Mustafa Khattab – Showing Gratitude to Allah

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The importance of gratitude to Allah for his forgiveness and guidance is discussed, along with the negative consequences of praying and the benefits of living in a healthy and productive life. The speaker emphasizes the importance of showing gratitude to oneself and others, as it is their job to provide for them. They stress the need for gratitude and showing gratitude to others in the world, as it is their job to provide for them.

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			In the name of Allah, the most gracious,
		
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			most merciful,
		
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			all praise is due to Allah We
		
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			praise him and we seek his forgiveness and
		
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			assistance,
		
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			and we take refuge in him from the
		
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			evils of ourselves and our shortcomings.
		
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			Whomever Allah guides, there is none to misguide
		
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			him, and whomever Allah leads to go astray,
		
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			there is none to guide him.
		
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			We bear with us that there is none
		
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			worthy of our worship except Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, the creator, the sustainer of the universe.
		
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			And we bear witness that Muhammad
		
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			is the seal of the prophets
		
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			and the final messenger to all humanity.
		
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			Indeed the most truthful word is the book
		
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			of Allah in the Quran.
		
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			Allah says in the Quran
		
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			chapter 4 verse 1.
		
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			Oh mankind,
		
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			be mindful
		
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			of your Lord who created you from a
		
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			single soul,
		
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			and from that soul he created its mate.
		
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			And from these 2, Adam and Eve,
		
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			he created multitudes
		
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			of nations and peoples.
		
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			And be mindful of Allah, in whose name
		
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			you plead with one another,
		
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			and honor your family relations. Indeed, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala
		
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			is ever watchful
		
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			over you.
		
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			This day,
		
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			a year ago,
		
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			the,
		
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			Thanksgiving Day
		
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			and the Black Friday.
		
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			That day last year was the Eid ul
		
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			Adhar
		
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			day, and
		
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			I remember on that day, I gave a
		
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			Khutba on how to show gratitude
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And today, I'm pretty much gonna
		
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			repeat the same lecture for two reasons. Number
		
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			1,
		
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			half of the people were asleep,
		
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			and the second half probably
		
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			don't remember what they had in for breakfast.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in
		
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			the Quran that reminder
		
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			benefits those who believe.
		
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			We have 2 types
		
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			of days in our lives. There are good
		
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			times,
		
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			and in Islam you are required to be
		
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			grateful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala during
		
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			the time of prosperity.
		
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			There are also some difficult times,
		
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			and Islamically you are required to show patience.
		
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			To be patient
		
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			at difficult times and to be good to
		
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			to to be grateful at good times.
		
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			We spoke about the different types of patience
		
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			before,
		
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			so today, inshallah, we'll talk about
		
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			being grateful to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Allah tells us in the Quran,
		
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			Allah says that Allah has showered
		
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			his favors and his blessings on you. Those
		
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			favors and blessings that you know of, and
		
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			there are blessings and favors that you don't
		
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			know of, because they are hidden from us.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also tells us in
		
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			the Quran,
		
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			Wa in ta'udduu nayamatallahi
		
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			laatuhsua
		
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			inna insana lavaloomukafar.
		
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			In Surat Ibrahim, Allah
		
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			says, if you were to calculate
		
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			only one blessing of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			that he has bestowed upon you, you will
		
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			never be able to calculate it.
		
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			Indeed, man is a wrongdoer,
		
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			ungrateful.
		
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			In another verse, we saw at Sad, in
		
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			chapter Sad, Allah says,
		
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			Very few
		
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			among my servants who are indeed grateful,
		
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			but the rest
		
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			are not.
		
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			In the Quran, the word means
		
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			2 things. It could mean a disbeliever,
		
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			and it could mean ungrateful.
		
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			Those who are grateful,
		
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			they only benefit themselves. They don't benefit Allah.
		
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			And those who are ungrateful,
		
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			they only
		
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			hurt themselves.
		
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			So, again, the word Kafir in the Quran
		
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			means a disbeliever
		
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			or it could mean a someone who is
		
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			ungrateful to Allah
		
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			What are the kinds of favors that Allah
		
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			has given us?
		
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			If you can just sit and reflect on
		
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			the things that God or Allah
		
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			has bestowed upon
		
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			you, you'll be amazed how many things you
		
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			have. Sometimes you think you got nothing,
		
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			but Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, has given you
		
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			too much that you are not aware of.
		
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			For every Muslim, the greatest
		
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			honor and the greatest favor in this life
		
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			is to be a Muslim.
		
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			Because think
		
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			think, you know, think about all the people
		
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			who lived as Muslims,
		
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			all the people who live in this life
		
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			without guidance,
		
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			the people who
		
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			don't believe that God even exists,
		
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			all the atheists and agnostics,
		
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			and there are over 1,000,000,000 of them in
		
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			this world.
		
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			Think about Hindus.
		
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			There are about 1,000,000,000 of them.
		
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			Think about Buddhists.
		
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			There are 500,000,000
		
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			of them.
		
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			Think about people of other faith.
		
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			Those who don't worship God in the right
		
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			way
		
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			and those who don't show gratitude to him
		
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			for whatever he has given them and those
		
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			who don't even believe that he exists.
		
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			And every time you ask someone who is
		
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			atheist,
		
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			why don't you recognize the fact that there
		
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			is someone
		
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			who created this magnificent
		
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			universe
		
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			with all the numerations
		
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			and,
		
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			varieties in the universe and all the things
		
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			being put together in a very,
		
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			complex manner because
		
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			there's no way that everything came about by
		
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			chance.
		
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			They tell you, for example, that we don't
		
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			believe in anything that we are unable to
		
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			see
		
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			or smell or touch or taste.
		
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			If you ask them, what is the difference
		
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			between someone who is alive and someone who
		
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			is dead?
		
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			The difference is the soul.
		
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			And no one has ever seen, touched, or
		
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			smelled, or tasted the soul.
		
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			So tell them, if you don't believe in
		
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			the things that you are unable to see,
		
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			or smell, or touch, or taste, then technically
		
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			you are dead.
		
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			Because no one has ever seen your soul,
		
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			or touched, or squeezed, or tasted your soul.
		
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			So you are dead.
		
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			Then
		
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			you have Hindus and I've
		
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			studied Hinduism for some time. I've visited Hindu
		
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			temples,
		
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			and I I till this moment, I don't
		
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			know if they have a 1,000 gods or
		
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			if they don't believe in God. I don't
		
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			know.
		
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			And one time I visited a
		
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			temple in Los Angeles,
		
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			and they have
		
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			little
		
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			gods for $10 each.
		
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			And I'm joking with another friend, and I
		
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			said, you know,
		
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			I wouldn't pay $10 for a god. Maybe
		
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			they have a smaller god. Maybe I'm willing
		
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			to pay $5 for a God Junior, a
		
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			smaller God. So can you imagine buying and
		
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			selling God?
		
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			This reminds me of the pre Islamic times
		
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			when people like Omar al Khattab,
		
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			who later accepted Islam, they used to
		
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			make gods of dates,
		
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			and they worship it all day long, and
		
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			whenever they get hungry, they eat it.
		
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			And in another case, the people who worship
		
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			idols,
		
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			and I remember reading in several stories
		
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			that some of them who later became Muslims,
		
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			they saw
		
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			dogs urinating on their gods.
		
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			So the person said to himself, if my
		
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			god is unable
		
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			to protect himself from a god,
		
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			then how come he will be able to
		
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			protect me?
		
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			And they became Muslim people like Abu Zalefari
		
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			and the other companions.
		
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			Then you
		
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			have
		
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			2,000,000,000 2,000,000,000 people in this world who worship
		
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			a human being by the name of Jesus
		
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			Christ.
		
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			And he himself
		
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			never said anywhere,
		
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			not even once, that I'm God or worship
		
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			me.
		
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			And as we know, in the book of
		
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			Matthew, Jesus
		
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			prostrated himself. He put his face on the
		
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			floor and prayed to God in the Garden
		
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			of Gethsemane.
		
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			And the Isa Alaihi Salam told the people
		
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			the Lord's prayer to say, our heavenly father,
		
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			hallowed be thy name, and he never told
		
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			them to pray to him. So Isa Alaihi
		
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			Salam himself, Jesus was praying to God,
		
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			and he never told anyone to pray to
		
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			him.
		
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			He was in the womb of his mother
		
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			for 9 months.
		
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			Can you imagine God being in the womb
		
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			of a lady for 9 months?
		
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			God needing to be breastfed,
		
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			God needing to eat and drink and to
		
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			go to the restroom, as Allah says in
		
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			Surat Al Mahina,
		
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			that
		
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			that Jesus and his mother, they were human
		
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			beings and they used to eat food,
		
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			which means that eventually they had to go
		
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			to the restroom
		
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			and relieve themselves.
		
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			So can you imagine God go into the
		
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			restroom to relieve himself?
		
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			So
		
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			you have all these ideologies and all these
		
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			philosophies
		
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			around you,
		
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			and none of the people
		
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			and none of the objects that are being
		
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			worshiped besides God
		
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			ever claimed to be God and never
		
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			said to people worship me. Whether they are
		
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			idols or Jesus or Buddha
		
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			or the holy cow in India or the
		
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			egg,
		
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			the elephant head
		
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			god in in in China. None of them
		
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			ever taught, nobody worship me.
		
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			But the only one who said I created
		
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			and I deserve to be worshiped, you see,
		
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			billions of people not
		
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			recognize that he is a creator, not recognize
		
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			that he exists,
		
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			not recognize the fact that, he is worthy
		
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			of their gratitude and worship.
		
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			The second great favor is
		
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			that Allah has given you life
		
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			because there are so many people who are
		
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			dead now.
		
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			So you have this favor that you have
		
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			lived
		
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			long enough
		
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			to pray to Allah and worship him and
		
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			get all these blessings.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given you tongue
		
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			to speak with.
		
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			He has given you ears to hear with.
		
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			He has given you eyes to see with.
		
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			He has given you brains to think with,
		
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			and so on and so forth.
		
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			If
		
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			you have a house,
		
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			then you should be grateful to Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala because there are 1,000,000 in this
		
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			world who are homeless.
		
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			If you have a job,
		
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			then you should be grateful because there are
		
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			1,000,000 in our world who are jobless.
		
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			If
		
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			you have
		
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			a wife
		
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			or
		
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			a husband or children,
		
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			they should be grateful because there are 1,000,000
		
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			or 1,000,000,000 in this world who are wifeless
		
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			or husbandless
		
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			or childless.
		
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			If you have a car or a van,
		
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			then you should be grateful to Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala and not complain
		
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			about
		
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			the model or the make of your car
		
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			because there are 1,000,000,000 in this world
		
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			who are carless and vanless,
		
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			If this is grammatically okay.
		
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			So you should be grateful for the little
		
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			that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given you.
		
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			There are people, billions in this world,
		
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			who don't get 2 meals a day. I
		
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			know people who get 5 meals a day.
		
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			There are people who get 1 meal a
		
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			day. There are people who work 14 or
		
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			15 miles to get a cup of dirty
		
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			water in Central Africa.
		
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			So you should be grateful
		
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			to Allah
		
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			for whatever
		
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			he has given
		
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			you. Can you imagine
		
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			your life
		
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			without
		
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			one of these favors I mentioned? Although there
		
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			are other 1,000
		
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			and hundreds
		
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			of other favors, I'm just giving you a
		
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			taste
		
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			of these favors of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Can you imagine yourself without eyes?
		
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			And as Allah says, if you count the
		
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			blessings of one favor, you will never be
		
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			able to count
		
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			Think of the eye
		
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			if you are blind.
		
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			You will never be able to get a
		
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			good education.
		
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			You will never be able to find a
		
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			good job.
		
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			You will never be able to find a
		
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			good
		
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			lady of your choice or a good husband
		
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			of your choice. Your life will be miserable.
		
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			You will use your hands to feel your
		
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			way,
		
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			and you will never know which is which.
		
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			If you want to fix some tea, you
		
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			will go to the restroom.
		
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			If you need to relieve yourself, urinate, you
		
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			go to the kitchen
		
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			because you can't see.
		
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			If you are
		
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			a lady
		
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			and they marry you with the ugliest man
		
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			in the world, you have no way of
		
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			knowing.
		
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			And you if you are a man
		
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			and they marry you a one eyed, one
		
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			legged, which
		
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			Mike Tyson's ugly sister, you have no way
		
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			of knowing.
		
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			So this is just one example of the
		
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			favors of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Your life
		
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			will be completely difficult and unbearable.
		
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			And although we have all these favors,
		
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			most of the people don't show gratitude.
		
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			They don't even say thank you.
		
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			You have people like Karl Marx and and
		
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			Lenin who deny the very existence of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, but he provides for them
		
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			by day and night.
		
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			He created them,
		
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			so it is the right on him to
		
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			provide for them.
		
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			And every time they deny his existence, he
		
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			would never cut his supplies for them. When
		
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			was the last time you heard that God
		
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			told
		
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			call Marx if you don't pay your oxygen
		
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			bill, we'll cut you off.
		
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			Never happened
		
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			because Allah has to provide for them because
		
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			he created them. In the hereafter,
		
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			there will be judgment,
		
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			and everyone will be judged according to his
		
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			or her actions and decisions in this life.
		
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			What makes people ungrateful to Allah
		
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			in this world? There are several reasons.
		
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			Number 1,
		
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			positions.
		
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			If you are a president or a leader,
		
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			you might think you don't need Allah, so
		
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			you don't show gratitude.
		
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			And Allah says it in the Quran,
		
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			That
		
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			man becomes arrogant and ungrateful
		
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			when he or she knows that they are
		
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			self sufficient, so they didn't need God. So
		
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			they don't show gratitude.
		
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			In the story of pharaoh,
		
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			pharaoh.
		
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			He denied the existence of God, and he
		
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			didn't want to follow Musa Moses alaihis salaam.
		
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			And he said,
		
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			I'm
		
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			your lord,
		
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			the most high.
		
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			And I'm not for sure
		
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			if drugs
		
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			and marijuana existed at time at that time
		
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			because he didn't only say that he was
		
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			high.
		
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			He said he was the most high.
		
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			Then you have some people who were deceived
		
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			by their money, people like Korah in the
		
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			Quran and in the Bible,
		
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			and he denied God. He was not willing
		
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			to give
		
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			charity to the people, and he said,
		
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			I got all this wealth
		
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			because of my knowledge.
		
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			So what should I thank God for?
		
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			He didn't do anything for me, so I
		
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			don't owe him anything.
		
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			Then you have people like the Shaitan, the
		
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			devil,
		
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			who was so arrogant,
		
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			so ungrateful
		
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			because of his origins.
		
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			When Allah told them in the Quran to
		
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			prostrate himself
		
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			out of respect for Adam, alaihis salam, he
		
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			said,
		
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			I'm better than him.
		
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			You created me from fire, and you created
		
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			him from mud.
		
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			So I shouldn't
		
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			bow down to him.
		
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			So the angels were much much better than
		
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			the devils because the angels are created of
		
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			light,
		
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			and light is much better than fire, but
		
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			still they prostrated themselves to Adam alaihi salaam.
		
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			So you got someone who is much better
		
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			than you, who is grateful,
		
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			and he made sujood or prostrations to Adam
		
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			out of respect,
		
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			but the shaitan
		
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			denied and he was driven out of the
		
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			mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We ask
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to show us the
		
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			proper way, conduct, ask him of his blessings.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			We bear witness that there is none worthy
		
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			of worship except him, and we bear witness
		
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			that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			is the prophet of God who has sent
		
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			as a mercy to all mankind.
		
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			How can we show gratitude to Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala? There are so many ways
		
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			through which you can
		
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			give
		
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			thanks to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			There are so many ways for thanksgiving,
		
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			and believe it or not, cooking at Tabi
		
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			is not one of them.
		
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			There are so many ways you can show
		
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			gratitude to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The first
		
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			one of them,
		
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			to acknowledge deep in your heart that whatever
		
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			you have in this life is only from
		
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			Allah.
		
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			And Allah said it in the Quran,
		
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			Whatever favor or blessing you have in this
		
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			life is from Allah.
		
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			It's not from anyone.
		
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			Your salary
		
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			is not from your boss or his boss,
		
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			but these people are just FedEx people.
		
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			If you do your job, you do your
		
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			part, Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala will send them to
		
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			deliver
		
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			your salary for you.
		
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			So you shouldn't think that your boss is
		
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			the one who provides for you. It is
		
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			Allah.
		
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			But these people are just agents
		
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			for God.
		
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			Number 2, you have to acknowledge with your
		
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			tongue, and thank God for whatever he has
		
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			given you.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says in
		
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			the Hadith, in the lawha,
		
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			layalbaalmalalabdi,
		
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			and yakhulalaklata
		
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			The prophet
		
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			says that God is very pleased
		
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			with his servant.
		
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			Whenever he or she eats something,
		
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			they thank Allah for it.
		
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			Whenever they drink,
		
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			they thank Allah for the water
		
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			that he has provided for them.
		
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			So Allah is pleased
		
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			when people do this.
		
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			Can you imagine
		
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			if
		
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			someone like
		
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			brother Mustafa,
		
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			he is very good to me.
		
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			He
		
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			created me.
		
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			He gave me a lady to marry. He
		
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			gave me a house. He gave me a
		
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			job. He gave me a nice car. He
		
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			gave me vacations in Hawaii for the summer.
		
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			Then
		
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			I don't even say thank you.
		
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			I go and thank someone else, like brother
		
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			Gillette. So how do you think brother Mustafa
		
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			would feel? He would be very disappointed.
		
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			This
		
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			is how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, how things
		
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			when Allah creates
		
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			all these people, billions of them, and very
		
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			few of them actually show gratitude.
		
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			They thank someone else or
		
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			they tell him, they tell God,
		
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			you don't exist.
		
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			Help.
		
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			So this is number 2. Number 1, you
		
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			acknowledge with your heart. Number 2,
		
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			you say it with your tongue that you
		
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			thank God. And number 3, which is very
		
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			important,
		
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			you have to help those who are less
		
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			fortunate.
		
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			You give your charity,
		
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			your zakat, you help the people who need
		
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			help.
		
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			The orphans, the widows, the poor people. They
		
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			are the people who are less fortunate. You
		
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			help them. And this is their riot on
		
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			you.
		
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			So when you give someone zakat or a
		
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			charity,
		
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			you're not doing them a favor.
		
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			This is the riot on you.
		
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			Number
		
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			4,
		
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			that
		
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			every time Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives you
		
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			a favor and then listen, you have to
		
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			enjoy it. If Allah gives you 1,000,000,000 of
		
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			dollars,
		
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			you won't sleep in the street
		
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			because Allah
		
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			wants to see the trace of his favors
		
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			on you.
		
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			That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala likes to see
		
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			the impact,
		
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			the
		
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			influence of his favors on the people. If
		
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			he gives you money, you enjoy your life.
		
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			If he gives you a nice job, you
		
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			enjoy your life.
		
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			And Allah says in Surat,
		
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			And proclaim
		
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			the favors of your Lord.
		
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			But if Allah has given you all these
		
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			favors,
		
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			and you like them, and you don't use
		
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			them, so they are not actually yours. What
		
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			is yours in this life is what you
		
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			use.
		
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			So,
		
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			you do your part, you do a good
		
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			job, if Allah gives you money or whatever,
		
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			then you recognize that he is the provider,
		
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			and you help other people, and enjoy
		
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			the favors of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Without going to the extremes,
		
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			without being cheap and stingy, and without being,
		
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			extravagant,
		
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			if I pronounce it correctly.
		
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			Number 5, and this is the last one.
		
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			The last one,
		
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			and I don't want to forget this one.
		
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			The Prophet
		
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			used to ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			to help him, thank him.
		
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			Because you yourself, with your,
		
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			limited knowledge,
		
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			with your limited power, will never be able
		
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			to thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			dutifully or in the right way.
		
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			So the Prophet
		
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			used to make Dua
		
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			by saying, Allahumma
		
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			Oh Allah, help me
		
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			to worship you,
		
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			to thank you, and to be dutiful to
		
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			you in the right way. And this is
		
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			what we need to do. We ask Allah
		
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			to show us the right way, to thank
		
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			him, and to show gratitude to
		
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			him. We ask him subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			forgive us anything we have done by ignorance,
		
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			mistake, or forgetfulness.
		
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			And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			give us the best in this life, the
		
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			best in the life to come, and to
		
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			give us sincerity in everything we say and
		
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			do, and to accept our good deeds according
		
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			to the best of our intentions,
		
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			and to forgive us any mistakes that we
		
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			have committed in this life, and to and
		
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			to forgive all Muslims, those who are living
		
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			and those who are dead.