Mustafa Khattab – Purify Your Heart

Mustafa Khattab
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The importance of privacy in jail, hospital, and graveyard is discussed, emphasizing the need for comfort and freedom in these locations. Visiting jail for comfort and freedom is also emphasized, rather than just giving a talk. The speaker discusses the difficulties of life in the hospital, including the painful work required to remove blood and appreciate one's health. The importance of appreciating one's health and living a healthy life is emphasized, along with the need to take care of others and leave a legacy.
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So,

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I'm still losing my voice, so make the

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offer, inshallah, that that will cover.

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Anyway,

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I think we enjoyed the talk yesterday by,

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brother Akbar Ali, about how they help the

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refugees and those in need. Today, inshallah, I'm

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gonna talk about something that will soften your

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heart, because sometimes our hearts get rusty,

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sometimes we get far away from Allah

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and get busy with dunya, buying toys, ice

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cream, Nutella, video games, all that stuff. So,

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this is just a quick reminder.

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There are 3 types of places that,

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I think most of us should visit

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every time you feel like your heart is

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getting rusty,

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and one of them is

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jail,

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number 2, the hospital,

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and number 3, the graveyard.

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And I'll give you my experiences.

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How many of you have been to jail?

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No. Just for a visit, not to stay.

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You know? I see.

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No time. Yeah. I have been to jail

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several times.

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As a stop for love. Thank you.

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Just as a chaplain.

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You know what chaplain means?

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No. No. Chaplain basically means

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an imam in jail. So I go there

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and I help the prisoners.

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I either answer their questions or give them

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talks,

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pray Jum'ah with them. So this is what

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what a chaplain means. And this is a

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very good job, by the way. Insha'Allah, in

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the future, if you'd like to find a

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good job, a chaplain might be a good

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job. It can be a chaplain in jail,

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a chaplain at the hospital,

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a chaplain in the navy or the army.

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So these are different types of chaplains. But

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anyway,

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so I used to go to prison in

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the US and and in, in Canada as

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well to help the president.

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So what is special about doing dawah or

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visiting our brothers and sisters in jail? I

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don't know.

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Yes.

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Yes. Yes.

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Maybe they'll stop being how they were, and

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maybe convert to

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Masha'Allah. I'm actually talking about Muslims who are

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in jail.

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Oh. Yes, of course, it's gonna help them

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change, but I'm talking about me. What do

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I learn from them?

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I'll tell you.

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If you want to appreciate your freedom,

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visit the prison.

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If you'd like to appreciate

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your health,

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go to the hospital.

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If you want to appreciate your life,

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go to the graveyard.

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Okay. So the good thing about the brothers

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and sisters in jail, every time I go

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to them, I give them a talk,

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because

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the rest of the year they're locked up,

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they don't go outside, I mean, they don't

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go to the masjid, they don't visit their

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families, they don't go to the movies,

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they are inside, they can't come out. They

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can't go to the park, play video games,

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they can't play soccer, basketball,

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all these things. Right?

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So when they see someone from the outside

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world

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is coming to visit them, they are thrilled

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and they are happy.

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The difference between giving a Jumah Fumba or

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a talk in jail, and giving a Jumah

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Fumba here in this prayer is,

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in jail you have a guaranteed audience.

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Even if they hate you,

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they have to sit and listen to you.

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They can't run away because the the doors

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are closed.

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But here in the masjid, if I'm giving

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a talk and you hate my God, so

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you don't like me, or the subject is

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boring,

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you just walk away. You jump out of

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the window. Right?

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But they can't do this in jail.

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Right?

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When I spend

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a couple of hours inside, I teach them,

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I answer their questions, I pray with them.

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After 2 hours, when it is time to

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leave,

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I see how many

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electronic gates are open in front of me,

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and I'm able to get out, and some

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of them are in tears because they can't

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go home and enjoy their families and children.

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Right?

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So one of them told me, Wallahi, I

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will give up my life, I will give

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up everything I have, just to go home

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and hug my mom or hug my daughter.

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Because they have been in jail for so

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many years.

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So sometimes we don't appreciate our freedom,

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and the enjoyments we have in life. It

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is only when you see someone locked up

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in a difficult situation that you start to

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appreciate

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your freedom.

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Number 2 in the hospital.

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When you go and see someone

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who's lying on their beds, they can't move,

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their life is difficult,

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they're eating certain types of food everyday

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everyday.

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Right? They can't move, they can't exercise,

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especially those in intensive care units, or those

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who are going, through surgery.

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Sometimes people stay there for months.

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I know people who stay in and out

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for years in the hospital.

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They can't eat the food they like, they

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can't exercise, they can't go out. Again, their

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life is difficult. So when you go there,

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and you see them,

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SubhanAllah, it makes you appreciate your health.

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Cause many of us, alhamdulillah, are healthy,

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we live good lives, but we don't appreciate

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it because we don't see those who are

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sick. I know a brother from Saint Catherine's,

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he was in a coma for

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several months,

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and

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they thought that he's gonna die, but eventually

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he recovered. But after he recovered, he had

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to go to the hospital,

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3 or 4 times a week,

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to be dilated.

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I think what they do

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basically, they remove their blood and they put

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new blood 3, 4 times a week, and

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I visited him once, he's hooked up to

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this machine

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for 2, 3 hours,

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and there are tubes all over the place,

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tubes all over, and it's very painful.

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And he was very tired, and he was

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very unhappy because 3 or 4 times, and

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of course when you go, you stay there

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the whole day. Because you don't you don't

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just walk in and they put the machines

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and stuff and the tubes, no. They prepare

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you for like an hour or 2, and

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after you finish you stay there, they test

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you,

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so on and so forth, and you imagine

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getting all your food through a tube,

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or a straw,

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you know, it's it's a difficult life.

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So how do you appreciate your health? When

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you look at these people.

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Also,

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the last thing you appreciate your life

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is when you see someone in the graveyard,

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like people die all the time. Just last

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night, a Turkish sister passed away.

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The day before,

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an athletic brother from the US. I I

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saw this story on YouTube, sorry, on Facebook.

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Pakistani brother and Pakistanis,

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they don't basically play soccer, they play

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Cricket. Cricket. Exactly.

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So the brother was athletic, he played cricket.

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So they were playing a game,

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the night before, that is 2 days ago.

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So he was playing with his friends, 45

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years old, very healthy guy, tall, muscles, everything.

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And in the break,

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he told him, let's take a selfie together.

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He took out his phone with a stick,

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and he took a selfie. He was in

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the front taking the selfie.

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15 minutes later he was playing cricket with

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him, he fell dead, fell down and died.

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Gave up his soul. And that was the

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last picture he took.

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And when you look at this picture, you

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look in his eyes, he's still young and

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healthy,

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you don't expect someone like this to die,

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you expect someone like my professor from Egypt,

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who has always been sick his whole life,

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and even at the age of 25 they

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told him if you live another week you'll

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be lucky.

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He's a 100 years old this week.

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Because you never know when it is time

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for you to go. You can be 17

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years old, you can be 90 years old,

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2 years old, 25 years old, you never

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know. So when the time comes we go.

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But again,

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every time you see someone in a janaza,

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they're carrying them for the graveyard,

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one thing should come to your mind.

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If the Angel of death

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skipped you

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to take someone else today,

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maybe tomorrow it's gonna skip somebody else to

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come to

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and take you.

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So what do we do? We should always

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be ready, great to Allah, be a nice

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person, leave a legacy behind. So always remember

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these, three places, the hospital,

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the prison, and the graveyard, and this will

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motivate you inshaAllah to be a better person.

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I hope, inshaAllah. We ask Allah

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to help you enjoy your freedom,

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your health, and your life, and help you

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become good Muslims inshaAllah.

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I'm losing my voice already. We'll see you

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tomorrow inshallah for questions and answers. I

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can't take any questions today, tomorrow inshallah.

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Oh, god. I have a question.

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