Mustafa Khattab – Eid Adha khutba 2711 09 part 2

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The speaker discusses various ways to express gratitude towards Allah for providing them with a beautiful compliment. They suggest thanking the Lord for everything they have experienced and providing small small donations to help people. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of recognizing gratitude and thanking oneself for everything they have experienced.

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			Just one favor. Another
		
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			favor is
		
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			if you are alive. This by itself is
		
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			a great favor from Allah of Palestine. You
		
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			have to take him every day for for
		
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			giving you the chance to live,
		
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			to be able to worship and thank
		
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			him. Having feet to walk with,
		
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			having tongue to speak with,
		
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			having arms to walk with,
		
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			having eyes to see with, having ears to
		
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			hear with.
		
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			Imagine with me just for 5 minutes
		
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			if you find one of your feet
		
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			like this
		
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			or blindfold you
		
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			to put something in your ear.
		
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			Just go with the one with, all in
		
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			one foot with no feet.
		
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			Your life will be difficult. A lot of
		
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			panelists will,
		
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			you know, reward you if you are patient,
		
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			but, again, your life will be difficult. And
		
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			I I know how it feels. I've seen
		
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			I've told you to people this way.
		
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			You will not be able to go and
		
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			make a zoo. You'll not be able to
		
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			go and cook for yourself.
		
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			You'll not be able to go and study.
		
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			You'll not be able to go and play
		
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			with other people as a kid. If you
		
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			if you love soccer like me, your life
		
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			will be very difficult.
		
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			You'll not be able to get a job
		
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			if you go try to marry somebody.
		
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			Nobody will, you know it will be difficult
		
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			to find somebody to marry you. Unless you
		
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			marry someone who's blind,
		
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			you know, they would just do it because
		
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			they don't see.
		
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			This is only one favorite from Allah
		
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			In view of the fact that there are
		
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			millions of homeless people in this world,
		
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			if you have a house,
		
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			even one bedroom,
		
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			you should thank the Lord's hand of God
		
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			at day and night because you are one
		
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			of the chosen few.
		
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			If you have a job,
		
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			there are 1,000,000
		
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			who are unemployed.
		
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			If you eat 3 meals a day,
		
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			and I know some brothers in this community
		
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			who eat 7 meals a day.
		
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			But even if you eat 3, you should
		
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			be thankful and grateful to all of the
		
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			Taliban. There are 1,000,000, if not 1,000,000,000
		
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			in Africa,
		
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			in Asia, in Latin America who eat only
		
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			1 meal a day.
		
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			If you have a wife or a husband,
		
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			if you have kids, there are 1,000,000 out
		
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			there who are not married. There are 1,000,000
		
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			out there who don't have kids.
		
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			This is a great
		
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			favor for the love of Panamata. You have
		
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			to think
		
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			that what will happen if I lose only
		
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			one of these favors?
		
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			How difficult my life will be?
		
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			Why people are ungrateful to Allah
		
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			gives us the answer in the Quran. In
		
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			the first surah ever revealed,
		
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			Man becomes
		
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			arrogant and ungrateful
		
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			when he thinks
		
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			when he or she thinks that he is
		
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			self sufficient.
		
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			He doesn't need anyone.
		
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			Either because of your job, you are president
		
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			or king or emir or sultan, whatever,
		
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			or even if you are a manager or
		
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			a renter,
		
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			think of the story of, pharaoh in the
		
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			Quran, Sarah, he was the king, he became
		
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			arrogant,
		
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			all the way to the point of saying,
		
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			I'm your lord, the most high.
		
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			So I guess he was doing drugs. He
		
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			was calling himself the most high
		
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			all the way to the
		
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			ceiling. If someone becomes arrogant
		
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			because of his money,
		
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			think of Korah
		
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			and the Quran and the Bible. He became
		
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			so arrogant and ungrateful because of his money.
		
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			If somebody becomes arrogant
		
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			because of his
		
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			origin, because of his family, the Arabs of
		
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			Calamine,
		
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			the Taliban, the Taliban, the Taliban,
		
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			and
		
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			other I am better than Adam. He created
		
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			me from fire,
		
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			and you created him from mud.
		
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			And remember, the angels who were better than
		
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			the shaitan, they were created from light, they
		
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			made tudus.
		
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			So he should have made tudus too. And
		
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			there are so many examples in the Quran.
		
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			The last thing I want to mention before
		
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			we leave, actually before I conclude the book,
		
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			how can we show gratitude
		
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			and thanks and appreciation
		
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			and praise to Allah?
		
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			Number 1,
		
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			you have to recognize that everything you have
		
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			in this life,
		
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			whether you know it or not, whether you
		
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			see it or not, is exclusively
		
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			from Allah.
		
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			Allah says in the Quran,
		
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			But there are favors
		
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			of living you have in this life is
		
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			only from Allah,
		
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			Not from the holy cow in India,
		
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			not from the holy elephant head
		
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			in China,
		
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			not from Jesus, not from Buddha. It's only
		
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			from Allah.
		
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			And guess what? No one
		
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			of all the people or things that are
		
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			worshiped in this universe never said
		
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			none.
		
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			Not Buddha, not Jesus, not the cow, not
		
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			the elephant, none of them ever said I'm
		
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			god or worship or thank me.
		
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			Allah
		
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			is the only one who said I created,
		
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			I bliss, I've given this, I've given this,
		
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			worship me alone, but still most of the
		
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			people turned their back to him.
		
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			So this is number 1, to recognize that
		
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			Allah
		
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			is the only one who has given you
		
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			this.
		
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			Number 2, to thank with your time. To
		
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			say alhamdulillah.
		
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			Every time you remember something good in your
		
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			life, you just say alhamdulillah.
		
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			Number 3,
		
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			another way of showing thanks and gratitude
		
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			is
		
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			to help those who are less fortunate.
		
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			If you are rich, you just help other
		
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			people
		
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			even by giving the zakan. We don't ask
		
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			you for more. Just give Zakat 2.5
		
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			percent of your money to the 4 people.
		
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			Salafah, charities,
		
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			give the people,
		
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			help them out.
		
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			Number 4
		
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			is
		
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			for you
		
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			to enjoy whatever Allah
		
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			has given you, to live according to your
		
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			means.
		
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			If Allah
		
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			has given you $100,000,000
		
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			you will have to act this way, to
		
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			live nicely,
		
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			to make your family enjoy their life. But
		
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			in the meantime,
		
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			Allah has given you $200 every month, you
		
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			have to live according to your means. Don't
		
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			live on credit cards
		
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			because this is not showing thanks to Allah
		
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			Subhanahu.
		
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			By doing this,
		
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			you are saying even subconsciously
		
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			that Allah Subhanahu has given you less than
		
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			what you deserve, so you need to buy
		
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			more things than you can afford. Then you
		
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			will end
		
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			up being in jail, not being able to
		
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			pay and the government will have to bail
		
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			you out.
		
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			So we have to thank the law of
		
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			Panopalan for everything that he has given us.
		
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			We thank him to Allah for making us
		
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			Muslims, for giving us life and for giving
		
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			us everything we have. We ask him to
		
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			Allah to give us sincerity in everything we
		
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			say and do and give us the best
		
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			in this life and the best in the
		
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			life to come.
		
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			Just one thing before we leave. Brother Rami,
		
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			is your sister ready? Yes. Yeah.
		
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			There is a sister today who wants to,
		
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			to take Shahada.
		
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			So if she can't get in the back,
		
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			just stay here in the back. We'll give
		
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			her the mic. She can't take Shahada very
		
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			quickly.