Mustafa Khattab – Khushu In Salah

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The importance of the Prophet's words in legislation of the time is highlighted, including the root word "naiv fe" and the importance of fast prayer. Prayerers should show respect towards Prophet's words and focus on the beginning of the time before pursuing a mission. The importance of sh matter and not praying is emphasized, and the importance of the title "The sun matte" after the Nawafil is also emphasized. Prayerers should be mindful of their focus and value in the moment, and should avoid wasting time by focusing on the value and importance of the title "The sun matte" after the Nawafil.

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			I bear witness that there is none worthy
		
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			of our worship except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And I bear witness that Muhammad salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam peace be upon him is the
		
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			seal of the prophets and the final messenger
		
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			to all of humanity. Whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala guides, there is none to misguide, and
		
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			whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala leaves astray,
		
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			there is none to guide
		
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			aright.
		
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			So I'm gonna kindly ask you before we
		
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			start to move up because the masjid is
		
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			already full and people are waiting outside.
		
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			Jazakulaha.
		
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			Move up to the Jazakul Wifi.
		
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			What does Salaam have said?
		
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			I'm going to start with,
		
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			with a little story.
		
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			There was a man and he asked his
		
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			son to go to the masjid for Salatul
		
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			Magrib, and he told him invite people for
		
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			dinner
		
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			in our house.
		
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			So his son is was not willing to
		
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			invite everyone.
		
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			So he didn't take the mic and invite
		
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			everyone to come for for Biryani or for
		
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			dinner.
		
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			So what he did basically, he stood by
		
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			the door outside the Masjid, and every time
		
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			someone was leaving he asked him a simple
		
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			question.
		
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			What did the Imam recite in 1st raka
		
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			and second raka? Of course the Imam recited
		
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			the first raka'a Surah, Duaa second raka'a alam
		
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			Nashra.
		
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			So everyone had a different answer most people
		
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			said, oh, Surah Baqarah, Surah Ankaboo, Surah Kahf,
		
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			something totally different. Because people were not focused
		
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			in the salah.
		
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			Only 3 4 guys gave the right answer
		
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			and therefore were invited for for dinner.
		
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			So a few days ago, a brother came
		
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			to me and he said he had he
		
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			had a very
		
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			big problem with Fashur and Sala. Focus in
		
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			the Salaam.
		
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			So he can't focus, he can't keep his
		
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			focus for the 3 or 4 minutes in
		
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			the Salaam. So he was asking for some
		
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			practical,
		
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			tips on how to keep his focus in
		
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			salah. And I told him, all of us
		
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			have a problem.
		
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			Every single one of us here has a
		
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			problem in salah. You always lose your focus
		
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			in salah.
		
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			And as I said in Arabi, if someone
		
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			does has does not have a problem with
		
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			Fushur and salah, they don't have to listen
		
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			to my footpath, they feel free to leave,
		
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			and of course I don't see anyone leaving
		
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			because we have an issue with Fushur and
		
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			salah.
		
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			So if you don't have a problem with
		
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			Fashurah insulah, I'll give you a $100.
		
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			Give them from Abu Ma'ayan and we'll give
		
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			them to you insulah. Everyone has an issue
		
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			with Fashurah insulah.
		
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			Including myself.
		
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			So every time,
		
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			you know before I give football or something,
		
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			or I'm invited somewhere to give a talk,
		
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			Shaitan will come to me, my Shaitan is
		
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			very academic, very smart, so he will tell
		
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			me inshallah you're gonna start with this story,
		
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			this is the body of your talk, this
		
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			is the conclusion, use this funny story inside
		
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			Salah.
		
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			Omar ibn Khattar bid Allahan who said himself
		
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			that he is mobilizing the army and calculating
		
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			the Zakat money coming to him, to Madinah
		
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			in Salah.
		
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			Because he was overwhelmed
		
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			with serving the Muslim community, he was always
		
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			thinking preoccupied with the Umma, so his focus
		
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			was, you know, inside the Salah. So every
		
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			one of us has something to think about.
		
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			As soon as you start you stand on
		
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			the carpet, you start to think about how
		
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			miserable you are in the marriage,
		
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			about your problem at work, about vacation,
		
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			future plans,
		
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			on the carpet. But outside, no problem.
		
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			People watch movies like boring movies. I can't
		
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			think of a more boring movie than gun
		
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			with the wind. 3 hours. People don't blink.
		
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			Watching a boring game, hockey or something, they
		
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			don't blink.
		
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			But when it comes to salah they start
		
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			yawning,
		
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			scratching their head, digging in their nose, looking
		
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			at their watch, outside the way.
		
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			So you need to understand
		
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			that salah is probably is the most important
		
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			thing in your life. Right? This time you
		
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			give to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala out of
		
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			your schedule,
		
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			these 24 minutes you put into salah everyday
		
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			out of the 24 hours, this is the
		
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			most important thing. Wa maqalak tujinaal insayla liabudun
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala created you for this
		
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			reason.
		
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			So people always lose their focus in the
		
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			salah, and I believe most of the time
		
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			because they don't understand the significance,
		
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			the importance of salah.
		
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			Once you understand
		
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			what you're doing,
		
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			why you are praying,
		
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			who are you are standing in front of,
		
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			then your perspective will change on salah.
		
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			So a few things,
		
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			this is how the Sahaba understood the salah.
		
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			The Prophet SAWH and the Sahaba when they
		
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			prayed,
		
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			they knew that the word salah comes from
		
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			the root word wasalah,
		
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			and the word wasalah and Arabi means to
		
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			connect.
		
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			Salah, salah. It's a connection with Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			So you basically charge your battery 5 times
		
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			a day when you communicate with Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			Also, when it was time for salah, the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would tell Bilal Radhala
		
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			wa'um, Arishna Abiha Bilal. Give us comfort
		
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			from the problems,
		
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			and the hardships, and the pain of this
		
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			life through salah.
		
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			So basically you disconnect with the world, you
		
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			connect with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you throw
		
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			you throw the whole world behind your back,
		
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			and you're standing in front of Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			One of the
		
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			important things about Salah,
		
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			or to understand the value of Salah, you
		
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			have to understand the Hadith of the Prophet
		
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			SAW Alaihi Wasallam in the Tirmidhi, he said,
		
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			Awad Umayuhaha Subhanahu Wa Aftui Omar Qiyama Is
		
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			Salat. He said, when you open your eyes
		
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			on the day of judgment,
		
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			people have been dead for 1000 of years,
		
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			when they open their eyes on the day
		
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			of judgment, the first question they would get,
		
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			did you pray on time? Did you pray
		
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			properly?
		
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			This is the first question they get, and
		
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			the prophet says,
		
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			if your salah is accepted,
		
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			then everything else will be a piece of
		
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			cake. You'll be, you know, in a good
		
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			place.
		
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			But if your salah is not accepted,
		
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			you always delayed your salah, you prayed without
		
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			kashur, you prayed very fast, you didn't know
		
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			what you were saying in salah,
		
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			then you'll be in big trouble.
		
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			This is the meaning of the hadith in
		
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			Atir Bedi.
		
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			The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, everyone knows the
		
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			story of how he died and the last
		
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			words that came out of his mouth because
		
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			before he gave up his soul,
		
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			salaam.
		
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			Some of the last words that the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said before he died, Assalatu
		
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			salatuamamalakatayimalakum.
		
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			Salah, make salah, pray on time, then he
		
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			died.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because if there was anything that is more
		
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			important than salah, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			would have chosen it to seal his mission
		
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			with.
		
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			Like Hajj, or Zakat, or anything, but salah,
		
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			why did he choose salah to seal his
		
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			mission with? Because it's the most important thing.
		
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			Also the Aleman say,
		
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			we know the hadith when the prophet salallahu
		
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			alaihi wasalam from Mira, and his salaam alaihi
		
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			wasalam, and he got the order to make
		
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			salah directly from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in
		
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			the heavens.
		
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			You know the story of his salaam alaihi.
		
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			But anything else,
		
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			how to fast Ramadan, how to do Hajjibreel
		
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			alayhi salam would come to the prophet salam,
		
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			give him the order to, do these after
		
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			that and show it show him how to
		
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			do them. But in the case of salah
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala took him all the
		
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			way to give him the order directly, there's
		
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			no money in between.
		
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			And I always give the example if,
		
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			if you want to get something done, you
		
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			can send an email to your employee.
		
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			If it is more important, you will give
		
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			them a call. But if it is super
		
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			important you will tell them take a, you
		
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			know, get the 1st plane and catch up
		
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			with me in Vancouver because I wanna talk
		
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			to you directly.
		
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			So this is what happens in the case
		
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			of Salah because it is super important,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not get Jibril
		
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			alaihi salaam to deliver the message, no he
		
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			spoke to Muhammad
		
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			directly. So this shows you how significant salah
		
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			is. Also,
		
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			they say that salah is the only rebara
		
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			that cannot be waved.
		
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			And say for example, someone is mute, they
		
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			can't talk,
		
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			they cannot say shahada,
		
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			saying it is waived as long as they
		
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			feel it in their hearts, or they do
		
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			it through sign language,
		
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			that's okay for them.
		
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			If someone for example does not have money,
		
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			they don't have to give zakat.
		
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			If someone is very old, or they have,
		
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			you know, they they they have a, you
		
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			know,
		
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			sickness,
		
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			something like diabetes, or something like cancer, or
		
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			brain tumor,
		
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			something that is, you know, with them, that's
		
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			gonna stay with them for probably a long
		
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			time,
		
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			they don't have to fast in the month
		
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			of Ramadan. Or if someone is very old,
		
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			they don't have to fast. If someone does
		
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			not have the physical and financial ability, they
		
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			don't have to go for Hajr.
		
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			But what about Salah?
		
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			If someone is busy, they have to pray.
		
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			If someone is poor, they have to pray.
		
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			If someone is sick, they have to pray.
		
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			If someone is traveling, they have to pray.
		
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			If a sister is pregnant, she has to
		
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			pray. There's no waiver.
		
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			Except for example in one case, this time
		
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			of the month when the sister is not
		
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			able to pray, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
		
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			waive it, only in this particular case. But
		
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			other than this, a person has to pray.
		
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			We know that the closest you can get
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is in sujood,
		
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			in salah.
		
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			If you have a dua that you want
		
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			to make and
		
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			and and you would love to be answered,
		
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			make it during salah, especially in sujood Allah
		
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			will accept.
		
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			The Prophet says in the hadith, an authentic
		
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			hadith,
		
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			he passed by 2 graves, it's an atur
		
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			mabeed,
		
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			and he said,
		
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			If the person in the grave were to
		
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			come to work again, the first thing he
		
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			will do
		
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			not to go to the movies,
		
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			not to go skiing,
		
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			no, he will pray. Why? Because now he
		
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			knows, he understands, he or she understands the
		
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			significance of Salaf. So if they were to
		
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			come back to life, which is impossible, Halas,
		
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			once you go, Halas,
		
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			if they ever come back to this world,
		
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			they would pray. This is the first thing
		
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			they would do, namaz.
		
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			Why? Because now they see the significance
		
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			and the importance of namaz and salaf.
		
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			So another request, inshallah, move up because the
		
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			people are waiting outside.
		
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			Move up a little bit, please.
		
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			Move
		
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			up inshallah.
		
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			So now we understand the significance
		
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			of salah.
		
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			In the Quran, SubhanAllah,
		
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			all over the Quran, when the prophet was
		
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			given a hard time by his people, the
		
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			prophet
		
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			salaam
		
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			said,
		
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			When they gave him a hard time, Allah
		
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			would tell the Prophet salaam, okay. Make salaam.
		
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			Look for power and strength in sala.
		
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			In the story of Musa alayhi salam in
		
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			Surah Yunus,
		
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			when Allah
		
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			revealed to Musa alayhi salam
		
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			said,
		
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			you can't go to the Masjid and pray.
		
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			There's what fair did to the Bani Israel
		
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			in Egypt. So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala revealed
		
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			to them, turn your homes into Masjid. Pray
		
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			at home.
		
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			You know, get strength and power through salah,
		
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			and Allah will give you victory in the
		
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			end. And and this is what happened.
		
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			You see subhanAllah in the story of Musa
		
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			alaihis salaam in Suratah,
		
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			when he was communicating with Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said, yeah
		
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			Musa,
		
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			What do you have in your head?
		
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			He said, Dear Allah, it's, it's my staff.
		
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			I use this to, you know, bring down
		
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			leaves from my animals, and I protect them,
		
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			and I use it to walk, and I
		
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			have also other uses,
		
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			benefits in the staff. In the hope that
		
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			Allah would ask him more about the staff,
		
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			all he had to say was staff.
		
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			He didn't have to say, we're a stick.
		
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			He didn't have to say, it's mine, I
		
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			use it for this, this, this, and I
		
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			also have some other benefits.
		
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			Why? They said because he was communicating with
		
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			Allah, he was talking to him, so he
		
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			wanted to make the conversation very long.
		
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			He was being redundant to keep the conversation
		
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			with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala very long.
		
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			You say Alhamdulillahi rabbilalameer Allah will say Hamadani
		
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			Abdi. My servant has glorified me. So every
		
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			time you say something, you say an ayah
		
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			from Surah Fatih, Allah will say something.
		
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			You're communicating with Allah, you're talking to him,
		
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			and he says something to you.
		
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			This should give you some perspective on salah
		
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			and help you focus
		
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			in the salah.
		
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			So what do you do to be able
		
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			to focus in salah? Number 1, you need
		
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			to understand who you are standing in front
		
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			of.
		
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			The King of Kings, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Now imagine if I get an invitation to
		
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			talk to, Queen Elizabeth or any of the
		
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			Queens or Kings, they invite me to their
		
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			palace, and I go there, and I'm standing
		
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			in front of the Queen for 4 or
		
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			5 minutes, and she's talking to me,
		
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			and I'm scratching my head, and digging my
		
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			nose, and yawning,
		
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			and what will this look like?
		
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			It's very disrespectful.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So now you're not standing before the Queen,
		
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			you're standing before the King of Kings, Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So you have to show
		
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			more respect to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Some
		
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			people when they pray, and they don't want
		
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			to miss this, their hockey game for example,
		
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			and
		
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			of course some delay their salah just to
		
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			watch a game until the time is over,
		
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			but they don't want to miss any movement
		
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			in the game. So they stand in front
		
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			of the TV,
		
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			and they watch, and every time there is
		
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			an attack or a goal they go like,
		
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			oh, oh, like
		
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			Because they are not focusing in the salah,
		
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			they are in the game itself. Right? So
		
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			they're not paying attention.
		
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			So how do you focus?
		
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			Three things. Before salah, during salah, and after
		
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			salah. People think for sure comes only in
		
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			salah. To focus in salah, before salah,
		
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			every time you pray namaz, salah, salah tudha,
		
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			in your heart you feel like, You Allah,
		
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			I'm please give me life till next salah
		
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			to get the reward. And the prophet
		
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			says, if this is your intention,
		
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			the 3 4 hours between Dor and Ask,
		
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			you'll get the reward as if you stood
		
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			in salah.
		
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			This is one thing.
		
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			People delay the salah, they don't pray at
		
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			the beginning of time, which is like
		
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			the 1 hour or half an hour before
		
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			the salah, depends on which salah. They delay
		
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			until the end of time, and they go
		
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			make will do very quick, and you know
		
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			the salah very quick because they are afraid
		
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			the time will be over, so he can't
		
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			focus.
		
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			So the one of the things to do
		
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			is to pray at the beginning of time,
		
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			and make Hashurah properly.
		
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			You don't rush to the washroom, you know,
		
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			spray everything in yellow, and some people do
		
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			it because they are in a rush, and
		
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			they go, and they don't clean themselves properly.
		
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			They make wudu in a rush, they wash
		
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			only half of the organs, they make salah,
		
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			they forget like 2 rakas in salah, they
		
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			don't say Farah.
		
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			No. Take your time because this is what
		
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			you were created for. 4 namaz, 4 salah.
		
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			But now sometimes we're relegated
		
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			to 5th or 10th place in our life,
		
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			and it is supposed to be number 1.
		
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			So So this is what
		
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			happens. So get ready for Salah properly, and
		
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			when you stand before Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			and raise your hands and say Allahu Akbar,
		
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			we don't say Allahu Kabir,
		
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			Allah is great, we say Allahu Akbar, like
		
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			the big the greatest.
		
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			Why? Because if whatever you are
		
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			doing, you're doing your homework,
		
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			a video game,
		
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			you're doing that, you're at work, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala is bigger than that. He is
		
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			the greatest. He's greater than your work, He's
		
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			greater than your money. So go make salah,
		
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			money can wait, homework can wait, video games
		
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			can wait, but salah cannot wait. You know,
		
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			finish salah and come back and pray. So
		
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			when you say Allahu Akbar,
		
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			you throw the world behind your back, it's
		
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			very symbolic, you throw the world behind your
		
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			back, Allahu Akbar, and you're standing in front
		
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			of Allah and pray.
		
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			So Hadam Al Asam, he was asked,
		
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			how can I maintain my Fushur and Salah?
		
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			And he said, there are a few things
		
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			I do, and maybe if you do them
		
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			they will help you inshallah. So when I
		
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			pray,
		
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			I imagine that I'm standing in front of
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			and Kaaba is right there in front of
		
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			me, and the world is behind my back,
		
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			Jannah to my right, Jahannan to my left,
		
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			Sirat is under my feet, and Malakul Maut,
		
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			the Angel of death is over my head,
		
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			is about to take my soul. So this
		
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			is like my last salah, and after I
		
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			finish I'm not sure if my salah is
		
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			accepted or thrown back in my face. And
		
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			this is how I pray.
		
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			So it will help me to improve all
		
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			the time.
		
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			So this is how I should feel, someone
		
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			will say, well okay if you are thinking
		
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			about Allah, about Jannah, Jahannam, Day of Judgment,
		
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			salah, how can you focus in salah?
		
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			Right? It's a good question,
		
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			but if you focus in the ayat you
		
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			read in the Quran,
		
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			whatever you recite in Fatiha Surah after, this
		
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			is what you, you know, the ayat talk
		
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			about in the Quran. It either talks about
		
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			Allah,
		
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			this, Jannah, Hissab, Jannah. This is what the
		
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			Quran talks about, so it means that he
		
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			was focused in salah, he didn't actually
		
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			lose his focus.
		
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			So you understand who you're standing in front
		
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			of, you understand the value and the significance
		
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			of salah, and you keep your eyes, your
		
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			where you look in the place where you
		
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			make sajdah, as the prophet
		
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			said. Because if you look around,
		
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			subhanAllah, sometimes we have paintings in our homes,
		
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			sometimes we have things,
		
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			you know, and and when you keep your
		
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			eyes open like this, and you look in
		
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			front of you, or people are walking, you
		
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			can't focus in the salah.
		
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			Especially if you have pictures in the house,
		
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			and some people keep their marriage portrayed in
		
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			the living room, and every time they make
		
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			salah they look at the picture and say,
		
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			why did I ever make this mistake? You
		
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			know?
		
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			And they keep thinking about this every time
		
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			they see the picture, and of course this
		
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			happens in the salah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And and so keep your eyes where you
		
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			keep you do your sujood, and this will
		
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			help you make the focus in the salah.
		
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			The last thing I want to say in
		
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			the last, minutes of the life of this
		
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			Khutba,
		
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			it is also very important to maintain you
		
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			for sure after salah.
		
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			How? By doing the sunnah salah after the
		
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			Nawafil,
		
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			doing the Alkar,
		
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			and so on and so forth, and most
		
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			importantly,
		
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			Shaitan will always attack you.
		
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			Shaitan is not happy. Shaitan is mad every
		
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			time you make a serdah. Why?
		
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			Because he was told to make serjah, he
		
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			refused. You make serjah, you pray.
		
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			So shaitan is very smart. As you say
		
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			in word to shaitan, a common pa you
		
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			know, shaitan taste a common egg. Shaitan is
		
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			very smart. What he does he do? He
		
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			would say, I cannot stop him or her
		
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			from praying, I will live and pray,
		
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			but I will just destroy the reward of
		
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			the salah. I would tell them for example,
		
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			there is no Fashurah in salah, don't pray.
		
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			Your salah is not good enough. Delay salah.
		
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			I would distract their attention in salah, so
		
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			there's no reward for them.
		
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			There's a hadith from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, Sahih Al Jami.
		
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			The prophet says, in this authentic hadith
		
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			some people pray,
		
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			but they might get 1 tenth of their
		
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			work, or 1 8th, or 1 7th, or
		
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			1 6th, 1 5th, 1 quarter,
		
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			1 half, or 1 third. It depends on
		
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			how focused you are in the salah. So
		
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			the more you focus, the more rewards you
		
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			get.
		
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			So shaitan might take hold of you and
		
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			say, well, oh man, like you always lose
		
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			your focus in the salah. Don't pray.
		
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			Stop praying because you're just wasting your time.
		
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			Just, you know, I love you, just stop
		
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			praying,
		
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			and once InshaAllah, you get a degree in
		
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			salah, you're able to maintain your for sure,
		
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			you can pray. Because now, right now, the
		
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			way I see it, and I love you,
		
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			you are wasting your time. So don't listen
		
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			to shaitan. Even some people, and they
		
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			always lose their focus, you know, in the
		
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			salah, so they make Hudu like 15 times.
		
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			You know, they just came from the washroom,
		
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			they made wudu, they go back, make another
		
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			wudu, make another wudu, make another, they forget.
		
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			And they stand in the salah, the first
		
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			rakah, the whole time they're thinking about,
		
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			did I do wudu or not? They did
		
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			already 15.
		
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			2nd Rakah.
		
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			Oh, SubhanAllah, I was thinking about to do
		
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			the 1st Rakah, maybe I forgot to say
		
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			Fazaha.
		
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			2nd Rakah is gone.
		
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			3rd Rakah. Oh, what is gone? Is it
		
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			the 3rd Rakah in Durr or 4th or
		
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			5th? I don't know. So the whole salah
		
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			is messed up. So don't listen to shaitaan,
		
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			try to focus, understand the significance and the
		
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			value of salah, and at the end of
		
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			the day, Wallahi in Jannah InshaAllah in Afrah,
		
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			the most the the most important thing or
		
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			the thing that you will get more hasanat
		
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			for, is a bada in connection with Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Anything else,
		
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			the homework, the video games, running around, playing
		
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			soccer, all this would be gone. What would
		
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			be left for you is your namaz.
		
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			And as I said, the prophet
		
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			said, this is the most important thing, this
		
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			is your connection with
		
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			Again, if you see a spot in front
		
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			of you, move up. Jazakkumullah
		
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			khairan.
		
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			A couple of announcements before salah inshaAllah.
		
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			Tomorrow
		
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			between
		
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			1 and 7:30,
		
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			we have the Maingate, Anatolia Maingate leadership,
		
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			program retrieved for the children, for the students,
		
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			from kindergarten
		
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			all the way to grade 8.
		
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			So if your children are of this age,
		
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			make sure they join us. We have some
		
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			excellent speakers,
		
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			and,
		
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			food, and fun activities, and competitions for the
		
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			children between one
		
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			and 7:30
		
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			PM inshallah, and their fees are $20 to
		
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			pay for the food and and everything inshallah.
		
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			Number 2, tomorrow from 7 to 9, we'll
		
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			have the youth program at, Frank McKechnie.
		
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			So if you have children 10 years and
		
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			up, boys and girls, they can join us,
		
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			there inshallah. We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			to accept from us and to forgive our
		
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			sins and to give us the best in
		
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			this life and the best in the life
		
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			to come. And the last thing I want
		
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			to say over the last few days, we
		
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			have been hearing about the famine and had
		
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			drought in Somalia.
		
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			People are dying, the animals are dying, so
		
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			we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to make
		
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			it easier for the people of Somalia. We
		
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			ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to send them
		
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			rain, and ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
		
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			protect them, and to give them food and
		
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			shelter and water, You Rabba Alameen. Allah. Allah.
		
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			Allah. Allah.