Mustafa Khattab – Next Life 8 Dillusion In Dunya

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The speakers discuss the importance of not letting anyone die without their mercy and not settling for the lowest. They stress the need for qualifications and doing one's best to achieve success. The speakers also advise against delusion and distraction, caution against thinking of death and being attached to people. They stress the importance of living life to be a good person and avoiding distraction.

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			So inshallah, we'll be our discussion about Adar
		
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			al Afrah,
		
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			and we'll talk about Husnu Bhanibullah Wa'ur.
		
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			This is a discussion we started, last week.
		
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			And inshallah, we're gonna keep it short because
		
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			I know the sisters have their, dawah halakah
		
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			in the back, inshallah. So we don't want
		
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			to, to disturb them. So,
		
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			the governor of Al Marat Al Madia
		
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			Khawal Al Imam Al Qayyim Bayin Al Husnu
		
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			Vhan Walhurr.
		
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			So we, spoke about
		
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			what Imam Ibn Al Qayyim, Rahamalullah, said regarding
		
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			Husnu Vhan Nabiullahuwal.
		
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			So he said basically,
		
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			if you have this feeling, thinking well of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that will motivate you
		
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			to do better,
		
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			then this is.
		
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			But if it motivates
		
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			you to be lazy
		
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			and relax and do the haram thinking that
		
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			Allah will forgive you everything without doing any
		
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			effort or doing anything
		
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			to deserve the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, this is called,
		
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			delusion.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the
		
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			Quran,
		
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			Do not let
		
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			the chief or the master deceiver or shaitan
		
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			deceive you regarding Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			We mentioned last time the hadith of the
		
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			prophet salawas wa sallam, it's an authentic hadith
		
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			where the prophet salawas wa sallam said,
		
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			do not let anyone of you die
		
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			without having this in
		
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			Allah thinking
		
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			that whatever,
		
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			you think Allah
		
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			is better than that. If you think that
		
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			Allah
		
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			will be generous to you, He will do
		
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			that. But if you think
		
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			that Allah
		
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			will not forgive you because your sins are
		
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			bigger than his mercy,
		
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			it's a totally different thing. And this is
		
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			something that the prophet
		
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			said 3 days before he passed away.
		
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			We gave the example of you for example,
		
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			going to, Steven,
		
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			not Harper,
		
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			the other guy, Justin Frodo.
		
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			And, you talk to him and and you
		
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			ask him for something and at the end
		
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			you say, you know what, I I don't
		
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			think you can help me. You don't have
		
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			the authority to help me.
		
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			Or you go to a king or someone
		
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			who is rich and you tell them,
		
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			yeah, you have the money but I think
		
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			you are poor, you are stingy, you will
		
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			not help me. What do you think they
		
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			will do? They will kick you out. They
		
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			will say, if you think I cannot help
		
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			you, why are you here?
		
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			Right?
		
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			So
		
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			It is the same thing with Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala. If you think that your mercy
		
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			is bigger than the if your sins are
		
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			bigger than the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala,
		
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			then you shouldn't have any hope in him.
		
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			But whatever you do, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
		
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			mercy is bigger than your mistakes and your
		
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			sins. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will forgive you
		
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			if you are sincere and you come back
		
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			to him and you acknowledge your mistakes, He
		
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			will forgive
		
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			you.
		
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			So in this hadith insha'a'b al imal alway
		
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			haqee
		
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			through Abdullah ibn Abbas, may Allah have mercy
		
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			on him and his father.
		
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			And the hadith is mentioned in tafsir al
		
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			nikafir.
		
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			So basically on the day of judgment,
		
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			there was a Muslim, he did some good
		
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			things and some bad things. So his bad
		
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			things were more than his good things. Right?
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will order him
		
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			to be taken to Jahannam
		
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			for punishment.
		
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			So the person, while we are taking him
		
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			to Jahannam, he will turn to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala and say, you Allah,
		
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			this is not what I was thinking you
		
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			will do to me.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will say, okay
		
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			what did you think of me? What did
		
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			you think that I will do to you?
		
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			So he said, you Allah my I
		
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			thought that you will,
		
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			overwhelm me with your mercy and give me
		
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			Jannah. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will say,
		
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			whatever you thought of me, I'm better than
		
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			that. And he will say, take him to
		
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			Jannah, Khalas. This because he thought well of
		
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			me that I'm going to,
		
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			forgive the mistakes that he did because he
		
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			was a believer.
		
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			He tried his best but he made mistakes.
		
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			We're all, you know, human and we make
		
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			mistakes all the time. Not because we are
		
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			bad Muslims
		
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			but because we are weak human beings. So
		
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			we make mistakes. No one is perfect except
		
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			Muhammad
		
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			and the prophets.
		
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			So
		
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			so again,
		
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			this is the biggest problem we have.
		
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			Is you are lazy, you are not doing
		
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			anything, you are always delaying salah or not
		
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			praying at all,
		
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			you don't do sunnah, you don't pray salaw
		
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			to sunnah,
		
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			this is the first step. Then after that
		
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			you combine salawat all the time, and after
		
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			some time you are too busy to pray
		
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			all the salawats, so you're gonna do only
		
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			2 of them, then eventually you're gonna stop
		
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			praying at all.
		
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			So when you pray 2 salawat only, say
		
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			for example you pray Fashla and and Asr,
		
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			your urur
		
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			delusion will tell you
		
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			there are millions of Muslims who don't pray
		
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			at all, you are better than them. So
		
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			this is urur.
		
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			You do not look at the people who
		
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			are less than you in iman, you should
		
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			always look up to those who are better
		
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			than you.
		
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			But some people interpreted the wrong way.
		
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			Kafi'i this
		
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			story,
		
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			one person,
		
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			they always settle for the lowest, they don't
		
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			look high.
		
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			So this person was traveling
		
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			because in his town he couldn't find find
		
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			work,
		
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			right?
		
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			So what happened, he was traveling to another
		
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			place to to look for a job.
		
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			So on the way it was hot so
		
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			he decided to go inside a cave
		
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			and, get some rest. So inside the cave
		
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			he saw
		
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			a blind
		
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			bird with a broken leg in the nest.
		
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			And he saw another bird bringing food to
		
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			that,
		
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			blind
		
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			bird with a broken leg.
		
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			So he looked at the 2 birds and
		
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			he said, this is a sign for me
		
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			that I should go back, stay in my
		
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			home and Allah will send someone to give
		
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			me food.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So
		
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			he went home and on the way he
		
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			passed by a scholar called Hatem al Assam.
		
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			He is one of the biggest, scholars. His
		
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			name was Hatem al Assam,
		
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			He was very wise, very good man. He
		
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			told him the story.
		
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			So Hadim
		
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			said, okay so you saw the 2 birds,
		
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			one of them is blind with a broken
		
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			leg, disabled.
		
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			The other one is working and bringing food
		
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			for this one, and you thought you should
		
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			be like the the the one staying in
		
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			the cave.
		
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			He said this is not the sign that
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is sending to you.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			wants you to be like the second bird.
		
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			The one that works and provides for those
		
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			who are needy. Why do you want to
		
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			be like the one with the broken leg?
		
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			You should be like the better one of
		
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			them. Right? So you shouldn't settle for the
		
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			lowest, you should always,
		
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			look up to do something good and to
		
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			be a good person.
		
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			Some people,
		
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			in the Quran, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			speaks about the kuffar,
		
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			According to the Quran it says that even
		
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			the kuffar,
		
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			they worship the aslam,
		
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			they are not grateful to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala,
		
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			They make fun of the believers, but still
		
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			they think they will go to Jannah.
		
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			That even the kuffar,
		
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			they want to go to Jannah. They have
		
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			the hope that they will go to Jannah.
		
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			Empty hopes,
		
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			you have to have some qualifications and you
		
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			have to do your best to go to
		
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			Jannah.
		
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			Right? But if you are not doing your
		
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			best and you think you will be up
		
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			there with a siddiqeen, with shawada, with salihin,
		
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			you are fooling yourself.
		
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			Another thing,
		
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			some people because of,
		
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			this concept of al Ghur,
		
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			and they are not doing their best,
		
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			and they think that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			will shower them with His mercy for not
		
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			doing anything,
		
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			When you tell them, you should get ready
		
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			because you may go any time,
		
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			they tell you, I'm still young,
		
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			my family needs me,
		
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			my employer needs me, I'm paying my taxes,
		
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			I I can't die.
		
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			If you think you can't die,
		
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			you have to can because this is the
		
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			reality of things. Right? There's no such verb
		
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			in in English, you have to can, but
		
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			I I just made this up. People die
		
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			all the time just a couple of days
		
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			ago as I mentioned in the Khutba,
		
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			brother Junaid, Jamshid is, he was very popular
		
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			in Pakistan.
		
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			He used to be a singer. Allah gave
		
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			him a day back in 2004. He became
		
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			a day, and the plane crashed and and
		
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			he died. And he was only, I think
		
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			54 years old. And I've seen so many
		
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			people die at a very young age because
		
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			there is no age for death. Everyone dies,
		
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			little kids,
		
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			17 years old, 50 years old, 90 years
		
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			old, there's no time for for for you
		
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			to go. When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala writes
		
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			for you to go, you will have to
		
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			go. Right?
		
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			Oh, but
		
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			you know if if I die,
		
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			the you know, my family will collapse,
		
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			my work will collapse,
		
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			stars and the sun and the moon are
		
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			going to start falling down from the sky
		
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			because the the whole universe would be in
		
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			chaos. It's going to be a disaster for
		
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			everything.
		
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			Right? Believe me nothing would happen because there
		
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			are people in history
		
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			who were more influential than you, a a
		
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			1000000000 times.
		
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			And people thought when they died that is
		
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			everything is gonna collapse and fall apart, and
		
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			nothing happened. Like when Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			died, the sahaba were devastated,
		
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			then life goes on, life goes on. Because
		
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			this is the sunnah of this dunya that
		
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			everyone will go,
		
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			and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told Muhammad
		
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			himself in the Quran,
		
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			You Muhammad will die,
		
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			and everyone else will die, right? No eternity
		
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			in this dunya. This life is just a
		
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			test. You will go and everyone will die
		
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			and and they will go with you.
		
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			So forget about the, you know,
		
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			stars and the moon and everything is gonna
		
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			fall down and your family will collapse and
		
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			all these things. And your job, I mean
		
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			this is the best thing about
		
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			about
		
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			death that,
		
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			your employer will be happy. He will be
		
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			dancing in the street because he will get
		
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			a better guy, more qualified. He's gonna put
		
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			more more hours and get half of the
		
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			pay.
		
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			So your employer will wish that you died
		
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			10 years ago.
		
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			So this is not gonna be a problem
		
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			for them. Your your your wife, maybe he's
		
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			gonna find someone else since you're married,
		
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			if there are some sisters there, maybe your
		
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			husband is gonna get married.
		
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			Life never stops. Life goes on.
		
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			So when it is your time to die,
		
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			you will just die.
		
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			So don't fall for this trap
		
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			of and delusion
		
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			thinking that you cannot die, life will be
		
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			destroyed because of you, and all that stuff.
		
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			Life will go on and, you know, someone
		
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			will get,
		
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			your employer will get someone else and and
		
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			your family will be fine. As soon as
		
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			you die, they will be fighting over your
		
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			money. They will totally forget about you. So
		
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			it's not a big deal for anyone. Right?
		
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			Life will go on as always.
		
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			So don't fall for this trap of delusion
		
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			and this big distraction that you are still
		
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			young, you are only 57 or 60 years
		
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			old. I say, my dad was 95 years
		
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			old when he passed away, inshallah, I'm gonna
		
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			live till that time and, maybe inshallah 5
		
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			minutes before I die I'm gonna go for
		
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			umrah, I'm gonna make tawba, pray in the
		
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			Haram and alluv.
		
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			You're you're I mean you're fooling yourself
		
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			because no one knows when this time will
		
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			come. You no one knows. Accidents happen all
		
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			the time. Heart attacks happen all People die
		
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			for no reason, right?
		
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			Allah subhanallah. You you never know. So don't
		
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			distract be distracted by this,
		
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			that you are better than other people, you
		
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			don't need to do any more,
		
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			or that you're going to live until a
		
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			certain age, or you will make dawba before
		
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			you die, or you cannot die because a
		
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			lot of people need you and so on
		
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			and so forth. I'm going to conclude with
		
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			this story inshallah in just, 2 minutes.
		
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			So the story
		
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			of a man
		
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			who was walking in the woods, he was
		
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			jogging inside the woods
		
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			and,
		
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			all of a sudden so of course it
		
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			was sunny,
		
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			the birds were singing and very good,
		
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			weather in the spring.
		
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			So he was walking in this beautiful
		
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			weather and the scenery and everything
		
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			and all of a sudden he saw a
		
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			lion
		
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			coming towards him. Maybe he was on a
		
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			safari in Kenya or something.
		
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			So the lion started to run after him
		
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			and the man was terrified. He said, I'm
		
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			doomed, I'm going to die.
		
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			He saw a whale bit in front of
		
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			him so he jumped inside the bit, inside
		
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			the well to save himself.
		
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			Inside the well there was a rope, so
		
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			he was hanging by the rope and the
		
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			lion was
		
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			looking from up there and the man was
		
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			terrified, he was trying to,
		
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			go down and down there he found an
		
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			anaconda with a big mouth. You know the
		
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			anaconda?
		
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			We call it the rock python or something,
		
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			a big huge snake.
		
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			He couldn't go up, he couldn't go down
		
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			because the line is up there and the
		
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			anaconda is down there. He was hanging by
		
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			the rope.
		
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			So he said, subhanAllah what I'm going to
		
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			do?
		
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			So what happened? He saw 2 mice
		
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			going up the rope.
		
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			He said, it can't get any worse than
		
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			this. A lion is up there, and the
		
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			anaconda is down there. What else can happen?
		
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			So the the 2 mice came up, one
		
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			of them was white, one was black, they
		
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			went up and they started to eat the
		
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			rope. So he's gonna fall inside the mouth
		
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			of the snake. Big problem. And he was
		
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			terrified.
		
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			So he wanted to escape death, so what
		
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			he did basically he started
		
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			to swing from one side to the other,
		
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			so he was hitting the wall of the
		
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			well this way and he went to the
		
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			other
		
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			in an effort to to save himself.
		
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			While he was doing this, he noticed that
		
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			there was some kind of liquid on the
		
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			wall of the well.
		
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			He tasted it, it turned out to be
		
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			honey.
		
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			There are wild bees,
		
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			they build their hive inside so he tasted
		
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			it. It's it was so sweet. So he
		
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			forgot about the lion, he forgot about the
		
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			snake, he forgot about the mice, and he
		
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			started to eat from the honey.
		
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			He started to eat from the honey to
		
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			his fill. He forgot about everything else.
		
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			Then he woke up from his dream, it
		
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			turned out to be a dream. So what
		
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			happened, he went to the Imam, Mawlana,
		
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			and he said okay what is the interpretation
		
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			of my dream? He said that the jungle
		
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			is this dunya,
		
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			and the lion is malakulmaut, he's always running
		
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			after you, and the well is the grave
		
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			with the anaconda,
		
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			and the honey is the delusion of this
		
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			dunya, the sweetness of this dunya. It is
		
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			something temporary and it distracts you from
		
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			the big picture, the reality of this world.
		
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			He said, what about the 2 mice? The
		
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			black one and the and the white
		
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			mouse. He said the 2 mice are
		
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			the day and night.
		
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			The more days and nights go by, the
		
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			closer you get to the end
		
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			of the journey that you are on. So
		
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			don't be distracted. We ask Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala to protect us from
		
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			and to give us a good ending of
		
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			our lives and to give us a good
		
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			ending of our lives. We ask Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala to give us sincerity in everything
		
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			we say and do.