Mufti Menk – Faith in Storms – Hong Kong 2024

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The speakers discuss the loss of loved ones in storms, the importance of faith and braving storm-related problems, and the importance of protecting property and family. They emphasize the need for faith and braving storm-related problems, avoiding drastic events, and avoiding negative behavior. They also discuss the importance of charity and avoiding small talk, and emphasize the need for forgiveness and preparation for difficult situations. The speakers stress the importance of avoiding negative emotions and staying true to oneself. They also touch on the concept of "remedy" words in the Bible and emphasize the importance of forgiveness and staying true to oneself.

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			As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
		
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			Bismillāhi wa-l-ḥamdu lillāhi wa-s-salātu
		
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			wa-s-salāmu ʿalá Rasūlillāhi wa-alá ālihi
		
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			wa-sahbihi ajma'īn.
		
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			I'm really happy to be here in Hong
		
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			Kong once again by the will of Allah
		
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			ﷻ.
		
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			It brings me great joy to see the
		
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			numbers of brothers and sisters.
		
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			And every year, mā shā'a Llāh, we
		
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			have some faces that are very familiar who
		
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			have been attending for the last 10 years
		
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			or more.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, may Allah bless you guys.
		
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			And there are new faces every time as
		
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			well.
		
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			I look forward to meeting you guys.
		
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			Today we're talking about the storm.
		
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			If you see behind me, it says, braving
		
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			the storm.
		
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			What storm are we talking about?
		
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			Difficulty, hardship, navigating through challenges, loss, loss in
		
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			terms of people who might have passed on
		
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			around you, loss in terms of your health,
		
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			maybe diagnosis of something that was very negative.
		
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			Perhaps you might have had loss of a
		
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			job, you might have lost a relationship, you
		
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			might have failed at school or college, you
		
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			might have been told something that was really
		
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			negative, or there might have been any form
		
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			of loss.
		
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			Anyone wants to say some loss that perhaps
		
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			I didn't mention already?
		
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			Can you put up your hand?
		
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			Yes?
		
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			Sorry?
		
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			Financial loss.
		
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			Yes, financial loss.
		
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			You could have suffered in business, you could
		
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			have suffered loss of your shares, cryptocurrency suddenly
		
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			disappeared and so on.
		
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			And yes, that's one.
		
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			Another one?
		
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			Health, we mentioned health, but inshallah that's correct.
		
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			In terms of diagnosis of an illness or
		
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			something, perhaps you're not energetic, perhaps you have
		
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			some disorder, maybe mental health as well, that's
		
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			also a storm.
		
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			We all go through it, where we have
		
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			ups and downs, some days are better than
		
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			others.
		
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			Anyone from the sisters wants to mention a
		
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			loss?
		
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			Or maybe you guys don't suffer loss?
		
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			Yes?
		
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			Anyone?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Yes?
		
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			In your?
		
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			Your loved ones.
		
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			Yes, the loss of a loved one, someone
		
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			near you, perhaps loss not just in terms
		
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			of death, but relation.
		
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			I know of cases where people are married
		
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			or they want to get married, and suddenly
		
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			one of the two don't want it anymore.
		
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			So the husband is saying, I don't want
		
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			this marriage.
		
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			And the wife says, but please, please give
		
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			us a chance, or the other way around.
		
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			And sometimes, before the marriage, everything is okay,
		
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			and last minute the engagement is broken.
		
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			I want to tell you something, when an
		
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			engagement is broken, it's one of the biggest
		
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			blessings of Allah regarding your marriage.
		
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			I'd rather they break it now than to
		
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			wait until I have two kids and then
		
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			break it.
		
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			So when an engagement is broken, it's a
		
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			blessing of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, honestly.
		
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			And don't be shy, or ashamed, or afraid
		
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			to say, I don't want to go ahead
		
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			with this.
		
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			For as long as you don't have a
		
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			problem in that you doubt everything in life.
		
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			If that's the case, you might want to
		
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			seek the help of those who love you
		
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			the most around you, your parents, your siblings,
		
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			and so on.
		
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			But if you don't really have that type
		
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			of a problem, and you really are not
		
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			at ease with something that's about to go
		
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			ahead changing your life, don't go ahead, wait,
		
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			wait, give it a bit of time.
		
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			So today I want to talk about faith,
		
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			regarding the storms, braving the storm, the role
		
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			of faith.
		
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			What is faith?
		
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			Number one, you need to realize that it
		
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			does not mean, point number one, it does
		
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			not mean that if you have a storm
		
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			in your life, that Allah does not like
		
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			you, that Allah is punishing you.
		
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			No, it does not mean that.
		
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			If that was the case, the Prophet Muhammad,
		
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			peace be upon him, what about him?
		
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			He was the most loved by Allah.
		
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			He went through challenge upon challenge.
		
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			He was born an orphan.
		
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			He lost his mother at the age of
		
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			six, his grandfather at the age of eight.
		
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			He lost his wife, his uncle.
		
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			He lost his children, one after the other.
		
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			That's only talking about loss of life.
		
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			Loved ones, as the sister said.
		
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			And then I tell you something, he went
		
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			through challenge upon challenge, because when he grew
		
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			up, it was such a beautiful upbringing.
		
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			He was known as As-Sadiq Al-Amin,
		
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			the truthful, the trustworthy.
		
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			And when he grew older, and Allah chose
		
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			him to give him revelation, and he told
		
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			his people, who loved him, who trusted him,
		
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			you know what, I want you to worship
		
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			Allah alone.
		
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			They immediately turned against him, his own people
		
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			drove him out of Makkah, they stole his
		
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			property.
		
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			Those were storms.
		
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			What happened?
		
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			Is it a sign of the anger of
		
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			Allah?
		
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			In fact, that was a sign of the
		
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			love of Allah.
		
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			Allah chose you, that's why you're going through
		
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			this.
		
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			إِنَّ اللَّهَ إِذَا أَحَبَّ عَبْدًا إِبْتَلَاهُ When Allah
		
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			loves a slave, He tests him, lets him
		
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			go through storms.
		
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			عِظَمُ الْأَجْرِ مَعَ عِظَمِ الْإِبْتِلَاءِ We're gonna hear
		
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			this over and over again in the next
		
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			two days, because it's connected to the topic.
		
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			The greater the storm, the greater the reward.
		
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			Greater reward is with a greater storm.
		
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			You need a bigger umbrella for larger rain,
		
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			right?
		
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			Rain drops, big, mashaAllah, huge, subhanAllah.
		
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			Tornado and you got a big umbrella, or
		
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			you just don't go out, right?
		
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			May Allah Almighty grant us all protection.
		
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			So, point number one, the storm is not
		
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			a sign of the anger of Allah, nor
		
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			is it a sign of the love of
		
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			Allah always.
		
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			What does that mean?
		
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			If you're a person far from Allah, and
		
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			you're not bothered, and you don't care, and
		
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			you have no relation with your Maker, you
		
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			have no faith, and so on.
		
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			If the storm brought you closer to Allah,
		
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			it is a blessing.
		
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			How many of us, we are far from
		
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			Allah, we don't even think of Him, we
		
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			don't even pray.
		
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			Many people, they commit things that they know
		
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			are wrong, but for them, they don't even
		
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			care, because everything is going smooth.
		
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			When Allah loves you, what happens?
		
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			He makes you go through a hardship.
		
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			You end up coming to Him.
		
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			You end up praying for the first time
		
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			in your life, you open the Qur'an.
		
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			You did adhkar for the first time in
		
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			your life.
		
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			What was that?
		
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			That is Allah bringing you to say, you
		
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			know what, don't stay in that condition, come,
		
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			come, come.
		
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			The only way we're gonna bring you here,
		
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			and we know that this is the way
		
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			you're going to come, is by taking things
		
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			away.
		
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			We're gonna put a huge storm.
		
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			When there is a storm, what will you
		
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			do?
		
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			You start protecting yourself.
		
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			How do you protect yourself?
		
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			Get close to Allah.
		
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			MashaAllah.
		
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			So that's a blessing.
		
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			But if a storm comes in your life,
		
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			and it drifts you away from Allah, then
		
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			you have a major, major problem.
		
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			Can I give you an example?
		
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			Say there is a person, relatively religious or
		
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			not so religious, and they suffer a loss,
		
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			from one of those things we mentioned a
		
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			little bit earlier.
		
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			And then, they start going to the club
		
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			and the pub, and drinking and drugging and
		
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			everything else, and lose themselves and gambling and
		
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			what not.
		
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			What happened?
		
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			You're making it worse.
		
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			Is an intoxicant going to solve your problem?
		
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			You had a major loss.
		
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			So you go to the bar, and you
		
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			start drinking, drinking.
		
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			And what happens?
		
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			You don't even know whether you're walking or
		
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			you're sitting.
		
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			And you say, I've asked people who are
		
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			into intoxicants, why do you do it?
		
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			They say, well, we forget our problems.
		
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			I say, what, for five minutes?
		
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			They say, no, for the night.
		
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			So you get up in the morning, you
		
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			have a bigger problem, because you have a
		
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			hangover.
		
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			They call it a hangover, which means you
		
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			get up in the morning, and you feel
		
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			so down, so groggy.
		
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			I'm not too sure exactly how, because I've
		
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			never done it.
		
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			But, does anyone know how it feels?
		
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			Okay, let me not say that.
		
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			But nonetheless, it's just a feeling they say,
		
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			that you feel even lower.
		
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			So what was the point?
		
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			You want to solve the problem.
		
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			It's not going to be resolved by going
		
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			into intoxicants, be it drugs, be it alcohol,
		
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			be it binging into that, which is the
		
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			displeasure of Allah.
		
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			Just go and have a party, that's it.
		
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			Just go and do whatever you like.
		
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			No, you will only help solve your problem
		
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			when you discipline yourself.
		
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			Calm down.
		
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			First thing you must remember, whenever we have
		
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			a storm, listen to what Allah says.
		
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			Are we not talking about faith?
		
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			Faith, when it comes to the storm, and
		
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			its role, the role that faith plays in
		
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			braving the storm.
		
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			أَلَّذِينَ إِذَا أَصَابَتْهُم مُصِيبَةٌ قَالُوا إِنَّا لِلَّهِ
		
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			وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ Those whom, when a storm
		
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			that we're talking about, a difficulty, a hardship,
		
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			right?
		
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			When it affects them, they say, what do
		
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			they say?
		
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			We belong to Allah, and unto Allah we're
		
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			going to return.
		
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			إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ Something bad happened.
		
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			The first statement of your faith and your
		
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			reassurance, renewal of your faith, is to say,
		
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			إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ We belong to
		
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			Allah, and to Allah is our ultimate return.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because you came here by the divine decision
		
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			of your Maker.
		
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			None of us seated here.
		
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			Whether you come from Wan Chai or Chai
		
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			Wan, doesn't make a difference.
		
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			Right?
		
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			None of us seated here are here on
		
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			earth because we wanted to be here.
		
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			You ever thought of that?
		
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			Every one of us, we are here because
		
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			someone else wanted us to be here.
		
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			I don't mean the whole, I don't mean
		
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			Hong Kong per se, I mean on earth.
		
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			If I were to ask you, who came
		
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			on earth?
		
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			Because they said, I wanna go to earth.
		
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			Anyone?
		
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			No one.
		
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			That proves that there is a Maker behind
		
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			you.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			Someone put you here.
		
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			And guess what?
		
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			Whoever put you here, you have to go
		
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			back to them because I know when I
		
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			close my eyes, I'm so sophisticated, I'm a
		
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			human.
		
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			Every single one of us has a different
		
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			thumbprint, first fingerprint and so on.
		
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			I was speaking a few days ago in
		
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			a country, Tanzania, Zanzibar.
		
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			I'm sure you guys might have seen some
		
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			of our jet skiing there.
		
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			By the way, that was just a 10
		
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			minute binge.
		
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			Nothing haram.
		
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			But people thought you guys went there to
		
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			enjoy.
		
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			No, we actually did some hard work.
		
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			And we had 10 minutes of a little
		
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			bit of fun.
		
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			But that's what the world wanted to see,
		
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			you see.
		
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			And nonetheless, I do know there are crises
		
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			right now.
		
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			The people of Palestine, Lebanon are suffering, struggling,
		
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			perhaps the biggest genocide we're ever going to
		
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			witness in our lives.
		
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			And it's something so ugly, so unacceptable, so
		
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			wrong.
		
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			May Allah Almighty protect them and all of
		
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			us and grant them goodness and victory and
		
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			all of us.
		
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			It's so bad.
		
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			But, do you know that in Palestine with
		
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			all of the bombing, there are still weddings.
		
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			Did you know that?
		
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			There are still people who have parties, small
		
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			little parties.
		
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			Why?
		
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			To celebrate something.
		
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			What?
		
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			They're getting married, things are happening, they're distracting
		
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			the children by showing them, look, let's play
		
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			a game.
		
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			They jump.
		
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			We have aid organizations working right inside there.
		
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			And we know that life has to carry
		
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			on as bad as the bombardment is.
		
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			Because we don't want people to become so
		
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			depressed and so bad in terms of their
		
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			mental condition, which is relatively difficult to avoid
		
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			in that scenario.
		
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			But the older people realized, you know, we
		
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			have to protect everyone.
		
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			You have to keep going, keep the children
		
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			protected, keep people with a bit of hope.
		
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			There is hope.
		
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			So that's why life carries on.
		
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			You don't know how many years it will
		
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			go on for.
		
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			When people went into refugee camps, I'm talking
		
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			about this because it's a storm.
		
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			So it's part of what we want to
		
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			say.
		
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			When people went into refugee camps a few
		
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			years ago, they thought we're going into the
		
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			refugee...
		
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			We knew, based on other experiences that they're
		
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			going to be here for a very, very
		
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			long time.
		
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			If you go to the camps in Jordan,
		
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			they're called the Zaatari camps.
		
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			And the other camps, you will notice people
		
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			in a storm, living in the storm.
		
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			And they're living in it for the last
		
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			20 years, more, longer.
		
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			What's happening?
		
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			They got married, they got children, and their
		
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			children are also married.
		
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			It doesn't mean life must stop.
		
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			But unfortunately, because of our current frustration, people
		
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			begin to blame each other.
		
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			How could you be on a jet ski
		
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			in Zanzibar when the world is dying?
		
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			Hang on, that was a 10-minute thing.
		
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			The same people commented who are struggling to
		
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			say, wow, a breath of fresh air, inshallah,
		
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			one day we'll be there.
		
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			So it depends how you want to look
		
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			at it.
		
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			Come on, life has to go on.
		
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			Life has to go on.
		
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			And we're not saying it belittling anything.
		
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			If anything, we are so frustrated about what's
		
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			going on.
		
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			But themselves, they'll tell you, please try, please
		
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			try to let our children know that there
		
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			is hope in the ummah.
		
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			That's what we want.
		
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			We're talking about a storm.
		
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			Imagine you go through a storm and someone
		
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			comes to you and says, sister, it's over,
		
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			it's finished, prepare to die, dig your grave
		
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			and wait on the side.
		
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			Come on, man, come on.
		
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			That's not faith.
		
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			Faith is when you pray and you have
		
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			hope.
		
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			Hope is very, very important in your life
		
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			and the lives of everyone.
		
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			To have a laugh in the midst of
		
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			something serious is human.
		
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			It's human.
		
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			I can crack a joke right now and
		
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			you can all laugh, subhanallah.
		
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			It's okay, it's human.
		
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			It doesn't mean it's not a serious talk.
		
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			It's a very serious talk.
		
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			So you need to know faith related to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Remember, you're a human.
		
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			You were created in a situation under the
		
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			control of Allah.
		
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			He wants you to eat still.
		
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			It doesn't mean because there's a problem you
		
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			can't eat or you must eat food that
		
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			is so, so unhealthy simply because others are
		
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			eating unhealthy food.
		
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			No.
		
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			You can eat, you can drink, you can
		
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			live your life.
		
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			You reach out to them in whatever way
		
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			you can depending on who you are and
		
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			what you can do.
		
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			People's capacities are different.
		
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			You might go to someone after the loss
		
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			of your child or being diagnosed cancer and
		
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			they might not be able to give you
		
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			so much because they don't have the capacity,
		
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			they don't know and you could be sitting
		
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			next to someone and they can tell you
		
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			one sentence that can change your whole perception.
		
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			It's possible.
		
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			Everyone's capacity is different.
		
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			So, the point being raised we belong to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			There are difficulties, hardships going on on earth.
		
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			We know that and in our lives too.
		
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			I have a problem, you have a problem,
		
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			I have issues, you have issues and as
		
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			we grow older these issues will increase in
		
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			size and in seriousness.
		
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			When you're small your problem is the battery
		
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			ran out from my toy.
		
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			That's the problem.
		
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			Oh, there's a storm.
		
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			Let's brave the storm.
		
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			What happened?
		
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			Hey, the battery is gone.
		
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			Come on, what storm is that?
		
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			When you're older there's a much bigger problem.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because now that battery means nothing, man.
		
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			Right?
		
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			In fact, I know little kids the biggest
		
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			problem they'll cry and scream and yell for
		
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			two days simply because you did not give
		
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			them the exact toy they wanted.
		
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			We went to the store, you didn't buy
		
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			that thing.
		
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			Ah, come on.
		
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			For them it's like qiyam has come.
		
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			And yet it's so insignificant so everyone's problems
		
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			are on different levels and that's the reason
		
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			why your faith, this is another point, your
		
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			faith should lead you to looking at those
		
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			with bigger problems than yours.
		
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			You have to.
		
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			You have to look at someone with a
		
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			bigger problem.
		
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			They say, you don't have shoes.
		
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			Oh, you don't have shoes?
		
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			Okay, yes, that's a major issue.
		
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			In fact, in Palestine a lot of them
		
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			would ask for shoes, slippers because they walk
		
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			barefoot on what?
		
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			Shrapnel.
		
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			May Allah Almighty grant us the ability to
		
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			understand and appreciate the fact that we have
		
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			shoes and slippers.
		
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			You don't have shoes?
		
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			Guess what?
		
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			I know someone who doesn't have feet.
		
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			You don't have feet?
		
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			I know someone who doesn't have legs.
		
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			You don't have legs?
		
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			I know someone who doesn't have hands and
		
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			legs.
		
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			Do you get what I mean?
		
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			Then you start appreciating, you look at them
		
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			and you say, you know what, subhanallah, Allah's
		
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			favoured us.
		
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			Imagine you are saying Allah's favoured us when
		
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			you have a major problem.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Your faith led you to looking at those
		
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			who have a bigger problem than yours.
		
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			Never ever look at those who have more
		
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			than you in terms of the worldly items.
		
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			More than you, there's only one case when
		
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			you look at them.
		
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			When it's to do with your connection with
		
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			Allah, your deen, your religion, your faith, then
		
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			you look at those above you.
		
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			This one prays five times a day and
		
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			to hajjud, whoa, I need to do better.
		
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			This one dresses so beautifully, inshallah, one day
		
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			I'm gonna get there.
		
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			Make that day come soon, inshallah.
		
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			Because I remember seeing a youngster, every time
		
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			I tell him whatever his bad habit was,
		
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			hey brother, you need to do something because
		
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			I'm close to him.
		
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			He says, make dua.
		
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			I said, brother, you've been saying make dua
		
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			for the last four years, come on man,
		
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			do something about it.
		
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			You can't make dua.
		
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			Imagine a guy with a bad habit, right?
		
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			Every time you see him, he has to
		
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			go, and then they quickly look at you
		
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			like they haven't smoked but when they smell
		
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			so bad, you get closer and you know
		
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			what?
		
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			You have to, you have to cut the
		
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			habit.
		
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			Cut it.
		
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			Those of you who smoke, cut it.
		
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			Today is the day.
		
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			Today is the day.
		
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			Don't tell me make dua, inshallah.
		
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			No, no, no, relax.
		
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			You can drop it and chop it without
		
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			the dua.
		
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			May Allah grant us goodness.
		
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			However, I'm not belittling the issue of dua.
		
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			Make the dua but I'm saying don't use
		
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			it as a sentence void of meaning.
		
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			It must be meaning.
		
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			Make dua, I will make the effort.
		
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			Next time I see you by the will
		
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			of Allah, I won't be smoking or I
		
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			won't have this bad habit.
		
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			So when it comes to things that are
		
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			coming in the way of you and Allah
		
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			and the connection there, look at those who
		
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			are more well connected than you are.
		
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			It will help you.
		
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			But when it comes to the storms, look
		
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			at those in a bigger storm.
		
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			We had rain, we had floods.
		
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			Talking of the literal storms.
		
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			The flooding, the roads were flooded.
		
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			Some of the cars were damaged.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us.
		
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			When you look at what happened in other
		
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			places where it went into the homes, it
		
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			went so high, it destroyed so much of
		
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			their property and so on.
		
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			You tell yourself alhamdulillah.
		
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			Alhamdulillah for what?
		
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			People are going to look at you like
		
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			a crazy person.
		
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			You just had a huge flood and you're
		
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			saying alhamdulillah.
		
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			That's because my faith teaches me to thank
		
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			Allah it could have been worse.
		
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			That statement is a statement of faith.
		
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			Anytime anything happens, you as a believer are
		
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			taught to say it could have been worse
		
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			because it could have.
		
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			So in order to help yourself be a
		
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			charitable person, what is the meaning of charity?
		
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			Charity has a very broad meaning in Islam.
		
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			It's not just connected to the monetary giving
		
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			although that's the biggest part of it.
		
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			Charity is connected to your attitude and your
		
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			character, your conduct.
		
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			Many of us are not on a level
		
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			where we are charitable with our character.
		
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			At home we cause fights.
		
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			Within our circles we are jealous, we cause
		
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			issues, we cause problems.
		
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			On our WhatsApp we message dirty messages.
		
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			Is that a charity?
		
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			No.
		
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			You're actually asking for trouble from who?
		
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			From Allah.
		
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			It has to come back to you.
		
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			Allah has a scale of justice.
		
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			You do something bad it has to come
		
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			back to you.
		
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			So the best thing to do quickly make
		
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			amends.
		
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			Astaghfirullah.
		
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			Oh Allah, forgive me.
		
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			And the person who you wronged, my brother,
		
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			I wronged you, forgive me.
		
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			Yesterday we went out on an outing.
		
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			One of the brothers was there and as
		
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			I walked in I noticed there were people
		
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			and there were a few tables and so
		
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			I looked at the tables and I thought
		
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			let me tuck myself into the corner and
		
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			I went in and tucked myself in the
		
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			corner.
		
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			A little while later one of the brothers
		
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			comes in, beautiful brother and he tells me
		
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			we have to move a table from here
		
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			to there.
		
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			I said, no brother I'm not interested in
		
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			moving I'm staying here.
		
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			You know I couldn't sleep well at night
		
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			because in my heart I thought perhaps I
		
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			was too abrupt with this brother.
		
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			This morning when I met him or this
		
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			afternoon I told him brother forgive me I
		
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			think I was too hard on you.
		
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			I think I was abrupt.
		
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			Yesterday how I spoke was not right.
		
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			He said, no no no it's ok we
		
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			were tired and what what what why?
		
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			Because I'm supposed to be charitable with the
		
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			way I talk to you.
		
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			It's a free charity.
		
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			I look at you brother assalamu alaikum lovely
		
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			to see you.
		
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			What did I do?
		
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			It's a sadaqa.
		
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			I'm not saying it because well I don't
		
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			want to say I don't believe it I
		
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			do believe it but what I mean is
		
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			I'm not saying it because I want to
		
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			impress you more than you I want to
		
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			impress Allah oh Allah look look look what
		
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			I'm gonna make I'm gonna make this person
		
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			feel like the most amazing person on earth.
		
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			Brother mashallah you won't believe it I'm so
		
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			excited to see you.
		
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			What did I do?
		
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			I'm impressing Allah and I'm giving a charity
		
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			for Allah.
		
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			Why am I saying I'm impressing Allah?
		
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			I don't know you.
		
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			Sometimes I don't I don't think you deserve
		
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			kindness because you are not a kind person
		
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			but I will be kind because I'm not
		
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			doing it based on whether you deserve my
		
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			kindness or not I'm doing it because Allah
		
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			loves those who are kind so I'm kind
		
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			not you you are not even in my
		
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			equation you're just an opportunity that's all you
		
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			follow what faith is when you give that
		
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			type of charity guess what happens I greet
		
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			you assalamu alaikum I don't know you I'm
		
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			making you feel important you might say I've
		
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			had it people who don't like us they
		
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			believe we are weird people they spit on
		
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			your face I don't mind hey it's okay
		
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			my brother it's fine and he just looks
		
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			at you like weird you supposed to have
		
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			gotten angry not me I didn't greet you
		
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			for you in the first place I greeted
		
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			you for Allah not for you so whatever
		
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			you did was besides the point I know
		
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			Allah wouldn't ever do that for me my
		
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			reward is written and guess what the charity
		
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			I gave will protect me from harm that
		
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			might be coming in my path wow I'm
		
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			a believer have you ever heard the older
		
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			people before you're going you say mum we're
		
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			travelling to China today she'll say give out
		
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			a little charity before you go have you
		
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			ever heard that give out a sadaqa before
		
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			you go what is that that is part
		
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			of the sunnah in the sense that as
		
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			sadaqa tutfi ul balaa charity extinguishes balaa balaa
		
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			means calamity even if the calamity was going
		
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			to come it will be made small you
		
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			were going to make a huge accident and
		
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			lose a limb rather than that it was
		
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			very small minor you just tripped and you
		
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			cleaned your bruise that's it that's why when
		
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			you clean your bruise what do you say
		
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			you might say but you also say alhamdulillah
		
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			it could have been worse faith have faith
		
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			these are the storms small things we're talking
		
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			about may Allah almighty grant us ease another
		
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			thing very important third point the minute the
		
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			storm happens watch your tongue the angels are
		
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			saying ameen ameen and what do you say
		
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			shhh am I right or wrong you heard
		
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			what I said no I didn't say it
		
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			habibi can I tell you something it's a
		
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			problem because the angels are waiting waiting also
		
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			for you to make a dua and the
		
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			first thing you say you fell down you
		
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			say a big F 10 F's and big
		
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			big you know colorful swear words no faith
		
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			faith remember your faith I've got to say
		
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			something I've got to say alhamdulillah o inna
		
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			lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'oon o a
		
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			'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim seek Allah's protection
		
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			from shaitan the accursed thank Allah because it
		
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			could have been worse or declare that you
		
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			are all going to return to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala you're returning to Allah that
		
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			is an amazing amazing teaching because like I
		
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			said you came on earth you were brought
		
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			onto this earth not by your choice by
		
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			Allah's choice so you will leave also by
		
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			Allah's choice when you say inna lillahi you
		
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			are saying we belong to Allah anyway I
		
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			don't care what has happened here because I
		
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			know that ultimately I'm going to go back
		
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			to the one who made me I was
		
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			talking about how we have different fingers right
		
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			the fingerprints everyone from the beginning Adam right
		
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			up to the end the last person will
		
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			have a different fingerprint and not just fingerprint
		
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			the iris print as they call it right
		
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			and can I tell you what that itself
		
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			is evidence that you are going to be
		
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			taken account of by Allah because if there
		
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			was no need to take account there would
		
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			be no need to have different identities when
		
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			Allah brings you to account on the day
		
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			of judgment there is no doubt whatever you
		
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			are guilty of you are guilty of why
		
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			we've got 1000 different ways of proving it
		
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			was just you no one else your DNA
		
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			is unique unique there's no way that it
		
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			can be confused with someone else imagine a
		
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			criminal what they do in the states a
		
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			lot of the times and with all due
		
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			respect to whoever is there they execute people
		
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			later to find out oh that guy was
		
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			innocent oh they jailed him for 20 years
		
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			50 years an old 60 year old is
		
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			coming out they say the guy committed a
		
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			crime in 1980 and you know what now
		
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			we found out that he was innocent and
		
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			the guy he's on a wheelchair or he's
		
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			got a walking stick he's coming out and
		
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			they expect him to just say oh sorry
		
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			we made a mistake at least now you're
		
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			free in the court of Allah that doesn't
		
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			happen and by the way in the sharia
		
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			that can never happen impossible because there's a
		
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			big difference one is the courts in the
		
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			western world operate in a way where they
		
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			say something very interesting they say beyond reasonable
		
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			doubt we found this man guilty so he's
		
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			going to go to the gallows that's what
		
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			they say in Islam if there is a
		
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			single droplet of doubt you cannot send him
		
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			to the gallows done did you ever know
		
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			that there has to be no doubt whatsoever
		
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			if there is doubt there has to be
		
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			a lesser punishment or no punishment or a
		
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			lesser punishment but when there is absolutely no
		
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			doubt that's the only time you can serve
		
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			the highest of the punishments very big difference
		
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			between the western courts and the sharia courts
		
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			one will tell you beyond reasonable doubts all
		
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			of us feel that this on the other
		
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			they will tell you we know this is
		
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			what happened done so the level of error
		
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			is between the earth and the skies and
		
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			the heavens may Allah grant us goodness going
		
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			back to what we were saying if we're
		
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			all so unique and so sophisticated look I
		
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			have a feeling I love and I dislike
		
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			too I get attached I have a family
		
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			I have loved ones I have people I'd
		
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			like to meet and get to know more
		
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			I'd like to sit with some but I
		
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			can't for many reasons primarily because I'm human
		
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			and there's not enough time on earth right
		
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			now I'd like to sit and greet everyone
		
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			I can't why no time but I can
		
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			tell you something interesting if I'm so sophisticated
		
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			I can see you right now and if
		
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			I were to die now do you really
		
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			reckon that's the end of everything no it's
		
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			not my faith leads me to believe that
		
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			I have to go somewhere and when I
		
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			go to that place back to whoever made
		
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			me if I have the opportunity and Allah
		
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			will grant it if you want it and
		
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			you've gotten to the right place to meet
		
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			and to do what I wanted to I
		
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			will then be able to do things that's
		
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			why you hear people saying I'll get married
		
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			to you in jannah have you heard that
		
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			I hear that a lot people say I'll
		
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			get married to you in jannah nobody said
		
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			it married to you my brother maybe wear
		
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			a thong grow a beard and perhaps start
		
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			giving talks may Allah bless you I'm just
		
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			saying it everyone feels certain things certain times
		
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			you know you have to and your children
		
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			your family sometimes you might not be there
		
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			for them long time sometimes children have lost
		
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			their parents and it affects them those are
		
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			storms those are huge storms I know of
		
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			people whom later on in life and I've
		
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			sat and discussed and spoken and psychologically you
		
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			get to the bottom of it sometimes the
		
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			way they behave later on in life is
		
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			very closely connected to some storm which they
		
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			didn't brave correctly when they were younger so
		
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			many times it happens I know a youngster
		
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			whose father passed away when he was 11
		
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			he lost the path yet he came from
		
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			such a beautiful home because because the father
		
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			was a pillar in his home may Allah
		
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			allow us to be an asset to our
		
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			children and that's why people get married after
		
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			they get married they want children when they
		
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			get children what do they want they want
		
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			to bring those children up and see them
		
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			married someone says when would you like to
		
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			die I'd like to die after all my
		
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			children are married when would you like to
		
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			die after I have grandchildren when would you
		
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			like to die I'd like to see my
		
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			grandchildren married now when would you like to
		
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			die I'd like to see my great grandchildren
		
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			when would you to die I'd to see
		
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			great grandchildren after when would to die I'd
		
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			like to see my great you like to
		
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			I'd like to
		
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			see my great grandchildren would you like to
		
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			die my great I'd paradise the way it
		
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			is on earth nothing Lets a hadith of
		
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			the Prophet said Prophet says no eyes
		
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			have seen no ears have heard and it
		
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			hasn't even crossed your imagination wait until you
		
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			get there when I came on earth I
		
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			came with absolutely nothing they had to clothe
		
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			me and my time there were no disposable
		
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			nappies do you know that they had to
		
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			clothe me and when I leave I leave
		
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			with nothing nothing all these nice things and
		
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			beautiful scents and lovely clothing and whatever else
		
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			all of that is irrelevant man gone gone
		
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			so then what am I gonna get believe
		
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			that I'm going to get something amazing I
		
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			for one am convinced that as sinful as
		
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			I may be I'm a human I'm a
		
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			believer I love my Lord if I've sinned
		
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			I've sinned only because of my human weakness
		
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			and not because I want to defy the
		
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			one who made me I seek forgiveness every
		
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			day and I ask Allah and I try
		
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			to be a good person I try to
		
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			be as kind-hearted as possible I try
		
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			to fulfill my obligations unto Allah as a
		
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			human I will falter I will make mistakes
		
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			but I believe through the mercy of my
		
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			maker we will go to paradise we will
		
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			go to paradise don't be such a low
		
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			person who has no hope in paradise no
		
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			man no are you evil no well then
		
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			you have hope if you are evil and
		
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			you have a dirty heart and you wish
		
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			bad for others and you really are so
		
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			difficult then you need to work hard on
		
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			yourself because one day you're gonna go back
		
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			to Allah one day you're gonna go back
		
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			to Allah there's a difference between sinning out
		
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			of your human weakness and sinning out of
		
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			being pure evil pure evil I mean I
		
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			want to make your life difficult why I
		
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			don't like your face come on you expect
		
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			paradise do you know you have a Lord
		
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			to go back to Allah says man kind
		
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			of you mean will be lucky when you'll
		
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			be lucky if I'll yet will fire and
		
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			only a small whoever believes in Allah and
		
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			the last day say that which is good
		
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			or keep quiet because Allah's gonna ask you
		
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			every word you've uttered my beloved brothers my
		
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			sisters something happens to you say a good
		
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			word that's actually point number three without saying
		
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			a bad word like I say if I
		
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			tripped from here to there may Allah protect
		
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			us the first thing I should say is
		
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			not a swear word and that's what the
		
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			world teaches us to say everyone swears and
		
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			they make like there's nothing wrong I've seen
		
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			religious people who pray five times a day
		
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			but they just swear like they don't even
		
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			consider it a swear word anymore it is
		
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			the words are written everything you utter I'd
		
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			rather have a good word written on my
		
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			scale I'd rather have a lovely beautiful subhanallah
		
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			stop for a lot or in Alila he
		
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			when I rather have that written than a
		
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			big F word and an SH word and
		
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			a B word and whatever else it might
		
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			be all those words are not they're not
		
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			needed in the scale of a believer no
		
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			you don't need them may Allah forgive me
		
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			for every time I might have said such
		
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			words and may Allah strengthen all of us
		
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			so we don't use those words make a
		
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			change in your life your life will change
		
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			you know they say Allah will guide whoever
		
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			he wants to guide that statement is correct
		
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			but sometimes Shaitaan makes you abuse the statement
		
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			by making you think you don't have to
		
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			play a role in it Allah says he
		
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			guides those who wants the guidance he guides
		
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			those who want guidance so if I say
		
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			oh Allah guide me to the path and
		
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			I'm walking to the pub I say well
		
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			if Allah wants to guide me I won't
		
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			be able to enter here but you're entering
		
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			you're making an effort to do something and
		
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			you're asking for something else Allah says ask
		
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			for something and make an effort towards the
		
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			same thing then see what happens then see
		
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			what happens you want to make a change
		
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			in your life make an effort towards the
		
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			change and Allah will definitely open your door
		
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			nobody on earth has asked Allah for guidance
		
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			and walked towards the guidance and not been
		
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			guided no it doesn't happen Allah says it
		
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			himself well I mean a jahadu feena Lana
		
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			Deanna whom subhalana whoever strives and makes an
		
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			effort towards Allah Allah says we will guide
		
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			them to our paths there's no chance we
		
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			won't Allah's promise the problem with man we
		
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			know predestiny but we abuse predestiny to justify
		
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			what bad we might be doing don't do
		
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			that anyway let's get to the storm how
		
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			many of us engage in the remembrance of
		
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			Allah on a daily basis I'm not talking
		
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			of salah I'm talking of a car a
		
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			car is one of the one of the
		
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			acts of worship that many of us are
		
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			guilty of abandoning what our car subhanallah subhanallah
		
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			subhanallah subhanallah subhanallah subhanallah subhanallah someone might think
		
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			if they don't know they might think I'm
		
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			a madman I'm not mad I'm madly in
		
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			love with Allah what am I doing I'm
		
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			repeating Allah is the greatest glory be to
		
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			Allah all praise be to Allah hum de
		
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			la hum de la hum de la hum
		
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			de la hum de la hum de la
		
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			imagine I tell you I love you I
		
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			love you I love you I love you
		
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			I love you I love you I love
		
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			you I say shut up right with Allah
		
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			it's called zikr for as long as Nabi
		
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			Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam has taught you something
		
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			some form of zikr and you repeating that
		
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			zikr you are in the right place all
		
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			of us myself included are we not guilty
		
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			of not doing zikr on a daily basis
		
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			if I tell you what are the pillars
		
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			of Islam you can mention them salah did
		
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			you read yes I did what about your
		
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			Alkar Alkar problem why we didn't do a
		
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			car how many times did you do a
		
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			stone for Allah say it nicely don't just
		
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			go like no Allah doesn't need it for
		
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			you say alhamdulillah correctly Allah doesn't need it
		
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			imagine you need it I need it say
		
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			alhamdulillah alhamdulillah yesterday yesterday when we arrived on
		
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			the day before they gave me a basket
		
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			with a few things you won't believe it
		
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			in it there was an electronic counter I
		
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			actually took it and I said alhamdulillah alhamdulillah
		
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			and I'm just to see how it works
		
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			you know and I saw it went to
		
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			four or five I said okay it's fine
		
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			I'll use my fingers too but nonetheless whatever
		
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			you use use that to use your fingers
		
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			the idea is a hundred times a day
		
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			33 times after every prayer find out the
		
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			hadith why braving a storm Allah tells you
		
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			to prepare for it before it comes what
		
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			is it the other of Allah if it
		
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			get acquainted with Allah during your days of
		
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			ease and then watch when the storm comes
		
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			Allah will get acquainted with you you're happy
		
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			something happened I remember in South Africa there
		
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			was some xenophobic attacks and some people lost
		
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			their entire business and guess what happened the
		
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			guy says alhamdulillah I enjoyed life for 30
		
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			years Allah blessed me with millions today I
		
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			lost everything we will start again but I'm
		
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			going to thank Allah how can I be
		
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			upset I want to ask you a question
		
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			all of us seated here I said this
		
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			usually I say it in a lot of
		
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			places your parents what was their condition their
		
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			parents that means your grandparents what was their
		
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			condition and their parents what was their condition
		
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			are you not in a better condition than
		
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			all of those well I am joking has
		
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			Allah not favored you has he not raised
		
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			you up beyond your grandparents if they were
		
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			here today they wouldn't even recognize Wow you
		
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			actually have a place Wow you have water
		
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			from a tap amazed you guys are so
		
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			you have a car subhanallah think of where
		
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			they were where I am relatively I might
		
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			be going through turbulence now if I'm not
		
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			going to ponder over the broad gift of
		
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			Allah I'm never going to recognize the favor
		
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			of Allah upon me we were saying Taraf
		
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			in Allah if you're a high a risk
		
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			of his Shida get acquainted with Allah by
		
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			what remembering him I stayed away from haram
		
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			to the best of my ability and wherever
		
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			I fell I quickly repented to Allah that
		
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			quick repentance is such a big blessing because
		
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			when the storm comes Allah will help you
		
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			through the storm you always turn back to
		
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			him even during your human weakness you turn
		
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			back to Allah you missed your prayer you
		
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			were so regretful oh Allah forgive me and
		
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			you move on don't let Shaitan depress you
		
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			that's a very important point you see you're
		
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			a human you're not perfect you might miss
		
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			a prayer you might end up doing something
		
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			wrong when you do something wrong Allah shows
		
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			you a way out he says I love
		
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			it when you seek forgiveness so seek forgiveness
		
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			believing that Allah loved what you just did
		
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			in terms of seeking forgiveness after that close
		
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			the chapter throw it out and forget about
		
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			it and don't think oh am I forgiven
		
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			am I not forgiven am I forgiven am
		
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			I not forgiven for 20 years am I
		
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			forgiven am I chill that's Shaitan spoiling the
		
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			rest of your worship he's spoiling the rest
		
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			of your connection with Allah that's what he's
		
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			doing yes whenever you think of it you're
		
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			a human just say Astaghfirullah oh Allah I
		
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			thank you for being so merciful I remember
		
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			my period of Jahiliyya when I used to
		
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			do so many evil things I sought forgiveness
		
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			from you I'm so hopeful you've forgiven me
		
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			but I was you know it's like when
		
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			when you really love someone and you really
		
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			respect someone and say you swore them and
		
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			then you say I'm so sorry I swore
		
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			you I'm so sorry I really I feel
		
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			bad if you really felt bad the next
		
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			time you see them you said I'm on
		
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			a comb how are you brother a I
		
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			can't I can't forget the fact that I
		
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			swore you right they already forgave you you're
		
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			repeating it not because you're doubting the forgiveness
		
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			it's your embarrassment that's why I'm saying it
		
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			again I see you after 20 years a
		
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			brother I still feel ashamed when we were
		
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			kids you remember what I did to you
		
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			but I broke a bottle on your head
		
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			right you might say that you're not saying
		
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			it because you want to ask for forgiveness
		
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			again but you're saying I was so foolish
		
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			when you see Allah in your life and
		
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			you start saying oh Allah when I was
		
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			I did this I did this I thank
		
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			you for being so merciful and kind that's
		
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			Allah I thank you for being merciful and
		
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			kind that's Allah imagine if he wasn't that
		
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			merciful so the repetition should never be because
		
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			you're doubting Allah don't doubt Allah Allah says
		
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			la taqnatu don't lose hope you're losing hope
		
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			don't doubt the mercy of Allah you're doubting
		
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			Allah says don't doubt so shaitan enters a
		
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			door especially with the young who start practicing
		
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			shaitan enters the door after you seek forgiveness
		
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			he comes to you and gives you OCD
		
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			did Allah accept did he not accept did
		
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			you did your salah go for it you
		
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			made 20 mistakes in it with those 20
		
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			mistakes Allah accepted it and loved it you
		
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			went to the bathroom you washed up and
		
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			walked out in one minute no problem one
		
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			or two small blunders a little bit this
		
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			way that way no Allah doesn't require perfection
		
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			from you there will always be something a
		
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			little bit amiss you're a human treat yourself
		
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			as a human you're not a perfect being
		
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			Allah loves it the way it is let's
		
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			move move let's go do your salah oh
		
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			but I might not be 100% pure
		
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			no problem are you 80 90 what I
		
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			go read your salah it's better than being
		
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			OCD about it and not enjoying your whole
		
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			prayer Allah doesn't need that from you you
		
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			need it yourself I hope what I've said
		
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			has at least helped a few people who
		
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			might have that problem so the most important
		
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			thing you need to do is remember Allah
		
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			he will remember you I want to deal
		
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			with a storm before the storm comes by
		
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			preparing someone tells you listen there's gonna be
		
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			a cyclone what do you do you start
		
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			getting your sandbags you start getting whatever you
		
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			have to you start preparing you start going
		
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			in an elevated place and whatever need be
		
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			I might want to evacuate before the sandstorm
		
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			before the storm when the tornado comes whatever
		
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			comes comes I've already prepared for it you
		
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			and I are taught you are going to
		
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			suffer in this world losses because the world
		
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			is created in order for you to endure
		
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			the losses did you ever know that none
		
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			from amongst us has ever had whatever they've
		
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			wanted on earth you've only had whatever Allah
		
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			wanted you to have from among those things
		
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			you wanted and even from among those things
		
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			you did not want that's Allah so I
		
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			tell you we came on this earth to
		
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			be tested the word tested really means hardship
		
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			difficulty coming in your direction Allah says in
		
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			the then he says give good news to
		
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			those who are patient if Allah is going
		
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			to test you and he tells you prepare
		
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			for that before it comes to you you
		
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			know if you haven't lost a loved one
		
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			yet you're gonna have to lose a loved
		
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			one I'm sorry to give carry the news
		
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			to you today you have to someone has
		
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			to die they can't be alive forever either
		
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			you die before them or they die before
		
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			you or you die together there's no fourth
		
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			option so prepare from now make the most
		
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			of your relatives they say you have sisters
		
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			treat them with respect because they're not going
		
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			to be there forever you have brothers treat
		
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			them with goodness seek forgiveness from them be
		
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			kind be good to everyone or you have
		
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			parents spend some time with them solve the
		
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			problems be easy on each other Allah will
		
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			be easy on those who are easy on
		
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			one another Allah has mercy upon those who
		
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			have mercy on one another so in this
		
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			life prepare for those tough days by being
		
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			a better person remember Allah he'll remember you
		
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			prepare for the storm by worshipping Allah to
		
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			the best of your ability I want to
		
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			say two things my time is up number
		
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			one please ensure that you revive your daily
		
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			adhkar adhkar means the remembrance of Allah with
		
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			short phrases subhanallah alhamdulillah Allah say it every
		
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			day a hundred times it will change your
		
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			life I swear by Allah it will change
		
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			it will grant you a calmness of your
		
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			soul and your heart contentment al-ladhina amanoo
		
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			wa tatma'innu quloobuhum bi dhikri Allah alaa
		
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			bi dhikri Allahi tatma'innu al-quloob those
		
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			who believe they achieve comfort of the heart
		
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			by the remembrance of Allah for indeed it
		
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			is the remembrance of Allah that will comfort
		
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			the heart you want comfort remember Allah what
		
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			is the remembrance here referring to it has
		
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			a broader meaning and a specific meaning the
		
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			specific meaning is the remembrance of Allah adhkar
		
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			the broader meaning is all acts of worship
		
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			that's remembrance of Allah to stay away from
		
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			prohibition is remembrance of Allah so the first
		
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			thing I wanted to say is these adhkar
		
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			revive them la ilaha illa allahu wahdahu la
		
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			sharika lahu lahul mulku wa lahul hamdu yuhyi
		
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			wa yumeetu wahuwa ala kulli shay'in qadeer
		
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			powerful dhikr powerful repeated after your fardh prayer
		
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			ten times sunnah fajr asr repeated again subhanallahi
		
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			wa bi hamlihi subhanallahil azeem read about that
		
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			in the hadith Allah says two words that
		
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			are very light on sorry on the tongue
		
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			very heavy on the scale very loved by
		
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			Allah those are the sentences that's the words
		
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			say them repeat them they are loved by
		
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			Allah number two I want to tell you
		
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			something very important and I'll close the Quran
		
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			build a relationship with it well I read
		
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			it every day pick it up in the
		
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			morning first thing after fajr before fajr right
		
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			in the morning first thing or in the
		
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			evening before you recline to bed pick it
		
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			up open it read one verse and then
		
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			go to bed one verse just one a
		
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			day read the meaning read the verse close
		
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			it go to bed it will change your
		
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			life the Quran has two things many things
		
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			I want to mention two number one is
		
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			it's magnetic you started with one verse you're
		
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			gonna end up doing two three five ten
		
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			before you know it you're doing two pages
		
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			five pages six pages 20 pages a day
		
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			the Quran is magnetic why because it's the
		
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			word of Allah and Allah tells you whoever
		
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			comes towards me one foot I will come
		
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			towards them much more than that whoever comes
		
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			to me walking I will come to him
		
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			rushing it's a Hadith so when you make
		
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			a small effort with the Quran the Quran
		
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			will make in fact Allah will bless you
		
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			through that Quran by a much bigger effort
		
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			that you can now make and you achieve
		
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			so much more it's easier that's Allah Quran
		
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			is magnetizing number two the owner of time
		
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			is Allah when you've made time for the
		
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			owner of time even if you don't have
		
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			time time is made I hope you understood
		
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			what I said can I explain it to
		
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			you quickly people say I haven't read Quran
		
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			because I don't have time oh I haven't
		
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			read Quran because I don't have time guess
		
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			what the Quran is the word of the
		
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			owner of time force yourself to cut and
		
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			cancel whatever needs to be canceled and spend
		
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			five minutes with the Quran when you started
		
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			your day early morning at Fajr with the
		
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			Quran wallahi I tell you people I've asked
		
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			I did the research on my own asking
		
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			people they say that day we don't know
		
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			how much we were so blessed with time
		
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			we had so much time that we were
		
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			wondering a is there anything else I can
		
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			do today how did you get the time
		
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			you got the time because you thought you
		
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			didn't have the time but you made the
		
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			time for the owner of time a few
		
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			minutes in order to read his kalam his
		
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			word and he said hang on we're gonna
		
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			bless your day with so much of time
		
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			that's Allah that's Allah the most powerful word
		
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			in existence it is the owner of time
		
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			whose word it is may Allah bless you
		
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			all we're talking about braving the storms when
		
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			you connect with the Quran Allah says it
		
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			in the Quran you know my hair as
		
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			I'm standing is actually standing to subhanallah Allah
		
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			says it in the Quran to Muhammad sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam wakul and I was so I
		
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			like a mean and you're so limit up
		
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			be to be here for a deck whenever
		
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			we've mentioned any of the stories of the
		
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			Prophet city it is in order to strengthen
		
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			you and your soul and your heart Oh
		
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			Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam all of what we've
		
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			said in is to make you a stronger
		
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			person and to to allow you to connect
		
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			with Allah in a better way all of
		
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			us the message is for us if the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam is being told go
		
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			through this and it will help you what
		
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			do you think it's going to do to
		
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			you and I may Allah Almighty help us
		
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			all brave storms aquluq only had I was
		
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			sallallahu wasallam a baraka Allah Nabi Muhammad wassalamu
		
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			alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh