Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 18 Hard Times 2 Ramadan 2011

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The speaker discusses the difficulty of acceptance of the Shah of Allah and how it can lead to negative experiences. They also mention a story about a man who was caught in the act of killing a queen and faced negative reactions from his assistant. The speaker emphasizes the importance of accepting the Qud of Allah with a smile and not losing a job or a place of worship.

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			We spoke last night
		
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			about acceptance of the Khan of Allah
		
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			and we said that acceptance means to be
		
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			grateful
		
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			at good times and prosperity,
		
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			and to be patient at difficult times or
		
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			adversity.
		
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			So it may happen
		
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			that the difficulty or the marching that befalls
		
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			you is a sign that Allah
		
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			loves you.
		
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			Maybe Allah
		
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			is punishing you for a sin that you
		
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			committed in this life, so that Allah
		
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			will not expose you and humiliate you in
		
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			front of all you
		
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			humans,
		
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			from the time of Adam till the day
		
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			of judgement. Maybe Allah
		
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			will punish you
		
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			between him and you. So what? Nobody knows.
		
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			Or maybe Allah
		
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			will test you with a hardship,
		
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			with a difficulty, so that Allah
		
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			will raise you little in Jannah.
		
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			The Prophet
		
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			said in an authentic hadith collected by the
		
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			Nizari, narrated by Adam Sypnimatic,
		
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			that the magnitude
		
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			of the difficulty
		
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			comes in accordance with the magnitude of the
		
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			reward.
		
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			So the more or the bigger the hardship
		
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			is, the bigger or the greater the reward
		
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			is.
		
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			Then the Prophet
		
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			says, if Allah loves someone,
		
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			He will put them to to test.
		
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			Those who are pleased and happy with the
		
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			Ka'il of Allah Allah
		
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			will be pleased with them. But those who
		
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			are displeased
		
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			and those who protest and question the Ka'il
		
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			of Allah
		
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			Allah will be displeased with them.
		
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			So
		
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			always
		
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			accept
		
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			the
		
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			Maybe something will happen to you, and you
		
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			think it is the worst thing that has
		
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			ever happened to you, and it turns out
		
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			to be one of the best things that
		
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			has ever happened to you.
		
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			And maybe you love something, thinking that it
		
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			is the best thing that has ever happened
		
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			to you, and it turns out to be
		
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			the worst thing that has ever happened to
		
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			you.
		
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			We heard several times before that some people
		
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			miss the flights,
		
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			and they go home
		
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			crying every step of the way. The first
		
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			thing in the morning, they read in the
		
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			paper that they, the plane crashed.
		
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			And all the people on board were burned
		
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			to death or they were drowned in the
		
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			ocean and eaten by sharks and crocodiles.
		
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			Yeah, crocodiles don't live in oceans. But anyway,
		
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			it
		
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			happens. So you shouldn't protest. Maybe Allah
		
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			is hiding something good for you in this
		
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			hardship or this difficulty.
		
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			If you get far from a job, maybe
		
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			Allah
		
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			has a better job, a better pay paying
		
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			job in store for you. You shouldn't protest,
		
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			and you should always thank Allah
		
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			for everything.
		
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			And Nabi
		
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			Yusuf
		
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			alaihi wasalam,
		
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			The Prophet had 7 children,
		
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			he buried with his own hands 6 of
		
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			them in his lifetime,
		
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			and he was always accepting, and he was
		
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			always grateful to Allah
		
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			Maybe Allah
		
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			will test you with something to give you
		
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			something
		
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			Abu Salam died,
		
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			she used to make his du'a to say
		
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			to Allah, you belong and to him who
		
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			shall return.
		
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			O Allah,
		
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			support me in this difficult time and give
		
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			me something better than what You have taken
		
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			from me.
		
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			Then, and she used to smile every time
		
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			she said the dua, and she used to
		
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			say, who is in the Muslims is better
		
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			than Abu Salam? She got married to the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			and he is a 1000000000
		
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			times better than Abu Salam
		
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			Allah Abu Faiz. Very
		
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			briefly, this story is about a King and
		
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			his assistant, and his assistant followed him like
		
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			a shal and he was a wise man.
		
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			So every time something bad happened to the
		
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			King, this was his assistant always said, Maybe
		
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			it is something good. And he accepted with
		
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			a smile.
		
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			So one time, they were out hunting in
		
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			the jungle, and
		
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			the king cut his finger.
		
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			So the wazir, the assistant smiled, and he
		
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			said, maybe,
		
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			maybe it is something good.
		
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			So the king got so angry, got so
		
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			mad, what is wrong with this guy?
		
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			When they went to the palace, the doctor
		
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			told the king, You will have to come
		
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			off your finger, otherwise the illness will run
		
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			through your body and you will you will
		
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			die.
		
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			So when they come off his finger,
		
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			the king was crying, and the wazee was
		
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			sitting to the side smiling. And he said,
		
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			Alhamdulillah, maybe it is something good. So
		
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			when the king saw him, he was so
		
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			mad,
		
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			they cut off my finger, and this zombie
		
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			dude is standing to the side and smiling.
		
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			He's laughing at me. Okay?
		
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			Throw this idiot in the prison.
		
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			So they dragged him to the prison. So
		
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			when the king ordered this man man to
		
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			prison, he accepted the news with a smile,
		
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			and he said,
		
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			maybe it is something good for me that
		
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			I will go to jail.
		
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			A week later, the King got out on
		
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			his own to hunt in the jungle by
		
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			himself, and he was seized by pagans.
		
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			So they took him to offer him as
		
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			a sacrifice to their idols, al Islam.
		
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			They tied him, and they were about to
		
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			butcher him as a sacrifice
		
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			to the gods,
		
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			and they found out that he is missing
		
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			a favor.
		
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			And they said, okay, this,
		
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			this offering doesn't count because it's missing a
		
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			finger. So the entire name, they threw him
		
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			away,
		
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			and he went running to his palace, and
		
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			he was smiling and laughing all the way.
		
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			So they released the waziriyah system, and he
		
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			said, Now I know that missing a finger
		
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			was something good for me. Otherwise, I'll I'll
		
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			be dead by now.
		
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			But what about you being in jail
		
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			being something good for you? And he said,
		
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			You know that I follow you like you
		
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			like you shadow. If I went out with
		
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			you, they would have taken me, and they
		
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			would have killed me and offered me a
		
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			sacrifice to the thing. So it was something
		
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			good for me and for you. So you
		
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			have always to accept the Qud of Allah
		
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			with a smile.
		
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			The question for yesterday, if the Sheikh is
		
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			reciting in the Tarawmiri, and you couldn't recite
		
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			Fatiha after the Sheikh,
		
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			do you have and you couldn't recite the
		
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			Fatiha, so does your
		
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			Wa
		
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			Ta'ala
		
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			says,
		
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			Listen attentively so that you may achieve the
		
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			mercy of Allah
		
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			The winner for today is brother Atif.
		
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			Where is brother Atif?
		
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			So if someone,
		
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			2 weeks after Dayid, they realized they haven't
		
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			changed the Zafar field. Can they still pay
		
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			it 2 weeks after the Eid? If you
		
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			know the answer, it may be before tomorrow.
		
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			[email protected].
		
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			That would be lovely.