Mustafa Khattab – 7 Ramadan Reflections Madagascar 2

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The speaker discusses various opportunities and moments in a movie, including sponsorizing an event and registering for a thank-you certificate. They also talk about a crash landing scene, where animals are scared and freaked out, and the worst human beings, Adam and Marty. The speaker emphasizes forgiveness and keeps the audience in mind, while also reminding them of the worst enemy of human beings, which is human beings and their actions.

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			In the week, and Fridays Saturdays, we have
		
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			a babysitting service,
		
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			for kids 2 years,
		
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			up to 9 years in the night palace.
		
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			So you can take advantage of the service.
		
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			We have Iftars every night. If you'd like
		
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			to sponsor an Iftar, we'll give you a
		
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			tax receipt. And also, if you are interested
		
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			in Hajj, in you
		
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			need to register as soon as you can.
		
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			The,
		
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			spots are limited inshallah.
		
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			So I remember last night, after Misha'l alhamdulillah,
		
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			salaam, a Rasulillah,
		
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			we spoke about making Gha' for others, and
		
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			I mentioned a group of people that I
		
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			always make Gha' for, and one of those
		
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			people I make Gha' for
		
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			are
		
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			the, people in this masjid and in other
		
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			masajid
		
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			who come to Salah all the time, come
		
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			for Jum'ah, and they come for Qiyam, Trawir,
		
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			and they don't speak the Arabic language. So
		
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			they stand here for 1 hour, and they
		
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			probably don't know a single word of what
		
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			is being recited in salat. The prophet says
		
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			if you read Quran
		
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			and it is difficult for you to understand,
		
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			you will get 2 rewards. Someone like me
		
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			who was born and raised Arab, and I
		
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			know the Quran and I speak the Arabic
		
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			language, I'll get one reward. You will get
		
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			2.
		
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			And the same is if you come for
		
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			salah, you stand for 1 hour, and you
		
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			don't understand what is being recited,
		
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			and you're struggling to focus. Some of you,
		
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			maybe, you think about your business, you think
		
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			about your
		
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			kids, but many of you, you try to
		
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			focus in salah, and I think this is
		
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			something amazing, and I always keep me keep
		
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			you in my dua that Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala will accept your iqaddah and give you
		
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			the reward. Because I put myself in your
		
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			shoes, so I assume if I'm standing in
		
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			salah behind someone who is residing in Chinese,
		
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			a language that I don't speak, it's gonna
		
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			be difficult for me. I'm not trying to
		
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			compare the Quran to Chinese, but what I'm
		
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			telling you is it's a language you don't
		
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			speak, and you struggle, this is your jihad,
		
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			and Allah
		
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			will give you the reward, you are always
		
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			in my du'a, so I wanted you to
		
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			know this.
		
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			The halakha for tonight is about
		
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			forgiveness.
		
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			And this is something that is wide open
		
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			for everyone in the month of Ramadan.
		
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			The shayateen are chained,
		
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			the doors of Jannah are wide open, and
		
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			the doors of Jahanam are closed. So Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala makes it easy for us
		
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			to come close to Him and gain His
		
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			forgiveness.
		
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			Before I talk about this, I'm gonna start
		
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			with a short story,
		
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			and I'm gonna talk a little bit about
		
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			a movie. There's something I know you guys,
		
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			you don't watch movies.
		
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			Stuff for a lot. Something is called movies.
		
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			It's usually about 1 hour and a half.
		
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			It has a beginning, an introduction,
		
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			then there's a problem, at the end there's
		
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			a solution.
		
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			How many of you have seen Madagascar 2?
		
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			Raise your hand.
		
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			No one!
		
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			I saw it like 10 times.
		
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			Oh, I see you. Zacked a lot. So
		
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			Madagascar
		
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			2, there's a very famous scene in this
		
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			movie.
		
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			It's a crash landing scene, if you remember
		
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			the movie. Not all of you saw the
		
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			movie, but, you're shy. So basically in that
		
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			movie,
		
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			the penguin comes in, and he says thanks
		
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			for flying with your penguin. I have 2
		
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			news, one is good, one is bad. So,
		
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			the good news is we're landing right now.
		
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			The bad news is it's crash landing, and
		
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			everyone freaks out.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, basically,
		
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			the animals are so scared they're about to
		
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			die they freak out. So basically, we have
		
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			Alex, which is the lion, and we have
		
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			Marty, which is the zebra.
		
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			So basically, Alex tells Marty, you know, I
		
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			love you so much, you're my best friend.
		
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			And Marty says, I love you too, you
		
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			are my best, I love you more than
		
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			Biryani.
		
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			So, this is my level of love. If
		
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			I love someone more than Biryani, it means
		
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			I love them so much. So, basically,
		
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			the zebra tells the lion, You're my best
		
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			friend, I love you so much. And now
		
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			the lion, Alex says,
		
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			I have something to confess.
		
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			And the zebra says, Whatever you did, I'll
		
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			forgive you. Then the lion says,
		
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			Sorry,
		
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			I broke your
		
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			iPod.
		
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			Because the keys were too small, I broke
		
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			it. I was so frustrated.
		
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			Now the zebra says,
		
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			Oh no, the horror, I'm gonna kill you.
		
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			So, one minute before the zebra says, I
		
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			love the lion so much, she's my best
		
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			friend, and so on and so forth, and
		
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			for one little mistake,
		
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			the zebra forgot everything
		
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			that the lion did for her, and
		
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			it's it's gone. Now it's worst the worst
		
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			enemy. Right? So a lot of human beings
		
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			are like this. You do good to them
		
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			your whole life, you're nice to them, one
		
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			little mistake,
		
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			you are the worst ever. Right?
		
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			The way it works with Allah
		
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			is the opposite.
		
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			You do bad things your whole life, then
		
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			when you come to Allah
		
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			and ask for forgiveness, He will forgive you.
		
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			It's quite the opposite.
		
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			Right? No matter what you do, your sin
		
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			cannot be bigger than the mercy of Allah
		
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			You see Adam, alayhis salam, Allah told him
		
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			don't eat from the tree he ate, and
		
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			eventually Allah forgave him because he said, you
		
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			Allah forgive me.
		
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			Yunus salayhi salam, he left the town without
		
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			permission, he said, you Allah forgive me, and
		
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			Allah forgive
		
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			him. Fajjtabal
		
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			fahu fajalal minas salayeen. And Allah
		
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			shows him, making him one of the best.
		
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			Musa alayhi salam killed a man by mistake,
		
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			says, You Allah forgive me. Allah
		
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			forgave him.
		
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			So no matter what you do, your sin
		
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			is not bigger than the mercy of Allah.
		
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			Always keep this in your mind.
		
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			One of the arama, his name is Hatem
		
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			al Assam, he was doing his Hajj,
		
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			and he was at Arafat and there were
		
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			like millions of people out there, and someone
		
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			came to him and said Yeah, imam, look
		
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			at these people here. Who is the worst
		
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			of them?
		
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			And the Imam said the worst of them
		
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			is the one who thinks that their sin
		
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			is bigger than the mercy of Allah. This
		
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			is the this is what is worse than
		
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			the sin itself.
		
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			So now, Adam
		
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			made a mistake,
		
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			Yunus
		
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			made a mistake, Musa
		
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			made a mistake, an innocent mistake.
		
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			Why did Allah forgive them and not Iblis?
		
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			He made a mistake too.
		
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			The difference is
		
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			Iblis challenged Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and blamed
		
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			it, blamed it on Allah. He said You
		
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			created me from light, You created him from
		
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			from mud. I'm better than him. So he
		
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			was arrogant.
		
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			Many of us when we do something wrong,
		
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			there are different things we do. Number 1
		
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			You pretend you don't know nothing. You didn't
		
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			do it, you just keep quiet, as if
		
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			nothing happened. This is the first level.
		
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			The second level is you lie about it,
		
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			you say, Didn't do it? Look at me!
		
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			And it happens with our kids all the
		
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			time. They sneak to the fridge,
		
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			they eat all the Nutella, they are covered
		
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			with Nutella.
		
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			They didn't do it. You
		
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			are swimming in Nutella. You can see it
		
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			all over their face. I didn't do it,
		
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			you know?
		
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			The 3rd type or the thirst third worst
		
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			level
		
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			is not only you keep quiet or you
		
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			lie about it, you blame it with someone
		
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			else. I didn't do it. My brother did
		
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			it. Number 4, which is even worse, is
		
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			when you justify what the what you did.
		
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			Right? You do something wrong, everyone is a
		
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			chor, everyone is a hearses, everyone is a
		
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			thief,
		
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			everyone is selling wheat, you know? So you
		
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			try to justify the wrong by telling that
		
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			everyone is doing it. And this is the
		
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			worst. How can a love forgive like like
		
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			this? So the first step towards forgiveness is
		
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			to acknowledge that you made a mistake.
		
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			Adam alayhis salam said to you Allah I
		
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			made a mistake, forgive me Allah forgive him.
		
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			Yunus alayhis salam, I made a mistake, forgive
		
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			me, forgive him. Musa alayhis salam minivu lam
		
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			tunafsifafillni
		
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			fa ghafarala So you need to acknowledge.
		
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			And acknowledging the mistake is 70% of forgiveness,
		
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			coming towards forgiveness. But for shaitan to challenge
		
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			Allah, to blame it on someone else, and
		
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			to justify it, now you are making it
		
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			difficult for yourself. So we ask Allah
		
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			to open the door for us to be
		
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			forgiven, especially in this month, Ramadan, Amin Yaluk
		
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			Al Amin. The question for last night, there
		
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			is a surah in the Quran named after
		
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			a man, but he is not a prophet.
		
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			And this person is Luqman alaihis salam. He
		
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			was Hakim, but he was not a prophet.
		
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			And the winner is brother Fawaz and his
		
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			family. Fawaz?
		
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			Is he here? Allah, so give it to
		
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			him, inshallahahu ta'ala.
		
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			Question for tonight,
		
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			it's it's difficult. You have to think about
		
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			it. There are so many people and prophets
		
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			that are mentioned in the Quran,
		
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			and all of them are the children of
		
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			Adam alayhis salaam. There's only one man who
		
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			is mentioned in the Quran, and he is
		
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			not from the children of Adam.
		
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			He's a man, but he's not from the
		
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			children of Adam. If you know him, email
		
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			me before tomorrow's at imaustafadanotoliacenter.ca.
		
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			He's like, okay.