Mustafa Khattab – Taraweeh Gems 5 Inspiring Story

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In this segment, a speaker discusses the importance of using the title "Art of the beast" to obtain success in prayer. They explain that the title is a powerful and beloved source of pride, and that it is important to ask for it in order to receive it. The speaker also provides examples of how a successful candidate, Surah Tun You, uses the title "Art of the beast" to obtain success in prayer.

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			I'm truly near.
		
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			I answer the dua, or I respond to
		
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			the dua of whoever prays to me. So
		
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			let them pray to me and obey me
		
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			so it will be rightly guided.
		
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			So today, inshallah will focus a little bit
		
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			on this ayah that talks about Dua. We'll
		
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			continue this discussion
		
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			and we mentioned that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			puts this ayah about Dua and the ayah
		
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			inside the ayah that talk about Ramadan before
		
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			and after
		
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			to show us that dua'at Ramadan is very
		
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			powerful and it is very important and it
		
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			is very beloved to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			In this hadith, the prophet says,
		
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			There
		
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			is nothing
		
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			more pleasing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala than
		
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			du'a,
		
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			that you raise your hands and pray to
		
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			him and say,
		
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			So in this beautiful hadith, the prophet
		
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			says, Allah has hired from you.
		
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			Whenever you raise your hands asking for something,
		
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			your hands never come back empty. You have
		
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			to come back with something because Allah has
		
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			Hayat. If you go to him and ask
		
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			him, he will have to give you something.
		
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			Of course, there are several requirements for dua.
		
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			Of course, you have to eat from halal.
		
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			You can
		
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			Whenever he made dua to Allah, he always
		
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			accepted his dua. Why? He said because I
		
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			always ate halal. This is why Allah accepted
		
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			my dua.
		
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			Whenever you pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			make sure you keep making dua to him
		
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			because some of us will make dua for
		
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			a couple of minutes and said look I've
		
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			been making dua for 60 seconds and my
		
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			dua has never been accepted.
		
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			No. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala yep but in
		
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			dua malam yajalahadukum
		
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			Allah will accept your dua as long as
		
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			you are consistent, you keep asking him.
		
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			But
		
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			if you get tired or if you say
		
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			okay I pray but Allah has never accepted
		
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			my dua then maybe Allah will not accept
		
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			your dua. Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			says when
		
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			you make dua to Allah
		
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			put in your heart and your in your
		
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			mind that Allah will accept your dua. If
		
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			this is what you have in your heart
		
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			then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is better than
		
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			your expectations.
		
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			But you make dua and say well maybe
		
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			Allah would not answer my dua He would
		
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			not answer your dua because whatever you think
		
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			of Allah he is better than that.
		
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			So always keep making dua to him if
		
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			he doesn't answer your dua in one day
		
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			or after a week would make dua for
		
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			a month or a year, right? Keep making
		
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			dua to him and I mentioned in one
		
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			foot but this is something we need to
		
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			learn from little kids.
		
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			If they want something from you candy or
		
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			a lollipop or something
		
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			they bug you, right? Daddy daddy the the
		
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			whole day mommy mom you can't sleep, you
		
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			can't pray, you can't eat, Right?
		
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			Even in the washroom they are after you,
		
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			you open the fridge, they pop out of
		
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			the you know, they bug you. So eventually
		
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			you have to give it to them just,
		
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			you know, to satisfy them. If
		
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			you want something from Allah, you have to
		
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			keep asking, you have to keep asking Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala eventually
		
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			He will give you whatever you're asking for
		
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			if it is the best thing for you.
		
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			I'm gonna conclude with
		
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			a special story about Dua of Ramadan
		
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			and I'm not sure if you heard this
		
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			story before. I know this, brother from Egypt,
		
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			and English was his weakness. Right?
		
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			He graduated from high school, and he spoke
		
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			English with an accent, a heavy accent like
		
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			most Egyptians. Right? Do we have Egyptians here?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			They speak English. Okay. Egyptians are good. Okay?
		
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			Egyptians are good. Okay. Egyptians
		
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			are okay.
		
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			So,
		
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			in high school because they were teaching them
		
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			horrible English in high school, they were not
		
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			taught by experts or anything so their English
		
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			was very bad. Heavy accent, right? So I'm
		
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			gonna give you a couple of examples of
		
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			the words they studied in high school.
		
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			It's too much, it's too much, stomach.
		
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			It's too much. This is how they studied
		
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			the word.
		
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			Deliquis,
		
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			you know the word delicious?
		
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			Exactly. So this is how they were taught.
		
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			He made it to college, English it was
		
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			his weakness, right? And his friends they used
		
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			to make fun of him, the teachers used
		
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			to to ask him to give him why
		
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			because his English was horrible.
		
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			So,
		
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			this brother it was Ramadan
		
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			and he decided to do something about his
		
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			English because it was terrible.
		
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			So he decided to talk to someone, one
		
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			of the top class, you know, top of
		
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			the students in the class so he can
		
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			learn from them to, you know,
		
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			to do conversation with them so he can
		
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			pick up some English and learn from them.
		
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			So that other brother,
		
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			Muhammad,
		
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			told him, well your English is so bad
		
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			if I speak with you in English you
		
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			are going to spoil my English. Right?
		
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			So
		
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			that how horrible his English was. Right?
		
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			So that brother
		
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			that day,
		
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			that night made Dua to Allah and he
		
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			said, You
		
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			You arabu alaalameen
		
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			there is nothing impossible for you, it is
		
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			not difficult for you to help me speak
		
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			good English and I make a promise to
		
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			you. If you help me speak English I'm
		
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			gonna use it for dua, to make dua
		
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			to Islam.
		
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			That was back in 1997.
		
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			4 years later, this brother graduated from Al
		
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			Azhar, and he was the top of the
		
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			class, excellent grades,
		
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			and he was appointed within a few week
		
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			weeks as a teacher at the department, and
		
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			he was the top student in the whole
		
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			department.
		
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			That brother, Mohammed, who refused to speak with
		
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			him English in English a few years before,
		
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			failed in the last year.
		
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			That brother, several years later, traveled to North
		
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			America.
		
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			He has ever been since working in Dawah.
		
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			He has seen a lot of people take
		
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			Shahadah
		
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			and he has received his,
		
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			masters and PhD in English. And as a
		
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			matter of fact, he's working as an imam
		
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			in North America now and he has done
		
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			a fantastic translation
		
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			of the Quran into English.
		
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			I see this brother every day, especially when
		
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			I look in the mirror. I look him
		
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			in the eye. This brother is me.
		
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			So nothing is impossible for Allah. So you
		
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			have to
		
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			ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to help you
		
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			and it doesn't matter what it is, Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would help you if you
		
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			are sincere
		
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			and if you do your part,
		
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			do your best and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			will take care of the rest. We ask
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to help us make
		
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			dua to Him and ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala
		
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			to give us the best in this life
		
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			and the best in the life to come.
		
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			So the question for last night was Surah
		
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			Tun You. Surah Tun You. Surah Tun You.
		
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			The bees. The bees. Surah Anya.
		
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			I've been receiving a lot of emails.
		
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			Most of them are correct, especially my sisters.
		
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			Very few brothers
		
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			sent the answer, especially,
		
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			Fahim Khan. But,
		
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			hopefully, he will win this week. Okay?
		
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			But the winner today is sister,
		
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			Batool Tuntar.
		
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			Oh, no way. So is my
		
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			sorry. One one day.
		
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			I'll make dua.