Muhammad West – Am I a Good Person

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The challenges of maintaining principles of being a good person and a good citizen are emphasized, with most principles prioritized. It is important to remember that one is a good person and one is a good person in order to maintain their values. The importance of learning and participating in a class to build one's mind and become aware of one's values is also emphasized. It is important to protect one's privacy and be a good person in a way that is not indicative of their true intentions. The speaker concludes by expressing gratitude to those who supported their programs during the month of december.

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			We testify that there is none worthy of
		
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			worship with Allah
		
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			And we send our loves and our greetings,
		
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			salutations to beloved Nabi Muhammad
		
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			to his pious and his pure family, to
		
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			his companions, and all those who follow until
		
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			the end of time. Ameen. Hope you all
		
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			had a wonderful, blessed Eid.
		
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			Yeah. And you suck, survived the food hangover
		
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			this morning,
		
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			rolled into the masjid. Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Will I accept our Ramadan, our active Ibadat.
		
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			Really, this is the last and the most
		
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			difficult part of Ramadan
		
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			is the day after Ramadan, the days after
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			And we
		
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			naturally see a dip
		
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			in our Ibadat.
		
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			And this is normal. Even the Nabi
		
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			never exerted himself in Ibadah as he did
		
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			in the last 10 nights of Ramadan.
		
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			It's a very well known hadith that Aisha
		
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			mentions that Nabi never stayed up the whole
		
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			night. He always slept at night, except the
		
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			last 10 nights. That's when he he himself
		
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			pushed himself went beyond
		
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			his normal capacity.
		
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			So there is gonna be a dip after
		
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			Ramadan,
		
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			but we hope that the dip does not
		
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			mean we go all the way back to
		
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			where we were before Ramadan or even worse
		
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			than that. And that is the challenge.
		
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			How much of Ramadan
		
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			can we maintain? Can we keep? How much
		
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			of Ramadan will stay with us?
		
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			For most of us, and I speak to
		
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			myself first,
		
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			first and foremost,
		
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			we perhaps
		
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			prioritize salah to the point where we're in
		
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			the masjid or we we had our wudu
		
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			before the adhan went. Are we going back
		
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			to making salah right at the last minute
		
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			just before the next walk comes in or
		
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			even worse, missing salawat?
		
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			And we've if we look at what how
		
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			we spent yesterday,
		
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			some of us,
		
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			we dressed appropriately, maybe for the sisters, during
		
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			the month of Ramadan, I know I need
		
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			to wear the dukki, but now that
		
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			we are in Eid or after Ramadan, that
		
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			which was, you know, sinful comes back. And
		
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			so this next,
		
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			week or 2,
		
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			I want to prepare
		
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			there's a list. Allah, and you must have
		
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			covered this if you recited the Quran, went
		
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			through it. Allah gives a list of who
		
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			is a good person. What are the qualities
		
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			of a good person? What are the things
		
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			I need to I could tick a checklist
		
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			list of what makes you a good person?
		
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			There's a few aya throughout the Quran that
		
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			gives you a breakdown, and it's for each
		
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			and every one of us to keep this
		
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			list in mind. How much of that should
		
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			I prioritize? Where should I focus on?
		
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			What of Ramadan can I maintain? Because I
		
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			can't maintain all of it. What of it
		
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			are the important things? So we will have
		
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			this question, am I a good person? And
		
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			inshallah is for all of us to introspect.
		
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			Allah says this
		
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			with, piety, righteousness.
		
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			Is not
		
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			Being pious, being righteous, being a good person
		
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			is not only about turning your face from
		
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			1 from the, the east to the west.
		
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			Being the ritualistic
		
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			worship is not itself piety in itself.
		
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			But piety
		
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			entails
		
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			that they have sincerity in their Ibad, in
		
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			the Iman, that they have Iman in Allah
		
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			and in the day of Qiyamah and in
		
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			the angels and in the books that were
		
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			revealed and in the. Meaning, firstly,
		
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			a true believer,
		
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			his belief system a good Muslim, a good
		
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			person, his belief system
		
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			is in order.
		
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			And the only way you is and and
		
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			this list is in terms of priority. Allah,
		
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			when he gives a list, he gives it
		
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			in terms of priority.
		
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			So the first thing that you need to
		
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			have in order is what we call your
		
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			aqidah, your theology.
		
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			And therefore, the only way you get that
		
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			that is through learning.
		
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			If you were going to focus on something
		
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			post Ramadan,
		
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			where do I pick up? Where do I
		
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			embark?
		
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			You need to get into a class. You
		
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			need to participate, make part of your life
		
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			learning so that my theology is in order.
		
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			Part of our series that we discuss, our
		
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			iman is constantly being bombarded and attacked with
		
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			different ideologies,
		
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			different philosophies.
		
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			One of the most important for one of
		
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			the major philosophies today, liberalism is there is
		
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			no such thing as a higher power. You
		
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			live how you wanna live. You decide. You
		
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			are your own ilah. Allah says the believer,
		
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			the first thing that he looks to is
		
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			getting his heart in order. His belief is
		
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			in order. Then
		
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			the second quality of a person of righteousness,
		
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			And the second the the then from an
		
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			action perspective, it is a person who is
		
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			charitable.
		
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			In his wealth,
		
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			he shares his wealth. Now many of us,
		
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			we did so much of charity during the
		
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			month of Ramadan.
		
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			Perhaps if we look at all the charity
		
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			we give as a community during Ramadan, you
		
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			look at relief organizations, they collect, like, 90%
		
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			of the year's revenue in Ramadan.
		
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			But in the rest of the year, we
		
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			kind of fall off the wagon. And so
		
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			Allah says a believer, a true birr, piety,
		
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			is the person who gives out of the
		
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			out of wealth which they love. Allah mentions
		
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			it here, and I hope we love our
		
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			money very much. Allah Even though you love
		
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			it, even though we really, really want to
		
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			have that extra holiday, that new vehicle, they
		
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			give of their wealth
		
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			to their relatives,
		
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			family members who are in need, to the
		
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			orphans that are in need, the poor, the
		
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			person who finds himself
		
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			as a, you know, the traveler in the
		
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			past where he got stuck the bigger
		
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			or to help free people who are in
		
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			slavery.
		
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			That they
		
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			establish their salah and they make sure that
		
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			their salah
		
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			and their zakah is is is is in
		
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			order.
		
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			And they are honest.
		
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			They keep their word.
		
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			They are when they talk, they speak the
		
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			truth. When they do business, they do business
		
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			honestly. When they are employed or the employees
		
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			of a company, they are honest in their
		
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			dealings.
		
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			And they are patient through the difficult times.
		
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			Now when things
		
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			are tough, they are patient. Allah says this,
		
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			if you have these qualities, your iman is
		
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			in order, your salah is in order, you
		
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			are charitable
		
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			in those who are in need.
		
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			You are honest in your business dealings. Allah
		
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			says, then you are a person who I
		
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			testify is sadaqoo. Your iman is sincere.
		
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			And then you'll have this quality of taqwa.
		
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			Remember, Ramadan,
		
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			we all know that.
		
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			So that at the end, you will have
		
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			taqwa. Now how do I know I have
		
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			taqwa? Allah says these are the qualities of
		
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			the people of taqwa.
		
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			If you have these qualities, well,
		
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			you have taqwa. And if you are missing
		
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			in any of them, then your taqwa needs
		
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			to be worked on. In a in another
		
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			list of ayaat, in Surat Al Maarij
		
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			in the 29th,
		
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			Jews, Allah says
		
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			Allah says, indeed, I created man very impatient
		
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			very impatient with
		
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			Allah. We have no patience with Allah.
		
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			When evil touches him, he becomes
		
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			distressed. He becomes despondent. He becomes angry.
		
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			But when good comes to him, then he
		
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			becomes very stingy.
		
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			When he's when he's going through when we
		
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			go through a bad time, we complain and
		
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			we argue and we are difficult. We're very
		
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			sad. But when Allah gives us good, then
		
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			we're very stingy and we're very arrogant.
		
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			Except Allah says accept
		
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			a special group of people. Who are these
		
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			people? Number 1, Al Musaleen.
		
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			Those are the ones who make this salah.
		
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			Their
		
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			salah. That they are
		
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			consistent on their salah.
		
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			We have this
		
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			but I'm a good person, you know. I
		
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			love the environment and I'm not I don't
		
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			swear at people. I'm a nice person to
		
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			humanity. That's good part of being a Muslim.
		
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			Another person will say, I'm a good person.
		
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			Yeah. Maybe I'm not the nicest,
		
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			friendly person. I'm rude, I swear, but I'm
		
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			in the masjid.
		
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			Now Islam doesn't want this
		
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			either or.
		
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			You must do the rituals,
		
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			and you must be a good, nice human
		
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			being. And this goes down to what when
		
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			the prophet speaks about Islam, he says a
		
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			Muslim is a person who worships Allah and
		
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			cares for the creation. He worships the creator,
		
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			and he's good to the creation. You can't
		
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			have the one with the other.
		
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			So but when you look at when Allah
		
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			lists them, he begins with salah. This is
		
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			the priority.
		
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			He is.
		
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			So if we are post Ramadan,
		
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			we're not going to make tarawih.
		
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			If we are lucky, fortunate, you are still
		
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			making a bit of tahajjud, grant us that.
		
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			Grant us to maintain that. But if we're
		
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			not even on that level,
		
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			do not lose the wither. But even if
		
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			we lose the wither, do not lose the
		
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			fart.
		
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			Do not lose the fart. Don't let the
		
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			fart be something which we make a, you
		
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			know, 4, 5 waqts after Isha'i.
		
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			But work is gonna come but we showed
		
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			in the Ramadan that when even though we
		
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			had we had the same amount of meetings
		
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			in the Ramadan like we have now, we
		
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			have the same obligations.
		
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			We will not allow
		
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			anything to derail us from our solar,
		
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			at least in the waqfid must be made.
		
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			And, of course, if you can make it
		
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			within the earliest part, the better. So Allah
		
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			begins, a good person,
		
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			he is consistent in his salah salah.
		
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			The second quality,
		
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			a good person is a person who gives
		
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			of his money to the bigger and the
		
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			poor.
		
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			Charity is part of his makeup part of
		
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			her makeup.
		
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			They are charitable.
		
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			And number 3, they have a firm belief,
		
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			a firm commitment in kiyama.
		
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			Believe in kiyama. Now everyone will say I
		
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			believe in. But when you speak when when
		
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			when you look in the Quran,
		
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			when Allah refers to people who don't believe
		
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			in,
		
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			it is the quality it's not that they
		
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			don't believe in the day of the day.
		
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			They are most most people believe in a
		
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			life after death.
		
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			But the attribute of a person who is
		
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			conscious about,
		
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			He's conscious about consequences about how he lives,
		
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			how the way he lives his life. A
		
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			person who lives their life completely
		
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			as they wish to desire as they desire.
		
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			They don't mind cheating people. They don't mind
		
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			hurting people. They don't mind doing all kinds
		
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			of sin. If you ask him, do you
		
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			believe in kiyama? He'll say yes. But Allah,
		
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			when Allah speaks about a person in the
		
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			Quran who doesn't believe in kiyama, he has
		
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			no regard for consequences of his deeds. He
		
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			doesn't think that he's going to be his
		
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			actions demonstrate he doesn't believe in.
		
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			A person a believer, Allah says, a good
		
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			person.
		
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			He is constantly
		
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			fearful,
		
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			worried.
		
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			It it occupies his mind about my position
		
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			with Allah on the day of Qiyamah, that
		
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			there is a place like Jannam. It's very
		
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			unpopular to talk about punishment, adhab, nowadays,
		
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			but a believer keeps us in mind. And
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			nobody should feel secure when it comes to
		
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			the punishment of Allah. Nobody should feel
		
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			I'm safe. Everybody must have a good amount
		
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			of concern
		
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			concern about the consequences of their deeds.
		
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			And the believers, may Allah protect, they are
		
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			the ones who are chased. They protect their
		
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			private parts. They do not come at zina.
		
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			The only time they engage in sexual conduct
		
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			is with their wives with their wives. But
		
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			whoever wants more than that, whoever goes beyond
		
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			what is halal, then you have transgressed against
		
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			Allah. So Allah gains his salah,
		
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			charity,
		
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			being conscious about the limits of Allah,
		
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			specifically
		
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			avoiding zina.
		
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			And they are faithful
		
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			when they do the covenants. They trust. They
		
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			are honest again. A person you cannot be
		
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			a good person.
		
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			If people say, that guy, he's a bit
		
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			dodgy.
		
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			He's a scammer.
		
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			That is not part of what being a
		
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			there is something seriously deficient in your Islam.
		
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			Nobody should be able to legitimately point the
		
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			finger and say, that guy,
		
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			you know, you can't trust him. Don't leave
		
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			money with him. Don't do business with him
		
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			or her.
		
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			You can't trust him. A believer is always
		
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			honest. And that they are honest in their
		
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			testimony again.
		
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			And Allah ends the list and they are
		
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			the ones who are properly observant of their
		
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			salah. He began the list with salah and
		
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			he ended the list with salah.
		
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			These are the people Allah says, I promise
		
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			them they will enter Jannah. So
		
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			I know when we enter Ramadan,
		
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			we see how many khatams must I do
		
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			to be a good person. How
		
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			much extra must I do? Must I fast
		
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			Monday, Thursday is the middle. All those are
		
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			good, but Allah didn't put that on the
		
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			list. Those are extras. Those are good. Allah
		
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			says this list I'm giving you is a
		
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			very simple list.
		
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			Believe in me properly.
		
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			Make salah on time.
		
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			Be charitable
		
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			within your limits. Part of your monthly
		
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			spend must be on the orphan, must be
		
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			on the poor, whether it's R1, R10, a
		
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			R1,000,000, whatever you can afford.
		
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			Number 4, you must be honest in your
		
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			way you deal with people, the way you
		
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			speak, the way you do your transactions. You
		
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			cannot be a liar or a a a
		
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			a a a, you know, cheating people.
		
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			Number 5, you must protect your modesty, your
		
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			chastity. The way you dress as a Muslim,
		
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			the what you look at, what you scroll
		
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			at night, mother protect us, who we speak
		
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			to. So we need to a part of
		
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			a believer is we have that in order,
		
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			and we are constantly,
		
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			you know,
		
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			we we safeguard the limits of Allah. These
		
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			things, Allah says, is a good person. This
		
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			will get you into Jannah. He doesn't he
		
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			doesn't put in the Quran. Allah doesn't say
		
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			you need to make a khatam every month
		
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			or make tahajjud every night or fast extra
		
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			every Mondays Thursdays. Those are nice to haves,
		
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			but these things, Allah says, are nonnegotiable. So,
		
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			inshallah, as we try to rebuild, build our
		
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			life post Ramadan, we ask Allah to grant
		
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			us in that which is most important and
		
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			ask Allah to make us people that are
		
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			good. Amin. We'll continue next week.
		
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			Just one
		
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			one announcement, and that is to say to
		
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			everybody who supported all our programs during the
		
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			month of
		
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			Ramadan and who supported, all our efforts and
		
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			those who came to the Masjid in particular.
		
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			We really appreciate that you share your act
		
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			of worship and your body with us. Once
		
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			again, we, wish you all the best, in
		
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			the time after Ramadan.