Nouman Ali Khan – Surah Al Jumuah #25 Secrets Behind Salah

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The importance of connection with the Quran is discussed, including the use of "il wear" and "will" in Arabic and the importance of praying on Friday. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of remembering Allah's words and the use of the "rem embacing words" in Arabic. The title of the Friday before the weekend is called the rememb desired and the importance of remembering Allah's words is discussed. The speaker also mentions sponsorship opportunities for students to learn the Quran and share it with family and friends.

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			What's the ultimate dhikr according to the Quran?
		
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			The Quran.
		
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			The Quran.
		
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			But when he says
		
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			the remembrance of Allah Allah is not talking
		
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			about the sounds of the Quran.
		
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			Allah is talking about the message of the
		
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			Quran that impacts the heart.
		
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			So our connection, the more intimate we become
		
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			in our connection with the Quran,
		
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			our recitation is going to become more spiritual.
		
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			1st
		
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			Aw, Ilahi Adikarillah.
		
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			Actually, also
		
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			I didn't mention salah. Ithanudiya this salah so
		
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			let me come back to this I'll show
		
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			you something about salah first the word salah
		
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			which we translate as prayer yeah
		
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			Is actually an Istida. Istida in Arabic means
		
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			to warm your hands on a fire.
		
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			Okay? Or to borrow a fire from a
		
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			like there's a barbecue fire and you can
		
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			take your torch and you can light up
		
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			your fire. Musa
		
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			used it when his family was freezing in
		
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			the desert cold and he said, I'm gonna
		
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			go up to that fire and I'm gonna
		
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			see if I can find some directions
		
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			and hopefully I can get a little bit
		
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			of the fire so you can get some
		
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			warmth. La'alaqqum Tasdalooon
		
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			Same word from salah. Okay.
		
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			It's used also for people being thrown into
		
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			the fire of *.
		
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			From the same word
		
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			And from it we get the word prayer.
		
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			What does prayer have to do with heating
		
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			and fire?
		
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			Actually the idea is when you put something
		
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			in the fire or when you heat something
		
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			it becomes soft.
		
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			Okay. The heat makes it softer if it's
		
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			a stick and you put it in the
		
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			heat it starts bending,
		
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			right?
		
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			The idea of salah, the spiritual meaning of
		
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			salah, one of its meanings is that its
		
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			intensity
		
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			humbles you,
		
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			it softens you, like it softens your heart,
		
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			it softens your thoughts, it softens your feelings.
		
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			Like those who believe their sins
		
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			their skins become soft.
		
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			Right? So there's a there's a there's an,
		
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			a detoxing happening
		
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			and there's a melting of you happening when
		
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			you're standing in the prayer. It's incredible.
		
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			Then Hassan Nasr al Jabbat in his dictionary
		
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			he argues, this is a little bit technical
		
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			but really cool, so I'm I'm sharing it
		
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			with you. The word salah has to do
		
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			with Sad,
		
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			Laam and You.
		
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			Sad, Laam and You. And in Arabic there
		
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			are vowels. Alif, Waw and You are vowels.
		
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			So if you get rid of the vowels,
		
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			then what consonants are left?
		
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			And
		
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			So the theory in Arabic linguistics that the
		
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			if there's 3 letters
		
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			and one of them is a vowel,
		
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			then you look at the 2 consonants in
		
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			this case
		
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			and any word that shares those two letters
		
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			is related to that word.
		
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			So you take the common denominator which is
		
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			and
		
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			from it and the other vowel would be
		
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			if you put a wow in the beginning
		
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			which is another word in Arabic, which is
		
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			similar to salah because it has sad and
		
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			lam in it. One has a vowel at
		
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			the end, the other has a vowel in
		
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			the
		
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			beginning. It's really it's like studying algebra. Honestly
		
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			it's really cool. But anyway so this word
		
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			wasl which is which
		
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			is means to connect.
		
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			And so salah also means
		
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			to join,
		
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			to connect.
		
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			You know like
		
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			They cut what Allah has commanded to keep
		
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			joined.
		
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			When we're called to salah we firstly connect
		
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			to Allah.
		
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			And by extension in a very secondary way,
		
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			we actually also connect to each other.
		
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			Allah says, (QS. Al Mujadilahi: 3) And theoretically,
		
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			hold on to the rope of Allah altogether,
		
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			and don't be divided. What's a physical demonstration
		
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			of everybody holding on to the rope of
		
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			Allah together, and not being divided?
		
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			Friday prayer.
		
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			Friday prayer, everybody's together, they're not divided.
		
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			And they're all holding on to the rope
		
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			of Allah. Right? So there's this idea of
		
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			connection. So let me come back and just
		
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			go through some of these other things. Then
		
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			the call is made that the laam actually
		
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			means for the purpose of. The ultimate purpose
		
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			is the prayer itself. But we know that
		
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			Jumu'ah is not just a prayer, it's what
		
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			else?
		
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			It's the Khutba. It's the Khutba and the
		
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			prayer.
		
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			And which there's 5 prayers in a day,
		
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			which prayer do we not pray on Friday?
		
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			We don't pray luh. Luhr is 4 rakas.
		
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			But the Friday prayer is what? 2 rakas.
		
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			Our fuqaha looked at this and said, the
		
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			reason we don't pray the 4 rakas of
		
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			Luhru is that 2 of them become the
		
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			equal of the Khutba and the other 2
		
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			are the prayers that we pray.
		
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			Which is why the Khutba becomes a part
		
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			of the prayer.
		
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			Okay. So we're compensating
		
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			2 rakas of wuhr with actually the khutba.
		
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			Okay. Which is why you should take every
		
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			precaution you can to come to the Friday
		
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			prayer early. You should also take every precaution
		
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			you can. It's not just any speech.
		
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			It's a part of the salah in that
		
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			sense. So you shouldn't be talking or you
		
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			know distracted just like you wouldn't do that
		
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			in the prayer. You wouldn't in the middle
		
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			of your prayer be like Allah.
		
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			Will let me respond, I'll not.
		
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			Okay, I'm about to go to ruku, I
		
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			gotta go talk later, Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Would it do that and you shouldn't do
		
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			that also in what?
		
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			In the khutba,
		
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			in the khutba. And even from an early
		
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			age our children should be taught Khutba is
		
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			not any other speech.
		
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			Any other speeches going on, people are talking
		
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			to each other, no problem.
		
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			But this, you shouldn't be. Now, I'll share
		
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			with you my own again,
		
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			might sound controversial to you but I'm gonna
		
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			share my position on this with you. There
		
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			was a, because this
		
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			was assumed that the 2 rak'ahs of wuhr
		
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			are now equivalent of the hutba which is
		
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			then making it the hutba sacred, the hutba
		
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			is now become sacred. Now that it's become
		
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			sacred
		
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			it should be
		
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			in Arabic. So fatwa came that the Khutba
		
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			itself should be in the Arabic language otherwise
		
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			it's not really considered a Khutba.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			The problem I have with that view
		
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			is that 1, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			spoke in Arabic because he was speaking to
		
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			an Arab audience. It's number
		
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			1. The opening praises of the Prophet's Masnu
		
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			and Khudbah or the fact that we praise
		
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			Allah and send salawat on the Prophet SAW.
		
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			Sure do that in Arabic, that's a great
		
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			sunnah of the Prophet
		
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			But
		
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			if somebody who's Arab or speaks Arabic starts
		
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			talking about you know, how
		
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			we should help our young men and women
		
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			become more independent,
		
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			and become financially responsible
		
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			so they can get married early,
		
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			But he says all of that in Arabic
		
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			to a Turkish community.
		
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			And he says all of that in Arabic
		
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			to a Bangladeshi community. Did any of them
		
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			hear anything about the Ayat of Allah?
		
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			They didn't.
		
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			Or that's actually
		
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			what I'm shared shared with you is inspired
		
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			by an Ayah of the Quran. The Quran
		
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			talks about these issues,
		
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			you know. That it talks about financial independence
		
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			and how you have to become and related
		
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			to merit. So this is an important issue
		
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			that the community needs to hear, but now
		
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			they can't hear because it's only being said
		
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			in
		
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			Arabic. And the problem with that is
		
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			Allah never said the Arabic language is sacred.
		
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			The sacred words in the Arabic language are
		
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			sacred.
		
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			Quran is sacred,
		
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			not Arabic.
		
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			When I say, that's
		
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			not more Islamic.
		
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			I was like, How's it going bro? That's
		
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			justice is equal. You know what? There was
		
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			a funny story in that country where they
		
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			don't speak Arabic, but Arabic is supposed to
		
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			be like really the Islamic language. They have,
		
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			they had a problem in that Muslim country
		
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			where people they just go by a because
		
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			there's no public bathrooms, right? So people go
		
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			by a wall, and they just pee.
		
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			It's just disgusting,
		
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			and they put giant signs, please don't urinate
		
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			here, please don't pee here, etcetera, and nobody
		
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			listens. This is
		
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			disgusting. Right? So somebody came up with a
		
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			genius idea.
		
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			They put it in calligraphy Arabic.
		
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			Do not pee.
		
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			The problem stopped.
		
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			Because in the minds of people,
		
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			Arabic itself is sacred.
		
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			So
		
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			Yeah
		
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			so I do believe the basnoon part of
		
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			the khutbah, the hamdot of Allah
		
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			and the salawat of the Prophet
		
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			I think we should preserve that sunnah of
		
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			the Prophet But the message of the khutbah
		
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			actually should be in the language of the
		
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			people.
		
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			And that's why it was separated from the
		
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			prayer itself.
		
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			So it's supposed to be a message for
		
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			the people. So anyway that's
		
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			Now,
		
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			this next next piece,
		
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			a part of the day of Friday. This
		
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			is really important because the people that came
		
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			before us, the Israelites who were given the
		
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			Torah, they were not told to pray a
		
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			part of the sacred day. And for them
		
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			the sacred day was called
		
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			Asabt, the Sabbath
		
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			and actually they were told to pray the
		
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			entire day and leave all business the entire
		
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			day. I'm gonna go into detail about that
		
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			later on but I'll tell you one thing
		
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			now and that is Allah has taken what
		
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			used to be part of the Sharia of
		
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			Musa
		
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			and He reduced it
		
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			and He made it lighter.
		
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			Now there are other things in the Sharia
		
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			of Musa
		
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			that Allah made lighter also.
		
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			Like the things they added on. Like for
		
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			example, I told you they consider the camel,
		
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			impure, right? And
		
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			Allah clarifies that no, it's not impure you
		
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			can eat that in the Quran. There's a
		
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			there's an isha'aayat Surah Al Imran
		
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			Similarly, they used to have days in which
		
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			they would fast. Allah made those days optional
		
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			but He made the fasting of Ramadan
		
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			mandatory.
		
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			On this note you should note a few
		
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			things
		
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			about our prayers and theirs. Their prayers they
		
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			used to have also ruku and sujood like
		
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			we have.
		
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			They used to have ruku and sujood but
		
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			it seems that they used to have sajda
		
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			first and ruku second.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Guys sorry for the interruption in the middle
		
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			of this lecture.
		
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			Thanks so much.
		
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			And we get that ishara in how Allah
		
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			spoke to or the angels spoke to Mariam
		
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			salamu ala'liha
		
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			Do Sajdah and make Ruquah
		
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			Okay. So they do Sajdah and they make
		
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			Ruquah But we do Ruquah first then we
		
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			do Sajdah So Allah changed the format of
		
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			the prayer
		
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			Then they used to pray towards Jerusalem.
		
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			Allah changed it towards what?
		
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			The Kaaba.
		
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			They used to pray in the middle 3
		
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			days of the month.
		
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			Allah changed the day of Ashura.
		
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			Allah changed the fasting to what?
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			He man did the fasting in Ramadan.
		
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			So what is Allah doing? He changed the
		
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			capital,
		
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			He changed the national holiday,
		
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			Right? He changed the sacrifice
		
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			He kept some things but He altered each
		
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			thing you know what that is? When a
		
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			nation has a new capital
		
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			When a nation has a new constitution, the
		
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			Quran. When a nation has a new We
		
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			don't have an independence day, we have an
		
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			independence month.
		
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			And usually a nation has an independence day
		
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			when their
		
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			right? And then we celebrate that at the
		
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			end with Eid actually, right? And then daily
		
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			claim to Ibrahim alaihis salam Allah gave us
		
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			Iida al Abha.
		
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			And we make bigger claim to Ibrahim
		
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			than they can ever make because now millions
		
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			and millions and millions of people go to
		
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			Hajj and we have an Ibrahim convention every
		
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			year.
		
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			Right? That's literally an Ibrahim
		
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			convention. And we slaughtered the animal just like
		
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			who slaughtered the animal?
		
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			Ibrahim
		
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			So we
		
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			reclaimed Ibrahim alaihis salam. We reclaimed the legacy
		
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			of Ibrahim, we reclaimed the prayer, we reclaimed
		
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			the fasting, we reclaimed the final revelation. All
		
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			of it's getting reclaimed and the same way
		
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			they had the day of Sabbath and Allah
		
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			said, Now the sacred day shall be
		
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			Jawah. That got reclaimed too.
		
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			There's a reclaiming happening. Wait, wait, wait. What
		
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			about Saturday? No. It's actually Friday.
		
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			It's Friday.
		
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			So and it's not the whole Friday. It's
		
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			only a part of Friday. Allah said about
		
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			them
		
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			He tells us about the people of the
		
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			book. Allah has given this final Prophet
		
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			He has given him something that removes the
		
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			burdens and the chains that were on them.
		
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			They were chained by the Sabbath and Allah
		
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			has removed that and invited
		
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			them to something much easier which is the
		
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			day of Friday. So He says to us,
		
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			rush by the way
		
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			the meme has a sound, right?
		
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			Badu Uqayl, another tribe of the Arabs used
		
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			to say
		
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			with the sukoon Jumwa
		
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			like Pakistanis
		
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			Jumwa.
		
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			So you're more Banuwa Okayl basically.
		
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			So you have it I won't I would
		
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			have to correct you say no no you
		
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			say Jumu'ala.
		
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			No you can say Jumu'ala, it's okay. Jum'ala.
		
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			Jum'ala is okay Arabic to say. It's not
		
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			it's not wrong to say, okay? Anyway,
		
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			by the way before it was called Jum'ah
		
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			it was called Aruba or Aruba
		
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			which actually means relaxation.
		
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			Yeah. So before it's it's old name in
		
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			Arabic was Aruba.
		
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			Pretty cool name too. But Jama'a is better.
		
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			Are you imagine somebody saying, hey, you're gonna
		
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			go Aruba? I was like, no. I'm going
		
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			to Bahama.
		
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			Anyway,
		
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			let's let's talk a little bit about by
		
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			the way, just just FYI. So it was
		
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			called aruba. Ayaamulhusbuuh and then arabfil kadim here
		
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			Awal. Sunday was called Awal.
		
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			Ahuwanujubar
		
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			that was Saturday,
		
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			that was Monday.
		
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			And then
		
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			Dubar,
		
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			and Mu'yis,
		
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			and then Aruba
		
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			and then Shiar. Shiar
		
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			is actually Saturday for them. These were the
		
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			names of the week in ancient times. Now
		
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			of course we have Al Ahad Alithnayin, Athulathah,
		
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			Atharbi'aan, Khamis and Al Jumu'a and Sabt.
		
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			But interestingly Sabt is the same.
		
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			As Sabt now which in the the, Hebrews
		
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			say Shabbat
		
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			and in English the Bible calls it Sabbath,
		
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			which actually comes the Arabic etymology is Sabata.
		
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			Sabata means to cut
		
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			like
		
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			comes from Sabbath also. He made your sleep
		
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			a time that cuts you off from this
		
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			life,
		
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			right? Whatever problems you got going on, they're
		
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			not going on when you're sleeping. Your stress,
		
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			your anxiety, or this, you the fights over,
		
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			the arguments over, the meetings over because you're
		
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			you're not there anymore. You're cut off. Right?
		
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			So the word subat, it was used because
		
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			it cut them off from their business, their
		
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			earnings, everything. It cut them off completely, right?
		
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			So Allah says,
		
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			rush to the remembrance of Allah or rush
		
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			towards remembering Allah.
		
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			Now Allah could have said when the call
		
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			is made for the prayer
		
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			as part of the day of Friday, rush
		
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			to it.
		
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			Rush to it and the it would refer
		
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			to the prayer. But Allah now gave a
		
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			new name to the prayer which is what?
		
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			The remembrance of Allah
		
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			This is called
		
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			Meaning we expected a pronoun but Allah used
		
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			a noun. Simple let me put that in
		
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			simple words for you. If Allah calls to
		
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			the prayer, go to it.
		
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			That makes simple sense, right? If Allah calls
		
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			to the prayer, go to it. The it,
		
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			everybody hears it, they know what it is
		
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			talking about. What's it talking about? The prayer.
		
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			But Allah says, when Allah calls to the
		
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			prayer, go to remember Allah.
		
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			Go to remember Allah. So instead of saying
		
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			the word prayer or saying the word it,
		
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			He replaced it with
		
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			remembering Allah which is really amazing for a
		
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			couple of reasons. The most obvious one of
		
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			them is salah is on the outside, but
		
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			the remembrance of Allah is on the
		
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			inside. This is Al Kitab with Hikma together,
		
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			isn't it? Because Salah is Kitab and Vikrullah
		
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			is hikmah, and they got fused again. So
		
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			you don't get to separate them from each
		
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			other. 1 is the matter of our actions
		
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			and the other is the matter of our
		
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			hearts. We also now learn what is the
		
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			ultimate goal of the Friday prayer, is to
		
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			truly engage in the remembrance of Allah. So
		
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			now the concept of remembering Allah a little
		
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			a few comments about that before I give
		
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			you your break. We're not gonna be done
		
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			with the Sayah that quickly because there's lots
		
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			to discuss here but I'll just tell tell
		
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			you something about the dhikr of Allah. When
		
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			somebody says I'm doing dhikr nowadays what do
		
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			they think of?
		
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			Or they have the the beat situation,
		
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			and the way they move that beat I'm
		
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			impressed with the way they move the beat.
		
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			It's machine gun.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And now you have, like, people that have
		
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			digital,
		
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			like,
		
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			pretty soon you're gonna get the AI to
		
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			do your dhikr for you.
		
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			Vikar turned into this weird thing. I mean,
		
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			honestly, you could do that stuff fine, but
		
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			it turned into this other institution that actually
		
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			started getting further and further away from what
		
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			Allah was describing
		
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			as dhikr, the remembrance of Allah.
		
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			The remembrance of Allah. Allah says,
		
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			They remember Allah standing, sitting and on their
		
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			sides. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam taught us
		
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			when you walk into a home make this
		
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			dua, when you walk into the bathroom make
		
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			this dua, when you start eating say
		
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			when you wake up make this dua. When
		
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			you go to sleep, make this dua. When
		
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			you're with your wife, make this dua. When
		
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			you get in the car, make this dua.
		
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			When you reach your destination, make this dua.
		
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			When you hear some good news, make this
		
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			dua. When there's rain, make this dua. When
		
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			it's hot outside, make this dua. Oh my
		
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			God!
		
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			What is that? What is all of that?
		
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			That's the dhikr of Allah.
		
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			Just remember any opportunity in life it just
		
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			becomes remembrance of Allah. It's not a generic
		
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			set of words.
		
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			Those words have value of course. Alhamdulillah, SubhanAllah,
		
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			Astaghfirullah.
		
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			Those are heartfelt words and we're supposed to
		
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			do the the wiz of those words that
		
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			has its own place but the actual dhikr
		
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			of Allah was in life situations.
		
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			And it's not supposed to be some kind
		
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			of a posturing or a kind of a
		
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			demonstration
		
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			of your spirituality.
		
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			Like when somebody walks in that you don't
		
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			like and you say Astaghfirullahalawbaheem
		
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			or Laahuwalaquwalaquwalaquwalaquwalaquwalaquillaabimyah.
		
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			Or people sometimes they say Alhamdulillah
		
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			and other times they say Alhamdulillah
		
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			waqhalaquullihad
		
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			Meaning Alhamdulillah no matter what
		
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			even though you're here.
		
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			You know
		
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			And those are that's not dhikr. That's just
		
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			you trying to slap someone with religious terms.
		
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			That's not it's not that's not let's not
		
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			call that dhikr. Dhikr is done from the
		
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			heart
		
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			and dhikr is done
		
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			but genuinely you remember Allah and the ultimate
		
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			thing the ultimate component of dhikr. What does
		
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			the Quran say about the Quran itself?
		
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			He says,
		
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			It is nothing but Dhikr.
		
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			This is the description of what?
		
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			In
		
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			the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			In it no doubt there is a powerful
		
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			Dhikr
		
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			for anyone who has a heart.
		
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			Remind with the Quran whoever fears My threats.
		
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			Remind with the Quran.
		
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			No, no, no. It is a very powerful
		
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			reminder.
		
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			Whoever wants can remember it. Remember what?
		
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			The Quran.
		
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			I swear by the Quran that has the
		
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			power of dhikr.
		
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			What's the ultimate dhikr according to the Quran?
		
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			The Quran.
		
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			The Quran.
		
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			But when He says
		
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			the remembrance of Allah, Allah is not talking
		
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			about the sounds of the Quran.
		
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			Allah is talking about the message of the
		
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			Quran that impacts the heart.
		
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			So our connection, the more intimate we become
		
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			in our connection with the Quran,
		
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			our recitation is going to become more spiritual.
		
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			By the way even if you don't understand
		
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			Arabic and you listen to recitation you'll feel
		
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			something.
		
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			You'll feel a connection
		
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			but the more you start learning the Quran
		
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			even indirectly
		
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			Arabic is not the key to understanding the
		
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			Quran. Arabic is one of many doors, many
		
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			locks that have to be unlocked in the
		
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			heart. It's just one key, but there are
		
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			many gates.
		
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			And those gates, the more you spend time
		
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			with the last book, you will recognize those
		
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			other gates. They each one of you have
		
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			different gates inside of them that are locked.
		
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			I was in a because I'm gonna give
		
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			you a break. I'll just remind you guys
		
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			of one of the most amazing experiences in
		
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			my life. I went with Doctor. Suhayb to
		
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			something called Douratul Qur'an.
		
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			Dawatul Dhul Quran. We went to Ummal in
		
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			Masbath
		
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			and we spent a week there.
		
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			And what Sheikh
		
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			Ardaud
		
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			Wustan said to us on the 1st day
		
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			was so amazing. The whole program was in
		
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			Arabic. We spent an entire week living in
		
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			the Masjid.
		
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			Nobody, like we were the only I think
		
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			we were the only 2 non Arabs there.
		
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			Me and me and Doctor. Saheb right and
		
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			of course I'm gonna be like super Pakistani
		
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			so I wore shalar kameez the whole time
		
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			because I'm not gonna pretend to be Arab
		
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			Listen. So because I'm not. But so but
		
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			anyway, so we're there the whole week and
		
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			then
		
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			first and and he said,
		
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			And you know, Ail Al Amal.
		
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			Among you are business people, among you are
		
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			scholars, among you are fuqaha, among you are
		
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			Islamic court judges, among you are hadith scholars.
		
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			And then he said, among you are taxi
		
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			drivers. I was like, okay.
		
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			We're okay now.
		
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			But nobody knows who anybody is. Nobody is
		
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			he goes and he goes Alhamdulillah nafhamul arabiya
		
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			we understand Arabic
		
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			When the Quran is recited on us, we
		
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			understand it.
		
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			There are walls between us, our hearts, and
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			And the walls aren't just about knowledge because
		
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			we have the knowledge,
		
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			but they're still walls. We're gonna spend a
		
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			week
		
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			trying to break those walls between us,
		
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			our hearts and the Quran.
		
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			And he said we're going to do something
		
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			called Qira'at Qalb. We're going to recite
		
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			there's a there's a mind reading of the
		
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			Quran, there's a mindful reading of the Quran
		
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			and there's a heart reading of the Quran.
		
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			We're going to do a heart reading of
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			That's what we're gonna do. I'm telling you
		
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			this was one of the most
		
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			unreal Quran experiences of my life,
		
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			of my life.
		
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			We would sit there and we will recite
		
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			the same ayat. I've heard those ayat 100
		
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			of times but we're sitting there and Sheikh
		
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			Talu Sultan will recite
		
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			and we would all repeat after him
		
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			You
		
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			know the one who opens the he the
		
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			one who makes the morning tear out from
		
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			the sky.
		
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			And the one who made the night calm.
		
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			And we're sitting in the masjid we're reciting
		
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			this and you look outside and right after
		
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			Fajr the morning light is coming out and
		
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			you're looking at that and you're hearing Allah
		
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			say Fadukul
		
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			Isbah
		
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			and
		
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			it's like you heard that for the first
		
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			time.
		
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			You're just
		
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			you can read the tafsir, you can read
		
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			the grammar, you can do all that but
		
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			now you're not reading from your mind you're
		
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			reading from
		
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			Come to Allah's remembrance. Bring your heart
		
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			to the Jum'ah prayer.
		
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			Bring your heart to it. That's its point.
		
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			Some people complain Khadukhudba
		
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			is always talking about the same thing. We
		
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			need some new information.
		
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			Why is it always saying the same thing?
		
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			What is the what is the definition of
		
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			reminder?
		
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			Is reminder something new?
		
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			By definition,
		
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			reminder is something that you forgot
		
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			that you need to be told again and
		
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			then again and then again and then again.
		
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			So the Khutbah needs to be actually the
		
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			dhikr of Allah. So I'm gonna give you
		
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			guys your break at this point in the
		
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			meanings of the Quran and the beauty of
		
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