Mufti Menk – What A Waste – Aberdeen

Mufti Menk
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The speaker discusses the importance of happiness and joy in relationships, and emphasizes the need to be mindful of one's behavior and not rush into something. They stress the importance of giving people opportunities and showing compassion when giving food. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of showing compassion and being generous when giving food. The message of Islam is to give every man a portion of money, but it must be earned hard.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.

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Bismillah walhamdulillahi wassalatu wassalamu ala rasulullahi wa ala

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alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.

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My brothers and sisters, earlier today, we were

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thinking, where would we eat?

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The reason is we've been traveling a lot

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and coming from Newcastle via Edinburgh to Aberdeen.

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We were in two minds.

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Should we eat in Edinburgh or should we

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come up to Aberdeen and have a bite

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here?

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And I know the hospitality of all of

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you.

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Each one of you would fight to say,

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let's go to my house.

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Am I right?

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MashaAllah.

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But nonetheless, we thought it would be unfair

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to go to someone's house because the others

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might think, why did he go there and

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not come to us?

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So to maintain the love and the peace,

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we just decided, let's go to one of

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the closest restaurants to the masjid.

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And so we decided to go to Lahore

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Karai.

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MashaAllah.

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And the brothers entered and MashaAllah, they were

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told in advance, don't over order.

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Now there's a reason I start this way.

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Because Alhamdulillah, we were able to finish whatever

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we ordered.

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And we were quite a few men.

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You know, when we say men, we mean

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that, you know, it's not a joke.

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You've got to order.

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But nonetheless, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has

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asked us to do certain things.

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And he has put in front of us

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so many things and told us what's right

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and wrong and asked us to use our

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brains, our capacity and the choice that he

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gave us to do the right thing.

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Obviously, it's Allah who does what he wants.

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Allah allows you or disallows you.

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But he says, I gave you a choice.

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Because I chose to give you the choice.

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And I told you to do the right

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thing.

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I put good in front of you, bad

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in front of you.

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I gave you the brain and the energy.

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And I told you do the good and

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stay away from the bad and I let

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you go.

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And when you went, it was up to

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you to decide what to do.

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I know what my Lord said.

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I know I have the energy to do

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either of this.

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But I will only do what pleases my

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Lord.

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Because he made me and I'm going to

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go back to him.

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So before I proceed, the food was very

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nice.

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Mashallah.

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Beautiful.

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And guess what?

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We kept it at the end with a

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cup of tea.

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Mashallah.

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Tea.

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And if you know the Lahori tea, you

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will know what we had.

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The point being raised now is Allah tells

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us, Oh man, do not be wasteful.

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Don't waste.

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I've been traveling the world with Abdullah Aid

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for some time now.

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And Wallahi, if you were to see the

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amount of people who don't have anything to

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eat, you would be ashamed to leave the

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crumbs on your plate.

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And you would be embarrassed to dish out

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more than you can eat.

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And you would be embarrassed to eat too

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much to the degree that you're so full

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you become lazy.

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How can we do that while others don't

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even have this?

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Allah tells us, subhanahu wa ta'ala, in

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more than one place in the Quran, to

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be careful of extravagance and wastefulness.

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Listen to some of the verses.

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One of them.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَلَا تُبَذِّرْ

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تَبْذِيرًا Don't be wasteful.

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Wasting things.

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إِنَّ الْمُبَذِّرِينَ كَانُوا إِخْوَانَ الشَّيَاطِينَ Those who are

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wasteful, they are the brethren of shaytan.

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Oh, that's a tough one.

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That's a tough one.

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Those who are wasteful, extravagant, they want to

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waste.

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They want to throw things away that are

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useful.

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Subhanallah.

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Allah says, they are the brethren of shaytan.

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Why?

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Because Allah told you to do something, shaytan

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is telling you to do something, and which

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way did you incline?

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This way or that way?

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The wrong way.

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So it's better to take less in your

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plate, and take again if you want.

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But don't just fill your plate such a

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mountain, that even Mount Everest is dwarfed.

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You know what I mean.

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But subhanallah, you can take once or twice.

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I remember visiting one of the Far East

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Asian countries, and there was a buffet.

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And you know when you're paying 10 pounds

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and they tell you eat all you can,

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what do people do?

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Let's be honest.

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They will take the plate and fill so

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much of what they want and what they

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don't want, because all of it is included,

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right?

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And they take so much and they make

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a mountain of it and they eat sometimes,

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they can't finish that.

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I remember entering a restaurant, and it said

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there that this is the price of the

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buffet, and whatever remains in your plate when

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you are done, we charge you X amount

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for every 100 grams that you've wasted.

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Wallahi I was touched.

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I said this is the way it should

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be.

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Now I was watching, see the people are

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taking so little.

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And then they go back and take so

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little.

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And I'm thinking you are worried about the

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fine you're going to have to have wasted

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food, and you're not worried about Allah.

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Come on, I'm a believer.

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I'm supposed to be more concerned about my

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Lord.

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Subhanallah, but it's a good rule, right?

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Imagine if you had to implement that rule

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in your own home.

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I tell you recently, I've been speaking to

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older people who are healthy, and asking them,

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what is it that got you to this

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level of age with such good health, because

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we are getting there and we want to

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have some tips.

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And a lot of them say, we cut

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down on our food.

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We used to eat so much and we

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cut down a little bit, cut down a

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bit more.

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And the less we're eating, the better we're

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feeling.

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So I wasn't a smarty pants to tell

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them, well stop eating, you'll feel the best.

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Because if you're saying the less we're eating,

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the better we're feeling, the end of that

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might be, stop eating, you'll feel so good.

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No, because they'll end up going to Jannah.

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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us

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all Jannah.

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Nonetheless, that was just a joke.

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But, on a more serious note, yes, the

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less they ate, the better they felt.

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And then I thought of the sunnah of

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the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, where

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he says, فَإِن كَانَ لَابُدَّ فَثُلُثٌ لِلطَّعَامِ وَثُلُثٌ

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لِلشَّرَابِ وَثُلُثٌ لِلنَّفَسِ If you really would like

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to eat and you want to consider yourself

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a believer who's eating, what should you do?

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One third for solids, one third for liquids,

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and one third for air.

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In a nutshell, you get up from your

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place of eating and you're still a bit

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hungry.

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Do we do that?

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Do you know what we do these days?

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Wallahi, I've been to restaurants where the starters

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alone have made me full.

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Am I right or wrong, guys?

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The starters alone, when we don't have so

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much of cash in our pocket, say, let's

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go there and have starters, and we'll go

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away.

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So, you have starters alone.

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After that, the main course comes.

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All of the main course is above the

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one third.

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Your belly is full and the belly is

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created with an elasticity.

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So, when you put more, it stretches and

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stretches.

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It will go more and more.

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And later on, how it's going to fight

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with you in order to digest it, there

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are different sounds and different whatever else.

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But you get the main course coming in

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and you're eating and you're busy eating.

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And when it was expensive, you make sure

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you're eating because I had to pay for

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this.

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It costed 15 quid.

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I'm not just going to leave it.

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Come on.

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And you got to eat more.

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And then what happens?

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You're done.

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Alhamdulillah.

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Like it's right at the top here.

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And on top of that, there's dessert that

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comes in.

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Do you know why they call it dessert?

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At that point, you should desert the table.

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I promise you.

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At that point, you should desert that table.

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Leave it.

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No, you don't.

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They say, no, this ice cream, it will

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melt.

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When it goes in, it will find its

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way in the gaps that are created by

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the food that you've chewed.

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Come on.

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Come on.

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Stop your marketing business.

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Let's go back to the Sunnah.

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And we will tell you, brother, order less.

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And eat slightly less.

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My sister, we may not have such a

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big problem with the sisters, but maybe more

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with the brothers.

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Or am I wrong?

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Allahu Akbar.

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I see someone saying yes so loudly.

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May Allah forgive you.

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Luckily, they can't see who you are, my

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brother.

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May Allah grant us goodness tonight.

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You wouldn't have food back at home.

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But nonetheless, again, I say this because when

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you travel the world and you watch those

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who are struggling in war zones, you watch

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those who are struggling in zones where there

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have been hardship and difficulty.

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You watch those who are struggling in places

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where there have been floods and earthquakes and

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volcanoes and famine and drought and so on.

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Wallahi, you start thinking to yourself, how do

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we thank Allah?

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If you don't want a day to come

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to you when you have a problem with

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food, then start thanking Allah from now.

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Thank Allah by doing a few things.

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Number one, don't be wasteful.

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We read one verse.

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Don't be wasteful in anything.

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Even in your spending.

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Allah speaks about spending and Allah says, وَلَا

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تَجْعَلْ يَدَكَ مَغْلُولَةً إِلَىٰ عُنُقِكَ وَلَا تَبْسُطْهَا كُلَّ

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الْبَسْطُ When you are spending, don't be so

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miserly and don't spend everything.

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Don't just be extravagant.

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In the middle.

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Allah speaks about the worshippers in Suratul Furqan

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and He says, وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا أَنْفَقُوا لَمْ يُسْرِفُوا

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وَلَمْ يَقْتُرُوا وَكَانَ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ طَوَامًا What a

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beautiful verse.

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True believers are those who are moderate.

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When they spend, they are neither miserly nor

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are they wasteful.

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But rather, they spend in a beautiful way,

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a balance.

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I know what I need, I'm gonna spend

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according to what I need.

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That's it.

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That's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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So, number one, to show gratitude to Allah,

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don't waste.

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Secondly, when it comes to consuming things, don't

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waste.

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Even if it is water.

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You turn on the tap and just because

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the pressure is nice, you turned it on

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full and you made wudhu, we used one

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full bucket for your wudhu.

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Whereas in other places, there's no water, all

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you needed was one bottle.

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Why did you waste the water?

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You're a believer.

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Do you know you can get Jannah just

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by conservation?

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By saving things.

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You might say, well, it's my water, I'm

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paying for it.

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That attitude is wrong.

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You are on earth sharing it with almost

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8 to 10 billion people.

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You can't just say, I'm gonna use the

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bucket, so what, I paid for it.

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It depletes, it does deplete.

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Fresh water is scarce on earth.

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So be careful, conserve the water and earn

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a reward from Allah.

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And perhaps if you have the right intention,

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you can earn Jannatul Firdaus.

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When you don't waste, you might say, well,

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if I don't eat much, how is that

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food going to end up in Palestine?

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It's a question someone might ask.

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And young kids always ask such smart questions

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because they are thinking that, look, I'm looking

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at the food, there's a big chicken here.

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So say, for example, if I only ate

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one piece, there's three quarter of it left.

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How is that going to help the poor

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in the world?

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I tell you how it will help.

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It will help if you only ordered the

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quarter rather than the whole chicken and then

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took the amount that you were ready to

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spend on the rest of it and put

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it somewhere in the right direction.

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Today I'm with Abdullah Aid.

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If you are saying that it's the first

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time I came to Aberdeen, I agree with

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you.

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Only today I found out that it's actually

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Muslim because there's a deen in Aberdeen.

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Allahu alam.

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Someone told me that today.

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I think it was Sheikh Maroof himself.

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Yes.

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And then I thought to myself, maybe after

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you're in the deen, you can go to

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Edinburgh and have Eid.

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Anyway, you know my grandpa jokes, right?

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My grandpa jokes.

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But nonetheless, if you think it's my first

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time, yes, it is my first time.

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I'm glad to be here.

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How did I come here?

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It was Abdullah Aid who told me, let's

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go.

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We meet our brothers and our sisters.

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We'll talk to them.

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We'll conscientize them about people across the world.

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You don't have to only donate through Abdullah

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Aid.

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You can donate through anyone and everyone.

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But the matter here, today I've chosen the

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topic, don't be wasteful.

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No matter what it is.

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Look at your closet.

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Brothers and sisters.

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Go into your cupboard at home.

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How many pairs of clothes do you have?

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How many shoes do you have?

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How many perfumes do you have?

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How many watches do you have?

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How much of this do you have?

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And I promise you, think to yourself, I

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need to do better than this.

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And I don't mean adding.

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I mean subtracting.

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Because if you're going to say, Sheikh told

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me, I've got 45 pairs of clothes.

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I need to do better than this.

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Let me get another 20.

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No.

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We're saying 45 is too much.

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Do you know there is something called minimalism

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at the moment?

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There are people who are minimalistic.

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They are living in very simple abode.

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Wealthy people in Japan and other countries, go

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read about them.

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Wealthy people, they only have two or three

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sets of clothes and that's it.

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And they wear the same clothes every day.

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It gets cleaned and washed and comes back.

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And simple home, simple house, you might wonder.

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But these people have so much of money.

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Because they achieve contentment when they live simply

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and they spend the money on something else.

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When Allah gives you wealth, tell me, are

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you going to take it in your grave

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with you?

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No way.

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Today people respect you on earth because you're

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a rich man.

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You drove in with a Lamborghini.

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All the boys will come out and listen.

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They'll tell you, please rev.

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Uncle, rev again.

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We want to hear the vrrr, vrrr.

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And can we do a video?

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You say, no problem.

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And then you go and stand in front

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of the car.

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For what?

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You stood in front of the car to

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take a picture.

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But it's not your car.

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But nonetheless, they will give you respect in

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the world when you have a lot.

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Think for a moment.

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It's not wrong to have a Lamborghini if

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you can afford it, by the way.

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If you can afford the best, no problem.

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It's not wrong.

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For as long as you're not wasteful.

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I don't have ten Lamborghinis.

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I got one.

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Sorry, not me.

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I'm talking about others, right?

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I don't have ten Lamborghinis.

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I got one.

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Meaning, I don't have ten of this.

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I got one.

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Or maximum, maybe I have another one for

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this or for that.

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The watch, for example.

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People might say, you know, I've got two

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watches.

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If you are dealing in watches, it's a

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different story.

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If you are dealing in cars, you can

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have a hundred and you can buy and

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sell.

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But for you and your own personal use,

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I tell you why.

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The day you die, what are you going

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to take with you?

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You're going to take with you your deeds.

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Money will only become a deed when you

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do something good with it.

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That's all.

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If it remains, it goes to someone else.

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Look at the irony.

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You have a billion.

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May Allah grant you a billion.

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Say Ameen.

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It was a loud Ameen.

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Notice I didn't say the currency.

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I just said a billion.

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So let's see, inshallah.

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Okay, maybe pounds.

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Okay.

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I believe in Scotland.

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You have a slightly different note, right?

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Scottish.

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Okay.

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Sterling.

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Okay.

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Same sterling.

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But it's okay.

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But he said Scottish.

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I think he dropped the two Ts from

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the center.

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Allah make it easy.

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We say Scottish.

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But nonetheless, say you get a billion.

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You have a billion, right?

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How can you convert that into good deeds

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on the scale of the day of judgment?

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What are you going to do with it?

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That's what is of essence.

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So you might want to have a better

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home.

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MashaAllah.

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No problem.

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Have a nice home.

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As long as you're not going to sleep

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over your salah.

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As long as you're not going to forget

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Allah and your commands and your instructions, you

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can have a lovely home.

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You can have beautiful air conditioning, lovely carpet,

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a nice ambience, a beautiful swimming pool.

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You can have someone helping you.

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You can have so many other things.

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MashaAllah.

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And all of that.

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SubhanAllah.

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Rabbil Alameen.

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Guess what?

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It's not haram.

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But with that, you might want to add,

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I've got beautiful perfumes.

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I've got three lovely ones.

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You know, I've got a beautiful, you know,

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set of clothing.

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I've got 10 pairs of clothes.

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Alhamdulillah.

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Think to yourself, how much have I given

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other people?

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So Allah says, we gave you wealth.

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We firstly want you to look at your

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relatives.

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First, who does Allah want you to look

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at when you have?

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Whether you get along with them or you

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don't get along with them.

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Allah says, وَآتِذَا الْقُرْبَى حَقَّهُ وَالْمِسْكِينَ وَابْنَ السَّبِيلَ

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Before miskeen, Allah says, ذوي القربى.

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Before the poor person who's out in the

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public, Allah says, look at your relatives.

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Your brother, your sister, someone in need, your

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family members in need.

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Make sure that you give them.

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You might say, but you know what?

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I have a difficult relationship with them.

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It's not easy.

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They are difficult.

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Or my brother-in-law or my sister

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-in-law is a very tough person.

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I don't wish to help them.

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I'm not helping them because of them.

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I'm helping them because of Allah.

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That's what it is.

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Allah knew who your sister-in-law was

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going to be.

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Allah knew who your brother-in-law was

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going to be.

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Many people use these excuses.

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But Allah says, we made it that way

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just to test you.

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You have a billion.

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These guys are struggling.

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They don't even have fees to pay for

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the kids.

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And here you are.

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You should be ashamed of yourself that in

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your family circles, as a billionaire, there are

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people who can't afford basic things.

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You should quietly or openly help them.

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Put your pride aside.

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That's your test from Allah.

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وَآتِذَا الْقُرْبَىٰ حَقَّهُ You say, O Allah, I

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obey your instruction as difficult as it is.

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I'm going to give.

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It's not easy.

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To get paradise, it's not a joke.

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You got to get up for Fajr.

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Waking up for Fajr is not easy.

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You have to push yourself.

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If you don't push yourself, you won't achieve.

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Some of the youngsters, they look at those

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who are successful and say, uncle, how did

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you succeed?

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Aunty, how did you get to where you

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are?

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A lot of them will tell you with

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hard work.

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We got up and we were not lazy.

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We made sure we worked hard.

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If you're not prepared to work hard, you

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won't achieve.

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مَنْ جَرْدَ وَجَدْ Whoever works seriously and takes

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things seriously and works hard, they will see

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the result.

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They will achieve.

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Others won't.

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So the same applies to you and I.

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You want to achieve something, work hard and

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you will achieve it by the will of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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So when you have the wealth, give.

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Who do you start with?

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Your relatives, your family members, those who are

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near you.

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And after that, where do you go?

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You start going to those in your community.

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And from the community, you make the circle

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bigger and bigger.

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And then you reach out to those overseas

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who might need your help.

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Sometimes there is a more desperate need a

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little bit further away.

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You will have to prioritize and go far

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because that's an immediate need.

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Do you get the point?

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As we are speaking here, our brothers in

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Lebanon and our sisters are suffering unprecedented injustices

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and warfare.

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And our brothers and sisters in Palestine, in

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Gaza, in the West Bank and elsewhere are

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suffering unprecedented aggression against them, butchering of innocent

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lives.

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May Allah protect them.

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May Allah grant them success upon success, victory

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upon victory.

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And may Allah take care of them and

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forgive our weakness.

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An ummah of a few billion and we

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were unable to save a single life.

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May Allah forgive us.

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Even those who make a huge noise, every

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noise they made.

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Yes, there was some form of benefit that

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happened from all the people who did whatever

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they did.

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But it didn't save a life.

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It carried on.

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It's going on as I'm talking to you

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right now.

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Right now it's going on.

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I'm ashamed of my own self.

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May Allah forgive me and forgive all of

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us.

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And imagine we're sitting, mashallah, we have a

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beautiful gift of Allah.

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We have peace, we have comfort, we have

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good neighbors, Muslim and non-Muslim.

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We get on with the people.

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We try our best to fulfill their rights.

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They fulfill our rights, mashallah, tabarakallah.

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We're earning, we have so much.

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Don't be wasteful.

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Consider the others.

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And when you consider the others, firstly pray

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for them as well.

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Oh Allah, help them, grant them, clothe them.

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Do you know the winters?

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In some of the camps that I visited,

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in parts of Jordan, some parts of Turkey,

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where there are still the Syrian refugees from

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the Syrian war.

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In the winters, wallahi, you and I would

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not be able to last for 10 minutes

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out there.

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It is freezing cold, ice cold with snow

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and absolutely brutal weather.

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And what do they rely on?

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Wallahi, they rely on you and I.

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I've got 20 jackets.

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You know what?

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I don't want to have 20 anymore.

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Not that I'm throwing them away, but instead

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of buying the next one, I'm just going

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to give the money and say, please, I

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want to do some clothing for people who

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are living in tents anywhere in the world.

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They are my brothers and my sisters.

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They have a pressing need.

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Their life is at stake.

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I will definitely reach out to them.

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When I'm going to eat the next time,

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when we go out to eat, how much

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money do we spend?

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Wallahi, we spend.

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It's not cheap anymore.

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You go out just for a pack of

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chips, fish and chips.

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What does it cost you?

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See, everyone knows because everyone has fish and

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chips.

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And one iron brew.

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What does it cost you?

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They say it's from this part of the

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world, right?

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Correct?

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There you go.

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10 pounds, 11 pounds.

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MashaAllah, it's good.

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I'm not saying don't eat.

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I'm saying don't waste.

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That's what I'm saying.

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Make sure you eat in a proper way.

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Sunnah, thank Allah.

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Read your du'a before you eat.

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And thank Allah when you're done eating.

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And every time you just take a little

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bit and give it away.

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I give you one other example.

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Why do I say every time take a

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bit?

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Today we're in this masjid, okay?

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It's a beautiful center.

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Community center as well.

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It was purchased with money.

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It must have costed millions.

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Am I right?

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They still have a debt to pay for

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this place, right?

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If each one of us who comes here

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on a Friday thinks to himself or herself

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that how much money do you think it

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costed here for the lights, the water, the

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salaries, the carpets, where I parked, how I

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came in, my shoes, the water I used,

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the wudu facilities, the towels or the drying

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facilities they had, whatever it might have been.

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All of that that I used, I came,

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I made my jum'ah, I heard the

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talk, I did my farad and I walked

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away.

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How much do you think that costed?

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Approximately.

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Someone says 500 pounds, someone says 10 pounds.

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I'd like to say even if it is

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one pound.

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Have we ever put one pound in the

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box and said, this is not to donate

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far across the world.

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This is only for what I used in

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this masjid.

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For me, my own self.

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Let me tell you who's paying for you.

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Some other person who's donated.

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They covered your cost.

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And some of us are wealthy.

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We won't give to the masjid.

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You know why?

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Allah did not put it in our hearts.

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That's why.

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But we go to the same masjid.

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A poorer person than us has covered expenses

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of whatever we used in the house of

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Allah.

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They're getting a full reward of us doing

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our salah and whatever else we are doing

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in the house of Allah.

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And you know what?

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We didn't even donate.

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But you're wealthy.

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It's hard sometimes.

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It's so difficult.

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So all I'm saying is 5p.

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5p.

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Not too much.

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If you put it together and we're a

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few thousand of us, you cover the cost

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of that whole Friday by the will of

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Allah.

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Is it something difficult?

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This is what I mean by saying, don't

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be wasteful.

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Then I teach you something.

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The Prophet ﷺ has guaranteed us that nobody's

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wealth was ever depleted because of a charity

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they gave.

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Nobody's wealth was ever lost because they gave

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a charity.

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In fact, whenever you gave a charity, you

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got back more.

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Always.

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So much so that some of the scholars

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have said that whenever we've spent wealth, we've

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always gotten back more.

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The hadith Qudsi, anfiq yabna adama unfiq alayk.

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I use it often because I've found it

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to be absolutely true.

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Allah is saying, O son of Adam, spend,

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meaning in the right cause, and I'll spend

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on you.

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You give and watch how I give you

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back.

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That doesn't mean give a hundred pounds and

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then sit at home and lie down and

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sleep and look at the ceiling all the

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time and imagine that 200 is going to

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come down from there.

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No, no, no.

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Allah wants you to work hard, but your

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barakah in your business, in your job, in

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your promotions, in your salaries, in whatever else

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it might be.

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Allah gives you barakah.

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Imagine a person who's safeguarded from an expense

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that could have been there had the mercy

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of Allah not engulfed that person.

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For example, I could have made a big

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accident and spent so much money repairing a

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motor vehicle.

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But Allah says, no, we'll save you and

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spare you that because of a charity you

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gave.

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Because of a charity you gave, we extinguished

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the calamity.

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Had it not been for that and you

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had this calamity, you would have spent that

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amount anyway doing something else.

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You follow what we're saying?

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May Allah grant us goodness.

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So, like I said earlier, let's not be

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wasteful.

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I give you another example.

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Recently, I was in the Gambia and there's

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a difference between a well and a borehole.

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Quickly, I can tell you, a well is

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where they've sunk a hole into the ground

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and it's quite shallow and it has water

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that they pick up with buckets or with

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a pump.

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And a lot of the times, because it's

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shallow, it's connected to the water table, so

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it's seasonal.

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Some seasons there is something, some seasons there

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is nothing.

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It can go and come because it's a

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well.

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But when there is a borehole, it's much

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deeper, it's much stronger, it has a submersible

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pump in most cases, and they pump the

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water out, they use solar panels to generate

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electricity that will run that pump, that will

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then fill a huge tank that is put

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up there, and the people will use from

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the 5,000 liter tank or 10,000

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liter tank for the week, and at the

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end of the week, it fills up again,

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and so on.

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Sometimes it's more often, but I've given you

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an example.

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Do you know, nobody spoke about how clean

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or dirty that water is.

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If it was us, we have water from

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a tap in some cities, and we'll tell

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you, be careful, don't drink this water, you'd

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rather buy mineral water because this water here

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has been drunk before.

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Have you heard that one?

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Drunk before.

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The last time I went to London, they

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told me this water has been drunk 10

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times.

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I said, are you sure?

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They said, yes, it's been drunk 10 times

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before.

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I had to Google it, and it was

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right.

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I think the figure must have gone up

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from 10 to somewhere else by now.

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Imagine you drinking water that was drunk before.

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How did that work?

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It's a long procedure.

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Clean water, I'm not saying not clean, but

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we would still prefer to buy a bottle

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of mineral water to drink.

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That one will use it for everything else.

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Just the other day, I turned on the

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tap, and I was filling the kettle, and

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someone says, are you sure you want to

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use that water?

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I said, yes, are we going to boil

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it?

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He says, boiled or not boiled?

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It's previously drunk water.

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I said, but it's not wrong.

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We still drank it.

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Mashallah, it's halal, because it was purified, however

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they purified it.

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However, the point I'm raising is, when you

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go to those countries, they are super excited

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by the fact that they have water, even

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though it's looking a bit murky.

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Even though it might be a little bit,

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you don't even know what it contains in

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there.

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Too much of this or that.

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But they are so excited because there is

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water, and here we are worrying about exactly

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what this contents of the water is.

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The only point I'm trying to raise to

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you is that, don't take for granted the

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favors of Allah upon you.

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He's favored you.

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He's given you a lot.

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Don't waste it.

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Every droplet counts.

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Every droplet counts.

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I entered another restaurant, also in Far East

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Asia.

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I think it was in Malaysia.

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And there was a sign saying, your change,

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your change will make a change.

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Did you hear that?

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Your change will make a change.

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So for you, it's just like two, three

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coins in your pocket, and you're thinking, ah,

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it's been in your pocket for a few

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days.

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No.

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Your change will make a change.

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Put it in.

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And there we go.

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Let's see.

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Your change, my change, his change, her change,

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their change, everybody's change.

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And what do we have?

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We have a nice good sum of money.

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We have a hundred pounds.

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We can do something.

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A few people got cardigans to dress in

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the winter.

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What was that?

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Your change made a change.

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There we go.

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May Allah Almighty grant us a good understanding.

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So while we are happy and we're excited

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about all the favors of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala, we need to show gratitude.

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Allah says, by showing gratitude, you will have

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increase.

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When you are ungrateful, our punishment may overtake

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you.

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That's a verse of the Quran.

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وَلَإِن كَفَرْتُمْ إِنَّ عَذَابِهِ لَشَدِيدٌ And if you

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are ungrateful, then know that my punishment is

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severe.

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That's what Allah says.

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Ingratitude.

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I'm ungrateful.

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You see people eating and they order some

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massive food.

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And don't point fingers.

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Oh, these people don't.

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No, no, no.

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We're all guilty of it on different levels.

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And they'll have a little bit of it

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and they'll leave it and gone, thrown into

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the bin.

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If that is the case, without pointing fingers,

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we just need to say, let's do better

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inshallah.

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That's what I'm here to say today.

00:31:01 --> 00:31:02

Let's do better than this.

00:31:02 --> 00:31:04

Allah is going to ask you in the

00:31:04 --> 00:31:05

Quran.

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Allah says, ثُمَّ لَتُسْأَلُنَّ يَوْمَئِذٍ عَنِ النَّعِيمِ Using

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emphasis, Allah says, then on the day of

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judgment, we will ask you.

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We will definitely ask you about our favors

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upon you.

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How we favored you.

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We're going to ask you, did you have

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this?

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How did you use it?

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Did it draw you closer to us or

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further away from us?

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Come closer to Allah.

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Come.

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Be truthful.

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Be a beautiful person.

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Allah will grant you the best of this

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world and the next.

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Because you were a person who was grateful.

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You were not ungrateful.

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So what are the other ways of showing

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gratitude to Allah?

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Let me explain.

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The more you get, the more humble you

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should be.

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Allah has given you.

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You have more than this guy, for example.

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Treat him with respect.

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He shouldn't feel that you are above him.

00:32:00 --> 00:32:04

Instead, either you are exactly the same or

00:32:04 --> 00:32:06

you should lift him above you.

00:32:06 --> 00:32:08

Offer him the honor, the respect.

00:32:09 --> 00:32:10

Have you not seen?

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And there are so many of them.

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Wealthy people.

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But they come in.

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Or powerful people.

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And they come in and they treat you

00:32:17 --> 00:32:19

with so much of respect that your heart

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is really melted.

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Why?

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The more you have, the more humble you

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should become.

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It's a sign of acceptance from Allah.

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Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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It's not going to help you to become

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haughty.

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Because when you think you are better and

00:32:35 --> 00:32:37

you are bigger, tables can turn at any

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time.

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Look at the pharaoh.

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The pharaoh thought, Fir'aun, he thought he

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was, he claimed he was the lord of

00:32:46 --> 00:32:47

the world and he knew he wasn't.

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But he used to treat people so badly

00:32:50 --> 00:32:55

that the day the punishment came, he was

00:32:55 --> 00:32:58

so helpless, everything turned around, gone.

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To this day, the mummy can be found

00:33:01 --> 00:33:04

somewhere in Egypt for us to see how

00:33:04 --> 00:33:05

helpless this guy was.

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

Yet he was one of the wealthiest of

00:33:07 --> 00:33:09

the wealthy at the time.

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The most powerful of his time.

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What was his crime?

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His crime was arrogance, haughtiness.

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He thought too much about himself and of

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himself.

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So when you and I have something, please

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become humble.

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Look at the people who don't have.

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Look at others.

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Look at those who are in tough situations.

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Do you know, when you walk down the

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street sometimes, you might see homeless people.

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A homeless person may not have had a

00:33:35 --> 00:33:37

bath or a shower for a while, right?

00:33:37 --> 00:33:39

They may not be smelling that good.

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They don't have the deodorants and the utoor

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that you and I have.

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They may appear to be a little bit

00:33:44 --> 00:33:48

shabby, but you don't know how close they

00:33:48 --> 00:33:50

might be to Allah.

00:33:50 --> 00:33:52

And even if they were not close to

00:33:52 --> 00:33:54

Allah, Allah chose that you are going to

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pass them on the path.

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Minimum is don't harm them.

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You follow what I'm saying?

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What's the minimum?

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Don't harm.

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I might give, I might not give.

00:34:05 --> 00:34:07

I might end up greeting, I might not

00:34:07 --> 00:34:09

greet based on a fear factor.

00:34:09 --> 00:34:11

Sometimes some of the guys can be a

00:34:11 --> 00:34:12

bit rowdy.

00:34:12 --> 00:34:14

I don't know, right?

00:34:14 --> 00:34:15

It depends where you are.

00:34:15 --> 00:34:17

I'm not going to encourage you to just

00:34:17 --> 00:34:19

sit and greet everybody there.

00:34:19 --> 00:34:20

Yet some of them might be a bit

00:34:20 --> 00:34:22

scary in the sense that in some countries,

00:34:22 --> 00:34:24

there are some people on drugs and so

00:34:24 --> 00:34:26

on who are in similar positions.

00:34:26 --> 00:34:28

And when you show a little bit of

00:34:28 --> 00:34:30

friendliness to them, they might take advantage of

00:34:30 --> 00:34:30

that.

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So that has to be your decision.

00:34:33 --> 00:34:36

But the minimum is don't harm them and

00:34:36 --> 00:34:37

don't judge them.

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Don't think, oh, look at this.

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We just say, Alhamdulillah, Allah has blessed me.

00:34:41 --> 00:34:43

And at least walk through respectfully.

00:34:43 --> 00:34:44

If you can help, help.

00:34:45 --> 00:34:46

But don't harm.

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But if you're going to kick them, throw

00:34:49 --> 00:34:51

something at them, even if you're taking food

00:34:51 --> 00:34:55

to them, that you think is edible.

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I remember a true case where I was

00:35:00 --> 00:35:03

walking with a youngster and he was giving

00:35:03 --> 00:35:05

a packet of food to a poor person.

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And he told me, you know, I'm supposed

00:35:08 --> 00:35:10

to have done this three days ago.

00:35:11 --> 00:35:12

But I didn't.

00:35:12 --> 00:35:13

I forgot.

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But I remembered now I gave it.

00:35:15 --> 00:35:16

I said, what is in it?

00:35:17 --> 00:35:18

He said, it's a bit of the rice

00:35:18 --> 00:35:20

and a bit of the thing we were

00:35:20 --> 00:35:20

eating.

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So because it was leftover, we didn't want

00:35:22 --> 00:35:23

to waste it.

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So I decided I was told his folks

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or someone told him to give it.

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He says, so I'm giving it away.

00:35:29 --> 00:35:30

I said, was it in the fridge?

00:35:30 --> 00:35:31

He says, no, it was out.

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OK, fair enough.

00:35:32 --> 00:35:33

I wonder what it was.

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But I told him, listen, what if that

00:35:35 --> 00:35:36

was moldy?

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Right.

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Am I right?

00:35:38 --> 00:35:40

Three days out.

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It wasn't in the fridge.

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It's food.

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If it was yours to eat the third

00:35:44 --> 00:35:46

day, I eat food sometimes that's a week

00:35:46 --> 00:35:46

old.

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I do.

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But it's been in the fridge and I'll

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heat it up properly.

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No problem.

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But if it was out, you got to

00:35:52 --> 00:35:53

check it.

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It could be moldy.

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Something could have gone wrong with it.

00:35:55 --> 00:35:58

It could start letting off a fermented smell.

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Even in the case of other foods like

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fruits and so on.

00:36:01 --> 00:36:02

You can't have that.

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So before you give it to a poor

00:36:04 --> 00:36:06

person, make sure it is edible.

00:36:06 --> 00:36:08

Something you would eat.

00:36:08 --> 00:36:09

Allah mentions it in the Quran.

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وَلَا تَيَمَّمُ الْخَبِيثَ مِنْهُ تُنْفِقُونَ وَلَسْتُمْ بِآخِذِ Don't

00:36:20 --> 00:36:22

aim at the bad stuff that you're going

00:36:22 --> 00:36:25

to give away, yet you yourself would not

00:36:25 --> 00:36:26

have taken something like that.

00:36:27 --> 00:36:29

You yourself would not have taken something like

00:36:29 --> 00:36:29

that.

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So luckily we didn't know exactly what the

00:36:32 --> 00:36:34

condition of that food was.

00:36:34 --> 00:36:36

But the point raised is, why leave it

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for three whole days before you're going to

00:36:39 --> 00:36:40

give it away?

00:36:40 --> 00:36:40

Right?

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You'd rather give it away the first day.

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Or refrigerate it.

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Put it into a freezer and maybe heat

00:36:48 --> 00:36:50

it up because that's also being considered.

00:36:51 --> 00:36:53

Imagine you go, you meet a homeless person

00:36:53 --> 00:36:54

and you're giving them frozen food.

00:36:55 --> 00:36:57

The guy doesn't have a microwave, he doesn't

00:36:57 --> 00:36:58

have a stove, he doesn't have anything.

00:36:58 --> 00:37:01

He's going to be eating not rice, but

00:37:01 --> 00:37:01

ice.

00:37:02 --> 00:37:02

Right?

00:37:02 --> 00:37:04

The hour dropped off, it was frozen.

00:37:06 --> 00:37:08

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us

00:37:08 --> 00:37:08

ease.

00:37:09 --> 00:37:12

So that is one of the ways of

00:37:12 --> 00:37:13

earning the pleasure of Allah.

00:37:14 --> 00:37:18

By showing compassion, giving, and not thinking too

00:37:18 --> 00:37:21

big of yourself when Allah has blessed you

00:37:21 --> 00:37:22

and Allah has given you.

00:37:23 --> 00:37:26

Remember my beloved brothers and sisters, Every day

00:37:26 --> 00:37:30

Allah allows us to see the morning.

00:37:31 --> 00:37:34

Allah allows us to see the morning and

00:37:34 --> 00:37:36

He's watching us for the whole day.

00:37:36 --> 00:37:37

That's why when you get up there is

00:37:37 --> 00:37:38

a dua you read.

00:37:38 --> 00:37:38

What do you say?

00:37:44 --> 00:37:47

We praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for

00:37:47 --> 00:37:51

giving us life after He had literally taken

00:37:51 --> 00:37:52

the soul out of the body in a

00:37:52 --> 00:37:53

way He knows best.

00:37:54 --> 00:37:57

How that soul went or how the connection

00:37:57 --> 00:37:59

of the soul and the body is during

00:37:59 --> 00:38:01

sleep, Allah alone knows.

00:38:01 --> 00:38:04

So whatever Allah did, I do know in

00:38:04 --> 00:38:06

the morning when I got up, it was

00:38:06 --> 00:38:06

back to normal.

00:38:07 --> 00:38:08

I was back and I thank Allah for

00:38:08 --> 00:38:10

that and I have a new day.

00:38:11 --> 00:38:12

When I have a new day, what am

00:38:12 --> 00:38:12

I going to do?

00:38:12 --> 00:38:14

I'm going to be the best possible person.

00:38:15 --> 00:38:17

I'm going to increase the goodness, I'm going

00:38:17 --> 00:38:19

to praise Allah, I'm going to thank Allah,

00:38:19 --> 00:38:21

and I'm going to work hard.

00:38:21 --> 00:38:22

It's not wrong to earn.

00:38:23 --> 00:38:25

It is not wrong to become wealthy.

00:38:26 --> 00:38:28

Like I said, may Allah bless us with

00:38:28 --> 00:38:28

a billion.

00:38:28 --> 00:38:29

Everyone said Ameen, right?

00:38:30 --> 00:38:32

Because it's not wrong to be wealthy.

00:38:32 --> 00:38:34

Normally when you say may Allah subhanahu wa

00:38:34 --> 00:38:37

ta'ala grant us and you say something

00:38:37 --> 00:38:39

from this world, people say Ameen loudly, loudly.

00:38:40 --> 00:38:41

May Allah bless you.

00:38:42 --> 00:38:43

Say it loudly, come on.

00:38:44 --> 00:38:45

Ameen.

00:38:45 --> 00:38:47

Blessings are for the dunya and the akhirah.

00:38:48 --> 00:38:50

And sometimes when you make dua just for

00:38:50 --> 00:38:51

the akhirah, then people are Ameen, they say

00:38:51 --> 00:38:52

it quietly.

00:38:52 --> 00:38:54

The minute you say may Allah grant you

00:38:54 --> 00:38:57

a good spouse, Ameen, Ameen, Ameen, Ameen.

00:38:58 --> 00:38:59

May Allah bless you with a wife and

00:38:59 --> 00:39:01

you find the married guys saying Ameen, Ameen.

00:39:01 --> 00:39:03

What's the point?

00:39:03 --> 00:39:03

Allahu Akbar.

00:39:04 --> 00:39:06

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us

00:39:06 --> 00:39:06

ease.

00:39:06 --> 00:39:08

A lot of youngsters here today, may Allah

00:39:08 --> 00:39:09

bless you with good spouses, Ameen.

00:39:10 --> 00:39:13

Brother, the guys who say the loudest Ameen

00:39:13 --> 00:39:14

are always married.

00:39:16 --> 00:39:18

Allah, Allah, may Allah bless you, my brother.

00:39:18 --> 00:39:20

Allah grant you happiness and joy, goodness and

00:39:20 --> 00:39:21

all our sisters too.

00:39:21 --> 00:39:24

May Allah bless those who don't have spouses,

00:39:24 --> 00:39:26

spouses who will be the coolness of their

00:39:26 --> 00:39:26

eyes, Ameen.

00:39:26 --> 00:39:27

Ameen.

00:39:27 --> 00:39:30

And even those who don't have children, may

00:39:30 --> 00:39:31

Allah bless you with offspring who will be

00:39:31 --> 00:39:32

the coolness of your eyes.

00:39:32 --> 00:39:34

It brings me to another thing.

00:39:35 --> 00:39:37

Always be happy with the decree of Allah.

00:39:37 --> 00:39:40

Allah made you in a certain way, love

00:39:40 --> 00:39:41

yourself how He made you.

00:39:41 --> 00:39:44

Allah made you a certain race, love it.

00:39:44 --> 00:39:47

Allah made you a certain complexion, love it.

00:39:48 --> 00:39:50

If other human beings don't like it, it's

00:39:50 --> 00:39:51

okay.

00:39:51 --> 00:39:52

I've always said they can fly a what?

00:39:53 --> 00:39:56

They can fly a kite, exactly.

00:39:56 --> 00:39:58

They can fly a kite.

00:39:58 --> 00:40:00

Actually the reason why you didn't know, there's

00:40:00 --> 00:40:00

a shortage of kites.

00:40:00 --> 00:40:02

Too many people are flying them at the

00:40:02 --> 00:40:02

moment.

00:40:03 --> 00:40:05

But nonetheless, if someone doesn't like you because

00:40:05 --> 00:40:07

of your race, because of the way Allah

00:40:07 --> 00:40:10

has made you, because of what Allah has

00:40:10 --> 00:40:12

given you in terms of your structure and

00:40:12 --> 00:40:12

so on, so what?

00:40:12 --> 00:40:13

It's okay.

00:40:13 --> 00:40:14

They are weak, not me.

00:40:14 --> 00:40:16

I love myself how Allah made me.

00:40:16 --> 00:40:18

I'm not going to pretend to be someone

00:40:18 --> 00:40:18

else.

00:40:19 --> 00:40:21

When you love yourself how Allah made you,

00:40:21 --> 00:40:22

you are liberated.

00:40:23 --> 00:40:25

When you're not happy with how Allah made

00:40:25 --> 00:40:29

you, it opens the door of shaitan sometimes.

00:40:29 --> 00:40:31

And it might lead you to doing things

00:40:31 --> 00:40:36

that are so sapping that it will sap

00:40:36 --> 00:40:37

your connection with Allah.

00:40:38 --> 00:40:39

So don't worry.

00:40:39 --> 00:40:39

Never mind.

00:40:39 --> 00:40:40

It's okay.

00:40:40 --> 00:40:42

Let's concentrate on this world a little bit.

00:40:42 --> 00:40:44

Sometimes you have people who are very wealthy,

00:40:44 --> 00:40:46

but the guy is not good-looking at

00:40:46 --> 00:40:46

all.

00:40:46 --> 00:40:47

Do you agree?

00:40:47 --> 00:40:49

In the eyes of Allah, he's good-looking.

00:40:50 --> 00:40:51

Allah made him.

00:40:52 --> 00:40:53

When you look at him and he's so

00:40:53 --> 00:40:54

wealthy and look at this guy, you say,

00:40:54 --> 00:40:56

And sometimes you have a really handsome guy

00:40:56 --> 00:40:59

and he's a pauper, doesn't really have much,

00:40:59 --> 00:40:59

right?

00:40:59 --> 00:41:02

And sometimes you have someone highly educated, all

00:41:02 --> 00:41:05

A-stars and B's, sorry, A's and A

00:41:05 --> 00:41:07

-stars, and what do they call them?

00:41:08 --> 00:41:12

Distinctions and whatever else, mashallah, A+.

00:41:12 --> 00:41:13

And they are struggling to find a job.

00:41:15 --> 00:41:16

And guess who they end up working for?

00:41:16 --> 00:41:18

The guys who had C's and B's.

00:41:19 --> 00:41:21

By default, a lot of the times, it

00:41:21 --> 00:41:21

happens.

00:41:22 --> 00:41:27

That is Allah showing you that your education

00:41:27 --> 00:41:30

is important, but it doesn't mean that because

00:41:30 --> 00:41:32

you had A's, you're going to be the

00:41:32 --> 00:41:32

richest person here.

00:41:33 --> 00:41:35

You might be the sharpest in certain subjects,

00:41:35 --> 00:41:37

but someone else is going to be sharper

00:41:37 --> 00:41:39

than you in earning money.

00:41:39 --> 00:41:40

It can happen.

00:41:41 --> 00:41:41

And you know what?

00:41:42 --> 00:41:44

One of the things Allah has kept for

00:41:44 --> 00:41:47

us is He will give every one of

00:41:47 --> 00:41:48

us whatever is our due.

00:41:50 --> 00:41:55

اعلم ان نفسا لن تموت حتى تستكمل رزقها

00:41:55 --> 00:41:58

You need to know, no soul will die

00:41:58 --> 00:42:02

until it gets everything that was written for

00:42:02 --> 00:42:02

it.

00:42:03 --> 00:42:05

Every last grain of rice that was written

00:42:05 --> 00:42:08

for you, it's going to come to you

00:42:08 --> 00:42:08

before you die.

00:42:09 --> 00:42:09

So don't worry.

00:42:10 --> 00:42:11

If Allah wrote for you, you're going to

00:42:11 --> 00:42:14

have a billion, that billion will come.

00:42:14 --> 00:42:17

No doubt it has to come, but you

00:42:17 --> 00:42:19

have to work hard as well.

00:42:19 --> 00:42:21

Because like I said at the beginning of

00:42:21 --> 00:42:24

the speech, that Allah has given you a

00:42:24 --> 00:42:27

capacity, God-given capacity, and told you, do

00:42:27 --> 00:42:28

this and don't do this.

00:42:29 --> 00:42:30

Are you going to get up and work

00:42:30 --> 00:42:33

hard towards achieving what you believe is beneficial,

00:42:34 --> 00:42:36

within what Allah has ordained, and every time

00:42:36 --> 00:42:39

you earn something, keep a portion of it

00:42:39 --> 00:42:40

for Allah.

00:42:40 --> 00:42:43

A businessman in London told me that one

00:42:43 --> 00:42:46

day I had nothing, and I pledged Allah

00:42:46 --> 00:42:49

to say, oh Allah, if you give me

00:42:49 --> 00:42:52

10% of whatever profit I make, I

00:42:52 --> 00:42:55

will always give it for a charitable cause.

00:42:55 --> 00:42:57

He says, you won't believe it right now,

00:42:58 --> 00:43:01

I earn a seven-figure amount every year.

00:43:02 --> 00:43:06

And he says, I'm looking to project it

00:43:06 --> 00:43:06

beyond that.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:09

The amount that is 10% has become

00:43:09 --> 00:43:13

so big, but I will never ever betray

00:43:13 --> 00:43:14

my promise to Allah.

00:43:15 --> 00:43:16

There we go.

00:43:17 --> 00:43:17

Why did Allah give you?

00:43:18 --> 00:43:18

Because you gave.

00:43:18 --> 00:43:20

Allah asked you to only give 2.5

00:43:20 --> 00:43:24

% as compulsory, we call it zakat, right?

00:43:25 --> 00:43:28

The rest of it, it was not compulsory,

00:43:28 --> 00:43:30

it's from you, a charity, that was actually

00:43:30 --> 00:43:31

you.

00:43:31 --> 00:43:33

And you gave, you gave, you gave, you

00:43:33 --> 00:43:34

gave, Allah will give you.

00:43:34 --> 00:43:36

May Allah Almighty bless all of us.

00:43:36 --> 00:43:37

May Allah grant us ease and goodness.

00:43:38 --> 00:43:40

May Allah help us so we can conserve.

00:43:40 --> 00:43:43

The world out there is so beautiful, so

00:43:43 --> 00:43:43

amazing.

00:43:44 --> 00:43:45

We must preserve and conserve.

00:43:45 --> 00:43:47

Think about generations to come.

00:43:47 --> 00:43:48

Think 50 years from today.

00:43:49 --> 00:43:50

What will happen to this globe?

00:43:50 --> 00:43:52

Make sure you save water.

00:43:52 --> 00:43:53

Make sure you don't waste food.

00:43:53 --> 00:43:55

Make sure you are a person who gives.

00:43:55 --> 00:43:58

Make sure you look after the entire ecosystem.

00:43:58 --> 00:44:01

Don't be a person who contaminates the water

00:44:01 --> 00:44:04

and who does not consider other people.

00:44:04 --> 00:44:06

Reach out to those around you, those across

00:44:06 --> 00:44:08

the whole globe, and see what Allah does

00:44:08 --> 00:44:08

for you.

00:44:08 --> 00:44:11

He will grant you happiness, contentment, and you

00:44:11 --> 00:44:12

will enjoy worshipping Him.

00:44:13 --> 00:44:16

Sometimes we enter the masjid and we have

00:44:16 --> 00:44:19

an element of laziness or an element of

00:44:19 --> 00:44:22

a feeling of rushing.

00:44:23 --> 00:44:25

Let me quickly go, let me quickly finish,

00:44:25 --> 00:44:27

let me quickly rush out, and let me

00:44:27 --> 00:44:28

quickly come back.

00:44:28 --> 00:44:29

That's not the right word.

00:44:30 --> 00:44:32

Don't use quickly when it comes to prayer.

00:44:32 --> 00:44:33

I am guilty.

00:44:34 --> 00:44:35

Sometimes I'm with my friends and I tell

00:44:35 --> 00:44:37

them, Brother, I need to pray.

00:44:37 --> 00:44:39

Let me quickly offer my prayer and I'll

00:44:39 --> 00:44:40

come back.

00:44:40 --> 00:44:42

That word quickly is an insult.

00:44:43 --> 00:44:44

That's Allah.

00:44:44 --> 00:44:45

How can you say quickly?

00:44:46 --> 00:44:47

I'm not saying it's haram, but I'm saying

00:44:47 --> 00:44:48

become conscious of it.

00:44:49 --> 00:44:50

It's not for Allah.

00:44:50 --> 00:44:52

Say, Brother, let me pray and I will

00:44:52 --> 00:44:52

come back to you.

00:44:53 --> 00:44:54

That's the way it should be, right?

00:44:55 --> 00:44:57

But sometimes we are in a rush, even

00:44:57 --> 00:44:59

with Allah's connection.

00:45:00 --> 00:45:00

That's salah.

00:45:01 --> 00:45:05

Allah says, He will grant you a contentment,

00:45:05 --> 00:45:07

you will enjoy worshipping Allah.

00:45:08 --> 00:45:11

Initially, you will pray because you have to

00:45:11 --> 00:45:11

pray.

00:45:11 --> 00:45:13

Listen to this and see if you understand

00:45:13 --> 00:45:14

what I'm saying.

00:45:17 --> 00:45:22

Initially, you will pray because you have to

00:45:22 --> 00:45:22

pray.

00:45:22 --> 00:45:25

You will put hijab because you have to

00:45:25 --> 00:45:26

put hijab for the sake of Allah.

00:45:26 --> 00:45:29

But when you do it for Allah, a

00:45:29 --> 00:45:31

time will come when you will pray because

00:45:31 --> 00:45:32

you want to pray.

00:45:32 --> 00:45:35

You will put the hijab because you want

00:45:35 --> 00:45:36

to put the hijab.

00:45:36 --> 00:45:39

So these are the levels that Allah allows

00:45:39 --> 00:45:39

you to taste.

00:45:40 --> 00:45:42

I'm no longer praying because I have to

00:45:42 --> 00:45:42

pray.

00:45:42 --> 00:45:44

I'm praying because I want to pray.

00:45:44 --> 00:45:45

Big difference between the two.

00:45:46 --> 00:45:48

I'm not dressing the way I'm dressing because

00:45:48 --> 00:45:49

I have to.

00:45:49 --> 00:45:50

I want to.

00:45:50 --> 00:45:51

That's why I'm doing it.

00:45:51 --> 00:45:54

And I recognize Allah's instruction, yes.

00:45:54 --> 00:45:56

But above that, I want to do it.

00:45:56 --> 00:45:58

I'm enjoying doing it.

00:45:58 --> 00:46:01

I feel my true identity by doing it.

00:46:01 --> 00:46:02

This is how it should be.

00:46:03 --> 00:46:04

And in this way, we will be able

00:46:04 --> 00:46:06

to earn the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa

00:46:06 --> 00:46:06

ta'ala.

00:46:07 --> 00:46:09

Brothers and sisters, I want to invite you,

00:46:09 --> 00:46:12

not just to donate to Abdullah Aid as

00:46:12 --> 00:46:14

you are leaving this place because today, they've

00:46:14 --> 00:46:16

come with a few buckets and tins in

00:46:16 --> 00:46:18

order to give you the opportunity to donate,

00:46:18 --> 00:46:20

to be able to reach out to our

00:46:20 --> 00:46:23

brothers and sisters, not just in Gaza and

00:46:23 --> 00:46:23

not just in...

00:46:24 --> 00:46:26

In fact, today, we had a request from

00:46:26 --> 00:46:28

Lebanon as well and inshallah, we're going to

00:46:28 --> 00:46:28

go for it.

00:46:29 --> 00:46:31

But we have all over the world, all

00:46:31 --> 00:46:33

over the world where people are struggling.

00:46:33 --> 00:46:35

Sometimes you have had an earthquake, people are

00:46:35 --> 00:46:37

not yet healed from it and there's another

00:46:37 --> 00:46:37

disaster.

00:46:38 --> 00:46:40

And we start helping there and there's another

00:46:40 --> 00:46:40

disaster.

00:46:40 --> 00:46:42

It's not the only charity in the world,

00:46:42 --> 00:46:45

but it's definitely a reliable, reputable charity.

00:46:45 --> 00:46:48

And I encourage you towards giving and I

00:46:48 --> 00:46:50

encourage you towards reaching out to one another,

00:46:50 --> 00:46:52

helping each other, smiling at the face of

00:46:52 --> 00:46:55

one another, showing the love for one another,

00:46:55 --> 00:46:56

both brothers as well as sisters.

00:46:57 --> 00:46:58

And inshallah, in that way, we will earn

00:46:58 --> 00:47:00

Jannatul Firdaus.

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As I leave, I want to remind you,

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my brothers, it's humanly impossible to shake everyone's

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hand.

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It is humanly impossible to shake everyone's hand,

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right?

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It's humanly impossible to shake everyone's hand right

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now, in a few moments.

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If I had to shake your hands, I

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would have to be here for quite a

00:47:20 --> 00:47:21

bit of a while.

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Unfortunately, we have traveled back to Edinburgh, so

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you will have to excuse me, but I'm

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super delighted that at least I got to

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see you guys.

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And the sisters are as well up there.

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I'm not too sure where to look to

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address them.

00:47:38 --> 00:47:38

That camera?

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MashaAllah.

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As-salamu alaykum, sisters.

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We acknowledge you and we know you are

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there and we really ask Allah to bless

00:47:44 --> 00:47:45

all of you.

00:47:45 --> 00:47:48

Whatever difficulty and hardship you may be going

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through, may Allah alleviate it for you.

00:47:50 --> 00:47:52

And remember, we are connected for the pleasure

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of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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And one day, Allah will allow us in

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a better situation, a better condition to be

00:47:59 --> 00:48:00

in Jannatul Firdaus.

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Until then, I say this saying of mine,

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and peace and blessings be upon our Prophet

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Muhammad.

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And peace and blessings of Allah be upon

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you.

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