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The speakers discuss sh matter and sh matter, which are fearful of success and failure, and the importance of focusing on one's beliefs and not worrying about negative thoughts. They stress the need to believe in oneself and not worry about negative thoughts, as well as upcoming events and announcements. The importance of focusing on one's beliefs and not worrying about negative thoughts is emphasized.

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			Good, and I'm going to prove it to
		
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			you that this thing you're telling us to
		
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			bow to is useless The ulama mentioned that
		
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			many of us think that sin, shaitan of
		
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			course convinces us to commit sin We think
		
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			that it only comes from a nature of
		
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			being Overconfident, a nature of being over desirous.
		
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			Many times shaitan is able to convince us
		
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			of sin through fear Through insecurity, look at
		
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			the ayah, Allah says الشيطان يعدكم الفقر ويأمركم
		
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			بالفحشاء Allah subhan says that shaitan, he promises
		
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			you and he scares you.
		
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			He scares you with poverty.
		
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			He scares you with failure You can't do
		
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			that.
		
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			You can't give charity because you're gonna be
		
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			poor.
		
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			You know, how can you take a sharia
		
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			loan?
		
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			You're gonna pay too much.
		
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			How can you take a career like that?
		
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			A sharia complied, you're gonna lose, your salary's
		
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			gonna go down How can you marry that
		
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			person?
		
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			Think about your dunya, think about your children,
		
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			think about that.
		
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			So shaitan gets us to do haram By
		
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			using fear tactics and then ويأمركم بالفحشاء and
		
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			he also incites our desires He first belittles
		
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			us, degrades us and in fact, this is
		
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			exactly how shaitan got Nabi Adam to eat
		
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			from the tree If you read in the
		
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			Quran, how did Nabi Adam disobey Allah?
		
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			Shaitan told Nabi Adam Do you know that
		
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			you are mortal and you're going to die?
		
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			He put the fear of death in Nabi
		
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			Adam and he said I will show you
		
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			a way to immortality It was not out
		
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			of disobedience to Allah, but when we are
		
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			in survival mode, we then cut corners We
		
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			then take the thing we shouldn't, we then
		
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			do the thing we're not supposed to.
		
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			So shaitan first belittles you and he raises
		
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			your Your fears and then when you are
		
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			in that mold of help me now shaitan
		
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			Show me the way, he says do this
		
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			and then he makes you to commit a
		
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			sin, but then Allah says وَاللَّهُ يَعِدُكُمْ مَغْفِرَةً
		
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			مِّنْهُ وَفَضْلًا Allah says but I, Allah, He
		
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			promises you mercy You don't have to feel
		
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			scared.
		
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			Allah is saying I promise you Safety, security,
		
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			you're gonna be okay and love and I
		
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			promise you that I'll take care of you
		
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			This is Allah versus shaitan And so shaitan,
		
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			all he does, Allah says يَعِدُكُمْ, he promises
		
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			you, he threatens you, he can't control you,
		
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			so he poisons your thoughts and that's why
		
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			Today we're going to talk about these negative
		
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			thoughts that all of us had which is
		
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			actually un-Islamic It comes from shaitan or
		
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			it comes from your own Psych, you know
		
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			your own mental state.
		
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			It is something which you must fight Part
		
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			of your ibadah is to think well about
		
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			yourself, about your deen, about Allah and to
		
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			fight it The Nabi mentions this, he says
		
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			يَعِدُكُمْ, beware of conjecture, beware of thinking about
		
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			this one and that one.
		
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			What are they saying?
		
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			What are they doing?
		
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			You know, you're making assumptions in your mind.
		
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			The Prophet says beware of it Beware of
		
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			your thoughts For then, conjecture is the most
		
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			false and worst of all tales The things
		
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			that play in your mind at night With
		
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			something good or whatever, the things that you
		
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			think about, now that guy, why did why
		
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			did he look at me like that?
		
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			He didn't greet me, she did that, what's
		
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			my mother-in-law thinking of me, my
		
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			daughter-in-law, those tales that you play
		
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			The Prophet says these are falsehood, most of
		
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			it comes from shaitan, avoid it and do
		
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			not look at the faults of others So
		
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			we need to actively combat our negative thoughts
		
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			You have to actively combat your negative thoughts
		
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			Let's list some of the negative thoughts Am
		
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			I a good Muslim?
		
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			Am I a bad Muslim?
		
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			Does Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala, when he thinks
		
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			of me, what is my relationship with Allah
		
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			from Allah's perspective?
		
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			Am I failing as a parent, as a
		
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			spouse, as a husband, as a child to
		
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			my parents, am I a failure?
		
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			How much worth do I have?
		
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			Maybe as men, sometimes even more so when
		
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			you know financially we struggle How much am
		
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			I of worth to my family if I
		
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			disappeared tomorrow?
		
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			What would that mean?
		
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			I'm not good enough and you hear this
		
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			at work even more so, you get maybe
		
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			your boss, may Allah protect you from an
		
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			evil boss He will let you know how
		
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			bad you are, how weak you are, how
		
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			you're not meeting expectations, how you're behind the
		
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			budget, how you're not performing People want success
		
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			in their dreams, many of us here are
		
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			subhanallah, mashallah in the prime of our life,
		
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			let's use that, our prime of our life
		
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			But there are many things that we dreamt
		
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			about when we were younger, we never got
		
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			there And we think about it, have I
		
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			failed?
		
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			My time is almost up, what have I
		
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			done?
		
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			What else can we add?
		
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			Come on, who wants to add a negative
		
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			thought here that you're thinking about?
		
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			No?
		
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			Is that it?
		
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			Have we had these thoughts?
		
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			You say, nah, subhanallah, sheikh, I know what
		
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			you're talking about, I don't have these thoughts
		
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			I think how quiet I am, I know
		
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			I'm the best, I'm the man Is this
		
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			what we really experience?
		
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			Did we walk out in our home feeling
		
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			worried, anxious, not knowing what the day holds
		
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			When we think of work and the future
		
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			and tomorrow, it's more of anxiety That's what
		
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			we deal with subhanallah, and that's not what
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to
		
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			do The only time Allah says you need
		
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			to fear and be conscious and really be
		
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			worried is about our relationship with Allah It's
		
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			not a fear of a monster, it's a
		
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			fear of don't disappoint Allah, and the fear
		
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			of the akhira, that's the only thing really
		
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			worth fearing Because Islam and Allah uses this,
		
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			Allah says this dunya is like the matrix,
		
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			it's an illusion You will not lose in
		
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			the dunya, nobody will lose and nobody will
		
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			win How do I say so?
		
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			How much did you have when you were
		
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			born?
		
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			How much money did you have?
		
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			Zero How much are you going to have
		
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			when you die?
		
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			Zero You're not going to get any more
		
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			or less from when you're born You're going
		
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			to start, you're going to end where you
		
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			start Nothing matters in the end, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala says nothing matters really Allah
		
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			says it's an illusion, it disappears, why are
		
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			you stressing over it?
		
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			Why are you so worried about it?
		
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			Why are you beating yourself about it?
		
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			If you're going to beat yourself up about
		
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			maybe the akhira, yes that should be, that's
		
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			important But the dunya and what your boss
		
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			is, subhanallah So I'm going to give five
		
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			tips inshallah of how to fight these negative
		
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			thoughts inshallah Five tips in our journey to
		
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			be powerful Muslims I said this is a
		
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			series inshallah, I don't know what's next week,
		
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			I just know it's part two But this
		
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			one is your relationship with yourself And the
		
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			only way, and it's you and your mind
		
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			and you and your thoughts I know for
		
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			me most of your thoughts happen in the
		
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			toilet This is the thoughts that we should
		
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			not have with ourselves There's negative thoughts, positive
		
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			thoughts When you're sitting in traffic, when you
		
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			review your life, when you look at your
		
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			finances When you look at your kids, when
		
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			you take stock of yourself, when life puts
		
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			it on pause What should be going through
		
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			your mind?
		
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			The first, subhanallah, and this is what I
		
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			found as I mentioned in umrah We should
		
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			have good thoughts about Allah We must think
		
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			well of Allah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			should not invoke a kind of paralysis, a
		
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			kind of fear Like I don't want to
		
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			get closer to Allah This is not the
		
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			right way of thinking of Allah In fact
		
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			Allah says, or the Prophet says that Allah
		
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			himself says This is what we call a
		
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			hadith Qudsi A statement by Allah but not
		
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			in the Quran There's a very special hadith
		
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			about a hundred plus where Allah made a
		
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			statement but it's not in the Quran This
		
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			is one of them, look what Allah says
		
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			Allah says, I am as my servants think
		
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			of me If you think well of me,
		
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			you think I'm kind, then I will be
		
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			that inshallah I am as you think of
		
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			me I am able to be for him
		
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			what he thinks of me Allah is able
		
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			to be what you want Allah to be
		
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			And I am with him if he remembers
		
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			me Allah is always remembering us and if
		
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			you remember Allah And this hadith continues that
		
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			if he mentions me, if Allah says you
		
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			mention Allah to yourself Look at the hadith
		
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			goes on, Allah says if you mention Allah
		
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			in a company By name, Allah will mention
		
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			you by name in a much better company
		
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			It's amongst angels and the great of creation
		
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			Allah will say, Muhammad spoke about me, I'm
		
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			mentioning Muhammad's name Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is mentioning your name And if you mention
		
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			Allah to yourself, you're making dhikr in the
		
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			traffic Allah makes a type of dhikr of
		
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			you, he remembers you in himself And acknowledges
		
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			you This is who Allah is And subhanallah,
		
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			this hadith, the next hadith really encompasses who
		
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			Allah is The Nabi says that when you're
		
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			about to die Now may Allah grant us
		
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			that when we die, it's not suddenly That
		
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			we have a chance to prepare for it
		
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			And we have a chance That death comes,
		
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			not all of a sudden Now imagine the
		
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			doctor tells you, tells me This is your
		
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			last week to live or this is your
		
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			last day to live The kind of thoughts
		
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			that are going to go through our minds
		
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			We're going to worry about our kids, we're
		
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			going to worry about everything And then obviously
		
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			worry about the akhira What's going to happen
		
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			tonight when I enter the qabr You can
		
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			imagine the anxiety and the fear I mean
		
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			the emotions, one can't explain it But the
		
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			Nabi says, after all of that When you're
		
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			about to die, when malikah mode comes And
		
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			it's about to pull your ruh The final
		
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			emotion that you must have is this No
		
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			one should die except thinking positively of Allah
		
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			You must at the end of the day
		
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			say Alhamdulillah I think positively of Allah I
		
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			put myself in your hands I'm not the
		
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			best but you are perfect And your mercy
		
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			is for me as well You must have
		
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			positive thoughts Allah put me here for a
		
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			reason He loves me, he cares for me
		
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			I'm not going to disobey and disappoint him
		
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			Think well of Allah, that's the first thing
		
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			Number two, believe in the power of your
		
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			duas Believe in the power of your duas
		
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			Even if it doesn't come the way you
		
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			want to That whoever is conscious of Allah
		
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			He promises you he will make a way
		
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			out for you He will solve every problem
		
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			in a way in which he In a
		
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			way in which he wants to do it
		
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			He will fix Palestine, he will cure your
		
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			diseases He will give you rizq And Allah
		
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			says And he will open doors for you
		
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			of rizq From where you could not have
		
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			imagined He will give you that which you
		
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			didn't even ask And then Allah will become
		
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			enough for him That Allah will make everything,
		
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			he sets everything right And on this thing
		
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			about dua Many times the people will say
		
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			My duas have not been answered Does Allah
		
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			even hear or care about me?
		
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			Does Allah even listen?
		
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			Now look at this hadith A person may
		
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			hope for something of trade Or authority, he
		
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			wants a position He wants the promotion, she
		
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			wants the husband They want the child of
		
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			attaining it And they make dua and they
		
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			do everything right And thereupon Allah looks at
		
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			this person Allah looks down at you From
		
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			the seven heavens And says to the angels
		
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			The boss told you, you know what?
		
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			Tomorrow the announcer is going to go out
		
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			You got the promotion Just as you were
		
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			about to get it You thought, I got
		
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			it Allah says, take it away from him
		
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			Take it away from him Because Allah says,
		
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			if he attains it It will actually lead
		
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			him to Jahannam Allah's priority is you get
		
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			to Jannah Allah's priority is This must get
		
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			to Jannah This person must get to Jannah
		
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			And so he diverts things which are not
		
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			good for you And that's what you must
		
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			believe When that person denied you When that
		
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			proposal broke When the marriage didn't work out
		
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			When the divorce happened You say, Allah diverted
		
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			me from Jahannam I wanted the promotion If
		
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			Allah gave it to me, I would have
		
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			gotten Jahannam That's the thought that you must
		
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			have Sometimes not getting what you want is
		
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			bad But losing something that you had Has
		
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			a kind of guilt Why did I do
		
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			wrong?
		
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			And yes, we must reflect Sometimes there are
		
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			consequences to our actions You think well of
		
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			Allah But when you don't When things get
		
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			taken away from us We lose our job,
		
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			we lose our health How do we deal
		
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			with that loss?
		
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			Allah says, look at this It's not about
		
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			you Allah wants to remind us Most of
		
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			what's happening You and I only have a
		
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			small impact Make Salah, avoid Sunnah, make Dua
		
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			There's a much bigger budget happening here That
		
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			we are not part of Allah says Whatever
		
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			happens in the Dunya of calamity In the
		
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			world around you Allah says Allah says It
		
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			has already been recorded In a book, in
		
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			a register Long before you were created Long
		
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			before you were there The budget cut was
		
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			already there The job was going to be
		
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			taken away No matter how hard you worked
		
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			Allah says, I've already decreed that Not about
		
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			you Allah says, that's easy for Allah So
		
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			Allah and Subhanallah What I love about the
		
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			Ayah Is the next Ayah I'm telling you
		
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			That I've already decreed your calamities for you
		
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			Why?
		
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			So you don't feel bad That's what you've
		
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			missed out You don't beat yourself up I
		
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			don't want you to be paralyzed It feels
		
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			bad to be sick and lose a job
		
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			No doubt But don't beat yourself up about
		
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			it And don't become too boastful When things
		
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			do go your way It wasn't about you
		
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			Allah doesn't like those who boast And those
		
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			who are arrogant So number one, think well
		
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			of Allah Number two, believe in the power
		
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			of your duas When things are bad And
		
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			Shaytan tells you, not possible, not possible It's
		
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			impossible, it's going to happen It will happen
		
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			Like Allah opened the Red Sea for Nabi
		
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			Musa Like Allah opened a way for the
		
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			Anbiya It's not just for them, it's for
		
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			us also When things go bad in my
		
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			life Ya Allah, if I made a mistake,
		
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			I make istighfar Allah forgave me And if
		
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			still it's all about me Ya Allah, you
		
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			knew better The calamities that befell me Allah
		
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			decreed that for a wisdom that I don't
		
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			know Number four, thinking about death in the
		
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			akhira You say, ya, you want me to
		
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			think positively You tell me to think about
		
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			death How does that work?
		
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			Thinking about death Takes away all the crap
		
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			of the dunya Then that deadline, that performance
		
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			review That budget is meaningless If you got
		
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			the diagnosis from the doctor You've got six
		
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			months to live I guarantee you Your inbox
		
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			will not worry you anymore I guarantee you
		
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			that business deal Will not worry you anymore
		
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			The dunya stuff Will be put into perspective
		
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			It's not big We make the dunya like
		
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			life and death Literally You miss something in
		
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			the dunya It's like someone died No, when
		
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			you really think about life and death Then
		
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			it takes away the nonsense of the dunya
		
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			Because whatever is mainly concerned About the akhira
		
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			If your mindset is only akhira focused That's
		
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			the most important thing, mainly I don't say
		
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			only, mainly focused Because you can't only be
		
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			focused on the akhira Your main focus is
		
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			akhira, the day I die I need to
		
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			think about my janaza Who's going to be
		
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			behind me Are my kids ready Am I
		
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			ready with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala That's
		
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			my focus Whoever is mainly concerned about the
		
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			akhira Allah will make him feel independent of
		
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			others You will have no more worry about
		
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			your boss Or your clients Is the brother
		
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			going to put the AC on The whole
		
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			masjid looks that way So, whoever is mainly
		
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			concerned About the year after Allah will make
		
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			him feel independent of others And Allah will
		
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			make you focused and contented You won't worry
		
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			anymore You have only one big worry I
		
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			only have one big worry The day I
		
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			die What happens after my death That's the
		
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			only worry to worry about Again, in perspective
		
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			If you got a guarantee from Allah Will
		
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			you really worry about Okay, I missed the
		
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			holiday I missed the bonus Honestly, if Allah
		
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			told you You're going to Jannah When you
		
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			die Will you care about this dunya When
		
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			I get to my death Alhamdulillah, I can
		
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			persevere And that's what it is for a
		
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			Muslim We all believe inshallah Allah will go
		
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			to Jannah Conversely, Allah says The more you
		
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			focus on the dunya And fear the dunya
		
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			And worry about the dunya Allah will put
		
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			your dunya affairs in place for you So
		
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			that's the first thing Think well of Allah
		
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			Number two, believe in your duas Believe in
		
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			your duas Number three, when things go bad
		
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			Reflect, yes But realize a lot of it
		
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			is not about you It's Allah's plan Number
		
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			four, put your thoughts in perspective Whenever you
		
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			have that negative thought Think about akhira This
		
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			is the priority Am I on track with
		
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			my akhira And the last thing Allah says
		
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			Whoever of you does good deeds Whether you're
		
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			male or female And you're a believer You're
		
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			all believers Alhamdulillah Just do good Feed someone,
		
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			make extra dhikr Just do good I will
		
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			give you a peaceful life I will give
		
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			you a happy life You will have a
		
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			happy life Sometimes the thinking is the problem
		
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			The overthinking, the over Conjecture, sitting and thinking
		
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			And worrying and worrying Just do good Allah
		
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			says I will give you a good life
		
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			In the dunya I will give you a
		
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			peaceful life And in the akhira I will
		
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			give you a reward Better than the best
		
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			that you've done Just do good And this
		
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			subhanallah Is the beginning stage inshallah As we
		
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			said to become a strong And prosperous Muslim
		
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			The last hadith which we based the series
		
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			on Encompasses all of this And if we
		
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			take one thing away And think about this
		
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			hadith The Nabi says To be a strong
		
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			believer A believer that gives A believer that
		
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			fights injustice A believer that stands up A
		
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			believer that is proud of his deen A
		
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			believer that gives strength to others You're only
		
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			strong When you help others Being strong and
		
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			not doing anything with it Is not strong
		
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			So a believer that is strong Is better
		
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			and more beloved to Allah Than the one
		
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			who is The weak believer And the hadith
		
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			says But both are good Why are they
		
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			both believers Allah loves them both But the
		
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			strong believer The leader, the one that's out
		
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			there doing He's better to Allah So then
		
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			the Nabi says Strive to do that which
		
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			will benefit you And seek the help of
		
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			Allah Don't be scared to go out there
		
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			and strive I'm not only talking about Your
		
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			striving for goodness Be brave to take opportunities
		
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			And say ya Allah This is a halal
		
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			thing I chose I want good for my
		
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			family I want good for the deen I
		
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			want to do good I trust in you
		
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			and I go We are too scared to
		
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			try We are so connected to our jobs
		
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			and our paychecks And we don't want to
		
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			keep our heads under the water Just to
		
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			survive The Prophet says don't be like that
		
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			What's the worst that can happen You're gonna
		
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			die, you're gonna die What's the worst that
		
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			can happen That will benefit you of dunya
		
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			or akhirah If there's goodness in it Take
		
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			the plunge And then trust in Allah Seek
		
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			help from Allah Put your trust in Allah
		
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			and seek his help And do not ever
		
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			feel helpless Don't ever feel that my world
		
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			is not gonna work I'm not gonna survive
		
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			You will survive it, you will make it
		
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			And you will come through it And if
		
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			it doesn't work out He's also saying it's
		
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			always gonna be bunky dory Yes that business
		
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			opportunity will fail Yes it's not always gonna
		
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			work out Now, do not say if only
		
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			I had done so If only I didn't
		
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			listen to that stupid lecture No, don't say
		
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			if only Such and such Then such and
		
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			such would have happened Rather say Allah has
		
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			decreed And what Allah wanted has come to
		
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			pass Allah had a different plan And Alhamdulillah
		
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			Allah's plan came to light Because this thought
		
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			of if only It's called lawlah Lawlah, like
		
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			the name If only is the door of
		
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			shaitan The minute you say if only It
		
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			jumps into your mind And it poisons your
		
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			thoughts So be brave Take the plunge, strive,
		
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			be confident I have the haq on my
		
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			side I have Allah on my side And
		
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			when things go rough I can make dua
		
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			And Allah can open any door And if
		
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			finally it's a failure There's no way of
		
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			being Then say Alhamdulillah Allah wanted something better
		
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			for me And move on That is the
		
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			confidence of a powerful Muslim May Allah grant
		
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			us all to be strong Muslims for his
		
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			sake We have a few announcements We announced
		
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			that on Sunday of course There's our feeding
		
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			program of course But on Sunday after Maghrib
		
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			is Mi'raj We will be having our
		
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			Mi'raj program I'd like to hear from
		
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			you If there's anything specific you'd like to
		
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			hear With regards to Mi'raj We had
		
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			a few topics over the years If there's
		
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			anything really specific that you want Please share
		
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			with us, give us some ideas We appreciate
		
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			it And I think there's a watch If
		
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			anybody lost their watch Peace be upon you