Nouman Ali Khan – Your Struggles Are Temporary – Powerful Imagery from Surah Al-Kahf

Nouman Ali Khan
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The speaker discusses Islam's concept of fructaging life" and how it is a fruitful way to live. They also touch on the joys of life, including the minimal joy of living in beautiful places and the minimal joy of feeling alive. The speaker describes the life cycle of Islam, including the use of dirt and broken leaves as a source of weight and weightless weightless weightless, and emphasizes the importance of learning the QVC and being a part of one's lifestyle to achieve success. Viewers are encouraged to join them for a journey on bay prep.com to learn more about the teachings of the QVC.
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So actually, Allah designed this life to constantly

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go through changes.

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So those of you that got uprooted from

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your home, and you're in a different place,

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and you say, I miss my village, I

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miss my home, why can't I just go

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back, why can't I do this, why can't

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I have that old job back, why did

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I have to do that, you know, why

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did we have to move to this neighborhood,

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why did I have to...

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There's why, why, why, I hate change, I

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hate change.

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Allah says, He made life full of change.

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You can't keep anything the same.

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Anything that Allah's command came into, like the

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water that came into a fruit, if you

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look at that fruit, what's happening slowly, it's

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losing its water, and it's getting dry, and

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it's eventually gonna die.

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Allah says, وَضْرِبْ لَهُمْ مَثَلَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا Give

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them the example of worldly life.

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And this translation of الحياة الدنيا as worldly

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life is very common, but the word الدنيا

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is actually the feminine form of أفضل التفليل,

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in the mu'annath form of الأذنى.

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And then أذنى in Arabic means the lowest.

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And so actually literally what's being said is

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the lowest life.

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And that's Allah's way of saying that life

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has higher and higher stages, and we're actually

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at the lowest stage.

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There's better and better coming in our future.

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So there's an optimism that's suggested.

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As tough as life may be, it's not

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gonna get worse than this, it's only going

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to get better.

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It's actually, especially for a believer, that's what

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it's meant.

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Somebody might say, but what about hellfire?

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What about the punishment of Allah?

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Actually Allah doesn't even consider hellfire life.

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He says about hellfire, لا يموت فيها ولا

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يحيى.

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He doesn't live in it, He doesn't die

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in it, He doesn't live in it.

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Actually it's not even considered life.

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And the next life, the life after يوم

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القيامة and the life in Jannah, Allah calls

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it لَهِيَ الْحَيَوَانَ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ That's the

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real life if they only knew.

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So this life is actually the precursor, just

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a preview of what's coming in Jannah.

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Just a brief comment about that before we

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go back into this ayah.

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Allah in the Qur'an describes Jannah like

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no other religion describes heaven.

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And since I was here, I took the

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liberty of going to the Mormon library and

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spoke to a couple of the elders and

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had some interesting conversations with them about their

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beliefs and their concepts.

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And this is something I try and do,

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to understand other perspectives and how they see

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faith.

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One thing you'll find unique about the Qur

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'an, the description, the specific description with which

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Allah describes heaven is not found anywhere else.

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You'll get general words like garden.

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That's what you eat, the garden of Eden.

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That's all you get.

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What Allah will tell you is fruits, and

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لَهْمِ طَيْرٍ مِمَّا يَشْتَهُونَ The flesh of birds,

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you're gonna have some kind of chicken barbecue

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or something, that's gonna be there.

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There's gonna be all kinds of drinks that

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are being served.

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There are servers that are charming, that are

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serving drinks.

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There are friends sitting together, talking about how

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life used to be tough and what they

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went through, and how things used to be

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tough.

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They're having a reunion, believers are having a

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reunion.

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You know, all kinds of descriptions, very vivid,

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picturesque descriptions are being given of Jannah.

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But many of them you will find, are

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things that are easy to imagine.

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Friends hanging out together, people enjoying drinks, servers

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bringing drinks, beautiful trees, waterfalls, cushions, carpets.

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These are all things we find in this

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life.

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And there's a reason for that.

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Even though our Prophet ﷺ told us, مَا

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ذَا عَيْنٌ رَأَتْ وَذَا أُذُرٌ سَمِعَتْ وَمَا خَطَرَ

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عَلَقًا بِبَشَرٍ No eye has ever seen, no

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ear has ever heard.

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And no imagination has ever imagined what heaven

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has to offer, what Jannah has to offer.

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However, if you read the Qur'an's description

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of Jannah, it looks like very easy to

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imagine.

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Palm trees, and beautiful mansions, and spouses, and

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all that stuff, right?

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So why is that?

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It is actually because this world is made

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a preview of what is coming.

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This is supposed to give us a glimpse.

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You know, Muslims see this life very differently

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than other faiths.

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And many other faiths, this life is actually

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a curse.

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We were sent here as a punishment.

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In the Qur'an, we were not sent

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on the earth as a punishment.

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خَلَقَ لَكُمْ مَا فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا جَعَلْنَا لَكُمْ

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فِيهَا مَعَايِشًا قَلِيلًا مَا تَشْكُرُونَ In this world,

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He put things for you that you can

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live well with and enjoy.

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How little you show gratitude.

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You don't put someone in prison and say,

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be grateful.

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You put someone somewhere nice, and you show

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them the beauty of this world, and that's

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what makes you want to be grateful.

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This is what Allah does in Surah Ar

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-Rahman.

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He talks about, وَالْحَبُّذُ الْعَصْفِ وَالْرَيْحَانِ فَبِأَيِّ أَلَاءِ

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رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَ Like, look at all these beautiful

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things I've made for you.

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Look at the scent in the air from

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the crop that comes to you.

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Look at the grain that grows, the crop

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that grows.

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What more are you gonna be in denial

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of?

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You should be grateful.

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So, Allah did in fact make this world

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beautiful.

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And you guys happen to be very fortunate

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you live in a state of Utah where

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you're surrounded by beautiful mountains.

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You get to appreciate Allah's beauty even when

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you're stuck in traffic.

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At least you have something to look at.

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I come from Dallas.

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There's nothing to look at, you know.

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So, you know, there's this constant beauty that

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surrounds us.

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Anyway, coming back to this ayah.

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He says, just give them the example of

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this lowest life.

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And everything you experience in this life, every

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joy you experience, it is the minimal joy.

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The joy of a new baby is the

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minimal joy.

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The joy of marriage, the joy of seeing

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a beautiful waterfall, the joy of a beautiful

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sky, the joy of a delicious meal.

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All of these are the lowest.

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Like, there's way more upgrades available.

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And can you imagine, we were like, oh

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my god, that's my favorite restaurant.

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I can't, I haven't added in so long.

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I need that shawarma or whatever, right?

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And that's your thought of joy.

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Or this vacation, this place you wanna go

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to, or this car you wanna drive, or

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this neighborhood you wanna get a home in.

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Or whatever, we associate joy with these things.

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And all of that is just the bare

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minimum.

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That's the rahmah of Allah.

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وَضْرِبْ لَهُمْ مَثَلَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَا إِنْ أَنزَلْنَاهُ

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مِنَ السَّمَاءِ If you get some, if you

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want to get a picture of what this

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life is like, it's something like water that

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we sent down from the sky.

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I'll translate quickly, then we'll contemplate these words.

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فَاخْتَلَطَ بِهِ نَبَاتُ الْأَرْضِ Then that water, because

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of it, the grains in the world and

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all the material in the soil, anything that

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can grow is called nabat.

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Grass can be called nabat.

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Trees can be called nabat.

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Fruits can be called, flowers can be called

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nabat.

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Nabat is the word for all vegetation, all

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greenery, all plant life, you can call nabat.

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So the water mixes with all of these

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nutrients on the earth.

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فَاخْتَلَطَ بِهِ نَبَاتُ الْأَرْضِ And of course, when

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rain comes from the sky that Allah is

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talking about, and the earth becomes green, flowers

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grow, grass grows, trees grow, farm grows, all

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of it grows, then you would think Allah

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will next talk about how beautiful it gets,

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how colorful it gets.

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And He talks about that in other places.

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But here, He says something else.

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He says, فَأَصْبَحَ هَشِيمًا تَذُوبُ الرِّيَاحِ Then that

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same crop that grows, He didn't even mention

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the crop, He says it mixes with the

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soil, and eventually it becomes this word hashim.

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And hashim in Arabic is المحطم.

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It's something dried up that has no moisture

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in it, and can easily break and is

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stepped on.

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Basically what He's describing is dried up leaves.

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Dried up leaves and twigs that fall off

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of a tree, or grass that dies, that

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you step on and makes crunchy sounds, and

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it's worthless.

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And the wind just blows it off, and

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actually creates dust, and pollen problems, or allergies

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for you.

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All of that stuff is coming from the

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dirt, and the broken up leaves, and all

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of that stubble that's around in the world.

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So He's describing now, this life starts off

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with water from the sky, and then eventually

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it just turns into just broken up leaves

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that people step on, they don't even realize.

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If you were stepping on something valuable, if

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you were stepping on your new phone, you

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would be like, you wouldn't put your full

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weight on it, the moment you felt a

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little bit of the crunch.

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But you don't think twice when you step

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on a leaf.

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You don't think twice when you step on

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a pebble.

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It's just worthless, right?

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And it's blowing around.

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If cash was blowing around, you would have

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a heart attack.

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But if leaves were blowing around, you don't

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think twice about it.

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This is worthless stuff.

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And that's why in the Qur'an, things

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that blow with the wind are considered worthless,

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like haba.

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And other images in the Qur'an, when

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things blow in the wind, they're actually considered

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weightless and worthless.

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And one of the scariest descriptions of Judgment

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Day is, some people, their deeds will be

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scattered like dust or ashes.

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فَجَعَلْنَهُ هَبَآءًۭا مَنْ ثُورًۭا Allah describes.

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So we seek Allah's refuge from our deeds

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being turned into scattered dust on Judgment Day,

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and not having any weight.

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But anyway, coming back to this remarkable parable,

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how is it that I can benefit from

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this example?

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Other than just saying, well, Allah gives life

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and then we die.

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The plant grows and then the plant dies.

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Great, now what?

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But actually if you dig a little deeper,

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and you contemplate especially the end of this

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ayah, وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ مُقْتَدِرًۭا Allah

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has been in complete control over all things.

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And the word for Allah's control, you find

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three different words in the Qur'an.

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You find قَادِر, you find قَدِير, and here

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you find actually, سِرَةُ المُبَالَغَىٰ in a sense,

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from اِقْتَدَر, it's مُقْتَدِر, مُقْتَدِر.

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And actually the way to translate that is,

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actively in control.

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Allah is actively in control, and overwhelmingly in

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control over all things.

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That's what Allah says at the end.

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Now let's go back.

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In this life, the first thing Allah wanted

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me to think about is the fact that

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He sends water from the sky, that mixes

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with the soil.

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So there's something happening with the sky, and

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there's something happening with the earth.

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Every fruit that you eat, every piece of

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meat that you and I eat, every bit

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of vegetation that you and I see, is

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a result of water that came from the

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sky.

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You know what else comes from the sky?

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What comes from the sky is always the

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rizq from Allah, the command from Allah, the

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guidance from Allah.

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Everything that Allah gives us that is purposeful

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comes from the sky.

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The angels come from the sky with a

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mission.

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The angels that are here go up and

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report to the sky, and they come back

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from the sky.

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The angels are descending, تَنَزَّلُ الْمَلَائِكَ وَالرُّوحُ فِيهَا

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Right?

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So, when Allah sends something from the sky,

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it has a purpose, it comes for a

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mission.

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And so what does it do for a

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believer?

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What it does for a believer is every

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leaf inside it is the command of Allah.

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Every fruit, every orange has inside it the

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water that came from the sky, that came

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from the command of Allah.

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And every time something comes from the sky,

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it has to have a purpose.

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So everything becomes purposeful.

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And in everything I see, that it's related

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to a command from Allah descending from the

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heavens.

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What does that have to do with you

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and me?

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Let's come back to that.

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All of you have different crises.

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Every one of you has a different drama

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going on in your life.

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And when I say drama, some of you

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looked at the person next to you like,

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this is the drama, I just drove with

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them to Jumu'ah.

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But on a more serious note, whatever struggles

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we're going through, whatever we're experiencing in this

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life, we have to first understand that none

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of it would have been happening if Allah's

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command wasn't there.

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And there was some purpose, there was a

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reason for which it was happening.

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And everything we're going through, Imam al-Qurtubi

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commenting on this, he said something so beautiful.

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Why did Allah make me focus so much

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on water?

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Because water doesn't stay in the same place.

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Water mixes with other things.

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Water is constantly moving and changing.

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And if you try to keep water in

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the same place, it goes bad.

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So actually Allah designed this life to constantly

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go through changes.

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So those of you that got uprooted from

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your home, and you're in a different place,

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and you say, I miss my village, I

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miss my home, why can't I just go

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back?

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Why can't I do this?

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Why can't I have that old job back?

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Why did I have to do that?

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Why did we have to move to this

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neighborhood?

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Why did I have to...

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There's why, why, why.

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I hate change, I hate change.

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Allah says, He made life full of change.

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You can't keep anything the same.

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Anything that Allah's command came into, like the

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water that came into a fruit, if you

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look at that fruit, what's happening slowly?

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It's losing its water, and it's getting dry,

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and it's eventually gonna die.

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Right?

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It's gonna go.

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So the experiences we have in this life,

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the good that we have in this life

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is temporary.

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And the bad that we have in this

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life is also temporary.

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The tough stuff is also temporary.

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And all of that is a command of

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Allah.

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So then if that's all temporary, then what's

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permanent?

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If everything's just gonna go, the good is

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gonna go, the bad is gonna go.

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What you think is a huge problem today,

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tomorrow you'll look back like, oh my god,

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I used to think that was a huge

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problem.

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This is a huge problem.

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I prefer that problem.

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Because that's gone now, and you have something

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new to deal with.

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You know?

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But human beings forget that the beginning of

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all that is, is water.

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And what did Allah mention in the first

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part?

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He mentioned water.

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And what did He mention at the end?

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Completely dried up, right?

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The lack of water.

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So you know what?

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There's something in between.

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In between is the greenery, is the good

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things in life.

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It's the ups and downs of life.

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It's the changes in life.

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But you know what?

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It becomes easier to deal with that stuff

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when you go back and you realize, you

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and I were just drops of water too.

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That's all we were.

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And eventually we're gonna be reduced to nothing

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inside of the dirt.

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That's the beginning and the end.

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And everything else we're experiencing is just the

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stuff in between.

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This is just an episode in between.

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Or multiple episodes in between.

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And they will come to pass.

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They will go.

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Then what is it that's gonna actually last?

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You know, you would think, yes, you would

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think, الصالحات الباقيات.

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But He actually says الباقيات الصالحات.

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Good things that you do everyday, even the

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smallest things, those are the things that are

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actually going to last.

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So whether we have an easy life or

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a tough life, it is actually the good.

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If I can find some way of doing

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something good everyday, something that wasn't about me,

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it was about someone else, it was for

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Allah, something.

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Then I have lived a meaningful, purposeful life.

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And that's what water does.

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Water doesn't serve itself.

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Water serves everything else.

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And so if we have the command of

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Allah in us, the guidance of Allah in

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us, we're not just there to serve ourselves

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and our feelings.

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We're there to be of service to somebody

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else.

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