Moutasem al-Hameedy – The Monumental Tafsir #72 Surah Al Qamar

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The upcoming Halacha event will focus on the Halacha, a series of events that will include Halacha, Halakha, and Halakha. The event will not be a complete stop, and individuals need to recognize their biases and weaknesses in order to avoid mistakes and loss of good behavior. The importance of understanding the dynamics of life and the power of Allah's command to fulfill people's deeds is emphasized, and the reality of everything is based on the rules that are made.

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			So we continue with Surat, Al Qamar. And
		
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			just before we begin,
		
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			an announcement,
		
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			and I'm sure,
		
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			some,
		
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			brothers and sisters will come later on. So
		
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			hopefully towards the end if you can remind
		
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			me, most likely I'll forget, but if you
		
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			can remind me to make the announcement again,
		
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			next next 2 weeks we have guests for
		
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			the Halacha. So I'm not going to be
		
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			giving the Halacha next 2 Fridays.
		
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			Next 2 Fridays.
		
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			So we will,
		
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			resume
		
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			in
		
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			September
		
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			insha'Allah.
		
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			In 3 weeks from now and when we
		
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			have our Halukha in September it's going to
		
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			be after Maghrib because by that time Maghrib
		
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			is gonna be, I think,
		
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			earlier than 8, probably 7 something.
		
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			So we're gonna pray Maghrib and then have
		
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			the Halakha. So again, we're going to inshallah
		
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			resume our Halakha. I believe the 1st Friday
		
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			in September,
		
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			and
		
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			the Halakha will start after salatul Maghrib be'idnillahi
		
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			ta'ala. Keep that in mind. Next to Fridays,
		
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			we have guests.
		
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			Okay. Inshallah.
		
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			I believe we reached the verse number 33.
		
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			Story of
		
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			The people of Luke rejected the warnings when
		
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			Luke Alaihi Salam called them to worship Allah
		
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			alone with no partner or or associate
		
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			and he forbade them to ascribe partners to
		
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			Allah or commit shameful deeds that were unprecedented
		
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			among other nations.
		
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			But they rejected him and persisted in the
		
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			polytheism and evil deeds to the extent that
		
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			when the people of Ruth heard about the
		
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			angels who came to Ruth in the guise
		
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			of guests, they came rushing,
		
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			wanting to commit shameful deeds with them and
		
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			demanding that he let them have their way
		
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			with them. So Allah commanded Jibir, alayhis salam,
		
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			to blind their eyes with his wing, and
		
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			their prophet warned them of the punishment of
		
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			Allah, but they doubted the warnings.
		
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			Early in the morning, a lasting punishment overtook
		
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			them. Allah overturned
		
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			their houses on top of them, turning them
		
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			upside down, and he followed that with a
		
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			shower of stones of baked clay, one after
		
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			another,
		
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			specifically
		
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			marked and kept with their with your lord
		
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			for the evildoers.
		
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			But Allah saved Nuud and his family from
		
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			the great distress as a reward to them
		
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			for their gratitude to their lord and their
		
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			worship of him alone with no partner or
		
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			associate.
		
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			A practical
		
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			like point we can take from this story
		
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			this,
		
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			story of Lourd alayhis salam here specifically in
		
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			this Surah is that and if you notice
		
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			this is a pattern
		
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			with all of the nations
		
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			that worshipped other than Allah.
		
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			That shirk,
		
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			kufr,
		
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			worshipping others than Allah,
		
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			failing to worship Allah and give him his
		
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			rights,
		
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			doesn't stop there.
		
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			It breeds
		
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			sins
		
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			because it's
		
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			the greatest sin. The biggest sin
		
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			is shirk
		
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			or kufr.
		
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			To disbelieve in Allah,
		
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			to associate partners with Allah,
		
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			to not give Allah his right to be
		
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			worshipped alone.
		
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			That's the greatest sin
		
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			and this sin breeds
		
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			other sins. So if you
		
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			notice with all of the nations, Allah mentions
		
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			that the prophets invited them to worship Allah
		
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			alone and to desist. And Allah mentioned
		
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			the sin in each nation, the sin that
		
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			was
		
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			most dominant. It doesn't mean that's the only
		
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			sin they engaged in but that was the
		
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			most prominent sin in that society.
		
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			That was the most prominent sin. So this
		
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			is why there is no goodness with Kufr
		
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			and the notion that some Muslims have.
		
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			That there are people who disbelieve in Allah
		
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			but they in terms of their behavior, in
		
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			terms of their morality, they are better.
		
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			It's important to distinguish and again distinguish between
		
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			the nuances.
		
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			Good
		
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			versus evil.
		
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			Good is one substance, is one element.
		
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			It cannot be compartmentalized.
		
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			Now it is made of parts but it
		
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			cannot be compartmentalized.
		
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			It's one entity
		
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			made of parts, but they are strongly
		
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			interconnected.
		
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			Evil is the same.
		
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			So
		
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			each good leads to more good.
		
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			Evil leads to more evil.
		
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			The greater the good that you're engaged with,
		
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			the more good is going to draw in.
		
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			The greater the evil you engage
		
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			in, the greater the evil is going to
		
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			draw in.
		
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			Good breeds good, evil breeds evil.
		
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			This is why we have famous statements
		
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			about from the early generations.
		
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			One of them would say, sometimes they won't
		
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			be so fearful of a specific sin because
		
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			of itself,
		
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			but because of the sin that is going
		
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			to bring afterwards,
		
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			it's going to draw in.
		
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			Why? They
		
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			were aware of this dynamic
		
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			in evil
		
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			and Allah says
		
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			and those who were guided Allah increased them
		
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			in goodness
		
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			Allah increased them in guidance
		
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			Allah says about Bani
		
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			Israeel, When their hearts turned away from the
		
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			truth We increase them in that evil.
		
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			So good breeds good, evil breeds evil.
		
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			It's important to understand this. So the notion
		
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			that there are people who
		
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			don't believe in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And that
		
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			they are better
		
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			They are better than Muslims,
		
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			right?
		
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			Again, it's not a simple case, but let
		
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			me say generally speaking,
		
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			we are very selective and we are very
		
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			biased when we say this.
		
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			In the sense,
		
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			we saw something that is good about these
		
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			people.
		
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			Okay, they
		
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			are non Muslims.
		
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			Let's say they're atheist.
		
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			But this person has such a beautiful demeanor.
		
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			That's just one aspect of their life.
		
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			There are so many things about their life
		
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			that you don't know of.
		
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			So don't be quick to judge whether positively
		
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			or negatively.
		
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			Be careful with this. So this is why
		
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			it's important to recognize our tendency for bias.
		
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			We humans are very selective,
		
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			very biased. And when we are biased it
		
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			means we blind ourselves to important facts.
		
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			So we tend to appreciate if you appreciate
		
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			if you are someone who appreciates for example
		
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			good treatment between people, good manners, good mannerism
		
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			in dealing with other people.
		
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			Then when you see someone with good treating
		
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			people well soft hearted,
		
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			you tend to inflate this
		
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			at the expense of pushing some other things
		
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			to the background where you don't notice them.
		
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			So you will underplay many of their flaws
		
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			and you will again magnify this one. So
		
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			you have a very biased assessment.
		
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			It's important.
		
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			And when someone, let's say someone's very good,
		
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			believes in Allah
		
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			but again they have this very rough demeanor.
		
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			And this is for you it's a killer.
		
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			It's a deal breaker.
		
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			So you're actually gonna magnify this about this
		
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			person
		
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			and see that as if there's nothing good
		
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			with these people.
		
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			And this is why it's important not to
		
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			judge. Again,
		
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			I'm not speaking from this
		
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			modern notion. Don't judge people.
		
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			Okay. No, I'm not talking. I'm not speaking
		
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			from that background. What I'm saying, don't make
		
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			a final judgment and recognize your own bias
		
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			and your own weakness as you look at
		
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			things.
		
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			We humans have this kind of of bias.
		
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			One manifestation of this is what is known
		
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			and documented in social sciences and the literature
		
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			as the halo effect.
		
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			I think many of you know about the
		
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			halo effect. What's the halo effect?
		
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			Halo effect is you see a good aspect
		
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			of a person. They have very positive a
		
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			positive trait in one area. And it means
		
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			a lot to you.
		
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			You tend to view to assume that all
		
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			of the areas
		
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			in their life
		
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			are just as good as this area.
		
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			Let's say someone who's
		
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			very common.
		
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			You approach a Sheikh, someone who's very knowledgeable
		
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			about Islam.
		
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			You assume,
		
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			you assume automatically
		
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			that this person knows so much about raising
		
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			kids.
		
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			Like I know someone
		
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			very very, masha'Allah,
		
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			excellent excellent scholar. An excellent scholar.
		
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			Very educated, very well informed,
		
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			prolific.
		
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			And
		
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			I remember people asking him so much about
		
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			raising kids.
		
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			But his kids are messed up
		
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			big time.
		
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			They have so many issues.
		
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			So many issues. And many of them are
		
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			his fault.
		
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			That's his weakness.
		
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			That's his weakness. But people assume you know
		
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			the Quran, you know you know about Islam,
		
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			then you know about raising kids.
		
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			It's not it's not necessary.
		
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			It's not necessary. There is a there is
		
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			a lot of links but it's possible that
		
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			someone is very educated
		
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			in Islam, but they're not a good father.
		
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			And they don't know much about good parenting.
		
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			It's possible.
		
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			So this is the halo effect. It happens
		
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			a lot with leaders when someone has charisma
		
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			we automatically assume every decision they make is
		
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			perfect and very well studied.
		
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			And this is why people think charisma is
		
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			a good thing in leadership for example, but
		
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			many of the experts in leadership, they actually
		
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			think charisma is very dangerous.
		
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			Because when someone is charismatic,
		
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			you know, you tend to ignore facts for
		
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			the because of the power of their presence.
		
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			So they blind you to facts. So it
		
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			becomes a liability and it's been documented and
		
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			studied.
		
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			So it's important to And sometimes you see
		
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			a bad trait, a very prominent bad trait
		
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			in one person and it means a lot
		
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			to you. This area of life means a
		
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			lot to you. You're gonna
		
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			again paint the whole life of this person
		
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			with the same brush.
		
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			And you're gonna neglect, you're gonna assume that
		
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			everything in their life is just the same.
		
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			That's a human bias.
		
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			You don't have to be victim to it.
		
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			And the way you can escape from it
		
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			is just by recognizing that I have this
		
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			bias. So I can hold back judgment and
		
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			not, you know, make sweeping judgment about everything.
		
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			I can form an opinion about what I
		
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			know specifically, but I should not build so
		
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			many assumptions
		
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			based on that.
		
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			So that's the same thing when we judge
		
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			Muslims, non Muslims.
		
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			We say sometimes, oh, non Muslims have better
		
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			manners.
		
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			Recognize the bias.
		
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			And it's good actually to if someone is
		
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			good, say they're good and recognize that good.
		
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			Because there is a danger when you
		
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			repeat this and say it so many times,
		
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			and by the way in the Muslim world
		
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			this is very very common.
		
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			This is common and its opposite is as
		
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			well as common because as as a reaction
		
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			to it. Is that, Oh, you know, these
		
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			these are the the non Muslims,
		
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			they, they're way better than Muslims.
		
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			You deal with them, it's way better than
		
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			Muslims, way better than Muslims, way better than
		
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			Muslims. Recognize you're talking about specific areas.
		
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			Recognize that. It's important.
		
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			And then there are people who would say,
		
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			you know, non Muslims, there's nothing good about
		
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			them.
		
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			That's also unfair.
		
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			It's also unfair.
		
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			Most likely the good, and take this as
		
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			a rule, the good that you will find
		
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			in non Muslims
		
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			comes from 2 possible sources.
		
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			Remnants of fitra
		
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			that have not been corrupted.
		
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			So that goodness comes from Allah.
		
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			It doesn't mean, oh they don't
		
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			like they don't take credit for it. Alhamdulillah.
		
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			We give them credit because that's how human
		
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			interaction should be based on justice.
		
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			But we should recognize it is the fitrah
		
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			that Allah instilled in them that was not
		
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			fully corrupted in some areas. It was still
		
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			there.
		
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			That's the first source. 2nd source and many
		
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			times they come together. 2nd source is circumstances.
		
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			When you live in favorable circumstances,
		
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			in better government systems,
		
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			they don't have to be good systems, great
		
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			systems. They're just better than the
		
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			the mess that you have in the Muslim
		
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			world. Right?
		
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			Obviously, it's gonna have an impact on the
		
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			demeanor of people.
		
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			Right?
		
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			The social norms. People tend
		
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			if certain social norms are reinforced,
		
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			people tend to comply with them. We're social
		
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			we're social beings. So we we learn a
		
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			lot from society and we just follow society.
		
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			And
		
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			and by humans, we are conformists by nature.
		
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			We conform to the norms.
		
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			Okay. Unless we have a strong reason.
		
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			So that's where they come from.
		
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			The problem when we repeat that, oh, non
		
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			Muslims, you know, are better, like their manners
		
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			are better than Muslims' and things like that.
		
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			Your mind starts to draw conclusions that their
		
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			goodness is because of their disbelief.
		
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			And it happens and it's very subtle. That's
		
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			very dangerous.
		
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			And this conclusion start to poison many of
		
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			your thoughts and creates a lot of assumptions.
		
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			And then it starts to breed doubts in
		
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			your mind about Islam.
		
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			So that's why it's very important to sort
		
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			of break these things down.
		
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			And,
		
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			Yeah, sort of take it
		
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			apart, take things apart and look at exactly
		
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			where things are coming from.
		
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			And
		
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			a simple a simple exercise would be Okay.
		
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			Let's say these people that you see as
		
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			good manners.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Let's assume or let's try to
		
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			imagine that these people grew up in the
		
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			same conditions as in a country where I
		
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			don't like the demeanor of people,
		
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			with the same living conditions, the same challenges.
		
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			How would these people be?
		
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			That's a strong exercise to engage in.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So what you will find what brought us
		
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			here is that, you know, aqeedah,
		
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			your belief, your iman, your faith, what you
		
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			believe, your worldview. Call it whatever you want
		
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			to call
		
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			it. It's the same thing. Worldview means 'EMA'
		
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			means belief. Your faith. Your 'Ateeda'
		
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			It has a lot.
		
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			It has a lot to inform, you know,
		
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			your way of life, your behavior, your actions,
		
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			your choices.
		
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			So you will find that Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala when he sends prophets to different people
		
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			that these different people they had shirk or
		
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			they had kufr. And what did they have?
		
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			Some major sins there. So Allah points them
		
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			out and Allah addresses them.
		
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			And that should inform you that there's no
		
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			goodness
		
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			without Islam.
		
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			And we say, oh what about the goodness
		
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			that you have with non Muslims? As we
		
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			said, these are remnants of fitra
		
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			or these are pragmatic
		
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			norms.
		
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			They are there because they are conducive for
		
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			life.
		
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			They're practical.
		
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			Because morality is practical by the way. Many
		
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			people think, Oh, morality
		
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			is about sacrifice.
		
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			We just have to stick to it regardless.
		
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			No, no. Morality is strategically
		
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			practical.
		
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			It's very very pragmatic. It's the language of
		
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			life. It's the dynamic of life. It's
		
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			the language of life. That's what Allah taught
		
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			us. Taught us these things. It's not just
		
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			to test you whether you do this or
		
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			you do that. No, no, no. It's not
		
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			arbitrary.
		
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			These are the rules of life.
		
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			These are the real rules of life that
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala set. Okay. So they
		
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			are practical.
		
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			And this is why you will find those
		
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			who think strategically always think, Oh, honesty for
		
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			example in the business world,
		
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			right, is a very good strategy long term.
		
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			So, yeah.
		
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			So kufr, the major sin, is gonna produce
		
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			more evil.
		
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			It doesn't bring good.
		
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			And the good that you see is contingent
		
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			on certain
		
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			conducive conditions. Remove those conditions, the evil will
		
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			come in.
		
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			This good will not hold.
		
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			It's very important to understand this. And this
		
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			is why in those societies when there is
		
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			no faith, no belief in Allah
		
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			when conditions,
		
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			living conditions go downhill,
		
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			you know, it becomes a jungle.
		
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			It becomes a jungle. And now, you know,
		
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			subhanAllah,
		
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			in recent years a lot of
		
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			what we deemed sacred
		
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			in the secular world, right? Things that
		
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			we thought were perfect in every sense
		
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			are coming out to the surface, right?
		
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			A lot of research
		
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			especially has to do with health,
		
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			has to do with medication,
		
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			has to do with nutrition,
		
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			with ingredients that are in our food.
		
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			Now the news is coming out
		
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			that a lot of this research
		
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			was financed by these big corporations,
		
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			data was manipulated,
		
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			Certain results were hidden and downplayed and others
		
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			were brought to the forefront.
		
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			A lot of research that lasted for months,
		
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			they only took the results of the first
		
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			two weeks because the results in the first
		
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			two weeks
		
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			support their business. But what comes afterwards,
		
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			you
		
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			know, this is going to ruin their business.
		
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			So they canceled the data afterwards and they
		
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			discarded it.
		
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			And the stuff is coming out now in
		
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			books, in documentaries and things like that. And
		
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			when we thought, oh, a world a lot
		
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			of the things that you were taught were
		
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			actually
		
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			good for optimal health, they turned out to
		
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			be
		
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			damaging to your health.
		
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			Why? For profit.
		
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			For profit.
		
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			Yeah, a lot of policies you thought that
		
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			they were done for the welfare of people,
		
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			they were actually done. So
		
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			the scholars say,
		
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			Beyond disbelief,
		
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			beyond
		
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			No sin.
		
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			If you have committed the greatest sin,
		
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			everything else is easy. All the other sins
		
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			are easy. And this disbelief breeds sin. So
		
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			with disbelief,
		
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			what comes about is degeneration.
		
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			And many in many cases it's a matter
		
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			of time.
		
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			So a lot of the things that we
		
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			see positive with non Muslim societies
		
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			are transitions.
		
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			They're long transitions. They might last for decades,
		
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			sometimes for centuries, but these are transitions.
		
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			That evil is producing its results
		
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			gradually.
		
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			It has not shown its real ugly face
		
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			yet. So don't jump to conclusions.
		
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			That's important. It's important to to keep that
		
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			understanding of the dynamics of life. So you
		
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			don't fall for the, you know, for the
		
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			flashy results
		
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			and the very powerful marketing machine
		
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			that is
		
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			manipulating our perception.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So yeah, the point here is with kufr
		
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			don't expect good.
		
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			And if there is good, it's contingent.
		
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			Okay? Just because it is needed,
		
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			just because it serves another purpose, this is
		
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			why it's there. It's not original.
		
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			It is
		
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			not original.
		
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			Kufr,
		
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			it brings degeneration,
		
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			moral degeneration
		
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			and
		
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			decline in every area of life.
		
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			In every area of life, that's what kufr
		
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			breeds.
		
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			And eventually it's gonna bring complete human destruction.
		
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			That's what it's gonna bring.
		
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			With iman and faith, only good comes about.
		
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			So faith again
		
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			doesn't only fix our destiny in the hereafter
		
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			but even in this world.
		
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			There is good in this world and there
		
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			is good in the next. That's how it
		
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			is. That's the it's the optimal functioning of
		
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			humanity.
		
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			Okay. It's important to understand this. The understanding
		
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			the nature of good and the nature of
		
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			evil is very important
		
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			so that you are not deceived by what
		
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			you see outside by the temporary transition transition
		
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			transitory
		
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			states
		
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			of things.
		
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			You judge something too early
		
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			as good or bad but maybe it's just
		
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			a phase.
		
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			Maybe it's a phase. All right. You know
		
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			it happens with teenagers
		
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			sometimes
		
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			like once they hit 14, 15, 16,
		
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			they start to develop skin issues.
		
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			They they they grow up. They they grow
		
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			up in
		
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			in ways sometimes that
		
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			that are not balanced.
		
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			Okay. Let's put it this way.
		
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			And you say, oh, what's going on with
		
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			this guy? Like with this girl or with
		
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			this boy? They were so cute when they
		
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			were young and now they just look so
		
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			weird.
		
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			Right? We tend to judge them like, oh,
		
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			as they grow old sometimes they lose this
		
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			appeal or this beauty. But sometimes give it
		
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			2 3 years and then they get to
		
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			a new point of balance where everything is
		
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			just symmetric.
		
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			Right? It happens.
		
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			So don't judge things too early.
		
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			Some marriages go through struggles
		
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			and that's common.
		
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			And people have this very
		
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			idealistic view of marriage that's supposed to be
		
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			a smooth ride, beautiful. No. There's gonna be
		
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			some really tough times in marriage.
		
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			So if you just call it off,
		
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			either the man or the woman, just because
		
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			you can't be patient with it, that's why
		
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			patience is a virtue. It helps you go
		
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			through these,
		
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			you know,
		
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			to hold on during these transitions,
		
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			which are part of life. So you don't
		
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			jump to conclusions too early.
		
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			So they start to say, oh, you know,
		
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			this is this is not gonna work out.
		
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			I don't feel happy. It's too early.
		
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			It's too early.
		
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			You have to let that, you know, take
		
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			its full course.
		
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			Sometimes you're actually in the best
		
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			possible relationship. Maybe you have a beautiful dynamic
		
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			in the making.
		
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			And these
		
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			conflicts at the beginning are just changing you
		
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			in
		
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			incremental
		
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			ways,
		
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			in micro ways but that are gonna build
		
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			up something that's beautiful. You guys are gonna
		
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			reach a point of balance.
		
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			So don't give up too early.
		
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			A lot of success goes through some turmoil,
		
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			right? But if you push through it eventually,
		
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			you know things start to fall in place.
		
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			Sometimes
		
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			magically, seemingly magically.
		
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			Well that's the nature of things. It's just
		
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			you have to realize our perception is limited.
		
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			So
		
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			don't judge things at the time of transitions.
		
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			And sometimes these transitions for nations and for
		
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			societies
		
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			they can be long like as we said
		
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			decades, sometimes centuries.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Indeed, warnings came to the people of pharaoh.
		
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			Allah sent Musa to them and supported him
		
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			with clear signs and irrefutable miracles
		
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			and caused them to witness signs that he
		
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			had never caused anyone else to witness. But
		
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			they rejected all the signs of Allah, so
		
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			he seized them with the vehement grip of
		
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			one who is almighty, omnipotent, and drowned them
		
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			in the sea, him and his troops.
		
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			The purpose behind recounting these stories is to
		
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			warn the people and those who disbelieved in
		
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			Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			Hence, Allah says, are you disbelievers, o Quraysh,
		
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			better than those, that is, are these people
		
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			who rejected the best of the messengers better
		
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			than those believers who
		
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			whose destruction Allah tells us about and describes
		
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			what happened to them? If they are better
		
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			than them, then they could be saved from
		
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			the punishment and they would not they would
		
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			not befall them that which befell those evil
		
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			people.
		
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			But that is not the case. If they
		
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			are not worse than them, then they are
		
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			not better than them either. Or have you
		
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			been promised immunity in the earlier scriptures? That
		
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			is, has Allah given you a promise and
		
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			a covenant in the scriptures that He sent
		
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			down to the prophets, so you believe that
		
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			you will be saved on the basis of
		
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			a promise from Allah?
		
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			That is not the case. In fact, it
		
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			is not even possible. According to reason or
		
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			according to the text, for them to have
		
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			been granted immunity in the divinely revealed books
		
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			that are based on justice and wisdom. It
		
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			is not wise for people such as these
		
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			stubborn disbelievers who rejected the best of the
		
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			messengers and the dearest of them to Allah
		
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			to be saved.
		
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			So there is nothing left for them but
		
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			to have their own strength
		
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			by which they by which to prevail. And
		
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			indeed Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us that
		
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			they said, we are united, we are a
		
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			united group bound to prevail. Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala says, highlighting their weakness and the fact
		
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			that they will be defeated,
		
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			this group will be defeated and they will
		
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			turn and flee. And that happened as he
		
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			foretold, Allah defeated their great gathering on the
		
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			day of Badr and killed many of their
		
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			leaders and prominent figures, thus they were humiliated
		
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			and Allah granted victory to his religion, his
		
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			Prophet
		
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			and his party, the believers.
		
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			Moreover, they will have an appointed time where
		
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			the first and the last of them will
		
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			be gathered together,
		
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			as will those among them who who suffered
		
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			in this world, and those who enjoyed the
		
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			pleasures of life. Hence, Allah says, what is
		
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			more? The hour is is their appointed time
		
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			when they will be requited
		
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			and scores will be settled with them on
		
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			the basis of justice.
		
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			And the hour will be more calamitous and
		
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			more bitter. That is, it will be more
		
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			serious, more difficult, and more distressing than anything
		
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			one could imagine or that could possibly cross
		
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			one's mind.
		
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			Verily, the evildoers that is those who committed
		
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			a lot of evil deeds and grave sins
		
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			such as ascribing partners to Allah and other
		
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			acts of disobedience
		
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			are in error and will be in the
		
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			raging fire. They are misguided in this world,
		
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			straying from knowledge and straying from righteous deeds
		
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			that could save them from divine punishment.
		
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			And on the day of resurrection, they will
		
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			find themselves suffering a painful punishment
		
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			in the fire that will rage around them
		
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			and burn their bodies until it reaches their
		
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			hearts.
		
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			On the day when they will be dragged
		
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			in the fire on their faces, the face
		
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			is the noblest part of the body where
		
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			pain is felt more intensely than pain elsewhere
		
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			in the body. Thus, they will be humiliated
		
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			and disgraced, and it will be said to
		
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			them, taste the agony of *, that is
		
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			taste the pain of the fire and its
		
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			anger, rage, and flames.
		
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			Verily, we have created all things according to
		
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			a determined measure.
		
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			This includes all creatures in the upper and
		
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			lower realms. Allah alone created them and they
		
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			have no creator other than him. No one
		
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			had any share in their creation.
		
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			Allah created them according to a decree of
		
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			which he had prior knowledge and that had
		
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			been written by his pen with regard to
		
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			its timing and predetermined measure
		
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			and all its characteristics and qualities. That is
		
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			easy for Allah. Therefore, he says our command
		
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			is but a single word which is fulfilled
		
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			like the twinkling of an eye. When he
		
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			wills a thing, he merely says to it
		
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			be and it is as he wills, like
		
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			the twinkling of an eye with no resistance
		
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			or reluctance on the part of the thing
		
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			in question.
		
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			We have destroyed many a nation like yourselves
		
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			of the previous nations who did deeds such
		
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			as you have done and disbelieved as you
		
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			have disbelieved?
		
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			Is there then any who will pay heed?
		
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			That is, is there anyone who will pay
		
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			heed and realize that Allah's way of dealing
		
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			with the earlier and later generations is the
		
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			same? And that just as his wisdom decreed
		
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			that the earlier evildoers be destroyed,
		
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			these people are just like them. And there
		
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			is no difference between the two groups.
		
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			Everything they did is recorded in the books
		
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			of their deeds. That is all that they
		
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			have done, good or bad, is already recorded
		
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			against them in the books of their deeds.
		
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			And everything, small or great, is written down.
		
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			This is the reality of the divine will
		
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			and decree that Allah
		
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			knows all things and has written them down
		
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			with him in Allahu al Marfoo. Whatever
		
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			Allah wills happens and whatever he does not
		
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			will not will
		
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			does not happen. Whatever befalls a person could
		
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			not have missed him and whatever misses him
		
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			could not have befallen him. Verily the righteous
		
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			who fear Allah by doing what he commands
		
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			and refraining from what he forbids, who avoid
		
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			ascribe who
		
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			avoid ascribe subscription of, partners to Allah and
		
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			sins both major and minor, will be in
		
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			the midst of gardens and rivers, That is,
		
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			they will be in gardens of bliss, in
		
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			which there is that which no eye has
		
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			seen, no ear has heard, nor has it
		
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			ever crossed the mind of man, such as
		
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			fruitful trees, flowing rivers,
		
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			lofty palaces, elegant houses,
		
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			delicious food and drink, beautiful and
		
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			splendid gardens in paradise, the good pleasure of
		
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			the sovereign judge, and the attaining closeness
		
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			and attaining closeness to him. Hence, he says,
		
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			seated in honor in the presence of the
		
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			sovereign omnipotent.
		
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			After that, do not ask about what their
		
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			lord will give them of honor and generosity
		
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			and what will and what he will bestow
		
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			upon them of immense blessings.
		
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			May Allah make us among them and not
		
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			deprive us of the best of that which
		
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			is with him because of our evil deeds.
		
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			Amen.
		
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			Subhanallah, already
		
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			stands out in these verses
		
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			is a sense of complete control by Allah.
		
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			That everything is in the hands of Allah.
		
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			This
		
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			life that we are witnessing and that we
		
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			are playing a part in
		
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			is designed perfectly completely by Allah.
		
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			Yet we are choosing
		
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			in certain areas that Allah allowed us choice.
		
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			We are choosing
		
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			and we are playing our part, but Allah
		
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			has control over everything.
		
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			He designed all of that. He created all
		
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			of this with all details.
		
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			All the details have been,
		
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			you know, have been documented,
		
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			have been written down.
		
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			And Allah has control over everything.
		
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			Those who
		
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			follow the divine guidance, worship Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala, give him his right.
		
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			I'm just gonna
		
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			sorry those who worship Allah and give him
		
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			his right. Those people are gonna end up
		
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			in what? In the best place ever.
		
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			In that place of truthfulness and honesty with
		
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			Allah
		
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			which is a place of honor and dignity
		
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			and closeness to Allah
		
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			Those who refuse to give Allah his rights,
		
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			those who instead
		
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			insist on crimes because sins are crimes
		
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			And many of us Muslims think in very
		
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			secular terms.
		
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			We think oh this like
		
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			this person didn't commit
		
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			like
		
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			they are sinning but they're not committing any
		
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			crimes.
		
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			This kind of dual thinking
		
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			is a sign of corruption in our minds.
		
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			In our aqeedah. In our aqeedah because
		
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			what is the sharia of Islam? What does
		
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			it say? It defines what's good and what's
		
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			evil.
		
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			It defines what's a crime and what's a
		
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			noble behavior.
		
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			People think, oh no, Sharia is just something
		
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			that is stipulated by force by Allah
		
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			It's not about sense,
		
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			right?
		
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			It's just for it's just test us. So
		
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			it's something we have to we have to
		
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			abide by.
		
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			Not necessarily understand it. There's no logic to
		
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			it, right? It's arbitrary.
		
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			That's a problem.
		
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			That's a problem because
		
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			the and Muslim scholars have always pointed out
		
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			what you good
		
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			and legitimate in Islam are synonymous.
		
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			What is good in general and what is
		
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			legitimate in Islam is synonymous.
		
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			And what is evil in general and what
		
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			is haram in Islam
		
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			are synonymous.
		
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			What is good and beneficial
		
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			is synonymous with what is legitimate in Islam.
		
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			What is prohibited in Islam
		
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			is synonymous with what? What is harmful and
		
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			what is evil.
		
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			And Allah knows and you don't know.
		
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			So this kind of split that we have,
		
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			Oh, it's just he committed sin but he
		
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			didn't commit a crime. Allah is calling these
		
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			Mujdimeen.
		
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			These are the criminals.
		
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			What is obey Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala?
		
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			Again, this is a spin from shaitan, from
		
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			the non Muslims. They have to sort of
		
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			cast
		
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			this on Islam and the legislation in Islam
		
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			as something that has nothing to do with
		
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			life. It's just some kind of arbitrary system,
		
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			foreign system that is forced on you, humanity.
		
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			And for some reason because you believe you
		
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			have to follow it.
		
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			But the rules that we make
		
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			are the ones that make sense. They're based
		
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			in in logic.
		
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			One of the biggest lies we've been told
		
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			and we've swallowed.
		
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			And the the reality of these, again, legal
		
00:41:09 --> 00:41:11
			system is that they are just a replacement
		
00:41:11 --> 00:41:14
			of the divine legal system. That's as simple
		
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			as that. And who legislates in that way
		
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			is actually the divine, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So these are very very serious areas.
		
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			Very serious areas. Allah says, With this
		
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			Everything we've created it,
		
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			what? According to a precise measure.
		
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			Everything
		
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			and everything about it. So again, in this
		
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			world, this just tells you, describes the reality
		
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			that you live in. There's no mistakes.
		
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			There's no randomness here.
		
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			There's no flaws.
		
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			Everything is intended for a wise reason.
		
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			There's no accidents.
		
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			There's no accidents
		
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			in this world. Everything is measured.
		
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			Every Imagine
		
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			when you have a recipe, when you cook
		
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			something and you have a recipe that and
		
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			you measure things by the milligrams.
		
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			You have this very sensitive scale. You measure
		
00:42:07 --> 00:42:09
			things by the milligrams.
		
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			And say, you have like 20 ingredients
		
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			and you have to add each ingredient at
		
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			a specific second or millisecond.
		
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			And if you miss, you messed up the
		
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			whole thing.
		
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			And that's just a very simple recipe, right?
		
00:42:23 --> 00:42:24
			And this is precise measure
		
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			in terms of size, quantity,
		
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			weight, time, sequence, etc.
		
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			Same thing with this world, with this your
		
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			life, your circumstances.
		
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			You think there's all randomness. This person just
		
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			happened to come into my life random. They
		
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			happened to bump into this. Oh, this
		
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			this, you know, I don't know. Project failed
		
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			is just
		
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			it shouldn't have failed. That's wrong. I shouldn't
		
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			have been through this. No. You were meant
		
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			to go through this.
		
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			I shouldn't have witness I shouldn't have this
		
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			type of childhood.
		
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			Who said so?
		
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			This is how it was designed.
		
00:43:02 --> 00:43:04
			According to who? It should have been something
		
00:43:04 --> 00:43:04
			else.
		
00:43:06 --> 00:43:08
			Don't let shaitan mess with you. Everything that
		
00:43:08 --> 00:43:10
			comes into your life comes for a reason.
		
00:43:10 --> 00:43:12
			Everything that happened with you happens for a
		
00:43:12 --> 00:43:14
			reason and it's a wise reason and it
		
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			comes from Allah's rahma.
		
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			It comes from Allah's rahma. It's when you
		
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			detach from this fact and you forget it,
		
00:43:23 --> 00:43:24
			your life becomes suffering.
		
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			Other than that, whatever Allah allows you to
		
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			go through, it's for you. It is for
		
00:43:30 --> 00:43:32
			you. And the prophet said, Amazing is the
		
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			state of the believer. Everything that happens is
		
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			good for them. That wasn't just a play
		
00:43:37 --> 00:43:37
			on words.
		
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			That's a real thing.
		
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			When you truly see this, life is designed
		
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			for you by Allah.
		
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			Provided you don't lose faith in Allah. You
		
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			don't think bad of Allah.
		
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			But we have swallowed again the non Muslim
		
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			narrative. Everything is random, it's just life happens
		
00:43:57 --> 00:43:59
			and you just like a feather in the
		
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			wind circumstances.
		
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			You're just taking the surface narrative. There's more
		
00:44:04 --> 00:44:06
			depth to it. There's more stability. There's more
		
00:44:06 --> 00:44:07
			logic and reason.
		
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			This story is perfect. It's divine. It's a
		
00:44:11 --> 00:44:12
			divine narrative.
		
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			It's a divine narrative. Don't fall for these
		
00:44:15 --> 00:44:17
			lies. They're flashy but wallahi they are full
		
00:44:17 --> 00:44:17
			of deception.
		
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			Right. We'll stop here inshaAllah. There's much that
		
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			can be said but I think that
		
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			we took a long time with Surat Al
		
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			Uqamar.
		
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			And unfortunately I wanted to take some questions
		
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			but no time. We have a minute. I
		
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			want to just point out something. 1st, some
		
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			people approach me with personal questions
		
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			and they say I wanna have time and
		
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			I wanna
		
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			time to discuss this. 1st, I really don't
		
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			deal with personal questions. The reason is, and
		
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			this is something that
		
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			we do ourselves the greatest service.
		
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			You know, every situation is different and there's
		
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			a lot of details in every situation.
		
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			And that takes a long time to understand.
		
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			Even sometimes your personal history. Sometimes something a
		
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			detail that you think has no connection can
		
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			really change the whole can can like put
		
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			a new twist on the situation and the
		
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			answer.
		
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			So
		
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			please just,
		
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			so that's why I don't deal with personal
		
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			questions. It takes a long time and I
		
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			don't have the time or the effort or
		
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			the capacity to deal with it. That's number
		
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			1.
		
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			Yeah. Number 2, please before you ask a
		
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			question think about it. Is there a point
		
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			in asking this question? How does it benefit
		
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			me?
		
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			Because will I you think it depends on
		
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			the will have narrations from them when someone
		
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			was asked they would push the question to
		
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			someone else. We think it's luxury. No.
		
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			It's a huge responsibility.
		
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			And if I don't need to give it,
		
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			if I don't have to give it, if
		
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			there's no great value in giving it,
		
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			I'm gonna, you know, opt out.
		
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			So if the question is not necessary and
		
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			there's no benefit in it, don't just ask
		
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			for the luxury of asking questions.
		
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			InshaAllah, next 2 weeks, next 2 Fridays, we
		
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			have guests. We're not gonna have the halakah.
		
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			September when we come again,
		
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			inshaAllah, the halakah will be after mihrib.