Nouman Ali Khan – Taking Accountability for Our Actions – Surah Al-Haqqah

Nouman Ali Khan
AI: Summary © The decline in language and the use of words in Arabic due to the decline of natural language has been impacting the human experience. The emotional distress of people feeling pain and the use of artificial language to express emotions has caused the decline. The challenges of translating the Quran and creating a world where everything is just a result of actions are being made, and the negative impact of true to oneself and not letting people manipulate with their actions is a topic of discussion. The importance of being true to oneself and not letting people manipulate with their actions is emphasized.
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Now the idea that I'm trying to project

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onto all of us is that we are

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on the clock,

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We're on the clock,

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And Allah is watching,

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and we're there are enough human beings in

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this world that like to pretend that they

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have free reign, they can do as they

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please, there is no accountability for what I'm

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doing.

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Today the, the section we're going to go

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through, at least I'm ambitious about it, is

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rather large. It's from ayah number 25 all

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the way to ayah number 37.

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If we don't get there, I'll be okay,

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but,

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at least we'll try to get there. This

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is the section of the people of the

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left hand. Basically that that entire section is

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dedicated to the people of the left hand.

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And so it begins in contrast with the

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previous section where Allah says

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He

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asked for the one who's been given his

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his book in his left. The word shibal

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comes from shamada or ishtimal, which means inclusion.

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The left hand is considered secondary when you're

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holding something and you wanna include the second

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hand in to be able to grab it

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properly. That's what became the shimahal, because it

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helps you become to to do Shamul of

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something, to include something in your grasp. Right?

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So it's actually considered in that sense secondary.

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Right? And by saying it's he's been given

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the book or it's something somebody did something

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with their Shamal, what that actually means in

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Arabic is they didn't take it that seriously.

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It wasn't really it's it wasn't worth much

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because it was if something's worth something, you

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put your right hand on it. Right?

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So

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as for the one who's been handed his

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book and has left

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then he will call out

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oh, my oh, what has happened? Or

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Leita is one of those words in Arabic.

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It's a word for regret. I'll tell you

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the etymology in a minute, but

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it's very hard to translate.

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In older English, they had things like woe

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unto me or woe is me.

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Right. But woe,

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is not to say woe now.

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Right. Woe in Shakespearean English had a certain

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effect. It doesn't have the same of like

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no teenager goes around when, you know, their

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their dads grounded them for a week or

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they took their your mom took your cell

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phone away. Woah. And to me hast thou

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not taken off my,

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iPhone

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Pro Max.

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So so the word woah doesn't doesn't have

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a serious impact anymore. It did in Shakespearean

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English. Right?

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So, so what does it mean? We'll, we'll,

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we'll look into that when the time comes

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Inshallah a little bit deeper. But one thing

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I will tell you is

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as as technology has improved,

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the human ability to articulate themselves has declined.

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Right? So there are studies now about even

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handwriting. Human handwriting is declining rapidly.

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Right? So adults are writing like 3rd graders

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used to write.

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Right?

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Teenagers will see me just write something. Why

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you can write like that? I was like,

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2nd grade.

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2nd grade. But Lao, that that looks like

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calligraphy now. Why? Because there's a decline in

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linguistic ability.

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Because we're handing so much of the linguistic

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work over to machines.

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Right? The same way emotions or language is

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not as rich as it used to be

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once. Why? Because for example if you want

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to express frustration

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you can just take a round yellow face

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with steam coming from the nose and send

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it to somebody.

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Instead of expressing frustration with words you could

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just send them an emoji.

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Right?

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And you can also now because we're we're

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in the world of rapid communication,

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we don't even write the full sentence.

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I mean, it was used to be alright,

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then it became okay, then it's become k.

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Right? So the the abbreviation of language and

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the misspelling of words, that's that's the common

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thing now. Right? And so

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language is going through a tremendous decline. And

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this is not something that happened after social

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media. It it got exaggerated after social media.

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But even before then, language has been declining

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for some time now. And actually some of

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the ancient languages of the world are very

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quickly dying. There are many languages that are

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dying.

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By the way, you'd be interested to know

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South Asians might be interested to know, Urdu

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and Bangla is 2 of the languages that

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are dying.

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They're dying.

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And so I and I I experienced this

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firsthand. I have up to an 8th grade

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level education in Urdu.

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That's all I learned when, so I was

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in a Pakistani school before that, you know,

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before that I knew some German because I

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wasn't born in Germany, but that's gone

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9. So

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so, but my Urdu was, you know, it's

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it's 8th grade education. So it's not college

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level Urdu. It's not even high school Urdu.

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It's 8th grade Urdu. Right? And then my

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family came here after that. So I haven't

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had continued Urdu education since,

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and that was in 18/65.

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So it's been a while. So I last

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year I went back and I gave lectures

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in Urdu in different cities in Pakistan. I

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went on, like, 22 different universities over the

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course of a month.

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Right? And

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people coming up to me telling me

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You speak like ancient Indian

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aristocrat.

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I I do? I don't I don't think

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I did, because

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8th grade from my time until now,

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the language has been impacted so deeply by,

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you know, it's got Anglo influence now and

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it's got Hindi influence now.

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So now people are coming up to me

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and saying,

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And I was like, what's?

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I knew a but this is a this

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is a

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new. So so the language started kind of,

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you know, breaking apart.

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And it's

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the insertion of outside words becomes more and

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more common. Right? This is happening with Arabic

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too, by the way. The Arab should should

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be very sad about that. And the entire

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Ummah should be sad about that. If we

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lose the language

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from a, from a, you know, mother tongue

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perspective, then that there's a loss of natural

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language. Right? So

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as a result of that,

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the Quran's language seems artificial.

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So when it says something like or

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from a 100, 150 years ago in English,

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somebody says, woe is me.

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That sounds odd to you now.

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Right? Because we just don't have words for

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certain emotions anymore.

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Right? Because we just say, well,

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or, oh, man,

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or,

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oh, can you just think about that? Those

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aren't even words.

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Is that a word?

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They actually had a word for that in

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Arabic. Taawu. Taawu means to do.

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Alright. So

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so that that and that's a challenge of

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translating the Quran because the purpose of translation

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is it should be able to impact the

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reader in whatever language it's being translated. Right?

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So that's one of the challenges in ayat

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like these. But anyway, let's get to the

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commentary on this ayah. First of all, the

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reaction, because the reaction when given the book

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in your right hand was come, take it,

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read it, right? He's he's adding it to

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his loved ones.

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When this person saw his book and he

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saw the ugliest deeds that they had done

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are there in glaring record. They're humiliated by

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that.

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And it's perhaps that humiliation

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that's even more more intense than the punishment

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of the flames themselves.

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Like human beings

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are pained not just physically, we're also creatures

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that are pained emotionally.

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Right? So the psychological torture of jahannam has

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begun

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just by a person

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looking at their deeds.

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You know, you you should keep in mind

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this idea of you being emotionally tortured

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is so so powerful that it overrides physical

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pain. There are two examples of that I

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can think of in the Quran.

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One of them is Musa

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alayhis salam. Musa alayhis salam knew that when

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he's going to go back to the pharaoh,

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they're gonna call him a liar. They're going

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to publicly humiliate him. Okay. So he told

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Allah on the mountain

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Master I am afraid that they shall call

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me a liar.

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And then he made a list of things

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that he's afraid of and the 5th thing

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that he listed the last and 5th thing

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he listed was

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They have a crime recorded against me and

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I fear that they shall kill me.

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So his first fear,

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the first thing that came to his mind

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to bring up as a state of emergency

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to God, to Allah, when he's directly in

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conversation with Allah is humiliation.

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And the last item was what?

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Death.

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Just think about what worries him because the

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thing that worries you the most is the

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one you bring up first, right?

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Similarly you see the case of Maryam

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who bears Jesus, she gives birth to Isa

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and she knows when she comes back to

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town

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of that time, the Muslim city, that's that

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she was living by the Masjid, there was

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a mihrab, the imam was Zakariyah alaihis salam,

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right? She disappears

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and then she comes back and she comes

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back with a baby and everybody knows she's

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been raised in the Masjid, what are people

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gonna say?

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And you would say no no no These

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aren't Akuffar. These are Muslims. Muslims don't talk

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like that about fellow Muslims.

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Yeah. We wouldn't know.

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This is this is something that used to

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happen 1000 of years ago. We don't have

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that problem anymore. But anyway, so she's worried

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that they're gonna point the finger at her,

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tell her that this is an illegitimate child,

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what have you done? She can't bear the

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thought of even hearing that stuff, so she

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says that it's recorded in Allah's book

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If only I could be dead before this

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happens.

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She wished for death instead of humiliation.

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Like, she wasn't even worried they're gonna stone

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me. They're gonna murder me. They're gonna hurt

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me. She just didn't wanna face that

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humiliation.

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That was more than more it it was

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more acceptable to take death than to take

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that humiliation.

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And of course if you did your own

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studies, especially those of you that are studying

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psychology,

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perpetual

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humiliation,

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degradation,

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peep feeling feeling suppressed,

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Right? People even kill themselves without the fear

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of Allah. That's actually a solution for people.

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Right? There are people that are well off

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financially or this or that, but now they

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there's a trial that's going to happen and

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all of their dirty deeds are gonna come

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out. What happens the day before the trial?

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You find the guy overdosed on some drugs

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and he's out. Because you couldn't it's not

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like they were gonna hurt him, but they

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were going to what? It was gonna humiliate

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him, couldn't take it. What is Allah doing

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here? He's humiliating the person on the left

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hand. By the way,

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let's keep the subtext in mind. Why would

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someone be humiliated? Why would Allah humiliate someone?

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Because they were in the business of, fill

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in the blank,

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humiliating others,

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humiliating others,

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people that got a kick out of,

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you know,

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putting other people's laundry out, using vile words

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against someone, bringing the worst of their deeds

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to their attention. Like, you know, Firal was

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trying to humiliate Musa

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didn't you do what you did?

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You know?

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You know, you're gonna you're gonna talk to

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us?

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Or the people who are humiliating right?

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Or humiliating her. So this idea,

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every time there's a punishment you have to

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keep in mind the punishment reflects the nature

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of the sin

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that came before it. Right? So these were

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people like Allah says in another place in

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the Quran.

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And are

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qualities of people that speak ill of others

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and get a kick out of it, basically.

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They enjoy humiliating others. By the way, this

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idea of homazalomaza

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in the environment in which we live, where

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most people aren't even watching social media content,

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they're list they're they're reading the homaza lomaza

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on on underneath in the comment section

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and getting a kick out of it.

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Right?

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So for those who do enjoy that trolling,

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that's their, that's their feed.

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Just let me remind you of something. Allah

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says, Wafiqum Samma'oonalahum,

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Allahu Alewa biabilwala'i.

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Among you are those that are just audiences

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to those vile people, and Allah knows all

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wrongdoers.

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And Allah is saying the people that are

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making those vile comments are wrongdoers,

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and the people that are just

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consuming that are also

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wrongdoers.

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Right? Because they that's and that's what they

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call engagement nowadays, isn't it? They put those

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comments there because it gets them more engagement

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and and all of that. Anyway,

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so the the punishment has already begun, and

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it's humiliating in nature.

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Says this should make you pay attention

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that the, the, the punishment to the soul

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is much more intense than the punishment to

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the body

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because the soul wants dignity. Right?

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Now

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the mental punishment of receiving the record in

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your left hand,

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One of the, another dimension of this is

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I've got the book in my left hand,

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I know something really terrible is coming.

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He thinks that it's just gonna break his

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back

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any moment. Now if you know something really

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bad is happening, but it hasn't happened yet,

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you're in this

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terrible state, not just of humiliation,

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but of anguish, of anxiety.

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When is it gonna happen? Are they gonna

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find out? When are they coming? You know,

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and you can't have a moment of peace.

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Even if you're not physically in torture, you

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are living in terrible, terrible anxiety. And anxiety

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is a debilitating, debilitating state to be. It

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can, it can render a person

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paralyzed,

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like literally paralyzed, you know, and it's the

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paralysis that Allah even describes in other places

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in the Koran, when he says things

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like their eyes are petrified.

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They're just, you know, their necks are held

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back, like they can't move, their muscles stiffen

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up. These are if you if you study

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people that have extreme cases of paranoia or

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anxiety,

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those kinds of things,

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you'll notice that they they exhibit these behaviors

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that Allah is describing people experiencing on judgment

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day.

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But what's worse about it is whatever it

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is that you are anxious about, if you're

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afraid of something, right? Let's say there's police

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and some guy knows that they're they're looking

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for him, right? And he sees the police

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right over there. Which way is he gonna

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run?

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Opposite direction. You know, what does Allah what

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Allah does on judgment day? He gets people

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to keep their eyes open so they can't

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blink.

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The criminals, they have to keep their eyes

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open, they can't blink. He keeps their necks

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up so they can't look down,

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and then He forces them

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he forces them to run towards the thing

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that terrifies them

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Like instead of running away from it, which

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is your natural impulse,

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he makes them run towards it.

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And again, every description of punishment in the

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Quran is a response to something that used

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to happen in this world. What did they

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used to do? They used to hear those

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warnings about what's coming and they used to

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run-in the opposite direction.

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They used to run,

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you know, and and and or they would

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run towards it laughingly. Oh, you you wanna

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punish us? Okay. Let me do more. Is

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it is this gonna burn too? Is that

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oh, so this if I do this, I'm

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gonna go to *? Okay. Let me do

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it 2 times more. You know those people

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who like to the one they're in trouble,

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they like to get in more trouble.

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Right?

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Like, hey, you shouldn't have done that. Shouldn't

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have done what? Drop this?

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Okay. So so they

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they enjoyed it. They'll they loved that defiance.

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Or, you know, that's actually the word for

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that is atia

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in Arabic, right? Or ati, a person who

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enjoys being defiant. Right? So

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this is the, this is the, the anticipation

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of something terrible coming. Now let's talk a

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little bit about the word you later.

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It comes from the word later and later

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in Arabic has two meanings.

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As a verb means when you turn away

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from something

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and if something is diminished,

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If something is somewhat diminished something from you.

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Allah uses this this word as a verb

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in for example

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Okay. From

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he says

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meaning Allah will not reduce you in your

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deeds in any way

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That's not so important but later

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so later became the meaning of hope and

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expectation,

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and basically it's the word it's different from

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just raw hope and expectation in that if

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something's already happened and you wish it didn't

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happen,

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the English equivalent of the English equivalent would

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be something like crying over spilt milk. You

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ever heard that before? Crying over spilt milk?

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When you are expressing that regret that, oh,

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I wish things were different.

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Urdu speakers here might be familiar with the

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word ekash.

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Kashkeh sahota, kashkeh va sahota. Right? That's that's

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Leita. That's the equivalent of Leita in Urdu.

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I don't know of, an English equivalent,

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of of just as a word.

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The closest I can think of is if

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only.

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Like, if only things were different, if only

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that didn't happen. Right? That would be a

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close English equivalent, but that's the word Leita

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calling out crying over how things have turned

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out and I wish they hadn't been that

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way, if only things had turned out differently.

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So

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This word of hope is emanating. Remember I

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told you the verbal meaning is diminishing,

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right, and turning away. So reality turned in

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a different direction and you were diminished from

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what you could have had and now that

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feeling of loss is making you say I

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wish I wasn't experiencing this loss. That's where

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the word leita comes from.

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Now so now in in contrast, let's let's

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keep contrasting what's happening in this passage with

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what happened in the passage about the person

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on the right hand. In contrast with showing

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others, this person doesn't even wanna face it

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himself.

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Look at look at the

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the the stark contrast.

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This person gets the book in their left

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hand, but I'll not make any of us

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of them,

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and they they have, they're not saying look

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at my book, they're not saying, oh my

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god, what's in here?

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They're not even opening it. They're just saying,

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can I not get it?

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I wish I never got it.

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I wish I never they didn't say, I

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wish I never read it. The other person

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uses the word reading, remember?

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So they've read it, and they want others

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to read it.

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This person, there's no mention of reading. There's

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just a mention of it being handed to

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them, and that's a tragedy enough for them.

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I wish I just never had to to

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touch it. I wish I was never given

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this book.

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This is a very powerful expression to describe

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the state

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of the people of the left hand and

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how they used to be in this world.

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So let's take a minute to understand that.

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Why is this so important

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that they say I wish

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this never I was never given my book.

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You've probably heard the expression

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YOLO.

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You only live once.

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And the idea behind that is that this

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life is all there is. But if this

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life is all there is, and you are

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let's say you you hit the age of

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40,

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that means you're about to have your midlife

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crisis. You've heard that one before?

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Midlife crisis means means you're you're in the

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last episode of your youth. After this, you're

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gonna be in some kind of a hospice

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care or somebody's gonna have to clean your

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clean your diaper and you you know, you're

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gonna be out of drip or something. You're

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gonna end up, you know, in a nursing

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home, things like that. So the the the

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last

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few the last couple of decades where you

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have,

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control over your body

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has begun. The last episode, because this is

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all there is.

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So this becomes an incredibly,

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depressing realization

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for people.

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As a result of that,

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they start

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behaving in certain interesting ways. They start listening

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to music from their teenage years.

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They start buying the car that has no

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purpose except to show off.

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They start engaging in they, they, they start

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drinking more. They start partying more. They start

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pretending they're 20.

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Right. They'll break the family. They'll go, you

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know, step out of the marriage, all kinds

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of stuff. They'll, they'll abandon the kids. This

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is, I'm just going to travel the world.

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I just need to expose, you know, experience

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the world. I wanna experience life. I wanna

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live my life, etcetera. All of this is

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happening

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because they're not worried about the consequences,

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the devastation they're gonna leave behind. They're not

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worried about that. You know why? Because by

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the time the devastation catches up with them,

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they'll already be

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dead.

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This is all I get to have. Let

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me just have my fun. Because you only

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live once.

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This is never gonna come back. This is

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all we ever have. Right? And so these

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people

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created an entire life

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based on the assumption that everything I'm doing,

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live in the moment, be yourself,

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be in the now,

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you know, enjoy yourself,

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find your find your true happiness, you know,

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connect with your with your true self, you

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do you, all this kind of crap that's

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now being sold

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to to humanity, you know. I just I

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just wanna I just wanna do me, you

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know. I just wanna do me. And then

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do me means I wanna do really bad

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things,

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but I'm gonna glorify that as saying I'm

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being true to myself.

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That's because when you're being the idea of

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true to myself, let me just take off

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the the pretty rapping and tell you what

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that really means. That means

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I don't want to think about the fact

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that everything I'm doing is being surveilled, recorded,

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documented, and I'm answerable to someone.

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I don't want to think about that. I

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have no one watching over me. I have

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no authority over me. To give you an

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example of,

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you know, somebody who is an employee

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and they're in the government building or their

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employer's building. They're in the building and they're

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on in billable working hours.

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Right?

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There's some room. They can take a coffee

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break. They can take a bathroom break. Maybe

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a cigarette break for some people or whatever.

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Right? But there are guidelines when you're in

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the workplace, in working hours. There are certain

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things you cannot do

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because you are on the clock.

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Everybody understands that. Right? Now imagine somebody who's

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on the clock, and refuses to accept the

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fact that they are on the clock.

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Refuses to accept that fact,

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within 10 minutes, if they wanna act crazy,

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there are gonna be consequences. Right? Now the

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idea that I'm trying to project

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onto all of us is that we are

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on the clock,

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We're on the clock,

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And Allah is watching.

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And where there are enough human beings in

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this world that like to pretend that they

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have free reign, they can do as they

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please, there is no accountability for what I'm

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doing. And this ugly attitude of defying Allah,

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like the greatest the greatest entity

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please remember this phrase, the greatest entity to

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which I am answerable is me.

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The greatest entity to which I am answerable

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is me. There is nobody else I'm answerable

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to. In fact,

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I am so important,

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and some Muslims are starting to do this

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because Christians were doing this before us, we

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copy pretty well.

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The prophet warned us you'll end up following

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the ways of those who came before you.

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What did they do?

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I'm so important. I'm going to mold the

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concept of God to fit my needs.

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My Allah wouldn't judge me.

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Really, you're you're Allah.

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Yeah. My Allah doesn't, you know,

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my Allah is loving and merciful and kind.

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It was like, you're speaking on Allah's behalf.

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That's really adorable,

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but he speaks for himself.

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It's called revelation.

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You know, that's a

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but now there's a I'm gonna tell you

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what what my personal relationship with God is

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and I dictate the terms of that relationship

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because in the end the highest authority is

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me and I even get to curtail

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what God is to me, what lies to

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me, you know.

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It's wild. It's the it's it it would

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make Firaun feel humble.

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Right?

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Didn't want to bring God down, wanted to

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be God. This is a next level up,

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this is like, no no no, we can

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keep God, he just has to serve us.

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He just has to serve our ups.

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It's it's wild to me that that's that's

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that's become the case. But that is a

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reality that we have to contend with. Right?

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And because if I am the supreme,

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like the authority, then I also decide reality.

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Reality doesn't come from somewhere else. Reality comes

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from me. So what new terminology did we

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develop? This is my truth. You heard that

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one?

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This is my truth.

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You know, I don't know what your truth

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is, but this is my truth. And then

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since it's my truth and my truth is

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dictated by how I feel, today I feel

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like I'm a zebra.

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To Laura, I feel like I'm a cat.

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To the next day I feel like I'm

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a pronoun that hasn't been discovered by anybody

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yet.

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Right?

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All of what you're seeing is a result

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of something that started these these are just

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dominoes that are falling, but the first domino

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to fall in all of this is actually

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Allah commented on this in the Quran, have

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you seen someone who takes their empty feelings

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and turns them into their God?

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Right. So

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that's what that is.

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Such a person, obviously there's no there's no

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reckoning. There's no concept of I'm being recorded

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and I'm being watched.

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I don't want to deal with that. And

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if somebody wants to hold them responsible, let's

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say their mother says, hey, I think you

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need to stop doing that. Or their friend

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says, Hey, I think you're going this is

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too much.

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The moment somebody tries to reign such a

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person in, you know what they do?

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You can't tell me what to do. I'm

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my own person. Just let me be.

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You know what? Bide your own business.

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Right?

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Nobody gets to check what I'm doing.

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And I don't want I can run from

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that conversation.

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I can avoid it. I can slam the

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door, walk out. You know what? You are

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a negative toxic influence in my life that

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is trying to bring me down. I'm going

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to go out there and I'm going to

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do whatever I feel like doing because I

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just need to get away from this toxicity.

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And I'm blocking you, mom.

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Right?

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Common practice.

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Because because you wanna, you know, find your

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you find your happy place.

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Right?

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And this this thing is all about not

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having to face what you've actually done.

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And the moment you're about to face it,

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you run off.

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You you run off. What does Allah do

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on judgment day? Hands you the book and

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you can't throw it away. It's stuck on

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your hand

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and it's open and you gotta face it.

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And the first thing is, really? Do I

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have to have this book? Can I not?

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It's I lived my entire life avoiding

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thinking about what I'm doing.

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I don't wanna think about it.

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I just wanna escape my pain by doing

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things that I'll never have to think about.

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Let me just forget about what I did

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yesterday.

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I just wanna get over it.

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I don't wanna think of it. This whole

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mentality

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is being encapsulated in just You laytani lamutakitabiya

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Allah could have just said he's gonna throw

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them in * and that would have been

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enough but no Allah dug He gave us

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a prognosis.

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He gave us a deep insight into the

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mind of the people of the left

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hand. Just with this phrase, you know,

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And this is their their their their lack

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of,

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will to to face their own consequences, the

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the consequences of their deeds. Walam adri majisabia.

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There's 2 readings of this,

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one reading of this is grammatically separate from

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the previous. This is the last bullet point

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here, but I'll tell you now. It's grammatically

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separate. What that means is I had no

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idea what my reckoning was gonna be. I

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had no idea, like, even now they're throwing

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an excuse out. I had no idea.

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Really?

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I didn't know what what this was.

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That's not fair.

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But another reading, which I find more convincing,

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is that this is grammatically connected to the

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previous statements.

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And what that would then mean is, I

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wish

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I had no idea what my account is,

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which now suggests that the book has in

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fact been opened.

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So there's an escalation. The first IOS, okay,

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I did I wish I didn't get my

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book.

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I wasn't given the book. Now it's, I

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wish I didn't know what my account is.

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Meaning now they're the deeds and what they're

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worth and the sins and what they're worth

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and the weight of them and the the

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punishment is the suitable punishment for all of

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that's been laid out,

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laid out before them to see, right. I

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wish I didn't know. Look at also

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this you know, the second use of the

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iraya you saw in the beginning

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And now Allah is bringing the same word

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This is a way I I call this

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in Quran within a surah, I call these

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anchors.

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These are anchors inside of a Surah. The

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same word is repeating itself strategically

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to make a connection with what came before.

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When did it come? Do you have any

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clue as to what is real?

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And now, I wish I had no clue

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what my reckoning is. Connect those two dots

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together, what do you get?

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Your record is very real.

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The accounting is very real. Do you realize

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how serious that is? How powerful that event

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is?

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Then there's a contrast.

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I already shared with you the insight into

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recklessness, but the contrast between

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what he's saying, this person saying,

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I had no I wish I didn't know.

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But what did the person on the right

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hand say?

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They said

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I was always thinking

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I was convinced, I was thinking, I was

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mentally conscious that I'm going to meet

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my reckoning. I'm going to meet my record,

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my account.

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I'm going to have to face it.

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So there's a 2 very divergent

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contrasting positions. One position is I'm always thinking

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about the audit that is coming, and the

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other, I wish I never knew even now.

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Just like I never knew or cared

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when I was alive.

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It is not in this life, even in

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the previous life I didn't know, I didn't

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wanna know, I don't know now, I don't

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wanna know now.

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SubhanAllah.

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It's just a direct one to one contrast.

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So I wish it if only it we're

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gonna talk about what it is, if only

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it

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was decisive

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if only it was decisive. Now Allah didn't

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say what that it is.

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So let's see what that it is

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What is the it? Go back to.

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The first interpretation is it refers to the

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time I died.

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I wish that my death the first time

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around was decisive.

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Like I wish I didn't get raised again,

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right?

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Means decisive meaning cutting you off from the

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first life,

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and that would be for this person the

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end and they're free to they don't have

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to worry about it. Now I'm just gonna

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go into the universe.

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I'm just gonna be particles spread across the

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galaxies.

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That's all I'm gonna be. You know? Just

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spread my ashes in the ocean.

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You know? Because I used to love the

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ocean.

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You know? And people have those those wakes.

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Right?

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I used to love fishing.

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Bye, Frank.

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And Frank is back like,

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no. No. No. I was done.

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Hey, guys. You just watched a small clip

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00:31:44 --> 00:31:47

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00:31:47 --> 00:31:49

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00:31:49 --> 00:31:51

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