Mufti Menk – Allah Will Take Care Of You Without Transitions

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			Allah says,
		

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			Seek help and assistance through a beautiful patience.
		

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			You need to know Allah is there. Allah
		

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			created you in the 1st place. He will
		

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			take care of you. Don't worry.
		

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			He will indeed take care of you and
		

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			he will make sure that you live your
		

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			exact prescribed time on earth.
		

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			It's not going to change by a fraction
		

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			of a second,
		

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			neither this way nor that way.
		

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			So Allah is telling the believers seek
		

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			assistance
		

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			through patience. And then he says, and prayer.
		

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			Prayer. Pray a lot. Call out to Allah.
		

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			Your 5 daily prayers. Do them enthusiastically.
		

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			Be excited about praying. Don't just get it
		

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			over and done with, but be excited. Wash
		

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			yourself thoroughly, properly for the sake of Allah.
		

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			Be clean. Be smart.
		

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			Keep yourselves clean. When the Almighty tells you
		

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			to wash yourself in ablution, you need to
		

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			know there is a reason He's saying wash
		

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			your hands 5 times a day. There is
		

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			a reason he's saying keep yourself clean and
		

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			smart.
		

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			If you were to go to the bathroom,
		

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			make sure that you've cleansed yourself. All this
		

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			is in order to bring about a comfort
		

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			in times of crisis.
		

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			Whenever the prophet
		

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			was faced with a crisis of some nature,
		

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			the first thing he did,
		

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			he rushed
		

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			to prayer.
		

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			Who are we? We are the followers of
		

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			Muhammad, peace be upon him. We should also
		

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			be rushing to prayer. Whenever there is a
		

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			crisis, for him it was not a real
		

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			crisis. He knew he was the messenger of
		

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			Allah. For us, we face crisis, but when
		

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			we
		

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			rush to prayer, we will be comforted by
		

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			Allah. Put your head on the ground and
		

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			call out to your maker. The closest you
		

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			could ever be to your maker is when
		

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			you are in prostration.
		

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			The closest that a slave could be to
		

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			his maker is when his head is on
		

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			the ground for his maker,
		

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			crying to his maker, oh my maker help
		

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			me. I need your help. Allah will respond.
		

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			Allah says, you will be comforted.
		

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			Seek help through patience
		

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			and prayer for indeed Allah is with those
		

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			who bear patience.