Servants Of The Most Merciful 8

Moutasem al-Hameedy

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guides, none can lead astray and whomsoever Allah leaves to go astray and can guide I bear witness that Nan has the right to be worshipped except Allah alone. Nan has the right to our ultimate love and devotion. But Allah subhanaw taala alone, who has no partners and I bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa early he was Salam is His servant and his messenger are you who believe fear Allah as it should be feared and die not except in a state of submission and Islam to your Lord, or mankind be dutiful to 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

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mutual rights and observe the rights of your kids. Surely Allah is Ever and all watched over you, all you who believe keep your duty to Allah, fear Him, and speak the truth. He will direct you to righteous deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has indeed attained a great achievement. The best speech are the words of Allah. And the best guidance is that of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa early he was sending them and the worst thing in the religion of the newly invented matters for all the newly invented matters or innovation, and every innovation and bid is misguidance and leads to the hellfire.

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after a gap of three weeks here, we come back to the beautiful words of Allah subhanaw taala, at the end of solitude for Khan, as he described the people that are dearest to him, the people that are most beloved to Allah to Allah to their Creator, that Allah subhanaw taala even call them the servants of the Most Merciful, choosing his name, specifically the merciful and attaching it to them or attaching them into the Name of Allah, the Merciful, because that shows Allah will show these people with mercy, and they are the ones who will get the most, or the biggest chunk of the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala on the Day of Judgment, we ask Allah subhanaw taala to make us from among those

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and to make and to help us fulfill these traits that he describes in his book, beautiful and noble book. And the fact that Allah mentions these noble traits that we've been describing and explaining and trying to relate to our everyday life. The fact that Allah mentions these traits subsequence to this description that these are the servants of the Most Merciful shows that if you want to be among those who will receive the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala on the Day of Judgment, you need to hold on to these traits. You need to embody them, not talk about them, not talk about them, but you need to embody them, you need to live them. You need to materialize them personify them, bring them to

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reality, as I showed all the Allahu anha when she was asked about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Keifa Cana Hola Hola, su la Hey, la Salatu was Salam. How was the demeanor of the Prophet sallahu wa salam someone it seems who hasn't seen the Prophet so someone was asking the question, describe the character of the Prophet SAW Selim to us. Who was it

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They asked the one that was closest to him and that was his wife. His most beloved wife, Aisha Radi Allahu Ana. She said Ghana hola hola. Quran, his demeanor, his character, his personality was the Quran personified.

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That's what Islam is. And this is a summary of the life of the prophet saw Salem. Similarly, if we want the Mercy of Allah, we want to be the recipient, the recipients of the Mercy of Allah on the Day of Judgment, when there is no mercy but Allah has, we need to hold on to these. And as I said, not only talk about them, not only theorize about them, not only preach about them, but to live them, embody them, personify them so they become who we are. And we become who we become these traits, sort of describe these beautiful traits. Some of them are personal qualities, some of them are things that and actions that they do these servants do in their private times in the middle of

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the night. And some of these traits were social traits, how they treat others, how they deal with others, and how they deal with abuse and disrespect.

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And that the central part of this was to hate the worship of Allah alone. And that's the love to live your life in love for Allah so your life becomes an expression of your true love for Allah. And everything you do in your life actually emanates and stems from your love for Allah subhanho wa Taala alone, which is deep in the hearts of every human being. But some people manage to tap into that and bring it into fruition. Some people live their life in negligence of their very core, which is their very fitrah which is the very human nature and that is in essence, love for Allah subhanho wa Taala and devotion.

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Because in the hearts, deep inside, in the heart of each human being there is a longing for our place of belonging for our true home. And that's what Allah subhanaw taala alone, we know that everyone knows it, everyone feels it. But we seem to miss out on this easiest, but most challenging task to embrace our true nature and be true to Allah subhanaw taala alone. So Allah explains that the heart of these traits is to heed of Allah worshiping Allah alone. And worshiping Allah alone is not a theoretical concept. It's a holistic concept. It's a way of life, it's about your heart, and your heart can connect to it can feed it, it's so dynamic and so rich and so pure. And so engaging.

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This concept of Tawheed it's the love of Allah, that your whole life becomes an expression of your true love and connection to Allah subhanaw taala. And Allah explained that this protects these people from falling into lying, lying and false testimony. And it causes these people when they hear the words of Allah, in the verse where Allah subhanaw taala says, Will Lavina Eva do Kira will be to be him lamea Kuru Allah, you have some Maha omiana. And these are the ones when they are reminded of the signs of Allah, whether these signs are in the creation.

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Or the creation is a sign to Allah subhanaw taala, as the Arab poet says, with equally che in law, who are to introduce the whole wha hoo, and everything in existence, there is a sign, there is a proof that Allah is the one and only the only one who deserves to be worshipped. Everything in the word speaks to you and sends you a message that communicates to you that Allah is the only one you should live for. Allah is the only one you should worship. Allah is the only one that you should devote your life devote your life to. Allah is the only one that you should seek. Everything in the creation, every animal, inanimate, inanimate, or animate object tells you something about Allah

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subhanaw taala that you need to hear. So these are the signs of the creation or in the creation. And there are the signs in the book of Allah Subhana Allah, the beautiful words of Allah, each one of them is a sign that grabs your heart reminds it of Allah subhanaw reminds it of what it knows very well. And that's Allah, your source of being your Creator who brought you into existence, to come back to him who brought you into existence, to return to Him who brought you into existence, to worship Him, who brought you into existence, to love Him, who brought you into existence to make life a pure expression of the love of Allah subhanho wa Taala and this is what brings beauty to

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life. And this is the source of beauty in the life of every Muslim.

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So when these servants of the Most Merciful, his or other reminded of the words of Allah subhanaw taala they don't turn blind. They didn't turn blind eyes to them or deaf ears to them. They open up to these words they embrace them.

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As they embrace them and grasp them and absorb them, and let them awaken the faith in their hearts, Let them awaken the love for Allah. So that strengthens them, brings them closer to Allah takes them to a higher level in their existence in their lively experience, where they connect to Allah at a higher level. And this is why everything in the creation will bring them closer to Allah Even sometimes when it's an adversity, even sometimes when it's something filthy and despicable. It was narrated that the greatest of a taboo in sir Aw, Jubail was brought to a head judge to be executed to be killed. And that was the moment that I've had judge decided to kill him. And he said, Bring

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him to me. So when he stood up in the presence of a hijab, and her dad wanted to humiliate him, so he brought a band of musicians and made them play music, because sorry, the Buddha Japan knew that music was haram wasn't was impermissible.

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So

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when they started playing music,

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and that was an attempt to tease him, and maybe destroy him, psychologically, emotionally, to stress him out. To make him feel overwhelmed. He started weeping and crying.

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So I'd had Justin what makes you cry, he said, these sounds are strange to me. So they reminded me

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about the Day of Judgment, what kind of sounds I'm going to hear.

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These very sounds brought me to the scene of the hereafter. In the midst of the chaos when everyone would lose direction, everyone won't know what this is all about. Everyone will be in bewilderment and confusion. And these sounds reminded me of that fact. Somehow they awaken in me the feeling of the Day of Judgment.

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So when you open up to the signs of Allah subhanaw taala. And this is not a call to listen to music. This is just to show you that when you open up to the signs of Allah in the Quran, and in his creation, everything will start reminding you of Allah subhanaw taala and everything will become a guide to you, from Allah to Allah, a guide for you to Allah subhana wa to Allah.

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Then Allah subhanaw taala describes something a very beautiful aspect after that, about these servants of the Most Merciful he says, well, Lavina or Luna Rob BANA hablan. I mean as word you know, whether the Tina Yun which

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Tina Eema very beautiful aspect of the lives of these people. So we mentioned different in many different aspects of their life, different traits. Listen to what Allah says. Now Allah says, These people supplicate to Allah, they call upon Allah they asked Allah they beseech Allah hablan Amin mean, as far as you know, whether we yet in our pour water and yon, give us grant us from our spouses, and from our children.

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A coolness of our eyes, comfort to our hearts.

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And this shows that hot, a huge part of the life of a Muslim is their family life, their family life, and that shows the importance of this spouse supporting their partner.

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A Muslim man can become more dedicated, more righteous closer to Allah and more wise,

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more,

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I would say more of a Muslim higher in faith when his wife supports him and backs him

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and is on the same page with him.

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And she is more likely to become a better believer, a better righteous person when he supports her. And this shows that the relationship of marriage in Islam is one of mutual growth, mutual care for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. And it shows that it is this is a sacred connection, a sacred bond that Allah subhanaw taala designed us to have. And this shows that if you want to grow as a believer, you want to grow as a person, you need to pay attention to your wife. Oftentimes you will find someone who wants to grow financially, wants to grow professionally, wants to grow in terms of knowledge wants to grow in terms of Eman and faith and practice and that that leads them to neglect

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the rights of their spouse.

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That's not going to work out it will backfire. It will make one day probably lose your spouse and worse than that you might destroy the life and how often personally I've seen I've witnessed dedicated brothers or dedicated sisters that so focused on their relationship with Allah to the negligence of their spouse and what happened

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as their spouse develops an attitude against religion, and against practicing Islam and against righteousness, they say if righteousness and being closer to Allah means that you neglect my rights, my emotional rights, my children's rights, my personal rights, my financial rights. What kind of religion is this? What kind of way of life is this?

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And this happens, this is very common, if you haven't seen it.

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A lot of people have seen it. A lot of people live in that situation.

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The Prophet SAW Selim reminded women, he spoke to one woman, and he said she was newly married, and he said to her

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xojo key xojo key, you know, be careful, take care of good care of your husband in who was a natural key one out, okay. He is either your paradise or your hellfire.

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So some of the scholars of Hadith when they explained this hadith, they said, That means he's a gateway for you either to paradise or the hellfire, you observe his rights, you take good care of him, he will be your way into paradise. But if you neglect his rights, if you're undoable to him, if you challenge him all the time, or compete with him over authority over the family

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this kind of discord with him and defiance towards him might be your way into the hellfire. So became and the Prophet SAW and spoke to the to the men, when he was dying. In his last few hours, the prophets of salaam when he was dying, he was going through the pains of death, what did he say to the Muslims?

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is still so bidness

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is still so beneath a higher author in 101. In India Come, take good care of your women take good care of the females in your family,

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because they are somehow similar to captives in your houses, because you took them from their family from the house and they became your spouse, take good care of them.

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That shows a great part where a great portion of your pathway to Allah subhanho wa Taala constitutes your spouse, how you deal with them, how you respect them, how you take good care of them.

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And what completes the picture is your children, your children, how often sometimes people try to grow in different aspects of their life, religiously, in terms of knowledge in terms of profession, in terms of finances, in terms of relationships, in terms of, you know, social connections, or anything else, to the negligence of their own children, to the negligence of their own children, which is supposed to was supposed to be peace, a peace of your hearts, a piece of your heart, that's your that's your responsibility. Allah subhanaw taala when he spoke in the Quran, to the believers, he said Who am Fusa como Alikum Nara Baku dua nurse, will Jarrah protect yourself from a fire.

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He said, first protect yourself, then protect your families. And that means your spouses and your children in the first place,

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from a fire whose

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wood would be the stones and the rocks

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and human beings.

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So that shows when Allah subhanaw taala describes these people that they constantly call upon Allah, to grant them from their spouses and from their children, coolness of their eye, comfort of the heart, a source of happiness and content, and beauty and peace.

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That shows that this thing is one of the most important things on their minds. Because when we call upon Allah, we ask Allah for what really matters to us. It's not a passing kind of dua, or supplication. It is something that's always on their minds. Oh Allah, Oh Allah grant us from our wives, from our husbands from our spouses, and from our children, and our progeny. Grant us a peace of our hearts, comfort to our souls. And when will your children and your spouses be a source of happiness and peace and contentment and connection to Allah, when they are righteous themselves, when you take good care of them? I find it really challenging and sometimes ironic, that you find a

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husband and spouse trying to mathematically calculate the rights and the obligations on both sides. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. These are the limits that Allah put in desperate cases. These are the limits when people start wronging one another in a relationship, Allah subhanaw taala put these rights and stipulated them so we do not cry

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It's over. That's like the that's the that's the bottom line for relationship not to be annihilated and destroyed. But for you to build your relationship with your spouse rights obligations, you gave me this I give you that this is not a transaction, this is not life, whereas emotion and Allah subhanaw taala mentioned the purpose behind marriage janela Coleman and fusi come as word Anika schooner, Allah created spouses from your own creation

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so that you find peace tranquility and confidence serenity with them.

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What your alibi in a coma with that Anwar Rama and he brought among you he made between both of you now with that deep, passionate love, well, Rama and mercy.

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So you need sometimes your wife will wronged you, you need to put up with that and give her the space for that. And to the wife, your husband will rang you, he will neglect you. But you need to be intelligent instead of asking for our right instead of dealing with him as you are in a court or trying to speak to him as a lawyer speak to him as a human being speak to his heart. And He will come to you. Because when he wants to find peace, he will find it with you be a source of peace, give love in a relationship, and you will receive love, give hate and it will come back to you. This is how relationships work. So these righteous people they call upon Allah all the time, all the time

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have learned I mean, as well as you know, whether react in a cold water on what 13, Ema and make us Imams leaders guides. For those who are righteous. That means make me a role model. Make me an example. It could be an example in all affairs of life. But it could be also an example of one thing, if you had a good personal traits, a good khaolak a good characteristic and people learn it from you, then this has been fulfilled for you, you become a role model in honesty, you become a role model in kindness, you become a role model in compassion and love. You become a role model in spending for the sake of Allah, you become a role model in forgiving people. You become a role model

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and reminding people about Allah, you become a role model in knowledge, you become a role model, by your example in terms of keeping the prayers and coming to the massage.

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You become a role model. And thus you become an imam in that in that specific area. So this is how there's a beautiful aspect of how these people live. And it shows what are their main concerns which they call upon Allah to grant them. That's peace in the house. And it shows the greatness of a man or a woman starts in the home, if they are comfortable in their house, if they have come to comfortable with their family. This will give them a very strong base to be able to able to relate to people from a position of balance

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and a position of compassion. And when the world throw them off, when they are overtaken by sometimes the hatred or the challenging circumstances. They have a safe haven to go back home and find peace with their spouses and with their children.

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This is the life of a believer someone to whom Allah grants mercy so they help their children grow and the children help them grow the same with their spouses. Then Allah subhanaw taala describes what he's going to grant these people hola que yo Zona lol Fattah Bhima Sabado where you will own if he had to he yet and was Elena these people will be recompensed this, how Allah will pay them back the servants of the Most Merciful, who fulfill and embody these beautiful characteristics. Allah Subhana Allah says, Allah will grant them a lot of fire, which is the chamber of the room. And this is referring to the houses and the palaces in paradise.

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There's no description that we know that can match the reality of the houses, the palaces and the residences, Allah prepared for the people of Jannah, Allah kept the secret of that will himself be mass about all we will run them this because of their patients. And this shows that holding on to these traits requires you to be patient, because sometimes that goes against your upbringing. It goes against sometimes what you've been doing for most of your life, you need to change your ways. And that takes a lot of patience. And in order as well to embody these beautiful traits, you will be wronged you will be taken advantage of you will be people who sometimes might cause you some harm.

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And in order to stay on that true path to stay faithful to your principle, even when people violate them. That requires a lot of patience. This is what Allah subhanaw taala says, when these people embody these characteristics, and they hold on to them and the remain patient, in the face of the desire to violate them, we shall grant them these beautiful houses in paradise. Then Allah

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Subhan Allah describes not only the physical reward they will have in paradise, but also something else where you will own if he had to he yet and what Salah that's a beautiful aspect of the life of the people in paradise. They will be receiving greetings from the angels. And most importantly greetings from Allah subhanho wa taala. This is more beautiful than the houses. This is more beautiful than the women in paradise. This is more beautiful than the fruits and the food and every beauty in paradise when Allah subhanaw taala greets the people in Jannah that's the most beautiful part. When Allah greets you,

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and a greeting of peace from your source of being from your Creator, where you will own if he had to he yet and greetings and Salah and peace from Allah subhanaw taala and Allah described one of the most beautiful aspects in Paradise by saying goodbye as my own if he had a loved one in Salem, that you do not hear in it any idle, empty talk. They only hear peace and beautiful words. There's a beautiful aspect and Paradise. We ask Allah subhanaw taala to make us from among the people of paradise or Buddha Holy hell that was the foolhardy welcome

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hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Nabina Muhammad in while he was at age nine, so Allah subhanaw taala then says these people will dwell in paradise forever. Because we weren't created by the way to live eternally.

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We were created to live for ever.

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You were created to live for eternity. And when you die, you die to live again.

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So don't be duped. Don't be fooled into believing that this is the only life your heart knows that that there's a real life after that. And this life is just like a dream. This life is just like a dream. You go into your dream for a few seconds,

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even into your sleeps a few hours but your life your waking life is much more longer than that and your real life is way longer than this dream in which we are all taking part now at the moment. So Allah subhanaw taala saying for these people will live in this beauty in paradise forever. It will not be interrupted. There is no fear of an end coming to that you will dwell there forever if you make it hold on to these traits to be able to go there in sha Allah. Then Allah Subhan Allah says what a beautiful it's the best place to reside in to dwell in and to live in. Then Allah subhana wa Tada explains something very important here.

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se O Muhammad to these people, to the people of caliche you have disbelieved in this truth from Allah, you have disbelieved in it. When your hearts know it, as Allah Subhana Allah says was your head will be here was to connect and Fuso him, they denied it, they lived in denial to it, but their hearts knew it was the truth. So Allah is saying, ALLAH is commanding the processor to convey this message to these people who disbelieved in it. He said, Allah would not care about you unless you fulfill the purpose of your creation. And that's your dua that means your worship of Allah, you're calling upon Allah, your prayer towards Allah, your love for Allah, because Allah created you to

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worship him to love him. And this is what you should be doing in your life. This is the only time you will qualify for the care and attention of Allah. Otherwise, Allah doesn't care about you, because you violated yourself first, you violated your very core, your very creation, the very purpose of your existence, you violated everything. So you have betrayed even yourself, and Allah doesn't care about that. If you take this choice.

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Then Allah closes the surah with a very powerful statement and he says, Can debitum For Sophia corn on his armor, you have disbelieved in this truth that has come to you. So the punishment of Allah is eminent and is sure to come to you.

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So we ask Allah subhanaw taala to make us from the servants of the Most Merciful who qualify by embodying these beautiful characteristics and we ask Allah subhanaw taala to live us to become a personal Quran walking on Earth following thus the example of old prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam before a close I will remind you that we have some guests from the UK from from London and there mashallah the brothers have been doing quite a good work in the UK specifically with the youth are very active there. I've spoken to the Imam Ma sha Allah, may Allah reward him for the great efforts, and may Allah Subhana Allah facilitate their project to come to fruition.

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under a point of completion, they're basically they're rebuilding the masjid. And

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they're almost there. The whole project costs, I believe, $2.5 million $2.5 million, they managed to raise $1.5 million, they still in short for $1 million. And they've estimated that each square feet in the masjid costs around $250. So this is an invitation to all of you, they are our guest today and they will be at the gate of the Masjid. So they will be collecting their donations so please make a point to

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Charla speak with them. And if you're able to help them out, this will be a reward for you from Allah subhanaw taala. And we know that the Prophet SAW Salem promise that Allah will build the house for the person who contributes to building a house even if it's a small as small as the nest of a bird or a small bird. So make sure that you support them and you help them we definitely back them mashallah the brothers doing are doing a great job teaching and educating the community and mashallah helping out the youth taking them out of the streets and providing them with activities in sha Allah. May Allah reward them for that Allama minion that will make me naturally Muslim and I

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will miss the match. Even on what I'm what Allah Martha Luna don't obey. Now why slough and FE M Lena with a bit of dominance, called Milka theory and Allahumma salli wa salam ala Rasulillah Mohammed while he was a big marine SubhanAllah kelabra I'm Maya safarnama, Salama homo Selena hamdulillahi rabbil aalameen