Nadim Bashir – Worship That Will Change You

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The importance of finding inner peace and finding inner peace in life is emphasized, as it is crucial for personal well-being. The speaker discusses the need for people to see the peace in their life and not just focus on past experiences. The importance of finding happiness and avoiding negative behavior is also emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the need for everyone to work on their relationship with Allah and for everyone to understand the situation. The pandemic and COVID-19 pandemic have also affected people's lives, causing struggles for their loved ones and the need for everyone to work on their relationships.

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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			grant him a place in Jannah.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make this
		
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			journey of the akhira an easy one for
		
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			him and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			give his family sabra jameel.
		
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			And as he has gathered us here today
		
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			on this day of Jum'ah, may Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala gather us along with
		
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			our families in Jadal for Daws al-A
		
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			'la, And as he has gathered us here
		
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			today on this day of Jum'ah, may
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gather us along
		
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			with our families in Jadal for Daws al
		
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			-A'la, In the companionship of Rasulullahi ﷺ
		
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			and his Sahaba Amin Rabbal Alameen.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, as the new year began,
		
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			we heard so many times that make your
		
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			new year's resolution.
		
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			This is the time to reconnect with the
		
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			things that you have or we have perhaps
		
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			left out.
		
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			And when it comes to a believer, we
		
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			always are trying to look for opportunities to
		
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			come back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And I say this, that if it comes
		
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			to a new year and a person says
		
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			that, you know what, I'll make sure that
		
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			in 2025, I'll make sure that this year
		
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			is better than last year.
		
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			I'll make sure that my connection with Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala is better than my
		
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			connection with Allah last year.
		
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			And I'll make a more sincere and concentrated
		
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			effort to come close to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			If a person has that mentality, that mindset,
		
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			there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
		
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			We always are looking for opportunities to turn
		
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			our life around.
		
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			And when it comes to our purpose of
		
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			life, our purpose of life is to worship
		
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			Allah, to recognize Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			That is what our purpose of life is.
		
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			And when a person goes away from the
		
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			purpose of life, a person becomes useless.
		
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			A person becomes useless.
		
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			In fact, if you look at anything around
		
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			in your own house, imagine if you bought
		
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			a printer to print out sheets from your
		
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			computer.
		
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			It was bought for a purpose.
		
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			But if that printer is no longer serving
		
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			its purpose, what do we generally do with
		
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			that printer?
		
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			Do we keep it there in our homes?
		
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			No, we pick it up and we throw
		
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			it away in the garbage because it becomes
		
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			useless.
		
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			Likewise, the purpose of our existence on the
		
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			faceless earth is to worship Allah.
		
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			And as some ulema and even some sahaba
		
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			radiallahu ta'ala anhum, they explained the verse,
		
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			وَمَا خَلَقَتُ الْجِنَّ وَلْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ They say
		
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			that this is not only about worshiping Allah,
		
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			but it's about recognizing Allah.
		
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			It's about having the awareness of Allah everywhere
		
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			we go.
		
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			To have this mindset that Allah is watching
		
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			me wherever I am.
		
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			And therefore, if I fear anyone, then I
		
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			need to remind myself that Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala is watching.
		
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			So today inshaAllah in this khutbah, I want
		
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			to go through the concept of ibadah.
		
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			But there are four important things, four important
		
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			points inshaAllah I'm going to make in this
		
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			khutbah, related to the subject of ibadah.
		
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			Point number one, when it comes to ibadah,
		
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			ibadah provides a type of peace.
		
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			And it also provides mental well-being.
		
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			See, you know when you go to many
		
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			psychologists today, people who are struggling with their
		
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			mental health, they go to a psychologist, and
		
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			the psychologist or the counselor will say, that
		
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			I want you to sit down every single
		
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			day and disconnect yourself from everything, and I
		
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			just need you to sit down and reflect.
		
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			Well, this is exactly what we do in
		
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			salat.
		
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			If a person is actually standing in salat,
		
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			or they're engaged in ibadah, even if you
		
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			are reading, you're sitting down, not even actually
		
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			praying salat, but you're saying subhanAllah, and you
		
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			have a tasbih in your hand, you're saying
		
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			subhanAllah, alhamdulillah, allahu akbar, you have the Qur
		
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			'an in front of you open, and if
		
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			you're taking your time, this is the key
		
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			thing, you're taking your time, there's no rush,
		
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			wallahi you'll find a type of peace that
		
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			today majority of the people are deprived from.
		
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			If you sit down, if you stand in
		
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			salat, and you're reading the Qur'an, and
		
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			you know exactly what you're reading, you know
		
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			the meaning of Fatiha, you know the meaning
		
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			of the story, and the nuances of the
		
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			surah that you are reciting, or you're sitting
		
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			down and reading Qur'an, and as you're
		
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			reading Qur'an, you're reflecting on the story.
		
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			Imagine if you're reading a novel, brothers and
		
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			sisters, and you've already read that novel before,
		
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			and as you're coming along, you know exactly
		
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			where the story is going, and you're just
		
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			expecting it, and you're finding it just entertaining,
		
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			likewise when you sit down with the Qur
		
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			'an, and you read the story, and you
		
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			see how the Qur'an is structured, wallahi
		
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			you'll find it entertaining, you'll find within yourself
		
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			this zeal, and this wantingness, that I want
		
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			to keep on going deeper and deeper in
		
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			the Qur'an.
		
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			Or even if you're sitting down, and you're
		
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			reciting subhanAllah, what is the meaning of subhanAllah,
		
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			and you're reciting Alhamdulillah, and you're reflecting on
		
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			the meaning of Alhamdulillah, and Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Ibadah actually does provide that inner peace that
		
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			you and I, we are looking for in
		
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			our life.
		
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			Unfortunately today, we are trying to find that
		
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			inner peace in other places, where it probably
		
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			does not exist.
		
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			When you look at the life of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, to help you understand this, go
		
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			back to the early days of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ was persecuted.
		
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			His Sahaba were persecuted.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because they simply said, لا إله إلا الله.
		
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			As a result, in order to make things
		
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			easy, for the Sahaba رضي الله تعالى عنهم,
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ, he sent a group of
		
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			Sahaba to Habsha, to Abyssinia, to migrate over
		
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			there, and to settle over there, and practice
		
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			their deen in peace.
		
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			While they're sitting over there in Habsha, in
		
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			peace, Rasulullah ﷺ being the community leader, he
		
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			still stayed in Makkah.
		
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			And he's still going through the persecution.
		
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			And he's watching his own Sahaba, his own
		
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			followers, his own loyal people being persecuted.
		
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			But during this entire ordeal, what was Rasulullah
		
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			ﷺ doing in order to bring peace into
		
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			his heart?
		
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			Because at the end of the day, he's
		
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			a human being, just like you and I.
		
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			When he sees this over and over again,
		
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			a man needs peace in their life.
		
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			So where was Rasulullah ﷺ finding that peace?
		
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			I'll tell you where he was finding that
		
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			peace.
		
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			He was finding that peace at night in
		
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			Qiyamul Layl.
		
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			He was finding that peace when he was
		
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			communicating with Allah ﷻ.
		
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			When everyone is asleep, he ﷺ was awake,
		
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			and he was conversing with Allah.
		
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			And this was something that we find very
		
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			common with the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			In fact, one day, it is mentioned that
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ, he sat down, and he
		
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			lied down right next to Aisha, our mother
		
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			رضي الله عنها.
		
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			And he said that, if it's okay with
		
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			you, I want to engage tonight with Allah
		
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			ﷻ.
		
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			And our mother رضي الله عنها, she said
		
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			that, Ya Rasulullah, if this is what brings
		
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			you peace, and this is what makes you
		
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			happy, then this will make me happy too.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ, he engaged in ibadah
		
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			the entire night.
		
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			Till the morning came that Bilal رضي الله
		
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			عنه came, and he called out the adhan.
		
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			And what is mentioned in the riwayah was
		
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			that you could see a small puddle that
		
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			was formed as a result of the tears
		
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			of Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			I mean, this is a man who is
		
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			forgiven.
		
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			A man that Allah ﷻ is pleased with.
		
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			Yet he did so much.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because these Sahaba and the Prophet ﷺ, they
		
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			found that peace in the salat.
		
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			Today you and I, when we pray salat,
		
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			today you and I, when we read our
		
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			adhkar, even something simple as, Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, Allahu
		
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			Akbar.
		
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			We don't do it with reflection.
		
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			We just do it in a hurry.
		
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			How often do we send our peace and
		
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			blessings upon Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			Subhanallah, Subhanallah, Subhanallah.
		
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			No, do it with reflection.
		
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			Take a little time, and wallahi you will
		
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			see the peace in your life.
		
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			You will see how much peace it does
		
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			provide you.
		
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			If it did provide peace to the people
		
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			of the past, nothing has changed in terms
		
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			of the regimen.
		
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			It is the same adhkar, the same Qur
		
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			'an, the same salat.
		
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			So then why is it not providing peace?
		
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			It's not that the salat is problematic, or
		
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			the tasbih is problematic, or the Qur'an
		
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			is problematic.
		
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			It's we who are problematic.
		
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			And we try to rush through this.
		
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			This is why I remember my teacher, he
		
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			used to say, it was a very common
		
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			thing to say at that time, just expressing
		
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			how people used to pray salat, and they
		
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			would just express this, up, down, turn around,
		
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			touch the ground, and back to town.
		
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			This is how our salat is.
		
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			Up, down, turn around, touch the ground, and
		
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			back to town.
		
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			That's how it was.
		
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			So when we pray our salat, when we
		
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			do our adhkar, make sure we do it
		
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			with time, with humility, reflect on it.
		
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			And wallahi, it will provide you a kind
		
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			of peace, that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			has guaranteed that peace.
		
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			But you and I, we don't do it
		
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			the correct way.
		
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			And when we don't find peace in our
		
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			salat, when we don't find peace in the
		
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			adhkar, when we don't find peace in the
		
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			Qur'an, we don't blame ourselves.
		
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			The very first one that we often blame
		
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			is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So this is the very first thing when
		
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			it comes to ibadah.
		
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			The second thing that we need to understand
		
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			about ibadah is, brothers and sisters, we often
		
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			talk about good character, good morals.
		
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			And this is something that our deen has
		
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			heavily emphasized upon.
		
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			In fact, we find stories such as a
		
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			woman, who was a devout worshiper, but she
		
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			did not make any concentrated effort to improve
		
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			her character, her morals.
		
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			And as a result, the Prophet ﷺ said,
		
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			that this ibadah of hers is of no
		
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			good, because it's not changing her.
		
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			It is not making her a better person.
		
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			Why do you think the Prophet ﷺ said
		
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			this?
		
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			Because the objective of worship to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala is that it makes you
		
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			a better person at the end of the
		
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			day.
		
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			It builds up more humility in your life.
		
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			It builds up more courage in your life.
		
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			It builds more patience in your life.
		
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			It builds more gratitude in your life.
		
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			And this is why I want you to
		
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			reflect on this ayah I'm gonna share with
		
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			you from Surah Al-Furqan.
		
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			It's a very beautiful, there's two verses, but
		
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			they both go hand in hand.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَعِبَادُ الرَّحْمَٰنِ
		
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			الَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ هَوْنًا وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ الْجَاهِلُونَ
		
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			قَالُوا سَلَامًا Allah is talking about the characteristics
		
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			of those who are very close to Allah.
		
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			So he says that the sign, and one
		
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			of the signs that you can tell that
		
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			they are close to Allah is, that they
		
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			walk on the face of earth with the
		
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			utmost amount of humility.
		
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			They are very very humble.
		
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			And this is something that we need to
		
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			understand and I'm not gonna go into this
		
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			right now, but if there is an iota
		
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			amount of takabbur in our hearts, that we
		
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			are superior and I am better and so
		
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			forth, then this is problematic too.
		
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			Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, takabbur is
		
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			a given right of Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			No one can have...
		
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			Allah is al-mutakabbir.
		
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			There is no one else who can claim
		
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			that same status as Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			So anyone who has that takabbur in their
		
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			heart, this is something that belongs only to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because takabbur, as
		
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			Allah says He is mutakabbir, what does that
		
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			mean?
		
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			He is the law giver.
		
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			There is no one else who can set
		
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			the laws besides Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And He is the most superior of course.
		
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			So the concept is that these kind of
		
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			people when they walk on the face of
		
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			earth, they are absolutely humble.
		
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			And not only that, but even when they
		
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			come across people who are ignorant in life,
		
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			what do they do?
		
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			Do they engage and they battle ignorance with
		
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			ignorance?
		
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			No, the Qur'an says, they simply walk
		
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			away saying assalamu alaikum and they just walk
		
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			away.
		
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			They don't engage with ignorant people.
		
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			Imam Shafi'i rahmatullahi alayhi says that, if
		
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			there was ever I would lose a debate
		
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			with anyone, it was an ignorant person.
		
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			I could never win a battle or an
		
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			argument with an ignorant person.
		
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			So the Qur'an says that these are
		
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			the kind of people who they are.
		
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			But then what did He say about them
		
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			at night?
		
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			Listen to this very carefully brothers and sisters.
		
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			وَالَّذِينَ يَبِيطُونَ لِرَبِّهِمْ سُجَّدًا وَقِيَامًا These are the
		
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			kind of people who engage in ibadah at
		
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			night.
		
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			And the ulema they say, that is this
		
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			ibadah, this ibadah that he does at night,
		
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			he engages with Allah that has given him
		
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			the ability to develop this kind of character
		
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			that during the day he is humble and
		
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			if he comes across an ignorant person, then
		
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			he just simply walks away, he does not
		
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			engage.
		
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			So the ulema they're saying that this akhlaq,
		
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			that this person has is as a result
		
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			of his ibadah at night.
		
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			So brothers and sisters, this is what ibadah
		
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			does to a person.
		
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			It brings within a person this humility, this
		
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			gratitude, and this is something that we find
		
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			even once again from Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			Going back to the same story I just
		
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			shared with you about him spending the entire
		
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			night in the worship of Allah.
		
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			When someone came to the Prophet ﷺ after
		
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			that and said that, Ya Rasulullah, why do
		
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			you do so much?
		
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			Why?
		
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			What was his response?
		
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			أَفَلَا أَكُونَ عَبَدًا شَكُورًا Should I not become,
		
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			should I not be a grateful slave to
		
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			Allah ﷻ?
		
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			The question is, this understanding of being grateful
		
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			to Allah, showing our gratitude to Allah, what
		
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			is that a result of?
		
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			It is a result of the ibadah that
		
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			a person does.
		
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			So when a person engages with Allah, Allah
		
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			ﷻ gives him the ability that he stays
		
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			away from these kind of things.
		
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			And that is why, actually he develops a
		
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			positive characteristics, but the salat also helps him
		
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			stay away from things that are considered as
		
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			immoral, things that are not right.
		
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			And this is also found in the Qur
		
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			'an when Allah says, إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ تَنْهَى عَلَى
		
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			الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنْكَرِ Salat has this capacity to stop
		
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			a person from doing sins, committing immoral acts.
		
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			Now a person may say that, well I
		
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			pray salat, and I still do things that
		
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			are wrong, then how, you know, make some
		
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			sense out of this.
		
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			And the ulema they say that it's simple,
		
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			probably your salat is not at the level
		
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			where it needs to be.
		
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			Or our salat is not there at the
		
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			level where it needs to be, where it
		
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			can stop us from committing fahsha.
		
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			Because if our salat was there, there's nothing
		
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			wrong with the promise of Allah.
		
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			When Allah says in the Qur'an that
		
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			this is the power of salat and ibadah,
		
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			that means that there's something wrong with our
		
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			salat.
		
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			There's nothing wrong with the principles of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So this is number two.
		
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			Number three that we need to understand when
		
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			it comes to ibadah, it is that it
		
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			is a source of bringing us closer to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And that means brothers and sisters, that no
		
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			matter what situation we're going through in life,
		
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			there could be issue after issue, challenge after
		
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			challenge.
		
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			The question is, what is that one thing
		
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			that we can do that we can seek
		
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			the help of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			and that is through ibadah.
		
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			And the best thing that we find in
		
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			the life of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And before I go into the story, I
		
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			want you to first of all understand, in
		
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			the life of the Prophet ﷺ, there was
		
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			a year known as عام الحزن.
		
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			You know when a person is going through
		
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			some challenges, and in fact if you see
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ, Khadijah passed away, Abu Talib
		
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			passed away, they passed away within the span
		
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			of around a month and a half to
		
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			two months.
		
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			Now someone could have said that these were
		
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			the two months of grief for the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			But no, that's not what is mentioned in
		
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			the seerah.
		
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			It is mentioned عام الحزن.
		
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			عام الحزن means a year of sorrow.
		
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			Meaning that for the Prophet ﷺ, there was
		
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			setback after setback after setback.
		
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			And for how long?
		
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			For a year.
		
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			It's called the year of عام الحزن.
		
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			Of course later on Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala did bring relief to the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			when He took him to Isra wal Mi
		
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			'raj.
		
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			But when He took him to Al-Isra
		
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			wal Mi'raj, what did He give to
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ?
		
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			Did He give him a pill?
		
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			That you take this and your problems will
		
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			go away?
		
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			No, He gave him five times daily salat.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is watching the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ going through struggles in his life.
		
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			What did He give him as a solution,
		
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			as a prescription?
		
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			He gave him the five times daily salat.
		
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			Jibreel ﷺ came to the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ comes back at the time
		
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			of Fajr.
		
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			At that day, at Dhuhr time, Jibreel ﷺ
		
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			comes and he prays Dhuhr at the beginning
		
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			of Dhuhr time, and Asr at the beginning
		
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			of Asr time, and Maghrib, and Isha, and
		
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			Fajr, all at the beginning time.
		
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			The next day he comes, and he prays
		
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			each of these prayers, Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib,
		
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			Isha, and the next day Fajr after that,
		
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			all at the end times.
		
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			And he says that these are the times
		
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			of salat for you and for your ummah.
		
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			Meaning that this is where we will find
		
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			that solace.
		
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			When the Prophet ﷺ was in Ta'if,
		
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			and he is being stoned, his feet is
		
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			covered with blood.
		
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			At that time, what did he do?
		
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			He prayed salat.
		
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			He turned to Allah ﷻ in ibadah.
		
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			So this is why whenever we find ourselves
		
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			setback after setback in life, and this happens
		
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			to many of us.
		
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			You get out of one problem, another problem
		
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			presents itself, and you feel like that you
		
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			cannot catch a break in life.
		
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			Well, this is the time we turn to
		
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			Allah ﷻ in our salat.
		
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			But let me make this one thing clear
		
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			also, brothers and sisters, because you and I,
		
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			we have a very big misunderstanding when it
		
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			comes to ibadah, and that brings me to
		
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			point number four.
		
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			Point number four is, that when it comes
		
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			to ibadah, our ibadah is not transactional.
		
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			See, you can go to a store, you
		
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			can give money and buy a product.
		
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			You pay money, you get a loaf of
		
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			bread.
		
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			It's simple as that.
		
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			When it comes to our relationship with Allah,
		
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			many of us are under this mindset and
		
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			assumption that I pray salat, I read Qur
		
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			'an, I do dhikr.
		
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			Why is Allah doing all this to me?
		
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			So then what does the person do?
		
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			He's like, you know what?
		
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			I'm not gonna pray salat anymore.
		
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			I'm not gonna read Qur'an anymore.
		
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			I'm not gonna do dhikr anymore.
		
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			If this is what Allah is doing to
		
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			me, I'm gonna do this back to Allah
		
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			ﷻ.
		
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			And we need to understand, once again, when
		
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			it comes to our relationship with Allah, our
		
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			relationship with Allah is not transactional.
		
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			This is our purpose of life.
		
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			Even if Allah brought upon us challenges for
		
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			the rest of our life, and may Allah
		
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			never bring that upon us.
		
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			And may Allah ﷻ help us in our
		
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			affairs.
		
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			I mean, Rabbul Alameen.
		
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			But even brothers and sisters, I want you
		
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			to understand.
		
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			We all need to understand this.
		
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			Even if Allah brought upon us challenges after
		
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			challenges, no person can say that, you know
		
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			what?
		
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			This is unfair.
		
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			Why is Allah doing this to me?
		
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			Why is Allah doing this to me?
		
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			In fact, you know how many stories I've
		
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			heard also?
		
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			That where, like for example, there's an issue
		
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			between, you have a lot of parents, for
		
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			example.
		
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			Parents keep on coming to their children, pray
		
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			salat, pray salat, pray salat.
		
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			And a lot of times the youth, the
		
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			kids, they get always like, they get worked
		
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			up about it, they get tired about it,
		
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			man.
		
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			My parents, they keep on nagging at me,
		
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			they keep on nagging at me, pray salat,
		
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			pray salat, pray salat.
		
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			So you know what happens a lot of
		
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			times?
		
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			When there's an issue between the parents and
		
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			the children, a lot of times the children
		
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			are gonna be like, you know what?
		
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			You want me to pray salat?
		
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			I'm not gonna pray salat.
		
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			Because me not praying salat is gonna hurt
		
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			you.
		
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			You're not gonna like it.
		
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			Well, to our young brothers and sisters, who
		
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			feel like that you're causing any kind of
		
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			pain to your parents, because if you're not
		
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			praying salat, listen this very carefully, you're only
		
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			hurting yourself.
		
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			You are hurting yourself, you're not hurting your
		
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			parents.
		
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			Your parents are gonna be a little upset
		
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			that you're not praying salat.
		
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			But ultimately, you are hurting yourself.
		
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			Because when you use the ibadah, when you
		
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			use Qur'an, when you use dhikr, when
		
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			you use salat as a weapon, I mean
		
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			think about, what do you think about Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala?
		
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			What do you think Allah thinks of us
		
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			when we weaponize ibadah, when it comes to
		
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			other people, when it comes to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala?
		
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			Yet how many of us, when it comes
		
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			to our relationship with Allah, you know what?
		
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			I'm gonna leave it.
		
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			Well, guess what?
		
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			Allah does not need our ibadah.
		
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			There's a hadith of Qudsi, where Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala says, يَا عِبَادِي لَوْ أَنَّ
		
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			أَوَّلَكُمْ وَآخِرَكُمْ وَإِنسَكُمْ وَجِنَّكُمْ If the first of
		
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			you and the last of you, and the
		
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			men and the jinn and the human race,
		
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			كَانُوا عَلَى أَتْقَى قَلْبِ رَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ مَا زَادَ
		
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			ذَٰلِكَ فِي مُلْكِ شَيْئًا Even if the entire
		
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			world comes together, and they become the most
		
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			righteous, this does not increase in the majesty
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Unlike other governments.
		
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			Imagine if the entire, on the flip side,
		
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			Allah says in the hadith of Qudsi, يَا
		
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			عِبَادِي لَوْ أَنَّ أَوَّلَكُمْ وَآخِرَكُمْ وَإِنسَكُمْ كَانُوا عَلَى
		
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			أَتْقَى قَلْبِ رَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ مَا زَادَ ذَٰلِكَ فِي
		
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			مُلْكِ شَيْئًا Even if everyone were to turn
		
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			wicked, and they were to turn rebellious against
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this does not
		
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			affect Allah in any capacity.
		
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			If a person says, you know what, Allah
		
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			is doing this to me, I'm not gonna
		
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			praise Allah anymore.
		
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			Buddy, you're not doing anything harmful to Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			You're only hurting yourself.
		
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			You are putting yourself in danger.
		
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			You are showing your arrogance, we are showing
		
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			our arrogance to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			How do we expect Allah to then to
		
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			help us?
		
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			When you look at a government, if the
		
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			entire government, or when you saw even last
		
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			time, when there was a change of power,
		
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			we saw what happened in January 6th, Capitol
		
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			Hill and so forth.
		
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			How many people they came and they stormed
		
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			the Capitol building?
		
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			And we saw what happened.
		
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			And it got out of hand and so
		
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			forth.
		
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			Some of them may have died and so
		
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			forth.
		
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			And there was cases after this that took
		
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			place.
		
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			People who were in prison and so forth.
		
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			This is not the case when it comes
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			If the entire world turn rebellious against Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, it will not affect
		
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			Allah in any capacity.
		
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			So this is why brothers and sisters, our
		
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			relationship with Allah is not transactional.
		
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			It is our purpose of life.
		
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			We have to worship Allah whether we like
		
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			it or not.
		
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			And if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
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			bringing a challenge upon us, I remember one
		
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			time, I was sitting down with my teacher,
		
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			he said something interesting.
		
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			He said, that sometimes in life, you want
		
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			something so bad.
		
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			You want something so bad.
		
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			But Allah in His infinite wisdom knows that
		
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			if He gave you that, then the way
		
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			you are making dua to Allah, the way
		
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			you are so submissive to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, that level of submissiveness will be
		
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			depleted from your life.
		
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			It will be gone from your life.
		
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			Perhaps Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows within
		
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			His own infinite wisdom that this is not
		
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			good for you.
		
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			But we keep on asking Allah and when
		
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			we don't get it, we weaponize the ibadah.
		
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			And we use ibadah as a weapon.
		
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			And once again, we need to understand that
		
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			this is the wrong approach when it comes
		
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			to ibadah.
		
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			I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			grant all of us tawfiq to come closer
		
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			to Him through ibadah.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make our
		
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			Quran recitation more meaningful.
		
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			May Allah make our ibadah meaningful.
		
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			May Allah make our salat more meaningful.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make our
		
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			Quran recitation more meaningful and more impactful in
		
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			our life.
		
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			بارك الله لنا ولكم في قرآن عظيم ونفعنا
		
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			وإياكم بالذكر الحكيم استغفر الله لي ولكم وليسار
		
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			المسلمين فاستغفروا إنه هو الغفور الرحيم بسم
		
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			الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه ونستغفره
		
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			ونعوذ بالله من شرور أنفسنا من سيئات عمالنا
		
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			من يهديه الله فلا مضل له ومن يضل
		
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			فلا هادي له ونشتغل لا إله إلا الله
		
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			وحده لا شريك له ونشتغل محمدا عبده ورسوله
		
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			أما بعد I want to conclude with a
		
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			quote that I came across of Imam Shafi
		
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			'i رحمة الله عليه Imam Shafi'i رحمة
		
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			الله عليه was a great, in addition to
		
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			him being a great scholar of Quran, of
		
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			Hadith, of Fiqh and so forth but one
		
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			of the other things that many of us
		
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			are not aware of Imam Shafi'i was
		
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			that he was a great poet and there's
		
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			a very beautiful quote of his I want
		
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			to share with you He says دعي الأيام
		
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			تفعل ما تشاء وطيب نفسا إذا حكم القضاء
		
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			Let the days pass as they may and
		
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			you be content when the fate decrees its
		
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			way ولا تجزع لحادثة الليالي فما لحوادث الدنيا
		
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			بقاء Do not despair when there are nights
		
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			when you're going through troubles and trials because
		
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			nothing in this dunya is eternal وكن رجلا
		
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			على الأهوال جلدا وشيمتك السماحة والوفاء Be steadfast
		
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			and upright in the face of calamity and
		
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			let generosity and loyalty be your way of
		
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			life إذا ما كنت ذا قلب قنوع فأنت
		
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			ومالك الدنيا سواء If your heart is content
		
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			with what Allah has decreed then you and
		
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			any other king are on the same page
		
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			and you're both equal So this is a
		
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			very beautiful quote once again Imam Shafi'i
		
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			talking about the struggles of this dunya and
		
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			how we need to keep on coming back
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and especially
		
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			at the very end he says that if
		
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			a person is content with what Allah has
		
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			given you might be living in a small
		
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			home but the person who is considered as
		
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			the king or the president whoever it is
		
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			you're on the same page Why?
		
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			Because he has found content with what he
		
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			has but you have found content with the
		
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			qadr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala May
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us from
		
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			amongst His ibad May Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala take us from this dunya when He
		
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			is most pleased with us أمين رب العالمين
		
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			اللهم انسوا اسلام والمسلمين اللهم انسوا اسلام والمسلمين
		
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			في كل مكان اللهم انسرنا على من خالفنا
		
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			واحفظ بلادنا وأصلح أولادنا واشف مرضانا وعاف مبتلانا
		
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			وارحم موتانا واخذ بأيدينا إلى كل خير وعاصمنا
		
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			من كل شر واحفظنا من كل ضير اللهم
		
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			قسم لنا من خشتك ما تحول به بين
		
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			معصيتك ومن طاعتك ما تبلغنا به جنتك ومن
		
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			يقين ما تهون بي علينا مصائب الدنيا ومتعنا
		
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			بأسماعنا وأبصارنا وقواتنا ما أحيتنا واجعله الوارث منا
		
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			واجعل ثأرنا على من ظلمنا وانسرنا على من
		
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			عادانا ولا تجعل مصيبتنا في ديننا ولا تجعل
		
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			الدنيا أكبر همنا ولا مبلغ علمنا ولا إلى
		
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			النار مصيرنا ولا تصلت علينا من لا يرحمنا
		
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			اللهم إنا نسلك علما نافعا وعملا متقبلا ورزقا
		
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			واسعا وشفاءا من كل دا اللهم إنا نعوذ
		
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			بك من علم لا ينفع ومن قلب لا
		
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			يخشع ومن نفس لا تشبع ومن دعاء لا
		
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			يستجاب أهل والعالمين إن الله يأمر بالعدل والإحسان
		
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			وإيتاء ذي القربى وينهى الفحشاء المنكى والبغ يعيذكم
		
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			لعلكم تذكرون فاذكروني أذكركم واشكوري ولا تكفرون أقن
		
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			الصلاة brothers
		
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			inside the multiverse hall please come inside the
		
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			main hall brothers
		
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			in the back two rooms please make sure
		
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			the rows are straight and complete brothers in
		
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			the lobby area please make sure the rows
		
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			are straight الله أكبر الله أكبر أشهد أن
		
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			لا إله إلا الله أشهد أن
		
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			محمدا رسول الله حي على الصلاة
		
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			حي على الفلاح قد قامت الصلاة قد
		
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			قامت الصلاة الله أكبر الله أكبر لا
		
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			إله إلا الله لا إله إلا الله الحمد
		
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			لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم مالك يوم الدين
		
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			إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين إهدنا الصراط المستقيم صراط
		
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			الذين أنعمت عليهم غير المغدوب عليهم ولا الظلم
		
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			قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقُ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا خَلَقُ
		
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			وَمِنْ شَرِّ غَاصِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبُ وَمِنْ شَرِّ النَّفَّاثَاتِ
		
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			فِي الْعُقَدِ وَمِنْ شَرِّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدُ الله
		
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			أكبر الحمد
		
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			لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم مالك يوم الدين
		
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			إياك نعبد وإياك نستعيم إِهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ صِرَاطَ
		
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			الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا
		
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			الضَّالِّينَ قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ
		
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			النَّاسِ مَلِكِ النَّاسِ إِلَهِ النَّاسِ مِنْ شَرِّ الْوَسْوَاسِ
		
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			الْخَنَّاسِ الَّذِي وَسْوِسُ فِي صُدُورِ النَّاسِ مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ
		
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			وَالنَّاسِ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ سَمِعَ اللَّهُ
		
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			لِمَنْ حَمِدَهُ السلام
		
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			عليكم ورحمة الله السلام عليكم ورحمة الله استغفر
		
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			الله استغفر الله استغفر الله