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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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A'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim.
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Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim.
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Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
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Wala adwana illa AAala adh-dhalameen.
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Wa ala aqeebatu lil muttaqeen.
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Allahumma salli wa sallim wa baraka ala abdika
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wa rasulika Muhammadin sallallahu alaihi wa sallam wa
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ala aalihi wa sahbihi wa sallim tasliman kathira.
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I know that I have the last talk
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of the evening and that is usually when
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people have the hardest time paying attention.
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So I pray that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta
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'ala unlock from my tongue what will emanate
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from my heart and reach your heart, bismillahir
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rahmanir rahim, and be of benefit to you
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in your journey to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta
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'ala.
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Allahumma ameen.
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So I want to give you a visual.
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I want you to think about the construction
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of an airplane.
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And I want you to imagine that that
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airplane has been constructed beautifully and perfectly.
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You have a body of the plane that
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is phenomenal and you build the wings of
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that plane in a way that will give
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it the most sore time in the air.
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And so those wings are at the perfect
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angle, they're carved out at the perfect dimensions,
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the plane is the right weight, and then
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I want you to imagine that you took
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that plane, perhaps another plane, picked up that
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plane, and then dropped it in the air.
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And it would soar on the basis of
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how perfectly it's carved out without having any
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engine if the wings are right.
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If it's at the right angle, it will
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still be able to fly for some time,
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but eventually it will come crashing to the
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ground.
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Why do I start off with this visual?
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Because I want you to imagine that that
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plane does not have an engine.
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And as beautifully constructed as that plane is
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on the outside, so long as it doesn't
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have an engine, it is merely a replica,
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but it is not authentic.
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It looks good, it's shaped right, but the
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engine that is missing on the inside means
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that it is a replica, it's a model,
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it is not actually an authentic plane.
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Now subhanAllah, why do I start with this
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particular analogy to give you a visual for
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the rest of this evening bi-idhnillahi ta
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'ala?
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You are that plane.
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And for the next hour or so inshaAllah
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ta'ala, we're going to build out the
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dimensions and the dynamics of that plane, and
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what that plane is supposed to look like.
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And I start off in this talk about
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hope and fear with a diagnosis by Imam
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Ibn al-Qayyim rahimahullah ta'ala in Madaraj
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al-Saliqun that has become very famous, where
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he describes the two wings of the believer
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as hope and fear.
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Al-khawth wa al-raja.
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Hope and fear are the two wings.
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But he says that the mu'min fi sayrihi
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ila Allah ta'ala, the believer in his
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journey to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
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like a bird.
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And he doesn't start off with the wings
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because the most important construction of the plane
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is not in the wings but is in
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something else, and that is the engine.
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And so he says, raasuhu al-mahabba.
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His head is the love of Allah subhanahu
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wa ta'ala.
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The driver of that plane, the thing that
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makes it function and move, what gives it
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its thrust, and what allows it to go
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from point to point in its journey to
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is al-mahabba,
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is the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala.
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And then janahai, the two wings of that
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believer are al-khawth wa al-raja, are
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hope and fear.
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Why do we start with the engine first?
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Where usually we talk about hope and fear
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without the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala as the central component.
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Why do I want us to start with
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this tonight?
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Because the key functions of the hope and
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the fear are to keep you balanced in
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your journey to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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but they will not be sufficient to drive
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you to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
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the goal of the believer is not merely
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to be balanced but to be efficient, to
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be in motion, to attain as much qurb,
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as much closeness to Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala as possible.
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And so to talk about the believer only
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in terms of balance without belief and meaning
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can be deeply problematic.
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And the way that I want you to
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envision this bi-idhnillahi ta'ala, is I
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want you to think about what hope looks
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like without love.
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What fear looks like without love.
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And to think about how problematic that could
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be.
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You can have hope in someone without loving
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them.
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Why?
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Because they have access to what you want.
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Or they're able to benefit you in some
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way.
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And that's actually at the heart of an
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-nifaaq.
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That's the heart of hypocrisy by the way
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with people.
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Is that you curse them in your heart
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but you show them something different because you
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want something from them.
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That's why an-nifaaq became very incentivized.
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In al-Madinah al-Munawwarah as the power
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of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam grew
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it became beneficial to say ansitoo li rasoolillah
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sit and listen to the Messenger of Allah
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who you curse in private, who you disobey
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in private, who you disbelieve in, who you
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seek to undermine.
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But you know that he is in a
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position to benefit you and to give you
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something and so you now pretend to love
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the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
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You appear to follow the Prophet salallahu alayhi
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wa sallam only to the extent that it
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benefits you because your hope in the Prophet
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salallahu alayhi wa sallam is not driven by
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love but instead by greed.
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The hope is flawed.
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Doesn't make sense.
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Doesn't come from love.
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And so if you have a hope without
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love then you will present yourself to that
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one to the extent that you can benefit
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from them and the moment that you get
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what you want is the moment that your
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hope dissipates.
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I no longer need you therefore I will
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not call upon you nor present myself to
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you in a certain way because I've already
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gotten out of you what I wanted.
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SubhanAllah, think about this in terms of a
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distinction between the believer and the hypocrite at
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the root of it is also that the
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hypocrite doesn't believe in the akhirah.
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The hypocrite doesn't believe in the hereafter.
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And so they are seeking maximum benefit in
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this life because they believe that once they
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die that's it.
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And so there is no wrongdoing that they
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can commit that actually will have repercussions or
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accountability for them in the hereafter.
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And so they will do what is necessary
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to get what they want.
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The believer has their hope in Allah and
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in the hereafter.
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So that hope as far as a Muslim
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is concerned that maybe has a da'if,
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that has a weakness in their love of
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or a weakness
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in their pursuit of the hereafter is that
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when they want something from Allah subhanahu wa
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ta'ala and they faintly believe or maybe
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they genuinely have in their minds the concepts
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that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is Ar
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-Razzaq.
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Allah is the sustainer.
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But they don't love Ar-Razzaq but they
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know He is Ar-Razzaq.
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Is that when they want something from Allah
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subhanahu wa ta'ala they'll watch a series,
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they'll read a book, they'll try to get
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the right du'a to make from Allah
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subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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And then they will make that du'a
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and once they get what they want from
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in that du
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'a in terms of a worldly thing they
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will resort back to their ugly ways that
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weigh them down to this dunya and prevent
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them from flying towards the paradise that Allah
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subhanahu wa ta'ala has guaranteed and promised
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for His loyal and loving servants.
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So there is hope without love.
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There is fear without love.
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You can hate someone and fear them.
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You can despise someone and fear them.
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You know, subhanAllah, when they talk about the
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era of the strongman, of politicians, I'm not
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going to bring my politics here.
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I'm going to keep it inshaAllah ta'ala
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general and ambiguous enough.
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They'll talk about world leaders, populist world leaders,
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fascist world leaders, strong world leaders and they'll
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say everyone hates this person but they fear
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this person.
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And so they have to act a certain
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way with that person and so they're able
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to use that fear as a leveraging tool
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over the rest of the political arena to
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exercise them.
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You can hate someone but you can fear
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them.
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You know, subhanAllah, one of the things that
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makes tyrants so insecure is that they know
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that their entire inner circle that cozies up
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to them and that smiles in their faces
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and that bow down to them, that if
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the element of fear that they would be
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the first to relinquish them, the first to
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leave them.
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So it's not legitimate.
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It's not real.
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They're afraid.
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And that fear drives a certain obedience but
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the minute that the power is gone, the
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fear too will go.
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You can fear someone and run away from
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them.
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That when they come towards you or when
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you know that you are in their presence
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and you know that there is no way
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for you to access their benevolence, you run
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away from them and you try to run
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as fast as you can and you live
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your life on an escape mission.
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That's fear without love.
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But there is a hope that is derived
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from love and a fear that is derived
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from love.
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And as believers we can't talk about either
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of those two concepts of hope and fear
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without first embedding in ourselves a deep mahabba
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of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
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A deep love of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
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Ta-A'la.
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And what is the fruit of mahabba?
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What is the fruit of love?
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How do you derive love?
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In a very simple way.
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How do you derive love?
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You know Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
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'la.
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To get to know Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
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Ta-A'la is to love Him.
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The more you know Him, the more you
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will love Him.
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You read about His names, you read about
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His attributes, you actualize that connection in forms
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of dua, you develop a relationship with Allah
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Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la through His
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names and His attributes.
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So to know Him is to love Him.
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And the second thing is what the Prophet
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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said in the authentic hadith,
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Ahibbullaha lima yaghluhkum min ni'mihi Love Allah for
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the blessings that He provides to you.
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You thank Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
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'la for every single thing in your life
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and you're in this place where others around
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you might be in a state of ghafla,
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heedlessness.
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Where the major blessings in their lives they
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don't attribute to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
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-A'la.
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You on the other hand are thinking of
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Allah because you know who Allah is and
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thanking Allah because you know that He's the
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one that provides for you on such a
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regular basis that you're connecting to Allah Subh
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'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la as the source
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of all sources of ease for you.
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As the source of all sources of joy
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for you.
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You thank Allah for the people in your
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life.
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You thank Allah for the small things in
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your life.
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You thank Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
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'la for the things inside of you that
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you can't see.
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You thank Allah for the process.
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You thank Allah for everything.
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And that engenders the love of Allah Subh
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'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la inside of you.
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What that produces is beyond obedience of Allah.
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You see when we talk about khawf and
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rajab, when we talk about fear and hope
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in isolation, we naturally are speaking about how
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to use fear and hope to incentivize obedience
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to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
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and to repel disobedience to Allah Subh'anaHu
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Wa Ta-A'la.
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Al-mahabba however bears something higher than that.
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It bears al-ihsan.
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It bears excellence.
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The fruit of mahabba is ihsan.
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The fruit of love is excellence.
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The fruit of love is extra.
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The fruit of love is going above and
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beyond what's required of you.
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The fruit of love is not just your
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five prayers.
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It's your tahajjud.
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The fruit of love is not just fasting
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Ramadan.
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It's fasting Mondays and Thursdays.
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The fruit of love is not just calculating
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your zakah and getting it done.
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It is giving because you know who gave
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you on a consistent basis in pursuit of
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his love Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
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The pursuit of love is not just trying
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to make hajj.
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It's dreaming constantly about your next umrah and
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how to get back to the house of
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Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and
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increase in your rank with Allah Subh'anaHu
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Wa Ta-A'la.
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The fruit of love true love is ihsan.
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It's excellence.
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And the incentive is different.
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You see when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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was praying at night and his feet were
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swollen and we know the famous narration to
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the point Alaihi Salatu Wasallam that you could
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see the blood the accumulation of blood at
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the bottom of his soles Aisha radiAllahu ta
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'ala asked the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam why
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do you do this when Allah has already
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forgiven you for all of your sins.
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You see the incentive because for a believer
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you're crying to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
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-A'la asking Allah to forgive you for
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your sins and you're hoping for his mercy
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Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala is saying that the
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hadaf that the goal of that has already
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been achieved in your case you're already forgiven
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meaning you've met the mercy of Allah Subh
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'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la already you're forgiven
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for all of your sins the response of
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was not Ya
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Aisha don't you know that if I pray
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this much more I'll get this many more
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houses in paradise even though that's a noble
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goal to raise your rank in paradise it
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wasn't Ya Aisha but I want to use
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this Qiyam to ward off some of what
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is still to come in this world even
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though that's a noble goal Ya Aisha I
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use this Qiyam to build resilience in me
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and strength even though that's a noble goal
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it's not what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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said though He said Ta-Fala Akoonu Abdan
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Shakoora but shouldn't I be a grateful servant
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anyone on the outside would say what you've
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already done is gratitude but to the Messenger
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of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam I will never
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be able to thank him enough therefore I
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will never be able to pray enough therefore
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I will never be able to worship enough
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and I do that with love not like
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a person who's captive or who's imprisoned and
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told pray more or else but instead that's
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Mahabba Mahabba drives the extra it drives the
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excellence it drives Ihssam and then after that
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you have the incentives which undoubtedly remain in
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the life of the believer which is to
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pursue Paradise and to be protected from Hellfire
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may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala protect us
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from Hellfire and enter us into the highest
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level of Firdaws Al-A'la Allahumma Ameen
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but a person who loves Allah Subhanahu Wa
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Ta'ala you know before they even know
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that something is haram before they even read
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in a book or hear from a scholar
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that something is haram their hearts will already
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be so in tune with their fitrah, their
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disposition that they'll find themselves leaning in that
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direction where it will be a confirmation and
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if something is in the gray area to
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them it will be in the area of
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no go and for them if it is
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merely beneficial merely bringing them closer to Allah
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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala they will make it
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obedient upon themselves they will make it obligatory
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upon themselves and treat it like an act
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of obedience for which they have to move
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closer, closer, closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
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'ala you raise the standards when you're driven
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by Mahabba you raise the standards when you're
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driven by love of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
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'ala to where you will undoubtedly capture in
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the process what hope and fear drive you
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will undoubtedly capture in the process the obligatory
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and you will undoubtedly capture in the process
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leaving off that which is not praiseworthy Al
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-Mahabba and there is no way that someone
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can claim that they love Allah Subhanahu Wa
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Ta'ala in the Islamic conception of it,
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that they have Mahabba without Ta'a without
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obedience, no way it doesn't exist as Imam
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Al-Shafi'i Rahimallah famously said you disobey
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Allah and you claim to love Him what
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wishful and weird and flawed thinking is that
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why?
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because the one who loves another obeys you
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can't claim to love Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
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'ala and disobey Him and so the one
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that claims that they love Allah Subhanahu Wa
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Ta'ala while disobeying Him does not love
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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala they love themselves
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they're narcissists you know why?
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because they have captured what is the most
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beautiful journey of love to Allah Subhanahu Wa
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Ta'ala and somehow used it to the
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benefit of themselves and only to that which
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is pleasing and embellishing to themselves it's not
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real love that's not true muhabba to Allah
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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala it doesn't make sense
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now we talked about what a loveless hope
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looks like and what a loveless fear looks
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like how does hope derived from the love
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of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala look like
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how does fear derived from the love of
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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala look like when
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you love and you have hope that Subhanallah
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I want you to think about when you
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when you prepare that gift when you prepare
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that presentation towards someone that you love when
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you know that you are going to meet
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someone that you love and you want to
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prepare something to let's say your mother someone
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deeply deeply beloved to you I hope she
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will like it I hope she will love
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it you put in all these extra little
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things all these extra little pieces of meaning
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and you can't wait to present it and
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to say and there is this and there
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is that and there is this and there
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is that and I know you like this
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so I went ahead and I did that
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and I know you like this so I
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went ahead and I put this and I
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included this and I included that and you
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have all of these hopes about how it
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will be accepted and because you love that
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person and you love their noble attributes you
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know that they will accept it from you
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in that way but then there is also
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the fear what if I didn't do enough
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what if I missed out on this detail
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you know I'm still not able to give
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to that person what they gave to me
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now by the way to Allah belongs the
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greatest example as the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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has taught us to Allah always belongs the
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greatest of examples but at the same time
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam taught us that
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there is potency at times in imagining the
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most noble person in your life and how
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you would act with them and then compounding
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that with the noble one Al-Kareem who
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you will never be able to put on
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a human transactional level and then driving your
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deeds beyond such as when the messenger of
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Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said in the authentic
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hadith istahi min Allah kama tashtahi min ar
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-rajul salih min qawmin be shy of Allah
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the way that you would be shy from
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a righteous person of your people of course
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that means you should be shyer in the
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sight of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala but
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sometimes using those human relationships that represent what
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your max has been in terms of human
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transaction is a way for you to drive
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yourself to the divine in a way that
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you would not drive yourself even for the
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most beloved and noble human being in your
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life sometimes it's good to use that as
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a barometer to say I've reached here and
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I need to go beyond it but if
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you do the other side as we learn
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from the athar Abu Jandal Rahimahu Allah Ta
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'ala Radhi Allahu Ta'ala Anhu when he
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mentions then why do you make Allah Subhanahu
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Wa Ta'ala the lowest of your observers
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ma ja'altumullaha ahwanan nazireena ilayk why do
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you make Allah the lowest of your observers
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and so when a person is shy of
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committing a sin in front of people but
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then when they are alone with Allah Subhanahu
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Wa Ta'ala they know that Allah is
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observing them, they reduce Allah to the lowest
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of their observers so sometimes it helps to
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use that as part of your barometer stranger,
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how would I act in front of a
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stranger, complete stranger how would I act in
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front of someone who is family, how would
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I act in front of someone who is
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noble and Allah is so much more than
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that to push myself up on that barometer
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to unlock the greatest of my potential mahabba
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is the engine, the love of Allah Subhanahu
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Wa Ta'ala is the engine, the hope
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that is derived from love cannot possibly become
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the delusion that is condemned by Allah Subhanahu
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Wa Ta'ala because to the left of
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hope is wishful thinking delusion, ghrooh right there
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is ghrooh, there is wishful thinking wa qalu
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lantamassan an naru illa ayyaman ma'dooda they said
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we will only go to * for a
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few days qala wala inrudittu ila rabbi and
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if I go back to my lord I
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will find even better with him, this is
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the man in shu'tul kahf who disobeys Allah
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and expects even more from Allah Subhanahu Wa
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Ta'ala so to the left of hope
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is delusion, right wishful thinking and to the
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right of fear is despair where you're constantly
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running away and despairing and digging yourself deeper
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rather than using what causes you fear to
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bring you back to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
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'ala how can you possibly have wishful thinking
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and that type of delusion with someone that
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you love would you treat someone in your
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own life that you love like that and
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have that type of wishful thinking where you
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do nothing for them, no, because you love
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that person and mahabba is the driver, therefore
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love driven hope and love driven fear are
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naturally protected from wishful thinking and from despair,
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what is to the left and what is
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to the right the extreme left and to
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the extreme right, it will keep you within
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those boundaries because the driver is salim the
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driver is without fault, without flaw and so
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when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentions that
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inna fil jasadi mudgha, that verily in the
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body there is a vessel, an organ, if
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it is good, everything else will be good
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and that is the heart everything else will
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follow, the heart of the matter in your
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journey to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
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al-mahabba, is love then you have al
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-khawf wal-raja, fear and hope, that balance
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now Subhanallah, the Arabic language is rich and
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Islamic concepts are deeply, deeply profound and rich
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the word khawf can have good connotations and
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bad connotations fear can have good connotations and
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bad connotations, hope can have good connotations and
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bad connotations but there is a word that
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encompasses that love driven hope and that love
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driven fear and the word is khashiya khashiya
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innama yakhshallaha min ibadihil ulama' if you're reading
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a translation it'll all say fear but a
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better translation is awe awe, to have awe
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of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to be
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so overwhelmed by his sight to be so
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overwhelmed by the thought of his presence on
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the day of judgment and your presence and
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his presence as he's asking you to be
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so overwhelmed by the potential of not just
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being rewarded with his Jannah but at the
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top level of his Jannah and seeing him
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day and night for eternity awe of Allah
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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala khashiya ilmu khashiya the
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fruit of ilm, the fruit of knowledge is
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khashiya, is awe there are some people that
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know about Allah but they don't know Allah
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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and that's why Imam
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Malik Rahimallah said the famous words that laysal
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ilm, that knowledge is not an kathrat riwayat,
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it's not because you memorize a lot of
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narrations you have textbook textbook people that memorize
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a lot, they read a lot but ilm
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is nur, it's a light that Allah puts
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in the heart of the believer ilmu khashiya
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it's what humbles it's what puts you in
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awe of the Divine Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
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khashiya is overwhelming, it's awe inspiring, it's greater
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it's deeper and then you come to the
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fear and the hope, the first question that
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I wanted to answer for tonight Subhanallah I'm
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already low on time the first question I
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wanted to answer from tonight is what drives
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your hope and fear where does your hope
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and fear come from if it comes from
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love you've passed the first trial, the first
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test the second question is how you have
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hope and fear in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
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'ala you see when Allah Azawajal tells us
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surah az-zumar قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا
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عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِنْ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ
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اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ ذُنُوبَ جَمِيعًا إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ
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Allah says O My servants who have transgressed
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against themselves do not despair from the mercy
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of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala verily Allah
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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala forgives all sins verily
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Allah is the most forgiving and the most
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merciful by the way I want you to
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appreciate in this the beautiful coherence between the
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ayaat of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
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the ahadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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because Allah is the one who inspired the
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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in word and deed
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beyond the word of Allah in the Quran
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He doesn't speak from himself Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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everything he speaks is produced by revelation and
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that's why there is great deviation and delusion
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in trying to separate the concepts of the
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Quran and the concepts of the sunnah of
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam because the source
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is one and the same the source is
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one and the same and so if you
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take this aya قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا
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عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَاتُهُمْ مِن رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ Surat
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Az-Zumar and then take an authentic hadith
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from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and put
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it next to it كُلُّ بَنِ آدَمْ خَطَّاءُ
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وَخَيْرُ الْخَطَّائِينَ اَتَّوَىٰ بُونَ The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam said all of the children of Adam
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make mistakes first part of the hadith first
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part of the aya قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ
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أَسْرَفُوا عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا
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عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ O my servants who have transgressed
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against themselves the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is
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saying every son of Adam has some level
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of transgression against themselves every son of Adam
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has some level of transgression against themselves right?
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so يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ means
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every single person in here means every single
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one of us not just the adulterer and
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the alcoholic and someone that's gone far away
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from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala every single
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one of us has some level of transgression
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and so it applies to all of us
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قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ كُلُّ
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بَنِ آدَمْ خَطَّاءَ لَا تَقَنَطُوا مِنْ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ
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إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًۭا do not despair
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from the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
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'ala indeed Allah forgives all sins وَخَيْرُ الْخَطَّاءِينَ
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التَوَّابُونَ the best of those who make mistakes
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are those who repent back to Allah Subhanahu
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Wa Ta'ala second part of the ayah
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Subhanallah, deeply profound Iblis the devil he has
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fear he has fear and he has hope
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but what he does with that fear and
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that hope is he distances himself further from
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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as a result
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of it so his fear أَبْلَصَ مَنْ رَحْمَةِ
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اللَّهِ he despaired from the mercy of Allah
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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala شَطَنَا الشَّيْطَانَ he digs
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himself deeper into the whole many of us
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may embody these blameworthy traits at different points
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in our lives where we commit the sin
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and we know we committed the sin and
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we feel so dirty as a result of
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the sin and guilty as a result of
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the sin but instead of using it to
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drive us towards Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
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through المحبة we go further from Allah Subhanahu
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Wa Ta'ala by the way, Subhanallah I
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was thinking about this you know with المحبة
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it's something else, Subhanallah if you love someone
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and you committed a mistake, you did something
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wrong and you hate that you did something
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wrong you hate that you messed up your
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love of them will not allow you to
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try to deceive them even though consequentially it
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looks worse for you if you admit to
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it so you made a mistake you can
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hide it maybe from a person you can't
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hide anything from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
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your mom won't notice, your dad won't notice,
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but you love them too much and so
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you'll put your head down to that person
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that you love even if consequentially you know
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that it would have been better for you
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to try to deceive them and you'll say
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mom I love you, dad I love you,
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I messed up and Subhanallah the instinct of
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that person who knows that what brought you
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to them is out of love could turn
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that mistake into a means by which you
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actually brought closer to them you know they
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say that a bad argument is the best
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thing that could happen to your relationship sometimes
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it's true if it produces the right type
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of outcome, if it's driven by something sincere,
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it's true but sometimes we embody a satanic
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type of quality where we commit the sin
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we know we messed up and we go
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further and further and further away from Allah
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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala why?
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because we don't find ourselves worthy or we
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don't find it to be possible to come
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back to Him Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
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to make the changes so that's fear that
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has transitioned into despair Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
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'ala is telling you that come back to
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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala because Allah forgives
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all sins, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is
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saying khairul khattainat tawwaboon the best of those
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who make mistakes which is everybody are those
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who repent and Allah Azawajal actually elevates the
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rank of the repentant Adam Alayhi Salam was
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elevated after his mistake Yunus Alayhi Salam was
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elevated after his mistake Fajitabahu Rabbuh Allah chose
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him, Waja'alahum minas salihin Allah made him
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from the righteous, his rank was elevated in
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the sight of Allah Shaytan tells you that
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you have no means back and that you
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will only degrade yourself in the process Wa
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aneebu ila rabbikum wa aslimu lah so that's
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a verse of hope, Allah gives you hope
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but now there's fear Wa aneebu ila rabbikum
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wa aslimu lah turn back to your Lord
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and submit yourself to Him, min qabili an
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ya'tiakumul azab thumma la tunsaroon before the punishment
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comes to you and then you will not
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be helped it will be too late at
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that point you will not find anyone to
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help you Allah will help you even though
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you have transgressed in regards to the right
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of Allah upon you to come closer to
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Him and to be elevated that's hope but
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the fear Allah azawajal is giving you healthy
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fear now that there is a time box
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here, after you commit that sin the longer
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you let that sin persist, Allah is telling
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you I forgive all sins, hope fear, the
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longer you let that sin persist the more
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rusted your heart will become the less possible
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muhabba will be to engender inside of it,
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the more distanced you will be from Allah
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subhanahu wa ta'ala even if you don't
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commit a single sin after it which is
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impossible and so, you know, when you every
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single time you sin there's a black spot
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that's put on your heart, right?
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but there's also a consequence to just letting
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that spot grow and grow and grow and
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grow and not doing anything about it and
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so the fear is necessary to inject the
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urgency of tawbah how does Allah subhanahu wa
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ta'ala use the tool of fear in
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the Quran to inject urgency how does Allah
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subhanahu wa ta'ala use the device of
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hope in the Quran to inject excellence strive
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fear now, urgency complacency shows itself in a
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person's laziness in a person not doing anything
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so Allah uses the element of fear, the
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device of fear to inspire a nowness, a
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presence quickly false hope false hope is to
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say after you commit the sin not that
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Allah will forgive me if I repent that
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I have time or that perhaps Allah's mercy
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will handle this anyway, therefore I have no
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urgency which brings us to the last thing
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where is it coming from?
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Love love what do you do?
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Repent what do you do?
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Repent turn back to Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala urgently the third thing which is so
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important is how you act after the repentance
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how you act after the repentance see the
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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us to
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fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wherever you
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are ...
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...
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follow the ...
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follow the sin with a good deed and
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it will wipe it out the hope is
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not just that you can be brought back
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to where you were before you committed the
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sin the hope is that you can actually
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be brought higher and closer after you commit
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the sin the hope is that not only
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will I not be punished for my previous
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sins but that my previous sins can be
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a means for my future good deeds drive
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to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala replace the
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sin with a good deed when you're in
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a place and you commit a sin don't
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leave that place as Sayyiduna Umar radiyallahu anhu
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said until you commit a good deed in
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the same place that you disobeyed Allah subhanahu
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wa ta'ala replace the disobedience with an
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act of obedience drive to Allah subhanahu wa
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ta'ala as a result of it I
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want to give you one more verse bismillah
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ta'ala since this is a Quranic drive
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it's an interesting part of a verse in
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surah al-a'raf and I just want
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you to focus on it and I want
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to use it particularly to answer a doubt
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that some people have the doubt is can't
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Allah just forgive us all anyway?
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if Allah's mercy is so expansive why can't
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we all just go to Jannah?
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why can't He just treat us all the
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same way?
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why can't we all go to a happy
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place?
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and let me tell you as a child
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of the naqbah as a child of displacement
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and as a witness like many of you
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to a genocide I don't believe that an
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Israeli soldier should be treated in the akhirah
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the same way that a child from Gaza
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should be treated that doesn't make sense to
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me that's not mercy to me in fact
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that's the epitome of cruelty that the oppressor
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and the oppressed are the same and that
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is not because of a deficiency in the
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mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that's
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because of the perfection of the mercy of
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and so let's
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not play into these slogans that when they
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are scrutinized at a very basic level can
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fall apart and so the ayah in surah
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al-a'raf a part of the ayah
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I just want you to focus on a
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part of the ayah I'm not Dr. Zakir
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I think it's ayah 156 if I'm wrong
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then you'll excuse me inshallah Allah azawajal mentions
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wa rahmati wasi'at kulla shayb my mercy
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encompasses everything Allah has enough mercy for everything
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and everyone my mercy encompasses everything fasa aktubuha
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lillazeena yattaqoon my god subhanallah how perfect this
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ayah is I will write it for those
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who fear me I'll write it for those
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who fear me taqwa you see taqwa is
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not the fear of Allah that drives you
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away from Allah s.w.t. taqwa is
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the fear of Allah that drives you to
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Allah s.w.t taqwa is a fear
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of losing the love of Allah s.w
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.t taqwa as Umar ibn Abdulaziz rahimullah said
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is tarqul maasi is leaving off sin he
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said after that is ihsan it's excellence doing
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the extra good deeds is excellence taqwa is
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tarqul maasi it's leaving off sin because you're
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too afraid to violate the boundaries of God
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the boundaries of Allah I don't want to
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overstep the boundaries of Allah s.w.t
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I'm afraid of overstepping and I'm afraid and
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I love Him which makes me even more
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afraid because it's not just the consequence of
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punishment that I fear it's the consequence of
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losing His favor that I fear even more
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than that of finding myself cast out of
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His favor wa rahmati wasi'at kulla shay
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my mercy encompasses everything fasaaktubuha lilladhina yattaqun but
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I'll write it for people of taqwa and
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those who give zakah and those who believe
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but I start off with just that part
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of the ayah saaktubuha lilladhina yattaqun and I
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leave you with this thought from Umar ibn
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Abdulaziz rahimullah ta'ala one of the greatest
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Muslims who ever lived as Umar radiAllahu ta
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'ala anhu wa rahimuhullah stood on the minbar
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to give his last address to this Ummah
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his farewell address to this Ummah he has
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a line in his farewell speech qala laqad
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khaba wa khasir man kharaja an rahmati Allah
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allati wasi'at kulla shay wa hurima jannat
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arduha assamawatu wal ardi that verily he has
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failed and is miserable who managed to escape
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from the mercy of Allah although its expanse
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covers all things you have to try to
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miss the mercy of Allah because it's that
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expansive it's not expensive, it's expansive it's easy
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to access covers everything qala laqad khaba wa
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khasir man kharaja an rahmati Allah allati wasi
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'at kulla shay verily you have failed when
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you find yourself missing the mercy of Allah
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though it encompasses all things wa hurima jannat
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arduha assamawatu wal ardi and missed out on
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a jannah that is more expansive than the
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heavens and the earth there is space in
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paradise for you in fact you already have
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a home in jannah with your name on
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it if it is destroyed it will be
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destroyed because of your sin not because Allah
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needed to make space for somebody else it
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will be because you made yourself unworthy of
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it not because Allah did not give you
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an opportunity to inhabit it there is space
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in the mercy of Allah to forgive even
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the most wicked man on the planet I
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say it also as that same Palestinian whose
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blood boils at the moment that even if
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Satan not yahoo Satan yahoo was to repent
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to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sincerely Allah
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azawajal has the capacity to forgive him I
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will make dua'a for his punishment in
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the meantime but I don't question Allah's mercy
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that Allah azawajal has enough mercy to forgive
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even the most wicked man on the planet
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should he sincerely repent to Allah subhanahu wa
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ta'ala I'm not tasked with having to
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make dua'a for that but at the
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same time I believe in a Rabb, a
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Lord that encompasses all of that and we
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could go on and on as to what
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that sincere repentance would actually look like to
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be sincere but ya Allah, Allah's mercy so
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expansive, so vast so wide, how do you
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miss it?
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if you're driven by the love of Allah
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subhanahu wa ta'ala the hope and the
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fear will be balanced and so that's the
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last thing I share with you today is
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when to have hope and when to have
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fear, we talked about the what we talked
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about the why, we talked about the how
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let's talk about the when before you commit
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a sin shaytan will inspire you with hope
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go ahead, Allah will forgive you anyway you're
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okay, don't you know that Allah is ghafoor
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rahim, before you commit a sin shaytan will
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tell you go ahead, you already know Allah
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is merciful after you commit a sin the
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same devil will tell you, don't you know
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Allah is shadid al-iqab Allah is severe
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in his punishment don't even think about repenting
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because you will never be forgiven, he gives
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you fear after you commit the sin so
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an unhealthy dose of hope and an unhealthy
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dose of fear and there's a time component
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here before you commit a sin, after you
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commit a sin the believer on the other
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hand before you commit a sin fear Allah
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ittaqillaha ittaqillaha fil maharab fear Allah before you
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commit that sin, before you think about committing
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it, you better remind yourself of hellfire, and
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remind yourself of the severe penalties that have
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been spoken about in the Quran and the
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Sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam about
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that sin but if you fall kullu bani
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adam khattab ya'ibadi alladhina asrafu ala anfusihim,
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if you fall and you will fall to
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various degrees and gravities at that point Allah
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calls you back to him and says whatever
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it is that you've done nabbi'i ibadi
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let my servants know that I am al
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-ghafur rahim I am forgiving and merciful that
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you still have a place in Jannah that
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you can attain and that you have a
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Lord that will forgive you if you have
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hope enough to drive back to him Subhanahu
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wa ta'ala and at the end of
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our lives dear brothers and sisters the Prophet
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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam visited a young man and
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he said how do I find you, how
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are you he said to the messenger of
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Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, arjullah I have hope
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in Allah but I fear my own sins
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see how short yet vast I have hope
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in Allah but I fear my sins the
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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that no person
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dies in this state except that Allah will
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give him what he hopes for and will
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protect him from what he fears may Allah
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Subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to be
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driven by mahabba by love of him may
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Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to
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be balanced and sustained with healthy hope and
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healthy fear may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
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give us the highest of what we hope
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for may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala protect
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us from everything that we fear Allahumma ameen
