Mufti Menk – This Reminder Is For Me, I Need It

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The speaker is reminding people to improve themselves and achieve their goals. They stress the importance of repeating actions and praying for opportunities to change. The speaker warns people to avoid becoming defensive and to say "careous" instead.

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			We are here this evening. I sat here
		
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			listening to speaker after speaker.
		
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			And to be honest with you, in my
		
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			heart, I felt I need this reminder. I
		
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			need that reminder. This is for me. That's
		
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			for me. And I really would like to
		
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			improve myself.
		
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			And we all need to be the same.
		
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			If you are seated here, Something needs to
		
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			improve in you as you walk out today.
		
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			Your character needs to improve as we walk
		
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			out. We're not going to be rude to
		
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			one another. We're not going to be
		
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			vulgar, abusive. We're going to be courteous. We're
		
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			going to look out for one another. We're
		
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			going to be together in a way that
		
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			we help one another. We're a united Ummah.
		
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			That is when we've achieved. But if we
		
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			go out from this place without having achieved
		
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			anything, wallahi, we will be questioned. Were you
		
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			not there one day? Did you not sit
		
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			there? Did you not hear this? What did
		
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			you do about it? Well, I just said,
		
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			Insha'Allah.
		
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			Come on.
		
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			We can't do that. Bismillah. Are we going
		
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			to change?
		
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			Yes. Yes. InshaAllah. We say yes, InshaAllah. Change
		
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			for the will of May Allah grant me
		
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			a good change, positive change. May Allah strengthen
		
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			me to do the right thing. May Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala help me to quit my
		
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			bad ways, my habits, Ameen. And if you
		
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			falter because of human weakness, come back quickly.
		
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			Come back quickly.
		
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			One thing you have to do that is
		
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			repeated in the Quran so many times. If
		
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			it was mentioned once in the Quran that
		
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			you need to pray, it was enough.
		
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			If Allah said it once in the Quran
		
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			that you need to pray,
		
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			it was enough. But so many places Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			Allah tells you to bow down, to prostrate.
		
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			And so more than once, so many places
		
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			in the Quran, Allah says, here it is.
		
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			You bow down
		
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			and you go and you prostrate for Allah
		
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			and you pray for Allah. He could have
		
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			said it once. He says it again and
		
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			again and again because He wants it to
		
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			bear witness for you or against you. And
		
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			He wants it to be a reminder.
		
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			Meaning remind. For indeed the reminder
		
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			benefits those who believe. You believe in Allah?
		
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			Well, then don't be upset when someone reminds
		
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			you, listen, my sister, you need to do
		
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			this. Listen, my brother, you need to do
		
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			this. Listen, my sister or my brother, you
		
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			need to quit this and quit that. It's
		
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			not a bad thing. Don't become too defensive.
		
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			Just say, Alhamdulillah.