Nadim Bashir – Surah Summaries #10 Surah Yunus – Divine Decree, Dar us Salam, and Instability of this Dunya

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The Surahiva themes include the importance of choosing one's path based on faith and knowledge, the story of the past, and the need for responsibility to take responsibility for oneself. The speaker emphasizes the importance of investing in the duniya to avoid loss and potential peace in the future, and the need to take responsibility for oneself to achieve success. The Surahiva also highlights the importance of learning to live life consistent with Islam's teachings.

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			Inshallah, we continue our series
		
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			taking 1 surah at a time inshallah in
		
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			order
		
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			and just trying to present an overview of
		
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			what the Surah
		
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			is, and then choosing one important lesson from
		
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			that Surah inshallah.
		
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			Today's Surah is Surah Yunus.
		
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			And Surah Yunus is one of the Maqi
		
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			Surahs that come,
		
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			after a a slew of Madani Surahs. You
		
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			have Surah Baqarah, Al Imran, Nisa, Ma'ida,
		
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			and so many Madani Surahs, and now you
		
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			have some Maqi Surahs that are gonna be
		
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			coming up. And you have Surah, you have
		
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			Surah Yunus, you have Surah Houd, and then
		
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			you have Surah Yusuf. And even in the
		
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			time of the Prophet
		
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			these were 3 Surahs that were revealed back
		
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			to back,
		
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			in their early days. Some happened in the
		
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			early days of Mecca, some happened a little
		
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			later, but they're all 3 were revealed in
		
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			Mecca.
		
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			Surah Yunus, as you all know, that the
		
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			Maqi Surahs, their themes are very consistent across
		
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			the board. It is about Tawhid,
		
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			it is about,
		
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			Risala,
		
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			it is about Aqira,
		
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			and these are the 3 most important topics.
		
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			And not only that, but nations of the
		
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			past
		
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			that the O'odos were very familiar with, such
		
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			as Qom 'A'id, Qom Islam,
		
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			and so forth. But there's one important,
		
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			a very different take when it comes to
		
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			Surah Yunus.
		
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			And the ulama they mentioned that it is
		
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			not just about iman
		
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			and akhirah that Allah
		
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			is emphasizing on, but Allah
		
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			is taking a little different of our approach,
		
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			and he's emphasizing on
		
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			He is emphasizing on
		
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			which is also part of our deen and
		
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			part of our faith system. As you remember,
		
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			when the prophet
		
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			he was approached by Jibril alaihis salam in
		
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			the very well known hadith of hadith of
		
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			Jibril alaihis salam, wherein he asked that, what
		
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			is Islam?
		
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			He asked, what is iman? And Rasulullah
		
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			he mentioned, what is iman? And at the
		
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			end of that response he says,
		
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			is to believe in Allah
		
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			The qadr and the qaddah of Allah
		
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			And everything is from Allah
		
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			However,
		
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			however,
		
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			we all understand that though the qawah and
		
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			qadr is there, Allah
		
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			has given us
		
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			a full control of what we do. There
		
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			is a difference between humans and animals.
		
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			There's a difference, and there's a reason why
		
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			humans, the human being is gonna be questioned
		
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			on the day of judgement, and and the
		
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			animals are not gonna be questioned on the
		
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			day of judgement.
		
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			Angels on one hand, they only have one
		
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			thing called obligations.
		
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			Animals on the other hand, they only have
		
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			one thing called free will. And that is
		
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			why these are 2 creations that are not
		
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			gonna be questioned on the day of judgement.
		
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			On the other hand, the
		
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			and the they both have both things. They
		
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			have obligations
		
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			and they have free will. Though Allah
		
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			has already written
		
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			everything that has that is going to happen,
		
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			but Allah
		
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			put the choice in our hands that we
		
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			get to choose what is right for us,
		
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			and we get to make decisions.
		
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			Allah has given us intellect, and
		
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			Allah has given the human being a special
		
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			status
		
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			because of their knowledge, and because of their
		
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			intellect. So no one can make an excuse
		
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			on the day of judgment that, You Allah,
		
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			your your The fact that you had already
		
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			written for me, that I'm going to Jannah
		
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			or Jahannam, This is why I am in
		
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			Jannah or Jahannam. But rather Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala gave us the power to choose
		
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			our own path of life.
		
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			When we studies When you talk about
		
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			another important component is that we understand that
		
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			Allah is Al Hakim.
		
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			And we have that iman and Allah that
		
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			he is the most wise, and when he
		
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			does something, he knows exactly what he's doing.
		
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			And that is why
		
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			in the same surah, in the very beginning,
		
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			the very first ayah, Allah
		
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			he mentions
		
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			about exactly this. That Allah
		
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			he
		
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			is he is Al Hakim.
		
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			So Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, aliflamra
		
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			tilkaayatulkitabil
		
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			Hakim.
		
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			And at the end of the surah,
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala he brings hikmah in
		
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			the beginning. He brings hikmah at the end
		
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			of the surah. Hence Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is saying that everything happens to the wisdom
		
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			of Allah. Allah has created a system, but
		
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			at the end of the day, Allah has
		
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			given us, you and I, the choice.
		
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			In this surah, you will see that Allah
		
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			in the very beginning, he talks about why
		
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			he created everything in the skies and the
		
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			earth. And there's a hikmah and a wisdom
		
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			of this behind
		
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			of this, of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. After
		
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			that, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala interestingly he says,
		
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			about the people of Mecca, he says
		
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			Allah has sent down the Quran. But Allah
		
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			is saying that these people in Makkah,
		
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			the reason
		
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			why they are ghafil,
		
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			they are heedless from the ayat of Allah,
		
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			is not because the qaba and the qadr
		
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			of Allah,
		
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			but rather it's because of their own choosing.
		
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			They chose this dunya
		
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			over the akhirah.
		
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			They're not even worried about the fact that
		
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			they have to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			one day. They have no idea or they
		
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			don't even realize that they have to stand
		
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			before
		
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			Allah on the day of judgement. So this
		
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			is not something
		
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			that Allah can be blamed for, but rather
		
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			they need to take the blame. They need
		
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			to take the responsibility
		
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			that they chose this dunya over the akhilah,
		
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			and they chose dunya over the book of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Also we find in the same surah, in
		
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			many places that Allah
		
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			he talks about duniya. Allah
		
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			in the same surah, again he talks about
		
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			his
		
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			he talks about his creation, and he he
		
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			steps away from that, and again he comes
		
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			back to the same idea
		
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			that how he has created everything.
		
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			Then, in the same surah, Allah
		
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			challenges
		
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			the mushrikun.
		
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			Allah
		
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			challenges them. That first of all is that
		
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			how can you How can you even think
		
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			that this is such a hard concept for
		
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			Allah
		
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			that he sent Rasulullah
		
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			Why is this so baffling to you? That
		
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			a man who was within your own midst,
		
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			and you knew him, you knew he was
		
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			Sadiq Al Amin, he was Sadiq Al Masdook,
		
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			and now you have a problem, and you
		
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			have a problem with the decision of Allah
		
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			that he made him a prophet, why is
		
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			it so difficult for you to understand?
		
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			Not only that, he was amongst your selves,
		
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			and he was just a layman, and you
		
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			had no problem. And not only that, but
		
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			you have a problem with the fact that
		
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			we gave him the Quran, we gave him
		
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			the book of Allah
		
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			and you have a problem with the Quran
		
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			in itself, and you're trying to take out
		
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			mistakes from the Quran,
		
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			If this is what you wanna do, go
		
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			ahead. Try to replicate the Quran.
		
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			Allah is challenging
		
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			the kuffar of Makkah. That if you think
		
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			that the Quran is something that is,
		
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			you know, trivial, it is not so difficult
		
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			to make Come up with, then go ahead.
		
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			Try to come up with 1 single surah
		
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			to to try to,
		
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			discredit the Quran.
		
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			We also then find at the end of
		
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			this surah, very beautifully, there's only 3 stories
		
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			are mentioned of the past. And you have
		
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			to ask yourself,
		
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			why these three particular Surah, or stories in
		
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			the Quran, or in this Surah? There is
		
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			a story of Nuh alaihis salam. There is
		
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			a story of Firaun and Musa alaihis salam.
		
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			And then we have the story of Yunus,
		
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			because fittingly,
		
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			if it's called Surah Yunus, then of course
		
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			it has to have the story of Yunus
		
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			alaihis salam. There's only 3 stories of the
		
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			past mentioned in this Surah.
		
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			The question is, why?
		
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			And once again,
		
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			these these three stories, they tie into
		
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			It ties back to the overall theme of
		
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			the Surah. How so? Let me explain.
		
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			The story
		
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			of someone can say that Allah
		
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			had already destined that they are to go
		
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			to the fire of Jahannam. Allah had already
		
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			destined that Allah will destroy them. Yes, Allah
		
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			may have destined this, but they chose this
		
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			path of theirs. We know from the stories
		
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			of the Quran, that the When the very
		
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			first civilizations
		
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			that started
		
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			and developed the idea of, of idol worshiping
		
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			was the Qawm and the people of Nuh
		
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			alaihis salam. These are the people who started
		
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			this idea, and it continue into human civilization.
		
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			So Allah
		
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			is saying that these people, they chose their
		
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			own path.
		
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			Their destruction cannot be put on the shoulders
		
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			of Allah but
		
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			they chose this path for themselves.
		
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			Then you have the story of Firaun, and
		
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			someone can say that what about Firaun? Firaun
		
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			took his shahada.
		
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			Why didn't
		
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			Allah accept his shahada? Why didn't Allah
		
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			accept his iman and his faith? Perhaps, again,
		
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			we come back to the same discussion of
		
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			al Qadawal Qadr. And here Allah
		
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			had destined that this person is gonna go
		
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			to the fire of Jahannam, and he took
		
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			his faith. Then how do you answer that?
		
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			And the easy simple answer is is that
		
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			that
		
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			Firaun
		
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			did not take his shahada out of his
		
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			own desire.
		
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			Firaun did not take his shahada because he
		
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			actually had conviction
		
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			in Allah and in the message of Musa
		
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			alayhis salam. But rather he took his shahada
		
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			because of fear.
		
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			Because of fear, when he saw
		
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			This was such an arrogant man, by the
		
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			way.
		
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			When the seas parted,
		
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			he was telling his own army that, look
		
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			at my power. Look at my pudra. This
		
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			is what I can do. Till the very
		
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			end, when there was no fear involved, he
		
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			kept on thinking that he is dharab, and
		
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			he is the perhaps the only tyrant, the
		
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			only arrogant in the Quran that is mentioned
		
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			that he called himself a malik, an an
		
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			ilah, an arab. He has mentioned all these
		
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			things 3 things about
		
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			himself. Then when the time came that he
		
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			saw that the situation
		
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			was beyond his control, and he has no
		
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			more control anymore, that is when he took
		
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			his shahada. And by the way, the condition
		
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			of a shahada,
		
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			as we all know, even in the Quran
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			You have to believe in the unseen. That
		
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			is why Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
		
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			that even there comes a point in a
		
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			man's life
		
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			that when he begins to see the reality,
		
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			his tawba is no longer accepted.
		
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			His tawba is no longer accepted.
		
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			When a person begins to see the reality,
		
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			the doors of Tawbah are closed. This is
		
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			a person who never accepted Islam, and iman
		
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			Bil Ghaib. He took iman Bil Mushahada. And
		
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			that is why the ulamaadi say that Allah
		
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			knows within his infinite wisdom because he is
		
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			the all wise that had Fir'awn saved, was
		
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			saved in that situation.
		
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			Again, he would have claimed to be a
		
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			rub, and a malik, and an ilah. And
		
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			that is why Allah destroyed
		
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			them. And then you you have the story
		
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			of Yunus alaihis
		
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			salaam.
		
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			Say that well, Allah had destined for them
		
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			to be saved. Yes, Allah had destined for
		
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			to be saved. But you look at their
		
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			story, and when they saw that Yunus alaihis
		
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			salam had gone away, and they saw the
		
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			storm of Allah
		
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			coming. They saw the adav Allah coming,
		
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			they turned to Allah at that time. And
		
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			Allah accepted their tawba. Allah accepted their tawba.
		
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			And by the way, this is one qom
		
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			that Allah
		
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			saved. And these were not people like Bani
		
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			Israel.
		
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			That Allah saved them, and they turned they
		
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			they transgressed against Allah. Barad Qaumuny Yunus was
		
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			a home
		
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			that they they saw the adav Allah coming,
		
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			they made tawba, and after Allah forgave them
		
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			and Allah saved them, they never transgressed again.
		
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			Again, against Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They never
		
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			went back to their old ways. So this
		
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			is what we find in this in this
		
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			surah. Once again, the overarching idea is
		
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			And the And once again Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala is trying to tell us that every
		
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			single There are a lot of things in
		
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			this dunya that we may not understand the
		
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			hikmah of, but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
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			Al Hakim, number 1. Number 2 is, that
		
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			all these oms and nations of the past,
		
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			including the the people of Makkah, if they
		
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			have an ending, a certain ending, it is
		
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			not the it's not to be put on
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, but they need to
		
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			take a responsibility for themselves.
		
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			Now having knowing a a good understanding or
		
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			a brief idea of what this whole surah
		
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			is, just wanna take one in particular
		
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			example from this surah that Allah mentions.
		
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			Allah
		
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			talks to us about this duniya,
		
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			and the feebleness of this dunya. How weak
		
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			this dunya is. Allah says,
		
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			Allah gives the example of this duniya, and
		
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			he says, it is like the water that
		
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			comes from above.
		
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			And it goes in, and it and it
		
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			penetrates into the ground.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			says that as a result of this water
		
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			penetrating into the ground, it sprouts
		
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			vegetations,
		
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			and vegetation that benefits other people. But Allah
		
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			says, there comes a time that when a
		
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			person, the farmer, he plants and their vegetation
		
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			is The the earth is is forth giving,
		
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			that a person says that now I am
		
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			in control of the situation.
		
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			I have full control over my land, and
		
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			he thinks that my life is good, and
		
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			everything is under control. And he forgets about
		
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			Allah
		
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			Allah then says,
		
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			Allah
		
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			says, There comes a time our command comes,
		
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			and as a result of our command,
		
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			everything becomes stubble. The entire That land that
		
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			used to be so forth giving, it becomes
		
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			stubble. And you have to ask yourself that
		
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			why did Allah give this kind of example?
		
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			Because of the farmer. Because the farmer,
		
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			he plants a seed, and he wastes throughout
		
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			the entire year for that seed to sprout.
		
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			These are people who make money at just
		
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			few times of the year. So you invest
		
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			time, you invest your energy, and you put
		
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			so much into this land. And this land
		
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			does give a little. But when a person
		
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			forgets about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah is
		
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			saying that Allah takes away everything. That all
		
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			this hard work that a person has put
		
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			in
		
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			overnight,
		
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			overnight
		
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			without even people realizing, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			he takes everything away.
		
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			Like as if it never even existed yesterday.
		
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			You know what, if a tornado came through
		
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			a place,
		
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			and it went through It swept through a
		
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			land, or piece of land, you can at
		
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			least tell that something was here yesterday. Allah
		
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			is saying that at times, Allah will destroy
		
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			something
		
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			to the extent that you came there the
		
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			next day, and after even months years of
		
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			plantation,
		
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			you will feel like as if nothing existed
		
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			over here. This is how much Allah
		
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			can destroy a person's land. And Allah will
		
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			take away someone's dunya. And then Allah
		
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			says, this is what duniya is. We work
		
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			so hard for this duniya, and all of
		
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			a sudden, overnight,
		
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			the stock the stock market crashes. A person
		
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			loses all their money. And a situation occurs
		
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			around the world from a from a From
		
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			an economic perspective, and a person loses so
		
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			much money. We see this kind of thing
		
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			happen. The bitcoin going up and down and
		
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			so forth. It goes up, our heart rate
		
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			goes up. It goes down, our heart rate
		
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			goes down. This is what the situation is
		
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			of this dunya. Allah is telling us, no
		
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			matter how much you think you are in
		
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			control of your affairs,
		
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			you have absolutely no control over your affairs.
		
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			Allah is in control of your affairs. And
		
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			Allah then says, let me call you to
		
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			something. Let me invite you to something that
		
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			is long lasting. Let me invite you to
		
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			something that's gonna be that's going to bring
		
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			peace to your heart and to your life.
		
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			Let me call you to Allah
		
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			Let me call you to Jannah, a place
		
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			where there is no fear. You don't have
		
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			to worry about the stock market. You don't
		
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			have to worry about what the situation is
		
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			because the reality of this dunya is whatever
		
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			happens around us, it affects our life. In
		
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			Jannah, that is not the case. So Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala is reminding us in this
		
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			in this verse, in this few verses, brother
		
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			and sisters, that yes, we live in this
		
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			duniya. Yes, we work for this duniya. Yes,
		
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			we are affected by our surrounding,
		
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			but when we put too much into this
		
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			duniya,
		
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			when we put so much into this duniya,
		
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			and then later on we feel that, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			I have a good understanding of the stock
		
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			market, I'm this smart and that smart, and
		
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			I know this and I know that. Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, you have nothing.
		
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			And you don't know anything. This is the
		
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			reality of this duniya. And if there's one
		
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			thing that we can invest into, and an
		
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			investment
		
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			that we will never ever suffer a loss
		
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			at, it is the hereafter.
		
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			That is an investment that no person will
		
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			ever suffer, insha Allah, in the hereafter. So
		
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			I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that he
		
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			makes us from amongst those who focus on
		
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			the hereafter. That while we're living in this
		
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			duniya, we use this duniya to to the
		
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			extent that we need, but we ask Allah
		
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			to make us amongst those whose focus is
		
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			not his dunya, and that of the