Nouman Ali Khan – Are Hardships My Fault or a Test from Allah

Nouman Ali Khan
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The speaker discusses the physical world and the need for surgery, particularly for people who are in a difficult situation. They emphasize the importance of trusting Allah and not letting people cancel a program. The speaker also talks about their experience of a bacteria infection and the difficulty of managing a situation. They encourage people to go to surgery and cancel a program, emphasizing trusting Allah and not letting people cancel a program. The speaker emphasizes the importance of trusting Allah and not letting people cancel a program.

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			In the moral world, you missed a Salah,
		
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			you woke up late, you didn't pray Fajr,
		
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			and now you're praying it late.
		
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			And then that day you had a job
		
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			interview, and the job interview didn't go well.
		
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			And you're like, this is because I missed
		
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			Salah.
		
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			Now the answer to that is, it may
		
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			be, and it may not be.
		
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			And there's no way you will ever know.
		
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			There's no way you or anyone else will
		
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			ever know.
		
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			But the thing that will help you is,
		
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			The thing that will help me is that
		
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			Allah says, I will be as you assume
		
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			me to be.
		
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			If you're assuming Allah took revenge from you
		
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			and put this on you because you missed
		
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			Fajr, then that's who Allah is to you
		
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			now.
		
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			But the thing here that I wanted to
		
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			highlight is what is the role of our
		
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			iman, the fact that we're believers, that we
		
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			believe in Allah عز و جل, and our
		
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			ability to deal with calamity.
		
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			And how are we supposed to respond to
		
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			calamity as believers.
		
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			For a lot of people who's, and this
		
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			actually depends on our level of understanding of
		
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			what it means to have a relationship with
		
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			Allah سبحانه وتعالى.
		
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			On the one hand, the first thing I'd
		
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			like to explain to you that the Qur
		
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			'an is very wise about, is to make
		
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			a separation between two different kinds of bad
		
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			situations.
		
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			There's a bad situation that looks like a
		
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			bad situation that was completely out of your
		
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			control.
		
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			You could do nothing about it.
		
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			You got stuck in a flood, you didn't
		
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			cause the flood.
		
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			You just happened to be living there, there
		
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			was no way for you to escape, or
		
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			you happened to be traveling, you had no
		
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			idea it was coming, it wasn't on any
		
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			reports or anything else.
		
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			That's not you, that's entirely planned by Allah,
		
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			you had nothing to do with it, there
		
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			was no way you could have gotten out
		
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			of it.
		
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			This is not the same as someone who
		
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			reads the news report and says, hey, there's
		
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			a major storm coming, please evacuate the city,
		
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			and there's a tsunami heading our way, and
		
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			somebody says, you know this is a good
		
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			time to check out the beach.
		
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			And they head towards the beach.
		
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			And then something bad happens to them, they
		
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			don't get to say, oh, Qadar Allah, what
		
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			can I say, Allah had decided that I
		
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			was going to run into this, you don't
		
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			get to say that.
		
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			And Allah is very clear about that.
		
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			He Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, وَمَا أَصَابَكُم
		
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			بِمُصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتَ ايْدِيكُمْ There's not a calamity
		
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			that strikes you, and any matter of calamities
		
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			that strike you, or something that hits you,
		
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			is because of what you earned with your
		
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			own hands.
		
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			You brought this on yourself.
		
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			Now, that's, if you only thought of it
		
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			that way, that would also be a problem.
		
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			Because if you're going down the stairs, and
		
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			you slipped and you fell, and you start
		
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			thinking to yourself, I must have done some
		
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			sin, and that's why Allah made me fall
		
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			down the stairs.
		
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			This is a sign from Allah that I
		
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			have committed some evil, and Allah is teaching
		
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			me a lesson by, you know, breaking my
		
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			arm on this, in the hotel lobby or
		
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			something, you know.
		
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			You start reading into things that happened to
		
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			you.
		
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			And you start thinking there's some ghayb, cause
		
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			and effect.
		
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			And that can go into an extreme.
		
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			So the thing that I'd like to highlight
		
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			here, human beings, believers, in Allah, can go
		
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			into two extremes.
		
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			One extreme is, everything happened because of Allah,
		
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			I have nothing to do with it.
		
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			Whatever happened, you can't blame me, it's the
		
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			qadr of Allah.
		
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			ما أصابكم من مصيبةٍ فَبِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ Whatever calamity
		
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			strikes to you, it comes to you because
		
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			of Allah's...
		
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			He said that in Surah At-Taghabun.
		
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			He said it directly.
		
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			It happens by Allah's permission, this was Allah's
		
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			plan, what are you gonna do?
		
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			So some student cannot study for their exams,
		
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			and not do any of the assignments, and
		
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			get fail, and fail, and be kicked out
		
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			of the school, and then say, what do
		
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			you want me to do?
		
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			Qadr of Allah.
		
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			They get to blame Allah.
		
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			On the other extreme, there is the believer
		
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			who blames everything on himself.
		
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			Allah is doing this to me because I'm
		
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			a terrible person.
		
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			This happened to me because I'm a horrible
		
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			human being.
		
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			It doesn't help when other ignorant people around
		
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			you, and sometimes a lot of ignorance comes
		
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			from your own family, they come and tell
		
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			you, you know why this happened to you?
		
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			Because you're a bad daughter.
		
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			You know why this happened to you?
		
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			Because you're a bad son.
		
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			You know why this happened to you?
		
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			Because you're not good to your in-laws,
		
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			or whatever.
		
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			No, I just got in a car accident
		
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			because a truck came and hit me, and
		
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			he crossed a red light.
		
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			That's because I argued with my wife, or
		
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			something, that's not the reason.
		
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			But other people will come and tell you,
		
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			this is happening to you, Allah is doing
		
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			this to you, because of that, because of
		
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			that.
		
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			Like they got an email from the ghayb
		
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			that told them, that this is the reason
		
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			why this happened, cause and effect.
		
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			So there are these two extremes that are
		
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			possible.
		
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			What does the Qur'an do?
		
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			The Qur'an in everything gives us balance.
		
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			In everything we understand in life, it gives
		
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			us balance.
		
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			And by the way, if you don't have
		
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			this balance, you lose a lot of peace
		
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			in life.
		
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			You know, it gives another meaning, By remembering
		
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			Allah, hearts become calm.
		
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			The ultimate remembrance of Allah, the dhikrullah, is
		
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			actually the book of Allah.
		
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			And the book of Allah clarifies how Allah
		
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			deals with us in this life.
		
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			So I would argue that if you're just
		
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			saying, subhanAllah, or alhamdulillah, and your understanding of
		
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			what Allah wants you to, you know, how
		
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			Allah deals with you, is flawed, you still
		
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			might not find peace, even though inshallah you
		
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			will if you're sincere.
		
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			But the intent here is to be clear
		
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			in how Allah azzawajal deals with us.
		
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			So I'd like to share some things about
		
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			that with you.
		
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			As far as blaming myself is concerned, and
		
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			you know, where do we draw the line
		
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			between this is from Allah, and this is
		
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			my fault?
		
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			Where do you draw that line?
		
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			You know, in the physical world, it's very
		
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			easy to understand.
		
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			What do I mean by the physical world?
		
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			In the physical world, if I put, instead
		
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			of putting gasoline in my car, I put
		
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			water in my car, and it didn't work,
		
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			then you don't get, clearly you don't get
		
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			to say, this was Allah's plan.
		
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			That was you.
		
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			So physically speaking, or if you're eating junk
		
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			food, and you're constantly eating all kinds of
		
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			sugary foods, and then you get a diagnosis
		
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			for diabetes at the age of 45, then
		
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			you don't get to say, ya Allah, this
		
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			mubarak has come to me, it's a test
		
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			from Allah.
		
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			No, it's a test of your bad appetite.
		
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			You don't eat cucumbers.
		
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			You eat swiss rolls, or whatever you eat.
		
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			You've been downing junk, and that's why this
		
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			happened to you.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			So in the physical world, the cause and
		
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			effect, it's something that all human beings with
		
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			common sense understand.
		
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			In the moral world, you missed a salah.
		
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			You woke up late.
		
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			You didn't pray fajr.
		
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			And now you're praying it late.
		
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			And then that day you had a job
		
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			interview.
		
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			And the job interview didn't go well.
		
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			And you're like, this is because I missed
		
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			salah.
		
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			Now the answer to that is, it may
		
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			be, and it may not be.
		
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			And there's no way you will ever know.
		
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			There's no way you or anyone else will
		
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			ever know.
		
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			But the thing that will help you is,
		
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			The thing that will help me is that
		
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			Allah says, I will be as you assume
		
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			me to be.
		
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			If you're assuming Allah took revenge from you,
		
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			and put this on you because you missed
		
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			fajr, then that's who Allah is to you
		
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			now.
		
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			If you assume, no, this job, I tried
		
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			my best, I did a good job at
		
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			the interview, but this was not a good
		
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			job for me.
		
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			Had it been good for me, Allah would
		
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			have let it go.
		
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			Allah would have given me this job.
		
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			If you have that attitude, then that is
		
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			who Allah is to you, despite all of
		
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			your mistakes.
		
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			Despite you waking up late.
		
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			Our job when we make mistakes is to
		
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			make istighfar.
		
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			Not wait for Allah's revenge.
		
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			Please understand that.
		
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			Our job is not, oh, I messed up,
		
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			now Allah is going to get me somehow,
		
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			it's going to happen.
		
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			No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
		
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			That's not what Allah does.
		
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			Which is why Allah says, وَمَا أَصَابَكُم بِالْمُصِيبَةِ
		
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			فَبِمَا كَسَبَتَيذِكُمْ Whatever calamity struck you, whatever difficulty
		
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			you find yourselves in, a lot of it
		
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			has to do with what you did yourselves,
		
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			with your own hands.
		
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			You brought this on yourself.
		
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			And even in the spiritual sense, sometimes there
		
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			are difficulties that come on us, because of
		
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			our deeds.
		
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			If you are, for example, continuously horrible to
		
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			your parents, and then bad stuff comes to
		
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			you in your life, then probably there is
		
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			some connection.
		
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			And then in those kinds of cases, what
		
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			does Allah do?
		
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			وَيَعْفُو عَن كَثِيرٍ He says, He pardons a
		
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			lot too.
		
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			In the physical world, if I jump off
		
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			of a second floor building, there are going
		
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			to be consequences.
		
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			Allah will not say, no, this time I'll
		
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			forgive you, I won't break your leg.
		
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			No, no, what's gonna happen is gonna happen.
		
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			When you put your hand in a fire,
		
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			it is gonna burn.
		
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			Allah is not gonna, well, you prayed Fajr
		
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			this morning, so no, not for you.
		
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			It won't burn for you.
		
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			That's not gonna happen.
		
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			But when it comes to spiritual consequences, He
		
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			says, وَيَعْفُو عَن كَثِيرٍ When you do a
		
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			sin, then Allah says actually, Allah lets a
		
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			lot of it go.
		
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			He doesn't just avenge immediately.
		
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			He doesn't just take, you know, immediate account
		
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			and then make you suffer in this world
		
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			because of the mistake you made.
		
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			He doesn't do that.
		
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			That's the nature of Allah عز و جل
		
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			with us.
		
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			وَيَعْفُو عَن كَثِيرٍ This is something you have
		
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			to internalize for yourself.
		
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			I would argue the reason, the reason I
		
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			brought up this particular subject is because one
		
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			of the greatest crimes, spiritual crimes that occurs
		
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			every day in the ummah is at the
		
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			hands of loved ones to loved ones.
		
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			Parents, spouses, husbands, we have sometimes the most,
		
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			the worst things to say to our loved
		
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			ones.
		
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			And sometimes we say those things in the
		
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			name of Allah.
		
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			Allah will punish you for what you just
		
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			did.
		
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			There will be justice on you.
		
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			Allah will not forgive what you, you know.
		
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			And mother can say that to her child.
		
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			Wife can say to husband.
		
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			Siblings can say to each other.
		
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			Like invoking like Allah is some angry weapon
		
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			that you can invoke because you're upset, Allah
		
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			must be upset.
		
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			And you can just use Allah like that.
		
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			That's not our place.
		
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			And you know for a lot of people,
		
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			they have heard this kind of thing so
		
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			many times over and over and over again
		
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			that they have become far away from Allah
		
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			Himself.
		
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			They heard from their loved ones.
		
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			A child heard from his father or his
		
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			mother all the time.
		
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			Allah will punish you if you don't pray.
		
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			Allah is going to get you if you
		
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			don't pray.
		
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			Allah is very angry at you because you
		
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			ate that cookie.
		
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			Like constantly, Allah is angry, Allah is angry,
		
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			Allah is angry.
		
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			When that young boy becomes a 16, 17,
		
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			18 year old, he wants nothing to do
		
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			with Allah.
		
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			And when he hears Allah is merciful and
		
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			Allah is forgiving, he has a hard time
		
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			believing it because that's not what he grew
		
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			up with.
		
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			He did not grow up with an Allah
		
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			who is forgiving or an Allah who is
		
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			merciful.
		
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			As a matter of fact, every time he
		
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			got in trouble it's because of Allah he
		
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			got in trouble.
		
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			That's how he got in trouble.
		
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			And then those same parents say, we taught
		
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			this child about Allah from the beginning.
		
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			I don't know why he's running away from
		
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			deen.
		
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			Yeah, but which Allah did you teach him
		
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			about?
		
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			An angry Allah?
		
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			An Allah that seeks to punish?
		
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			ما يفعل الله بعذابكم?
		
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			Allah says, what's Allah gonna get out of
		
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			punishing you?
		
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			That's what Allah says himself.
		
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			Why is he in just the business of
		
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			coming after you?
		
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			Going at you?
		
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			So what happens with people?
		
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			They are in a difficult situation.
		
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			And what do they do?
		
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			They're constantly thinking Allah is getting them.
		
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			Allah is hurting them.
		
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			Allah is doing this to them.
		
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			You know, I was reminded by a colleague
		
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			of mine.
		
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			When I was coming here to Malaysia, out
		
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			of nowhere, this has never happened.
		
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			I developed this crazy bacterial infection thing in
		
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			my tonsils.
		
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			And it swelled up.
		
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			And half of my neck was completely blocked.
		
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			And I felt like I was drowning in
		
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			one nostril.
		
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			And I'm still on the plane.
		
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			And I get halfway to Abu Dhabi on
		
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			the way here.
		
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			I run over to a clinic.
		
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			They say, you have to take these heavy
		
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			medications.
		
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			I come here.
		
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			The recommendation is I should go to surgery.
		
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			I was like, what is going on?
		
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			And they even told me this never happens.
		
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			Like this is really crazy.
		
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			In my entire career of 30 years, I've
		
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			seen like one other case of this.
		
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			And I'm lying there in the hospital bed,
		
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			waiting for a surgery to take place.
		
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			And I'm thinking, and I was reminded by
		
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			a colleague.
		
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			This is the best place you could have
		
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			been.
		
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			There's no better place than this hospital bed
		
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			for you at this moment.
		
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			That is Allah's plan for you.
		
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			Here I am thinking I have to cancel
		
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			this program.
		
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			I can't go over here.
		
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			I can't go over there.
		
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			How are we gonna manage this situation, that
		
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			situation, that calendar, that meeting.
		
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			I came all this way and now look,
		
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			I didn't get to do this, that or
		
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			the other.
		
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			And then all of a sudden just that
		
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			little reminder.
		
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			I was just like, yeah.
		
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			This is the best place I should be.
		
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			There's no better place.
		
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			Because this wasn't planned by me.
		
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			This was planned by Allah.
		
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			This is entirely planned by Allah.
		
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			We have to have a closeness to Allah
		
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			that when He plans something for you and
		
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			me, even when it's painful, He doesn't do
		
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			it for anything except love.
		
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			That Allah Azza wa Jal loves His Ibad.
		
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			That He loves what is best for them.
		
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			He loves us more than we could ever
		
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			love ourselves.
		
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			He cares more for us than we could
		
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			ever care for ourselves.
		
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			He provides us more than we could ever
		
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			provide for ourselves.
		
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			When we forget that, guidance goes away.
		
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			Allah says, وَمَن يُؤْمِن بِاللَّهِ يَهْدِي قَلْبَهُ وَمَن
		
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			يُؤْمِن بِاللَّهِ يَهْدِي قَلْبَهُ On the same issue,
		
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			whatever calamity strikes you, it comes from Allah,
		
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			it came by Allah's permission, and whoever can
		
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			have Iman in Allah at that time.
		
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			You have Iman in Allah anyway, you believe
		
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			in one God, but when you're in a
		
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			difficulty, that's when you start questioning, why is
		
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			Allah doing this, right?
		
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			That's the time when Allah puts the words,
		
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			وَمَن يُؤْمِن بِاللَّهِ Whoever can truly believe in
		
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			Allah then.
		
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			Yeah, you always say Allah is Ar-Rahman,
		
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			but do you really feel Allah is Ar
		
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			-Rahman right now?
		
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			Nah, right now He's probably Dhuntiqam.
		
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			Right now He's probably the one who takes
		
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			revenge.
		
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			Right now He's probably Jabbar, not Ar-Rahman
		
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			right now.
		
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			See, your Iman went away, your Iman in
		
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			Ar-Rahman went away when you were in
		
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			difficulty.
		
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			Allah says if you can have Iman in
		
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			Ar-Rahman at that time, the best of
		
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			Allah's names, the best of what Allah is
		
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			to you, what He described Himself to you,
		
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			at that moment, then what gift will Allah
		
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			give you?
		
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			And this is the conclusion to my khutbah,
		
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			what is it that Allah will give you?
		
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			I want health, I want recovery, I want
		
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			a job, I want money, I want a
		
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			better family situation, I want escape.
		
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			Some people just want escape.
		
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			I just want this other person to stop
		
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			hurting me.
		
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			I want people to stop talking about me.
		
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			Whatever it is, there's something that's bothering you,
		
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			and it's eating away at you.
		
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			And if you think if that problem went
		
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			away, you would have peace.
		
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			What does Allah give you when you can
		
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			trust Him?
		
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			He doesn't end your problems.
		
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			This life, problems will not go away.
		
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			If problems were gonna go away, they would
		
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			have gone away for Yaqub a.s. a
		
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			lot sooner than for you and me.
		
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			If no problems would have come, because we
		
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			have iman, then Maryam a.s. should not
		
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			have had problems.
		
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			Rasulullah a.s. should not have had problems.
		
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			You study the people that are closest to
		
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			Allah, and all you're studying are problems.
		
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			Really big ones, their entire life.
		
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			That's all you're studying.
		
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			You're just learning about one problem to the
		
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			next, to the next, to the next, to
		
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			the next.
		
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			That's all you're learning.
		
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			Yusuf a.s. a great profound messenger of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			I mean from childhood there are problems.
		
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			From childhood, there are problems.
		
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			I keep asking that question.
		
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			What is it that Allah has given you?
		
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			What do you get when you completely put
		
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			your trust in Allah in the middle, in
		
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			the thick of a difficulty when everybody else
		
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			is telling you, on the one hand people
		
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			are telling you Allah is angry at you,
		
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			that's why this is happening.
		
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			Allah hates you, that's why this is happening.
		
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			On the other hand you start thinking Allah
		
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			is punishing me, that's why this is happening.
		
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			At that moment when you can have the
		
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			best impression of Allah and maintain your love
		
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			and reliance and bond with Allah, that Allah
		
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			has not let you go.
		
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			He hasn't, what does He give you?
		
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			يَهْدِي قَلْبَهُ He guides this person's heart.
		
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			He gives their heart guidance.
		
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			I can guarantee you, when your problem goes
		
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			away, if it's a money problem, money comes
		
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			in.
		
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			If it's a health problem, health comes back.
		
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			If it's a family problem, the family problem
		
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			goes away.
		
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			None of the good things in this life
		
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			are worth anything compared to that one gift.
		
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			Thousands of hours of work have already been
		
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			put in.
		
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			And don't be intimidated, it's step by step
		
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			by step.
		
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			So you can make learning the Qur'an
		
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			a part of your lifestyle.
		
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			There's lots of stuff available on YouTube, but
		
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			it's all over the place.
		
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			If you want an organized approach to studying
		
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			the Qur'an beginning to end for yourself,
		
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			your kids, your family, and even among peers,
		
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			that would be the way to go.
		
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