			You know, this is a dua we make
		
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			after Salah.
		
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			We make it, you know, like we're, it's
		
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			like Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, you know,
		
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			it's like a sunnah.
		
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			But because my parents are non-Muslim, do
		
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			I still say this for like my forefathers
		
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			who were brought over here on slave ships
		
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			that were Muslim?
		
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			I mean, how does this work?
		
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			That's what I guess.
		
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			I'm trying to understand.
		
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			I got it.
		
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			So you can pray for the forgiveness of
		
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			a non-Muslim who is alive, intending by
		
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			that that they become Muslim and be forgiven.
		
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			Because the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said after
		
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			the battle of Uhud, when he was gashed
		
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			by them, he said, Allahum maghfir li qawmi
		
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			fa innahum la ya'lamoon.
		
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			Oh my Lord, forgive my people for they
		
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			do not know.
		
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			Forgive them means what?
		
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			Guide them to Islam so that they would
		
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			be forgiven.
		
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			That's what's meant by it.
		
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			And so you can do it that way.
		
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			And Allah knows best.
		
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			Or there are many alternate duas, if this
		
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			is sort of problematized in your head, that's
		
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			that's fine as well.
		
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			Just there's a reason why there are so
		
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			many duas and we're not just held to
		
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			one.
		
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			Because sometimes that one either may not be
		
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			applicable in that moment or your heart will
		
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			not be present due to your reluctance to
		
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			say it, like your uncertainty about its implications.
		
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			Assalamualaikum Sheikh.
		
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			Waalaikumsalam.
		
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			Who's talking to me?
		
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			Here.
		
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			There we go.
		
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			Jazakallah khair for your time and your efforts.
		
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			May Allah increase you, bless you for your
		
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			efforts and make you of the people that
		
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			Allah loves and make you of those that
		
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			love Allah as well.
		
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			We've talked a lot about things that we
		
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			can do to come closer to Allah and
		
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			love Allah.
		
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			Are there certain signs that a person can
		
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			take that Allah loves them as well?
		
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			What are the signs that Allah loves a
		
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			person?
		
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			So the hadith that we mentioned, that my
		
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			servant does not come closer to me with
		
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			anything more beloved to me.
		
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			This is called hadith al-wilaya, the hadith
		
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			of being loved by God.
		
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			And so it begins, I'm going to have
		
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			to rush through it, but at least I'll
		
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			give you something.
		
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			It says, Whomever shows aggression or enmity to
		
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			those that I love, I have declared war
		
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			on such people.
		
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			So Allah is declaring already that he's very
		
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			protective of his cherished servants, of his beloved
		
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			servants.
		
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			Then he speaks about how to get closer
		
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			and become Allah's beloved by saying, and my
		
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			servant does not come closer to me with
		
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			anything more beloved to me than what I
		
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			have obligated upon them.
		
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			And my servant continues to come closer to
		
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			me with the nawafil, with the voluntary deeds
		
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			until I love them.
		
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			Here it comes, the signs.
		
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			And then when I love them, I become
		
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			their hand with which they strike, their foot
		
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			with which they walk, their eye with which
		
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			they see, their ear with which they hear.
		
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			So that's the first sign that Allah loves
		
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			you, that you are aligned with the things
		
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			he loves.
		
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			Allah gives this world to those he loves
		
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			and those he hates, but he gives guidance
		
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			to who?
		
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			The ones he loves.
		
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			He gives faith to the one he loves.
		
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			So the more aligned you are with Allah's
		
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			guidance, that is divine grace.
		
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			That's a gift because he loves you.
		
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			That's number one.
		
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			Then it continues to say, وَإِنْ إِسْتَعَاذَنِي فَأُعِيدَ
		
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			وَلَا إِنْ سَأَلَنِي لَأُعْطِيَنَّهُ وَلَا إِنْ إِسْتَعَاذَنِي لَأُعِيدَنَّ
		
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			And when he asks of me, I give
		
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			him.
		
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			And when he seeks my refuge, I grant
		
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			him refuge.
		
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			So Allah answering your dua more often than
		
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			others is of the signs that he loves
		
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			you.
		
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			But the first sign is stronger than the
		
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			second sign because Allah may accept your dua
		
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			and you're not even a believer as a
		
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			means to bring you to faith, as a
		
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			means to humble your heart, to give you
		
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			another chance.
		
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			It doesn't mean you're loved yet.
		
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			The Quran says among those who disbelieve in
		
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			God are those they wind up on a
		
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			ship and it becomes topsy-turvy and they
		
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			start calling upon Allah, if you save us
		
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			we'll be better, we'll be monotheists, we won't
		
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			ascribe any partners to you.
		
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			Then he accepts their dua, the dua of
		
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			the disbeliever.
		
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			It doesn't mean the disbeliever is one of
		
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			the awliya of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So the number one sign, the number one
		
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			sign is your alignment with Allah's pleasure.
		
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			You hear what he loves for you to
		
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			hear.
		
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			You see what he loves for you to
		
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			see.
		
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			You do with your faculties, your hands, what
		
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			he loves to see from you.
		
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			That is of the greatest signs that he
		
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			loves you.
		
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			And of the signs also is the dua
		
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			that he accepts from you.
		
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			Those are two signs.
		
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			Yes, go ahead.
		
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			If there's no mic just project yourself.
		
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			Oh there is a mic.
		
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			Yes, so my question is that by point
		
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			ten I understood that we must avoid all
		
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			kinds of harams to gain Allah's love, but
		
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			if it's not what I think it is,
		
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			could you please clarify the point with an
		
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			example?
		
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			Thank you so much.
		
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			Yeah, so some people they say, you know,
		
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			I've been reading Quran, I've been reading Quran,
		
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			I've been reading Quran, but my iman is
		
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			not growing.
		
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			I don't feel my iman stronger.
		
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			Well maybe you're reading Quran or listening to
		
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			Quran from one ear and you're still listening
		
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			to music and backbiting from the other ear.
		
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			Right or wrong?
		
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			That's what we mean, that it's not just
		
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			about doing the right things.
		
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			It's also about stopping to do the wrong
		
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			things, avoiding the wrong things.
		
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			That's what we mean.
		
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			When will the building's construction ever come like
		
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			into full form if every time you build
		
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			someone behind you comes and knocks down?
		
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			That's what we mean.
		
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			Go ahead.
		
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			Oh here.
		
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			Okay, alaikum salam.
		
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			You said that jannah people will regret there,
		
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			so how is explained in Quran?
		
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			Yes, yes.
		
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			Okay, second thing, if there is...
		
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			No, the first question is free.
		
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			The second question you have to do Ramadan
		
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			pledge for the masjid here.
		
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			Okay, go ahead.
		
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			No, I'm joking.
		
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			Go ahead.
		
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			So we said the people of jannah will
		
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			regret.
		
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			Let me try to reword that.
		
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			The people that are jannah bound, the people
		
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			that are going to go to jannah at
		
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			the end of this day, the day of
		
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			judgment, will regret until they get into jannah.
		
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			Then they will forget.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said in the
		
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			authentic hadith of Anas, the people of jannah
		
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			will not regret anything except a moment that
		
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			passed by them in which he did not
		
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			remember Allah.
		
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			I could have got a higher level.
		
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			I could have had a higher level.
		
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			I could have gotten a higher level when
		
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			they realized the disparity between each level.
		
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			So they will regret that until they get
		
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			to jannah.
		
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			Then they will be made content even if
		
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			they don't have the greatest of its enjoyments.
		
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			All right.
		
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			They will not regret inside.
		
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			I'm sorry if that was unclear.
		
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			Sister, go ahead.
		
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			Why do we pray five times a day?
		
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			Very important question.
		
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			We pray five times a day for many,
		
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			many, many, many reasons.
		
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			The number one reason is what?
		
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			It's what Allah loves most, to have a
		
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			conversation with us.
		
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			The most beloved, the most loved act to
		
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			Allah, the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said this,
		
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			is praying on time.
		
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			That's the number one reason.
		
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			And it will be the first thing he
		
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			asks us about on the day of judgment.
		
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			Did you do the thing that I loved
		
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			most?
		
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			Did you make it first?
		
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			Did you make it most important?
		
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			Did you prioritize it?
		
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			This is why we pray.
		
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			And because if we don't pray, we're not
		
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			going to be able to be good Muslims.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wasta'eenu bis
		
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			-sabri was-salat.
		
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			Seek strength in prayer and in patience.
		
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			If you're not able to handle the prayer,
		
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			you will not be able to handle everything
		
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			else that's built on the prayer.
		
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			That's why the hadith says, as-salat amudud
		
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			-din.
		
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			It's the central column of Islam.
		
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			If it falls, everything else falls.
		
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			I hope some of those answers got through.
		
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			Any final question?
		
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			Someone new that hasn't asked?
		
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			Go ahead, Sheikh.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum.
		
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			Walaykum as-salam.
		
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			So yeah, being loved by Allah, it's a
		
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			very good category.
		
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			It's a very?
		
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			Good category.
		
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			Of course.
		
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			There's also a category of Ibadur Rahman.
		
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			Is this like a special category?
		
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			I'm pretty sure it's a higher category.
		
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			Can you explain that?
		
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			Yes, of course.
		
00:54:45 --> 00:54:46
			These are not separate categories.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Ibadur Rahman.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			You remember how we said the tree of
		
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			faith and faith is love and hub is
		
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			from hab seed.
		
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			It's the seed of the tree.
		
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			Ibadah, to be the abd, means to be
		
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			the lover.
		
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			Ibn al-Qayyim, he does like a beautiful
		
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			explanation in one of his books on there
		
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			being 60 words for love in the Arabic
		
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			language.
		
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			The highest of them is Ibadah.
		
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			We translate Ibadah as worship.
		
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			Of course, the problem with worship, there's no
		
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			good word, but the problem with worship is
		
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			that it runs the risk of you thinking
		
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			Ibadah is all about some exterior, external ritual
		
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			that we do.
		
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			That ritual is supposed to be an expression
		
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			of our love of Allah and also a
		
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			generator of more love of Allah.
		
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			But Ibadah, at its core, is loving God,
		
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			adoring God.
		
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			Even, by the way, in English, when they
		
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			say the fans worship...
		
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			A long time ago, they used to say
		
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			they worship Elvis or they worship Michael Jackson.
		
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			I'm sorry that they say that stuff.
		
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			It was a very common phrase.
		
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			What do they mean by worship?
		
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			Do they mean like sujood?
		
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			No.
		
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			They mean like their head over heels in
		
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			love with him.
		
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			They obsess over him.
		
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			They adore him.
		
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			So likewise, worship Ibadah means to adore Allah
		
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			above all else.
		
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			That's the root of Ibadah.
		
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			Even if you go to the dictionaries, you'll
		
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			find that the lexical root of Ibadah is
		
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			complete humility, complete love.
		
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			Those two only get combined for who?
		
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			For him.
		
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			Everything else is the fruit.
		
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			So this is the root of Ibadah, the
		
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			seed of Ibadah.
		
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			Then there's the fruit of Ibadah, which are
		
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			the expressions and the actions and the compliance
		
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			and the deference and the ritual.
		
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			All of that is the fruit.
		
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			But the root of it is what?
		
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			Humility and love.
		
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			That helps.
		
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			So Ibadur Rahman are those who have captured
		
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			this, embodied it.
		
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			And Allah knows best.
		
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			I'm not in charge.
		
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			Can someone tell me how many more questions?
		
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			I don't mind.
		
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			My flight isn't until 10 a.m., but
		
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			I need permission.
		
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			Should I go?
		
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			One, one.
		
00:57:08 --> 00:57:09
			So sister and then brother.
		
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			Okay, sister first.
		
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			I have to behave, Sheikh.
		
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			He bought me lunch today.
		
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			So I'm actually reading this on behalf of
		
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			another sister.
		
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			It's known that Allah tests those he loves.
		
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			What are some tips you would give someone
		
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			going through an emotional draining test?
		
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			What would you give as a tip for
		
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			someone going through an emotionally draining test?
		
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			So Ibn Atta, he used to say, No
		
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			one reads Surah Yusuf in a state of
		
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			sadness except that they will find comfort.
		
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			That's one.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ also said, مَنْ أُصِيبَ
		
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			بِمُصِيبَةٍ فَلْيَتَذَكَّرْ مُصِيبَتَهُ بِي فَإِنَّهَا أَعْظَمُ الْمَصَائِبُ
		
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			Whomever is subjected to some tragic event, let
		
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			them consider, let them recall the tragedy of
		
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			my death.
		
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			For that is the greatest of tragedies.
		
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			This is objectively true.
		
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			You know how humble the Prophet ﷺ was?
		
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			You know how hard it must have been
		
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			for him to say that?
		
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			But Allah told him to say that because
		
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			if he didn't say that, we wouldn't know
		
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			it.
		
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			The worst tragedy in human history is over.
		
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			It was called the death of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			Everything else is lighter, right?
		
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			This is not me invalidating your suffering, your
		
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			experience, but telling you that your experience can
		
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			change.
		
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			It can be contextualized.
		
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			It can be tempered, right?
		
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			And Allah ﷻ said to the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			himself when he was suffering so much, we
		
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			know that it saddens you.
		
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			لَيَحْزُنُكَ الَّذِي يَقُولُ It saddens you, all the
		
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			things they're saying about you.
		
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			So what do you do?
		
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			فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَكُمْ مِنَ السَّاجِدِينَ So glorify
		
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			the praises of your Lord and be among
		
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			those who prostrate.
		
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			So do not drift from the community.
		
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			Stay near good brothers or sisters from the
		
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			community that can carry this load with you
		
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			and glorify Allah.
		
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			The tasbih of Allah ﷻ alleviates all of
		
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			these burdens.
		
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			It truly does.
		
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			And recall that no one is actually spared
		
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			of anything.
		
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			Like we're all going through something and Allah
		
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			chose for you a particular test for a
		
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			wisdom that He ultimately knows.
		
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			He chose for you because He loves you,
		
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			Azza wa Jal.
		
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			You know the poet he says, اصْبِرْ لِكُلِّ
		
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			مُصِيبَةٍ وَتَجَلَّدِ Show patience at every calamity and
		
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			some toughness.
		
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			وَاعْلَمْ بِأَنَّ الْمَرْءَ غَيْرَ مُخَلَّدِ And know that
		
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			the individual, the human being, is not immortal.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Like the problem will either go or you
		
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			will go and leave it behind.
		
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			It's not staying.
		
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			Right?
		
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			وَمَنْ لَمْ يُصَبْ مِمَّنْ تَرَى بِمُصِيبَةٍ هَذَا سَبِيلٌ
		
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			لَسْتَ عَنْهُ بِأَوْحَدِ Then he says, and who
		
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			has not been afflicted from any person you've
		
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			ever seen in your life?
		
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			This is a path you're not walking alone.
		
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			He says, these are all pinches or fangs
		
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			that bite into you today and they disappear
		
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			tomorrow.
		
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			You know like your best day in this
		
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			world, whatever that is, it ended that day.
		
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			The feeling went away like 24, 48, 72
		
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			hours max.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Likewise, your worst day in this world, it's
		
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			going to be gone in a day or
		
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			two.
		
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			It's going to start dissipating.
		
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			Right?
		
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			He says, تَنُوبُ الْيَوْمِ It bites today وَتُكْشَفُ
		
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			فِي غَدِي He says, وَإِذَا ذَكَرْتَ مُصِيبَةً وَمُصَابَهُ
		
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			فَذْكُرْ مُصَابَكَ بِالنَّبِي مُحَمَّدِ And if you want
		
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			to remember a tragedy and how much it
		
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			hurt, remember your tragic event of losing the
		
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			Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
		
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			So I hope some of these are helpful.
		
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			Surah Yusuf and remembering the Prophet ﷺ and
		
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			all he went through and the prescription of
		
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			Allah for him and realizing that it's a
		
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			moment, it will be gone, you will swear
		
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			it was nothing once you pass through the
		
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			gates, inshallah.
		
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			And the last question was, how do you
		
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			differentiate waswas versus your own negative thoughts?
		
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			Oh, no.
		
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			How do I answer this in brief terms?
		
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			Who's the brother that told me he's a
		
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			psychologist?
		
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			Where is he?
		
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			Show yourself.
		
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			He's like, I check out at 5 p
		
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			.m. I don't know you.
		
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			He's not here.
		
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			Well, alhamdulillah, you have sort of mental health
		
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			professionals in the community and psych specialists in
		
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			the community.
		
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			There is Yaqeen Institute's paper called Imams, OCD
		
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			Imams and Satanic Whispers.
		
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			Something along those lines.
		
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			Google Yaqeen, Imams, OCD, Satanic Whispers.
		
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			But ultimately, or briefly should I say, the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, when people came to him and
		
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			said, we hear certain suggestive thoughts, he said,
		
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			أَوَجَدْتُمُ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي رَضَّ كَيْدَهُ يَلْوَسْوَسَ Praise
		
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			be to Allah who limited his schemes, the
		
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			schemes of shaitan to simply whispering.
		
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			إِذَا وَجِدَ أَحَدُكُم ذَٰلِكَ فَلْيَسْتَعِذُ بِاللَّهِ وَلِيَنْتَهِ One
		
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			of you experiences these thoughts, seek refuge with
		
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			Allah and just ignore them.
		
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			Ignore them, self-interrupt.
		
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			Because if you try to silence them, you're
		
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			already validating them.
		
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			You're giving them too much attention.
		
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			So they'll get louder and louder.
		
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			The trick is to ignore them.
		
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			The trick is to not believe they're you
		
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			because they're not.
		
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			If they were you, you wouldn't be complaining
		
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			to the Shaykh about them, right?
		
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			This is why another narration, the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			said to the man who said I have
		
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			whispers, ذَلِكَ صَرِيحُ الْإِمَان This is a clear
		
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			sign of faith.
		
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			What's a clear sign of faith?
		
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			Whispers?
		
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			No, your complaint, you're being bothered by the
		
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			whisper is a sign of your faith.
		
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			So don't buy into the lie that this
		
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			is you doubting the faith or otherwise.
		
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			As for if sometimes people need intervention, they
		
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			need someone like an external party to help
		
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			them self-interrupt so that it quiets and
		
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			disappears these whispers, seek out professional help.
		
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			Nothing wrong with that.
		
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			InshaAllah, we'll take one final question.
		
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			You promise?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			I'll take your question offline, Shaykh, inshaAllah.
		
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			Onto the table.
		
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			Yeah, this is regarding your first point, which
		
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			is Qur'an.
		
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			So as an average Muslim, right, how should
		
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			I go about reading the translation of Qur
		
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			'an?
		
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			So when I start with the translation, we
		
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			see there are many versions of translations with
		
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			commentary from Sahih Al-Bukhari, but in many
		
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			of the verses, we miss the exegesis.
		
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			Now if I go back to the exegesis,
		
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			like Ibn Qasir, it is extremely verbose actually
		
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			and sometimes it gets tricky to comprehend the
		
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			context.
		
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			Suppose if you take the context of Surah
		
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			Al-Imran with the Battle of Uhud.
		
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			So unless and until we go through the
		
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			Seerah series, it gets a bit tricky.
		
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			So if I am a working professional, I
		
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			can't go through a course, what would be
		
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			the ideal way I can approach this?
		
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			If you suggest I have to go through
		
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			a course, then what would be the best
		
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			steps?
		
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			JazakAllah khair.
		
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			Okay, inshaAllah.
		
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			So two things quickly about the meanings of
		
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			the Qur'an.
		
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			First of all, the translation of the Qur
		
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			'an is an interpretation of the Qur'an.
		
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			So he selects a meaning, the interpreter, and
		
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			then he translates that meaning that he has
		
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			chosen into English.
		
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			So you can read the translation as an
		
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			explanation, as tafsir.
		
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			It is.
		
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			Number two, unlike the differences we often hear
		
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			about in Islamic law, different interpretations that are
		
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			often conflictual in Islamic law, so much of
		
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			the differences in Qur'anic explanation, when you
		
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			go to the traditional explanations, they are not
		
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			conflictual, they are not contradictory, they are not
		
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			mutually exclusive, they are compatible.
		
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			They mean all of that at once.
		
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			There are layers of meaning to the Qur
		
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			'an, as many of the early Muslims, Sufyan
		
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			al-Thawri and others used to say.
		
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			So if I can be so witty, clever,
		
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			intelligent that I can say something and mean
		
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			two things by it, Allah, who created human
		
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			intelligence, can say something and mean multiple meanings
		
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			by it?
		
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			Of course He can, Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And so the Qur'an, much of it
		
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			is like that.
		
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			You don't need to pinpoint which one it
		
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			is and isn't to move on to reflecting.
		
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			You're reflecting upon an established meaning, and that
		
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			is available to you through a translation.
		
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			The last thing I'm going to say is
		
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			how to reflect.
		
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			There is a Yaqeen paper called Keys to
		
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			Tadabbur.
		
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			Everyone here has to read it.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And if you get the AI summary, we're
		
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			not friends.
		
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			Read it.
		
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			Keys to Tadabbur.
		
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			How to deeply reflect in the Qur'an,
		
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			it's extremely pragmatic.
		
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			It is one of the best resources you
		
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			can ever come across in the English language
		
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			so far, especially going into the month of
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			By Sheikh Yusuf Wahab, and I assisted with
		
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			the paper, but he's the lead author.
		
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			Yusuf Wahab, W-A-H-B.
		
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			I'm going to stop here, because you guys
		
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			are being very courteous and you don't want
		
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			to leave, even though I gave you permission
		
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			to leave.
		
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			Get out.
		
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			I mean, get home safe.
		
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			And whoever wants to stay behind, I'll stay
		
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			behind for a bit, inshallah, for private questions.
		
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			Jazakallahu khairan wa salamu ala alihi wa sahbihi
		
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			ajma'in.