The transcript describes three different conversations and experiences in the past month, including the loss of a man in Mecca and the loss of a woman in a family member's death. The struggles of the man's life, including mental health and drugs use, are discussed. The importance of staying connected to one's father and not giving up on one's beliefs is emphasized, along with the need for people to protect their emotions and legacy.
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on this blessed day of this blessing our of yomo jumar. We ask Allah azza wa jal to accept from us
our good deeds, male allies that will continue to shower His mercy and out on his forgiveness and
all of our shortcomings and our mistakes love them. I mean, secondly, at
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this very moment, we are alive so a gel to ease the pain and suffering of our brothers and sisters
in America and wherever they may be. Under whatever circumstances they may be dealing with May Allah
azza wa jal bless them with ease and comfort along mean, you want to above I want to begin by
sharing with you a little bit of what my week has been like so far.
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On Monday, I had about five appointments, all of them were young people. Some of them had suicidal
thoughts, some of them were coping with depression. Others had a series of other issues. On Tuesday,
a series of domestic problems and issues on Wednesday back to some of the youth problems, identity
crisis, confusion, some even question Islam all together born Muslims, Thursday yesterday, meeting
some of the parents who also have grievances, problems and stress in their own lives. That's what
the week has been like so far this morning, the drive here on the phone listening to somebody else
with another problem, another concern.
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And don't get me wrong. These are things that personally I embrace, and try my very best with
Allah's help to be there and support these individuals. But at some point, you have to ask yourself,
at some point, every one of us here have a story. We all have our share our fair share of problems,
stress issues, whatever it is, maybe it could be at a very personal level, within the family, at a
community level, maybe even beyond that. Every one of us has a story of problems and stress. May
Allah azza wa jal bless us with ease. I mean, are you all about today I want to share with you some
of the coping mechanisms that Islam gives us to help cope, diagnose and deal with some of these
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problems. This is really important, because what I'm going to share with you might actually come as
a surprise to many of you. So I want to start off by saying to you, let's take a trip back to our
messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. In the time when he was living in the blessed city of Mecca.
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There was a year
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that three things happened to him.
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That was probably the most devastating experiences he has ever had in his entire life. It was so
difficult, so troubling for him. That scholars of Sierra they call this year.
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The year of sorrow and distress and difficulty, they actually gave it this title. So what happened?
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Now everything that I share with you these three things happened in a span of about four to six
weeks. Just keep that in mind. just over a month. Three things happen. Number one,
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the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam his wife Jodi Jodi Alomar as she passes away.
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You have to remember that Khadija or the loved one was the intimate and personal support.
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port of the messenger alayhi salatu was salam, whenever he would walk out in the city of Mecca and
have to listen to and cope with all of the things that he had to confront. They called him names,
they threatened him, they persecuted him all because of his identity.
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At the end of the day, he would go back home, he would be with his wife, out of the 11. And she was
the one that would give him that moral support. It's okay. You stay strong, stay confident, Allah
chose you, she would give him words of confidence and advice. You see, when you have a spouse like
that, that after a long day of whatever problems and stress you're dealing with, you go back home
and you have support within a family like that, you're able to take a lot out there, you're able to
confront a lot. And so the messenger RNA is Salatu was Salam lost that very personal and intimate
support. It was devastating for him
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a couple of weeks later.
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Now, if you think it's as bad as it can get, he loses someone else who is also very dear to him.
Somebody that he also relied upon somebody that supported him in the worst times of Mecca, and that
was none other than the death of his uncle embleton.
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I will call him was a pagan. He was a mushrik. But I will call him looked at his nephew.
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And one day after he seen his nephew going through one trial after another one slander, one insult
someone doing this, someone doing that, he went up to his nephew and said, Oh Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, why don't you just stop this? Stop this preaching, stop spreading this religion.
Look what's happening to you. Look what's happening to your people. And the Prophet alayhi salatu wa
sallam told his uncle By Allah, if they meaning the Quraysh gave me control of the sun, and the
moon, I will never stop what I'm doing. And Abu Talib looked at him and said, From this day forward,
I promise you, I will never tell you to stop what you're doing ever again.
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As a matter of fact,
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the Muslims, they were kicked out of Mecca, they had to live on the outskirts of Mecca.
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So within the city of Mecca, you have all the machinery clean and the Quraysh acceptable toilet, you
know what he did? I will tell him he moved out from Mecca. And he was the only missionary that lived
with the Muslims in their village. He was a supportive cast, the messenger they use a lot with some
relied on his uncle. This was his social support. He knew that if he has his uncle by himself by his
side, that none of the coloration would get to him or touch him. I will call him passes away.
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A couple of weeks later, we're still in the span of about four to six weeks, by the way. Now you
think to me, you think for yourself, if you were in this position, you lost a spouse, then now you
lose one of your closest relatives or family members. And this all happened in a couple of weeks.
For us it's a big deal. If one or two years go by, then another death happens. That's even a big
deal for us. This is happening in the span of less than a month. The third thing happens.
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And that was the incident of part if the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam walks into the city
of La if for those of you that are not familiar with pa if it's about 90 kilometres north of Mecca,
just keep that in the back of your head. Now the promise of cinemas on a camel, he's got to travel
90 kilometres or so. from one city to another. It's taken him a few days to do this. By the time he
gets now to the city of fire. What is he confronted with? He couldn't even walk into the city.
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They already tried to kill him before he got into the city.
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And it got so bad for him. That even there are stories of the children pelting and throwing stones
and rocks at his face. One of those rocks hit his face and he started to bleed and he bled so much
that he turned around he didn't even get into the city. He turned around and he started walking away
back from pontiff, he walked for about one kilometre
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And he left a trail of blood for one kilometre. There was this post that was just sticking, sitting
there. He went up against the post and he leaned on it. Can you imagine the distress he's going
through?
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This is the Messenger of Allah sallallahu wasallam.
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His wife isn't there.
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He can go there and say, Look, look what they're doing to me. His uncle isn't there. You can say to
him, Look, can you help me stop this? he's by himself. He leans up against the post. And you know
what he says? So panela he is really Rahmatullahi he's really a mercy to all of mankind. After all
was said and done. He has the strength to utter these words. He says, Oh Allah, forgive them for in
a home layer level. They don't have any knowledge. sallallahu alayhi wa sallam imagined the courage
it takes to speak like that after that experience.
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Now the Prophet alayhi salatu was Salam at this moment in Mecca. He's at his lowest point. Scholars,
they have seerah. They say, if the messenger or they use Salatu was Salam was anywhere near
depression.
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This was when it would happen. This was his lowest point. And in addition to that, it didn't stop
the persecution against his companions increased, more of the tourists were coming after them. More
of the machete clune were threatening them. It was not getting worse. Now the entire environment for
him is becoming very sour, very difficult for him.
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So ask yourself,
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what would you do?
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How would you handle it?
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And listen to how Allah handled it.
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Listen to what happens now. This is actually the subject of the stiff today's hook but
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he is at his lowest point. What did Allah do for him? At that moment? Allah azza wa jal gave him a
surah.
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This surah when you hear the name of the surah, immediately you will smile. You know why? Because
everyone here has at least some background, that this sort of is beautiful. It has a beautiful text
to it, theme to it subject to it. It's a beautiful surah
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Allah gave the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam surah Yusuf alayhi salam.
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Now just wait for a minute
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surah Yusuf.
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You're at your lowest point, you lost your wife, your uncle, a whole city kicked you out. Now you're
forced because the situation is so bad in Mecca, you're forced to leave Mecca and go and find
another place to live.
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You get suited to use IV. Now walk with me through soda use IV and see if you can make the
connection. Soon abusive is all about problems, family problems. It started off with this young boy
use fit his lm is about five years old or so goes to his father and says Daddy, Daddy, I saw a dream
11 stars a sun and moon they all made salute to me.
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You think the father would be really happy at this point? Because the father is a prophet,
jacobellis and he already interprets dreams. He knows exactly what that dream is, eventually will
meet will mean he knows the interpretation. He knows that that dream is the indication his son's
going to be a prophet.
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But he doesn't tell his son that you know what he tells his son that sort of al Qaeda aquatic for
your key to look at Qaeda. Okay, you said don't tell your brothers anything about this because
they're going to threaten and plot against you.
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So use is like okay,
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remember the Prophet alayhi salaatu wa sallam is at his lowest. That's the first thing that he will
get from this sorta doesn't really sound like the right thing you want to say to somebody who is in
that state does it? Stay with me? See, this is one of the weaknesses of human beings. Sometimes we
jump ahead of ourselves.
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Like sometimes we will plan we will study we would learn and we would think we have things figured
out until we actually end up doing it and you're like, wait a minute. I thought I had all of this
planned out and actually didn't work out that way.
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This
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is how Allah is teaching you and I, and reminding His Messenger Allah His Salatu was Salam. Trust
me. I know what I'm doing. Just trust me take the surah it doesn't even get any better. The brothers
of Yusuf Alayhi Salaam, still plot against him.
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The plot wasn't very pleasant in any way, shape or form. The plot started off with oak delusive kill
Youssef, that's their brother. These brothers that are making this plot are actually sons there are
children of a prophet. What made them even think along these lines of their own sibling? You know
the answer?
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jealousy.
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hazard. Jealous jealousy makes people do crazy things so crazy that even they themselves can't seem
to understand it. That's what jealousy is.
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Jealousy, if anybody struggles from it, if anybody recognizes that they have it, place your soul and
your heart into into a state of spiritual emergency.
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There is a catastrophic problem happening in your heart. That's what jealousy does. The sons our
Prophet, our our sons of a prophet. They come from a good home. And in addition to that yaku Bani,
his salon. His father is help. Elisa is also a prophet is her father his salon his father is Ibrahim
Ali said and he's also a prophet. So yaku barley Islam comes from a family of prophets. Now his son
will eventually become a prophet jealousy didn't care about any of that. It got all of these
brothers together plot against their one sibling
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and then one brother you know the story he says, calling upon Edo Minho that took the total use of
one of the brothers as if his plan was any better. He said, No, no, no, no, no Don't kill you. So
just take him and dump him into a well
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like as if that was a better or you know more an easier plan that we could execute and he'll be
okay. And then the the plan unfolds, they dump us if they come to the Father, everything happens
stay with me. Here's the third thing I want to tell you about soda Jusuf
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when used to filing his Salaam is in that well, he's scholars they say he's in this well for about
two to three months. Imagine he's about five or seven years old. He's in a well all by himself. What
do children at that age want? They just want mom and dad.
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That's everything for them at that age. This poor child is at the bottom of a well
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he is in a withdrawal Whoa, whoa. He is in a land that's been abandoned or widowed or who is a place
where nobody goes. So the brothers really thought this plan thoroughly. We're not going to jump in
and just any well we're going to find the well that nobody goes to. We'll put them there.
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caravan somebody walks by sees Yusuf Ali Salaam in the world, rolls him out. They Chateaux who be
Theremin? in boxing? they wrap him up and hide him. When people are guilty, what do they do?
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They hide.
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This man was not supposed to do that. He found a boy, you're not supposed to hide him, wrap him up
and put them in your caravan. You're supposed to report this stuff, find out where this child came
from. He didn't do that. He looked at the child and the child looks so beautiful. Because remember
Yusuf Ali Salam has the beauty of half of mankind on his face.
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One person, half of the beauty of mankind, Allah put it in this one face looks at this child keeps
him they take him from Palestine to another country. They take him to Egypt. It's not getting
better. They sell him as a slave. For what the poor answers the sources Dada, he may not do that.
For a worthless price is get rid of them. We don't we don't want to but let's just make some quick
cash. Then the story continues.
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The seduction happens usif is thrown into prison for about seven years. Then all of this are for
crimes he didn't actually commit. Why would you take a story like that and give it to the messenger
either
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His Salatu was Salam at his lowest the answer I you will. I hope when I pray Bismillah you will
appreciate you will love and you will grasp and hold on to it. Every one of us sitting here has a
stress,
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a difficulty. Maybe some of you sitting here are suffering inside. And no one knows except Allah.
You can't tell. You can't even talk about it how hurtful it is. this sutra is for you, man alive so
it'll continue to teach us his book. And may Allah so it'll continue to flourish the message of the
poor and in our hearts and in our lives of lahoma I mean, Apollo metazoan was stuff it'll likely
welcome it certainly was me and him included them for stuff that are in the Hall of Fame.
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Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa Salatu was Salam ala rasulillah Allah Allah He was heavy woman. And
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here is the heartbeat of surah Yusuf,
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the heartbeat of sudut Yusuf. This is why the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam got this surah
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he's at his lowest first thing Allah says Alif Lam ra
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to Kenya to kitabi movie. Allah reminds him Elif lambro these are yet in this book. They are clear
and perfect.
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Why would you tell that to somebody suffering like this? This is a low re affirming confidence of
the messenger alayhi salatu wa sallam in his book.
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On messenger, you gotta trust this book because all the areas in it, they are moving. Don't lose
sight of that. I know what you're going through.
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Because the same soldier says in Arabic Allah mon Hakeem your master, he has the knowledge of
everything. He is all wise. I know what you're dealing. I know you lost your wife. I know that's
devastating for you, your uncle? I know what everybody in Mecca and five and everywhere else I know
what they did to you.
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Remember, this book, trusted because everything in it is moving.
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Then the plan remember the plan? The father told us the family stuff. Don't tell anybody about this
dream. had that conversation and in our own backyard demon Hakeem. Allah said that Allah hee hee hee
Suppan, who with Tyler has two things. Don't lose sight of it. Allah has knowledge of everything.
And he is all wise. Another way of saying that is Allah knows what he's doing. So don't question
him.
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You see how poor and I say to you, whatever it is that you're suffering with.
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You got to stay connected with him. subhanho wa Taala.
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What you're dealing with did not happen just because of something you did or didn't do.
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Allah allowed it to happen to you.
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You have to remember that at the end of the day, you plan you study, you invest you think you do
everything you get advice, you get direction. You have no idea what the result is. That's a lost
job.
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The plan when it was executed, the sons they came with the * shirt. They showed the father
Look, look we use of got eaten by a wolf. What the father say
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pardonable so well at lucam and Phu Kham MRR for sovereign jelly. Well laku Stein, seafood. He
connected back with Allah again. He said your soul something is corrupt about them. They've wronged
you in some way. I'm going to have beautiful patience. He didn't say I'm going to have patience. I'm
going to have beautiful patience. That's the peak that's the climax of patience. Beautiful subbrand.
Jamil means you never complain about anything in your life. You just trust Hola. jacoba alayhis
salam says it and then he says while longhole Mustang Allah is going to help me with what you guys
are up to. He connected back with Allah. The caravan came and took us It took him to Egypt sold him
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as a slave how that conversation and will la hollyburn Allah Emory, all our kin axon Li Allah
Subhana Allah.
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Allah knows what just happened. Most of mankind they just
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Don't know
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on the outside this looks terrible. Allah say you just don't have the knowledge well luckily yanam
went to LA he knows what he's doing. You and I as the creation we just don't the seduction use of it
Islam is another palace the wife of that as is a Hanukkah to slam the doors shut locked it through
herself to use if Allah He said What did he do Carla Allah in the hora be synonymous way that he
went back to a lot again he said my model is not the same as our with a builder or with a builder
you seek protection from with Allah, you seek His protection, my either law you are the protector or
Allah see the difference one the actual protection to another law the source of that protection he
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connected back with a law because used to violate his solemn at that moment knows he can't overcome
any sin or mistake without Allah's help.
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That's what the prophets I send them was reminded about
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this hardship Oh Mohammed Salah love while he was so it's not going to stop, you're going to go to
Medina.
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You're going to go through battles after battles, this trial is not going to stop for you. But take
sort of usif with you. Because after every hardship you're going to confront, you need to make sure
you stick with him. subhanho wa Taala
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that's the thing that will continue to make you breathe, of whatever stress and problem you're
coping with.
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You look at your children and you're wondering where did I go wrong?
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You have to stay connected. Oh Allah. You gave me these children. Oh Allah, Nothing happens without
your permission. guide me tongue inspire me. How should I handle this? You see, when you talk like
that, Allah never abandons you. In surah Yusuf. Allah never abandoned Yusuf Ali, he said, at the end
of the surah the dream came true. The brothers were reunited, the father came and met his son. After
several years, the father was crying so much that he says what below but hyena who mean it wasn't.
He cried so much for his son, that his eyes started to get this white glaze over it. who cries like
that? Is this even possible to cry this way? That your eyes start to get this light shade eventually
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distorts your vision. This is happening because you're crying too much. That's how much he weep for
his son, but he held on to a lung. What did Allah do for him, gave him back Yusuf Allah. Hi, Sam.
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This is what happens. That whatever you're coping with, you cannot make the ultimate mistake happen
and that you disconnect with your master. So with that being said, above, I conclude, we ask Allah
azza wa jal to protect his remembers in our hearts and in our lives each and every day, until the
last moment and breath we take on earth alone. I mean, our sons and our daughters, we ask a lot as a
child to protect them from the fitna of this world. We as allies, so much help to protect them from
the fitna of culture and society. We as a lot so Adele, to allow within their hearts to love Him, to
devote to him, to worship Him, so that we can be proud we leave a legacy of people that will carry
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law either Illallah Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and with that being said, we
send peace and blessings to him. salallahu alayhi wa sallam as Allah commands us to do so in his
book when he tells us in the law home Allah eco turtle use or lunarlon Libby Yeah, you're Latina
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