Mustafa Khattab – 4 Ramadan Reflections Jannah Or Bust

Mustafa Khattab
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The speaker discusses various aspects of Jannah, including her appearance, alcoholism, desire for a better life, and family. They also mention the various ways in which people describe Jannah, including in a cell phone, a car, a rented townhouse, a semi- detached house, and a skyline. The reward of regular people in Jannah is not in the Quran, but is in Surah NT, and the family of the prophet may receive a great reward. The speaker also discusses the pleasures of Allah's visit to Jannah, including the reward of the people in Jannah, the reward of the people in Jannah, and the reward of the people who are not mentioned in the Quran.
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And, Allah will give you the reward for

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feeding those who are fasting.

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The second and last announcement,

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we have an amazing Hajj package,

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this year. If you're planning to go for

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Hajj, with Anatolia, inshallah Ta'ala, I'll be leading

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this Hajj campaign.

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Few spots are left, about 10 or 15,

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so make sure to register before the end

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of this month. Let me know if you

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are interested, inshallah Ta'ala. There are posters downstairs

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with all the details.

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So the commercial is over.

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We'll talk the wih now. Last night we

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spoke about Jannah, and we asked Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala as He gathered us in this

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masjid to gather us together in Jannah al

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Firdos, and Abinir al Birami

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Jannah is amazing, and as I said last

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night, people keep asking the question,

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I wish

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Adam alaihis salam didn't eat from that tree,

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because we could have been there. Why did

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he ever do this? Right?

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If he didn't do it, we could have

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been now with al Khor El Ayn instead

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of al Khor El Tlil in in this

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dunya. Right?

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And you didn't have to worry about mortgage.

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Right? You don't have to worry about credit

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score. You didn't have to worry about down

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payment.

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You didn't have to worry about GST.

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You you didn't have to worry about 20

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minus, 30 minus, you didn't have to worry

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about waiting time at the clinic, at the

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hospitals,

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and the issues and the fights people have

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with each other, and the nonsense that people

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see all the time. People are praying somewhere,

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someone goes and shoots them, you know. Someone

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drives their van into a crowd of people.

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Like, this is, like, crazy.

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And all the stuff that we deal with

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in counseling,

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every day, like, this story, for example,

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there is this brother

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who was married to this sister and she

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measured in philosophy. Right? So he can't argue

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with the sister, then she will win every

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argument, alhamdulillah.

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So basically, he was a heavy smoker.

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So he spent at least a $100 every

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day on cigarettes.

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So she argued with him and she said,

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you know, you're wasting our money, so I'll

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make a deal with you. For every $100

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you waste every day on cigarettes, I'm gonna

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take $50 from your pocket.

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Eventually, he agreed.

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Then, it didn't stop him from smoking. He

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continued to smoke.

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Then she said, okay, I'm gonna take the

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$50 from you every day, and I'm going

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to burn the $50 in front of you.

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So she started to do this and he

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was very mad. She took the money and,

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you know, she was burning the money. And

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she told him not only you're wasting our

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money, we're just burning the money and, you

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know,

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you're throwing the money in the air when

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you smoke. You're burning the money.

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He realized he made a terrible mistake.

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So he divorced his sister and he continued

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to smoke freely.

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So,

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now, now the question.

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When we speak about Jannah in the Quran,

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaks about Jannah and

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subhanAllah, the description is amazing, and of all

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the descriptions in the Quran that talk about

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Jannah, there's one particular one that hits me

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hard, where Allah

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says, laiabhuuna

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anhahiwala.

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They would never wish to go anywhere else.

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We touched on this last year, but a

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quick reminder.

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Every time we do something, we usually get

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bored and we look for something else. I

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remember in 1999,

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the first cell phone I got was Nokia,

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and it was that big, like a shoe.

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And for me that was like, like an

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advancement, like an achievement. When you compare it

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to the old dial phone, like,

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035

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no. So that

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Nokia that was as big as a shoe,

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for me that was like an achievement.

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Then the touch phones came out, the smartphones,

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and, you know, we took it to the

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next level. If you started with a manual

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car, you were dancing in the street because

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now you have a car, and now you

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look at the an automatic car and so

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on, smart car, and so on and so

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forth. If you started with a rented

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townhouse,

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then you moved to a semi detached,

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then now you're looking for a detached house,

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and so on and so. We always look

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for something bigger, something nicer, something and so

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on and so forth, but once you are

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in Jannah,

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There is nothing better than this, right?

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And Allah

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describes Jannah in so many different ways in

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the Quran. In one place He talks about

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food, another place He talks about drinks

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and the, the words that Allah

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uses to describe Jannah in the Quran are

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very

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what I would what I would say, they

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are very,

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generic because

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there's there are no words that describe

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really Jannah. Allah

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says,

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The example of Jannah. This is not really

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Jannah.

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These are words to describe Jannah. Right? Because

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imagine if it's a 150

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or a 175

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years ago,

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and someone tried to describe a smart

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phone to Alexander Graham Bell, the very guy

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who invented the phone.

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How would you describe a smart wireless touchscreen

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phone to the guy who invented the phone?

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Like, his brain would just explode

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if you try to explain it to him.

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And the same way like Allah

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tells us after he described Jannah in the

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Quran

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No

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one, nobody could possibly

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imagine

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the pleasures that Allah

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has prepared for people in Jannah. And as

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I mentioned last night,

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whether Adam

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ate from the tree, or he didn't eat

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from the tree, Allah had already planned for

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him to be here in this world before

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He created him. Just read the ayat in

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Surah Baqarah from 30 to 39.

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So now, when you read the description of

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the Quran in in the Quran in one

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place, just one one or 2 minutes inshaAllah.

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It talks about the the reward of the

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people of Jannah,

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but men are singled out for Hori Reym.

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Right? It says that, you know, the men

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will get Hori Reym.

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And now when we teach this to kids,

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they ask, okay, what about women? What do

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they get? Right?

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So now, to explain this, I have to

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tell you a story to make it easy,

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inshallah.

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Imagine there was a king,

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and he decided to put together a party

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or celebration

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for important people. So he invited royal families,

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other kings and queens, and important people, and

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he invited some regular people from the community,

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like plumbers and so on and so forth.

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Now, the,

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local newspaper, they wanted to cover this amazing

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feast,

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so a reporter came to cover this celebration.

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To show the magnitude and the majesty and

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the greatness, the awesomeness of the celebration,

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this reporter was only able to cover

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a table of regular people. The plumbers, the

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cleaners, and so on and so forth.

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Because no matter how he how hard he

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tried to explain the treats

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that the royal families and important people received,

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the readers could not possibly comprehend, understand

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that treatment.

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And even though he described the treatment of

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regular people, people were so amazed.

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This is so fantastic, the food, the drinks,

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and the treats. Now, when Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala talks about the people of Jannah, you

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realize something in the Quran, Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala only talks about the reward of the

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regular people in Jannah.

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Where is the reward of Shahid in Jannah?

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Washu Adar and Albihimlam Azhurum. They will get

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the reward from Allah.

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What is the the description of the reward?

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Nowhere to be found.

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Where is the reward of the prophets like

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Ibrahim alaihis salamu? They will get a great

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reward. What is it? We don't know.

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What about ladies like Asiyal, Khadija Radiallahu Anha,

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who will be at the top of Jannah?

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We don't really know.

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What about Adul Bayt? The family of the

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prophet

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We don't really know. Azul and Adhima in

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Surahta.

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What is the description? We don't know.

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What is the word of Muhammad

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It doesn't say anywhere in the Quran. It

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says maybe in Surah Tawbah that he will

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get a great reward in Jannah like the

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the major Sahaba with him. But what is

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the description that he will get in Jannah?

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We don't really know because this is beyond

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our imagination.

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So if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks about

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the reward of the regular people, but he

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doesn't talk about the reward of, let's say,

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the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Sahaba

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kalam, alarbayt,

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the women who die as shahid. If a

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woman dies giving birth to a child, she

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is shahid, as the prophet said. The woman

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who completes the second half of the faith

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of her husband,

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what is the reward? We don't know. And

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the prophet

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said in the Nasai that Jannah is under

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the feet of your mother.

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The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said in

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Musa al Imam Ahmad, if you take care

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of your daughters, your sisters, they are your

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bridge to Jannah.

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What is their reward? We don't know. So

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if Allah

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talks about the reward of the regular people,

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and of course the reward of the others

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who are not mentioned are far greater. We

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only look at one aspect, but we don't

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know the rest. This is the way you

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should look at it. We just see 1

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pixel,

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but we don't see the whole picture. So

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we ask

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Allah to give a jannah to firdaus, a

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minyar qulani.

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The question for last night, there is only

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one prophet in the Quran, and it says

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that his name was never given to anyone

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before.

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And as many of you said, it's Yahya

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alayhi salam, lan najahalab min qablus samiyyah In

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Surah Mariam ayah number 7, and the winner

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is Ustad Ahmad Al Bayoumi. Is he here

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today? Ahmad Al Bayoumi.

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So, Siyari's dad. Right? Tell us you can't

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take a friend.

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He wouldn't mind.

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He's a good guy. Zazaq al

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Lafiq. The question

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for tonight, Allah

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says in the Quran, Allah

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Allah chooses

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angels and people

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to deliver the messenger. Right?

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But there is a different messenger mentioned in

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Surah Naml, where Allah

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tells us the story of something or some

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something that was not an angel or a

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human being was sent as a messenger with

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a message to someone.

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If you know the answer, you may be

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before tomorrow Asrath. Imam Mustafa Adhanahu wa ta'ala

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sent of that sage. Jazai kelakhe.

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