Ramadan 2010 – Durban – Reminders – Day 18

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The importance of avoiding regret and mistakes in the future is emphasized, along with the need to recognize and correct weaker language. The importance of feeling happy when corrected and not wasting time is also emphasized. The importance of having a strong faith in Islam is emphasized, and the importance of avoiding negative comments and not arguing with the wrong is emphasized. The importance of being a leader of those with a certain kind of qualities is emphasized, as well as the importance of gratitude and obeying orders in the culture of Islam. The transcript describes a brief and confusing interview with a speaker, and the interviewer asks for a gift, but the speaker refuses to give any money until they meet the Queen.

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Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.

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smilla rahmanir rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa Salatu was Salam

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ala nabina Muhammad Allah, Allah Allah He was happy as you may know that All praise is due to Allah subhanho wa Taala blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam We ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to bless him and every single one of us to grant us goodness, and to help us benefit from this month of Ramadan to make it easy for us to increase the goodness in this month, and to become conscious of our bad habits and to eradicate them. I mean, honor the rule ama beloved brothers, sisters dearest listeners, this evening we completed firstly the surah known as surah Furqan, the criterion or the distinguisher between that which is right and wrong. The term for con

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refers to the Quran, because the Quran has in its laws, that separates the right from the wrong the good from the bad, the light from the darkness and so on. And obviously if we are to follow what Allah subhanho wa Taala has sent to us, automatically we will be granted the ability to distinguish between the opposite poles.

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And this is why in this surah Allah subhanaw taala has made mention of several aspects that we need to take heed of. But I will only make mention of some of them. One of the most important aspects in this particular surah is that of company, so many places in the Quran, Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks of good company. And the fact that we must abstain from bad company, Bad Company breaks you in such a way that you think you're doing right, because you don't have the ability to think because we begin to think in the same manner that those around us think and we will not be able to understand what's right and wrong. But when we change our company and we go into company that has

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the ability to distinguish We will also be given that ability to distinguish those who mix with people who have no Deen no religion in them. They will always point fingers at the deen and religion and they won't understand the laws and the regulations and they will always ask questions and they will always look at religion as something backward. But those who mix with the with those who are pious and religious they will understand the goodness that is derived from religion and they will understand that our need for the deen is greater than our need for water and drink May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us that. So Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks of how a person who had bad

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company in the dunya will regret it on the day of piano why oh my

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god more Allah de una journey to mama Sunni Sabi nila

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Nila Johnny Johnny llama Jackie phoolan kanina nakoda albani I need Vickery back.

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Annie, what can I show you?

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Any Hola. Allah says on that day, the oppressive person and what is the operation that they engaged in? It is operation to have bad company, you're oppressing yourself. So Allah says the oppressive person will in regret be eating his hands eating the hands is an Arabic term which means the height of regret. This person will be so deep in regret and they will say why didn't I choose the path of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Yeah, Allah. Why did I have such and such a person as a friend of mine? He is the one who led me astray. After the truth came to me. I rejected it.

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And from this verse, we learn that our company makes us reject the truth. Our company makes us laugh and scoff at that which is correct. Our company makes us do that which we know is wrong. Believe me, the problem of drugs we have today across the globe. 99.9% of those on drugs will confirm that they were introduced via a friend or an acquaintance or someone they mixed with. There we are. Those who are smoking will confirm the same. Anyone who has any bad habit when you mix with people who speak very vulgarly We will also begin to have vulgar language without even noticing but when you mix with those who have good language, good character, voila, he automatically will become like that. So this

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is something I call not only upon the youth, but even the adults. It's time for us to get rid of some of the people we've been mixing with for many, many years. Believe me, it is something that we will only taste the sweetness of after we identify better

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company and keep away from them. You don't need to go up to them and say right you know, my my circle, I am now getting rid of you as a friend, it will cause problems, but conveniently you abstain, you stay away. And believe me for the youth, the message is louder, the message is louder. Remember, you are being built and shaped. It is your choice whom you'd like to be shaped like mix with them. Be in that company, make yourself found in their company, where Allah subhanho wa Taala help us identify the true friends who will be an asset for the sisters also there is a message and for the brothers more so for the sisters, because sometimes small problem in the home, our friends

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tell us fix him. So timeout. You can't allow that to happen. How did you let this happen and so on. That is bad company, tell them loud and clear. When I have a friend, I want people to tell me things that are bitter, but true. So when you have a small problem, someone needs to come to you and tell you Look, my dear sister, it is not a problem that cannot be resolved. You can solve it. It's a minor issue or if not minor, then a lot of people are going through the same. Don't break your home because of that. Go back to your house. Even if you are saying I don't want to go home and the one who tells you No You must go that's the person genuine, they want to see you succeed. May Allah

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subhanho wa Taala help us success is not in following what your brain tells you. It's following what Allah tells you Subhana Allah, sometimes when you think you've reached the end of the road, it's only the opening and it's only the beginning. May Allah subhanho wa Taala open the doors for us when we think that they are closing. And sometimes it requires a solid friend to show you the path. This is why we should be happy when people correct us one of the means of perfecting our bad habits. And one of the means of learning and progressing is to feel happy when we are corrected no matter who corrects us when someone tells you look what you are doing is wrong. Don't do this. Don't do that.

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You need to spend more time like this and like that. Look, Brother You are sitting with us up to 12 o'clock every night. You've got a wife, you've got children, they are more important than I am My dear brother go home and you start looking and laughing no that advice is solid, it is genuine May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us friends like that. Who can help us prioritize and this is why I'm spending a moment here because this really teaches us and Allah has this verse in Surah Furqan It teaches us that if you have good friends, that is the only time you will be able to distinguish between right and wrong. That is the only time the Quran will be of benefit to you and to me, but

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when we have bad friends, the verses of the Quran can be recited we could have memorized the Quran cover to cover and still you have a halfhill who's on drugs, may Allah protect us. And may Allah subhanho wa Taala assist all those who have bad habits, especially the habit of drugs, may Allah subhanho wa Taala remove them from that. Remember, we are addressing you this evening telling you, you are the one who can help yourself better than anybody else. And obviously by the will of Allah Let's all make dua We ask Allah Subhana Allah to Allah to grant us all good habits to give us all good company. So that is a verse that Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of here, another very

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interesting point in Surah Furqan towards the end, Allah subhanho wa Taala describes what is known as a bad man, a bad man meaning the true worshipers of the Most Merciful.

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Who is it that will achieve the mercy of Allah number one, so the qualities I mentioned? Who is it? That will be a worshipper of Allah to the degree that they will then be able to distinguish between right and wrong? So Allah makes mention of the qualities required in myself and yourselves if we want the ability to distinguish between right and wrong between good and bad?

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What a bad or what Manny Latina I am, Chanel have been hoonah the true worshipers of the Most Merciful are those whom, when they walk on the earth, they walk with humility, humbleness, not arrogance, not haughtiness. And the word honan is a powerful word. The Arabic language has small words which describe what the English language would need a whole paragraph to explain. Let me give you an example. You know, when we go for ombre, there is something known as ramen. ramen is a type of walk. It is a brisk walk where you stick your chest out slightly and you have short steps but in a brisk manner. Look at how one small word with three letters we needed a paragraph to explain. The

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same applies how none here is describing a method of walking some hannula it means neither rushing, nor so slow, meaning you don't rush to the degree that you took and you don't walk so slow that a person might think that you are aimlessly just loitering. No Do you stamp your feet so hard that you disturb people? No Do you chip show that you are like a thief but rather you walk in between the

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Middle, the path that is perfect. No would you be haughty? No. Would you be a person who has pride or arrogance? May Allah subhanho wa Taala help us walk? It's amazing. I want to describe for you the working of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allah He It was a miracle, the Sahaba of the Allahu anhu say that when we used to walk with the best of creatures sallallahu alayhi wasallam

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we, if we walked, He always was ahead of us. And if we plotted a little bit, we were in front of him. There was never never a time when we could walk exactly like he walked. And the reason is, there is some miracle that Allah subhanho wa Taala had granted the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam known as for you, what is the meaning of the earth used to crumple under him so that when he walked he would cover more ground than anybody else? Allahu Akbar. Do we see the gift of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the earth underneath him. So if I were to put my leg for example, 50 centimeters from the other leg, I would cover 50 centimeters, but sallallahu alayhi wasallam would

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cover 70 possibly because the Earth would crumble and then open up again crumble and open up again to make him walk greater distance with a less effort sallallahu ala nabina Muhammad

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Allahumma salli ala nabina Muhammad Ali he was happy he was seldom at the Sleeman kathira that was the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the ideal walk one description of his walking in one of the Hadees it says that when he walked it was with so much ease. It was as though he was coming down a headlock Allahu Akbar. Every time it was with so much ease that it was as though he was walking downhill. Even if he was walking uphill. It was as though he was walking downhill. He never ever suffered to walk sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So Allah says that those who deserve the mercy of Allah, those who will be granted the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, to start with,

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they need to walk properly on Earth. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala says, immediately after that was either haba Mangia halona Carlos Allah when the ignorant addressed them, they don't waste time with the ignorance. They just say peace and they walk away. That's it. So when someone wants to pick a fight with you, you don't do it. When someone tells you something that is completely absurd. Rather than wasting your time tackling them, leave them greet them and walk away. Don't waste your time, like the English saying goes never argue with a fool. We might not agree with the second part of it. But it's true in the Sharia the first part of it we agree, don't argue with a fool Salah man peace

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and walk away. You've saved your energy. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us

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the understanding.

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Look at how beautifully it's worded. Allah subhanho wa Taala says when the ignorant wants to start with you, go away with peace, not with war. Don't start with him and create a fight and though and the big problem go away. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about how important it is

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to engage in Salah in the darkest hours of the nights the true worshipers of Allah who will be given the ability to distinguish between right and wrong those who deserve the mercy of Allah. When Latina B tuna lima beans with

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those who spent the nights Institute and standing in Salah May Allah accept this data away from us, Allah it is part of it. It's not easy to stand in 20 Raka of Salah especially when the recitation Mashallah is quite slow and Subhan Allah we are here only for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala every moment every letter we hear, we are expecting a reward from Allah Subhana Allah to Allah and inshallah, through His mercy it will be multiplied. This is why whenever we come for Salatu Chara, we never feel lazy. As we said a few days back the hypocrisy a sign of hypocrisy is what either Kamui la sala de como Casa La when they stand for Salah they stand very lazy, they are very lazy,

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they don't want to stand. They are asking themselves or telling themselves when is this going to end? We hope it ends quickly. And then another quality.

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Another quality is Allah says well levena colonna

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Nevada Ma Ma. Those who constantly make a dua Allah safeguard us from the punishment of jahannam for definitely its punishment is very severe. It is definitely something that is detrimental. May Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us we need to make this to our every day. Allah says the true worshipers of Allah this jar is on that chance.

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none of us can see

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Relax and think that you know the punishment of janome is not for us. We need to make a dua to Allah Allah safeguard us from the punishment of jahannam even the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to make this dua, may Allah subhanho wa Taala grant that to us, then Allah says, Those who when they spend, they are neither stingy nor are they extravagant, but in the middle one levena either. Falco Lemieux sifu lm Jaco aka anabaena Ronnie kocowa, the true worshipers of Allah when they spend, they are neither wasteful nor do they hold back where they need to spend, but they have chosen the middle path we've spoken about this in days that have passed but obviously we are repeating it and

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reiterating it here. It's important, then Allah subhanho wa Taala says, One levena lather on Mr. Ally Ilan sobre, la Oppo Luna nevsun it has long been happy,

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New Moon, three qualities. Those true worshippers of Allah do not associate partners with Allah and they do not commit murder, and they do not commit adultery. Then Allah subhanho wa Taala says, whoever happens to have done that, whoever happens to have committed such sin, Allah says, if they turn back to me, Repent, and after the repentant after the repentance, they constantly engage in good deeds, we will convert those bad deeds into good deeds on the right side of the scale. And this verse is here in Surah Al Furqan, Allah says, in

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those who engage in repentance and then they do good deeds, we will convert their bad that they had done into good deeds, or can allow for Rahim, Allah is indeed most forgiving, Most Merciful forgiveness in that he forgave you mercy in that he converted the bad into good, what type of mercy is that? Subhanallah imagine you owe someone 100,000 rands, the next day they come to you and say, No, you take the 100,000 that we cannot imagine that obviously, but when we are indebted, and when we have committed a crime, may Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us mercy, if we regret that Allah says, it is not too late, I will grant you not only forgiveness, but if after that, you do not do bad.

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Thereafter, I will definitely convert that bad into good, how more merciful.

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Grant us that mercy of his I mean, then Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about how important it is to abstain from false witness from bad language and so on. And thereafter, there is a powerful verse and this verse is really I need it as much as everybody else. When levena kyrou Big O beam lamea

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the true worshipers of Allah when they are reminded of Allah subhanho wa Taala as laws and allows verses, they do not turn the blind eye and the deaf ear to that they take heat. They don't close their eyes and their ears and say Ah yeah, that's fine. Whenever they are reminded, they immediately take that remembrance and they effect the change in their lives. We ask Allah Subhana Allah to grant us all mercy. So it's important that whenever we hear a message, we should be from amongst those who take heed, because that is the quality of the true believers. A person who is not a true believer whenever they hear the message they say I'll turn tomorrow inshallah you know tomorrow in the Arabic

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language is called the serif you know so far file so I'm going to do it I'm going to do it yeah, it's okay tomorrow, no problem. Next Ramadan I'm going to turn this Ramadan Mashallah we had some good pep talks. Next Ramadan will be the right Allah He we may die last night I spoke about someone with one of the brothers who was here. I got a phone call 12 o'clock that this man passed away suddenly.

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So this is how life is. And I'm sure this evening I came here I heard there was someone else who passed away. In fact, this afternoon I heard that there was a third person who passed away I got a message to say that there was another one of our aroma from this area, his father passed away May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant all of these gentlemen and May Allah subhanho wa Taala Have mercy on them.

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Tomorrow the SMS will fly that you have passed away or I have passed away. That's what it is.

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Waiting for that. May Allah Subhana Allah Allah grant us a turning point before this, life is too short to be bad. Life is too short to have bad qualities and habits. Life is too short to be at war with your wife with your husband, with your children will lie these are the the people who need you most in your life. And these are the people whom Allah has blessed you with and granted you may Allah subhanho wa Taala make us all exemplary people. So Allah subhanho wa Taala then makes mention of the dua, I spoke about wives and children. Why? Because there is a law that is that is ending this particular surah well levena colonna Bana headline I mean as why Gina

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13, EMA those who constantly make a dua? Who are they, they are the true worshipers of Allah subhanho wa Taala those who constantly make it to our to Allah subhanho wa Taala saying, oh, our Abba, habla mean as wodgina was Maria Tina kurata. You grant us a gift, what is the gift, that we have the coolness of our eyes in our spouses and our children, and that coolness of the eyes will not just come only by making dua, but we need to make a dua and an effort. What is the effort, we need to spend the time we need to swallow our anger, we need to swallow our pride. We need to make sure that the temper we have is controlled, we need to utter good words to our spouses. We need to

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attach goodwill to our children. We need to spend quality time at home. We need to spend quality time with our children then, and we need to fulfill our duty as parents by teaching them the deen in a beautiful manner. And the biggest way we have been taught to teach our children is by way of example. When you do they will automatically watch and do you talk they will watch how you talk and talk in the same way. When you fulfill your Salah they will automatically be found in salute. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us that leadership in our own homes.

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How many of us are not role models in our own homes? How many of us our children look up to us as an embarrassment? How many of us our spouses look up to us as an embarrassment or should I say look to us not even up as an embarrassment will lie. These are the nights where we can affect change. If only if only we take heed. It's not difficult. It's not difficult but it requires willpower and the acceptance of Allah subhanho wa Taala let's make dua to Allah subhanho wa Taala makers from amongst those who can effect positive change when it comes to our family members. starting tonight hamdulillah amin

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And may Allah subhanho wa Taala never make us from those who want to prove a point. So many people, especially the women folk they suffer in silence, suffer in silence without uttering a word. Nobody would believe their stories. What will happen will lie on the day of karma that man is going to be caught and that man will have nowhere to go, man, Allah subhanho wa Taala help us total matters out here in the dunya before the era, the era Ibrahim Alayhi Salam makes it you are in the next era and I'm just jumping because it's relevant to what we are saying. He says Oh Allah, do not embarrass me on the day of PM, LA to Zinio, my obasan don't embarrass me Allah on the day of karma and Ibrahim

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Alayhi Salam describes the day he says yo ma

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Salim your Allah don't embarrass me on the day of the AMA, that day when my wealth and my children will not be able to help me, but only the one who will be helped will be the one who comes with a clean, pure heart. May Allah make our hearts pure and clean and acceptable. When we have that heart which trembles in the fear of Allah, when we have the heart that obeys the instruction of Allah subhanho wa Taala automatically we will be receiving his mercy on the day of the AMA as well as before that in this dunya

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so this, that we need to constantly make a better habit and I mean as Regina, Regina kurata O Allah grant us the coolness of our eyes, you know family members in our children, Yala our progeny. And Allah says what giannelli Sakina. EMA continues and make us the leaders of those who are pious, the leaders of those who are conscious of you, you're Allah.

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We need to make the dua and if we make the dua we need to work towards that we need to work in that direction. No point in saying I'd like to open a shop on that street and we have not prepared anything. I'd like to open a shop on that street and we haven't prepared a thing. That is the example we want to make it to our to say Allah make me a leader of those who are conscious of you. Yeah, Allah and we have prepared absolutely nothing. We are walking in another direction altogether. We ask Allah

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subhanho wa Taala to open our doors, then Allah says at the end, do you know what we've prepared for the people who have these qualities, these people, not only will we grant them our mercy, not only are they the true worshipers of the Most Merciful not only are they the ones who will have the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, but over and above that, we will give them a special place in general.

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What is that special place? It is known as

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the room in general, the special place the abode in general Ola

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una fecha Bhima Sabo

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Kona Fie.

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Allah says those people are the ones who will have that special abode in Jannah. Because of the patients that they bow in the dounia which means Jenna we will earn by perseverance, by suburb by patients by restraints and so on. These are the qualities that will take us to gender and Allah says, Do you know how they will be received in Jenna with the Hey yet and Solomon? The here is all sorts of Greetings, Allah subhanho wa Taala says the good greetings Allah subhanho wa Taala will address the people with Salah meaning peace the angels will be saying Peace be upon you. You know when you walk when you are the CEO of a big company and you walk into your company, all these little

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people who work for you they greet you with a smile on the face. Imagine you have to enter Jeanette the angels are greeting you.

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Salam aleikum, WA salatu salam, Aleikum, WA Salatu merkaba.

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The angels have to greet you one after the other Peace be upon you because of your patience. Look at what you've got. Allahu Akbar. Allah subhanho wa Taala makers from those who are patient really, it is something that should move us that is the end of the surah known as to run for con and the next year I swear to show our named after the poet's

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and in the surah Allah subhanho wa Taala very rhyming Lee makes mention of the stories of some of the prophets and you notice it rhymes because they're about to add even more Selena is call Allah whom whom Odin Allah Taku. In Nila Kumar soon

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denied me all the messages Allah repeats the same verses for all of them. That Do you remember when this prophet his people be like them? Why when he came out to them and he told him that look, I am calling you towards Allah I am a messenger I am truthful. I am not asking you anything material you need to follow. My reward is with Allah and Allah subhanho wa Taala at the end after making mention of the destruction of them one by one, one by one he makes mention of the destruction of all those previous nations and he says, In Haleakala I

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mean meanie. Indeed in that story. There is a lesson for those who have sound intellect, there is a lesson there they are always lessons and Allah says the bulk of them will not believers they will not believe as they were destroyed. We ask Allah subhana wa Taala not to destroy us in this particular way as well.

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Then, obviously this Surah Surah to Shara because at the end Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of the poet's they were the poets at the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam they use their poetry, the kuffar from amongst them use their poetry to attack Islam, but Abdullayev na hora de la gnome and the others. Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of how they used their poetry to defend Islam. Allah says in levena Manu amilo saw he had he was

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Kathy Ah, well,

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that email wound emo. Allah subhanho wa Taala condemns the poet's, but makes an exception of those who believe in do good deeds from amongst them. They were three main poets at the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we asked Allah Subhana Allah to grant us the understanding of the Quran. The Quran is neither poetry nor is it a song, nor is it ordinary speech. It is a balance and it is described as Koran and nothing else. It has certain verses that rhyme and certain verses that do not rhyme, wherever the verses rhyme, I can let you know one powerful point. If you notice the verses all end in a specific way, the minute that change

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The topic has changed. That's the miracle of the Quran. The minute the rhyme changes especially towards the end of the Quran in the ayah, which are known as machiya, which were revealed in Makkah, Tomoko Rama, you notice the rhyme and suddenly when the rhyme changes, then you would know the topic has changed. So hanabi Allah Allah, we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala His goodness, the last surah that we read this evening, and inshallah we still have to complete it. Surah Surah naml is a very, very powerful surah It is named after the end. Why the ends because Suleiman alayhi salatu was Salam was no ordinary prophets, he was granted certain powers by Allah subhanho wa Taala that nobody else was

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granted. He was not only a prophet, but he was a king at the same time. Some of the prophets they were granted only Prophethood some of them were granted Prophethood and lots of wealth, some of them are granted Prophethood lots of wealth and power and authority on land as well. Sulaiman and the Dalai Lama Salam were part and parcel of those, meaning they were granted both the new Buddha as well as the kingdom. They were in authority. So the word is the father Sulaiman la salatu wa sallam the sun. What happened to Sulayman? Allah had given him powers inshallah, we will, when we install Assad, we will be speaking about the powers given to Sulaiman alayhi salam, but today I want to

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mention one incident or maybe two.

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When he was crossing with his army, the power that was given to him by Allah was he could understand and communicate with all creatures. So he heard the ENT had either at Oh Allah.

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Allah, Allah.

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Lord oma Sakina con la,

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comme Suleiman.

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When he was crossing the Valley of the ends, he heard one MP tell the other ends.

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Get into your homes, Yuri Suleiman coming with his army he might crush you whilst he doesn't know. But

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he smiled at the statement of the end. Imagine he knew what the end said. What if any one of us had to hear what the end said said what would happen so behind Allah? I'm sure we would hear we would hear disaster after disaster. Oh, no, they brought the doom today. They put it on the fridge. Did you see? Allah subhanho wa Taala protect us, really? So imagine if we could hear that I think we would still spray the doom Allahu Akbar. soleimani salam, just the end. Don't worry. Enter your home's URI Suleiman. He's heard what you said go in. We'll wait for you little ends to go in then we will pass and then he made the do

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to Allah Allah Allah, Allah, Allah, grant me the ability, grant me the ability to thank you make me able to thank you. So Allah, he's not saying Allah, I'm thanking you. The gratitude is already there in the sense that he was a great worshipper of Allah. But he says yeah, Allah, I am Thanking you in every way but make me able to thank you properly for what you've given me and my father and everything. You've blessed me with the Allah. We need to make this do as well. We need to ask Allah Allah grant us the ability to thank you may Allah subhanho wa Taala give us that ability. We thank Allah by tongue, but more than that, by obeying His commands and abstaining from his prohibitions,

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we will naturally be thanking Allah subhanho wa Taala. So that is the dua he made. And there is another incident that I must make mention of before our time runs out, and that is that of the Queen of Sheba made mention of in this particular surah according to some of the narrations Her name was bulky. According to some of the narrations. Her name was bulky. And what had happened is, she was a very powerful person, she was ruling over the nation of Shiva, Sabah and Allah subhanho wa Taala makes mention of how the hoopoe bird was lost and it was missing absent. So Suleiman Allah He said, I went to look for it. And suddenly it came. He says, Where were you? When I was taking count here?

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You are not there. He says, Hey, wait, I've got a story for you. What's the story? I seen a woman ruling people that side and they were shipping the Sunday. So Sulaiman had a salon says, hang on, we want to test you if what you are saying is right or wrong. Take this little gift of ours. Go and give it to her and see what she says. So Sulaiman, Allahu Salatu. Salam wrote her note.

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told her, you'd better come and submit to Allah subhanho wa Taala. So the bird wings, and definitely what had happened is she said, Look, are you trying to bribe me with

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This gifts now you've come here with a note. It says here I need to surrender. She consulted with her chiefs. What should we do? What should we do? And in the meantime, Suleiman alehissalaam had a lot of the gym kind, totally under his authority, and he told the gym kind,

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who from amongst you can bring her and her whole throne and everything around it, lift it up and bring it in front of me here now. So if we, if it was a powerful gene, look what he says, Allah says in the Quran, Allah is free to mineral Genie, and it can be he Kabbalah jakhu mommy comic, if it says, a man, I've got the power to bring her right here with all her palace and all the people in it one time I lift it up and bring it in front of you before you stand up.

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Before you stand up, imagine that is a free, but Allah says that there was someone more powerful than if we who was he, he was the one who was given the knowledge of the book. And the shows us a person sometimes might not be big and burly, but when they have knowledge of the book, they are powerful where Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us the knowledge of the book and the revelation. So Allah says, Allah Allah the

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Jolla, the one who had knowledge is a I will bring her here before your eye that has now just blinked, reopens. And when he opened his eyes, she was already there, everything was there. And she looked at she says what what is this? So soleimani salaam says look, change this throne of his a little bit in such a way that you modify it modifying means, you know the tiles they had, however they were they were now converted to glass tiles imagine glass tears within a split second not meaning of flesh of the eyelid Subhanallah so when she she was asked that take a look. You are now witnessing here is Sulaiman and everyone who's thrown is this is this your throne? So she looked at

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it. She tried to see here she says

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who it seems like it is the same Throne of mine. And Allah subhanho wa Taala bless Sulaiman alayhis salam, the beautiful words that he spoke and she spoke when she realized that the power I have is nothing. This man is a Nabhi sent from Allah and at the same time he's a king. He is such a powerful person Suleiman Allah is salat wa salam. She says, Rob be in Nirvana tune up. See, oh my Rob, I seek forgiveness for this oppression that I have oppressed myself by worshipping the sun. I will not worship the sun. Yeah, Allah. She says what a slum to Maha Suleiman Allah Hello bill, Allah me. I have surrended with Sulayman and E Salatu. Was Salam for the one who is the Lord of the worlds of

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Bulla al Amin. How many of us here are ready to surrender to Allah subhanho wa Taala if we are there were people more powerful than us who surrendered in a flash of an eyelid with us message after message and we still scratch our heads do we want to sit in the middle Allah subhanho wa Taala make myself surrender and yours and until we meet again sallallahu wasallam albaraka ala nabina Muhammad Subhan Allah Subhana Coloma hamitic to Allah Allah elantas tofu Kona to Buddha