Omar Suleiman – Just When You Thought It Was Over

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The state of hopelessness and hellfire is a result of the experience of feeling subhanously rewarded by the people of Jannah. The reward of Jannah is renewed through the people in their own currency, and the state of ease is perpetual. The speaker emphasizes the importance of doing good deeds and focusing on one's actions and thoughts, as well as being a source of relief for others and their families.

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			We begin by praising Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
		
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			Ta-A'la and bearing witness that none
		
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			has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally
		
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			obeyed except for Him.
		
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			And we bear witness that Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam is His final messenger.
		
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			We ask Allah to send His peace and
		
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			blessings upon him, the prophets and messengers that
		
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			came before him, His family and companions that
		
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			served alongside Him, and those that follow in
		
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			His blessed path until the Day of Judgment.
		
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			And we ask Allah to make us amongst
		
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			them.
		
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			Allahumma Ameen.
		
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			Dear brothers and sisters, one of the things
		
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			that has happened in the last two years
		
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			is that the scenes of hopelessness and despair
		
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			and hellfire have suddenly become therapeutic for some
		
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			of the believers when they see the affair
		
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			of those who wreak hopelessness and despair and
		
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			the equivalent of * on earth upon our
		
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			brothers and sisters in Gaza and beyond.
		
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			And in that process, we can grasp some
		
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			of the scenes of the hereafter better and
		
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			understand them and then project them back on
		
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			our state in this world and how Allah
		
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			Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la has created
		
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			us in this consistent and constant affair.
		
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			And the sentiment was just when you think
		
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			it's over.
		
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			We saw the celebration after a ceasefire agreement
		
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			where the people of Gaza smiled and laughed
		
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			and then that very night some of those
		
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			who were smiling and laughing were murdered and
		
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			burnt alive.
		
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			Over 80 people killed by the time a
		
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			ceasefire actually takes place on Sunday.
		
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			And we know how the enemy will violate
		
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			multiple times.
		
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			Allah knows best how many of those who
		
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			celebrated the ceasefire will not actually be there
		
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			to witness it in Gaza.
		
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			What's the spiritual equivalent of this?
		
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			Just when you thought it was over.
		
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			And that has been a consistent theme of
		
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			those who wreak havoc on our brothers and
		
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			sisters is just when they give them hope
		
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			of relief, they turn up the fire.
		
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			And when you look at the states of
		
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			the people of hellfire, may Allah Subh'anaHu
		
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			Wa Ta-A'la protect us from being
		
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			amongst them.
		
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			Allahumma Ameen.
		
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			Allah Azawajal says, كُلَّمَا أَرَادُوا أَن يَخْرُجُوا مِنْهَا
		
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			أُعِيدُوا فِيهَا وَقِيلَ لَهُمْ ذُوقُوا عَذَابَ الْحَرِيطِ Think
		
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			of the creators of hopelessness in this world
		
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			now dealing with hopelessness in that world.
		
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			Every time they think they're about to escape
		
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			hellfire.
		
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			أَرَادُوا أَن يَخْرُجُوا مِنْهَا Imam Al-Qurtubi, rahim
		
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			Allah, describes it as a punishment that will
		
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			burst them to the top of a flame.
		
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			And they will see what appears to be
		
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			an escape.
		
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			And at that point they would be struck
		
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			by the gatekeepers of hellfire and returned 70
		
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			years into a pit, 70 years deep within
		
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			hellfire, struck down and told, ذُوقُوا عَذَابَ الْحَرِيطِ
		
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			Taste instead the punishment of the flame.
		
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			And so you can imagine the consistent and
		
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			perpetual hopelessness that every time they think they're
		
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			getting out, they actually go deeper in.
		
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			Just when they thought it was over, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala shows them that you're
		
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			just getting started.
		
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			And indeed there are people who deserve to
		
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			be in that state, otherwise Al-Adl would
		
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			not put them in it.
		
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			The one who is just subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala would not put them in it.
		
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			And so there's a state of hope followed
		
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			by hopelessness.
		
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			And one of the greatest means of torture
		
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			in this life is when you give someone
		
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			the hope of relief and then you increase
		
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			the trial, you increase the test and the
		
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			torture upon them.
		
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			Because the emotional sentiments, you're on guard when
		
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			you're in a state of trial, but you
		
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			let your guard down.
		
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			And so when you increase the torture, you
		
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			don't have the same tools, or at least
		
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			they're not kindled as immediate as before, to
		
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			see yourself through that.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ said about hellfire that
		
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			the person who has the least punishment in
		
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			hellfire will have a stone in their shoe
		
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			that will go through and boil what is
		
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			in their bodies until it reaches their brain.
		
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			And then they will be restored and it
		
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			will come back and be over and over
		
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			and over again.
		
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			لَا يَمُوتُونَ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَى They do not
		
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			die there nor are they given life.
		
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			It is a consistent perpetual punishment just when
		
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			they think it's over.
		
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			Now there's an equivalent to that as well
		
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			in Jannah.
		
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			And the equivalent in Jannah is that just
		
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			when the people of Jannah will think that
		
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			they've maxed out in terms of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala's blessing and reward, Allah will
		
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			show them something that they had no idea
		
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			even existed.
		
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			Just when they think they have it all,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give them
		
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			more.
		
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			And who deserves that more than the people
		
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			of Gaza when we think about them right
		
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			now?
		
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			Who have been scrambling for something so small,
		
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			celebrating the possibility of not being burnt alive
		
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			in whatever makeshift home that you have while
		
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			you're starving to death.
		
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			Who will deserve that more?
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala every time
		
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			He increases the beauty of the people of
		
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			Jannah, they think that's maximum beauty.
		
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			Every time Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives
		
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			them a new reward, they think this must
		
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			be the highest reward.
		
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			The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned to
		
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			us in the authentic hadith that Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala will tell them, keep asking,
		
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			ask for more, it's not over yet.
		
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			You haven't got it all yet.
		
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			And they would say, أَلَمْ تُبَيِّدْ وَجُوهَنَا They
		
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			look around at themselves, they say, but our
		
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			faces have been made bright.
		
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			أَلَمْ تُدْخِلْنَا الْجَنَّةِ You entered us into Jannah.
		
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			وَتُنَجِّنَا مِنَ الْنَّارِ And you saved us from
		
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			hellfire.
		
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			Ya Allah, what's left?
		
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			We thought it was over.
		
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			فَيَكْشِفُ الْحِجَارِ Subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah azawajal
		
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			removes the veil.
		
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			And then they see the face of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala and they would not
		
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			have been given anything more blessed and more
		
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			beautiful than that.
		
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			So subhanAllah, just as the hope of the
		
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			people of hellfire is being turned into greater
		
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			hopelessness, just as the punishment is being renewed
		
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			perpetually, the reward of the people of Jannah
		
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			is being refreshed and renewed perpetually to where
		
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			they're reaching a greater level, a greater level,
		
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			a greater level, a greater level.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us
		
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			amongst those people.
		
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			Allahumma ameen.
		
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			And just as the people of hellfire would
		
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			wish for death.
		
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			And one of the most heartbreaking things to
		
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			witness in this world is a young boy
		
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			who didn't get a chance to live life,
		
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			wishing for death because their parents have been
		
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			killed, their siblings have been killed, they don't
		
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			see a future for themselves in this dunya,
		
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			and they wish for death.
		
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			The people of hellfire would wish for death.
		
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			They would wish for it to end.
		
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			Even on the day of judgment, يَلَيْتَنِي كُنْتُ
		
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			تُرَابًا They would wish to end at that
		
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			point because they know what follows is only
		
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			going to be worse.
		
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			But look at the state of the people
		
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			of Jannah.
		
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			When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blesses them
		
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			with something else, and something else, and something
		
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			else.
		
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			Imagine when they look around at each other
		
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			and it's like, I just realized something.
		
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			أَفَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَيِّتِينَ إِلَّا مَوْتَتَنَا الْأُولَى وَمَا نَحْنُ
		
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			بِمُعَدِّبِينَ Is that really it?
		
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			Are we really not going to die?
		
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			A realization again, and again, and again.
		
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			Wait a minute, this is forever.
		
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			Wait a minute, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			still has more to give us.
		
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			Wait a minute, we're just getting started in
		
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			Jannah.
		
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			And imagine friends talking to each other.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us
		
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			to be part of that conversation.
		
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			And saying, you realize we're not dying.
		
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			There's no pitfall after prosperity here.
		
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			There's no disappointment after deliverance.
		
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			It's just on the up.
		
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			Except for the first time that we die.
		
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			And we will never be punished again.
		
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			إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَهُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ That is great
		
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			success.
		
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			لِمِثْلِ هَٰذَا فَلْيَعْمَلْ الْعَامِينُ For that, let those
		
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			who are working work.
		
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			For that moment.
		
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			And here I want to bring us to
		
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			our state in this dunya.
		
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			We know that in this dunya we have
		
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			hardship, we have ease.
		
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			And we know that the Prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wasalam told us that Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala will test us like the lines, vertical
		
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			lines grabbing a horizontal line pinching us at
		
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			different points in our lives to remind us
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			وَلَنُذِيقَنَّهُ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ الْأَدْنَى دُونَ الْعَذَابِ الْأَكْبَرِ
		
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			لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ And sometimes you will taste a
		
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			smaller punishment before the greater punishment so that
		
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			Allah can bring you back.
		
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			It's an opportunity to bring you back to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			You will be pinched in this dunya at
		
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			different points to remind you that this is
		
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			darul bala, that this is a place of
		
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			test and trial.
		
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			But here is the thing that we often
		
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			forget, that these tests and trials are not
		
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			neatly spread out in our lifetime.
		
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			It's not like you have a period of
		
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			ease and then you have a period of
		
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			hardship.
		
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			You have a good thing that happens to
		
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			you and then you have a bad thing
		
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			that happens to you and then a good
		
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			thing that happens to you and a bad
		
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			thing that happens to you.
		
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			In fact, one of the most powerful reflections
		
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			on the ayah, إِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا that
		
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			verily with hardship comes ease is that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala described hardship as a
		
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			state.
		
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			That state of being could last for two
		
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			years, it could last for 20 years, it
		
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			could last for two minutes.
		
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			But that state of ease is perpetual once
		
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			you enter into true yusr which exists only
		
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			outside of this world and paradises.
		
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			So it's not like the hardship that Allah
		
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			is talking about is the one thing that
		
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			just happened to you.
		
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			But they're states of being that sometimes you
		
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			have hardship and then that hardship is followed
		
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			by another hardship.
		
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			And just as you think you're about to
		
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			get ease, another hardship comes and then another
		
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			one comes and then there's a long period
		
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			of ease relative ease because even in your
		
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			state of ni'mah, in your state of blessing,
		
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			there are things that will remind you life
		
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			is not perfect, it's not meant to be
		
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			perfect here.
		
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			But relative periods of ease and blessing.
		
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			And then suddenly you get struck by a
		
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			long period of trial and hardship.
		
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			And then that sentiment comes sometimes when you're
		
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			in the state of hardship.
		
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			I thought it was over.
		
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			You were just about to climb out.
		
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			Allah shows you the light at the end
		
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			of the tunnel.
		
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			But then the tunnel somehow extends.
		
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			And if a person doesn't have proper iman,
		
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			proper yaqeen, proper faith and certainty, then at
		
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			that point they can succumb to the darkness
		
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			and they can embed it in their own
		
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			hearts and say, I give up, I give
		
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			up.
		
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			And that happens to many people.
		
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			And listen to how the Prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wasalam spoke about ayyam al-fitm, the days
		
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			of trial and tribulation.
		
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			And pay attention to the hadith of Abu
		
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			Hurairah radiallahu ta'ala and the Prophet salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam said, بادروا بالأعمال Rush to do
		
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			good deeds.
		
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			Some of those that explain the hadith explain
		
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			that rush to do good deeds meaning in
		
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			times of ease.
		
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			Rush to do good deeds in times of
		
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			ease because we tend to be most complacent
		
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			with our good deeds when we don't feel
		
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			the urgency of test and trial.
		
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			بادروا بالأعمال فتناً قطع ليل المظلم Because there
		
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			are trials that will come to you that
		
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			will be like dark patches of the nights.
		
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			When you think about a ليل المظلم, a
		
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			long night, in the depths of the darkness
		
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			of the night, you see no light whatsoever.
		
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			Only the artificial lights exist at some point.
		
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			See no light whatsoever.
		
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			And you will be plunged at times into
		
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			fitan, into trials and tribulations, where there is
		
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			no end in sight.
		
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			And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is saying,
		
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			بادروا بالأعمال Rush to do good deeds before
		
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			you find yourself in that state because he
		
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			says salallahu alayhi wasalam, at that point, يصبح
		
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			الرجل مؤمنا ويمسي كافرا وليعياذ بالله May Allah
		
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			protect us.
		
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			A person will wake up a believer and
		
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			go to sleep a disbeliever.
		
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			Or they'll wake up a believer go to
		
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			sleep a disbeliever.
		
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			Or they'll go to sleep a believer, wake
		
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			up a disbeliever.
		
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			The point is that at that point, you
		
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			might just lose your iman.
		
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			You might lose your faith altogether.
		
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			And someone thinks, how could I?
		
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			Me?
		
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			No, I'm a Muslim.
		
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			I'm a mu'min, I'm a believer.
		
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			I would never lose iman.
		
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			You're saying that in a time of ease.
		
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			But are you implementing بادروا بالأعمال Rushing to
		
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			do good deeds as if you're that person
		
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			that's in the pit of despair.
		
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			You can say it now.
		
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			But it's not easy when the time actually
		
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			comes.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ in another hadith in Muslim
		
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			Imam Ahmed, Prophet ﷺ described, كالخرزات في النظام
		
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			That the fitan will come towards the end
		
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			of times.
		
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			If you imagine, many of you are carrying
		
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			the misbah, tasbih.
		
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			If you imagine the beads on a string,
		
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			and someone cuts that string and how quickly
		
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			those beads fall off.
		
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			Imagine the Prophet ﷺ is saying, sometimes tasbih
		
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			will hit you that way.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And the fitan at the end of times,
		
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			may Allah protect us, will be like that.
		
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			So it's not like one falls on you
		
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			like a boulder.
		
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			It's like ten boulders fall on you suddenly
		
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			at one time.
		
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			What does that mean for us?
		
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			The Messenger of Allah ﷺ is saying, بادروا
		
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			بالأعمال Then rush to do good deeds in
		
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			your time of ease.
		
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			And here's what I want us to focus
		
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			on, dear brothers and sisters.
		
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			Because there will be long periods of relative
		
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			ease in our lives, where we become complacent.
		
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			And long periods of relative trial in our
		
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			lives, where we can succumb to despair.
		
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			And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ emphasized how
		
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			you act when you're not in that desperate
		
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			state.
		
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			And if you think about what we are
		
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			most prone to, when things are calm and
		
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			easy, it's the state of ghafla.
		
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			It's what Allah Azawajal calls the state of
		
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			heedlessness.
		
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			الغفلة في أوقات النعم Ghafla, heedlessness, during your
		
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			long stretches of ease.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because you don't feel like the world is
		
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			closing in on you.
		
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			And so you tell yourself, yeah, I've got
		
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			time.
		
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			You know, when the time comes, I'll get
		
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			into my du'a.
		
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			You know, when the time comes, I'll renew
		
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			my faith with Allah ﷻ.
		
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			And so you already have people from now
		
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			thinking, yeah, my life is not great.
		
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			I'm not, I don't really know Allah.
		
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			I'm not reading much Qur'an.
		
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			I'm not getting close to Allah ﷻ.
		
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			I'm not making much du'a.
		
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			But yalla, Ramadan.
		
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			Who guaranteed you Ramadan?
		
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			Who in the world told you that you
		
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			will live another month and a half?
		
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			Who told you that's even coming?
		
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			But when you're not feeling the heat of
		
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			despair, you can easily fall into ghafla.
		
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			You can easily fall into ease.
		
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			And subhanAllah, I was reflecting on this hadith
		
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			in a way that I had never, subhanAllah,
		
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			noticed before.
		
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			The hadith of the Prophet ﷺ talking to
		
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			Abdullah ibn Abbas ﷺ while he was riding
		
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			with him.
		
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			And at the tail end of the hadith,
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ says to Ibn Abbas, تعرف
		
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			إلى الله في الرخاء يعرفك في الشدة Get
		
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			to know Allah in times of ease.
		
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			Allah will know you in times of hardship.
		
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			And I was just thinking, subhanAllah, how beautiful
		
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			and precise the advice of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Because sometimes when you're in periods of ease,
		
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			you still pray your five prayers, you still
		
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			give your sadaqah, you still do your things
		
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			robotically and mechanically.
		
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			But you disconnect from Allah ﷻ in your
		
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			times of ease.
		
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			Like your du'a doesn't have the same
		
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			deep attachment.
		
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			Your salah doesn't feel as great.
		
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			We hate trial, but trial is the only
		
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			thing that wakes us up for tahajjud.
		
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			We hate despair, but despair is the only
		
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			thing that makes us cry in our du
		
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			'a.
		
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			And so sometimes in your times of ease,
		
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			yeah, alhamdulillah, I still come to jumu'ah,
		
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			I still pray my five prayers.
		
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			But your heart is rusting, you're not talking
		
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			to Allah, you're not getting to know Allah
		
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			ﷻ.
		
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			You're succumbing to ghafla.
		
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			It's easy right now.
		
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			And when it's easy, it's easy to become
		
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			heedless.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ emphasized, تعرف إلى الله
		
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			في الرخاء Get to know Allah ﷻ During
		
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			those times of ease, Allah will know you
		
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			in times of hardship.
		
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			You know what it makes me think about?
		
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			Every time I take someone for umrah or
		
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			hajj, especially hajj, then during hajj, mashaAllah, people
		
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			want like an experience where they're making du
		
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			'a quietly and everything is nice and smooth
		
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			and sakinah.
		
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			That's not the ibadah of hajj.
		
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			In hajj you're getting bustled around, pushed around,
		
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			elbows, sweat, tiredness, exhaustion, dehydration.
		
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			There's no quiet moment for du'a except
		
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			for the tense of mina.
		
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			Maybe, and on the day of Arafah.
		
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			Other than that, you're making talaf and you're
		
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			just trying to not fall down while you're
		
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			making your dhikr and your du'a.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because in moments of tribulation, you don't have
		
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			that time to settle in and make that
		
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			quiet du'a and feel that quiet connection.
		
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			What's stopping you right now?
		
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			تعرف إلى الله في الرخاء تعرف إلى الله
		
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			في الرخاء بادر بالأعمال And the last hadith
		
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			that I'll mention here, والله في عون العبد
		
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			ما كان العبد في عون أخي Allah will
		
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			be at the aid of the believer so
		
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			long as the believer is at the aid
		
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			of his brother.
		
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			You want Allah to know you in hard
		
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			times when you think the hard time is
		
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			never going to end.
		
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			When you feel like, I can't see an
		
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			end in sight.
		
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			These are three things.
		
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			بادر بالأعمال Rush to do good deeds in
		
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			your times of ease as if it's a
		
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			time of hardship.
		
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			Put yourself in Gaza right now.
		
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			Mentally put yourself in Gaza.
		
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			Spiritually put yourself in Gaza right now.
		
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			And think about what would happen to your
		
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			du'as and what would happen to your
		
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			good deeds.
		
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			بادر بالأعمال Number two, تعرف إلى الله Do
		
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			the actions where you get to know Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, where you read Qur
		
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			'an in quiet, where you make du'a
		
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			in ease, where you do dhikr in ease,
		
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			and you connect yourself to Allah.
		
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			Because that's the only way that you'll be
		
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			able to trust Him when you can't trust
		
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			your senses because you don't see an end
		
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			in sight during the trial.
		
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			Number three, Allah is in the service of
		
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			the believer so long as the believer is
		
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			in the service of his brother.
		
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			When you're in that state of ease, make
		
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			sure that you're a source of ease for
		
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			someone else.
		
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			Because then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
		
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			continue to be in your aid even when
		
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			your times are no longer easy.
		
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			The last thing I say is what Allah
		
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			azawajal says, وَعَبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينُ Worship
		
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			Allah until death comes to you.
		
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			When is it over?
		
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			I don't know when it's over.
		
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			The beauty and the complication of this dunya
		
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			is that we don't know when it's over.
		
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			We keep getting plunged into hardship and ease.
		
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			We're in the cycle and we don't know
		
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			when it's going to be over.
		
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			وَعَبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينُ Worship Allah until
		
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			certainty comes to you.
		
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			Certainty is death.
		
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			Worship Allah until death comes to you.
		
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			Hatim ibn al-Aslam rahimahullah had a beautiful
		
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			reflection on this.
		
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			He said, the dunya is like your shadow.
		
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			Think of the dunya as your shadow.
		
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			This world as your shadow.
		
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			If you try to catch your shadow, you'll
		
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			never be able to.
		
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			But if you turn your back to it
		
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			and walk, it will have no choice but
		
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			to follow you.
		
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			Put the dunya behind you like your shadow.
		
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			And follow that guidance and chase Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala with desperation even when your
		
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			circumstances don't seem so desperate.
		
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			So that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
		
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			give you hope even when there is no
		
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			worldly end in sight of the trial and
		
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			tribulation that you are in.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us
		
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			thabat.
		
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			May Allah give us firmness on our faith
		
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			in good times and in bad times.
		
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			And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make
		
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			the best of our deeds the last of
		
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			them.
		
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			And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant
		
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			our brothers and sisters in Gaza relief after
		
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			relief after relief.
		
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			In this life and the next.
		
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			And join us with them.
		
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			And allow us to be a source of
		
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			relief for them and in their aid.
		
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			So that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be
		
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			in our aid throughout this period of ease
		
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			that we are in relative to them.
		
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			Allahumma ameen.
		
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			A
		
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			'udhu
		
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			Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.