Nouman Ali Khan – Striking Examples From The Quran #17 Depths of Desperation

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The speaker discusses the transition from " 3rd" to "monthood" in Arabic language, which is due to the idea that "slack" is a fundamental communication feature. They also discuss the importance of thinking beyond the immediate crisis and creating a new one, as well as the struggles of people who have been begging Allah to save them and become successful. The speaker emphasizes the need for a crisis management process and rethinking the meaning of success when considering the future.

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			Today, really powerful parable that belongs to Surat
		
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			Yunus. This is early on in the Surah,
		
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			the 22nd Ayah. That Allah gives this parable.
		
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			It's very commonly known,
		
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			people use it in Dawah debates all the
		
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			time, this parable. Even though I think the
		
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			primary intent of the parable is a little
		
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			bit different than how most people use it
		
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			in their,
		
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			dawah type arguments. I'm not entirely against it,
		
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			but let's let's give it its own
		
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			do Insha Allah.
		
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			It's interesting to note that Surat,
		
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			Hood has some similarity to previous, like for
		
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			example, Surat Al Aham,
		
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			people asking for something visual to be able
		
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			to see, a miracle to be able to
		
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			see before they can believe. And Allah is
		
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			going to respond with something really powerful here
		
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			by way of this example. He's going to
		
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			say, you're looking for an outside proof,
		
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			while there's already a proof inside you,
		
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			and you're neglecting the proof that you already
		
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			have inside you,
		
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			and that's why you're so adamant in demanding
		
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			something from the outside.
		
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			This is
		
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			in other lang in other language, other places
		
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			in the Quran,
		
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			this concept is reinforced,
		
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			And the idea is that,
		
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			Allah has given us the tools, human beings,
		
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			the tools across history, across civilizations.
		
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			Every human being has the tools to arrive
		
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			at faith in God,
		
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			in whatever language, whatever culture, whatever century,
		
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			they can arrive at that conclusion on their
		
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			own. All the means necessary, all the necessary
		
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			ingredients
		
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			and components to arrive at that conclusion,
		
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			human beings were already endowed with.
		
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			And
		
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			it was in a in a sense, they
		
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			had the ability to look at the ayaat
		
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			in creation
		
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			all on their own, and to discover that
		
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			behind these ayaat, these ayaat are pointing to
		
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			someone greater, and that is Allah
		
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			They could've they could've arrived at that conclusion
		
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			on their own. So they did
		
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			of that which is inside
		
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			already. They denied what is inside already. They
		
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			denied the ayat already. And when they deny
		
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			revelation,
		
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			it's actually not their first denial. It's their
		
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			next denial.
		
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			It's like it's so it's almost as if
		
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			Allah describes that this is not this is
		
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			not the first act of disbelief you're doing.
		
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			This reaches its climax in Surah's later on
		
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			in the Quran, like in Surah
		
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			also,
		
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			you know,
		
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			in the skies and the earth, there are
		
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			miraculous signs for people who are going to
		
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			have strong complete
		
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			faith,
		
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			like faith.
		
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			Where did you get iman from? From the
		
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			skies and the earth. You didn't get iman
		
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			from revelation or a surah or a prophet.
		
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			You got the iman from the skies and
		
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			the earth.
		
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			Right? So that's actually one of the arguments
		
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			of the Quran that is universal.
		
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			Now picking on that universal imagery, Allah is
		
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			going to take us onto this
		
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			really interesting scene.
		
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			And the first thing I want you to
		
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			note about this scene, we're gonna talk about
		
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			today a little bit,
		
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			is
		
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			means transition.
		
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			So in order to make the best sense
		
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			of the the, the wording of the ayah
		
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			and the example that Allah is giving,
		
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			I want you to review a little bit
		
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			of
		
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			basic English grammar.
		
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			1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person. What's first
		
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			person?
		
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			I don't know. You told me. I know
		
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			it's a hard question.
		
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			I am I. I and we. Me,
		
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			us, that's first person. 2nd person is you,
		
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			you all, etcetera. Right? Or where I come
		
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			from in Texas, y'all.
		
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			Right? Yeah. Or Australia use,
		
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			You know? So there's different versions, but you
		
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			get the idea.
		
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			Oh, wait. The Guyanese, I like theirs, IUDs.
		
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			That's what they say for you all.
		
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			IUDs, Guyanese. Anyway, so that's second person. And
		
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			third person is he, they,
		
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			etcetera. Right? Now everybody knows when you're even
		
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			in 3rd grade English,
		
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			your teacher tells you if you're gonna start
		
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			your sentence in 3rd person, then continue going
		
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			in 3rd person. And if you're gonna start
		
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			it in 1st person, if your essay is
		
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			in 1st person, then stick to 1st person
		
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			the whole way. And if it's if it's
		
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			2nd person, then keep 2nd person the whole
		
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			way. And you have this idea of you
		
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			can't just switch persons because it's bad language.
		
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			Right? Now let's take a look at this
		
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			ayah from the perspective of person. Again, 1st
		
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			person, 2nd person, 3rd person. Let's begin.
		
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			He is the one who facilitates
		
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			for you. He is the one who creates
		
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			ease for you
		
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			in the land and in the sea. He
		
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			creates ease for you. What person is that?
		
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			That second person. Okay. So we're on board.
		
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			We're second person. Okay. Then he
		
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			says,
		
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			until the moment you end up on onboard
		
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			the ships
		
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			onboard ships,
		
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			until the moment you end up onboard ships.
		
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			We're still in what person?
		
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			2nd person. Okay.
		
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			And
		
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			the ships
		
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			start
		
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			sailing away with them
		
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			using a good wind. The ships, they start
		
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			sailing away with them
		
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			using a good wind. Them, what's what person
		
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			is that? 3rd person. That's 3rd person. We
		
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			started with 2nd person.
		
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			He made ease for you in land and
		
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			sea. He boarded you onto ships.
		
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			The ship starts sailing away with them with
		
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			a good wind.
		
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			And so so he says,
		
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			and they were
		
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			elated because of the wind. The wind is
		
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			because, you know, when you're sailing and you're
		
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			you're out at sea back in the day,
		
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			the wind really makes a huge difference in
		
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			how fast the travel is gonna go. So
		
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			if it's a good wind, especially in the
		
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			direction you need to be going, then the
		
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			captain is very very happy. This is a
		
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			good wind. Right? So they became very happy
		
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			that the winds are good, it's pleasant, and
		
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			it's moving forward. Okay. Well,
		
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			they were elated on account of those winds.
		
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			What person is that? They were elated.
		
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			3rd. 3rd person. So we we switched over
		
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			from second to third. Okay. Let's keep going.
		
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			He says,
		
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			a
		
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			A an an a violent,
		
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			abrupt,
		
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			crushing,
		
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			aggressive,
		
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			inconsiderate,
		
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			relentless
		
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			wind
		
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			came at them
		
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			all of a sudden,
		
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			and the waves started attacking them from every
		
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			direction.
		
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			From everywhere, waves started coming at them. So
		
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			there was a scene of the ship sailing
		
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			smoothly, and all of a sudden, there's this
		
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			wild wind, and it doesn't care for
		
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			what gets in its path, and all of
		
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			a sudden there's, you know, there's this terrible,
		
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			you know, danger of the ship or the
		
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			entire vessel flipping over. Okay.
		
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			And they were convinced that they are going
		
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			to be overcome.
		
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			Meaning they're convinced that they're gonna drown.
		
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			The waves are too big,
		
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			one big next slap of a wave and
		
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			it's going to be over. Okay.
		
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			They called onto Allah
		
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			with all sincerity and exclusivity
		
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			of religion going to Allah. Meaning, they made
		
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			their religion pure
		
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			only for the sake of Allah in that
		
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			moment and called on to Allah.
		
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			Now all of that is they, so we
		
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			kept in 3rd person now. We switched over
		
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			from where we started.
		
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			If you were to rescue us from this,
		
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			we will absolutely
		
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			become grateful
		
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			or be among the grateful.
		
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			If you rescue us
		
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			from this disaster,
		
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			we will become from the grateful. What what
		
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			person is that?
		
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			That's the first person. It's all one
		
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			This is all one. It started in the
		
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			second person,
		
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			it moved over to the third person,
		
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			and then it came all the way back
		
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			into the first person.
		
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			And so this is definitely not something your
		
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			English teacher can handle in 3rd grade.
		
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			This is something else. And this this is
		
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			called.
		
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			Big word in Arabic, but
		
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			easier word in English is transition.
		
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			Transition. And just a quick comment about transitions.
		
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			You know, of course, you guys don't watch
		
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			movies because you're from Manchester, Sharif.
		
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			So, or old them old them Mubarak. Yeah.
		
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			So these people in Leeds, you know, they
		
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			watch movies.
		
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			You know what they do in films? In
		
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			films, sometimes a producer will switch the camera
		
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			angle
		
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			immediately,
		
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			and they'll switch back to the camera angle.
		
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			And then meanwhile, back at the ranch,
		
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			and then they'll do something crazy and make
		
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			it black and white, and that's supposed to
		
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			be 20 years ago.
		
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			And then they come back into color, and
		
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			that's right now.
		
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			Or they will,
		
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			you know,
		
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			kind of show 2 contrasting scenes right next
		
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			to each other.
		
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			If you read the script, that sounds incoherent.
		
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			That sounds like, wait. Just finish one thing
		
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			and then go to the other thing. But
		
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			when you look at the cinematography,
		
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			switching the camera angles, switching the scenes, sometimes
		
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			some crazy movies, you know what they start
		
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			with?
		
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			They start with the last scene.
		
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			Guys falling off the building is you might
		
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			be wondering how this how this happened.
		
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			And then it says 2 hours ago, and
		
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			then there's the whole movie. I mean, you
		
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			wouldn't know anything about that again because ask
		
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			the people in Leeds. They will tell you.
		
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			Okay. So the the point that I'm making
		
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			is that in film, there's this technique
		
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			of switching scenes,
		
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			of switching persons, switching camera angles.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And what's remarkable in the Quran
		
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			as one of its fundamental
		
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			communication techniques
		
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			is abrupt camera angle changes.
		
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			Because the language of the Quran is actually
		
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			visual.
		
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			And the Arabs, you know, they lived in
		
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			the desert. Right? And the desert, there's not
		
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			a lot to look at. I mean, if
		
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			you've been, you know. I mean, you don't
		
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			you don't go to Mecca for the scenery.
		
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			You don't you don't go on a road
		
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			trip between Jeddah and Medina for, you know,
		
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			the oh my god. It's amazing outside. No.
		
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			You you don't. You just, you know, you
		
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			just have to imagine the amazing things that
		
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			happened here in history, but because right now,
		
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			there's not not much to look at. Right?
		
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			It's just sand.
		
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			So the Arabs of the ancient time when
		
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			they were traveling in the desert all the
		
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			time all the time,
		
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			there was not much to look at. They
		
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			weren't looking at beautiful,
		
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			majestic snow covered mountains, waterfalls. They weren't looking
		
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			at, you know, an ocean scape. They weren't
		
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			looking at lush gardens, and that's not what
		
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			they were looking at. That's that was not
		
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			their scenery. So you know what? One of
		
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			the things that happened with the Arabic language
		
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			even before Islam, is the Arabic language is
		
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			endowed with a very active imagination.
		
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			So the Arabic were words in the Arabic
		
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			language are very loaded with images.
		
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			The words themselves are loaded with images.
		
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			And then as a result of this desire
		
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			for imagining vivid things, the Arabs in their
		
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			poetry, in their language, in the styles in
		
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			which they speak, constantly they evoked and poked
		
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			the imagination
		
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			all the time.
		
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			And that's why the one of the great
		
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			features of the Arabic language,
		
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			the ancient, the classical Arabic language, is that
		
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			every almost everything is associated with something visual.
		
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			Something to imagine in your head. And then
		
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			even abstract ideas
		
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			are connected to some visual concept.
		
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			Right? And this is a a remarkable feature
		
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			of Arabic. Now one of those features,
		
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			not in the words themselves, but in communication,
		
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			is. So let me show you some things
		
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			that are happening by by way of and
		
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			we'll talk about this parable.
		
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			Now imagine, first of all, the camera. Let's
		
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			I'll use the camera example because now we're
		
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			in 2024. I can talk to you about
		
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			cameras.
		
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			So Allah says, in the very beginning of
		
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			this ayah, he says,
		
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			He's the one who made things easy for
		
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			you to to do, to to He made
		
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			He facilitated for you, created east for you
		
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			in land and in sea. By saying land
		
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			and sea, he's saying he made land travel
		
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			easy for you and he made sea travel
		
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			easy for you. So, of course, the Arabs
		
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			are in the they're landlocked so they're gonna
		
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			travel until they get to the sea.
		
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			Until you travel across the land, which was
		
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			made easy, and you made it all the
		
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			way to the beach and the docks, and
		
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			in the docks there's a giant vessel, there's
		
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			a ship that's being boarded,
		
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			and now there's this imagery, the camera is
		
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			at the docks, and there are people that
		
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			are going up the plank, and they're they're
		
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			boarding on to these ships. They're getting on
		
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			board. And there are some people that are
		
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			standing on the docks waving goodbye to their
		
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			family and friends that that are disembarking onto
		
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			the boat because some people are being left
		
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			behind, and they're waving at them and all
		
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			of that. The ship hasn't even left the
		
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			dock yet, and then they they lift the
		
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			anchor and it starts sailing away. Right? As
		
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			it starts sailing away,
		
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			in a few seconds, your cousin you could
		
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			see your cousin, Hey, hold
		
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			off this. Right? But send me a pigeon
		
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			or whatever. I don't know if pigeons can
		
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			travel across the sea, but whatever. Right? So
		
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			you're and and then the ship starts moving
		
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			and your cousin's face starts getting what?
		
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			It starts getting smaller and smaller, and before
		
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			you know it, the whole boat becomes a
		
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			tiny little dot in the distance, and you're
		
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			just standing there watching it become smaller and
		
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			smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller. So
		
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			now from your perspective, you standing there on
		
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			the docks,
		
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			is that near or far?
		
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			It's far. And so Allah says
		
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			and it took them far away.
		
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			It the the sail the the the winds
		
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			sailed with them and they took them far
		
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			out. Now the sea
		
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			is an incredible place. The ocean is an
		
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			incredible place. If there's a sunny day and
		
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			a nice breeze, hardly anything is as beautiful
		
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			as the ocean.
		
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			Hardly anything is as beautiful as the gleaming
		
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			of the sunlight on the on the water
		
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			and the clean light light clouds in the
		
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			sky, and the blue skies in front of
		
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			you, and the seagulls, and the light breeze,
		
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			the kind of fresh air you can breathe
		
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			by the water,
		
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			incredible. Like, it's one of the most incredible
		
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			experiences, most serene experiences you can have. And
		
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			then imagine a ship sailing nicely in the
		
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			nice breeze
		
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			going into the distance. And now imagine that
		
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			you even though you're on board the ship
		
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			now I want you to imagine you're on
		
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			board the ship, but since you're far away
		
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			now, you've become a they to the rest
		
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			of civilization.
		
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			On the side note,
		
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			because the Quran makes a lot of reference
		
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			to sea travel,
		
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			I wanted to gain some perspective on sea
		
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			travel because I've I haven't done much sea
		
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			travel.
		
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			So I I spoke to a general in
		
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			the navy
		
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			from Pakistan,
		
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			a retired general. And I asked him about
		
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			these ayaat, like, what does what does he
		
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			see when he
		
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			contemplates these ayat of the Quran? Because he's
		
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			he spent his life at sea, you know.
		
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			And he's like I was like, what's going
		
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			on through a sailor's mind when they're out
		
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			at sea? He goes, you might be looking
		
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			at beautiful water. A sailor is always looking
		
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			at his death
		
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			constantly.
		
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			Because this giant beautiful body of water with
		
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			gleaming waves and, you know, the sun sun
		
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			reflecting on it and this this gorgeous scene,
		
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			they know at any moment,
		
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			at any moment,
		
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			this can turn into a monster
		
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			that is unstoppable.
		
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			And then this this vessel, this ship, as
		
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			large as it may be, as huge as
		
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			it may be, stands no chance
		
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			against this mighty beast.
		
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			It stands no chance.
		
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			This is, you know, one of the things
		
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			that sailors even in, you know, in the
		
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			in the western world, when they would sail
		
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			off, they'd say godspeed,
		
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			right?
		
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			Essentially saying you're in god's hands now.
		
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			You're you're you're not you're you're the most
		
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			vulnerable out at sea.
		
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			You could have all the protective gear you
		
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			want, you could have all the best engineering
		
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			you want on the boat, you could have
		
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			security and all this other stuff. But when
		
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			you're at sea, you're in the jaws of
		
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			death,
		
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			and you're hoping that if it's a let's
		
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			say it's a 1 month journey, let's say
		
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			it's a 6 week journey, let's say it's
		
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			a 3 week 3 month journey, whatever how
		
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			long journey that is, you're hoping every one
		
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			of those 3 months and every minute of
		
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			those 3 months, the ocean doesn't wake up
		
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			angry.
		
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			That's what you're hoping for. And so when
		
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			this when the when the journey began,
		
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			it was a nice wind.
		
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			It was a calm wind. It was a
		
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			pleasant wind.
		
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			Is 2 things. It's good and it's pure.
		
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			So they could there's a freshness in the
		
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			wind too. And there's a goodness in it
		
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			because the sails are just picking up and
		
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			even the crew is like, captain, this is
		
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			a good wind. He goes,
		
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			and then, you know, things are going forward
		
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			and he's if things are looking good and
		
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			you're looking confidently out at you're going to
		
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			make it. Right?
		
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			Now what Allah does in this ayah is
		
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			all of a sudden
		
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			all of a sudden by the way, He
		
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			says,
		
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			they were all they were elated by the
		
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			wind.
		
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			Because what did it do? What did that
		
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			wind do? All of a sudden it filled
		
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			them with hope. This is gonna be a
		
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			good trip. This is pretty good weather. I
		
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			think we're gonna get there ahead of time.
		
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			We might even beat the deadline.
		
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			And if it stays like this, this is
		
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			gonna be a really enjoyable journey.
		
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			Oh my God, I was nervous for no
		
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			reason.
		
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			They're really really happy about how things are
		
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			off to a good start. They're really off
		
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			to a good start. Now what Allah does
		
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			without any warning even in the language,
		
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			notice you'll notice here,
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			They were happy with it all,
		
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			an an
		
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			inconsiderate,
		
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			a ruthless wind
		
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			came at them.
		
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			He didn't say, then a ruthless wind came
		
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			at them. Or sometime later, a ruthless wind
		
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			came at them. Or soon after No no
		
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			qualifiers, no warnings. It says
		
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			it's not even or
		
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			or
		
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			nothing. No no warning. And this is actually
		
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			in the an indication of how things were
		
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			going so smoothly
		
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			out at sea, then all of a sudden,
		
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			the sky turned.
		
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			The ocean changed,
		
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			the rain started pouring heavy,
		
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			the ship starts wobbling,
		
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			they start seeing gigantic waves like they're standing
		
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			in front of a mountain,
		
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			and they're on the boat and they're seeing
		
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			water up they're supposed to see water down
		
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			there, they're seeing water up there.
		
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			And it's coming and it's slapping them from
		
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			one side, and they're like, okay, They're looking
		
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			for it to come from that side again,
		
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			and it comes from the other side.
		
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			And they're looking for it to come from
		
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			the other side, now it's coming from the
		
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			front, and the bone is about to tip
		
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			and tip it forward, and then it's about
		
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			to tip backwards. And the people on board
		
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			are just
		
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			getting tossed around
		
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			inside the boat,
		
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			inside this vessel holding on to things, crying.
		
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			You know,
		
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			the the the the sails are ripping open,
		
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			you know, some people have already fallen off
		
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			board,
		
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			there's people crying, there's people screaming,
		
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			there's people saying help, help, help.
		
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			All of this is happening out of nowhere
		
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			without any warning.
		
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			When that happens,
		
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			they then then Allah says
		
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			Then they all and they were some of
		
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			them were, you know, they some of them
		
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			worship
		
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			Some of them worship
		
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			Some of them worship Uzza. Some of them
		
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			were agnostic.
		
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			Some of them were thinking about I'm spiritual
		
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			but not religious. You know, I'm I'm thinking
		
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			about things at the moment.
		
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			Some of them were scientific,
		
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			you know, materialistic,
		
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			atheist, etcetera. There were all different variety of
		
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			religious beliefs,
		
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			variety of denominations,
		
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			variety of, you know,
		
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			convictions,
		
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			philosophies,
		
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			all of a sudden you find all of
		
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			them saying, oh god, oh god, please god.
		
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			I'm sorry.
		
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			Okay. Okay. I know I know I messed
		
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			up.
		
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			And they're having these confessions,
		
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			calling on God in whatever way they can,
		
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			And they're not calling on all of the
		
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			gods.
		
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			They're not calling on the list of gods
		
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			or the saints or the nothing. Just, Lord,
		
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			Lord, I know you're there. I know. I
		
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			know. I know. I've been ignoring you. I
		
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			know. I know.
		
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			And they're just making this massive confession.
		
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			I just I know I've been bad, but
		
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			if I if you just give me one
		
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			chance, just just please make it stop.
		
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			If you could just make a stop,
		
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			I'll be so great. I promise. I'll be
		
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			so grateful.
		
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			I promise.
		
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			I mean it. I mean it. And
		
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			that same person who was so composed,
		
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			so wealthy that they could afford to travel
		
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			by sea,
		
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			So wealthy that they could get the VIP
		
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			seat
		
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			on the ship so they can have the
		
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			best view of the ocean.
		
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			That same person who was getting served by
		
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			everyone else. And they were calling him Master
		
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			Master, he's now begging Master Master, save me.
		
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			He's crying,
		
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			he's turned into this like you know desperate
		
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			beggar,
		
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			child even, is
		
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			a child even.
		
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			In that moment of desperation,
		
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			I will promise you, we will absolutely be
		
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			from the grateful.
		
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			Now this parable, when I used to think
		
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			about it back in the day because I
		
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			haven't traveled by sea,
		
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			I've traveled by plane quite a bit.
		
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			And one time, there was an incident on
		
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			a plane that I was it was couple
		
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			of incidents.
		
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			One of them was
		
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			that we hit pretty hard turbulence. I was
		
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			asleep. I I I sleep pretty well on
		
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			the plane. So I I fall asleep before
		
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			takeoff. I wake up after landing. That's my
		
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			thing. Okay?
		
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			So I was gone,
		
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			and I wake up to
		
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			and the malakul mout math mask is hanging,
		
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			you know,
		
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			and people are like,
		
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			you know,
		
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			and and the the the the the flight
		
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			attendant is holding on to, like, 2 seats
		
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			and,
		
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			like, this is what was happening.
		
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			And I was like, oh, it's time to
		
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			go.
		
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			And the the guy next this is long,
		
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			many many years ago. The guy next to
		
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			me was watching a movie. He had headphones
		
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			on. He was watching it. There's a guy
		
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			on the other side who was listening to
		
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			some music or something. He was just,
		
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			you know But when I woke up,
		
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			they were both
		
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			that's what they were doing.
		
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			And you could hear people crying, and then,
		
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			you know, eventually the plane calmed down, and
		
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			they, you know, they came and they put
		
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			the masks
		
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			back in.
		
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			Right? And everything was calm. And guess what
		
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			this dude did?
		
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			And that guy put his headphones on, Hit
		
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			play again. Yo. Where was I?
		
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			In that moment, they became a different person.
		
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			They're like, oh, no, no. Okay. Alright, guys.
		
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			Okay. That was just a natural disaster.
		
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			Well, you weren't begging to nature.
		
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			You You weren't calling to nature.
		
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			You know, this is again something used to,
		
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			you know, mock atheists and sometimes atheists respond
		
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			with, well, you know, even if people do
		
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			that, it's a known
		
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			phenomenon that people turn to God in these
		
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			moments of desperation.
		
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			That's just desperation talking.
		
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			That's just desperation.
		
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			I'm like, okay. Fine. I'll give you that.
		
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			If it is desperation talking, and let's just
		
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			say it is, why is it that you
		
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			would turn to God in desperation? The one
		
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			thing that you've made your life your whole
		
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			identity is about the denial of God and
		
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			in your most desperate moments by the way
		
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			when you are facing
		
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			you're you're staring down the barrel you're staring
		
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			down the jaws of death
		
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			this is a moment where you need you
		
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			don't need to pretend about nothing You could
		
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			be a sincere and honest as you want.
		
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			Guy sitting next to his wife, the plane's
		
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			about to crash. You know, I've hated you
		
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			this entire time. I just want you to
		
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			know that.
		
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			Now he's making sure, he's really hoping they
		
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			crash now because
		
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			right?
		
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			So the idea
		
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			that they're in that moment when you're the
		
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			most authentic self, because it's done, you're it's
		
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			over.
		
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			They're turning to God,
		
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			That says something.
		
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			Something deep inside
		
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			you that you are so so adamantly intellectualizing
		
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			away
		
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			just emerges out of you, erupts out of
		
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			you and you can't even control it
		
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			because the ultimate proof of God, the ultimate
		
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			proof of Allah
		
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			lies deep within the fitra itself,
		
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			and when the human being all of a
		
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			sudden is moments away from meeting Allah, that
		
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			fitra
		
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			emerges and says, yeah, Allah, I'm not ready
		
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			to meet you, please.
		
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			And it just comes out. It pops out.
		
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			It's had a look.
		
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			And they're like, oh, show us a miracle
		
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			on the outside.
		
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			Show us something on the outside.
		
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			It's been inside you this whole time.
		
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			What's remarkable
		
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			about this parable also, if you look at
		
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			the, we didn't dive into the language, but
		
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			we will now piece by piece.
		
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			Allah didn't say
		
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			here. You know, their example is the example
		
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			of those who got boarded on 2 ships.
		
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			Something like that. He he didn't do that.
		
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			He just went straight into it
		
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			without even saying that's an example. Even though
		
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			it is an example, it's obvious it's an
		
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			example.
		
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			But other places so far we saw the
		
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			we saw
		
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			the and there's no
		
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			here. There's nothing. You just go straight in.
		
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			Why? As if to say something amazing. Like
		
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			I told you, I haven't done much sea
		
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			travel. I'm sure many of you haven't done
		
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			much sea travel.
		
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			And it's quite possible that the audience, the
		
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			majority of them haven't done much sea travel
		
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			It's quite possible
		
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			But this is Allah's way of something saying
		
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			something incredible.
		
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			You think those people out at sea are
		
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			in so much danger because they're surrounded by
		
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			the ocean and the waves can turn on
		
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			them at any time.
		
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			And that's why they're so vulnerable, and they're
		
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			so close to death.
		
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			And they're just a moment away from being
		
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			annihilated.
		
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			But what you know what none of you
		
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			realize is you're all out at sea.
		
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			This is your reality
		
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			right now.
		
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			You don't have to wait on to get
		
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			on board a plane or get on board
		
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			a ship
		
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			to be experiencing this reality.
		
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			You and I embark on things all the
		
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			time. Allah creates facility for us in every
		
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			one of our journeys. Some of you are
		
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			in an educational journey. Some of you are
		
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			in a professional journey. Some of you are
		
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			in a business journey. Some of you are
		
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			journeying or venturing into getting married. Some of
		
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			you are venturing to raise your children. There's
		
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			all these journeys that we take on. All
		
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			these ventures that we take on. And sometimes
		
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			we're at the dock of those journeys.
		
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			Just at the starting point of those journeys.
		
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			You just got engaged. There's a big smile
		
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			on your face.
		
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			It's 2 days before the wedding ceremony.
		
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			You're excited, etcetera. There's a
		
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			They're happy about it. They're taking pictures. They're
		
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			celebrating.
		
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			They're being congratulated left and right, there's this
		
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			goofy look on their face,
		
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			all the time.
		
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			That's you know, at that moment it's
		
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			And what does Allah do in life?
		
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			What Allah does in life doesn't matter which
		
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			venture whether it's marriage or children or business
		
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			or education, sometimes a wind comes out of
		
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			nowhere
		
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			and you get slapped with a wave from
		
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			one side and then another side and then
		
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			another side, and you're like, everything was going
		
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			so well,
		
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			and now everything has fallen apart.
		
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			I'm drowning here. What happened?
		
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			What happened? What You Allah,
		
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			I don't know what to do.
		
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			And so you might find yourself the business
		
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			is tanking
		
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			or you're being sued by somebody
		
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			or, you know, the the you're you're you're
		
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			you're you're you're in the trucking business and
		
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			your truck went on fire or this happened
		
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			or somebody filed a police report or this
		
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			happened or that happened. Oh my goodness.
		
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			Out of no or or sickness came
		
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			or a death came in the family,
		
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			there are so many waves that you can
		
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			get slapped with.
		
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			Right? And in those moments,
		
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			when they get hard enough, we just in
		
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			that moment of desperation, we turn back to
		
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			just
		
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			let us ride this storm, just make this
		
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			storm be over.
		
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			I know I've been ungrateful.
		
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			I'll never be ungrateful like this again.
		
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			The is really important.
		
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			Because the word
		
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			suggest
		
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			the immediate problem is so massive that I
		
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			can't even think beyond that anymore.
		
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			I don't
		
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			know what I don't think about the future,
		
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			I don't think about life. I don't think
		
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			about nothing. The old my entire universe has
		
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			become this problem.
		
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			Just get me out of this. That's all
		
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			I can think about.
		
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			You know, it's,
		
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			silly comparison, but
		
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			in the spirit of comparisons,
		
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			some people can't hang handle hunger.
		
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			I mean, Ramadan, Allah gives us unusual ability
		
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			to handle hunger and thirst, but generally speaking,
		
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			outside of Ramadan, when you're not fasting and
		
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			you're you're hungry for reasons of you forgot
		
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			to take your lunch with you or you
		
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			got stuck in traffic for a long time,
		
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			etcetera, etcetera, and you come home super hungry.
		
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			And
		
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			instead of the food being ready,
		
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			there's a conversation that needs to happen.
		
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			Hey. So I was thinking next month when
		
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			we're gonna can can we
		
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			oh, do you need to eat food right
		
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			now? Yeah. No. But it's really important. Next
		
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			month,
		
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			I just need to eat food.
		
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			You can't think past the food.
		
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			Right now,
		
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			I get get this off my
		
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			make this problem go away, and then I
		
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			can think about tomorrow.
		
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			There's this
		
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			the the the nature of crisis is it
		
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			blinds you of all things else. Everything else.
		
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			You just can't think about it anymore.
		
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			You know, this is an important,
		
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			side observation about the nature of crisis. The
		
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			Ummah has found itself in one crisis after
		
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			another after another after another,
		
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			and multiple crises at the same time like
		
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			right now,
		
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			for for well over a century. Like that's
		
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			just the that's our normal now. Our normal
		
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			is mass level disasters
		
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			in one place or another.
		
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			Right? Something's always on fire. Something's always some
		
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			unthinkable disasters going on. Some unthinkable
		
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			human travesty is going on with with the
		
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			omen, with humanity at large all the time.
		
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			And what's what's what's become of us
		
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			is that we're always looking at one fire
		
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			and we're like, if we could just get
		
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			out of this.
		
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			If you could just you Allah, just get
		
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			us get us out of this. And as
		
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			soon as that, then it's the next one.
		
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			Get us out of this. And get us
		
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			out of this. And get us out of
		
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			this. And get us out of this. And
		
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			we're constantly reacting to the next disaster.
		
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			We're just in this reaction
		
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			mode.
		
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			Now to give you a parable,
		
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			if
		
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			if there's a building on fire and you're
		
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			putting out the fire,
		
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			and while you're putting out that fire, the
		
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			people who are setting fire set building to
		
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			the next fire.
		
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			You're putting out that fire. And then they
		
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			set out the the next the next one.
		
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			And you're like, gotta do this one. Now
		
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			I gotta do this one. Now I gotta
		
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			do this one. And the people that are
		
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			setting fires are a lot quicker than your
		
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			ability to
		
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			put out the fire. Yeah?
		
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			And somebody says, hold on. Step back.
		
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			We need to figure out
		
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			how to take the ability of these people
		
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			to set fires.
		
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			Because if we don't,
		
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			we're constantly gonna be putting out fires, and
		
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			they're constantly gonna be
		
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			creating fires.
		
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			That's that's all we're gonna do. We're not
		
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			gonna solve this problem this way. We we
		
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			need to put out the fire immediately,
		
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			but we need to be thinking
		
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			beyond the immediate crisis.
		
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			We need to be thinking, are we gonna
		
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			be putting out fires 10 years from now?
		
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			Are we gonna be doing the same thing
		
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			20 years from now? Were we doing the
		
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			same thing 30 years ago,
		
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			50 years ago, 70 years ago?
		
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			Are we doing exactly the same thing?
		
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			Putting out fires again and again and again,
		
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			and we're not thinking about how to solve
		
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			the deeper problem?
		
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			And and where did they get the ability
		
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			to light those fires anyway? What gave them
		
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			that ability? What gave them that power? Why
		
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			don't we have that power?
		
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			What those those are important questions, aren't they?
		
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			Because if you're just going from crisis to
		
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			crisis, you can't plan anything.
		
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			Even in companies, some of you come from
		
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			the world of business. In companies,
		
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			you have you have teams that deal with
		
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			crisis management.
		
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			Some managers are very good at solving a
		
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			crisis.
		
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			Right? So if there's a
		
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			human resource crisis, a management crisis,
		
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			a deadline was missed crisis,
		
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			some some kind of financial,
		
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			They know how to handle that situation. They
		
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			know, okay. Let me understand the problem. Let
		
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			me fix it, fix it, fix it. Those
		
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			fix it people,
		
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			they're so used to fixing problems When you
		
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			say, Hey, we wanna grow the organization,
		
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			do something bigger, we wanna achieve higher goals,
		
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			they're they're not even capable of doing that.
		
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			Why? Because their entire programming
		
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			is to deal with
		
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			crisis and then sometimes those people, even when
		
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			there isn't a crisis, they create a crisis
		
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			so they can have a job.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But coming back to this parable,
		
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			let's look at the language again.
		
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			In the beginning, you're at the precipice of
		
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			a beautiful journey.
		
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			And those The beautiful journey represents blessings, like
		
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			the the boat is actually blessings.
		
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			It's a new life that people are going
		
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			to go into. They're gonna travel to a
		
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			new world. Start a new venture.
		
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			You know, begin a family. Start farming. So
		
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			do doing something. Right? So, there's this idea
		
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			of opening up new horizons for you in
		
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			life
		
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			that's encapsulated
		
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			in, you know,
		
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			You're you're entering into territory that you've never
		
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			entered before with optimism, with hope. That's what's
		
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			going on in your life. And as that's
		
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			as you're heading in that direction,
		
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			Things look good.
		
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			Things start looking good. So you went into
		
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			school,
		
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			classes are easy. You're passing them one after
		
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			the other after the other. You're on your
		
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			way to the honor roll. You might be
		
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			the valedictorian of the university. You might become
		
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			you got a full fledged scholarship. Things might
		
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			start really just falling into place. What is
		
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			that?
		
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			The wind start taking them, you know, start
		
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			sailing them away or they start getting sailed
		
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			away, the ships start sailing them away with
		
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			a good wind. Good wind means blessings come
		
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			and now things are getting easy. You you
		
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			start feeling like you've got the golden touch.
		
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			Anything you touch, oh, blessings.
		
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			You decide, oh, you're gonna open up a
		
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			pizza place, you start it, it becomes the
		
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			most successful pizza place in 1 year. Like,
		
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			I think I've got the golden touch, mashallah.
		
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			I'm gonna open up another one there, and
		
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			boom! It becomes the biggest pizza place. Then
		
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			a third one, a fourth one. You're like,
		
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			Oh, I think I'm gonna be the pizza
		
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			king.
		
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			I'm gonna keep going.
		
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			And so what happens when business is good
		
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			and when opportunities keep opening up and when
		
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			everything is successful one after the other? You
		
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			know what happens?
		
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			You you and I,
		
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			we start seeing dollar signs instead of our
		
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			eyeballs.
		
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			And we start thinking, oh, I gotta
		
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			there's
		
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			And then use you were things were okay,
		
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			but now you want everything to work and
		
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			you wanna try every new thing so you
		
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			get busier and busier and busier and busier
		
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			with 20 different projects because success has come
		
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			your way. Right? So you were busy already
		
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			but you made yourself exponentially busier because of
		
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			success.
		
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			Now, what does that symbolize? How is that
		
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			symbolize?
		
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			The wave
		
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			takes them.
		
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			The ship takes them with a good wind.
		
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			So they're not going, the the success is
		
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			taking them, the blessings are taking them, the
		
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			ship is taking taking them.
		
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			So the blessings themselves start moving you this
		
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			way or that way or the other way.
		
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			And you're just entirely lost in
		
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			these these good times.
		
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			And all of a sudden then, the problem
		
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			with that mentality also, success
		
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			is a is a pretty potent drug.
		
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			It's a very potent
		
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			drug. Whether it's financial success, social success, academic
		
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			success, it's a drug. You start feeling entitled.
		
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			You start feeling like you earned it,
		
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			You know?
		
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			And then Allah hits you with a disaster,
		
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			with a challenge, with a catastrophe, with a
		
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			setback.
		
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			The plans get destroyed.
		
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			You had projections for 5 years, now it's
		
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			all gone, washed away. You had these big
		
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			big dreams, all of them are just they
		
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			vanished into thin air.
		
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			You know, like like cryptocurrency
		
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			or your NFT just disappeared,
		
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			you know. And when that happened,
		
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			when all of that collapsed all of a
		
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			sudden,
		
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			then this call to Allah, So
		
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			let's look at that language again. Let's revisit
		
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			it.
		
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			I didn't tell you about
		
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			in Arabic is when you
		
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			violently
		
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			peel
		
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			off of the the the cob.
		
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			When you violently peel the leaves off the
		
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			cob.
		
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			Right? Or scrape the the crop.
		
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			Okay? For harvest. And then you have to
		
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			rip it off, rip it off, rip it
		
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			off. This is called
		
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			actually.
		
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			One of the ways that is also used
		
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			is for a violent horse.
		
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			When a horse is galloping really fast, and
		
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			doesn't care what's in its way, it's moving
		
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			with asf.
		
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			So it has the imagery of violence, and
		
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			quickness, and speed.
		
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			That's inside the meaning of our it's inconsiderate.
		
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			The horse doesn't care if it trampled over
		
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			a child. The horse doesn't care if it
		
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			broke a fence. It just now it's going,
		
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			it's a stampede, it's going.
		
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			The winds that come, they're not nice.
		
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			They don't care about you. They're not like
		
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			a You know how sometimes boxers, they realize
		
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			they're boxing somebody who's not that strong against
		
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			them, so they hold back their full power,
		
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			their punch.
		
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			This is not one of those boxers.
		
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			This win don't hold back. It don't care.
		
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			It goes full on against you.
		
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			This is what kids call me at back
		
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			in campus in in Texas. Sometimes we play
		
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			video games
		
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			and video game tournaments,
		
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			and I'm, you know, seasoned in street fighter.
		
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			And so I only play street fighter.
		
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			I don't let them play any other video
		
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			games, because why would I allow them to
		
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			win? Like, you wanna play FIFA? Like, nope.
		
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			So we play Streetfighter,
		
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			and I destroy them.
		
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			Like, even a 6 year old. Like, why
		
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			are you so mean? I was like, because.
		
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			No. No. No mercy. I will give you
		
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			every combo I know.
		
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			I'll beat you in 9 seconds.
		
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			You can cry, or you can learn to
		
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			get up.
		
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			But the idea of
		
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			a problem will come and you'll feel like
		
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			it has no mercy.
		
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			It's also interesting that the same thing that
		
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			was the blessing
		
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			was
		
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			And the thing
		
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			that's ruined your life
		
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			is
		
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			it's also a wind.
		
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			The wind was the blessing, the wind became
		
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			the curse. And what is perhaps Allah teaching
		
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			us in that imagery
		
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			is that sometimes the very thing,
		
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			the people, the businesses,
		
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			the associates, the employees, the friends, the partners
		
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			that were the biggest blessing, that were riding
		
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			the success with you, that were coming along
		
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			with, they become your biggest enemies all of
		
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			a sudden.
		
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			That same blessing became the biggest curse. You're
		
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			like, can I just get rid of it?
		
00:41:33 --> 00:41:34
			I don't want this property anymore. Can I
		
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			just get out of it somehow?
		
00:41:37 --> 00:41:39
			That same property when you first bought it,
		
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			you were like, My God, I can't believe
		
00:41:41 --> 00:41:42
			we got this. Alhamdulillah.
		
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			And now you're looking at it, My God,
		
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			I can't believe it's still here You Allah,
		
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			can I just get out of this property?
		
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			Too much litigation, too much legal problems, too
		
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			much problems with the city, too much the
		
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			the same thing became a curse,
		
00:41:54 --> 00:41:55
			the same thing.
		
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			And so Allah is teaching us that we
		
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			should not rely
		
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			on blessings
		
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			Because that same
		
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			that is
		
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			can
		
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			without warning
		
00:42:07 --> 00:42:08
			become
		
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			It can become
		
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			And maybe sometimes Allah does change
		
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			a good wind into a terrible one, a
		
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			ruthless one.
		
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			Just to remind the believer that the only
		
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			one you can truly rely on is Allah.
		
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			Just to remind you,
		
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			everyone else
		
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			everyone else
		
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			can have a change.
		
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			But Allah is consistent with you.
		
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			Allah is consistent with you.
		
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			So he says,
		
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			and they realized, By the way, if the
		
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			waves are coming at you from every direction,
		
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			you know what that also means, you can't
		
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			get help.
		
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			You can't turn to anybody for help. In
		
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			fact, this you turn this way for help,
		
00:42:53 --> 00:42:55
			a wave came from this way. You turn
		
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			that way for help, wave came from that
		
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			way.
		
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			It's also the image
		
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			of extreme isolation.
		
00:43:02 --> 00:43:03
			You're in a crisis, and you can't even
		
00:43:03 --> 00:43:05
			turn to help it towards anybody.
		
00:43:05 --> 00:43:07
			You have no trust with anybody.
		
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			And now in this moment, you realize you're
		
00:43:10 --> 00:43:13
			just completely going to be overrun, and you
		
00:43:13 --> 00:43:14
			turn to Allah, and you say that they
		
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			they turn to Allah
		
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			calling on Allah, making their religion entirely since
		
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			here for Him. What does that mean? That
		
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			they make their religion sincere for Him? All
		
00:43:22 --> 00:43:25
			the pretense, all the ignoring Allah, all all
		
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			of that disappeared. All of a sudden, you
		
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			just wanna be vulnerable and honest with Allah,
		
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			and pure have a pure real conversation with
		
00:43:33 --> 00:43:35
			Allah. I know this is hard to understand
		
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			because we don't deal with spirituality,
		
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			you know, as easily. So I'll give you
		
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			a parable or
		
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			a parallel rather.
		
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			You know, sometimes you have people in your
		
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			family, you wanna be able to have an
		
00:43:46 --> 00:43:48
			honest conversation with them.
		
00:43:48 --> 00:43:49
			Right?
		
00:43:50 --> 00:43:50
			But you don't.
		
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			You're just scared,
		
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			or you're like, they won't understand,
		
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			Or you're like, if they knew what I
		
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			think about them,
		
00:44:01 --> 00:44:02
			you know?
		
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			And so you have these conversations in your
		
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			head, but you never have them out loud.
		
00:44:07 --> 00:44:09
			You start living in your head, and you
		
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			start building whatever it may be. Maybe resentment,
		
00:44:11 --> 00:44:12
			it may be anger,
		
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			It may be judgment. It may be maybe
		
00:44:14 --> 00:44:15
			a scoffing,
		
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			a scoffing attitude towards the other, but you
		
00:44:18 --> 00:44:21
			never verbalize it. For whatever reason, then you
		
00:44:21 --> 00:44:21
			develop this
		
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			insincere relationship with this person.
		
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			So it it's good on the outside, but
		
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			there's nothing good about it on the inside.
		
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			There's nothing sincere about it on the inside.
		
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			And this is the it's kind of a
		
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			parallel with the kind of relationship people develop
		
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			with Allah. Allah is there. I know deep
		
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			depth in the depths of my being, I
		
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			know he's there, but right now I don't
		
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			wanna acknowledge his presence,
		
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			because I just really wanna do what I
		
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			wanna do.
		
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			I just wanna put the headphones back on.
		
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			So I I don't wanna deal with Allah
		
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			right now.
		
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			But when he removes all of your distractions
		
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			and takes away all of your blessings,
		
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			all of a
		
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			sudden, the way you turn back to Allah,
		
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			the way I turn back to Allah, begging
		
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			him
		
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			We will absolutely be from the grateful. It's
		
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			interesting that the words used were not, I
		
00:45:07 --> 00:45:08
			will obey you,
		
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			or I will be loyal to you,
		
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			I'll be grateful.
		
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			You know why? Because a person really learns
		
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			how to become grateful
		
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			when all the blessings disappear,
		
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			then you realize what a blessing they were.
		
00:45:21 --> 00:45:24
			Nobody appreciates health like someone who's sick.
		
00:45:25 --> 00:45:28
			Nobody nobody appreciates a car like someone whose
		
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			car got taken away.
		
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			Nobody appreciates,
		
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			you know, a job like someone who just
		
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			lost their job.
		
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			That's the nature of it.
		
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			Now, I'll realize that these blessings were not
		
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			something I was entitled to. Look at the
		
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			tragedy of the next ayah. Then
		
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			finally, when he did rescue them,
		
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			Allah did. They they turned to Allah. They
		
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			made this this begging plea to Allah. Allah
		
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			rescued them finally.
		
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			All of a sudden they start arrogantly defying
		
00:45:59 --> 00:46:00
			Allah in the land,
		
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			immediately turn back and they become arrogant and
		
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			defiant. You know,
		
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			the contemporary example of this that comes in
		
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			my mind is there are people that were
		
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			going through a really big difficulty,
		
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			and they were begging Allah at the time
		
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			to save them, and then Allah save them.
		
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			And then after that, they start decide deciding
		
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			that they're gonna teach other people,
		
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			self help and, success stories.
		
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			And they're gonna say, you know, I was
		
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			really down on my knees at one point.
		
00:46:28 --> 00:46:29
			I was really beaten down, but
		
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			it's my own
		
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			courage
		
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			and my own resolve,
		
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			and you have to be brave and weather
		
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			the storm, and you're gonna succeed the way
		
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			I succeeded.
		
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			At the time you were begging Allah to
		
00:46:46 --> 00:46:47
			get you out of it, once you got
		
00:46:47 --> 00:46:49
			out of it, who got you out of
		
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			it?
		
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			That's Man, the storm I was in.
		
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			You know what I survived? I survived the
		
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			storm in the middle of the sea.
		
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			Did you know?
		
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			That's not what you sounded like when you
		
00:47:01 --> 00:47:03
			were hanging by the raft,
		
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			off the dangling off the side of the
		
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			boat, side side of the ship, saying, oh,
		
00:47:08 --> 00:47:09
			what's it? Is it? At the time, you
		
00:47:09 --> 00:47:12
			weren't hanging saying, I will weather this storm.
		
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			Bring it on.
		
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			You
		
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			that's not what you were saying at the
		
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			time.
		
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			But now that that's over with, now you
		
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			can give a tech tech talk about it
		
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			and change your story. Right?
		
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			When Allah rescues them, all of a sudden,
		
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			they become
		
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			defiant and, you know, arrogantly defiant.
		
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			Has this idea of arrogance
		
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			and being supreme.
		
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			With no justification at all.
		
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			Allah says people, humanity, listen up.
		
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			Your arrogant defiance
		
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			only works against your own selves.
		
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			It only works against your own selves.
		
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			These are things to utilize and enjoy temporarily
		
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			in worldly life.
		
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			Then you will all be returned only and
		
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			only to us.
		
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			It's you're not even gonna be returned to
		
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			the bottom of the ocean. You're You're gonna
		
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			be pulled out of there and return back
		
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			to Allah.
		
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			Like, there there it's a far more terrifying
		
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			prospect
		
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			than even drowning at
		
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			sea, is to be pulled out of the
		
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			drowning sea, and be brought to trial in
		
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			front of Allah, and to answer for your
		
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			and
		
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			to answer for your rebellion, and to answer
		
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			for your fake sincerity.
		
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			In that moment, that temporary sincerity.
		
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			Last comment and and
		
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			I'll I'll translate the the ending of this
		
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			ayah. We shall inform you of the things
		
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			that you used to do. And I'll tell
		
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			you one last thing about this ayah that
		
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			I think is noteworthy,
		
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			in my mind. There's many more, but at
		
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			least one more.
		
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			There is such a thing as temporary sincerity.
		
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			This eye is evidence.
		
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			You can have a moment in which you
		
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			get clarity,
		
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			and you become
		
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			completely not a hypocrite,
		
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			not not a not a sinner, not a
		
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			defier, not a kafir.
		
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			You became
		
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			a full on sincere
		
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			believer.
		
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			Is quite
		
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			a compliment in the Quran.
		
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			That's not a light thing to say about
		
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			somebody.
		
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			So this person has experienced
		
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			pure faith.
		
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			Pure faith in that moment.
		
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			And so it's a tragedy that you experience
		
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			something so pure
		
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			and you still let it go.
		
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			You let that drown,
		
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			ironically.
		
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			Right? Allah didn't let you drown, but you
		
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			let this treasure that you acquired in the
		
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			middle of the ocean. You found Allah himself.
		
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			You went looking for pearls. You went looking
		
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			for whatever fish. When you were looking for
		
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			hunting for a whale, and you found god
		
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			himself,
		
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			and you let that go.
		
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			You what a tragedy.
		
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			Every one of us has to identify what
		
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			journey we're on, what boat we're on, what
		
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			waves are being hit with us, or what
		
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			waves are coming at us, what blessings are
		
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			distracting us,
		
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			what blessings are taking us away, and we're
		
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			just sailing away with them, And we're not
		
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			thinking about where Allah where Allah wants us
		
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			to be. What gratitude we're supposed to show
		
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			Allah. May Allah make us contemplate his beautiful
		
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			parables and may Allah bring us closer and
		
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			closer to him and make us grateful servants
		
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			of him.
		
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			Assalamu
		
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