Mufti Menk – Dear Sisters – The Ultimate Gift Is Waiting For You

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The speaker discusses the importance of faith in Islam and how it can lead to success. They emphasize that success is achieved through hard work and gratitude towards Allah. The speaker also emphasizes that success is achieved through personal growth and the ability to achieve a breakthrough in one's life.

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			We are going to test every single one
		
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			of you, Allah says. With what?
		
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			The first thing he says,
		
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			Have you ever thought of why he mentioned
		
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			that first? He says, with a bit of
		
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			anxiety, fear.
		
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			Fear of the unknown.
		
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			Anxiety,
		
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			that's what it is. People suffer. You just
		
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			lost your spouse, now what's gonna happen? He
		
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			was the breadwinner.
		
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			I'm sitting with so many children. I'm a
		
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			widow now. What should I do? I don't
		
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			know where to earn.
		
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			May Allah make it easy for you, my
		
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			sister.
		
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			My sister, we are here for you. We
		
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			are a community.
		
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			We are here for you by the will
		
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			of Allah, for the sake of Allah.
		
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			Be strong. Allah will give you the strength.
		
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			You may have to get up and do
		
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			things you've never done before,
		
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			but Allah will give you the strength.
		
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			Believe in Allah,
		
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			and believe that Allah will give you that
		
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			strength. But
		
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			when you pity yourself and you're expecting
		
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			other people to do for you, that's not
		
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			going to happen.
		
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			Ask the widows. They'll tell you, 1st week,
		
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			everyone was at home,
		
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			then
		
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			it cut down to a weekend.
		
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			Few weekends, people used to come home. During
		
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			the week, I was quite lonely.
		
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			Then even the weekends, they stopped coming. It
		
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			was only on the day of Eid they
		
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			came,
		
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			and they actually
		
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			spoiled my Eid.
		
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			It happens.
		
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			Sometimes those who want to assist are actually
		
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			the source of the problem.
		
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			People have experienced it,
		
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			but that is Allah showing you, they'll come
		
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			to you for a few days.
		
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			Within that time of your iqdah, pick yourself
		
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			up and realize it's a blessing of Allah.
		
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			It's a blessing. Allah is going to give
		
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			you the strength.
		
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			What to you is success? That's my question,
		
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			my beloved sister. What is success to you?
		
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			Can I give you the answer?
		
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			Success is when you have
		
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			led a life in a way that the
		
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			end
		
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			prize is paradise.
		
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			That's the only success. There's no other success.
		
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			If you had the 1,000,000 and the 1,000,000,000
		
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			and nobody died in your family before you
		
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			and you still did not get paradise, you
		
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			lost everything.
		
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			That's not success, that's failure.
		
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			Because you lived for a few years,
		
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			went into your grave.
		
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			But if you had almost nothing on earth
		
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			or you suffered loss after loss, and sickness
		
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			and disease and this problem and childbirth was
		
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			an issue, and you suffered miscarriages, and you
		
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			went through this and through that, one after
		
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			the other, and you kept pushing yourself and
		
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			thanking Allah, worshiping Allah, praising Allah, not giving
		
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			up on Allah. Do you know what? When
		
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			you earn jannah,
		
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			that is the ultimate success.
		
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			That is the ultimate happiness. That is the
		
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			virtue of Allah. That is the gift of
		
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			Allah.