Nadim Bashir – Jumuah 20-09-2024

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The importance of Islam is discussed, including the use of Allah's advice and guidance, the struggles of parents and children with actions of their children, and the importance of maintaining spirituality and avoiding mistakes. The surah of Islam is emphasized, and the use of "has" in various cultures is discussed, with emphasis on avoiding sin and not giving up on one's spiritual needs. It is emphasized that people need to bring their hearts to change and not give up on their spiritual needs, and to keep brothers and sisters in prayer and not give up on their spiritual needs.

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			Allah is the Greatest, Allah
		
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			is the Greatest, Allah
		
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			is the Greatest.
		
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			I bear witness that there is none worthy
		
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			of worship except Allah I bear
		
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			witness that there is none worthy of worship
		
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			except Allah I bear
		
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			witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah
		
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			I bear witness that
		
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			Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah
		
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			Come to
		
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			Prayer, Come
		
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			to Prayer
		
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			Come to
		
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			success, Come to
		
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			success Allah
		
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			is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.
		
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			There is none worthy of worship except Allah.
		
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			In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
		
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			Merciful.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, we laud
		
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			Him, we beseech help from Him and ask
		
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			forgiveness from Him.
		
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			And we seek refuge in Allah from the
		
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			evil of our souls and from the evil
		
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			of our deeds.
		
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			Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide him, and
		
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			whosoever He declares misled, none can guide him.
		
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			And we bear witness that there is none
		
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			worthy of worship except Allah, He is alone
		
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			and has no partner.
		
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			And we bear witness that Muhammad is His
		
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			Servant and Messenger.
		
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			Allah said, I seek refuge in Allah from
		
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			the accursed Satan In the name of Allah,
		
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			Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
		
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			O you who fear your Lord, Who created
		
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			you from one soul, and created from it
		
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			its mate, and spread among them many men
		
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			and women, and fear Allah, in Whom you
		
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			ask for help and mercy.
		
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			Indeed, Allah is ever watching over you.
		
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			Allah said, O you who believe, fear Allah
		
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			as He is, and do not die except
		
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			as Muslims.
		
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			Allah said, O you who believe, fear Allah
		
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			and speak the truth.
		
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			Allah said, Allah said, May Allah Ta'ala
		
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			gather us along with our families, in Jadid
		
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			for those in A'la, in the companionship
		
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			of Rasulullah ﷺ and his Sahaba.
		
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			Ameen, Ya Rabbil Alameen.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, Imagine giving your son or
		
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			your daughter an advice.
		
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			You see them that they're doing something that
		
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			is wrong, and they're persistent in what they're
		
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			doing that is wrong.
		
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			And sometimes you will come and give them
		
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			advices very gently.
		
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			Sometimes you'll be harsh in your advice.
		
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			Sometimes you will tell them about stories of
		
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			the past, about people who did the same
		
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			sin, and what was their outcome, what was
		
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			their final outcome, what eventually happened to them.
		
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			And sometimes if something has happened in our
		
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			life to someone else, we will show them
		
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			that you see the same person was doing
		
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			the same exact thing as you were doing,
		
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			and look what they ended up.
		
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			Likewise, when it comes to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, Allah understands the nature of the
		
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			human being.
		
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			Once again, at the end of the day,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one
		
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			who created us.
		
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			He knows our mizaj, He knows our temperaments,
		
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			He knows our attitude, He knows what we
		
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			react to, He knows how we react, He
		
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			knows how we are proactive, He knows everything
		
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			about us.
		
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			He knows us more than we know ourselves.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, just like
		
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			a parent gives advices, Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala gives advices accordingly.
		
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			Sometimes those advices are very gentle advices.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is Ghafoor, Ar
		
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			-Rahman, Ar-Rahim, and so forth.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brings forward the
		
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			stories and the blessings of Jannah to tell
		
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			us what we will get if we stick
		
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			to the right path.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, at times,
		
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			He uses His harsh approach by telling us
		
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			what has He stored for us in the
		
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			fire of Jahannam if a person goes the
		
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			wrong way.
		
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			Sometimes Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will share
		
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			with us stories of the past.
		
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			That this is what Bani Israel did, this
		
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			is what the crimes of Bani Israel, make
		
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			sure you don't go down the same road.
		
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			So all over the Qur'an, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala has given us advices and
		
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			sometimes they're gentle, sometimes they're harsh, sometimes they
		
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			are, you know, too bitter to swallow.
		
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			Sometimes there are stories, but at the end
		
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			of the day, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			He cares for us.
		
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			Now what happens to that parent, going back
		
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			to the example of the parent, what happens
		
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			to that parent when he gives advices or
		
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			she as a mother is giving advice to
		
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			their son and their daughter over and over
		
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			again.
		
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			And that son or that daughter has chosen
		
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			to do what is wrong, has chosen not
		
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			to take the right advice.
		
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			What eventually happens to the parent is that,
		
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			you know what, I'm done.
		
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			There's nothing I can say, there's nothing I
		
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			can do, I have spent money, I have
		
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			taken them to counseling, I've given them all
		
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			the tools that they need to succeed, that
		
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			they can use to succeed, but they don't
		
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			want to listen, they're on their way anymore,
		
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			I can't do anything about it.
		
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			And no one can come to you as
		
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			a parent and say, you haven't done your
		
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			job.
		
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			Likewise, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given
		
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			us the Qur'an, verses of Jannah, verses
		
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			of Jahannam, stories of the past, and yet
		
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			if we, as a Muslim, as a human
		
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			being, as an individual, if I still choose
		
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			to go down the wrong path, as Allah
		
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			says in the Qur'an, سَأَصْرِفُ عَنْ آيَاتِيَا
		
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			الَّذِينَ يَتَكَبَّرُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ وَإِنْ يَرَوْا
		
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			كُلَّ آيَةٍ لَا يُؤْمِنُوا بِهَا وَإِنْ يَرَوْا سَبِيلَ
		
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			الرُّشْدِ لَا يَتَّخِذُوا سَبِيلًا They see the right
		
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			path, they're still not going to take it.
		
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			وَإِنْ يَرَوْا سَبِيلَ الْغَيِّ يَتَّخِذُهُ سَبِيلًا They see
		
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			the wrong path, they will deliberately take the
		
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			wrong path.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about these
		
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			kind of people because these kind of people
		
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			exist.
		
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			Now what do you think, in that situation,
		
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			what would Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala do?
		
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			Allah says at the end of the day,
		
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			I've given this human being the tools to
		
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			become successful, if they still want to take
		
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			the wrong path, that's on them.
		
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			We can't put this on Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala anymore, that Allah has not guided
		
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			us, Allah has not given us the Quran
		
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			to be guided by.
		
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			We can't make any more excuses on the
		
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			day of judgment before Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			No person can say that, Ya Allah, I
		
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			committed a sin, because this was written in
		
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			my qadr.
		
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			No.
		
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			Because we don't even know what's in our
		
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			qadr.
		
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			A person can come to the masjid, and
		
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			we can say that this was written in
		
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			your qadr.
		
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			Or a person can go commit a sin,
		
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			but you chose to commit the sin, the
		
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			human being chose to commit the sin, you
		
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			can't put that on Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			So in the Quran, there's a surah, and
		
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			in that surah, there's one ayah that today
		
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			I want to talk about in this khutbah.
		
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			First of all, the surah is surah al
		
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			-Hadid.
		
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			For those of you who don't know what
		
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			surah al-Hadid is, it is a surah,
		
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			the last surah of the 27th juz.
		
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			It comes after surah al-Waqi'ah, before
		
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			surah al-Mujadilah.
		
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			And in this surah, in a nutshell, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about certain people
		
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			who were disconnected from spirituality, and their entire
		
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			focus was to capture this dunya, was to
		
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			attain and run after this dunya.
		
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			And there were some people that they completely
		
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			disconnected from this dunya, and they chose a
		
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			life of abstinence, and only thing they were
		
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			focused on was spirituality.
		
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			Allah is telling us in this surah, that
		
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			as a believer, we need to choose the
		
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			right path.
		
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			We need to live in this dunya, we
		
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			need to work for this dunya, we have
		
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			a family to take care of, we have
		
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			children to take care of, we have responsibilities
		
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			to fulfill, so that is why we need
		
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			to go into this dunya.
		
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			A believer cannot sit down and say, you
		
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			know what, khalas, I have completely disconnected myself
		
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			from this dunya.
		
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			No believer can do something like that.
		
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			And anyone who does something like that, they're
		
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			absolutely wrong.
		
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			At the same time, we need to maintain
		
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			our spirituality.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, He paints
		
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			for us a picture in the Qur'an,
		
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			about people on the Day of Judgment, believers
		
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			and the munafiqun.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, that
		
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			those who are the believers, these are people
		
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			who focus on their faith.
		
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			These are people who focus on their spirituality.
		
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			Yes, they lived in this dunya, they attained
		
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			this dunya, but they made sure that the
		
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			akhira was the primary goal of their entire
		
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			life.
		
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			So Allah says that these people are gonna
		
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			be crossing over the bridge.
		
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			And I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			may Allah grant us the tawfiq to cross
		
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			over that bridge, over Jahannam with success.
		
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			But what happens is that when these believers
		
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			are passing by very quickly, the munafiqun are
		
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			standing by, and they're saying that, hold up,
		
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			hold up.
		
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			The hypocrites are telling the believers, just wait
		
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			up, you have all this nur, mashallah.
		
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			We in this dunya, we never really focus
		
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			on our spirituality.
		
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			We lived a life of disobedience, but now
		
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			today, mashallah, you have the nur, we wanna
		
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			benefit from this nur.
		
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			The believers will tell the munafiqun that, no,
		
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			we told you in this dunya, we gave
		
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			you many advices, we told you to listen
		
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			to this khutbah, that khutbah, this advice, that
		
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			advice, you didn't wanna listen, now you go
		
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			back and you find your own nur.
		
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			قِلَا رَجِعُوا وَرَاءَكُمْ فَلْتَمِسُوا النُّورَ You're not gonna
		
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			get any of our nur today.
		
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			Then at that time, these people, the munafiqun,
		
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			they will say what?
		
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			يُنَادُونَهُمْ أَلَمْنَكُمْ مَعَكُمْ They'll be told, and Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala says that there'll be
		
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			a barrier, بَاطِلُهُ فِيهِ الرَّحْمَةِ وَظَاهِرُهُمْ مِنْ قِبْلِ
		
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			الْعَذَابِ On one side, there is the rahmah
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, on the
		
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			other side where the munafiqun are, there is
		
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			the punishment of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So now these people, the munafiqun, they will
		
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			say, أَلَمْنَكُمْ مَعَكُمْ Like, come on, we were
		
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			with you, we were always with you, we
		
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			used to go to the same dawahs, we
		
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			used to go to the same masjid, same
		
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			community centers, we used to go, you know,
		
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			hanging out with each other, my kids and
		
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			your kids used to always hang out with
		
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			each other, we used to meet each other
		
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			at soccer practices and so forth, we were
		
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			always around each other.
		
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			What happened?
		
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			You were always cool, now you're acting uncool.
		
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			You know, we wouldn't benefit from your nur.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, that
		
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			the believers, they will say something to the
		
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			munafiqun.
		
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			And they will say four things to the
		
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			munafiqun.
		
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			And these are four steps, these four things
		
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			I'm gonna share with you right now from
		
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			surah Hadith, or as the ulema, they explain,
		
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			that these are the four steps to misguidance.
		
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			These are four steps that often a person
		
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			takes, and slowly and gradually, they become distant
		
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			from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			The first thing that they will say is,
		
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			yes, you were with us, but the first
		
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			thing they will say is, وَلَاكِنَّكُمْ فَتَنْتُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ
		
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			That you put yourself in fitna.
		
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			You put yourself in a situation, where your
		
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			iman will be put to test.
		
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			That means that the human being understands, that
		
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			if I'm sitting with my phone, see, we
		
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			all know our own weaknesses.
		
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			We know that there are certain places that
		
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			will trigger us to commit a sin, and
		
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			be disobedient to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			We know that there are certain people, sometimes
		
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			they are friends in most cases.
		
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			When we are around those kind of people,
		
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			most certainly we will commit a sin.
		
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			Most certainly we will be disobedient to Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			We will do things, that we are not
		
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			very proud of ourselves.
		
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			We will not want our parents to know,
		
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			we will not want our wife to know,
		
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			our kids to know, our community members to
		
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			know, our family members to know.
		
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			We will not want anyone to know.
		
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			But yet we know that if I go
		
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			and I'm around these certain kind of people,
		
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			I will fall into sin.
		
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			Yet we put ourselves in that kind of
		
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			situation, that's exactly what does, فَتَنْتُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ You
		
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			put yourself, meaning that Allah is telling us,
		
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			that we have put ourselves in a position
		
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			of fitna.
		
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			You know when you go outside and you
		
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			say, be careful of fitna, that means that
		
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			you don't put yourself in a position, where
		
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			your iman is so weak, that you are
		
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			gonna become enslaved to your desires.
		
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			So don't go to those kind of places.
		
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			But yet we choose to go to those
		
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			kind of places.
		
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			We know that being around other people may
		
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			help us stay away from a sin.
		
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			I have so many times people call me,
		
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			they are like, what do I do if
		
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			I'm always committing sins?
		
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			I told them, would you commit sins when
		
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			you are in public?
		
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			They say no.
		
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			They say, you know what, you need to
		
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			be around more people at all times.
		
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			Do not ever be alone.
		
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			When we know, when a person knows that
		
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			if I can be with my phone alone,
		
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			I can search and I can browse the
		
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			entire world, and I can also see haram
		
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			things and so forth, and I can be
		
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			talking to people that I'm not supposed to
		
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			be talking to.
		
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			I'll be talking to that girl or that
		
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			boy at night when my parents are not
		
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			even aware of.
		
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			Or even married men at times, or married
		
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			women at times, breaking and violating the sanctity
		
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			of our marriage, talking to people that we're
		
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			not supposed to be talking to and so
		
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			forth.
		
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			We are putting ourselves in a position where
		
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			we can compromise our own faith.
		
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			Allah is telling us, why are you doing
		
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			this?
		
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			This is the very first step that a
		
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			person takes when they want to go far
		
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			from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Now when a person is indulging a sin,
		
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			then what happens is that they want to
		
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			sometimes, deep down inside, they feel like that,
		
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			you know what, I need to stop this
		
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			sin.
		
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			I need to break this cycle of this
		
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			disobedience.
		
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			So what do I need to do?
		
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			The Qur'an says, the second step often
		
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			that happens is, وَتَرَبَّصْتُمْ وَتَرَبَّصْتُمْ often means that
		
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			you're hesitant.
		
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			You're hesitant of stopping that sin.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because if I stop this sin, if I
		
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			tell my buddies, I don't want to go
		
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			out with you because you don't have to
		
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			be blunt with them, but you know that
		
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			you're not able to protect your faith, you're
		
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			going to cross the limits of Allah, I'm
		
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			not going to go hang out with these
		
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			guys.
		
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			But I know that if I'm not going
		
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			to hang out with them, I don't have
		
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			any more friends.
		
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			So I need to be around them.
		
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			And yeah, I'll just probably maintain my faith
		
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			and I'll protect my faith and so forth.
		
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			But you see what happens is that when
		
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			you are hesitant of taking the right step,
		
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			then you go deeper and deeper into that
		
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			problem that eventually you cannot even get out
		
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			of that own problem.
		
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			You cannot even get out of that same
		
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			problem.
		
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			And another meaning of what تَرَبَّصْتُمْ means that
		
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			you have just decided to delay this.
		
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			You've decided to delay this.
		
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			Oh, you know what?
		
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			This sin is in my life, I'm not
		
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			very proud of it.
		
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			But it's the end of September, October is
		
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			just around the corner, just three more months.
		
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			Let December come, I'm going to get it
		
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			out of my system, it will be out
		
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			completely.
		
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			Come January, I'm going to stop the sin.
		
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			It doesn't work like that.
		
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			You can be indulging a sin so often
		
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			and then you stop cold turkey.
		
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			It doesn't work like that.
		
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			You cannot just stop and just...
		
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			It's not like a light switch that today
		
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			I'm committing the sin, tomorrow خلاص, I'm going
		
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			to stop.
		
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			There is no habit that you can break
		
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			overnight.
		
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			It doesn't happen.
		
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			So Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى says that the
		
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			very first step is that these people, they
		
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			put themselves in a position where their iman
		
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			will be compromised.
		
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			And number two is that they remain persistent
		
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			in that sin and they usually kick the
		
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			can down the road, I will fix it
		
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			later on, I will fix it later on.
		
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			I will stay away from this sin later
		
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			on.
		
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			But then the third thing that often happens
		
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			is as Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى says, وَارْتَبَتُمْ
		
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			They begin to have doubts in Allah سُبْحَانَهُ
		
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			وَ تَعَالَى.
		
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			They first of all doubt their own faith.
		
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			And usually what happens in that kind of
		
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			situation is that shaitan says, that man, you've
		
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			already committed this sin, you're already so far
		
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			away from Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى, don't try
		
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			to act too pious, just commit this sin,
		
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			get it out of your system, just enjoy
		
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			yourself, you're young and so forth.
		
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			So a person says, yeah, you know what,
		
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			why not?
		
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			So what you're doing is that you're doubting
		
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			your own progress.
		
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			You can make progress, but you're doubting that.
		
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			And not only that, but the Qur'an
		
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			also means when Allah says that he begins
		
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			to doubt, this person also begins to doubt
		
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			their own faith.
		
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			See, when people often come to me and
		
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			they say that, this person is starting to
		
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			question their faith and their iman.
		
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			You don't begin questioning your faith and iman
		
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			overnight.
		
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			There is always a cycle of sins, a
		
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			cycle of disobedience.
		
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			You're doing things one after another.
		
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			And one sin, every sin that you are
		
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			committing, or sometimes we are committing, is greater
		
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			than the previous sin.
		
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			We're used to one sin, we don't find
		
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			that challenging anymore, we want to commit another
		
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			sin, and another sin, and another sin.
		
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			And eventually what happens is, because any kind
		
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			of nur of Qur'an, of tilawa, of
		
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			salat, of dhikr, of sadaqah, of any khay
		
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			that we have done, because as the Prophet
		
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			shallallahu alaihi wa sallam says, that when you
		
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			commit a sin, there is a black dot
		
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			that appears on your heart.
		
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			And if you keep on committing sins, then
		
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			that heart becomes darkened.
		
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			And that means that there is no nur
		
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			that can enter that heart.
		
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			There is no verse of the Qur'an
		
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			that can change that person's life.
		
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			There is no hadith that can change that
		
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			person's life.
		
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			There is no janazah that can happen that
		
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			will change your life and so forth, because
		
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			your heart has become dead.
		
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			And you need to, when you see a
		
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			dead heart, you know what they do?
		
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			You know when they give shocks to that
		
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			heart, just to revive it?
		
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			That's what happens.
		
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			Now you need to give it a shock.
		
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			Now sometimes Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
		
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			put that person into such a calamity, then
		
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			that's the only way they come back to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			I've seen people who have gone so far
		
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			from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, but one
		
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			car accident changed their entire life.
		
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			You know what that was?
		
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			That was a shock from Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			So Allah then says that this person begins
		
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			to doubt their faith.
		
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			Why did Allah have to make deen so
		
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			difficult?
		
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			Like I've heard people say that Islam and
		
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			Allah takes the fun out of life, subhanAllah.
		
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			Like how can a person say something like
		
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			that?
		
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			Like every single hukm, every single law that
		
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			has come from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			is for our own protection purposes.
		
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			Is to look after us.
		
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			Allah knows what's good for us, Allah knows
		
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			what's bad for us.
		
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			Allah wants us to succeed in this dunya,
		
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			Allah wants us to become successful in the
		
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			akhirah.
		
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			And yet we're saying things such as that
		
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			Islam is taking away the fun out of
		
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			my life.
		
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			Islam is not taking away the fun out
		
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			of your life.
		
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			You wanna commit sins, you think that that's
		
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			freedom, whereas that's slavery.
		
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			But we call that freedom in our society.
		
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			And the slavery to Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala, this is actually freedom which we don't
		
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			understand.
		
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			And we're saying that Islam is taking the
		
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			fun.
		
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			This is where a person begins to doubt
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Then they start to read in the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			And they start taking the verses of the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			And they try to start interpreting the Qur
		
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			'an to the way they like it.
		
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			To fit their needs, to fit their agenda,
		
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			to fit their nature.
		
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			They don't wanna change themselves.
		
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			But they wanna change the Qur'an to
		
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			fit their lifestyle.
		
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			And then they start to raise objections about
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Why does Allah do this?
		
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			Why does Allah do that?
		
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			The Qur'an tells us very clearly, when
		
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			people go far away from their salat, and
		
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			they follow their desires.
		
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			Leaving salat in itself, will lead you to
		
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			following your desires.
		
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			And when you become a slave, when we
		
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			become slaves to our desires, then khalas, we
		
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			forget about Allah.
		
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			And then, either you are a slave, either
		
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			we are the slaves of Allah, or we
		
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			become a slave to our desires.
		
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			And often a person becomes a slave to
		
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			their desires, when they don't take the right
		
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			path.
		
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			So Allah then says, finally the last thing
		
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			that often happens is, وَغَرَّتْكُمُ الْأَمَانِ The hopes
		
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			are endless.
		
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			The hopes are endless.
		
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			And that is when a person will come
		
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			and say, you know what, I'm committing a
		
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			sin.
		
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			I'm living a life of sin.
		
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			I don't pray, I don't do this, I
		
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			don't do that.
		
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			There's coming so many violations.
		
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			And you know what, I cannot stop the
		
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			sin.
		
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			So I'm keep on going on.
		
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			But you know what their last resort is?
		
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			That don't you know brother, Allah loves me
		
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			more than my mother.
		
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			Allah is غفور رحيم.
		
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			Don't you know Allah is غفور رحيم?
		
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			Allah will forgive me, no doubt.
		
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			And then they will start quoting all the
		
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			ahadith regarding Allah's rahmah, and Allah's mercy and
		
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			so forth.
		
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			And we forget.
		
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			We often forget.
		
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			Just as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
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			الغفور الرحيم, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
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			شديد العقاب also.
		
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			The same Allah who created a jannah, the
		
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			same Allah who created a jahannam also.
		
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			There's reward and there's consequences.
		
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			So this is what we need to realize
		
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			that we cannot just keep on living a
		
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			life of sin.
		
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			Because think about it, this idea that let
		
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			me just sin over and over again, Allah
		
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			is غفور رحيم, Allah will take care of
		
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			it.
		
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			What's the difference between that Muslim and a
		
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			Christian then?
		
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			Because a Christian says what?
		
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			That I can do whatever I want to
		
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			do today because Jesus Christ has died for
		
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			my sins.
		
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			That's what they say.
		
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			I can do whatever I want because Jesus
		
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			Christ died for my sins.
		
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			That's no different in one way that this
		
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			idea that Allah is غفور رحيم is giving
		
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			you a free pass to do whatever you
		
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			want.
		
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			وَغَرَّتْكُمُ الْأَمَانِينَ They have all these big hopes
		
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			that Allah will forgive them.
		
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			Yes, if Allah wants to forgive them, that's
		
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			between them and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			But you cannot live a life of sin,
		
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			deliberately sinning every single day, and then saying
		
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			Allah is غفور رحيم.
		
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			It does not work like that.
		
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			That's why in our deen, there's something called
		
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			خوف and رجاء.
		
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			There's something called fear of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, and there's something called having hope
		
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			in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			You cannot just have one and not have
		
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			the other.
		
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			The Muslim is always between خوف and رجاء.
		
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			Umar al-Khattab radiyallahu anhu said, that I
		
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			have so much خوف of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, that if everyone was gonna go
		
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			to Jannah, and only one person is gonna
		
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			go to Jahannam, I fear that that person
		
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			who's gonna go to Jahannam is me.
		
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			And on the other hand, I have so
		
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			much hope in Allah, that if everyone is
		
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			gonna go to Jahannam and only one person
		
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			is gonna go to Jannah, I have that
		
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			much hope in Allah that that person would
		
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			be me to go to Jannah.
		
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			A person has to always be between خوف
		
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			and رجاء.
		
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			And then eventually Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			says, if a person is living that kind
		
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			of lifestyle, وَغَرَّكُمْ بِاللَّهِ الْغَرُورِ Eventually the time
		
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			comes, حَتَّى جَاءَ أَمْرُ اللهِ What does أَمْرُ
		
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			الله mean?
		
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			The hukam of Allah, the order of Allah.
		
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			It means that death comes upon this person.
		
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			And they leave this dunya in a way
		
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			that they are disobedient to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			Allah is telling us, do not live that
		
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			kind of life.
		
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			Allah is warning us, the very first step
		
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			is that you put yourself in that position
		
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			of sin.
		
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			Don't do this to yourself.
		
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			Stop yourself.
		
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			Control yourself.
		
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			This is what Allah is telling all of
		
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			us.
		
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			So this is what we need to do.
		
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			And this is what's mentioned in the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			And many ulama they say that these are
		
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			the four steps to either to misguidance, or
		
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			the four steps for a person to become
		
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			a munafiq and a hypocrite in the eyes
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that
		
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			He protect us.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us
		
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			the tawfiq to stay away from sins.
		
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			And if we are involved in any kind
		
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			of sin, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala to get us and to give us
		
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			the tawfiq to get out of that sin
		
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			and come closer to His obedience.
		
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			أَمِن رَبَّ الْعَالَمِينِ بَارَكَ اللَّهُ لَنَا وَلَكُمْ فِي
		
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			قُلْآنِ عَظِيمٍ وَنَافَعَنَا وَإِيَّاكُمْ مَا تَوَذِّقْ لِلْحَكِيمِ
		
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			أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهُ لِي وَلَكُمْ وَلِي سَائِدِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فَاسْتَغْفِرُوا
		
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			إِنَّهُ الْغَفُورُ الرُّحِيمُ بِسْرِ اللَّهِ
		
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			الرُّحِيمِ وَنَسْتَغْفِرُوا وَنَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ شُرُورِ أَنفُسِنَا وَمِنْ
		
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			سَيِّئَةِ عَمَالِنَا مَنْ يَهْدِهِ اللَّهُ فَلَا مُضِلَّ لَهُ
		
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			وَمَنْ يُغْذِرْ فَلَا هَادِيَ لَهُ وَنَشْتُغْ أَنْ لَا
		
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			إِلَهَ إِلَى اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَنَشْتُغْ
		
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			أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبُّدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَمَّا بَعْدُ Not the
		
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			next ayah, but the ayah after that.
		
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			It's a very beautiful verse of Surah Al
		
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			-Hadith.
		
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			In fact, this verse, many ulema of the
		
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			past, many people of the salaf, they have
		
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			written that this ayah in itself was the
		
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			means of them changing their life.
		
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			What is that ayah?
		
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			Allah says, أَلَمْ يَأْنِنِ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَن تَخْشَعَ
		
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			قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ Has a time not come
		
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			yet.
		
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			You know like we say like, come on,
		
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			wake up, smell the coffee, wake up, stop
		
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			dreaming.
		
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			So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, has
		
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			a time not come yet?
		
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			Like how many advices do you need?
		
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			How many verses of the Qur'an do
		
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			you need for you to change your life?
		
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			Has a time not come yet?
		
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			أَن تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ That your heart
		
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			comes closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			It's aware of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			due to the remembrance of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			Like you are hearing about Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala, so your heart needs to come
		
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			back to the Almighty.
		
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			Has a time not come yet?
		
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			أَن تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنَ
		
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			الْحَقِّ And the fact that Allah has revealed
		
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			the truth to you, is that not enough
		
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			for you?
		
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			And then Allah says, وَلَا يَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا
		
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			الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبَلٍ فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَمَدِ فَقَصَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ
		
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			There are people of the past who came,
		
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			they did not take the lesson, they never
		
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			took a lesson from the messages of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and as a result
		
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			their hearts became hard.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, this is the worst thing
		
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			that can happen to anyone of us.
		
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			If our hearts become so hard, that no
		
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			verse of the Qur'an, no story in
		
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			the community, no sudden death in our family
		
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			or community members, will change our life, then
		
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			the question is that we have done something
		
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			so wrong, that we have gone so far
		
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			from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, that we
		
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			need to be given shocks at this time
		
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			right now.
		
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			Our hearts need to be given a spiritual
		
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			shock.
		
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			And that is why in times like these,
		
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			we need to come back to Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			It takes time.
		
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			You cannot be a person...
		
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			A lot of times, I'm gonna finish on
		
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			this inshallah.
		
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			There are times when people are living in
		
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			such a life of sin, and then they
		
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			feel like that, I've come back to the
		
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			majlis just for one day, two days, one
		
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			week, one month, and I should be a
		
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			changed person.
		
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			It does not work like that.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala took 23 years
		
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			to reveal the Qur'an.
		
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			The lesson behind that, is that it takes
		
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			time to bring a change in your life.
		
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			You cannot expect a change in one week,
		
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			one month.
		
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			You have to give it years and years.
		
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			The sahaba themselves, they took so many years
		
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			in order to build their faith and their
		
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			iman.
		
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			So this is why it is important.
		
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			Take day by day, but come back close
		
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			to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and make
		
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			sure that we don't do anything that we
		
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			put ourselves in fitna in any kind of
		
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			situation.
		
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			I ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
		
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			grant all of us tawfiq.
		
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			May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grant us
		
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			hearts that are closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala create in
		
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			our hearts a dislike for disobedience of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala create in
		
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			our hearts the love of the a'mal, the
		
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			good, that will bring us closer to Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala create in
		
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			our hearts the love of the a'mal, the
		
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			good, that will bring us closer to Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala create in
		
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			our hearts that will bring us closer to
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			ومن قلب لا يخشع ومن نفس لا تشبع
		
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			ومن دعاء لا يستجاب.
		
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			I once again want to remind everyone and
		
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			myself that always keep our brothers and sisters
		
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			of Palestine in your duas at all times.
		
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			And not just only our brothers and sisters
		
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			of Palestine and Gaza, but all over the
		
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			world.
		
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			Wherever our Muslim brothers and sisters are oppressed,
		
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			may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala aid them
		
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			and give them nusrah and give them fath.
		
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			أمين رب العالمين.
		
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			إن الله يؤمن بالعدل والإحسان وإيتاء ذي القربة
		
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			وينهار الفحشاء المنكر والبغء.
		
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			يعيذكم لعلكم تذكرون.
		
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			فاذكروني أذكركم.
		
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			واشكروني ولا تأكلون.
		
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			أقيم الصلاة.
		
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			الله أكبر.
		
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			الله أكبر.
		
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			لا إله إلا الله.
		
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			So make sure the lines are straight, fill
		
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			in the gaps, and turn off your cell
		
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			phones.
		
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			الله أكبر.
		
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			الحمد لله رب العالمين.
		
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			الرحمن الرحيم.
		
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			مالك يوم الدين.
		
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			إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين.
		
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			إهدنا الصراط المستقيم.
		
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			صراط الذين أنعمت عليهم.
		
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			غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الضاهر.
		
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			آمين.
		
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			إذا جاء نصر الله والفتح ورأيت الناس
		
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			يدخلون في دين الله أفواجا فسبح بحمد ربك
		
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			واستغفره إنه كان توابا.
		
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			الله أكبر.
		
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			سمع الله لمن حمده.
		
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			الله أكبر.
		
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			الله أكبر.
		
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			الحمد لله رب العالمين.
		
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			الرحمن الرحيم.
		
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			مالك يوم الدين.
		
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			إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين.
		
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			إهدنا الصراط المستقيم.
		
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			صراط الذين أنعمت عليهم.
		
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			غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الضاهر.
		
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			آمين.
		
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			قل هو الله أحد.
		
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			الله صمد.
		
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			لم يلد ولم يولد.
		
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			ولم يكن له كفوا أحد.
		
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			الله أكبر.
		
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			سمع الله لمن حمده.
		
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			الله أكبر.
		
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			الله أكبر.
		
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			السلام عليكم
		
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			ورحمة الله.