Can You Follow Your Heart & Respect Your Parents

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Speaker 1 encourages Speaker 2 to not drop out of studies and to focus on helping their parents. They also ask Speaker 2 to allow their studies to develop and to not ever allow them to drop out. Speaker 1 hopes that Speaker 2 will continue to study and pass with flying colors, good grades, whatever their field is.

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As a parent, if if you were my

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son today talking to me this way, I

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would tell you, look, do yourself a favor.

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Do yourself a favor.

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Don't drop out of your studies, but you

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can do

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on the side. You can do whatever you

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makes you happy, whatever you feel, you know,

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you'd like to see.

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And Insha'Allah,

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I want to just say one more thing.

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We see our brothers and sisters struggle across

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the globe.

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It's our duty to do whatever we can

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to help them

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on condition that whatever we do doesn't make

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the matter worse.

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That condition, a lot of people don't really

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think about it. They just do anything and

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everything, and sometimes sometimes,

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they make matters worse. So we need to

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remember while doing something

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that would be helping them,

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we shouldn't do something

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that would make matters worse.

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Right?

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It's my duty. I don't want you to

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drop out completely from your studies

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simply

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because you wanna help here. But I hear

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what you're saying, and I feel it, and

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I don't want you to leave this either.

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So I want you to continue with your

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studies. It's just a few years. Agreed.

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If you start slowly sowing the seeds of

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this,

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Allah might grant it development before you finish.

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Or when you are done,

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you may want to now close that chapter

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and come and concentrate on this. Or by

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that time you may have

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a different idea in your mind that might

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be more beneficial.

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Do you get my point?

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So inshallah, Allah make it easy for you.

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I hope that you don't drop out your

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studies like you say, your parents are important

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people in your life, be they Muslim or

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not. And it's not something unreasonable that they're

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asking you to do. The Quran says when

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they ask you to do something unreasonable, then

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you don't obey them. But if they've asked

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you to do something reasonable, and you know

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what? It's not in disobedience of Allah, then

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you should be listening to what they have

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to say.

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So, Insha'Allah, I pray that you can further

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your studies and, you know, pass with flying

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colors, good grades, whatever your field is. And

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at the same time, I pray that Allah

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use you to assist those who are struggling

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and suffering across the globe in the best

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of us to do the same.

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of us to do the same.