Mustafa Khattab – Closer to Allah 20 Sooner Not Later Ramadan 2011

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The speaker discusses the importance of maximizing one's hasalat in the last 10 days of the month ofFinancial, citing the use of procrastination as a way to avoid delay. He also talks about the importance of praying face to face with people who are praying for the same cause. The speaker also mentions a recent case where a woman was imprisoned for smoking Hashish and the importance of praying face to face with people who are praying for the same cause.

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			Today is the 20th
		
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			day of the month of Ramadan.
		
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			Only 10 days are left, and I'm calling
		
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			the top 10 the top 10 days in
		
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			the month of Ramadan.
		
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			Tomorrow, inshallah, at 2 PM in Najib, I'm
		
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			giving a talk about how to maximize your
		
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			hasalat in the last
		
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			10 days 10 nights of Ramadan. So make
		
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			sure, inshallah, you have your time. Please come.
		
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			The biggest problem that some people have in
		
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			relation to committing,
		
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			sins or not doing,
		
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			good deeds is delay.
		
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			Proc
		
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			procrastination.
		
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			I hate this word.
		
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			Procrastination.
		
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			Delaying. Not doing something good very soon, but
		
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			delaying. Taking a lot of time.
		
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			So I'm I'm a candidate is that yeah.
		
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			I mean, fatahasafhadeena,
		
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			may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala fill up an
		
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			activity in this, masha'Allah,
		
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			So some people,
		
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			they come for fresh every day in Ramadan,
		
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			although the night is very short. In the
		
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			wintertime, the night gets very long. You sleep
		
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			for, what, 17 hours? But still they don't
		
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			come.
		
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			Because for them, Ramadan is special.
		
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			Some people call them Ramadan Muslims, and I
		
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			don't like the name.
		
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			Some people, they quit doing evil in Ramadan.
		
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			They don't smoke.
		
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			They don't look at the Haram. They don't
		
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			listen to the Haram. They don't say the
		
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			Haram. So what is wrong if you keep
		
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			up the good work after Ramadan? Do you
		
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			do it exclusively for Ramadan?
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the Lord of
		
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			Ramadan, and He is the Lord of all
		
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			months.
		
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			If you do it only for Ramadan, don't
		
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			do it. If you do it,
		
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			nirabbil aarmeen for the sake of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, then you have to do it
		
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			all year long.
		
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			You have to make tawbah to Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa'ala. If you delay in making tawbah, you
		
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			have also to make another tawbah for delay.
		
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			So you don't delay. If you intend to
		
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			do something good, you have to do it
		
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			right away. In the story of Kaab ibn
		
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			Malik,
		
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			radiAllahu anhu, the companion of the prophet sahabi,
		
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			the prophet sahabi started a campaign to protect
		
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			the Muslims at that time. So Kaab was
		
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			ready.
		
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			He was healthy.
		
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			He was rich. And he said, I will
		
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			go with the Prophet
		
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			but, inshallah, I will do it tonight after
		
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			tomorrow at 2:30 PM, the day after at
		
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			7 PM, and he never made it.
		
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			Then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has
		
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			criticized him when he came back, and you
		
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			know the story. They were guikatib by Muslims
		
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			for some time until the verses in Surat
		
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			Tawbah were revealed.
		
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			The same is also true for not doing
		
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			something evil. If you want to quit something
		
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			like smoking,
		
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			why don't you do it right away? If
		
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			you are able to do it in Ramadan,
		
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			why don't you do it right after Ramadan?
		
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			Why do you have to wait for 2,
		
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			3 years after?
		
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			So don't do like this guy. He's a
		
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			singer in Egypt.
		
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			His name is Shaban,
		
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			and he, in a famous song in in
		
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			in Egypt, he was saying,
		
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			Insha'Allah, I will quit smoking,
		
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			and I'll be a changed man, not today,
		
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			but in January.
		
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			These are the lyrics of the song.
		
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			And sure enough, before January came, he was
		
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			imprisoned for smoking Hashish.
		
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			The question for yesterday was,
		
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			a woman has to observe 'iddah after divorce.
		
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			In some cases, in fift,
		
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			a man also has to observe 'iddah, which
		
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			means he is not allowed to get married
		
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			after divorcing his wife until the passing of
		
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			3 months, or in case his ex
		
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			is, pregnant until she delivers. There are several
		
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			cases. I'll give you just one.
		
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			If someone divorces his wife and his intention
		
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			is to marry her sister,
		
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			he has to wait till the end of
		
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			the Adnah of his wife. It is not
		
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			permissible for him to marry her sister while,
		
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			in the Adnah. And there are several cases,
		
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			but that is enough. The winner for today
		
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			is sister
		
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			Maysam Khali. Naysam Khali.
		
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			Anyone here to take the reward on her
		
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			behalf?
		
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			No one? K. Nala, okay. I'll take it.
		
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			So,
		
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			Alhamdulillah, the question was very tough. And last
		
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			night and today, I got more answers than
		
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			almost
		
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			the other days of the month combined. So
		
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			the people, Alhamdulillah, they took up the challenge.
		
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			Today's question is also tough.
		
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			We know that when you pray behind the
		
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			imam,
		
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			When you pray in Jannah with the imam,
		
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			you have to pray behind the imam. But
		
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			there is one case
		
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			where you actually if the imam prays
		
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			face to face with some people who are
		
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			praying actually behind him, but he can actually
		
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			see them. They pray face to face. Why
		
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			is that case? If you know the answer,
		
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			it may be before tomorrow [email protected].