Moutasem al-Hameedy – Muslim Youth – Don’t waste your life in trivialities

Moutasem al-Hameedy
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The history and meaning of the concept of Islam is discussed, including the origin and meaning of "has been" and the meaning of "has been." The importance of pursuing a noble mission to achieve a vision of fulfillment is emphasized, along with avoiding evil and pursuing a positive change in one's life. The speaker emphasizes the need for individuals to act with their own values and pursue their own path in a rewarding and inspiring way, rather than wasting one's life on games. Pr practically pursue Islam is crucial to achieving success and fulfilling one's dreams, and parents should pray daily and stay true to their values.

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			In Al Hamdulillah
		
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			NEMA do who want to study you know who want to steal fuel?
		
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			When he minshall The fusina was a year to Lena mija de la de la la who wanna Yoba little fella had
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			white shadow
		
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			in London law or the hula shady color, or a shadow animal Hamedan who our soul of sallallahu alayhi
wa Hani he was in them
		
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			Yeah, you had a lady in
		
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			law have got to party he was at a Morton one Muslim on
		
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			Johan suitable Rob qumola. The Holika come in Neff Singh. Wahida. Valhalla coming has Jaha worth I
mean, Homer IJA and Kathy are over monies
		
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			worked up Hola. Hola. de tous Luna be he will? In Allah Ghana la Yuko Malati. EBA.
		
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			Yeah, you handed Adina Taku la how aku a woolen studied use regular comb harmala come via our
federal law comb Dunoon back home wanna use our Sudha who forgot if I was in Lima, and that for in
Hadith, the gala Mala or axon and had you had your Mohammed in Salalah, who already he was early, he
was a little more Shavon homage to her Wakulla desert in beta. What could it be that in Bala, All
praise is due to Allah, we praise Him we seek his aid and we ask for his forgiveness. We seek refuge
in Allah from the evils of ourselves and the evil consequences of our actions. Whomsoever Allah
guides, none can lead astray and whomsoever Allah leaves to go astray and on can guide I testify
		
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			that there is none worthy of our worship and devotion but the Almighty Allah alone. And I testify
that Muhammad Sallallahu it who were early he was sending them his his servant, and His Messenger or
you who believe, fear Allah as he should be feared and die not except in submission and surrender as
Muslims, or mankind. be dutiful to your Lord who created you from a single person and from him he
created his wife, and from them both he created many men and women, and fear Allah through whom you
demand your mutual rights and observe the rights of your kin. Surely Allah is Ever and all Walcher
over you, or you who believe. Keep your duty to Allah, fear him and speak the truth. He will direct
		
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			you to righteous deeds and will forgive your sins. And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has
indeed attained a great achievement. The best words are the Divine Words of Allah. And the best
guidance is that of Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa early he was seldom
		
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			and the worst things in the religion are the newly invented matters for all the newly invented
medicine, religion, or heretical innovation and Buddha and every bidder is misguidance.
		
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			Allah subhanaw taala clearly says in the Quran,
		
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			a verse that every Muslim is aware of and should be aware of, when our Holika tool Jin Hwan ins in
early Abu dune
		
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			I have created the jinn and mankind only solely to worship me to worship Allah subhana wa Tada.
That's why we are created. This is why the Djinn are created. This is why the universe that we know
and that we know of was created for this purpose.
		
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			This summarizes existence and its purpose, everything else, even the things that we are intimate
about the things that we are fond of and that we feel strongly about our details.
		
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			They are an offshoot of this purpose. So anything
		
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			anything that does not feed into the fulfillment of this purpose of this divine purpose is a waste.
		
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			There is a
		
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			Read from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			that people are most of us tend to misconstrue.
		
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			The Prophet sallallahu Sallam says in the authentic hadith dunya and Runa,
		
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			maroon Murphy Ha, in the Corolla he won our Weida
		
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			this worldly life, and every and everything in it is
		
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			kept away from the Mercy of Allah is void of the Mercy of Allah MeLuna cursed, that's what cursed
means in Islam, that it is void of Allah's Mercy
		
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			except
		
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			the remembrance of Allah,
		
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			the Dhikr of Allah,
		
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			the worship, the praise of Allah,
		
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			and everything that feeds into it, and aligns with it.
		
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			And people say how come you know other matters are void of the Mercy of Allah?
		
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			It's because the purpose
		
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			Allah created us to worship him. He created the jinn to worship him. Why are we here on Earth? To
worship Allah? What are we supposed to do with our life? Worship Allah.
		
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			So what about our dreams?
		
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			What about our beautiful memories?
		
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			What about other our competitions? And other aspirations? What about our family life?
		
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			What about my life in school? At work? What about my vacations?
		
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			What about my hobbies and the things that I enjoy?
		
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			What about the fun that I have in this life?
		
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			Does that fall under the things that are void of the Mercy of Allah?
		
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			And that's a big question. And it needs to be answered.
		
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			So the reality of our existence is that it exists in the first place for the fulfillment of one
divine purpose.
		
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			And that is to worship Allah.
		
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			That is to obey Allah, to glorify Allah. And that means to love Allah, to seek ALLAH, to pursue the
pleasure of Allah, to do the things that Allah loves, to avoid the things that Allah dislikes.
		
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			That's why we here on Earth, that's our business. That's our job. And if we live in this life,
		
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			not conscious of this, and not committed to this, and if our life is not a true reflection, and
commitment to this purpose, then it falls under the category that is void of the Mercy of Allah.
		
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			Thus the seriousness of this issue, but
		
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			most people get this wrong because of one main point. What is the meaning of worship?
		
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			People think that their family life is not worship.
		
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			They think their work is not worship.
		
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			They think they're providing for their family and for their children and their dependents is not
worship.
		
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			They think that being good with other people is not worship.
		
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			They think that the suffering and the pain that they go through in this life, if they remain patient
and resilient, they think this is not worship. And that's where the confusion comes in.
		
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			This hadith talks about the overall direction of life, our purpose what should be our focus. You
know, when we when children are young, we all ask them what do you want to be in the future and here
I want our
		
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			middle age and older brothers and sisters to bear with me because I'm not talking to them today.
		
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			I want to talk to our youth.
		
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			I want to talk to our sons and daughters that we value so much.
		
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			Today's hotbar is mainly addressed to them.
		
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			You are created for a noble purpose.
		
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			You are here on Earth on a great mission.
		
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			Greater than any mission you will carry out on Call of Duty
		
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			ut or Assassin's Creed, or any of those popular video games,
		
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			you have a mission of being a true hero that is greater than all of these delusional pursuits, and
environments and engagements that are designed to keep you small and insignificant. That's the
reality of these distractions.
		
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			So when a child is young, and we asked them, What do you want to be in the future, we want them to
talk about what their profession, their future profession, their career,
		
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			we want them to talk about their dreams of making money and wealth and success. As if this is the
ultimate meaning of their existence and their life. Yes, we will probably teach them the verse where
Allah says that he created the jinn and mankind to worship him. But that's on the side, most of our
emphasis, the message that we send to our kids, I want you to be better than your cousin's better
than the child of our neighbor.
		
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			But better than the your classmates, you should be the best you should be the best doctor, the best
engineer, the best lawyer, the best teacher, the best entrepreneur,
		
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			and want you to be successful. I want you to help me raise my head high, you are successful, so you
can deal with life. And you can handle life. For what?
		
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			For what.
		
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			So if someone is going to be successful,
		
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			they're going to make a lot of money. They're going to buy a beautiful house,
		
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			they're going to marry and have children and die, then what was the point?
		
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			There must be something bigger than that. And that's why we are created. This is why we are placed
in this life.
		
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			Allah subhanaw taala created us for a noble mission. And it is something he himself values. And
that's to love him.
		
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			Too, seek Him, to search for him, to live our life for him. That's the life of meaning. That's the
life of purpose. That's the life of virtue. That's the life of generosity and accomplishment and
achievement.
		
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			Your career,
		
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			the success of your business, the success of your family.
		
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			All of that all of these are supposed to be building blocks in the journey that you are traveling to
Allah Subhana Allah to Allah because without Allah, none of that has any value.
		
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			You are created for something eternal.
		
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			You are created for something that
		
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			transcends time and space, the consequences of the purpose that you are created for live forever for
eternity. So you can't limit your life.
		
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			By dedicating it to something that dies, the moment you leave this life.
		
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			And there is no pursuit that transcends the limits of time and space but the worship of Allah alone,
for which the heavens and the earth are created, there is no noble mission that you can give your
life for.
		
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			But the worship of Allah, the love of Allah and the good that it brings into your life, and into the
life of other people, and in existence in general.
		
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			The worship of Allah is not only staying at the masjid or the corner of the masjid and praying rough
rock or after rock, although this is a great part and a great dimension of our worship of Allah.
		
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			But the worship of Allah is a way of life
		
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			is a unified direction
		
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			that can pull the strings of your life and give them meaning
		
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			and make them virtuous. And they build some moral standard within you that will push you away from
every evil and you will see the darkness in it. And it will encourage you to engage with everything
that is good and show you the light that is in it.
		
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			You can transcend the petty life of serving yourself and your base desires and living a life just a
life of fulfillment of your carnal desires to the life of fulfillment of something noble and
transcendent. That's why we are here on this earth. This is what your family life means.
		
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			This is what your success in your career means and this is what it should mean it never stands
alone.
		
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			Don't waste your life pursuing something that dies the moment you die.
		
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			pursue something beyond
		
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			and the lower greed of people who are pursuing their career as their ultimate goal or their success
as their ultimate, ultimate goal, or their fun as their ultimate destination. There are people who
waste their life with virtual reality, delusions, and here I speak to our youth.
		
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			A lot of the youth pursue these video games and all of these in this entertainment.
		
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			Because they think they can become a hero in that space. They want to feel that they are doing
something that they are achieving goals that they are saving innocent people, or that they are
defeating the forces of evil.
		
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			These tendencies are noble and Allah put them in you don't waste them in a delusion. In a non
existent reality. It's an imagination.
		
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			And you don't need to look far by the way you don't need to buy a video game
		
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			or anything, any of those pursuits online of becoming an influencer, or a famous person.
		
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			Just look around in your life, there is a lot of opportunity for some great contribution
		
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			that you can take as your path to Allah subhanho wa Taala
		
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			and Dobot fulfillments. There's a lot of poverty in the world. There's a lot of darkness in the
world you can bring well being to people you can bring light to where is darkness, you can bring
justice, to
		
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			places that are filled with oppression.
		
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			Why do you have to run away from reality, if you truly possess the heart of a hero, then engage with
life.
		
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			These things are designed to put you on the sideline to neutralize the impact of your life.
		
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			You were created for something noble, something beautiful,
		
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			for a true story of heroism. Don't waste it in your room playing video games.
		
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			Don't do that to yourself.
		
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			Don't suck the life of this beautiful opportunity that Allah gave you. It is more intriguing. It's
more interesting. When you bring positive change to this life and take your life seriously. The
challenge of this life with all the threats around it the forces of evil starting with shaytaan
starting with all of the negative influence around you, starting with all the forces of evil that
are killing innocent people that are ruining their life, poisoning their minds and their hearts with
ideologies.
		
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			And with departure from morality.
		
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			Don't you see an opportunity to bring about positive change to find the forces of evil? Don't you
see? No. But you have to run to virtual reality.
		
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			Where they guarantee that you have no impact in this life. You come into it, you walk through it,
you leave it as if you never existed, all the way living the delusion that you are a hero because I
you know I am done with this game I finished all the levels. Truly, that's pathetic. You weren't
nobody if you live for that, that lifestyle.
		
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			Don't worry, your life is precious, Allah gave you something so valuable, so precious. There were
opportunities and you know, your heart will never be fulfilled. There are levels of life. There.
There is sweetness in life that can only be attained when you live for Allah.
		
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			When you you look when you use the assets that Allah gave you to do something great with this life,
		
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			to bring about positive change because that's what Allah wants from you. That's what Allah loves.
That's what Allah pleased with the prophets. Allah Salam says cruel, nasty and federal homeliness,
the best of humanity, the best of people are the ones that are more beneficial, the most beneficial
to his creation.
		
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			The path to Allah is full of opportunities. And it doesn't take you away from your career.
		
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			It doesn't take you away from your fun if you truly pursue Allah in this life, and if you take your
life seriously, and that's the time for you to decide about this not when you grow older.
		
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			Most often when you grow older would be too late. You're set in your ways. It's the time if you're a
teenager, it's time
		
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			aim to think seriously about your life. And the direction you're going to take in your life.
		
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			You are you shoulder a responsibility of your own life. Choose wisely. Don't waste this opportunity.
		
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			Our younger brothers and sisters, you need to wake up. You need to wake up.
		
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			And parents need to wake up and stop giving their children the wrong impression about life. That all
what matters is your career and your future. With your career and your future is with Allah is when
you pursue Allah. And it doesn't take your humeral career doesn't take you from medicine, if you
want to study it, medicine becomes a vehicle for you to worship Allah through, and then it assumes
true meaning you want to become an engineer, you can worship Allah through that.
		
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			You want to become a philanthropist. You can worship Allah through that you want to become a
teacher, you could worship Allah through that.
		
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			You want to be a YouTuber, you can worship Allah through that.
		
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			Any career you can think of as long as it's halal, and it brings about something positive, then it
can become your path to Allah subhanho wa taala. Obviously, if you establish the acts of worship,
and this correct of either the correct understanding in your heart,
		
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			so you worship Allah upon clarity.
		
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			This is what your life is for you will find opportunities for your,
		
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			for the heroism that you are so desperate about that you will see that you're seeking it on your
phone, on your tablet, or on your laptop.
		
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			Or on your PlayStation and Xbox.
		
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			The people who design these things are making billions. But what's the price for that?
		
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			Your life,
		
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			your life. And I'm not talking about this life here.
		
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			Your eternal life that extends forever in the hereafter.
		
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			They you make money by wasting your true life.
		
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			Don't give it to them. Your life is not cheap. Your life is not cheap, cheap, and you should not
just give it away like that.
		
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			And that's what Allah is gonna stand you on the Day of Judgment and ask you about your life. What
did you do with it?
		
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			About your youth? What did you do with it decide today? Start at least the process of thinking
seriously about your life today. All you want is video games or playing basketball and football and
soccer and all of these games think oh, that's a bright line. That's a beautiful life. That's a
wonderful future. You know, these are games, they're called games. They're called games. Don't waste
your life in a game. You want to play them as a hobby. Go ahead.
		
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			Go ahead.
		
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			But take a life, your life is more precious than a game.
		
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			Your life is a noble mission. And you should never settle for anything less than that. A call to
Holy * that was tough for Allah Hollywood.
		
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			hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Shafi Mozillian. So you didn't know Mohammed in
while he was studying.
		
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			If we keep wasting our lives
		
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			by thinking that our life is about our worldly success, about our career success and business
success, and about enjoying our time, engaging in all of these games, whether they are real or
virtual.
		
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			What's going to happen eventually, is that the oppression that you see in the world will continue to
happen.
		
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			Because the bad guys are working hard. They don't play video games.
		
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			They're not aspiring to be a basketball star,
		
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			or even
		
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			martial arts start. They're not
		
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			that not they distract you with these things. So that they can be in control of everything.
		
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			They can waste your life. They can neutralize you. They can marginalize you. So they can maintain
power and do what they want.
		
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			And if we continue to do things like that, you know, we'll just keep waking up when massacres happen
and all we can do all what we have in our possession is walk out in the streets and protest.
		
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			When the forces of evil are doing what they want,
		
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			they're making policies. They're running nations. They're creating the
		
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			Reading huge armies, and they are forcing their doom and gloom on the whole world.
		
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			But you know what? We've been wasting our life playing games, thinking we are a hero.
		
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			But eventually, you know what? We take him for a ride.
		
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			We take him for a ride and we wake up later in life helpless, unable to do what? unable to do
anything. So what do we do? Let's go out on the street, and protest. That's all we can do. That's
not a strategic way of dealing with life. If you really care about people that don't waste your
life, go ahead and do something positive, something constructive, something good. Take this life
seriously. Be the change you want to see in the world.
		
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			And the fun and the amusement that you get from that is all a lie.
		
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			She upon laughs at you as you fall in his tricks, and as you're wasting the most precious thing that
Allah has given you, thinking all the all the while that you are
		
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			a unique person in the history of the world when in reality you have made yourself into a nobody.
		
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			That's not the life of a Muslim heart that is filled with Allah aspires for the best.
		
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			It cannot see the falsehood, the darkness, the oppression in the world.
		
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			And, you know, go on its own to play games.
		
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			That's not the life of a believer.
		
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			So this is just a reminder to our youth. Wake up. Wake up there is a lot that Allah has put at your
disposal. There is a lot that you can do to make a difference. There is a lot but don't waste that
potential. And where do you start? Where do you start? The best place to start is with the
remembrance of Allah.
		
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			Pray your five daily prayers, pray them from your hearts. Don't just go through the motions and
start reading the Quran on a daily basis. And do your car Always do your car remember hola c'est la
ilaha illallah Anwendung la sharika lah who will Moon koala will him do a hula conditioning and
Khedira 100 times every morning, see it from your heart commit to it. And I promise a month from now
you will not your life will not be the same.
		
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			Simple,
		
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			simple engage with Allah. And Allah will change your life Allah will show you the way you can't
figure it out now because you know, pretty much we have put ourselves in the darkness. You want to
ask Allah you wanted to ask Allah desperately and Allah will show you but show the commitment by
doing this thicker at least.
		
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			Stay with it every day and see it from your heart. And you will see how Allah subhanaw taala will
bring light into your life and it will open ways for you. We ask Allah subhanaw taala to guide us
and to help us and it's an invitation as well for parents
		
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			to stop emphasizing to our children that the future is only with their career. There is a greater
purpose career is part of it. It's not the end goal. Allah homophily Mommy and Me not honestly mean
honestly matter yeah even on what I'm watching
		
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			along with Atlanta I don't know when our so often if you haven't been out with a bit Akadama on some
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there up here at romancey attic where you're a metal fabricator because something that you never use
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