Moutasem al-Hameedy – How to Make Sense of Unfortunate Events

Moutasem al-Hameedy
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The speaker discusses the idea that suffering is a result of evil behavior and how non-M gifts and actions can lead to suffering and suffering. They stress the importance of Islam's approach to suffering and how it is designed to eliminate suffering and give individuals the opportunity to pursue their interests. The speaker also emphasizes the need to reframe one's behavior and consider their value, particularly in regards to fulfilling obligations and building themselves to be a positive change.

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			At times
		
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			like ours,
		
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			sometimes a Muslim wonders
		
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			if Islam is the truth,
		
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			why do the non Muslims
		
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			have the upper hand
		
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			politically, financially,
		
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			in military terms,
		
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			and almost in every aspect.
		
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			Sometimes
		
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			a Muslim wonders,
		
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			if Allah is Abu al Amin, the Lord
		
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			of the worlds
		
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			who takes care of the creation
		
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			and none of the affairs
		
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			in existence
		
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			escapes
		
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			the control
		
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			and the power of Allah.
		
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			Why do we see so much suffering?
		
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			Why do we see a lot of innocent
		
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			people
		
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			being
		
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			prosecuted,
		
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			being
		
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			abused,
		
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			being killed?
		
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			Why is there so much suffering in the
		
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			world?
		
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			And some of us verbalize this question
		
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			and seek an answer for it.
		
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			Some of us
		
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			keep it within.
		
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			It stays within them, it burns them,
		
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			it hurts them,
		
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			the doubt that grows with it
		
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			brings more agony into their heart,
		
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			but they suspect
		
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			the answer might be shocking
		
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			or they suspect
		
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			that there might not be a satisfying
		
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			answer.
		
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			So it's better to avoid it.
		
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			The reason we're having these questions
		
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			and the reason that we struggle to find
		
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			answers to those
		
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			is that we haven't read the Quran properly.
		
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			Because Allah answered these questions in the Quran.
		
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			And the second reason
		
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			why these questions go through our minds
		
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			and sometimes with our youth
		
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			and sometimes even with the older generation.
		
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			Especially as we see the genocide
		
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			that takes place where innocent people,
		
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			children, women are bombarded and targeted
		
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			without any sense of humanity,
		
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			without any level of mercy.
		
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			And then when you see the politicians of
		
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			the world, the people with the power
		
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			sugarcoating
		
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			all of these crimes
		
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			and supporting these
		
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			atrocities
		
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			and financing
		
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			them
		
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			and providing the political cover for them.
		
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			And then when on the other side when
		
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			you find
		
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			some of the extremists
		
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			among the nationalists and the far right,
		
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			brainwashed,
		
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			simple minded people in different parts of the
		
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			world
		
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			trying to justifies the justify these crimes
		
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			and provide a rationalization
		
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			for them.
		
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			The mind of the Muslim is puzzled sometimes.
		
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			How come not only atrocities are being committed
		
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			in daylight,
		
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			but they are also provided with cover,
		
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			with a rationalization,
		
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			and by who?
		
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			By the ones who seem to be the
		
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			most intelligent people in the world,
		
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			who control,
		
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			who who have power, who have control,
		
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			who control education in the world,
		
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			the ones who seem to produce technology,
		
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			and they are the ones who produced
		
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			the the
		
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			the civilization
		
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			that all of us
		
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			are now subjects and part of it.
		
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			So more mystery is added to the doubts
		
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			and we say
		
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			how come? Where is the quest where is
		
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			the answer to this question?
		
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			When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has already dealt
		
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			with that,
		
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			Allah has clarified that. And the reason we
		
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			are we're asking these these questions,
		
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			the reason these doubts are eating at our
		
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			hearts
		
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			and are
		
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			torturing us
		
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			or torturing those who have concern for the
		
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			truth,
		
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			concern for justice,
		
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			concern for the innocent people.
		
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			The reason we have these and the is
		
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			that we instead of reading the Quran,
		
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			we are thinking
		
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			as non muslims think.
		
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			We have given up
		
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			the world view,
		
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			the mindset,
		
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			the way of thinking
		
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			that helps us process the world and navigate
		
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			it.
		
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			The infrastructure
		
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			for how we can deal with the world.
		
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			We have forsaken what Allah has given us,
		
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			and we have opted
		
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			for what the non muslims have developed and
		
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			created for their own selfish ends.
		
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			We have swallowed that.
		
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			We have sought
		
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			to learn that.
		
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			We looked up to that. We thought that
		
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			was civilization.
		
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			We thought that was the way to become
		
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			more educated,
		
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			more civilized,
		
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			and better individuals.
		
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			And we didn't see the poison
		
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			that is inherent at the heart
		
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			of this plot that was devised mainly by
		
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			shaitan Satan himself.
		
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			That's what happens to Muslims when they leave
		
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			the Quran,
		
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			or when they treat the Quran like mere
		
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			accessories in their life.
		
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			When the Quran becomes some sort of artifacts
		
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			that is good to have on the side.
		
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			But
		
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			we develop plans for our life
		
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			designed
		
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			according to the ways of the non Muslims.
		
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			We choose our future.
		
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			We choose our career,
		
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			our path in life.
		
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			Exactly using the system that exactly using the
		
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			system that was created by the non Muslims
		
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			for their own ends that don't believe in
		
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			Allah.
		
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			We process the world
		
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			in the same way, according to the same
		
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			system
		
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			that they put together
		
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			for themselves
		
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			to relate to the world. Then we say,
		
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			where is Allah?
		
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			Where is Allah's rahmah and mercy?
		
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			Why does Allah allow all of this to
		
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			happen?
		
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			Could all of those intelligent people be misguided
		
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			and we are the guided ones when our
		
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			countries are the most backward?
		
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			When most of the suffering in humanity is
		
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			taking place within our territories?
		
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			That's the confusion shaitan
		
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			brings into your heart when you opt for
		
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			the way of thinking
		
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			that He brought to you through others that
		
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			you look up to.
		
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			The Muslim doesn't think this way.
		
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			And if the Muslim happens to slip and
		
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			think in this way,
		
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			out of pain, out of extreme suffering,
		
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			Islam treats that.
		
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			We all aware of the famous incident when
		
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			Khabab ibn al-'Arat came to the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam in Makkah.
		
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			And he himself was tortured
		
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			severely.
		
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			His back was burnt
		
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			with fire. He was his back was exposed
		
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			to the flames of fire directly.
		
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			He was literally
		
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			scorched. He was literally barbecued.
		
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			Literally, that's what they did to his back.
		
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			He said, the only thing that put the
		
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			fire out was the
		
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			the fat of my back melting and my
		
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			skin melting and falling on the fire and
		
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			putting it out.
		
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			Out of this suffering and pain,
		
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			and he was a believer
		
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			and he came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam when the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			was lying on his side
		
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			in the shade of Al Kaaba.
		
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			Cause the Prophet was was protected by his
		
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			family.
		
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			Allah vowed to protect him through different means.
		
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			One of them was his tribe.
		
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			And he said, You Rasulullah,
		
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			Oh messenger of Allah,
		
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			aren't you going to make dua
		
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			to Allah to relieve us? Aren't you going
		
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			to ask for victory for us? Don't you
		
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			see what we're going through?
		
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			The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam sits up.
		
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			And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam even in
		
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			those most extreme moments, difficult moments
		
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			with the extreme suffering, and the Prophet sallam
		
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			is not denying it, and he's not being
		
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			insensitive. On the contrary, Allah
		
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			describes him as mercy to the Az Rahma
		
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			to the world,
		
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			as the greatest blessing to the world.
		
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			The prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam wants to teach
		
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			Khabab and the Muslims
		
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			how to process these extreme conditions
		
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			so that you don't fall to the way
		
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			of thinking that the disbelievers have developed.
		
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			Islam is not mere accessory that it's nice
		
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			to have on the side. Islam changes how
		
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			you live life, how you process life.
		
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			Islam changes how you plan for your life,
		
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			What your priorities are, what your decisions are,
		
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			what your choices are, what your morality is,
		
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			what your lifestyle is. Everything is decided by
		
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			Islam, and it is substantially
		
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			superior
		
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			to any other alternative.
		
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			But sometimes it takes patience,
		
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			and it takes courage,
		
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			and only the patient ones are courageous.
		
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			So the prophet salawasalam wants to
		
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			clear what is more serious
		
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			than this physical suffering.
		
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			The calamity would be for the moo for
		
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			the Muslims
		
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			to fail to process the world and even
		
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			the most difficult conditions
		
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			through their faith,
		
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			and rather
		
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			have any kind of contamination
		
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			from misguided people and how they process the
		
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			world.
		
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			Because that would be a fatal error. That
		
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			would mean you would never stand on your
		
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			feet.
		
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			You will always be subjugated.
		
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			You will be neutralized.
		
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			You'll be marginalized.
		
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			You are defeated from within when you process
		
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			the world by the same criteria
		
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			that is designed and that is used by
		
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			those who are misguided.
		
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			So the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam wanted
		
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			He had a clear sense of priority, and
		
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			the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam wanted to
		
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			address the most important priority now.
		
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			And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam describes
		
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			to him what happened to the nations that
		
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			came before.
		
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			That a person from among the believers would
		
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			be brought and they would dig out
		
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			a pit for him and lay made him
		
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			lay down in it.
		
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			And then they would bring a saw
		
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			and start sawing at his forehead
		
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			through his whole body cutting him into 2
		
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			halves,
		
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			slowly slow death
		
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			in order
		
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			to convince him,
		
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			even just to publicly
		
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			renounce faith.
		
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			And then they would bring
		
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			combs of iron,
		
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			prongs of iron, and run them through the
		
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			flesh
		
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			and the organs of that person to pull
		
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			out,
		
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			to pull out the flesh and the nerves
		
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			from the bones.
		
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			None of that makes that person
		
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			renounce their faith or give up on it.
		
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			Why? Because there is faith behind that.
		
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			It's not normal human capacity that allows humans
		
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			to put to put up with that level
		
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			of suffering.
		
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			If you process the world
		
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			through the work through the the path or
		
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			the thinking of the non believe of the
		
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			non believers,
		
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			you can't put up with pain
		
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			for the sake of Allah. You'll put up
		
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			with pain for the sake of your dunya.
		
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			You'll put up with pain for the sake
		
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			of wealth, for the sake of fame, for
		
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			the sake of low desire.
		
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			Yes. And you will call it sacrifice,
		
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			and you'll be proud of it.
		
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			And social media is full of those fools
		
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			that we take as role models now.
		
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			Raway Bilah.
		
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			Foolish people
		
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			that are misguided
		
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			but just because they have financial success everyone
		
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			worships them.
		
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			One day they take you right, one day
		
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			they take you left.
		
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			And instead of busying ourselves with Allah, we're
		
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			just busy with so and so and so
		
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			and so.
		
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			He said this, he said that, in this
		
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			podcast, in this interview, in this video, in
		
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			this tweet, they said this, they said that.
		
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			You worship them.
		
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			You worship them and they're rejoining it.
		
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			So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says
		
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			none of that makes the person renounce their
		
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			faith.
		
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			Allah addressed that already in the Quran. Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			Allah says humans,
		
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			when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			blesses them with wealth, with ease, with what
		
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			they love, with a pleasant life, an easy
		
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			life, or an abundant life,
		
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			they say, Allah is pleased with me, Allah
		
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			has honored me. I'm so precious to Allah.
		
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			But when Allah limits their provision,
		
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			and provision is in the hands of Allah,
		
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			you can try but it's Allah who decides.
		
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			But when Allah limits their provision and Allah
		
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			tries them,
		
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			they say, oh Allah has forsaken me, Allah
		
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			has given up on me.
		
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			Allah says, no.
		
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			No. That's not the way you think. That's
		
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			how the misguided people think.
		
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			That's not the story that Allah put together
		
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			for this world that He created.
		
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			Allah designed the world and Allah had a
		
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			story for it, prescribed the meaning for it.
		
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			And Allah said,
		
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			I
		
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			have created the jinn and mankind
		
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			only to worship me, that's why you're here.
		
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			That's why we're here.
		
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			And Allah said in the Quran,
		
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			We shall test you.
		
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			And he mentions different types of test.
		
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			And then Allah says,
		
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			You think you're gonna make it to paradise
		
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			when you have not been tested, when we
		
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			haven't tested you,
		
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			as we tested the nations that came before
		
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			you?
		
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			With hardship,
		
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			with lack, with illness, with stress, with fear,
		
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			they were shaken,
		
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			they were petrified.
		
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			So why now when the promise of Allah
		
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			is being fulfilled,
		
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			instead of that increasing as an iman and
		
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			saying that's exactly what Allah promised?
		
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			We are saying where is Allah
		
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			because we are thinking
		
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			like this believers,
		
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			and we are treating Islam as
		
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			the accessories.
		
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			Imagine a car. You buy a car, everything
		
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			about it is functional, but you think, you
		
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			know, I'll just have
		
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			some more accessories here and there. They're nice
		
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			to have,
		
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			but they are not
		
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			fundamental.
		
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			They are not
		
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			important for the function functionality
		
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			of the car. That's how we treat Islam
		
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			and Allah.
		
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			Allah for us is more like cosmetics now.
		
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			Allah is for us more like decoration we
		
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			put on the wall. It's nice to have,
		
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			but he's not into our life.
		
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			Words So what do we fill our life
		
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			with?
		
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			What we have been taught.
		
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			How to worship the dunya?
		
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			How to plan for the dunya,
		
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			how to fall in love with the dunya,
		
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			and we give it good names.
		
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			Being ambitious, being successful,
		
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			being famous,
		
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			being an influencer,
		
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			having a great career. There's nothing wrong with
		
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			any of those things, these are things that
		
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			Allah put as means. If you put them
		
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			where they are as accessories of life, then
		
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			perfect.
		
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			But we have invest, we have reversed
		
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			the whole equation
		
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			and then we're saying why
		
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			people are dying.
		
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			Well that's exactly what Allah said is gonna
		
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			be.
		
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			That's exactly what Allah said. When you treat
		
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			Islam, when you put the Quran on the
		
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			side of your life, and you live like
		
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			those who don't believe in Allah live according
		
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			to their ways,
		
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			although you have some
		
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			artifacts, you have some appearance,
		
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			you have some external, again, things, cosmetics
		
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			that make you look slightly culturally different.
		
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			But essentially, you're thinking the same way. You're
		
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			processing the world the same way. Your priorities
		
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			are pretty much the same.
		
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			Let's say 80% the same.
		
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			What's gonna happen?
		
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			You become a tool.
		
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			You become a tool that is used by
		
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			Shaitan
		
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			and by the forces of disbelief, who are
		
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			going to bring destruction,
		
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			evil,
		
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			and
		
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			complete ruin on humanity.
		
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			You're just gonna feed into their system.
		
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			You're gonna reinforce your sister their system because
		
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			in this world,
		
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			in this world,
		
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			if you are not a force for good,
		
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			you are a force for evil by default.
		
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			There's no middle ground.
		
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			There's no middle ground.
		
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			Unknowingly, you'll be used
		
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			as a pawn
		
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			for the forces of evil.
		
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			So we as Muslims should take our life
		
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			seriously. And again, this is not an invitation
		
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			against success
		
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			or against
		
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			any kind of good that Allah made halal
		
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			and a useful means, but I'm against.
		
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			And this is an invitation, this is what
		
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			Islam is against, the worship of the dunya.
		
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			Have
		
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			you seen the person who has taken their
		
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			desires, their whims, their dreams, their plans, what
		
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			however you want to put it?
		
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			Their ambitions, they have taken that as what?
		
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			As their god. Meaning that's what they pursue,
		
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			this is what they live for.
		
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			How are you going to control these people?
		
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			You don't have control. People are responsible for
		
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			their own
		
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			doings.
		
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			So what can we do?
		
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			What can we do
		
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			in order to free ourselves
		
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			from the predicament that we have
		
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			willingly,
		
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			you know, allowed ourselves to be part of.
		
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			1st wake up.
		
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			Wake up as a Muslim and as a
		
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			believer, you have a responsibility
		
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			to save yourself,
		
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			to educate yourself,
		
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			and to to
		
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			to devote yourself for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			People worship their gods
		
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			proudly. They worship wealth, they worship status, they
		
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			worship power
		
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			openly, and they're proud of it.
		
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			They're proud of it. They they're allowing it
		
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			to to shape their life and their decisions,
		
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			and not only their decisions,
		
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			they allow it to even shape the destiny
		
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			and the future of populations,
		
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			of millions of people and generations to come
		
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			for their own personal gain,
		
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			for their own personal gain.
		
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			And they know how to beautify that, they
		
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			know how to sugarcoat that.
		
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			As a Muslim, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has
		
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			freed us from that.
		
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			We worship Allah. There's no way to freedom
		
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			except by worshiping Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			and being true to Allah. So
		
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			any position you are in, if you are
		
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			the father in the house,
		
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			fulfill your obligation
		
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			and better yourself, improve yourself.
		
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			The more you develop yourself, the more you
		
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			become a better influence
		
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			on your wife and your children.
		
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			The mothers in the house,
		
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			embrace the role that Allah gave you.
		
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			Take Allah's plan for you. Don't take the
		
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			plan of all of the lies that they
		
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			tell you as promises
		
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			with which they waste your life and they
		
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			waste your children,
		
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			and they destroy their future
		
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			by taking you out of the most precious
		
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			and noble
		
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			role that a human being could ever play.
		
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			The most crucial.
		
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			Embrace that role that Allah chose for you
		
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			and, Allah, you will never regret it. You
		
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			will never regret it.
		
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			Our children, our youth wake up. You're not
		
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			here for video games, you're not here for
		
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			dating, you're not here for social media, you're
		
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			here for something greater.
		
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			Don't let these things
		
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			devour you and ruin your future.
		
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			You can't achieve heroism,
		
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			you know, at the keyboard as you're playing
		
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			video games.
		
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			That's a lie. That's deception. Don't waste your
		
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			life. There is real heroism
		
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			that is more exhilarating than any video game
		
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			that you are fond of,
		
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			where you bring real change into the world.
		
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			At least play your role, be some be
		
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			a positive change, be something for the sake
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Lead a better life.
		
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			Don't let them mess with your mind. Don't
		
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			let them waste your life.
		
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			Take the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
		
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			his companions as the example. That's the way
		
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			for us to go.