Mustafa Khattab – What If you Die Today Khutba part 2

Mustafa Khattab
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The speaker discusses the importance of following a plan to achieve success in life, including shaping one's behavior and responsibilities. They encourage listeners to ask themselves questions about their actions and responsibilities, as well as their obligations and interests. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of seeking guidance and understanding one's actions and decisions to avoid mistakes and fulfill one's dreams.

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			In your free time
		
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			you can do this
		
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			what I like to call stunt.
		
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			Close your eyes
		
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			and imagine you are dead.
		
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			And I remember some of my friends used
		
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			to do it, in their
		
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			in the lab, in the drawer. They would
		
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			go into the drawer in the dark room,
		
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			in the dark drawer and they imagine they
		
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			are dead and this is their break.
		
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			And they think about their life in the
		
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			next life and they wish they can come
		
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			back
		
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			and change their ways.
		
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			And
		
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			I remember in the lecture I gave the
		
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			story of Alabiyyah Abu Haytham. He was on
		
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			the one of the scholars, one of the,
		
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			righteous people. And
		
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			several times every time he does something wrong,
		
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			he would he had a hole in his
		
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			bedroom
		
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			with a shroud. So he would shroud himself,
		
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			go in this hole
		
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			and close this door, stay there for 2
		
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			or 3 hours.
		
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			Make sure he has enough air in there,
		
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			only enough to suffocate.
		
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			And after some time he will call for
		
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			his family to open the door for him.
		
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			And in there, what in this 2, 3
		
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			hours he would imagine
		
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			his life, then imagine death.
		
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			And tell himself, if I die today, the
		
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			first
		
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			thing I'm gonna ask for as Allah says
		
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			in the Quran is to wish to go
		
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			back
		
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			to this life and be a better person.
		
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			Then he will call his wife and she
		
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			will open the door and he will go
		
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			out.
		
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			One time
		
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			they lift him in there and they went
		
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			for shopping. And you know when women go
		
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			for shopping just like
		
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			some brothers they stay there for so so
		
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			long.
		
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			Because they like to buy
		
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			what they think they want,
		
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			not what they need. And there's a big
		
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			difference.
		
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			So they lift him in there 3, 4,
		
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			5 hours.
		
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			They didn't have car back then, so it
		
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			took them a very long time to come
		
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			back. And he was calling
		
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			upon his family to open the door for
		
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			him, and no one was answering.
		
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			For hours.
		
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			And he started to call upon
		
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			Allah He actually thought he was dead.
		
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			No one is opening for his own. He
		
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			said, That's it, I'm dead.
		
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			When they came back, they opened for
		
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			him. So he said, Alhamdulillah, now I have
		
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			the chance
		
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			to mend my ways and be a better
		
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			person.
		
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			That was really very close,
		
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			quite frankly.
		
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			So he changed his ways.
		
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			The prophet salawasalam one day in a hadith
		
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			narrated by Abu Hurair said
		
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			that one day he was passing by the
		
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			graves
		
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			and he looked at one of the graves
		
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			and said,
		
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			So the prophet said,
		
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			Who is buried in this grave? So they
		
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			said, so and so is buried here. So
		
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			the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam says that
		
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			the 2 rakas,
		
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			2 units of prayer that a person does
		
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			in this world,
		
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			is much better for this person in the
		
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			grave than this whole life.
		
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			Because of the greater work.
		
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			Whatever you take from this life to the
		
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			next life is the good deeds you do
		
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			here.
		
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			And your level in Jannah
		
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			and your place in Jannah or the hellfire
		
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			will be determined according to your actions here.
		
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			So we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
		
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			guide us
		
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			to the right way of conduct
		
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			and to help us be the servants
		
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			he wants us to be,
		
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			All of us have plans for the future.
		
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			20 years from today,
		
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			60 years from today after your retirement,
		
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			each one
		
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			of us
		
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			wishes to have a beach house
		
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			with your grandchildren children playing soccer in the
		
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			backyard, and you enjoying
		
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			whatever the things you like to do in
		
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			this life.
		
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			But in many times,
		
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			things don't work our way because things happen.
		
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			I sometimes like to watch videos on crimes
		
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			and assassinations
		
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			and different things to get
		
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			the listens
		
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			from these stories. And I look at the
		
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			people.
		
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			Like John F Kennedy, for example, a few
		
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			moments before
		
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			his death. And
		
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			if you ask him at this time, at
		
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			this moment,
		
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			a couple of minutes before his death,
		
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			what was in his mind or her mind
		
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			the person before the death? Of course, high
		
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			expectations
		
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			and big dreams,
		
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			you know,
		
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			about their life and what they would do
		
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			when they retire.
		
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			Plans for tomorrow, 10 years, 60 years. But
		
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			all of a sudden everything is taken from
		
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			them.
		
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			And they were not prepared for this.
		
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			I too wish I can
		
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			reach
		
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			the time where I can take a vacation
		
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			and retire and enjoy my life
		
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			the way I want.
		
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			But I tell you the truth, if you
		
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			have 2 children like Ismeel,
		
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			I don't think you will survive till that
		
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			date.
		
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			But we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
		
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			make it easy for us.
		
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			What should we do? The work plan you
		
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			should have.
		
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			Number 1, you should
		
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			question your own actions and decisions in this
		
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			life.
		
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			And ask yourself, am I doing the right
		
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			thing?
		
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			Why am I doing these evil things?
		
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			And what about my good actions?
		
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			Are they done sincerely
		
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			for the sake of Allah or am I
		
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			just
		
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			showing off? So the people who say he's
		
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			a journalist, he's a good god.
		
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			Think about
		
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			prioritizing your actions and your needs in this
		
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			life.
		
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			Am I doing the things that are that
		
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			should be at the top of my list
		
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			or is my list messed up?
		
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			And think about your rights and obligations.
		
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			Am I fulfilling my rights
		
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			and obligations to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
		
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			to the people? To my husband or my
		
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			wife or children or my parents?
		
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			And ask about your obligations
		
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			before you ask for your rights. Because most
		
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			of the time people do
		
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			the opposite thing.
		
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			Think about
		
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			the life in your wasiyah for example.
		
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			Your final
		
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			will and testament, you put in there what
		
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			should be done to you and your family
		
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			after your death.
		
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			Think about things that would be
		
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			very beneficial to you after your death as
		
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			stated in Hadith of the prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			Think about doing all the actions that will
		
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			benefit you in your grave
		
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			and in the lives to come.
		
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			In the hadith, the prophet says that 3
		
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			things will benefit you after you die. Everything
		
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			else
		
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			will come to an end except for 3
		
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			things.
		
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			A constant
		
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			charity,
		
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			Salakat al Jariah, or
		
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			a beneficial knowledge that benefits humanity and makes
		
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			the life easier.
		
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			And a good child or a good family
		
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			member to make Dua for you. These are
		
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			the things
		
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			that will benefit you.
		
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			And
		
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			I always like to conclude with
		
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			the words of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in
		
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			the Qudsi Hadid.
		
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			Allah says in the Hadith, Put see O
		
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			children of Adam,
		
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			whatever you'll find in your record of deeds
		
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			in the life to come
		
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			is nothing but your own actions and decisions
		
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			in this life.
		
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			So if you find something good in your
		
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			record of deeds then thank Allah for making
		
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			it easy to you. Otherwise,
		
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			there's no one to blame except yourself.
		
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			We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to guide
		
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			us to the truth
		
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			and to help us
		
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			be obedient servants to him, and 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 to
		
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			help us be sincere in everything we do
		
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			and say,
		
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			and to forgive all Muslims those who are
		
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			living and those who are dead, and and
		
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			to forgive us anything we have done by
		
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			ignorance, mistake, or forgetfulness,
		
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			and to reward us for our good deeds
		
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			according to the best of our intentions.