Moutasem al-Hameedy – Jumuah 01-11-2024

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The importance of Islam in shaping one's behavior and beliefs is emphasized, along with the need to strengthen one's heart against one's nafs and strengthen their spouse's. The speaker emphasizes the importance of protecting one's family and spouse, as well as highlighting the need to be mindful of one's behavior and not to give back. The Prophet is calling for reform and reform, but is warned against conquering the external world and advising believers to be strong and diligent in achieving their desired fruit. The speaker emphasizes the importance of achieving the desired fruit in one's life, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication, dedication

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			Indeed, all praise is due to Allah.
		
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			We praise Him, seek His help, and seek
		
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			His forgiveness.
		
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			And we seek refuge in Allah from the
		
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			evils of our souls and the evils of
		
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			our deeds.
		
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			Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide him.
		
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			And whosoever He leads astray, none can guide
		
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			him.
		
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			And I bear witness that there is no
		
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			god but Allah, alone, with no partner.
		
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			And I bear witness that Muhammad is His
		
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			servant and Messenger, peace and blessings be upon
		
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			him and his family.
		
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			O you who have believed, fear Allah as
		
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			He should be feared, and do not die
		
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			except as Muslims.
		
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			O people, fear your Lord, Who created you
		
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			from one soul, and created from it its
		
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			wife, and spread among them many men and
		
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			women.
		
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			And fear Allah in Whom you ask for
		
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			help and mercy.
		
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			Indeed, Allah is ever watching over you.
		
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			O you who have believed, fear Allah and
		
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			say the right words.
		
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			He will correct your deeds and forgive you
		
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			your sins.
		
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			And whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has
		
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			certainly attained a great success.
		
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			As for what follows, the truth of the
		
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			Hadith is the word of Allah.
		
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			And the best guidance is the guidance of
		
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			Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him and
		
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			his family.
		
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			And the worst of things are their innovations,
		
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			and every innovation is an invention, and every
		
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			invention is a misguidance.
		
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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, peace and blessings
		
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			be upon him and his family, is His
		
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			servant and His Messenger.
		
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			O you who believe, fear Allah as He
		
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			should be feared and die not, except in
		
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			a state of surrender and submission to your
		
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			Lord.
		
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			O mankind, be dutiful to your Lord Who
		
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			created you from a single person, and from
		
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			Him He created His wife, and from them
		
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			both He created many men and women.
		
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			And fear Allah through Whom you demand your
		
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			mutual rights, and observe the rights of your
		
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			kin.
		
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			Surely Allah is ever and all-watcher over
		
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			you.
		
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			O you who believe, keep your duty to
		
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			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.
		
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			And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has
		
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			indeed attained a great achievement.
		
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			The best speech is the divine speech of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			And the best guidance is that of Prophet
		
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			Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him and
		
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			his family.
		
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			And the worst things in the religion are
		
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			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.
		
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			And every bid'ah is misguidance.
		
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			Imam Muslim collected in his Sahih from Abu
		
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			Huraira, may Allah be pleased with him.
		
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			The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be
		
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			upon him, said, The strong believer is better
		
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			and more beloved to Allah than the weak
		
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			believer.
		
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			And in all is good.
		
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			Be keen on what benefits you.
		
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			And seek help from Allah and do not
		
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			fail.
		
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			And if it is a matter, do not
		
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			say, if I did this and that.
		
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			But say, Allah has determined what He wills,
		
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			so do it.
		
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			For if you open the deeds of Satan.
		
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			The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him,
		
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			says in this hadith, The strong believer is
		
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			better and dearer to Allah than the weak
		
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			believer.
		
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			And in both of them, there is good.
		
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			Then the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon
		
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			him, goes on to say, Be keen and
		
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			diligent in seeking what is good for you.
		
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			And never fall in despair or helplessness.
		
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			And if something happens against what you want
		
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			or what you wish.
		
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			Don't say, had I done this or only
		
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			if I did this or that.
		
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			Things would have been different.
		
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			Because the expression law, which means only if.
		
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			Opens the door for the work of Satan.
		
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			Collected by Imam Muslim.
		
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			This is a great hadith from the Prophet,
		
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			peace and blessings be upon him.
		
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			And if we understand it with a modern
		
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			mindset of what a strong believer means.
		
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			We will misconstrue the meaning.
		
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			The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him,
		
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			says, The strong believer is better and dearer
		
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			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.
		
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			But the good with the stronger believer is
		
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			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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			peace and blessings be upon him, is talking
		
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			about?
		
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			Since the term strong, here in this hadith,
		
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			is not qualified, is not limited to any
		
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			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.
		
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			And Islam, the world view that Islam offers.
		
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			The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him,
		
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			in another famous hadith, explains to his companions
		
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			what strength really means.
		
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			The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him,
		
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			challenges a common notion among people about what
		
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			strength and power really 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, peace and blessings be upon
		
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			him, says to the companions, And a surah
		
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			is someone who is very known for physically
		
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			overcoming others.
		
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			Like he's physically superior in terms of his
		
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			physical strength to others.
		
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			So he can defeat them.
		
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			The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him,
		
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			says the strong man is not the person
		
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			who can overpower others with his physical strength.
		
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			But the real strong man is the person
		
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			who is able to take control of himself
		
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			in moments of anger.
		
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			So the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon
		
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			him, says that don't think that strength is
		
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			about physical or external 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.
		
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			And then you have a battle, and you
		
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			have an inner battle against shaitan.
		
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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.
		
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			But it will 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 cannot be satiated.
		
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			It always wants more.
		
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			As the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon
		
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			him, says, if son of Adam has a
		
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			valley full of gold, he would wish for
		
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			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.
		
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			And nothing puts an end to the greed
		
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			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.
		
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			And if you don't win the battle against
		
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			this immoral call of the self and the
		
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			nafs, when you fight the battles outside, you're
		
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			gonna 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 is
		
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			you're bringing that selfishness, and that greed, and
		
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			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.
		
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			And you 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 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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			shaitan.
		
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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 ﷺ.
		
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			المؤمن القوي خير وأحب إلى الله من المؤمن
		
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			الضعيف The strong believer is better and dearer
		
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			to Allah than the weak believer.
		
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			And that means the one who has already
		
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			won the battle within.
		
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			And when you win the battle within, life
		
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			outside 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.
		
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			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 worked in the advantage of the
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			And Allah says to the believers, ولا تهينوا
		
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			ولا تحزنوا وأنتم الأعلون إن كنتم مؤمنين Do
		
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			not be 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 ﷺ said in
		
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			the authentic hadith, in Sahih Muslim, also narrated
		
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			by Abu Hurairah.
		
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			عَجَبًا لِأَمْرِ الْمُؤْمِنِ إِنَّ أَمْرَهُ كُلَّهُ لَهُ خَيْرٌ
		
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			Amazing is the state of a believer.
		
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			All his affairs are good for him.
		
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			إِنْ أَصَابَتْهُ سَرَّاءُ شَكَرَ فَكَانَ خَيْرًا لَهُ وَإِنْ
		
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			أَصَابَتْهُ ضَرَّاءُ صَبَرَ فَكَانَ خَيْرًا لَهُ وَلَيْسَ ذَلِكَ
		
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			إِلَّا لِلْمُؤْمِنِ If good comes to the believer,
		
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			a blessing comes to the believer, he's thankful
		
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			or she's thankful, and that's good 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, he
		
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			is patient in the face of it, and
		
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			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 with
		
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			them first and foremost.
		
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			For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to love
		
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			us, then Allah will aid you.
		
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			And then outside, you have so many battles
		
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			to win.
		
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			You have the battle with your family.
		
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			And 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.
		
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			And keep them upon the path of Allah
		
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			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
		
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			ta'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're
		
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			trying to win something for yourself.
		
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			You need to put them, many times you
		
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			need to put them first.
		
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			You'll have to sacrifice many of your dreams,
		
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			many of your wishes, a lot of your
		
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			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 أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَهْلِيكُمْ نَارًا وَقُودُهَا
		
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			النَّاسُ وَالْحِجَارَةِ O you who believe, protect, safeguard
		
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			your family, your children from a fire whose
		
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			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 and keeps
		
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			them on the path of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			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 plays or tries to
		
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			be a man in front of a weaker
		
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			person in front of him.
		
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			Or the person who makes so much noise
		
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			and they get 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.
		
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			And spreading corruption in the world.
		
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			That's a strong believer.
		
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			You know there is a 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.
		
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			And they seem to promise an easy victory
		
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			or success.
		
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			And there is also another source of the
		
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			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 our self craves.
		
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			And shaytan wants us to celebrate that.
		
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			Because he knows he can pull us in
		
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			any direction he wants.
		
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			As long as we follow the desire for
		
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			recognition.
		
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			Social recognition.
		
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			But you have to win that battle.
		
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			Then you become free from shaytan.
		
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			Because if you don't win the inner battle,
		
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			you become a slave for shaytan.
		
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			The battles outside that you are fighting.
		
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			No matter how virtuous they are.
		
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			You will be fighting on behalf of shaytan.
		
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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.
		
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			And the shortcomings that you have not been
		
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			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
		
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			referred 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's 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 ﷺ, other than the battles
		
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			that you need to win, other than your
		
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			greed and selfishness, your ignorance.
		
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			Allah says about man, إِنَّهُ كَانَ ظَلُومًا جَهُولًا
		
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			Humans have two powerful 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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			جَهُولًا 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 will
		
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			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 ﷺ is 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 shaitan, even
		
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			when you don't realize it.
		
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			You're whacking at the good that is in
		
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			the world, thinking you're doing good.
		
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			And that's the irony of people who act
		
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			too early.
		
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			People who decide not to fight the battle
		
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			within.
		
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			Then the Prophet ﷺ says, وَفِي كُلٍّ خَيْرٍ
		
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			All believers, strong or weak, there is good
		
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			in them.
		
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			What is the good?
		
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			Iman.
		
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			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 ﷺ is going to explain where this
		
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			strength or part of this strength, where does
		
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			it come from?
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ advises us how to
		
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			navigate the world and be strong in it.
		
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			احرص على ما ينفعك Be keen, be diligent
		
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			in attaining the things that are good for
		
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			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 profit 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
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			Any blessing that takes you away from Allah
		
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			or slows you down on the path of
		
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			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 ﷺ says, be keen and
		
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			diligent to get what is good 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.
		
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			To worship Allah.
		
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			To dedicate every part of your life for
		
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			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, where I just 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, they are part of the journey and
		
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			they are meant to be something that helps
		
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			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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			وَلَا تَعْجَزُ And that's how you navigate the
		
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			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're supposed to seek.
		
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			You're supposed to put 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.
		
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			And that is the word of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			The qadar of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			You still have to try.
		
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			But your actions are part of the plan
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			They're just one ingredient.
		
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			And this bigger context of the qadar of
		
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			Allah is so powerful that you cannot control
		
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			it.
		
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			But still you have to strive and do
		
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			your best.
		
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			أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله لي ولكم فاستغفروه
		
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			الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أشرف
		
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			المرسلين نبينا محمد وعلى آله وأصحابه أجمعين وبعده
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ continues to say وَاعْلَمْ
		
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			أَنَّ مَا أَصَابَكَ وَلَا تَقُلْ لِشَيْءٍ كَانَ لَوْ
		
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			أَنِّي فَعَلْتُ كَانَ كَذَا وَكَذَا Do not say
		
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			if something happens against your plans and against
		
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			your work you're so keen to get what's
		
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			good but your plans don't work out.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ said don't resort to only
		
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			if.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because only if opens the door for Shaytan
		
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			to start his work.
		
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			So only if opens the door and Shaytan
		
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			comes in.
		
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			Shaytan 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, they are in my hands and I
		
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			messed up and that's why things go wrong.
		
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			That's why it opens the door for Shaytan.
		
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			It opens your heart for Shaytan.
		
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			Because you are cancelling Allah, you're ignoring Allah
		
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			and 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.
		
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			What happens is the Qadar 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 Shaytan 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.
		
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			And that's why a lot of Muslims now
		
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			they say, Oh, I made a 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 world view.
		
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			Because you could put in the work ten
		
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			times over and if Allah doesn't want to
		
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			give you a million dollars, He will not
		
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			give it to you and you would never
		
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			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
		
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			do your best, always hand things over to
		
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			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.
		
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			And sometimes as the scholars say, There are
		
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			people that Allah forces 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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			May Allah's peace and blessings be upon you.
		
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			Just a reminder, you know, that the new
		
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			pipe that had to be installed as per
		
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			the regulations of the city, it cost the
		
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			masjid quite a bit of money.
		
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			And alhamdulillah, with the fundraising last week, we're
		
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			only $16,000 short.
		
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			So please be generous.
		
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			And inshallah, let's hit the target because I
		
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			think 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.
		
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			Bi-idhnillah ta'ala we'll have a better
		
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			wudu 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-idhnillah ta'ala.
		
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			Once you do this for the sake of
		
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			Allah, win this resistance within yourself, win this
		
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			inner battle within by going over the self's
		
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			desire to hold on to what we have.
		
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			Do that sacrifice for the sake of Allah.
		
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			Wallah, Allah will never shortchange you.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			accept from all of you.
		
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			Jazakumullahu khairan wa sallallahu ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa
		
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			ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.