Mustafa Khattab – Taraweeh Gems 3 Fasting & Dua

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The speaker discusses the use of the title "by the way" in the Quran to describe the relationship between the man and his wife during the night of busy busy busy busy activities. The title is used to describe the relationship between the man and his wife, and the speaker emphasizes the importance of praying to the Lord to maintain healthy relationships. The title also references the man being a difficult partner and the importance of always remembering to pray for the best in one's life.

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			When my servants ask you, Mohammad,
		
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			about me,
		
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			I'm truly near. I respond to the guapo
		
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			whoever calls upon me.
		
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			So, there's something very special about this tag.
		
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			If you look at the Quran where Allah
		
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			is talking to the Quran and
		
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			he's saying, when he ask you about something,
		
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			tell the prophet this.
		
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			14 times in the Quran. They ask you
		
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			about this. Yeah. Muhammad, tell him that.
		
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			This is the only exception in the Quran.
		
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			This a.
		
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			There is no
		
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			Why?
		
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			It says when he asks you about
		
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			me, Allah is giving you the answer right
		
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			away. There's no one between you and Allah.
		
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			Right? So he's telling you,
		
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			when they ask you, Muhammad, about me,
		
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			I'm truly near. He's giving you the answer
		
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			right away.
		
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			Not through the prophet, but Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala is talking to you directly. There's no
		
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			one between you and Allah.
		
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			There's also another thing interesting about this ayah.
		
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			When you read the ayah before and the
		
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			ayah after, they talk about
		
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			The Ayah after
		
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			it talks about,
		
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			a man's relationship with his wife during the
		
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			night of Ramadan. So the Ayah before and
		
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			the Ayah after talk about rulings related to
		
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			fasting and Ramadan.
		
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			But this particular one is talking about Dua.
		
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			It technically, it has nothing to do with
		
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			the ayah before
		
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			and the ayah after. Why is it there?
		
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			Why it is put in there?
		
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			Well, this style is very common in the
		
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			Quran. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is talking about
		
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			a
		
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			general theme
		
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			and in the middle he puts an Haya
		
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			that
		
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			seemingly has nothing to do with the Ayah
		
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			before or after. Another example,
		
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			in in the Quran in Surah Al Baqarah,
		
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			the Ayah that talk about divorce.
		
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			Like, 3 or 4 pages
		
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			talk about divorce,
		
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			then there's this ayah in the middle,
		
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			Then he talks about divorce again. Right? So
		
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			3 4 ayah about divorce,
		
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			1 ayah in the middle that talks about
		
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			salah,
		
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			then he talks about divorce again. What what
		
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			does salah have to do with marriage and
		
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			divorce? So the ulama say,
		
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			if you have respect for Allah and you
		
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			pray with time, you keep up your salah,
		
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			you will always have respect for your wife
		
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			or your husband
		
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			and there will never be problem in the
		
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			marriage if you keep a keep a good
		
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			connection with Allah. This is why the ayah
		
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			is put in the middle in the ayah
		
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			that talk about marriage and divorce.
		
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			So marriage and divorce have a lot to
		
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			do with salah.
		
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			And this is why broken families when people
		
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			come and ask about,
		
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			for counseling and they're shooting at each other,
		
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			they're calling the police on each other, the
		
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			first question I ask them do you guys
		
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			pray?
		
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			99%
		
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			of the time the answer is no, we
		
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			don't pray.
		
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			So if you have no relationship with Allah,
		
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			how can you keep a good relationship with
		
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			one another? So this is the wisdom.
		
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			As for this ayah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is telling us
		
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			whose dua will never be rejected. Their dua
		
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			will always be accepted,
		
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			and one of them is the fasting person,
		
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			As Sahih.
		
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			If someone is fasting in Ramadan or outside
		
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			Ramadan,
		
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			their dua will always be accepted. And this
		
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			is why the ayah here is put between
		
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			the ayah to talk about Ramadan and the
		
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			different rulings.
		
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			So
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us in
		
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			the ayah, when you pray to me I
		
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			will respond to you. It doesn't say I'm
		
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			going to answer. He's saying I will respond
		
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			because the response will come in different forms.
		
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			So for example, if you pray to him,
		
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			I wanna marry this lady or I wanna
		
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			find the you know,
		
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			get this job,
		
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			then maybe Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will give
		
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			you the job or he will give you
		
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			this wife.
		
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			Or maybe
		
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			you are asking for a particular job,
		
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			an iman job, or a teacher job, or
		
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			a doctor job, when you are asking to
		
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			pay a particular person,
		
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			a husband or a lady or a man,
		
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			then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows that this
		
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			is a miserable job or he knows that
		
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			this is a crazy man or a crazy
		
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			woman. If you marry them,
		
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			you will be miserable.
		
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			Right? So he knows that there's nothing good
		
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			about these people if you marry them or
		
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			in this job. So he gives you a
		
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			different job or he gives you a different
		
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			person to marry. So he responds in a
		
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			different way.
		
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			Sometimes
		
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			you are asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for
		
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			something and this through a lot about many
		
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			of us that you ask about something, you
		
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			Allah, I want to marry this person or
		
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			you Allah, I'm sick or you Allah, I
		
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			have a difficulty.
		
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			Remove this difficulty or give me a job
		
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			or something. Then, you know, Allah
		
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			responds after a long time.
		
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			Why?
		
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			There's a hikmah behind this because
		
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			Allah
		
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			is telling us in the Quran,
		
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			if he keeps showering his namal on you,
		
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			you always turn your back to him.
		
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			You only give back to him and ask
		
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			him if you need something from him. He
		
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			knows us.
		
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			Surah al Fusilat ayah 51. If we show
		
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			our our nirmaw and humans,
		
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			they turn their back to me, to Allah.
		
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			But if they are in a difficulty, they
		
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			have a problem,
		
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			they always come to Allah with lengthy dua.
		
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			They are crying, they're asking Allah forever.
		
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			So he knows us. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			wants to keep your company.
		
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			He knows if you make dua to him,
		
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			he gives you your answer to the dua
		
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			the same day, you'll turn your back to
		
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			him. But he keeps you asking for dua
		
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			for weeks or months because he wants to
		
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			keep your company.
		
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			And always
		
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			remember if,
		
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			the distance between you and Allah is getting
		
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			bigger,
		
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			always keep to in your mind that Allah
		
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			hasn't moved even for 1 inch. You are
		
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			the one who's moving away. So always make
		
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			Dua to him. If he doesn't respond to
		
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			you in this dunya by giving you what
		
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			you're asking for, maybe he knows that this
		
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			is not good for you in this dunya.
		
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			He will give you the reward in adhira
		
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			for your dua and for asking him. We
		
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			We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give
		
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			us the best in this life and the
		
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			best in the life to come and we
		
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			ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to always answer
		
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			our dua in what is best for us
		
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			in this dunya and in Afr Al Mi'in
		
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			Nabi.