Nasser Barnes – Masjidut Taqwa Port Elizabeth Jumuah

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The speakers discuss the importance of settling for Islam and avoiding sin during upcoming months' celebration. They emphasize the need to change one's ways to be more responsible, forgiveness, and remorse. The importance of settling for Islam and avoiding sin is emphasized, as it is the only time one can see the light of their deen. The speakers also emphasize the need to focus on forgiveness and remorse, and to make sure everyone refuses to commit sin. They encourage participants to participate in a boot camp for reciting the ADU and participate in a new education facility.

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			Beloved brothers and sisters in Islam, respected
		
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			seniors, respected for church, respected for
		
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			love and youth,
		
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			beloved listeners and viewers. Assalamu
		
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			alaykum
		
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			We begin the name of Allah,
		
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			and we sing salutations in our prophet,
		
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			and alhamdulillah,
		
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			we thank Allah,
		
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			and we thank our beloved Hafid Adam Karoliya
		
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			for the beautiful pira. May Allah continue to
		
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			bless him with years ahead of servicing the
		
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			Ummah. Ameen.
		
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			Beloved brothers and sisters in Islam, it is
		
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			indeed an honor and privilege for us
		
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			in Mashrul Taqwa
		
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			and the community of Port Elizabeth
		
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			and Utineaq
		
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			to welcome our guest speaker today, walhamdulillah,
		
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			Sheikh Nasir Barnes from Cape Town.
		
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			Sheikh Nasir Barnes
		
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			is part of the ulama
		
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			and teachers visiting the city for the Association
		
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			of Muslim Schools Arabic Conference, which is currently
		
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			taking place in our city, and he is
		
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			representing
		
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			his institution in Cape Town, alhamdulillah.
		
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			But, Sheikh Nasser, alhamdulillah,
		
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			has completed
		
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			studies in Al Azur, Egypt,
		
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			and then he went on to study at
		
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			Madinah University, Jammi Islamiyah.
		
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			It was there at Jammi Islamiyah that I
		
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			had the honor of meeting him,
		
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			and our friendship started.
		
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			Sheikh Nasr, we are almost
		
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			friends for 20 years, alhamdulillah.
		
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			Next year is our anniversary, so you can
		
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			give me a gift, inshallah.
		
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			Sheikh Nasr, alhamdulillah,
		
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			is a teacher, Arabic teacher, and he's the
		
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			department at Darul Arakam in Cape Town. He
		
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			is also a member of the Muslim Judicial
		
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			Council.
		
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			From Adena University, he graduated from Kuwait Dawa
		
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			Usuluddin, the faculty of Dawa.
		
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			And in Cape Town, he now continues to
		
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			teach at various institutes,
		
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			and he's also the imam of the Bluedown
		
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			Islamic Society, Masjid.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			First and foremost, we thank and praise Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, our nourisher, our sustainer.
		
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			We put our salaams and salutations. We pledge
		
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			our allegiance.
		
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			I will show our loyalty to our beloved
		
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			Nabi Muhammad
		
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			and we beg of our almighty Allah to
		
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			grant his beloved
		
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			to intercede both for you and I on
		
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			the day of the day of the Yamah.
		
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			Allah
		
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			is the best of judges. We ask that
		
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			Allah grant his beloved to be our lawyer,
		
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			the best of lawyers in the day of
		
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			the Yamah.
		
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			Thirdly, after praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, putting
		
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			salawatullah,
		
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			the norm and the custom of each and
		
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			every Muslim
		
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			is that we show gratitude towards Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala,
		
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			and that we are grateful for the favors
		
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			that Allah
		
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			has bestowed upon us.
		
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			And we can never count the favors of
		
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			Allah
		
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			We know that's impossible,
		
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			but the last favor is Allah has granted
		
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			us life to be alive on a blessed
		
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			day, the day of tomorrow.
		
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			And at this moment,
		
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			in the measure of Allah,
		
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			a house of Allah,
		
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			that's a favor.
		
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			And we ask that Allah make us of
		
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			his grateful servants so that they may always
		
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			increase that favors upon us.
		
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			And then we also ask Allah, Subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, Ahmed, by Allah grant that this be
		
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			the life changing Jumuah in our lives. Allah
		
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			grant when we enter the Muhammad, Ahmed, Jagan,
		
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			whoever.
		
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			Allah grant when we leave, we leave a
		
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			better Muslim, a better Mohammed, a better Ahmed.
		
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			And Allah grant that whatever aya we hear,
		
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			just remind us from Allah. Whatever hadith we
		
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			hear, remind us from Rasulullah.
		
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			The question we ask ourselves
		
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			is what is holding me and you back?
		
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			What is the reason
		
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			that we're not moving forward
		
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			individually?
		
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			Why is that? That when we know at
		
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			the start of Islam,
		
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			Islam was given to us on a silver
		
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			platter but on a high note.
		
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			Why is it now that we're in charge
		
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			and we're responsible for our deen? We see
		
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			it is dropping.
		
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			May Allah protect us, and may Allah guide
		
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			us. The question is again,
		
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			in this holy in this month of Rajab,
		
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			one of the sacred months,
		
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			in Sahih Bukhari on the authority of Abu
		
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			Hurairah
		
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			What is?
		
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			The custom in Jahiliya
		
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			is whenever they had a a a camel
		
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			or a sheep or a goat that was
		
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			born in this month, then they used to
		
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			slaughter that animal to an idol
		
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			to show the blessedness of this month of
		
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			Rajab,
		
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			to highlight this, to slaughter to an idol,
		
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			to show barakah
		
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			and blessings from the idols during this month
		
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			of Rajab.
		
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			May Allah grant us true understanding.
		
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			And if these people did this in Jahiliya,
		
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			when Rasulullah
		
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			came, he then taught us this is not
		
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			how we celebrate Rajab.
		
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			Let's fast.
		
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			Let's change.
		
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			Let's
		
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			switch off that fan.
		
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			Turn off that fan.
		
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			And which fan are we referring to? That
		
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			same fan that is holding me and you
		
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			back for all these years. May Allah grant
		
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			us through understanding.
		
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			When the month of Ramadan dawns upon us,
		
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			that same night when we sight the moon,
		
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			we're very excited.
		
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			What we should realize
		
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			that shaitan is chained up.
		
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			That would then mean that we're supposed to
		
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			change our ways if we've been blaming shaitan
		
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			for every wrong that we've been doing every
		
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			day.
		
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			But what
		
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			why is it people are still capable
		
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			and able to send during this month of
		
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			mercy
		
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			to the month of Ramadan
		
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			because they haven't switched off the fan.
		
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			That what
		
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			you know, when we switch off the fans,
		
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			that the fins doesn't stop immediately. The blades
		
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			doesn't stop immediately.
		
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			As you switch it off from the switch
		
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			and you turn it off, you see the
		
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			blade still turning and turning and spinning until
		
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			it eventually slows down.
		
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			When the month of Rajab comes,
		
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			we need to stop bad habits.
		
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			Now we're switching off the fan. And when
		
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			the month of Ramadan comes and those blades
		
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			has come to a complete stop, now it's
		
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			only for you and I to gain rewards
		
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			one day after the other. May Allah grant
		
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			us to understand. Say, Amin.
		
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			Someone's tongue here is mustajab.
		
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			When we say, Amin to duas, malaika
		
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			coincides and also says, Amin, Allah accept the
		
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			dua.
		
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			May Allah grant us true understanding.
		
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			When reminders again come, we're now in this
		
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			month of Rajab.
		
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			We need to change ourselves
		
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			because Allah
		
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			tells us
		
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			Allah
		
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			says, don't be like those people.
		
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			When reminders come, they turn a blind eye.
		
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			When reminders come, they ignore Allah
		
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			They forget Allah
		
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			commands and laws or even the And
		
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			Allah tells us what will happen.
		
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			But in fact, they only forget themselves.
		
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			They will also be forgotten under
		
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			the Just as you didn't take note today,
		
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			they will also not be taken note of
		
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			on the day of
		
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			Who are
		
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			they? Those are the ones who are sinners,
		
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			transgressors the wicked ones. For Allah granted we're
		
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			not be of them.
		
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			Why are we mentioning this?
		
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			Very soon, insha'allah,
		
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			when we sight the moon for the month
		
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			of Ramadan,
		
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			we're all gonna be so excited and happy.
		
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			And this is why I started out when
		
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			I said, we must be grateful Allah granted
		
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			us life because don't for 1 minute assume
		
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			that each and every one of us will
		
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			be here when Ramadan comes.
		
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			We buried people this morning, yesterday,
		
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			and it will continue.
		
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			And the people have lost Ramadan
		
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			to someone next time.
		
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			Like you and I perhaps think, inshallah,
		
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			maybe the next one. When Allah
		
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			told
		
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			us,
		
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			I'm not your you'll we we could hear
		
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			a lot of that insha'Allah if Allah spares
		
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			us.
		
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			But the point of the ayah is, Allah
		
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			says Ramadan fasting has been prescribed upon you
		
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			like nations before you.
		
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			I don't want us to look at nations
		
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			before us.
		
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			Just look at our own Ramadan from last
		
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			year, 5 years,
		
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			6 years, 10 years ago.
		
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			Look at our own Ramadan from before
		
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			and then we will see.
		
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			Did I improve this Ramadan? Did I improve
		
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			last year's Ramadan? Did I improve? Did I
		
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			recite 1 khatam in 2010?
		
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			Now in 2011, 2 khatams, etcetera. Was there
		
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			improvement?
		
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			So instead of looking at nations before, let
		
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			us start looking at our own. May Allah
		
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			grant us true understanding
		
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			and we ask again,
		
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			What's holding us back from reaping full benefits
		
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			from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala?
		
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			In the time that we have, we mentioned
		
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			2 quick things inshallah,
		
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			In order to move forward, in order to
		
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			draw Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's mercy, just remember,
		
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			the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
		
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			there every day. When the month of Ramadan
		
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			comes, Allah increases
		
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			us. We should be there in order to
		
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			do as much of the mercy and forgiveness
		
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			from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But we see
		
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			the Ummah going slowly backwards
		
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			regressing,
		
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			retarding
		
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			and reversing.
		
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			Why? Because each and every individual's
		
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			iman plays a major role for the upliftment
		
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			and development of our deen of Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala. So step number 1, we want
		
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			to move forward and we want to switch
		
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			off that fan today.
		
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			The first thing
		
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			Allah
		
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			tells us the importance of tawbah.
		
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			Repentance.
		
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			Why repentance?
		
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			Because whenever we seek speak about doing good,
		
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			we think of salah, we think of Quran
		
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			recitation.
		
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			We want to increase in giving sadaqa. We
		
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			want to increase in helping each other. We
		
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			want to increase in doing good.
		
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			But on the flip side, we're forgetting, we're
		
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			also increasing sin.
		
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			If I were to ask who doesn't
		
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			commit sin, we also say, we're all guilty
		
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			of it.
		
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			But when last did you and I
		
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			make tawba?
		
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			What Tawbah Tan Nasuha?
		
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			A type of Tawbah where Allah doesn't erase
		
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			from a books of deeds with an eraser.
		
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			Allah tears out that entire page.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us,
		
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			And this is not for everyone.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
		
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			Those of you who believe,
		
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			Come on.
		
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			Make tawba, repent, come back to Allah
		
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			But if you and I didn't make tawba
		
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			recently or we can't remember the last time
		
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			we made tawba, then is Allah says,
		
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			those of you who have iman.
		
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			May Allah make us of people of iman,
		
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			and may Allah grant us now to make
		
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			October.
		
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			Amin.
		
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			Allah
		
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			had a conversation with Nabi Musa alayhi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			Look at the harms and the dangers of
		
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			sin.
		
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			When Nabi Musa
		
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			had his dialogue was kalimullah to speak to
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells Nabi Musa,
		
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			Allah tells Nabi Musa, Yeah, Musa. The first
		
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			to disobey Nasuni Iblis.
		
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			Allah
		
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			tells Nabi Musa the very first of my
		
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			generation that have died is Iblis.
		
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			I mean, Musa answers, says, you Allah, how
		
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			is that possible? The same Allah from Nabi
		
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			Adam is the same Allah you and I
		
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			may substitute for today.
		
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			The same Allah that grants information from day
		
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			1 is the same Allah who brought us
		
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			up Quran.
		
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			The same Allah had information in the Torah.
		
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			So Nabi Musa says, say, Allah, how is
		
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			it possible?
		
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			When Iblis will live to Qiyama?
		
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			Allah
		
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			replied,
		
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			Musa, he's the first of my creation to
		
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			have died because he was the first of
		
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			my creation to disobey me.
		
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			Disobeying Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Neglect of salah or making salah when we
		
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			want to. Having ill feelings about 1 and
		
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			the other. There are so many small sins
		
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			that are piling up. We're concentrating on a
		
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			good deed and good. Don't stop.
		
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			But let us not forget to erase and
		
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			wipe out the bad deeds and the sins
		
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			as well.
		
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			What is holding us back? May Allah grant
		
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			us the switch of its fan today.
		
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			Amin. Nafani alayyah, Allah subhanahu tells us,
		
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			after we've now established
		
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			that a mopman is someone that will make
		
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			tawba,
		
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			but there's also an action that Allah loves.
		
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			In Surah Baqarah Allah says,
		
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			That Allah
		
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			love those
		
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			who make tawba.
		
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			The question is,
		
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			why are you and I not doing what
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves?
		
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			What is holding us back
		
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			from our tawba? What's holding us back from
		
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			istikhva?
		
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			What's holding us back from those things that
		
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			Allah loves in order for us to be
		
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			elevated?
		
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			In order for us to be the guide
		
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			for our homes,
		
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			in order for us to be that father
		
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			for our children, and husband to our wives,
		
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			and vice versa.
		
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			In the following hadith, Rasulullah,
		
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			was Masu
		
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			committed no sin.
		
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			Rasool Sam says, I'm at istighfar.
		
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			I repent. I come back to Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala
		
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			during a day a 100 times,
		
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			and you or I are too busy.
		
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			We don't have that time.
		
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			You know? Like, any masjid,
		
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			I hope inshallah that it's not peace custom.
		
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			But, you know, after salah, when you greet,
		
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			right now we see each other sitting next
		
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			to each other.
		
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			And you say,
		
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			On the left, you see this.
		
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			So quick.
		
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			After, no salah, no sunnah, no time.
		
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			Because now we it's a it's a razik.
		
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			It's a razik. We need to go seek
		
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			razik, and you're absolutely right.
		
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			But how do we run away from arazak
		
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			for risk?
		
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			How is that possible?
		
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			When we expect change in our lives, but
		
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			we don't expect to make changes in our
		
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			lives.
		
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			I will summarize
		
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			Great
		
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			Sahabi,
		
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			great poet,
		
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			always used to defend Islam with his poetry,
		
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			and he was a warrior,
		
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			fought in jihad.
		
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			At any time when they lost jihad, when
		
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			they announced the case for jihad,
		
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			Abu Majin al Taqafi was ready,
		
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			but he had one bad habit.
		
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			He was an alcoholic.
		
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			Since the time he embraced Islam, he just
		
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			couldn't kick that habit.
		
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			Great
		
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			warrior.
		
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			And then he said,
		
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			and
		
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			he tried to give it up. He recurred
		
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			and he just loved the bottle that much.
		
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			Eventually, he was exiled. Bahrain.
		
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			Do they call Bahrain?
		
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			Then he escaped from there, and he went
		
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			to Egypt goes to Egypt where he
		
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			was the Amir.
		
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			A battle came.
		
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			Al Qudsiya, a battle came.
		
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			When the battle occurred,
		
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			Abu Majana Thakafi
		
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			he was ready to fight because his only
		
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			desire
		
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			was to die a shahid.
		
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			His only desire was to be a mujahid
		
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			and die in the path of Allah Subhanahu
		
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			in battle. That was his only desire.
		
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			But every time he survived.
		
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			Every time
		
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			at this particular
		
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			battle.
		
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			So now he was ready to fight armored
		
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			and he was a brave fighter
		
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			and a man who's hoping to die. Can
		
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			we imagine how he fights in battle?
		
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			Saudi mukas go to Abu Majin al Taqw,
		
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			say, look at here. The letter from the
		
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			amir. I have to lock you up.
		
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			There's his orders.
		
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			He ties right there on the battlefield.
		
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			He ties, he chains Abu Majin al Taqw,
		
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			round the 3. And now they go fight
		
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			in battle.
		
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			Abu Majan Atakkabir
		
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			sees the battle roaring
		
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			and he's yearning, hoping he could be there.
		
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			He now shouts from the tree. He says,
		
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			wallahi
		
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			tuktu ilallah.
		
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			I repented
		
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			Please set me free so that I may
		
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			go fight
		
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			The wife of of Sadhguru
		
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			She
		
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			comes to the tree. She says,
		
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			you know, I my husband tied you up.
		
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			He says, wallahi. I may tawba.
		
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			Wallahi.
		
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			She says, I will set you free in
		
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			one condition.
		
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			If you survive,
		
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			you come back here for me to tie
		
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			you up.
		
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			He says agreed.
		
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			She unties and change him, and he fights
		
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			in jihad.
		
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			And now he covers his face in order
		
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			to disguise himself.
		
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			While fighting in battle,
		
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			he says,
		
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			if I didn't tie Abu Marjan up myself,
		
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			I would have thought that he's fighting there.
		
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			For the way and how fierceful he fought
		
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			in the jihad.
		
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			At the end of the battle, fast forward,
		
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			Saad Ali Wakaas came back to the tree.
		
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			He now needed to verify.
		
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			He came by the tree and what did
		
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			he find? He find a motherfucker
		
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			chained up again.
		
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			But he knew it was him
		
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			because there were now battle scars
		
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			on his body.
		
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			He knew it was him. Suddenly, he says,
		
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			Abu Majan, what are you doing?
		
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			What happened?
		
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			Abu Majan al Thaqafi, he said,
		
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			wallahi,
		
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			when you go in jihad, the doors of
		
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			Jannah opens up,
		
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			but Allah doesn't want me to enter because
		
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			of this sin.
		
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			I realized here,
		
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			I realized here,
		
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			there is not these chains
		
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			holding me back from dying a mujahid, a
		
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			shahid.
		
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			It's my sin against Allah that Allah is
		
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			not granting me.
		
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			Saddu Nwuka says, wallahi I will never lash
		
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			you again.
		
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			I will never tie you up again to
		
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			a free man.
		
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			And he says wallahi, I will never ever,
		
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			Abu Abu Mahdul says, let the drop of
		
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			liquor, alcohol pass my lips again.
		
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			The question is,
		
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			because
		
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			we're not moving forward and turning off that
		
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			fan,
		
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			how many opportunities did you and I not
		
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			miss?
		
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			How many sins are you and I guilty
		
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			of
		
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			that cause us to miss opportunities from Allah's
		
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			rahman?
		
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			Don't let this Ramadan be the same. May
		
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			Allah grant us true understanding.
		
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			May Allah forgive our shortcomings.
		
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			So we said number 1, to switch off
		
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			that fan
		
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			is to make tawba.
		
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			Number 2,
		
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			increase in adhkar.
		
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			Make lots of dhikr.
		
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			Make lots. Sometimes you think I must sit
		
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			on the mussala. No. Sitting by the red
		
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			robot, strike light, way there.
		
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			And And I'm waiting for my wife from
		
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			the shopping, and I'm standing in the queue.
		
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			Make a car. Make dick.
		
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			And those who remember Allah a lot.
		
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			Yes. We make zikr when we fear for
		
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			salah. We make zikr
		
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			once in a while,
		
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			but we need to make zikr a lot.
		
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			So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will constantly
		
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			shower us with his mercy and his rahma.
		
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			So Namr ibn Khattab Radhu'an
		
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			and his caliphat was walking through the souk,
		
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			through the
		
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			mall,
		
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			through the flea markets,
		
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			walking in the marketplace.
		
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			He heard this one Sahabi said,
		
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			Oh, Allah,
		
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			make me of your few worshipers.
		
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			So no one says, what is this? He
		
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			comes
		
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			he may rather verify.
		
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			He walks behind the man again closer
		
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			just to listen.
		
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			Did I hear right?
		
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			Did did I understand correctly what you just
		
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			said now? And the man made the same
		
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			dua, oh, Allah make me of your few
		
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			worshipers.
		
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			So now, umru even asked him, turned around
		
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			and says,
		
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			Where do you come on this dua?
		
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			Rasulullah Assam
		
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			taught us to make dua for a lot.
		
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			Make dua for plenty.
		
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			You ought to be of the few. It's
		
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			an almost says, and Islam, alhamdulillah, is spreading
		
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			all four corners of the world. There are
		
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			now more Muslims.
		
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			Make dua for a lot of health, make
		
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			dua for a lot of wealth, make dua
		
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			for a long life. You're making dua for
		
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			a few.
		
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			He says, you Amir al mumineen.
		
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			Did you not notice in the Quran
		
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			when Allah speaks about majority,
		
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			that's usually not good.
		
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			Most of the people are ungrateful.
		
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			Most of them are unconscious and unmindful.
		
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			Most of the people are transgressors and disbelievers.
		
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			And most of them are ungrateful for the
		
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			favors Allah has bestowed upon them.
		
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			And most of the people are not believers.
		
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			So I made the honor of the minority
		
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			to be on the field.
		
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			I end up with question.
		
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			What's holding me and you back
		
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			from being the minority?
		
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			And we can only judge for ourselves,
		
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			are we part of majority?
		
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			May Allah forgive our shortcomings.
		
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			May Allah grant us true understanding.
		
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			I thank the imamat
		
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			that the and
		
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			everyone of
		
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			for the kindness
		
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			for the opportunity.
		
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			We say, jazakAllah Khayron, to Sheikh Nasir Barnes
		
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			from Cape Town for the very beautiful and
		
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			powerful Nasir. May Allah allow us to
		
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			gain benefit from what has been shared and
		
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			to practice upon the very important words of
		
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			advice. Ameen. Beloved brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			just two announcements. The first, Insha'Allah, is that
		
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			in preparation for the month of Ramadan,
		
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			the masjid's going to host some training
		
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			for those who would like to recite the
		
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			adkar in the month of Ramadan, the the
		
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			adkar that is recited
		
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			in between the Tarawee and the dua afterwards.
		
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			So we're going to have, like, a a
		
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			boot camp. I don't know if I can
		
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			call it that, or is that a bidashay.
		
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			Right? Pujis. Okay. Pujis Pujis camp.
		
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			We're going to have that in 2 weeks'
		
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			time. So we encourage, Inshallah, if you'd like
		
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			to gain some training and practice in reciting
		
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			that,
		
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			Imam Farooq and the other seniors of the
		
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			masjid will be having that on a Wednesday
		
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			evening in 2 weeks from now. Inshallah, you
		
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			can give me your names,
		
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			or you can give it to, them as
		
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			well, inshallah.
		
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			And also to the parents, please, inshallah, we
		
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			encourage you to push your children in this
		
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			line as well, inshallah, so you can,
		
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			volunteer them without them knowing. No problem, inshallah.
		
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			And they will form part of that training,
		
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			inshallah.
		
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			Then secondly, just an update regarding the education
		
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			project. As you might have noticed that we
		
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			started their innovations of the 4 year. I
		
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			just want to thank all the donors and
		
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			sponsors who have come in the last week.
		
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			To all the community members who have stepped
		
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			forward and have made donations. We really appreciate
		
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			all that accepted from you as a
		
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			and may you reap the rewards
		
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			of every student and teacher who will be
		
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			engaging
		
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			in this facility.
		
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			We are converting the madrasa building
		
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			to a world class education facility, inshallah, for
		
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			this community. And I just wanted to mention
		
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			that we are short by R15,000
		
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			for an order our second order of furniture.
		
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			So if there is anyone willing to assist,
		
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			please let us know.
		
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			You can assist us so that we can
		
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			place the second order and gain of from
		
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			that discount.
		
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			But, we still encourage everyone to participate.
		
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			And may Allah accept from all of us.
		
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			Please try and fill the spaces in front
		
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			of you. There's still some at the door.
		
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			Perform the salah as if it is a
		
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			final salah in this world.