Moutasem al-Hameedy – Faith Is Strength – Islamic Reminder

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The importance of Islam in shaping behavior is discussed, using historical context and examples of the Prophet's teachings. The "has" in actions and relationships is also emphasized. The importance of physical strength and physical weakness is also discussed, along with the importance of winning in a Battle and protecting others. The importance of trusting in something and striving towards a goal is also emphasized.

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			All praise is due to Allah, the Most
		
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			Gracious, the Most Merciful.
		
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			We Praise Him.
		
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			We Seek His Aid And We Ask For
		
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			His Forgiveness.
		
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			We Seek Refuge In Allah From The Evils
		
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			Of Ourselves And The Evil Consequences Of Our
		
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			Actions Whomsoever Allah Guides None Can Lead Astray
		
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			And Whomsoever Allah Leaves To Go Astray None
		
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			Can Guide.
		
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			I Testify That There Is None Worthy Of
		
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			Our Worship And Devotion But The Almighty Allah
		
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			Alone.
		
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			And I Testify That Muhammad Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam Is
		
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			His Servant And His Messenger Or You Who
		
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			Believe Fear Allah As He Should Be Feared
		
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			And I Not Except In A State Of
		
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			Surrender And Submission To Your Lord Or Mankind
		
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			Be Dutiful To Your Lord Who Created You
		
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			From A Single Person And From Him He
		
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			Created His Wife And From Them Both.
		
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			He Created Many Men And Women And Fear
		
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			Allah Through Whom You Demand Your Mutual Rights
		
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			And Observe The Rights Of Your Kin.
		
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			Surely Allah Is Ever And All Watcher Over
		
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			You Or You Who Believe Keep Your Duty
		
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			To Allah, Fear Him And Speak The Truth.
		
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			He Will Direct You To Righteous Deeds And
		
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			Will Forgive Your Sins And Whoever Obeys Allah
		
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			And His Messenger Has Indeed Attained A Great
		
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			Achievement.
		
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			The Best Speech Is The Divine Speech Of
		
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			Allah And The Best Guidance Is That Of
		
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			Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam And The Worst Things
		
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			In The Religion Are The Newly Invented Matters
		
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			For All The Newly Invented Matters In Religion
		
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			Are Heretical Innovation And Bid'ah And Every
		
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			Bid'ah Is Misguidance.
		
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			Imam Muslim Collected In His Sahih From Abu
		
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			Huraira R.A. The
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam Says In This Hadith The
		
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			Strong Believer Is Better And Dearer To Allah
		
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			Than The Weak Believer.
		
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			And In Both Of Them There Is Good.
		
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			Then The Prophet Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam Goes On To
		
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			Say Be Keen And Diligent In Seeking What
		
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			Is Good For You And Never Fall In
		
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			Despair Or Helplessness.
		
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			And If Something Happens Against What You Want
		
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			Or What You Wish, Don'T Say Had I
		
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			Done This Or Only If I Did This
		
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			Or That Things Would Have Been Different Because
		
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			The Expression Lawoo Which Means Only If Opens
		
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			The Door For The Work Of Shaytan Collected
		
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			By Imam Muslim.
		
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			This Is A Great Hadith From The Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam And If We Understand It With
		
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			A Modern Mindset Of What A Strong Believer
		
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			Means.
		
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			We Will Misconstrue The Meaning.
		
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			The Prophet Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam Says The Strong Believer
		
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			Is Better And Dearer To Allah.
		
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			Allah Loves The Strong Believer More Than He
		
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			Loves The Weak Believer.
		
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			Although Both Of Them Have Good But The
		
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			Good With The Stronger Believer Is Greater.
		
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			That'S Why Allah Loves Him Or Her More
		
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			Than The Weak Believer.
		
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			But What Is The Strength That The Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam Is Talking About?
		
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			Since The Term Strong, Al-Qawiyy Here In
		
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			This Hadith Is Not Qualified, Is Not Limited
		
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			To Any Area.
		
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			Then It Means Different Types Of Strength.
		
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			But We Need To Understand This Type Of
		
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			Strength According To Islam Itself And The Worldview
		
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			That Islam Offers.
		
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			The Prophet Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam In Another Famous Hadith
		
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			Explains To His Companions What Strength Really Means.
		
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			The Prophet Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam Challenges A Common Notion
		
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			Among People About What Strength And Power Really
		
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			Mean.
		
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			Because People Assume The Strong Among Men Is
		
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			The One Who Is Physically Strong.
		
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			The One Who Can Beat Others And Put
		
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			Them To The Ground.
		
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			He Can Wrestle With Them And Defeat Them.
		
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			So The Prophet Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam Says To The
		
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			Companions Laysa Shadidu Bissura'a And The Surah
		
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			Is Someone Who Is Very Known For Physically
		
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			Overcoming Others Like He'S Physically Superior In Terms
		
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			Of His Physical Strength To Others So He
		
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			Can Defeat Them.
		
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			The Prophet Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam Says The Strong Man
		
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			Is Not The Person Who Can Overpower Others
		
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			With His Physical Strength.
		
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			The Real Strong Man Is The Person Who
		
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			Is Able To Take Control Of Himself In
		
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			Moments Of Anger.
		
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			So The Prophet Sallallahu Alehiwassallaam Says That Don'T
		
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			Think That Strength Is About Physical Or External
		
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			Display Of Strength.
		
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			Real Strength Is When You Win The Inner
		
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			Battle.
		
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			So You Need To Win The Inner Battle
		
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			Against Yourself And Against Your Desires And Against
		
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			Your Weaknesses And Base Tendencies Before You Are
		
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			Able To Win Battles Outside.
		
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			That'S The Order In Islam.
		
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			You Have A Battle Within Against Your Nafs,
		
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			Your Base Desires And Then You Have A
		
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			Battle And You Have An Inner Battle Against
		
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			Shaytan.
		
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			You Have To Win Those Battles Before You
		
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			Are Able To Win The Battles Outside.
		
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			And If You Ignore This Advice And Decide
		
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			To Win The Battles Outside While Ignoring The
		
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			Battles Within, You Would Bring Your Weakness Your
		
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			Shortcomings Into Your External Battles.
		
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			And Even If You Win Externally, The One
		
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			Who Wins Is Not Yourself, But It Will
		
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			Be Your Shortcomings.
		
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			It Will Be Your Nafs.
		
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			What Does That Mean?
		
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			Because The Nafs Has Tendencies.
		
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			It Has Greed.
		
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			It It Cannot Be Satiated.
		
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			It Always Wants More As The Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam Says If Son Of Adam Has
		
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			A Valley Full Of Gold, He Would Wish
		
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			For A Second.
		
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			If He Has Two Valleys Full Of Gold,
		
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			He Would Wish For A Third And So
		
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			On And So Forth And Nothing Puts An
		
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			End To The Greed Of Man But Death.
		
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			As Long As You Are In This Life,
		
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			There Is Greed Within Yourself.
		
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			There Is This Obnoxious Nature Of The Self
		
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			That Always Wants For Itself.
		
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			It Is Lowly.
		
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			And We Call This Self-Centeredness.
		
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			You Have A Tendency To Lie, To Deceive,
		
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			To Put Yourself First, To Cut Corners, To
		
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			Wrong Others, To Cheat, To Seek Means Round
		
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			And Not To Act Optimally, To Take The
		
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			Easy Way Out And Violate The Moral Standards
		
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			Of Islam.
		
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			We All Have These Tendencies, All Of Us.
		
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			This Is A Challenge That Allah Put Us
		
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			Through And If You Don'T Win The Battle
		
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			Against This Immoral Call Of The Self And
		
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			The Nafs, When You Fight The Battles Outside,
		
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			You'Re Going To Bring This Greed.
		
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			You Will Bring The Short-Sightedness.
		
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			You Will Bring The Selfishness Outside And That'S
		
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			What Wins Outside.
		
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			It'S Not Your Heart.
		
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			It'S Not The Good Side Of Who You
		
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			Are.
		
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			It'S Not Virtue.
		
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			So That'S Why When You Seek To Win
		
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			The Battles Outside First, All You'Re Doing
		
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			Is You'Re Bringing That Selfishness And That
		
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			Greed And That False Sense Of Loyalty.
		
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			You Will Bring It Outside And You Will
		
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			Make It Win Against Others.
		
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			But That'S Not Who You Really Are.
		
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			That Is Something That Has Defeated You Within.
		
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			Something That Has Taken Over You And You
		
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			Have Become A Soldier For It.
		
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			You Have Become An Agent For Evil.
		
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			Even When Seemingly Outside You'Re Winning The
		
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			Battles.
		
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			So The Strong Believer Is Someone Who Conquers
		
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			The Inner Enemy First.
		
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			That'S What A True Believer Is.
		
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			You Need To Strengthen Your Heart Against Your
		
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			Nafs.
		
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			Your Heart Needs To Win The Battle Against
		
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			Shaitaan.
		
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			Once You Dominate Within, Your Presence In The
		
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			World Will Be A Blessed One.
		
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			You Will Become A Force For Good.
		
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			And That'S The Meaning Of The Statement Of
		
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			The Prophet Salallahu Alaihe Wasalam, المؤمن القوي خير
		
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			وأحب إلى الله من المؤمن الضعيف The Strong
		
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			Believer Is Better And Dearer To Allah Than
		
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			The Weak Believer And That Means The One
		
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			Who Has Already Won The Battle Within And
		
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			When You Win The Battle Within, Life Outside
		
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			Is Not The Same.
		
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			Every Battle You Engage In Even If You
		
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			Lose It, You Are The Winner.
		
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			The Muslims Had A Setback In The Battle
		
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			Of Uhud, 70 Companions Were Killed, Were Murdered.
		
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			What Started As A Great Win By The
		
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			Muslims Ended Up Being A Great Setback.
		
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			Yet It Was A Great, It Was It
		
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			Worked In The Advantage Of The Muslims And
		
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			Allah Says To The Believers Do Not Be
		
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			Disheartened.
		
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			Do Not Be Discouraged.
		
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			You Will Be The Uppermost As Long As
		
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			You Hold On To Faith.
		
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			And That'S Why The Prophet Salallahu Alaihe Wasalam
		
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			Said In The Authentic Hadith In Sahih Muslim
		
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			Also Narrated By Abu Hurairah Radhiyallahu Anhu Amazing
		
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			Is The State Of A Believer.
		
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			All His Affairs Are Good For Him.
		
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			If Good Comes To The Believer, A Blessing
		
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			Comes To The Believer.
		
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			He'S Thankful Or She'S Thankful And That'S Good
		
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			For Them.
		
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			But If A Hardship, If A Loss, If
		
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			Pain, If A Disease, An Illness, If Harm
		
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			Comes To The Believer, They Are Patient.
		
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			He Is Patient In The Face Of It
		
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			And That Ends Up Being Good For Him.
		
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			And This Feature Is Exclusive To The Believers.
		
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			That'S The Strong Believer.
		
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			That'S The Strong Believer.
		
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			So We Need To Win The Battle Within
		
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			First And Foremost For Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
		
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			To Love Us.
		
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			Then Allah Will Aid You And Then Outside
		
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			You Have So Many Battles To Win.
		
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			You Have The Battle With Your Family And
		
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			Don'T Take That On Face Value.
		
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			Your Family Is A Big Challenge.
		
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			Your Spouse Is Your Responsibility To Deal With
		
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			And Give Them Their Rights And Keep Them
		
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			Upon The Path Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
		
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			If They Cross The Boundaries Of Allah, You
		
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			Have To Remind Them Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta
		
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			'Ala.
		
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			If They Fall Short, You Have To Bring
		
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			Them Back To Track.
		
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			You Have To Give Them Their Rights Even
		
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			When Yourself Says No.
		
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			You Need To Provide For Them When You
		
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			'Re Trying To Win Something For Yourself.
		
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			You Need To Put Them Many Times.
		
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			You Need To Put Them First.
		
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			You'Ll Have To Sacrifice Many Of Your
		
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			Dreams, Many Of Your Wishes, A Lot Of
		
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			Your Luxuries And Favorite Engagements.
		
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			You Have To Sacrifice That For Your Spouse
		
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			Many Times And For Your Children.
		
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			You Have To Discipline Your Children.
		
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			You Have To Organize Your Life Around Taking
		
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			Care Of Them.
		
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			يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَقُوْا أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَهْلِيكُمْ نَارًا
		
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			وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَالْحِجَارَةُ O You Who Believe, Protect,
		
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			Safeguard Your Family, Your Children From A Fire
		
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			Whose Fuel Is Humans And Boulders.
		
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			A Person Who Is A Man Who Is
		
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			Able To Be A Man In His House.
		
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			Who Takes Care Of His Family.
		
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			And Keeps Them On The Path Of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
		
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			He Acts With Mercy And Compassion When The
		
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			Situation Calls For That.
		
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			He Acts With Decisiveness And Manhood When The
		
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			Situation Calls For That.
		
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			And He Acts With Justice And Insight And
		
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			Devotion To Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
		
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			That'S A Man Who Has Won The Battle
		
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			Within.
		
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			Not The Man Who Please Or Tries To
		
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			Be A Man In Front Of A Weaker
		
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			Person In Front Of Him Or The Person
		
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			Who Makes So Much Noise And They Get
		
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			Things Their Own Way.
		
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			That'S A Man Who Is Championing The Weaknesses
		
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			Within Himself And Making Them Public And Spreading
		
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			Corruption In The World.
		
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			That'S A Strong Believer.
		
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			You Know There Is This Temptation For The
		
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			Battles Outside.
		
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			They Have Their Pull.
		
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			They Are A Powerful Temptation And These Seem
		
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			To Promise An Easy Victory Or Success.
		
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			And There'S Also Another Source Of The Temptation.
		
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			Because If You Win Outside, You Get Recognition
		
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			By Others.
		
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			And This Is Something Ourself Craves.
		
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			And Shaitaan Wants Us To Celebrate That Because
		
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			He Knows He Can Pull Us In Any
		
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			Direction He Wants As Long As We Follow
		
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			The Desire For Recognition, Social Recognition.
		
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			But You Have To Win That Battle.
		
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			Then You Become Free From Shaitaan.
		
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			Because If You Don'T Win The Inner Battle,
		
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			You Become A Slave For Shaitaan.
		
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			The Battles Outside That You Are Fighting, No
		
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			Matter How Virtuous They Are, You Will Be
		
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			Fighting On Behalf Of Shaitaan.
		
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			You Would Be Bringing More Damage To Them.
		
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			To The Causes That You Are Fighting For
		
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			Because You Are Bringing The Filth And The
		
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			Weaknesses And The Shortcomings That You Have Not
		
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			Been Able To Conquer.
		
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			You Will Bring Them To The Public Arena.
		
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			And You Would Be Clueless About How Harmful
		
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			They Are.
		
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			And That'S What Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Referred
		
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			To The...
		
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			That'S The Way Allah Described The Hypocrites.
		
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			وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لَا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ قَالُوا
		
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			إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُصْلِحُونَ أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْمُفْسِدُونَ وَلَكِنْ
		
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			لَا يَشْعُرُونَ When It Said To Them Do
		
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			Not Spread Corruption And Evil In The World.
		
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			They Say We Bring Reform.
		
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			We'Re Doing Good.
		
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			We'Re Helping This Cause.
		
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			We'Re Calling For Something Good.
		
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			Allah Says Indeed They Are The Ones Who
		
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			Are Bringing Corruption.
		
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			But They Realize It Not.
		
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			They Can'T Realize That.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because They Are Blind.
		
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			What Is The Source Of Blindness?
		
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			The Fact That They Lost The Battle In
		
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			Their Heart.
		
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			And They Came Out Too Early Trying To
		
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			Conquer The External World.
		
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			Then The Prophet Salallahu Alaihe Wasalam Other Than
		
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			The Battles That You Need To Win Other
		
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			Than Your Greed And Selfishness, Your Ignorance.
		
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			Allah Says About Man Humans Have Two Powerful
		
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			Tendencies.
		
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			A Tendency For Injustice And A Tendency And
		
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			A Natural State Default State Of Ignorance.
		
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			Jahula.
		
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			These Are Battles You Have To Conquer.
		
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			Your Natural Tendency For Injustice, For Aggression, For
		
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			Oppression To Put Yourself First Is A Tendency
		
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			You Need To Overcome.
		
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			Then Your Ignorance Is A Battle That You
		
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			Need To Fight.
		
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			And If You Come Out Into The World
		
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			Before You Win Those Battles You Will Be
		
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			A Source Of Corruption, Even When You Don'T
		
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			Realize It.
		
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			You Think You'Re Doing Good, But You
		
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			Would Be Causing Damage.
		
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			But You Are So Confused Within That You
		
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			Can'T Even Understand The World Outside.
		
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			That'S What The Prophet Salallahu Alaihe Wasalam Is
		
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			Telling Us.
		
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			Then When You Add To This Physical Strength,
		
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			Intellectual Strength, Skills That You Have In The
		
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			World, That Becomes A Bonus.
		
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			But If You Have All Of The External
		
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			Skills That People Celebrate, But You Have Lost
		
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			The Battle Within, You Are A Weak Believer.
		
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			And You Are A Soldier Of Shaytan, Even
		
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			When You Don'T Realize It.
		
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			You'Re Whacking At What The Good That
		
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			Is In The World Thinking You'Re Doing
		
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			Good.
		
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			And That'S The Irony Of People Who Act
		
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			Too Early, People Who Decide Not To Fight
		
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			The Battle Within.
		
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			Then The Prophet Salallahu Alaihe Wasalam Says, All
		
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			Believers, Strong Or Weak, There Is Good In
		
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			Them.
		
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			What Is The Good?
		
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			Iman, Belief In Allah.
		
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			But It'S Weak In The Weak Believer.
		
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			So The Strength Of A Muslim And The
		
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			Prophet Salallahu Alaihe Wasalam Is Going To Explain
		
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			Where This Strength Or Part Of This Strength,
		
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			Where Does It Come From?
		
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			So The Prophet Salallahu Alaihe Wasalam Advises Us
		
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			How To Navigate The World And Be Strong
		
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			In It.
		
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			Be Keen, Be Diligent In Attaining The Things
		
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			That Are Good For You.
		
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			And Here When We Say Good For You.
		
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			We Also Need To Reconfigure What That Means
		
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			Because If We Understand It With A Modern
		
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			Mindset, We'Re Going Wrong.
		
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			People Think That Whatever Prophet I Can Get
		
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			In The World Is Good For Me.
		
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			Not Necessarily.
		
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			The Good In This World Is Whatever Brings
		
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			You Closer To Allah.
		
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			Whatever Guarantees Or Helps That You Are On
		
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			The Path To Allah Pleasing Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta
		
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			'Ala, Any Blessing That Takes You Away From
		
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			Allah Or Slows You Down On The Path
		
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			Of Allah Is Not Good.
		
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			It Becomes A Curse.
		
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			It Becomes A Curse.
		
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			So The Meaning Of Whatever Happens In Your
		
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			Life Is Contextual.
		
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			So The Prophet Salallahu Alaihe Wasalam Says Be
		
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			Keen And Diligent To Get What Is Good
		
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			For You.
		
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			What Is Good For A Believer?
		
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			To Attain The Acceptance And The Pleasure Of
		
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			Allah, To Worship Allah, To Dedicate Every Part
		
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			Of Your Life For Allah.
		
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			There'S No Duplicity In The Life Of A
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			I Have A Life At Home And A
		
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			Life At Work And Then I Have A
		
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			Life At The Masjid.
		
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			Sometimes I'M Religious But I Have A Split
		
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			Personality, You Know When I Where I Just
		
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			Act Like Everyone Else.
		
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			That'S A Textbook Definition Of Hypocrisy.
		
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			So The Believer Lives Here For Allah.
		
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			You Were Created For Allah.
		
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			The Livelihood Around You, All The Details Of
		
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			Life Are There, They Are Part Of The
		
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			Journey And They Are Meant To Be Something
		
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			That Helps You Get Closer To Allah.
		
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			If They Don'T Help You Get Closer To
		
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			Allah, There Will Be Hurdles And Obstacles On
		
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			The Path.
		
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			And That'S How You Navigate The World.
		
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			You Do Not Fall In Despair.
		
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			You Do Not Fall In A Sense Of
		
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			Helplessness.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because Yes, You Are Supposed To Do The
		
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			Work In This Life.
		
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			You Supposed To Seek, You Supposed To Put
		
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			In The Labor.
		
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			But The Results Are Not With You.
		
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			There Is A Bigger Plan.
		
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			There Are Bigger Dynamics And That Is The
		
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			Word Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala, The Qadar
		
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			Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
		
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			You Still Have To Try But Your Actions
		
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			Are Part Of The Plan Of Allah.
		
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			They'Re Just One Ingredient And This Bigger
		
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			Context Of The Qadar Of Allah Is So
		
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			Powerful That You Cannot Control It.
		
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			But Still You Have To Strive And Do
		
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			Your Best.
		
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			So The Prophet Salallahu Salam Continues To Say
		
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			Do Not Say If Something Happens Against Your
		
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			Plans And Against Your Work.
		
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			You'Re So Keen To Get What'S Good,
		
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			But Your Plans Don'T Work Out.
		
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			The Prophet Salallahu Salam Said Don'T Resort To
		
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			Only If.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because Only If Opens The Door For Shaitan
		
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			To Start His Work.
		
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			So Only If Opens The Door And Shaitan
		
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			Comes In.
		
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			Shaitan Comes In, He Wreaks Havoc In Your
		
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			Heart And In Your Mind.
		
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			Because When You Say Only If, You Are
		
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			Saying Things Are Not In The Hands Of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			They Are In My Hands And I Messed
		
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			Up And That'S Why Things Go Wrong.
		
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			That'S Why It Opens The Door For Shaitan.
		
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			It Opens Your Heart For Shaitan Because You
		
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			Are Cancelling Allah, You'Re Ignoring Allah And
		
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			How He Animates The Universe.
		
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			You Think Your Works, Your Actions Get The
		
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			Results.
		
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			Allah Says No, What Happens Is The Qadar
		
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			Of Allah.
		
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			You Put In The Work But Allah Decides
		
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			Whether Things Happen Or Not.
		
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			But Shaitan Wants You To Believe That You
		
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			Are The One Who Makes Things Happen Or
		
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			You Are The One Who Messes Up And
		
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			Then Loses And That'S Why A Lot Of
		
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			Muslims Now They Say, Oh, I Made A
		
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			Million Dollars.
		
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			You Didn'T Make Them.
		
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			Allah Provided You With That.
		
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			Yes, You Strove And You Worked But It'S
		
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			Allah Who Is Ar-Razzaq.
		
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			That'S Our Aqeedah.
		
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			That'S Our Worldview Because You Could Put In
		
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			The Work 10 Times Over And If Allah
		
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			Doesn'T Want To Give You A Million Dollars,
		
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			He Would Not Give It To You And
		
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			You Would Never Get It.
		
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			So Never Attribute This Causality To Yourself.
		
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			See Yourself As A Force That Tries To
		
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			Do Good But Things Are In The Hands
		
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			Of Allah.
		
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			So When You Strive, When You Seek Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala And You Strive To Do
		
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			Your Best, Always Hand Things Over To Allah.
		
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			Whatever Allah Brings Into This World, Allah Is
		
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			Merciful.
		
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			Allah Knows What He'S Doing.
		
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			Everything In This Life Happens For A Reason.
		
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			Everything In This Life Is A Result Of
		
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			Allah'S Wisdom.
		
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			Don'T Question That.
		
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			Even If It'S Painful, If It'S Uncomfortable, This
		
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			Is A Test For You And Sometimes As
		
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			The Scholars Say, Ba'dun Nasee Usaqu Ilal Jannati
		
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			Bisiyaqil Ibtila There Are People That Allah Forces
		
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			Into Jannah.
		
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			There Are People That Allah Forces Into Jannah
		
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			With What?
		
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			With So Much Hardship In Their Life.
		
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			So Even Hardship Could Become A Blessing If
		
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			You Trust In Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
		
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			We Ask Allah To Guide Our Hearts And
		
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			Open Our Minds And Keep Us On His
		
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			Guidance.
		
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			Allahumma Kulli Ibadika Al-Mumineena Fee Kulli Makaan
		
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			Fee Filistina Wa Ghazza Wa Fee Al-Sudana
		
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			Wa Fee Al-Sham Wa Fee Ghayrihaa Min
		
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			Biladi Al-Ardi Yaadha Al-Jalali Wa Al
		
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			-Ikram Allahumma Aizzahadha Al-Deena Wa Ahlah Wa
		
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			Adhillah Al-Shirka Wa Al-Mushrikeen Ya Qawiyu
		
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			Ya Aziz Allahumma Aati Nufusana Taqwaha Wa Zakkiha
		
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			Anta Khairu Man Zakkaha Anta Waliyuha Wa Mawlaha
		
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			Barakallahu Li Walakum Fil Quran Al-Azeem Wa
		
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			Nafa'ani Wa Iyakum Bima Fihi Mina Al
		
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			-Ayati Wa Al-Dhikri Al-Hakeem And A
		
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			Final Reminder, You Know That The New Pipe
		
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			That Had To Be Installed As A Regulations
		
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			Of The City, It Cost The Masjid Quite
		
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			A Bit Of Money And Alhamdulillah With The
		
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			Fundraising Last Week, We Only Sixteen Thousand Dollars
		
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			Short.
		
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			So, Please Be Generous.
		
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			Inshallah, Let'S Hit The Target Because I Think
		
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			Time Is Running Out.
		
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			Let'S Help The Masjid Inshallah, Hit The Target
		
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			And Get This Done Without Any Issues Without
		
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			Any Hiccups, We Have A Better Budo Area
		
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			And Don'T Forget, I Don'T Need To Repeat
		
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			All The Talk About The Reward That You
		
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			Get Bi-Idni Allahi Ta'Ala, Once You
		
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			Do This For The Sake Of Allah, Win
		
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			This Resistance Within Yourself, Win This Battle, Inner
		
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			Battle Within, You Know By Going Over The
		
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			Self's Desire To Hold On, To What We
		
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			Have, Do That Sacrifice For The Sake Of
		
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			Allah, Allah Will Never Shortchange You.
		
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			We Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala To Accept
		
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			From All Of You.