Mustafa Khattab – The 4 Tests Surat AlKahf

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The importance of protecting one's faith during difficult times like the end of the year, birth of God or the Son of God, and loss of a child is emphasized. The speakers emphasize the need to test one's wealth and children to ensure success, as well as to have a healthy mind and healthy life. The importance of protecting one's faith during difficult times is also emphasized, particularly loss of family, job, and money. The need to test one's wealth and children is emphasized, along with the importance of having a healthy mind and healthy life.

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			So today, inshallah, we'll talk briefly about some
		
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			of the lessons we can learn from Surah
		
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			Al Kahf,
		
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			Surah 18 in the Quran.
		
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			And this story is very special. It is
		
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			at the middle of the Quran, right in
		
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			the center.
		
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			The
		
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			word this word in the store is exactly
		
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			in the middle of the Quran. So this
		
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			is half and this is the other half.
		
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			So this store is right in the middle
		
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			of the Quran. It's the core
		
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			of the Quran.
		
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			And there are so many other narrations of
		
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			the hadith. So the prophet
		
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			says, whoever
		
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			recites Surah Al Kahf on the day of
		
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			Jummah, then a light will shine for them
		
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			until the next Friday. So between the 2
		
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			Fridays, if you recite this surah, this chapter,
		
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			which is 18th on Friday, then Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala will cause a light to shine
		
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			for you.
		
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			Why? They say because this surah is basically
		
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			a guideline
		
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			for a Muslim's life in this dunya.
		
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			There's another hadith for the Islamic Muslim. The
		
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			prophet says,
		
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			whoever decides the first in aya of this
		
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			particular chapter, this person will be protected from
		
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			the dajjal.
		
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			Dajjal is a character that will appear before
		
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			the end of the fight. It's one of
		
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			the major signs of the day of judgement.
		
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			But in any case, what is the relationship
		
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			between this dajjal
		
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			and
		
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			the fitna or the task mentioned in the
		
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			Surah?
		
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			The Surah basically talks about 4 different types
		
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			of people. It gives 4 different stories and
		
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			4 different examples of concern.
		
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			And they say these 4 different tasks,
		
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			we go through through them every day, but
		
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			so much so on the day of judgment,
		
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			when this character of Dajjal will come, then
		
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			people will be tested by these 4 things.
		
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			The task in faith,
		
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			the task
		
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			task in wealth, the task in knowledge,
		
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			and finally, the task in authority,
		
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			and so on and so forth.
		
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			Now if you look at the 4 stories
		
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			in the Surah,
		
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			you'll see something interesting.
		
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			Surah Al Kahf is made of a 110
		
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			ayaats.
		
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			Right in the middle, so you'll see
		
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			story 1 about the youth and their faith.
		
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			Story 2 about the men of the 2
		
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			gardens, the men, the rich men.
		
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			Then, so the story number 3, Musa alayhi
		
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			salaam and the test of knowledge. And that
		
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			end is the story of,
		
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			and the dukhamein and the test of the
		
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			fort.
		
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			So after story 2, which means that it
		
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			is right in the middle
		
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			after story 12, and before story 34,
		
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			you will see in the talk about Shaitan.
		
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			Middle of it.
		
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			Why? Because he is the one who's testing
		
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			you with in terms of your faith, in
		
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			terms of your wealth, in terms of your
		
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			knowledge, and in terms of your authority.
		
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			So Shaytan is at the door of all
		
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			these tests.
		
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			There's a beautiful hadith that has something to
		
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			do with these four stories in Surat Al
		
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			Kahf.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			says the hadith of Usayat and the Tabani.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			says
		
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			throughout
		
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			Sahaba and other ghosts of khareq. But this
		
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			particular one talks about 4 different tasks that
		
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			we go through. So the prophet says,
		
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			on the day of judgment,
		
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			your feet will not be removed either to
		
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			go to this way to Jannah Inshallah, or
		
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			to the other way, Wallahu Alaihi.
		
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			Until you are asked about 4 things, then
		
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			the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Salam will say, you
		
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			will be asked about your life. How did
		
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			you spend your life? This is the first
		
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			question you will get.
		
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			And number 2, you will be about asked
		
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			about your youth years. What did you do
		
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			through your youth years? When you were healthy,
		
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			you had the time, you had the ability,
		
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			what did you do in that time?
		
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			And number 3, you will be asked about
		
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			your money, your wealth. How did you collect
		
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			your wealth and how did you spend it?
		
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			And number 4, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
		
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			ask you about your knowledge.
		
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			How or what did you do with your
		
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			knowledge?
		
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			Now if you look at the 4 stories
		
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			in Surah Al Kahf, they talk precisely about
		
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			these 4 questions.
		
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			The first story of the youth in the
		
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			cave talks about the youth years,
		
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			a group of youth who were tested in
		
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			their faith.
		
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			Then Shabab Nifimah Ablah. Then the second point,
		
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			Wa'an Nifimah
		
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			Ablah. Talk about his wealth, how he collected,
		
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			and how he spent it. You see the
		
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			story about the rich man and how he
		
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			what he did with his wealth, and he
		
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			was destroyed because of his wealth.
		
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			Then the third one is the hadith of
		
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			the lord SAW.
		
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			His knowledge.
		
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			Then interestingly enough, you see in the Surah,
		
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			the story of, Musa alaihis salaam al Khadar,
		
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			It talks about knowledge.
		
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			Musa alaihis salaam was tested with the knowledge,
		
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			which is the third point in the hadith.
		
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			And the last one,
		
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			which is authority,
		
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			or what did you do with your life?
		
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			Then it talks about the life of Dukhan
		
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			Nain and how he dedicated his life to
		
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			the worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
		
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			serving the people and volunteering to help the
		
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			people. So exactly, the 4 stories in Surat
		
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			Al Kah are exactly the 4 things mentioned
		
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			in the hadith of the prophet.
		
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			The Hadith that talks about your life, the
		
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			youth years, your wealth, and your knowledge. Exactly
		
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			the 4 things
		
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			in this particular narration.
		
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			So we start with the task of the
		
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			youth.
		
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			So at the beginning of the Surah, which
		
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			is named after this, story, this incident
		
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			that happened before the time of the prophet
		
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			so many years before. So, he talks about
		
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			a group of youth
		
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			who were tested in their faith. They were
		
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			living at a time. They were pagans. They
		
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			were giving them a hard time. They couldn't
		
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			worship Allah and were persecuted.
		
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			So, they ran away to protect their faith.
		
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			The Quran talks about the youth all the
		
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			time and you see so many hadith about
		
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			the youth.
		
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			So, the prophet talks about the use of
		
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			Allah and the Hadith. Why?
		
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			Because they use ears. Say for example, you
		
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			are 16, 17 and up all the way
		
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			till
		
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			28, 25, 30.
		
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			This is the time
		
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			because during the time
		
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			you are actually applying. This is the highest
		
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			you can go in terms of mental ability,
		
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			in terms of physical ability,
		
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			in terms of the free time you have
		
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			and so on and so forth. This is
		
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			the time. If you want to do something
		
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			in your life, this is the time.
		
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			Because now when you hit 60 or 70
		
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			or 80, you start to forget things. Every
		
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			day you are visiting a doctor a different
		
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			month. One day you hear, one day you
		
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			nose, one day you'll laugh, one day you'll
		
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			need. There's something wrong. Right? But this is
		
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			the time.
		
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			So when you are young, say, for example,
		
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			you are in your,
		
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			teen years,
		
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			20 something.
		
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			Masha'Allah, when you are young when you are
		
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			younger than this, say, when you go to,
		
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			you know,
		
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			grade 2, grade 3,
		
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			you are healthy, how do they have a
		
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			problem?
		
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			And you have time because you don't have
		
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			money, Because you don't have a job. It's
		
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			your father who's providing for you. And you
		
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			know what parents do sometimes because they wanna
		
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			save money and you want you want to
		
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			buy everything in the store
		
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			so you don't have your own money.
		
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			Then after you graduate, you get your job
		
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			so remember, when you are young, you have
		
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			time, you don't have health, but you don't
		
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			have money. Right?
		
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			Then when you are in a youth, you
		
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			have a job and then the problem of
		
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			your life,
		
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			after graduation, you have a job, you go
		
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			there.
		
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			So you have health,
		
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			you you have money, but no time. You
		
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			are busy running around.
		
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			And when you retire,
		
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			you would have the time. You have nothing
		
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			for time, basically.
		
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			And
		
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			you would have the money, a retirement check
		
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			or getting a check every month and so
		
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			on and so forth and savings and so
		
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			on and so forth, but there's no God.
		
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			Again, you're complaining every day. You're seeing a
		
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			doctor every day all the time. Right? So
		
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			you have to look at all these equations.
		
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			The best time for you to do something
		
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			is at the youth ears. The problem with
		
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			our families sometimes,
		
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			when we look at our children,
		
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			we don't see them aging because they grow
		
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			in front of your eyes.
		
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			When they are young, like, grade 1, grade
		
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			2,
		
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			they don't pray and all these things.
		
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			Let them enjoy their life. They're still young.
		
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			They go to college. You know, it don't
		
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			make their life difficult. They still have a
		
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			long life ahead.
		
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			When they retire I mean, when they get
		
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			a job, they get married. Oh, man. He
		
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			has a problem. He's fighting with his wife.
		
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			She's calling the police on him all the
		
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			time. He doesn't have time,
		
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			man. When he retires, you know,
		
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			you know, his health is deteriorating. We can't
		
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			force him to pray and, you know so
		
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			there's always an excuse.
		
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			The best time to do something is at
		
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			youth the youth years.
		
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			This is when you have the health, when
		
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			you have the memory. When you grow older,
		
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			the person's hand becomes like, you know, the
		
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			flash drive or your iPad. You have the
		
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			limited memory.
		
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			So if you fill it with something so
		
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			we have 8 gigabytes
		
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			or something. Once you fill it, there's no
		
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			more space. You can't memorize anything.
		
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			If you try to memorize Surah Al Qariyah,
		
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			you forget Surah Al Qariyah. You get Surah
		
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			Al Qariyah, you forget another Surah. Right? So
		
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			it's always like this.
		
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			So I remember one time I read this
		
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			story,
		
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			the son was asking his father,
		
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			why do you keep you keep trying memorizing
		
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			the law? Because
		
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			this is the the truth. Once you try
		
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			to memorize the Surah, you forget the previous
		
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			one. But you never give up. You keep
		
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			trying reading the Quran and revising the Quran,
		
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			although you can't remember anything.
		
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			He said,
		
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			take this basket. They used to have a
		
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			basket for something and used to to carry
		
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			dirt in that basket.
		
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			So and the basket has holes.
		
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			It's like the dustbin that you keep in
		
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			your house or in the kitchen. It has
		
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			holes all around it. So he told his
		
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			son, go to the river and try to
		
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			fill it with water.
		
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			And the the basket was dirty because of
		
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			all the dirt and the stuff that he
		
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			was carrying.
		
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			So he went there and tried to fill
		
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			it with water. He filled it. When he
		
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			takes out the water, all the water falls
		
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			down. So he tried 10 times.
		
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			Said, no. Yeah. The law is lost, but
		
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			it is clean now. So even if you're
		
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			not able to memorize the law in that
		
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			old age, by reading the Quran, it will
		
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			purify you,
		
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			physically and it will purify you, spiritually and
		
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			religiously and so on and so forth. So
		
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			the youth years, this is the time. Take
		
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			advantage of it.
		
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			So as I said, the task for the
		
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			youth at the beginning of the Surah was
		
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			in relation to their faith.
		
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			They ran away. They tried to protect their
		
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			faith because they know that this is the
		
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			most valuable thing in their lives.
		
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			I know this is a very difficult time
		
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			at the end of the year.
		
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			You have, like, 15 different holidays.
		
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			Many of us, we go to public schools
		
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			and so on and so forth.
		
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			You'll see people trying to do Christmas at
		
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			home, the tree, and the Halloween, the crazy
		
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			costume, they try to scare their parents,
		
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			and Valentine's, and all these things.
		
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			This is a task of the faith. I
		
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			know if you go to a public school,
		
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			try to protect your faith.
		
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			Everyone is free to do whatever they want.
		
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			Everyone has their own holidays.
		
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			And this is what Allah says.
		
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			Every community,
		
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			faith community, they have their own holidays.
		
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			Everyone has their own, you know, holidays.
		
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			So everyone should respect
		
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			their own holidays and they should not be
		
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			involved in other holidays as long as they
		
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			are religious holidays.
		
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			Right? And so on and so forth. I
		
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			don't want to dwell on that point, but
		
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			this is part of the test as a
		
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			youth. You're not supposed to take part in
		
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			these
		
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			holidays,
		
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			especially something that honors,
		
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			for example, the birth of the God or
		
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			the Son of God and all these. We
		
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			should not even get close to getting involved
		
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			in something like this because because this goes
		
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			against our faith and our beliefs.
		
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			So this is the first test.
		
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			The second test, which is a task of
		
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			the wealth,
		
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			al fitna. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala closets in
		
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			the Quran al fitna. The man was testing
		
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			with his wealth.
		
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			And there's something interesting about this story. Remember,
		
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			over the last
		
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			few, footballs we're talking about while we've learned
		
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			from different things from animals, even for inanimate
		
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			beings and so on and so forth.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ala in the story of Asayahu
		
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			Jannathay, he says when he describes Jannathayahu,
		
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			when a coupling means will change. When he
		
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			speaks about the earth, the dirt, the garden,
		
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			he says that the garden didn't do wrong.
		
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			They wrong the owner,
		
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			and the garden never fell short of getting
		
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			produced,
		
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			like the fruits and so on and so
		
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			forth. But when Allah
		
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			describes the person, the owner of the garden,
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			did not wrong the person. But the person
		
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			was wronging himself,
		
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			Why? Because he was not showing gratitude to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			All of us, we know that we're tested
		
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			in this life with difficult things like the
		
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			loss of something, the loss of a job,
		
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			and so on and so forth. There's a
		
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			loss of a child. But a lot of
		
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			people are not aware that you are sometimes
		
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			you are tested with something good
		
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			like with your children,
		
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			your wealth. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
		
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			in the Quran, we'll have new from his
		
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			sharei wa fayfid that we we test you
		
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			with good and bad
		
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			as a trial as a task for you.
		
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			Ibn al Fayim mentions
		
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			the story
		
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			of a man who came to some of
		
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			the Sahaba.
		
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			And he said,
		
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			I love Fitna,
		
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			and
		
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			I hate the truth, atul kah or ifmul
		
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			Fitna,
		
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			and leave you all the malaise al ilaha
		
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			salat
		
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			shayr al shahak. So some of the sahaba,
		
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			he said, you know, he is heretic. He
		
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			says something wrong. Why is this? So Ibrahim
		
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			al Khayr al Raghamullah said,
		
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			'Alib ibn Abi Talib radiAllahu 'Abi Surah and
		
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			and said, this man has said
		
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			Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala says that in the Quran, they're
		
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			through wealth and your children are fitna attest
		
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			from Allah. He lost fitna. He lost money.
		
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			He lost children. If the man said,
		
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			I hate the truth, and the Quran calls
		
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			death the truth. This is the ultimate truth.
		
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			Every single one of us will die at
		
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			the end. It's the truth.
		
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			And he hates the truth. He doesn't want
		
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			to die. So there's nothing wrong with this.
		
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			And number 3,
		
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			he has something that Allah doesn't have, which
		
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			is a wife and children. Allah doesn't have
		
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			wife or children.
		
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			And number 4, he testifies without seeing that
		
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			man didn't see the promised, so he testifies.
		
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			And now Yashat and then Allah by the
		
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			Muhammad Rasoolah. He believes in Allah. He didn't
		
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			see Allah. And he believes in Muhammad
		
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			and this man didn't see the problem, so
		
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			he's telling the truth. So he let him
		
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			go. So that was the second test, the
		
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			test
		
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			of the wealth.
		
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			Why? Because the man was used to give
		
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			thanks to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Why? Because
		
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			he thought
		
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			this is what he told the other person
		
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			in the story,
		
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			because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given me
		
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			a lot of children and he has given
		
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			me wealth, this means one thing to me,
		
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			that he loves me,
		
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			although he was not thanking Allah enough.
		
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			So if you see Allah
		
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			giving you a good life or a good
		
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			job, a good pay,
		
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			a good job, and and you have a
		
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			good life, a good health, children, and so
		
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			on and so forth, and you are not
		
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			thanking him enough,
		
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			then there must be something wrong.
		
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			Expect something terrible to happen. So this is
		
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			part of the task that Allah
		
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			is testing you.
		
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			Do they think
		
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			when they're doing something wrong,
		
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			you're not thanking me enough,
		
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			but I still give them wealth and I
		
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			give them children. Do they think that I'm
		
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			doing this because they love them?
		
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			No. They have no idea.
		
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			It's only a test as Allah subhanahu wa'ala
		
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			says in the ad.
		
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			Kaf, Surah 18,
		
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			and the hadith of the prophet says,
		
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			the
		
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			The prophet says the reason why Musa al
		
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			Sallallahu alaihi wasalam was tested with his knowledge,
		
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			one day he was standing like this and
		
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			giving a foot while he was giving a
		
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			talk. So someone was so impressed
		
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			with the style of Musa alaihis salaam, so
		
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			the man stood up after the talk and
		
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			said,
		
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			yeah, Musa alaihis salaam, you called him,
		
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			who is the most knowledgeable person on this
		
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			earth? So according to Musa alaihis salaam said
		
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			that would be me. So
		
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			Al Qadhi, Musa Al Qadhi said that would
		
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			be me. So Allah revealed to him that
		
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			there's someone else in this world who is
		
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			more knowledgeable than you, so go and learn
		
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			from him. And you know the rest of
		
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			the story, the Sheikh, the the boy, the
		
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			wall, and so on and so forth. At
		
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			the core of the story,
		
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			Musa Alaihi Salam
		
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			set,
		
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			the rules for learning from his Sheikh, which
		
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			is a tablet in this case. It said,
		
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			Insha
		
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			Allahu Abuzadu wa Ta'ala Asi Leqamu. It says
		
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			in the story, Insha Allah, you will find
		
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			me patient with you
		
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			and I will never disobey you, which means
		
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			patience and modesty.
		
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			If you want to learn, you have to
		
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			you have to pause patience because learning is
		
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			a process and it takes a long time.
		
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			And number 2, you have to be humble.
		
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			The madman say, 2 people will never learn
		
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			anything.
		
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			Those who
		
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			are arrogant to learn, why should I ask
		
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			someone? I know everything.
		
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			And those who are shy, they don't ask.
		
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			They don't know how to make Muslim or
		
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			purify
		
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			themselves properly. So they are they are shy
		
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			to ask. They will never learn anything.
		
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			So if you want to learn something, you
		
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			have to have patience, and you have to
		
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			humble yourself and learn from the scholars.
		
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			You can't just go to Google and Google
		
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			things or what they call it Google, or
		
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			Sheikh Mohammed said to a Sheikh Google. You
		
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			can't
		
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			Some of the masha'i Qafasir, they say he
		
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			was aliskandar lakor the Alexander
		
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			the Great. But Alexander the Great was a
		
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			pagan man. He was not a believer. He
		
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			had like a 1,000 gods. So Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Waqqala would never use him in the Qur'an
		
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			as an example of a righteous person.
		
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			So the UHla gave different names and so
		
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			on and so forth. But the most important
		
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			thing about the story of this man, it
		
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			talks about how he dedicated his life to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and how he put his life in the
		
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			service of the people. He was volunteering
		
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			his time and his effort to helping the
		
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			people, taking advantage of all the skills that
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given him. You
		
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			see at the end, he was helping the
		
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			people by building the dam for free. He
		
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			offered them money. He said, no. Whatever
		
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			Allah is giving me is much better. So
		
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			he didn't give me his whole life. And
		
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			the surah talks about his journeys to the
		
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			east and to the west and to the
		
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			north,
		
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			calving the people and spending his time in
		
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			the service of the people and worshiping Allah
		
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			So these are the 3 tasks mentioned in
		
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			the Surah or the 4 tests.
		
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			The task in deen, in faith, when you
		
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			are young as a youth.
		
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			And number 2, the task in wealth, to
		
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			see if you'll be thankful to Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala or know. And number 3, the
		
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			test of knowledge
		
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			because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will ask you
		
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			about your knowledge. Knowing the Haram and kam
		
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			and knowing the sunnah of the prophet and
		
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			how to worship him and so on and
		
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			so forth. And most importantly,
		
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			practicing what you're preaching
		
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			and practicing what you're learning. What is the
		
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			point if you have all the knowledge and
		
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			you don't practice? You know halal and you
		
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			know halal, everybody knows halal and halal, but
		
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			no one is practicing. This is what Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala will ask you about. And
		
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			number for your authority,
		
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			whether or not you're a ruler, you're a
		
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			not a president, every single one of us
		
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			has authority.
		
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			If you are a president, if you are
		
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			a ruler,
		
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			if you are the head of a company,
		
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			if you are the head of the house
		
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			or a husband
		
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			or wife, you have authority over your children.
		
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			If you don't have a family, then at
		
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			least
		
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			you have authority over yourself. So Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala will ask us
		
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			every single one of you. As the prophet
		
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			says in the authentic Hadith,
		
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			and the best in the life to come.