The Perfect Balance

Mohammad Elshinawy

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The speakers discuss the importance of having a love alone for peace and happiness, as it is crucial to live life for Allah's prer lie. They emphasize the value of the world for one's own good and the importance of being productive and engaging in the world for one's own happiness. The speakers also touch on the history of Islam, including its use as a means of worship and the reward it provides for individuals. They stress the importance of balancing wealth and the need for people to live for the sake of Islam, and the importance of showing one's bias towards Islam.

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Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala rasulillah Allah Allah He also

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Chateau La ilaha illa

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Allah Muhammad

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Rasul

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Allah, God Mohammed Salah

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Sharon said to her

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well praise and glory belongs to Allah Lord of the worlds.

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Indeed Allah azza wa jal is deserving of the best of thanks and the most beautiful phrases, and as far as peace and blessings be upon his final messenger, Mohammed, Salah levada, who says him, and his family and his companions and all those loyal to him. Now law, so just make us up and testify that no one is worthy of worship with a love alone without any partners. The Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was indeed His Prophet, and a servant and His Messenger, and then choose the words the words of Allah and the best of guidance, as soon as the example of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the most dangerous of methods, the newly added matters into

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this religion for every single one of them is leading the street, that only leads to the fire.

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Perhaps we will

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continue from where we left off in the article this afternoon, with regards to our appointment,

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that each and every one of us is going to have our conversation with a wasp pilot.

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And we say that the intelligent person is the one that keeps

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the words of such a moment very clear in his life, and brings that day and senses in front of him between his very eyes for as long as he lives as frequently as he can. And then that's moment in and of itself, that crossroads. Once a person understands its worth, you will realize that it is sufficient.

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It is most worthy that they spend every moment in their life possible in the surface of Allah Subhana, WA tada just to be of those that are dismissed safely from that conversation that are successful from that meeting.

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Except that I want to take that conversation from the book and turn it 180 degrees now.

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balanced the picture a little bit. A lot of articles Allah says,

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Allah qivana suki

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de la

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si, indeed, my prayer and my sacrifice, and my living and my diet is all for Allah. That's the way it should be.

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But we want to approach that from a different angle. And that is the beauty and the comprehensive

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brilliance of this religion, what it actually means to live your entire life for Allah subhanho wa Taala. Surely it cannot mean just to sit there in the midst of crying your eyes out, the day of judgment is coming. And that's all you do. Rather, our Dean is a very special Dean. And it is beautiful from whatever angle you approach it would have its beauty is that it is comprehensive. It combines between the rights of God and the rights of his creation, right. It combines between this dunya this world and the afterlife. And that's why the ideal believer

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he engages with this world. he participates in the worldly life. And he works in this world as if he's not ever going to die. The one that sees him and doesn't know any better things, this person doesn't believe that he'll die. He works hard.

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And at the same time, he works for the Hereafter, as if this is not a life, understood, he works for this world, as if there is no such thing as death. And he works at the same time for the hereafter as if it is not the life it's not a real life.

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You know, for example, the prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, either automatically Sara will be ideological phocoena for any stefarr aleteia, whom had the eraser fully addressed.

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If the hour is established, the Hereafter is arriving, the day of judgment is about to begin. And there is a seed

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in the hands of one of you.

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He said sallallahu alayhi wa sallam if you are capable of not allowing the hour to begin it means I was raised to the hour white planting that seed, then do it

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or not gonna see the fruit. That's not the point. You work and you work hard and you invest as much as you can, and you engage in this world. Even if you don't see the fruit even if you're sure you're dead.

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A minute later.

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So you work for this world and you work for the hereafter and you go full blast in both avenues at the same time.

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But how do we see this dual mission?

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This world, we work hard in it as a bridge to our craft, we engage in this world for the sake of our hereafter.

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Right? We are productive human beings. Islam did not produce Muslims at all. They focus on the hereafter and they have no idea what's going on in the world around them.

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Nor does it produce Muslims that all they focus on in this world and they're completely oblivious to the hereafter.

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Rather, they use this world for their salvation on the hereafter.

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Alonzo Jesus will be telling me FEMA,

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and seek using what Allah gave you, the home of the Hereafter, while attention of Siva feminine,

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and do not forget your share of this world, meaning don't deprive yourself of the permissible things of food and clothing and shelter that are created for you.

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Some people think that being religious means you have to be miserable. No, these permissible things are what made them created them and made them reasonable for you.

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And the other things that are not permissible, It's for your own good to stay away from them that would actually make you miserable.

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So that's what lies in wants from you. He wants you to enjoy yourself in this world and the hereafter.

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And you utilize this world, everything in this world, even if you enjoy it, for the sake of the hereafter.

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Because some people think that if you're not toiling, if you're not traveling yourself, if you're not going through a hard time in a certain act, then it can't be for Allah. Right?

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You can't like it because if you like it, then you're not surrendering as a slave and cuff to Allah Subhana Allah god, there's a concept many of us had, even if we may not admit it, but this is not true. The proof is the hater.

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Muslim, he said some a lot more I didn't even say live will feed

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into any one of you being intimate with your spouse. That's an act of charity.

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So the companion to the Rasul Allah, he was

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one of us goes to satisfy his desires.

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And then he gets a reward for that it's for the sake of Allah. He said, some of them are eight and a half with Ron McKenna, who is if he would have satisfied his desires in a way that our mother didn't permit, wouldn't he have been punished or punishable? At least wouldn't there have been a sin involved? They said, Yes, of course. fertigation is a sin. He says, likewise, it's only fair, this is a law you're dealing with, that when you extinguish that desire in a manner that Allah is accepting of, you get the reward for it, even if it's something enjoyable, even if it's something enjoyable.

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So our Dean is the dean that taught us to give each its due right as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, and your body has a right upon you, and your family has a right upon you. And your child has a right upon you. And your guest has a right upon you. And of course above and before all and your Lord has a right upon you. He told us a lot more emphatically how can how can so give everything is the right.

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You know the reason

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for this being mentioned, when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came to Medina,

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he paired between many of the Mahajan the Mexicans that migrated and the answer the residents of Medina supported them and took them in.

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So of those that he paired up with sell metal fantasy, and

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out of that was very dedicated and very devoted to his worship of Allah subhanho wa Taala. But at the expense of what at the expense of other REITs

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and his wife disclose this to sell bad sell men could notice it. And his wife admitted that it is true, said that this is a religious guy, very religious, he has no need for women. He This is his wife. He doesn't have need for any because any food or drink or it just lives on the minimum to keep it moving.

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So someone said Oh, there's no good.

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And he spent time at his house, and he would or that would give him food to eat. And you'll say eat with me.

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He'll say no, I'm fasting. So sullavan will tell I'm not eating unless you eat eat. So break is fast and he'll eat even though he doesn't want to. He doesn't think it's a good thing to do.

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And then

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Get up at night to pray and say, Man, don't tell him sleep, no, no sleep, get some rest. And he told him this and he went and complaints, complaints with the profits of a loved one. And the approvals and man was doing, he said, Everyone has their due right? spend some time with your wife, she has a right as well. That's an act of worship, right? Break your fast so your guests will not feel discomforted eating, that's an act of worship.

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As a matter of fact, your personal acts of worship will only benefit you. Whereas your acts of charity to others, they benefit you and others, so many times they take priority.

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He was known for his dad and his lengthy family. And he would read so much of the Quran to degrade the province of the love eyes and told him to slow down and to not read the Quran more than once in a month. And at the end of his life, and how much he would cry from his night prayers. He lost his sight.

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It is mentioned in his biography that on his wedding night,

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he did what any good Muslim would do on his wedding night. He spent the whole night free.

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Right. And so his father came to visit an explanation everything was okay. And his wife says, you know, Abdullah has a is a righteous man. He has no need for women.

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And so the prophets of Allah forbid him and there's many a hadith about this. And in the end, he told him some a lot of activity continued, or I would let him know that the best the fasting is the first thing of the woods are huge fans today and break the fast the next day and fast today, meaningful fast every other day. He said and the rest of the night prayer is the theme of the rallies. He would sleep half the night and then pray a third and then sleep a sixth

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and the wisdom and that is a different discussion. But the point is our Dean came with this. All this in reality can be for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala not the one he

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inherited the governor job, or they worked on the companions. We're sitting with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and a man came out. He gelato in a shop that he

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very energetic, very strong. Who's now they say the guys above you know those he works out?

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So they'll have a solid is from him? And they said no. Can I have a feasibility lab? If only this were us, in the way of Allah? What do they mean? Do we have a law?

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That's a question.

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What do they mean if only it was used in the way of

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worshipping?

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You had rights fighting that only he would use as a warrior for the sake of God. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to them, either can

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either Harada Allah, Allah de Ceylon for who if he said, if this guy came out of his house, chasing after meaning the livelihood of his young children that is in the way of Allah will either hold on to Assad, I believe he said, Honey can be ready for love. He said he didn't know. And if he left his house, he went out striving to help his elderly to be preferably old weak parents and that's for the sake of Allah will either Harajuku and if he comes out, yes, Allah Neff care for her for PCB. And if you had one out for his own sake, to dignify himself to make a living so we can get married or keep, stay married, whatever you're gonna have to do, then that's for the sake of Allah. And if he went

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out accumulating wealth, that is for the sake of Allah, soprano, without meaning what meaning with the right intention, but the point is, he saw the law while he said him sought from the companions to widen their understanding of what it means to live for the sake of Allah subhana wa. But he began the talk with

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my living in my, you know, my dying, I sacrificed everything for the Lord of the worlds nobody else but to widen that understanding of us. Our Deen is the only Deen that did that, that balance between this dunya and the afro

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it's not necessarily wrong to be accumulating wealth is

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you know, they sort of had a felony like no luck counting money on us with a worthless vehicle, you know, of their very, who are you messing with money counting your bills and stuff? It's not befitting of you. He told them You fool, worth not for this. I would be sitting at the doorsteps of the Sultan's right. I will be dependent on people the state to spend on me the politicians, the government of you will depend on me and in that case would be a problem right? Because they would have a say they would persuade me or pressure me into changing my opinions into not saying a word of truth when I had to write is the word not for this. I wouldn't be a free man.

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They said what made lesson was real hustle was really one of the elements around me.

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Because the whole world was dependent on his knowledge, and he was not dependent on anyone's money, that's what made him who he was. They needed him and he didn't need them. So in that case, that's for the sake of Allah Subhana Allah.

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He had dunion, but it wasn't in his heart. That's the whole key. That's the balance. It was in his hands. You don't Buhari and Muslim,

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hydro ns the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he says, ma'am, in Muslim

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rahsaan, there is no Muslim at plan to see the receipt link for kuruman Hotel in southern Alberta and then a bird, or a human being or any four legged animal eats from that, that he planted in Canada level. But he gets a reward for it.

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You know what the scholarship one of the benefits of this ad, they said there is preferred for a person, and definitely that by offering to accumulate land. That's what we learned from this, Heidi. Why? Because if every time you plan something in a bird or an animal or human eats from it, it's so valuable for you, it's charity for you. That means the more lands you have, the more reward you're going to get. Right the wrong. So according to this high, it's recommended for you to increase your land.

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And that's that, of course requires what money want to widen it and buy the property then you have to make irrigation canals and build a well and what are the place that requires money.

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So using the dounia, for the hero, that is the personality of the believer, is focused on the hereafter and his tools. his vehicle for the Hereafter is the dunya. You know, one of the

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great scholars of Islam.

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He used to have a great contribution in the sciences, his teach many of the famous books, right that they were taught and assign the books and books in the light of the scholar. And he was the commander in the army. He was a general. And he was the Hollywood his local community he would give Juma and he had a lens of his Howdy.

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near to the mystery. And outside the mystery, there was a marketplace and right beyond that was his lens. And whenever he had free time, he would go and take care of that land for the benefit involved. When the community got bigger, and the populace grew out of the neighborhood,

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there wasn't enough room, either in the masjid or in the market. So the people, the businessmen duck together, and they went to the Imam and they said chef,

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will you sell us this land of yours, so we can put the market in it or move the market or a bit of the land, so we can move the market into it and everybody will have their space. So he said to them, you can have it all on one condition

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that on the day of tomorrow though, this market is part of the message.

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Right? This is part of the mystery. This was the type of personality that a correct understanding of Islam produced.

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In select Muslim, take a few

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high level overview on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said a dinar a gold coin that you spend in the way of Allah was meant in the way of Allah.

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Once again,

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meaning

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when the way of Allah is left general like that, it means you hadn't okay. He's a dinar that you spent, who knows?

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Who knows the Hadith, or the novel?

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Your family? That's right, the second one

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was

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spent on on a miskeen on a needy person and a dinner that you spend funeral cover to free asleep. He said some of the love or I didn't send him an album agilon lindian.

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The one with the most reward, jihad, needy person freeness leave and your family is the one you spend on your family.

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How in the world is that? Obviously, this is only a small detail it clarifies to the meaning of the body. This means when you have the option between these four, none of these four is an obligation currently when it's up to you, because whatever is an obligation takes precedence. But if none of these are an obligation right now, and it's voluntary, which one you do spending on your family is the greatest of them in the reward. And if it's not an obligation, meaning it's not even obligation to spend on your family, meaning spending on your family and this means what spending extra on your family, making things easy for your family. Right? You bring dinner and he doesn't have to cook

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tonight, right? Taking your children on a vacation because they remember a certain amount of

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time between the two of them.

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The point is even if you don't have to annual spend it within a year. It is for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala is the greatest of the role between those four and Muslim

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When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam speaks out a lot about how to organize as well, he told them and you will not spend anything that will totally be which Allah that's the point seeking by that the face of Allah was pleasure and seeing his face in the hereafter.

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Except that it you will get ELO just Allah he'll get the reward for it had the look matter for firewall lfv moissac even the morsel of food that you're raising into your wife's mouth.

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But the intention, right

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it's not. So in some of our cultures, it's like wrong to show emotion to your family, especially in front of the kids that he just put a meal in something in her mouth, right?

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We'll start tonight mean you both okay.

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I'm just as guilty as you and we're cloudy and Muslim also. The Hadith the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said

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well in tune.

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Allah Allah He never button well who is the Buddha in kuchibhotla hosoda and Amanda's it's been anything at all on his family, not even extra now. Anything mean you going shopping in the supermarket? That's for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. But on a condition I

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was expecting a reward from Allah subhanho wa Taala for that what she's doing.

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And you know, those who have rhodiola one, they didn't have this imbalance that we have nowadays, right? It's like dunia or Dino they use their dounia for deed. And when we talk about dunia, and Dini misunderstanding, we mean going overboard with regards to dunya or not using dunia as a vehicle to serve our dean. That's it. But they went hand in hand. You don't have it when the promiseland also came to Medina, he paired up between Southern Namibia and who knows

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who come on guys

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from Mecca he parent

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from the rights of brotherhood, that He gives him half of everything that half of my wealth is yours. And whichever of my two wives you know difficult this is for an Arab man not a real Arab we're not real Arabs anymore. We're hybrids

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were worn out Arabs were post imperialism matters,

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language and the values

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saburo via he said, whichever of the two out divorce shall inherit their waiting period is over you marry.

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Now for the answer is just as beautiful as the offer. He said barakallahu look at Africa. Allah bless you and your family in your world do linear soup, tell me where the market is. And he went to the market and he tried his best dounia these are companions, right? These are the the best of the duration of life to the profits. And he would buy and sell and he would do business until a few days later. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam found them walking in the streets of Medina. And in his face is some sofa. Some sofas, like makeup, right? Something just they put on their face, right?

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Usually a groom does that somebody's newly married. So the prophet SAW Selim tells him What's this? I see in your face. Like, what's going on? Godzilla? Sure. So I got married on messenger of Allah.

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Allah became a US Doctor, how much do we give her? The wedding gift? He says Allahu Allah who sent me nowhere to him in the head.

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with pity pits, like a database, you know, to deal

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with pits of gold in the weight of your database, that amount in gold. That means in a few days,

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he made money and what was left over to be given as a wedding gift as the amateurs did between

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more I think, you know, half a gram,

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maybe four or five grams, right?

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So no problem, per se. And how much is a gram of gold sisters? How much is a gram of gold?

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How much is it never gold now?

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sisters?

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sisters, you know how much gold is nowadays? What's the gram now?

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24th we don't mind the lesson.

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You're gonna get us in trouble if he's in either a job.

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So let's say $40 What's five grams times $40 200 and a few notes a few of these. Right? So the guy with $1,000 in a few days extra wedding if

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alcohol now for the sake of himself, and thereafter and thereafter.

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I would not I would feel that if I picked up a rock I'd find money under it. I mean, how much Baraka how much blessing a lot of zildjian increased him in but at the same time, the same out for the lavonne that wealth didn't stop him from being one of the 10 promise, gentlemen, right. That's the equation. That's the personality of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam produced in his oma that balance between dunia and Dean and this world being a bridge for the hereafter. You know

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There are people that accuses Muslims all over the TV screens. I've heard this many times that these Muslims live to die.

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They can't wait to die so they can go marry their virgins in paradise. See this accusation many times? No, no, no, once again, we live as if we're never going to die.

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But we prepare for the Hereafter, as if we don't have another moment to live, as it is not a life worth living. Understood? What was the fruit? What was the fruit of the prophets of Allah Allah instead of producing the likes of this, and by the again, this doesn't exist in any other religion. They either divorce religion succeed in dunya, what they thought they were succeeding in this world and their worldly life in the material sense, or they became monks and rabbis and gurus and, and the likes, and they disconnected totally altogether from union.

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There is has never been an omen see the fruit of this personality and Omen

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that excelled in the science, the way that is landed. And of course, in the sciences, what always comes to mind is the Islamic sciences. And this is true, no one benefited from the book of their Lord and the teachings of their prophet like dome of Islam did with the plant in the sun. No one if you read the books of our scholars, unbelievable how they sat there and they dedicated their lives to the sciences.

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You know, the Hadith, just a quick example. That is not the point. But just to show you what we did, and even Islamic science, which always comes to mind, but I mean, the worldly sciences, just a good example of Islamic sciences, which you open the books, but you don't you can't believe it. Really. It's phenomenal. The Hollywood so long before a Muslim, he says that my stepbrother, my half brother

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had a bird and the bird died and the problems are still unnoticed and he came and he sat next to me said yeah, about

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what happened to the little niggly little bird. That's it That's it.

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Some said that a chef or others they pull 70 rulings out of this Howdy.

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Howdy ruling number one, it's permissible to keep a bird in a cage. Because the problem Sunam ask them what is bird any approved? Rule number two, it's permissible to give a young child the kuhnian said Yeah.

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Before you have a child, they like to be called the father of so and so. Rule number three is referred to go find children that are orphans or otherwise and they're heartbroken and consoled.

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Right, what they did with Islamic science.

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But I just wish very good to discuss the other issue to conclude this lecture. And that is even the worldly sciences once again because the doing the talk now the second half right? The hobos the first part, the second half even productive in this world. And I'm not going to quote anybody from the Muslims about how the Muslims are so great, because they say the best testimony given is the testimony of the enemies themselves. Right?

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Because if you quote your own people that say all your bias, right, you're unfair, you're just trying to paint Islam and the Muslims and their history in a good light. Oh, no, no, even themselves. There was a French sociologist, social psychologist, his name was

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Gustave one of

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the things he writes about Islam and the Muslims will likely fill you with a man on top of your email

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that this religion really did that beauty of combining between dunia and Dean.

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He says, and the Muslims were the source of our access to our heritage of Greek philosophy and the light his meaning we couldn't reach the books of the Old philosophers, Aristotle and Plato and only except through the Arabs, meaning the Muslims. He says for 600 years we were dependent on the Muslims to translate for us the books that we needed.

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And he says,

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He says it's a shame that the Muslims did not take over Paris did not conquer Paris.

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He says because had they conquered Paris.

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Paris would have been like October would have been like Cordova, Cordova Muslim Spain.

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Koto kotoba had 50 hospitals

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600 years ago for Paris at its first

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and 200 years before that.

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The mesh cut the first hospital known as a hospital in the world 700 800 years before Paris had one.

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So he says and if only the Muslims would have conquered pirates, and he's saying is that as a Muslim, he says because when you walk into the

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Muslim lands in October otherwise, you find the layman layman that we need to ignore the average person. Among the Muslims, you find him reading, you find him writing and you even find them say, versed in poetry and share. He's at that same time, the kings and princes of Europe couldn't even write their own names and their languages.

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And the examples of the likes of this, they are plenty will lie.

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And some of the stories they say, you know, when the Muslims stopped being at the front of the worldly sciences,

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they said, when the worldly sciences stopped being taught in the massage

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on medicine, and physics and mathematics, these are all like,

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greatly contributed to what Islamic civilization when it stopped being taught in the message losing the message, you can you print off, right, you get up and pray Dr. Carson, right. And you hear from the words and then you sit there and you study the sciences, right. So the person now has a conscience. This country, for example, as much as they have advanced,

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they are on the downslide. And this is something we're not happy about. For them, we are part of this country, right. But we say that either they're going to recognize the balance that only exists in Islam.

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Or they're going to bring themselves to us in either they're going to discover Islam and admit it and acknowledge it, or else they want to destroy themselves.

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Because when there is no more conscience, right, when there's no fear of Allah and the hereafter, along with working for that using the dounia. That's when everything falls apart.

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When we start making up our own values, and there's such thing as right and wrong is just about interests. That's the world we live in today. That's the world we live in today, even the manners that you assume that some people have, this is not really anything, but there's one of them said, a man being diplomatic and shaking another man's hand, and both of them smiling in each other's face. And both of them have a knife behind their own backs. And the only reason he's not hitting him is when he does not only he's not striking him with my knife because he has his own knife readily available.

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And perhaps one

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of the most relevant examples of that nowadays, made up values is Mother's Day on Sunday, this Sunday, supposed to be Mother's Day, Mother's Day is not for the mother's Mother's Day was made up by the societies. This is for the sinful children, right or wrong.

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It's to make them feel better. We're gonna pick all we have values we care about our mother, we bring her flowers on Mother's Day, right? The child that ignores his mother the entire year, he makes his conscience silent. He silences himself, he abuses himself by taking her out to dinner on Mother's Day. That's Sunday. me right? We bring you some flowers. That's not for the mother. That's for him.

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For if it was really for the mother, he would have done what pleases the mother. And many people you know, they speak about this subject and they say, Oh, it's better than nothing. Someone doesn't talk to his mother at all, at least one day a year is that your boy Is that how you measure things better than nothing once a year, so we're going to make him feel like he's doing the right thing just because he does something better than nothing. Very sad, very sad.

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Islam came with a different concept. Islam says you fear Allah, and you show kindness your parents and you worship Allah and you will not have worked alone. Unless you show kindness to your parents, and kindness your parents you don't determine how it is Allah defined for us how to be with our parents. Right? The same way the fight for the parents have to be with their children.

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And he told us that if you do that, for a love for the hero, He will bless you, in your opinion, once again. Many people they get their jobs and they never speak to their parents again. It's up to them on Mother's Day. The Dean reverse that equation for you. They said you will not be successful not even in dounia unless you look after your parents. You don't throw them a bone be friends with your parents job with them, but you don't respect them or obey them. And is it no no, no, there's a structure here. The height of venison Bukhari and Muslim also he says the love of

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men are all the

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use of Allahu

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Allahu fiesta de familia, so rahima whomever wishes to increase his risk, and to extend his life or extend the effects of his life, then let him keep ties with the family.

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So if you want to be successful, even in this world, then fear Allah and part of that in this context of being good to your parents. Likewise, when you do something for the Hereafter, it remains here in the dunya as well. And if you do something just for the dunya and you limit yourself, you will not really benefit from it here nor in the hereafter.

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Since the 70s used to say Melania couldn't be Lucha Libre cool whatever is not by the permission of Allah, Allah, Allah will never be one man lemmya Khun Lila, he, finance Allah do whatever is not for a lot meaning your intention, it will not benefit you. That whole concept of today's lecture. What does it mean to do things for Allah right living your life for Allah, if you don't do that for Allah, it will not benefit, nor will it last.

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Even in the religious sciences will lie, even in Islam, even the things that you think are for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala not just the things that we don't conclude in the meaning feasibility lab, even in the religious sciences, you know, in America.

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He wrote his book and more and more is one of the earliest, most authentic hadith collections in all of Islamic literature a

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little less than 1000.

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So they came to him.

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And they said to him, oh, man, why didn't you make a bigger book? The other element made bigger collections. Why don't you make something more impressive.

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So he explained to the I'm not doing it for the people not to impress the people. He simply said to them, one word he said to them.

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What is for a level remain

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and his book remain. We don't hear about the multi America himolla because everything in the mapa is in Buhari or Muslim or both, basically the old candidate

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and that's why chef wasn't wrong when he said there is no book more authentic after the book of a loved monopoly. We say that was

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the that was before second book that he took from there, right and sorry Muslim also, but it was for Allah.

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A person can exert such an effort. May Allah azza wa jal purify our intentions in yours, to work in Islamic world, to give lectures, to run projects, to hold conferences to start communities, if it is for Allah, and you make sure it is for Allah, Allah who bless you in it and reward you for it. And if it is not for Allah,

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that will not even benefit you in your journey to be held against you and you will not benefit from it.

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And once again, we conclude with saying the intelligent person keeps the hereafter in front of his eyes always, and keeps the dunya in his head as best as he can without killing himself as a vehicle that he needs to get to the hero after using it and riding

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a horse

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