Mufti Menk – I’m Never Going To Give Up

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			When I was doing my hif You know
		

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			what's hif when you want to memorize the
		

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			Quran. Right? I was 9 years old, 10
		

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			years old, and I started getting an idea
		

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			that perhaps it's too difficult, and I'm not
		

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			going to finish.
		

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			I'm not going to finish. How many Jews
		

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			in the Quran? How many chapters in the
		

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			Quran? Can you?
		

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			How many?
		

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			30.
		

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			30 chapters in the Quran or 30 ajzah.
		

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			Some call it 30 Paras. Right?
		

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			In Urdu, it's para.
		

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			So it's 30
		

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			sur 30 chapters not surahs. Surahs, there's 114.
		

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			But when you start off number 1, number
		

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			2, how many are remaining now?
		

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			I think.
		

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			28 remaining. Right? When you do 3, how
		

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			many remaining?
		

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			27. When you do 4, how many remaining?
		

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			So 26 is so much and you start
		

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			thinking, gosh. Am I going to finish?
		

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			And that question comes about shaitan makes you
		

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			think again and again. And you think perhaps
		

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			it's going to be so hard for me.
		

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			I'm here to tell you do not give
		

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			up. Do not
		

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			Give
		

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			up. Do not Give up. Because
		

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			we all completed it. How many of you
		

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			are afar? You finished the whole Quran. Put
		

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			up your hands.
		

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			See, there are few from amongst us.
		

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			They didn't give up. They didn't?
		

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			Put your hands down. Put your hands down.
		

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			It's okay.
		

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			They didn't give up. If you give up,
		

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			it's you who gave up, but the world
		

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			will carry on. The other people who did
		

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			not give up, they will finish. They will
		

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			complete. They will succeed. It's not going to
		

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			be easy, but we're not on earth in
		

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			order for everything to be easy. Sometimes things
		

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			are going to be tough. They're going to
		

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			be what?
		

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			It's going to be hard.
		

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			Do you think it's going to be a
		

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			walk in the park to become a Hafid?
		

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			Allah makes it easy only when you fight
		

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			your laziness
		

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			and you don't give up.
		

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			So what are you doing? 2 things. Number
		

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			1, fight your?
		

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			Number 2, don't?
		

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			Don't give up. Masha'Allah.
		

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			So you continue before you know it you're
		

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			already on 15.
		

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			How many Jews in the Quran did we
		

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			say earlier? 30. 30. 15 is exactly half.
		

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			Right?
		

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			When you're on 16, you're going downhill now.
		

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			Right? 17,
		

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			you're going downhill. 18, a few more left.
		

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			And then you're on 21. Some people give
		

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			up. If they give up, they lost. I
		

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			want to encourage those who might have give
		

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			given up. Today is the day. I'm reminding
		

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			you go back. Don't give up. It's never
		

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			too late. You must make sure you finish.
		

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			Do a little bit a day but do
		

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			not give up. It might take you 1
		

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			year, 2 years, or 5 years, or more.
		

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			It's okay. I'm not going to give up.
		

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			I'm not going to
		

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			give up. Never. That's a Muslim.