Mufti Menk – He Wants You To Ponder

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The transcript describes a series of advertisements and jokes between a couple's brothers, including a woman named Zaki bin who died 200 years ago and was able to buy cryptocurrency. The importance of practicing Islam is emphasized, and the need for people to be strong and make a community is emphasized. The segment also touches on the loss of cryptocurrency and the importance of healthy lifestyles and avoiding harm to oneself. The speakers encourage viewers to take care of their health and use their body and minds to improve their chances of success.

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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, bismillah
		
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			walhamdulillahi wassalatu wassalamu ala rasulullahi wa ala alihi
		
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			wa sahbihi ajma'in.
		
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			The camera torches that you turned on came
		
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			to my eyes at a certain speed.
		
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			Do you know the speed?
		
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			Who knows the speed of light?
		
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			300,000 kilometers per second.
		
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			As soon as you turn it on, I
		
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			saw it, right?
		
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			180, I think it's 6,000 miles per
		
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			second.
		
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			Not per minute, not per hour, not in
		
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			the day.
		
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			When I was driving today to Birmingham, we
		
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			had the cruise control set at 74 miles
		
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			an hour.
		
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			Is that a safe speed?
		
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			It's not safe.
		
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			What is safe?
		
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			70.
		
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			Well, somebody told me it's okay if you
		
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			go up to 74, 75.
		
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			But I was reading my du'a, waj
		
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			'alna min bayni aydihim saddan, wa min khalfihim
		
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			saddan fa-aghshayna.
		
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			Does it work?
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			I tell you something, when you do something
		
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			wrong and you're reading the du'a, it
		
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			doesn't work.
		
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			But when you do something right and you
		
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			say a du'a, not that particular verse
		
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			is not for that particular thing.
		
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			That's for something else altogether.
		
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			But you ask Allah Almighty to protect you
		
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			and you ask Allah Almighty to grant you
		
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			goodness on the journey and you obey the
		
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			traffic rules.
		
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			I think the average speed was about 55
		
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			because we had a segment where they had
		
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			average cameras set at 50 and then there
		
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			were some variable cameras set at 60, so
		
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			we kept on fluctuating.
		
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			But the point is, it was fast.
		
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			70 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour,
		
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			it is so fast.
		
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			If you were knocked at that speed, there's
		
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			no chance of survival.
		
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			And here we have the speed of light
		
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			at 300,000 kilometers per second, split second,
		
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			300,000.
		
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			Now I want to tell you why I
		
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			started this way.
		
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			Allah tells you He wants you to ponder,
		
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			He wants you to think.
		
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			You want to know the greatness of Allah.
		
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			You will never know the greatness of Allah
		
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			exactly as it is, but you will get
		
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			close to understanding that Allah is the greatest
		
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			and we always say Allahu Akbar, which actually
		
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			translates as Allah is greater.
		
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			Greater than what?
		
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			Everything you know, everything you shall know in
		
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			the future.
		
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			Allah is greater than everything.
		
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			Allah is greater than whatever you and I
		
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			are doing right now.
		
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			Allah has absolute control of every aspect of
		
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			your existence and mine.
		
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			That is Allah.
		
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			Allah is greater.
		
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			So Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Allah wants you to ponder over everything in
		
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			order to realize and understand how insignificant you
		
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			and I are and how grand Allah is.
		
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			So that perhaps you may be reminded to
		
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			turn to Him, to develop a good relationship
		
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			with Him, to be able to at least
		
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			pray, at least do the right thing, because
		
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			you have no option but to return to
		
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			whoever made you.
		
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			And what Allah says is He wants you
		
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			to have a good relation with the one
		
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			who made you and it is Him.
		
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			You will go back to He who made
		
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			you.
		
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			When we are faced with a loss, we
		
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			say Don't we say that?
		
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			Let me give you some bad news.
		
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			Yesterday I was in Leeds and I mentioned
		
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			a friend of mine.
		
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			His name is Zaki bin Nasruddin from Malaysia.
		
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			47 years old if I'm not mistaken or
		
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			maybe 46 and he's quite a health fanatic.
		
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			He rides bicycles and he is quite healthy.
		
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			Suddenly had a stroke and fell, went unconscious
		
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			and we made a dua for him yesterday
		
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			in Leeds that Allah grant him cure.
		
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			This morning I got up with a photograph
		
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			of Sheikh Hussain Yi at the janazah of
		
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			the brother and they were burying him and
		
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			because of the time difference I only got
		
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			the message later when I got up.
		
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			When I saw that, what do you think
		
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			I said first?
		
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			What dua?
		
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			Let's say it aloud.
		
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			Indeed we all belong to Allah.
		
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			He made us.
		
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			Before we were born we were with Him
		
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			and when we die we're going to go
		
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			back to Him.
		
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			We all belong to Allah and we shall
		
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			all return to Allah.
		
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			So Allah wants you to ponder, to ponder.
		
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			You want to know the greatness of Allah?
		
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			Look at everything you can look at and
		
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			tell yourself Allah made it.
		
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			Imagine how the maker must be, subhanallah.
		
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			Minimum you realize is there is nothing of
		
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			value on earth that can come between you
		
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			and Allah because Allah is the highest and
		
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			the greatest and He made those things of
		
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			value.
		
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			Sometimes a brother says am I allowed to
		
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			leave my, am I allowed to stay in
		
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			my business when there is a very very
		
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			big deal while Salatul Jumu'ah or the
		
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			Friday prayer is going on?
		
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			What's the answer?
		
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			Say it loudly.
		
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			No.
		
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			Did someone say yes here?
		
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			Be careful Birmingham.
		
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			I tell you no, you're not allowed.
		
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			You need to close down or you need
		
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			to put someone else whom the Jumu'ah
		
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			is not compulsory upon there and you need
		
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			to go.
		
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			Oh you who
		
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			believe,
		
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			are you one of them?
		
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			Are you one of them?
		
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			If you are then you need to listen.
		
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			Yes, yes, that's me.
		
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			Let me hear what's being said.
		
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			Oh you who believe and immediately it says
		
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			when the call is called for prayer on
		
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			a Friday then hasten towards the remembrance of
		
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			Allah and leave your trade.
		
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			Leave it.
		
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			Drop it and run to Allah.
		
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			Why?
		
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			The owner of the money that you're going
		
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			to make is calling you towards something else.
		
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			Drop it and go.
		
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			When you come back he will give you
		
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			greater blessings.
		
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			That is Allah.
		
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			And this is why Allah says when
		
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			the
		
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			prayer is over then you disperse on the
		
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			earth and you can search for that with
		
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			the favor of Allah.
		
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			You can do your business and you can
		
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			do whatever you want but go and listen
		
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			to the message.
		
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			You know why?
		
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			Allah is greater.
		
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			When the caller calls to prayer he says
		
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			Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar.
		
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			What does that mean?
		
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			It means whatever you're doing right now and
		
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			whatever you want to do in the next
		
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			few moments and whatever you have and everything
		
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			around you and whatever you are seeing and
		
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			whatever you know Allah is greater.
		
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			Allah is greater.
		
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			Drop everything and rush towards he who is
		
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			greater because he tells you come to prayer.
		
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			And you might think well you know what
		
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			I need to just quickly do this.
		
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			I need to quickly do that.
		
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			I need to do this and that.
		
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			No.
		
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			Immediately after that Allah tells you you would
		
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			like success.
		
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			What is success?
		
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			Today you see a guy driving a Lamborghini.
		
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			He's got a beautiful house.
		
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			His wife subhanAllah.
		
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			Someone would you know let me not talk
		
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			about the women because they will complain.
		
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			But subhanAllah whatever is happening and you feel
		
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			you have everything on earth and the youngsters
		
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			look at you and say whoa when I
		
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			grow up I'd like to be like that
		
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			guy.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because he seems to have everything.
		
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			If he doesn't have Allah in his equation
		
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			he actually has nothing because he has whatever
		
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			is going to help him in his temporary
		
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			life on earth but he does not have
		
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			a relation with the one who's whom he's
		
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			going to go back to for eternity.
		
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			The people who've died 200 years ago lived
		
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			for far shorter a time than they've already
		
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			passed on.
		
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			I will tell you when did this guy
		
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			pass away.
		
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			You say well 200 years ago he died
		
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			and how long did he live for?
		
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			You will say 70 years.
		
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			What was longer his life or the time
		
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			between our life and his death?
		
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			The second right?
		
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			The latter right?
		
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			So that goes to show eternity you're going
		
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			to go back to Allah.
		
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			Don't allow the temporary world to disrupt your
		
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			connection with the eternal because Allah is the
		
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			one who will grant that to you and
		
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			that's why immediately after that you might think
		
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			there's going to be I'm going to lose
		
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			something let me why should I pray why
		
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			should I dress modestly why should I do
		
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			this why should I read the Quran why
		
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			should I spend time with adhkar I've got
		
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			I'm so busy doing this and busy doing
		
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			that Allah says Allah is greater than whatever
		
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			you are busy with drop it and come
		
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			and pray and if you think that that
		
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			will bring you success which you were doing
		
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			immediately Allah tells us the caller to the
		
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			prayer says hi amazing doesn't
		
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			it sound so beautiful you know what it
		
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			means come to success would you like success
		
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			well come this way drop what you're doing
		
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			that is real success what you have in
		
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			your hand is temporary I know so many
		
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			people who've had money it was stolen I
		
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			know people who said we have I know
		
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			a guy in particular and he knows who
		
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			he is right it's not in Birmingham so
		
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			I'm safe but I think we're live should
		
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			I keep quiet or should I say the
		
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			story stop it Allah it's not backbiting because
		
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			I'm not mentioning his name but Birmingham I
		
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			hope you guys don't backbite normally in your
		
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			lives mashallah the one brother said but I'm
		
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			saying it in front of him so I
		
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			said what does that called front-biting stuff
		
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			it'll allow me but nonetheless the brother told
		
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			me that I have approximately five million dollars
		
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			worth of cryptocurrency right five million dollars I
		
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			told him my brother can you see those
		
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			birds in the sky he says yes they
		
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			were you know birds flying mashallah so you
		
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			see those birds in the sky all of
		
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			them are mine that's what you're telling me
		
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			he said what do you mean I said
		
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			bring the cash let's see it don't tell
		
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			me I got this and I got that
		
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			crypto is exactly like the birds in the
		
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			sky all of them are yours bring one
		
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			let's see it come on show me what
		
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			happened guess what sometime later he told me
		
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			shit I lost a big amount I said
		
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			what he said I'm embarrassed to tell you
		
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			and I told him my beloved brother that's
		
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			why we say that when Allah tells you
		
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			what you have in your hand is not
		
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			even guaranteed you can lose it anytime things
		
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			can change look at our brothers and sisters
		
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			in Gaza they lost everything overnight they are
		
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			bombarded to smithereens genocide committed against them and
		
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			nobody's doing anything about it and we have
		
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			dedicated this entire tour to them look at
		
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			our brothers and sisters in other parts of
		
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			the world places where they've suffered floods and
		
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			earthquakes and volcanoes and whatever else and they've
		
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			lost things overnight the flooding whatever it might
		
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			have been may Allah never do that to
		
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			us say I mean may Allah safeguard us
		
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			my brothers and sisters whenever you see someone
		
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			go through a challenge always ask Allah to
		
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			grant them ease and to protect you from
		
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			facing the same always ask Allah don't take
		
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			it for granted Allah wants you to ponder
		
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			it happened to them let it not happen
		
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			to you but it could so Allah says
		
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			prepare for that day by being humble moments
		
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			ago I met a young boy who goes
		
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			by the name of the Quran student his
		
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			name is Abdullah his little brother's name is
		
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			Abdul Rahman and they read Quran on Instagram
		
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			and and they have an effort that they
		
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			are doing to enhance and improve themselves and
		
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			they're showcasing it to encourage others and I
		
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			met him early and I said I have
		
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			one piece of advice for you as you
		
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			grow always become more humble always become more
		
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			humble let the people see a better you
		
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			in person than the one online because I
		
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			read statistics that 90% of influencers and
		
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			I'm not sure if this is true but
		
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			I read it are not who they claim
		
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			to be online when you meet them in
		
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			person you will really feel so annoyed and
		
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			you will be thinking to yourself is this
		
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			who I actually follow we would like to
		
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			be different today I made a mistake because
		
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			I usually drive myself so I drove myself
		
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			to Birmingham and for some reason I thought
		
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			the venue was the ICC so I parked
		
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			the vehicle somewhere further up I jumped out
		
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			I was with my family and I said
		
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			it's just nearby I walked into the ICC
		
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			no sign no sign of light upon light
		
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			knows I phoned the organizers I said listen
		
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			what's going on how do I get in
		
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			and there were a few other Muslims I
		
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			knew from how they were dressed and a
		
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			group of youngsters and the brothers told me
		
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			no you're in the wrong place it is
		
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			actually at the utility yeah is that the
		
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			name arena right is that the name I
		
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			saw the laughing came from this side here
		
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			right well now it came from the whole
		
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			lot of you not how the Birmingham you
		
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			letting me down come on yesterday I had
		
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			to tell them please laugh today I'm telling
		
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			you don't laugh at me and you just
		
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			laughing look at that and you're laughing more
		
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			not how I better keep going okay so
		
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			I tell you what happened these youngsters they
		
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			said okay sheikh you go this way you
		
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			go that way and I'm busy following them
		
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			but I was on the phone and following
		
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			them and then the youngster says can we
		
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			take a picture with you once we inside
		
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			and I said inshallah yes I wanted to
		
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			but when we were coming in the volunteers
		
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			ushered me through the side and I saw
		
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			these brothers wallahi I felt bad because I
		
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			still want to take a picture with you
		
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			guys are you guys in the crowd make
		
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			some noise that's everyone come on that means
		
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			Birmingham you need help Birmingham you guys need
		
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			help oh there's the brothers mashallah mashallah can
		
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			you come up the side here if you
		
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			don't mind just the four of you please
		
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			no no one more than that the organizers
		
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			will make it happen because I felt so
		
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			bad and I told myself imagine these guys
		
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			will be thinking look at this big man
		
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			here he's promising us he's going to take
		
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			a picture with us and when push came
		
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			to shove he left us he skipped the
		
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			queue and we've got to go all the
		
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			way to the back of the queue but
		
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			we were walking together we showed him how
		
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			to get here so I think I owe
		
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			it to them inshallah if you come up
		
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			guys we take a picture with you wallahi
		
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			may Allah forgive my shortcomings and all of
		
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			ours inshallah so Allah almighty has favored us
		
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			when he favors you and grants you more
		
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			humble yourself remember you are one when you
		
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			are too high and haughty if you were
		
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			to drop you will be injured and break
		
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			your bones and you might even die but
		
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			if you remain and hover low perhaps if
		
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			you fell it would be easier for you
		
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			yes come on it would be easier for
		
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			you perhaps this is going to be something
		
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			amazing and historic you guys got to allow
		
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			it inshallah my brothers did I fulfill my
		
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			promise I haven't yet taken the selfie guys
		
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			mashallah I feel so fulfilled zak may Allah
		
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			bless us all wallahi I feel good I'm
		
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			going to sleep well tonight but I'm a
		
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			little bit strict on myself I feel it
		
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			because I don't want to lie to someone
		
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			I said yes I'll take a picture inshallah
		
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			and that inshallah was not just inshallah you
		
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			know some people when you tell them brother
		
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			will I see you for fajr he looks
		
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			at you and he says sorry he heard
		
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			you the sorry was just to say I
		
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			hope you say something else say will you
		
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			be there for fajr salah salah you know
		
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			he says inshallah half the eyes are closed
		
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			and subhanallah he's not even planning allahu akbar
		
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			allahu akbar and when you're starting the prayer
		
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			allahu akbar what is that all about it's
		
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			allah telling you look allah is bigger than
		
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			whatever you think may allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
		
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			grant us ease I'm going to post this
		
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			picture inshallah on instagram and we're going to
		
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			all like it right by the will of
		
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			allah thank you young brothers for escorting me
		
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			to this beautiful venue mashallah imagine if I
		
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			were lost I'd be sitting at the icc
		
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			waiting man and it's so cold it would
		
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			have one c would have dropped and it
		
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			would have been icy mashallah yeah you know
		
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			I've got a lot of dad jokes so
		
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			backstage today they served us some food can
		
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			you guess what they served us take a
		
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			guess can I give you a clue today
		
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			is a tuesday but they served us monday
		
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			did you hear that it's my dad joke
		
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			come on laugh guys they served us monday
		
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			on a tuesday isn't that so bad for
		
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			birmingham but it tasted yummy wallah mashallah tabarakallah
		
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			mashallah tabarakallah but nonetheless those are just some
		
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			of my dad jokes you have to excuse
		
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			me i'm a grandfather i've got four grandchildren
		
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			mashallah so my brothers and sisters there is
		
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			allah when you see someone that has something
		
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			that might be a challenge or a disability
		
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			or they are favoured by allah differently and
		
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			they are facing some form of hardship you
		
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			need to firstly pray for them and thank
		
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			allah regarding your condition and ask allah not
		
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			to test you with the same and then
		
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			ask yourself how connected am i to allah
		
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			the reason is if i'm not connected to
		
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			allah how do i expect him to answer
		
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			my dua i'm going to supplicate i'm going
		
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			to call out to him but i've got
		
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			no connection he told me to pray i
		
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			don't pray he told me to cover i
		
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			don't cover he told me to give charity
		
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			i don't he told me to for example
		
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			fast properly in the month of ramadan i
		
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			don't he told me this is haram but
		
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			i participate or partake he told me i
		
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			have to do x y and z and
		
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			i don't do those things is that a
		
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			good connection no so you can do better
		
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			you want allah to protect you just build
		
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			a relationship with him allah will protect you
		
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			to arrof in allah if you're a high
		
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			by now you should know that hadith of
		
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			by heart get acquainted with allah during your
		
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			days of ease and watch what allah does
		
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			when you are in hardship he will be
		
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			acquainted with you but that's the secret keep
		
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			going may allah almighty make everything easy for
		
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			us can i go back to the speed
		
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			of light those are scientists at the back
		
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			three hundred thousand kilometers per second which means
		
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			when i was driving i saw stars a
		
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			few days ago when it was quite clear
		
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			i think we were coming back from cardiff
		
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			and i saw these stars and i'm telling
		
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			my family you know the closest star to
		
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			us is four and a half light years
		
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			away from earth what that means is at
		
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			the speed of light if it were to
		
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			travel if light travels for four and a
		
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			half years then you get to see it
		
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			which means the the star that you're seeing
		
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			is either four and a half years ago
		
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			it was there or longer than that because
		
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			the closest one is four and a half
		
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			light years away go and check it out
		
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			imagine how insignificant man is they have the
		
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			james webb telescope that went out you can
		
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			google it you can search about it and
		
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			guess what it brings back images of so
		
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			many galaxies so many planets so many stars
		
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			and so much every day that it just
		
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			goes on and on and on and you
		
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			wonder where does the kingdom of allah end
		
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			there is no end to it if allah
		
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			does not want an end to it it's
		
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			the kingdom of allah allah what he has
		
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			made we are on earth it's a small
		
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			planet we don't even understand what type of
		
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			life there is on other planets and the
		
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			way they orbit when allah says in surat
		
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			yaseen all of these stars and
		
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			planets move and rotate they orbit in their
		
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			own way but none of them actually clash
		
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			except when allah wills for years on end
		
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			if i were to ask you what time
		
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			and split second will the sun rise on
		
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			the 26th of april 2028 it's so easy
		
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			for you to check it and to tell
		
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			me it will rise at this time in
		
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			this particular place am i right or wrong
		
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			how do you know that's allah the magnificence
		
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			with which he created it it is no
		
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			coincidence it is not just there by chance
		
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			it is there designed by a maker whom
		
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			i worship and i say oh allah you
		
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			are the greatest you are the highest i
		
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			look at you right now i can see
		
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			without a battery my heart beats how many
		
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			times a day on average 136 000 times
		
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			subhanallah no battery no nothing and it keeps
		
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			pumping day in day out 136 000 times
		
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			subhanallah imagine how can i not worship he
		
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			who created me my lungs are doing their
		
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			function my kidneys my pancreas the intestines colon
		
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			duodenum whatever else my brain the pituitary gland
		
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			my eyes my nose my tongue my lips
		
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			whatever else it may be he created me
		
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			in a way that he challenges everyone to
		
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			say come up with a better posture than
		
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			that of a human being you will never
		
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			do that in surat ateen allah says we
		
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			created man in the best of postures the
		
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			best way your eyes are put in a
		
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			place where you can never ever come up
		
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			with a better place to put those eyes
		
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			and the same for every other organ of
		
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			yours imagine if your fingers were not the
		
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			way they are with the thumb here and
		
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			the baby finger here and so on it
		
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			would not only look odd but you would
		
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			not be able to grip and grasp and
		
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			hold and do so many things imagine your
		
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			eyes were somewhere else one in the front
		
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			one at the back what would you look
		
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			like allah says man human beings we gave
		
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			them the best posture and wallahi it's true
		
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			so much so that today living in an
		
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			age of ai artificial intelligence and so much
		
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			of robotics when they came up with a
		
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			robot they actually came up with something that
		
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			looks similar to a human in the sense
		
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			that the legs are in a certain way
		
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			the hands are in a certain way the
		
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			group grip and grasp where it can see
		
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			from is in a certain place and so
		
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			on why because they couldn't bring it like
		
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			an animal or an insect or something else
		
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			if it had the purpose that they desired
		
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			may allah almighty grant us understanding that maker
		
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			who made you he made you from a
		
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			little droplet of * and when the zygote
		
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			formed and when it started multiplying and the
		
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			fetus became filled with flesh and bone and
		
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			the organs began to form and the heart
		
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			started beating at about five weeks and and
		
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			it was given life at 120 days do
		
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			you know who was responsible and in charge
		
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			of all of that allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala and allah tells you all i want
		
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			you to do put your head on the
		
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			ground for me five times a day and
		
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			we say inshallah la hawla wa la quwwata
		
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			illa billah i was talking of the guy
		
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			who says will you be there for fajr
		
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			inshallah that means i'm not going to be
		
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			there it means i'm not coming i'm not
		
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			going to be there that's what it means
		
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			but when you say inshallah i will see
		
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			you i'll be five minutes early what does
		
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			that mean that means yes so when i
		
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			saw them young boys i said inshallah i
		
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			meant it come on i'm not from birmingham
		
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			right they told me don't pronounce the g
		
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			say birmingham is that true it's not true
		
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			i gotta say birmingham okay the g is
		
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			silent i checked the tajweed here brother you're
		
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			a top g my brother may allah bless
		
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			you all so my brothers and sisters allah
		
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			wants you to ponder he wants you to
		
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			think he wants you to look at everything
		
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			and he wants you to appreciate his greatness
		
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			so that you are humbled so that you
		
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			realize i am one from amongst us you
		
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			think you're very intelligent until you meet others
		
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			who are even more intelligent or your intellect
		
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			is only in a certain aspect of living
		
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			and someone else's is in a different aspect
		
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			of living you might be the top doctor
		
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			but you're not the top accountant and you
		
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			might be the top actuary but you're probably
		
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			not the top quran reciter you might be
		
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			the top speaker in the world but you're
		
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			not the top for example physicist and so
		
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			on allah's blessed every one of us uniquely
		
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			differently all of you including those seated up
		
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			allah's blessed you in a brilliant ways differently
		
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			from others so what alhamdulillah thank allah and
		
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			appreciate the favor of allah upon you not
		
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			everyone is a businessman not everyone is going
		
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			to be able to do everything but you
		
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			can do some things and allah says don't
		
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			forget to be virtuous amongst yourselves towards one
		
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			another because one of the reasons that human
		
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			beings given the scholars some of them give
		
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			is we need one another we are interdependent
		
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			to a certain extent by the divine wisdom
		
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			of allah you have a baker i'm not
		
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			a baker when i need bread i need
		
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			it from the baker so if i have
		
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			a good relation with the baker here comes
		
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			the hot bread by the way i'm on
		
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			a diet at the moment i cut out
		
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			bread but inshallah let's talk about someone else
		
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			nonetheless it's okay everyone else can have it
		
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			even if i'm not having it it's fine
		
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			but my brothers and sisters and i'm telling
		
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			you the truth i'm not joking i cut
		
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			out two things sugar and bread is it
		
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			a good diet good allah they say oh
		
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			i'm getting a round of applause there man
		
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			allahu akbar i'm trying i'm trying you know
		
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			they say once you clock 50 you got
		
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			to watch your health otherwise you know what
		
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			you start aging so fast may allah almighty
		
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			bless all of you and bless us i
		
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			mean but nonetheless look at this allah has
		
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			given everyone a different inclination today i sat
		
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			with a youngster he told me i was
		
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			doing computer science i didn't like it i
		
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			asked my dad can i change and he
		
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			agreed and i changed it after a year
		
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			into computer science and now i'm doing something
		
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			else that i really and thoroughly enjoy did
		
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			he do the right thing did he do
		
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			the right thing yes don't be shy he
		
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			did the right thing because if allah did
		
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			not want him to do something you don't
		
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			enjoy it you don't like it you're not
		
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			comfortable with it do something you are comfortable
		
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			with you like you enjoy you are good
		
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			at and you know what allah's blessed someone
		
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			else with something else and together we make
		
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			an umma together we make a community together
		
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			we make a nation together we make a
		
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			country diverse totally diverse if we were all
		
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			the same we would not be able to
		
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			survive because we would not have so many
		
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			different types of people in different spheres of
		
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			life that we actually need this is why
		
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			don't belittle someone else the guy who comes
		
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			to collect your bin once or twice or
		
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			thrice a week offer him or her respect
		
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			and honor greet them honor them once in
		
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			a while they are human beings for some
		
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			reason they are doing that job subhanallah the
		
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			people who are do who are packing in
		
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			the mega stores offer them respect they might
		
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			be from amongst us so many of those
		
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			the guys who are top-notch professionals offer
		
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			them respect as well because this is how
		
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			allah has created us each one inclines to
		
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			something but allah says the common factor is
		
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			every one of you needs to have a
		
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			connection with me if you don't have a
		
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			connection with me you've lost and that's why
		
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			we are here today to remind you to
		
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			say my brothers my sisters build your relation
		
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			with allah you know it and you alone
		
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			know it and allah knows it you know
		
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			what you've been through you know the hardship
		
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			you know the beautiful days you know the
		
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			successes you know the losses you know the
		
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			struggles and allah knows all of that too
		
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			for as long as you are inching closer
		
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			to allah and you are coming closer to
		
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			allah and you're becoming a better person in
		
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			the way you talk in the way you
		
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			carry yourself you're becoming more pleasant you are
		
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			not a person who is injuring others you
		
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			are trying to accommodate you are kind for
		
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			as long as all that is happening inshallah
		
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			you are heading in the right direction i
		
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			just thought of a good example when the
		
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			prophet muhammad peace be upon him was granted
		
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			revelation by allah what was the first word
		
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			read and there was an episode and immediately
		
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			when that ended he ran down to whom
		
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			to whom see the sisters all know khadija
		
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			khadija binti khuwaylid his wife and he says
		
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			hug me cover me give me a nice
		
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			tight hug subhanallah i'm sure you know this
		
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			and guess what when he told her what
		
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			happened she said something amazing that i'd like
		
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			to bring up tonight she said you are
		
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			a good man you honor the guest you
		
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			take care of the orphans you respect all
		
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			the others you and she started mentioning all
		
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			the good qualities of this man who is
		
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			her husband how many of our wives can
		
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			rattle out lovely things about their husbands he's
		
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			a good man he honors the guest he
		
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			takes care of his family he looks after
		
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			this he looks after that he does what
		
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			will they say about us he's on his
		
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			phone all the time that's me that's me
		
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			by the way he's on his phone all
		
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			the time and he's you know whatever whatever
		
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			we have weaknesses we are not prophets of
		
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			allah but that's not an excuse right please
		
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			don't go back home and say well i'm
		
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			not a prophet of allah we are guilty
		
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			so am i i need to improve inshallah
		
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			by the way my wife is seated here
		
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			so you know why i'm saying what i'm
		
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			saying right we need to improve we need
		
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			to put that phone away i've started turn
		
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			off no matter what in the morning you
		
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			find out what happened wallahi you get a
		
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			beautiful sleep you lose weight because when you've
		
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			slept well you actually lose weight well it
		
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			works for me subhanallah may allah grant us
		
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			ease when you haven't slept enough i found
		
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			i started gaining weight and i'm thinking what's
		
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			going on and the doctor says you're only
		
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			sleeping four hours a day i said but
		
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			i've been doing that for the last 15
		
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			years but that's not good enough and that's
		
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			why you have x y and z you
		
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			better be careful sleep well and make sure
		
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			you're eating the right things hamdulillah nonetheless she
		
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			is praising the husband and saying don't worry
		
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			indeed by allah never ever will allah let
		
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			you down you are such a great man
		
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			what does this mean develop those good qualities
		
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			and see allah will not let you down
		
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			if something looking bad happened in your life
		
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			wallahi it was a positive thing perhaps allah
		
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			wants you to achieve some height that you
		
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			didn't before so take it easy become a
		
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			better person ask yourself how do i talk
		
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			talk when i speak how do i come
		
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			across am i loud well i better calm
		
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			down a bit am i too soft well
		
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			i can tone up slightly and what else
		
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			do i speak in words that are hurtful
		
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			well i need to change that actively because
		
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			many of us we go home we don't
		
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			realize we talk to our sisters our brothers
		
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			our parents our uncles and aunts our children
		
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			our nephews and nieces and we use words
		
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			that are really not befitting a believer not
		
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			at all we use words that are terrible
		
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			and we hurt their feelings and they cry
		
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			behind closed doors because of something we've said
		
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			la hawla wa la quwwata illa work on
		
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			yourself change that be an asset when you
		
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			die they shouldn't be saying alhamdulillah they should
		
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			be saying inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajiun
		
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			some people when they die guys say oh
		
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			that guy died humbly la finally gone that
		
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			shouldn't be the case but with some of
		
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			us we don't realize if you don't introspect
		
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			and ponder you won't pick up your weakness
		
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			when you are corrected be happy someone tells
		
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			you my brother or my sister this needs
		
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			to be corrected don't judge me have you
		
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			heard that straight i haven't even finished my
		
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			sentence don't judge i'm not judging you my
		
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			beloved sister i'm only advising you so beautifully
		
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			please take heed not for me for yourself
		
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			but when you're advising someone don't embarrass them
		
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			don't belittle them offer them a beautiful piece
		
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			of advice encourage them in a way that
		
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			they feel like doing what you're telling them
		
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			to do you need to think even if
		
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			it means to think for a whole month
		
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			before addressing the matter may allah almighty grant
		
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			us goodness allah wants you to ponder because
		
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			ultimately we're going to return to allah you
		
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			know allah says in the quran that those
		
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			who ponder are the ones with sound intellects
		
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			those who think about the greatness of allah
		
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			i was telling you about the heart and
		
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			the other organs i was telling you about
		
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			the posture of a human being think about
		
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			it one day i sat and thought about
		
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			my nails and i thought imagine if the
		
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			nails were on the other side on the
		
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			other side what would happen wallahi disaster total
		
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			disaster allah has given us such great posture
		
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			that the finest of detail is where it
		
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			is supposed to be for his sake he
		
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			wants you to utilize these organs worshiping him
		
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			doing the right things and i want to
		
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			give you the good news this evening i
		
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			want to end with something really powerful ready
		
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			for it it doesn't sound like you're ready
		
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			ready on the day of judgment allah has
		
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			a scale of justice allah
		
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			says on the day of judgment we will
		
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			place the scales of justice and nobody shall
		
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			be wronged not a soul that day is
		
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			the day of justice it's the day of
		
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			judgment allah says even if it is a
		
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			mustard seed weight worth of a deed it
		
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			will be brought forth and sufficient we are
		
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			as an accountant meaning as one who takes
		
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			account sufficient allah is sufficient so what is
		
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			the blessing about the scale it's a blessing
		
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			why is it a blessing because in a
		
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			narration the prophet muhammad peace be upon him
		
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			tells us when you you've done a bad
		
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			deed you seek forgiveness yes but follow it
		
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			up with a good deed in order for
		
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			the bad deed to be wiped out how
		
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			will it be wiped out it will be
		
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			wiped out by the mercy of allah when
		
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			your good deeds are more than your bad
		
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			deeds allah says you can go to paradise
		
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			i will ignore these bad deeds it's over
		
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			for as long as there's no shirk in
		
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			it or association of partners with allah in
		
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			it you're good to go why you have
		
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			more good deeds than bad deeds but do
		
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			i have bad deeds yes i do i
		
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			have bad deeds but guess what i did
		
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			more good than bad so allah favored me
		
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			and when he weighed the deeds there were
		
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			so many bad deeds but when my good
		
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			deeds started coming on the scale they were
		
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			many more or even if they were a
		
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			little bit more guess what you won amazing
		
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			amazing allah says whoever's deeds the good deeds
		
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			are heavier they are more they are the
		
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			successful ah that brings about so much of
		
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			hope i have done bad deeds i have
		
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			committed sins i am a sinner i am
		
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			a sinful person i am a person who
		
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			is not exactly where i'm supposed to be
		
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			and so are all of us we're all
		
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			a work in progress and we're all going
		
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			to do better and tonight we promise allah
		
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			we're going to be changing ourselves for the
		
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			better allah has favored us i don't want
		
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			to die in a situation where i've done
		
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			the worst of my deeds instead i want
		
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			to die while i'm doing the good deeds
		
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			so do more of good deeds i need
		
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			help may allah help me i need to
		
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			get up and work hard to do the
		
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			right thing but the favor of allah is
		
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			as i'm doing good deeds i tell myself
		
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			oh allah accept me to do more good
		
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			deeds and more good deeds and so many
		
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			good deeds so that when i come on
		
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			the day of judgment you have mercy on
		
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			me when you see the scales and you
		
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			grant me paradise isn't that beautiful you have
		
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			hope there is a scale if allah said
		
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			i'm going to punish you for every mistake
		
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			you've ever made we would lose hope because
		
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			we've all made mistakes but allah is telling
		
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			you no you got more good you're good
		
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			to go you got less good you have
		
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			none to blame besides yourself the hadith says
		
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			whoever finds something besides that should blame none
		
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			but himself or herself may allah almighty forgive
		
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			our shortcomings may allah almighty grant help to
		
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			all of us and more than us may
		
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			allah almighty grant victory to our brothers and
		
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			sisters in palestine may allah almighty grant them
		
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			a return of their land back to them
		
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			and may allah almighty safeguard them we have
		
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			let them down as an ummah we have
		
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			suffered and suffocated but nowhere near what they
		
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			are going through allah alone knows it help
		
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			my brothers and sisters in palestine oh allah
		
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			you be there for them oh allah you
		
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			grant them victory from the pharaoh of this
		
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			age one who is worse than the pharaoh
		
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			one who's committed greater atrocities than any pharaoh
		
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			who's existed to this day and with that
		
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			we say my brothers and sisters as we
		
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			come to an end change your life do
		
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			the right thing life is very short you
		
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			and i don't know how long we're going
		
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			to live inshallah we meet on the other
		
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			side but in the right place may allah
		
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			bless you all aqoolu qawli hadha wa sallallahu
		
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			wa sallamu ala nabina muhammad wa sallamu alaikum
		
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			wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh