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respect to listeners.
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In
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just under two weeks, we will witness the beginning of the month of Ramadan.
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We need to prepare ourselves
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physically, practically, and also mentally,
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for the coming blessed month.
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We learn from a number of narrations that towards the end of Shaban, the prophets of the law while
he was selling them.
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And also during the month, and before the month, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam addressed
the Sahaba of the Lord
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and spoke to them of not just the virtue of Ramadan fasting, but also the requirement of not letting
the month go to waste of not being deprived of its good. And there are many such ahaadeeth in
relation to this. So similarly, we need to practically,
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physically and mentally prepare ourselves for the coming month to ensure that we make the most of
the month and do not allow it to go to waste. Practically, I'll speak about mentally in a moment,
but practically,
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we can
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defer some of our work and chores till after Ramadan.
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And also complete as much as we can before them
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in the hope of freeing as much as possible of our time, for the blessing.
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In fact, it's actually the practice of some
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even now in this day and age.
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And it's it has been so throughout history,
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that they even keep cooking to a minimum in the month of Ramadan.
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They explain to their families
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that just as the men
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have free time to be able to worship, to do the law of the Torah and the vicar of Allah,
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and to free themselves from other tasks and chores and gtcys. So a similar opportunity should be
given to the whole household so that they don't just spend their entire time or a lot of their time
cooking and preparing and entertaining guests.
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And so some of them are have this practice of keeping cooking to an absolute minimum in the whole
month. Only the bare necessities. And in fact we have a Sunday in that in the life of the sort of
law, some of the law while he was similar
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in that his soul is far
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we're very simple. In fact, his meals
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out of Ramadan
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were extremely simple.
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We learned that he would never have two types of dishes and one meal.
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In fact, he would never fill his he would never fill himself he would never eat his fill with barley
and meat
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and only
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minion, Shadow Viola and essays that never till the day he died, did the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam fill himself with barley in any two days.
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So even over the spread of two days, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam never ever filled his
stomach with barley. And the reason for mentioning barley is that wheat was not as common or as
preferred as barley.
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And in fact, in many ways for health purposes, barley is a better grain then we
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also the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and lots of barley used to grow in Medina
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and Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam. That may sound surprising, but Medina
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traditionally had much more water than it has now.
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And many of the values
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used to flow freely with
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water and this is why it was regarded as an oasis.
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And amongst the crops of Medina weren't just dates that there was wheat, there was barley.
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And many of the unsolved so how about all the farmers because they had lots of cultivations and
farms and orchards, and they didn't just specialize in dates. Rather, there was a lot of barley as
well, and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam in the later years of his life in Medina, when he
gained certain lemons such as from Burnaby, in the fourth year of hedger.
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Some of the lands which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi, wasallam gained himself were actually fields
of barley,
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sort of pseudo Luckily, his Salatu wassalam had his own fields of barley, which produce crops, maybe
not all the time, but for much of the time.
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And so barley was always a preferable grain to wheat.
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And yet, even from barley,
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whose fields he had himself,
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mini and shadow Viola.
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That never,
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of course, he's to give a lot of it in sub.
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So a lot of the properties used to give away.
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And this is why when he passed away, even though previously, he had fields of barley that came in
his possession,
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or sort of luchador, his Salatu was Salam passed away, and let departed from this world, having
borrowed
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or having purchased barley
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on credit from a Jew in Medina,
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which he then gave to, and spread to his family.
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Mommy, nanny shadow The law says that never to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam fill his
stomach with barley.
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Just barley in two days, and that remains so till the day he left this world. And that was out of
alignment. So one can imagine what his meals were like, in the month of Ramadan, his soul is far.
But this is another topic altogether. What's how much to point out is that the coming month is a
very blessed month, we should prepare ourselves practically and mentally.
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And part of that mental preparation is that we get ourselves for the event of a loss.
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And that's what the whole month of Ramadan is about. Now, today's talk is titled Obama's spiritual
retreat. And the reason for that is that the month of Ramadan is a form of Attica,
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for the entire month.
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And actigraph isn't just what we are accustomed to believing, which is
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a very particular form of seclusion and retreat in a designated place. Of course, that is the
correct meaning of actigraph as we know it now. But the original meaning of Erica guff wasn't that
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and when we take the wider meaning of it
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The gov, it helps us understand not just the actigraph as we know it today better, but it also helps
us understand the actual event of fasting and the whole month of Ramadan in its true spirit.
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Hence the name Ravana spiritual retreat.
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And this is based on the understanding that the whole month of Ramadan is a form of Attica, and
allow me to explain
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what does the word actigraph actually mean? It comes from the root word, or gouf in Arabic, and, of
course has many derivatives. last panel hoarder Allah
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mentions in the holy war and wonder morality foreigner cinema surgeon,
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that whilst you are in actigraph, in the machines,
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but then so here, this is a clear mention of actigraph in the machine, but then again, Ibrahim
alayhis, Salam said, and Allah quotes him in the Koran, that Maha they hit the mouth feed will let
the undone the hierarchy food same word. loss as one two maraca foreigner feeling massage and whilst
you are in Attica in the machines, and Ibrahim alayhis salaam said to his people, Maha the hit them
are theater, let the unsimilar hierarchy form that what are these idols
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before which you are doing Attica.
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So Allah mentions actigraph in the mustards as we know it, but lot also a quotes Ibrahim Alayhi
Salaam who mentioned at the gaff in relation to idols. So what is then the original meaning of
Attica and the kind of simply me
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for those of you who know Arabic, aka Jaco, for ofin, which means to devote oneself and focus
oneself
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on something
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to the exclusion of everything else. So when you single mindedly attach yourself to something, focus
on something and devote yourself to that thing.
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That is the original meaning of a *. And this is what Ibrahim alayhis salam was referring to that
his people,
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just as others as Allah mentions in the form of a little hierarchy theme that we will remain devoted
to these articles, that what they would do when they would worship
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before these idols, then
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regardless of the actual wording and their prayers, they
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The scene was that kneeling, bowing, prostrating,
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humbling themselves before these idols, they would be focused on their prayer, they will be
completely devoted and sometimes would spend hours in that manner. So, the original meaning of
Attica AF is not even just worship you actually means to focus yourself to concentrate on one
particular thing to the exclusion of everything else, and a simple translation would be devoting
yourself. So, this is the meaning of Attica.
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Now, when we take that original meaning of Attica into consideration, then it becomes easier for us
to understand Ramadan,
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the actual actigraph in Ramadan, the whole month of Ramadan, fasting as an a burger in itself.
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Now, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, it's well known of him, we all know that Attica is
suddenly In fact, the entire amount that throughout the history of Islam, that all a man more or
less agree
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unanimously, the Attica is a
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prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did it regularly.
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And not just in the month of Ramadan. Of course, we famously know that in the final 10 days of
Ramadan Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would perform the Attica and one of the reasons for
doing so just one of the many was that he would search for later
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in those 10 days final 10 days of Ramadan.
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What
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Another thing is that, in the final year of Islam, the prophet similar learning
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Send them did Attica not just for 10 days but for 20 days. And one of the reasons was that in the
final year of his life,
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prophets Allah Allah it was set meaning the final not the final year but the final Ramadan that he
spent. So the final Ramadan that he spent on Earth, he did Attica for 20 days. One of the reasons
was that this was connected to the revelation of the Quran and his revision of the Quran. Every
month of Ramadan Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would revise the Quran with gibreel alayhis
salam and the meaning of revision is that God really his family visits him. Julian alayhis salaam
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would recite as much of the Quran as had been revealed till
then did you read any Sudan and he would listen. And then gibreel alayhis salaam recite the same
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book to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he would listen. So, this in Asian languages,
this is known as though
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which we normally call door door comes from the word though. And for those of you who have done him,
or are doing his or whose children and family members are, or have been doing or have done HIV,
you'll be familiar with the term door, which originally comes from though, and the meaning of though
is a term. So just as a prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would attribute any sin and would take
turns in reciting the Quran to each other one reading the other listening. So, it was the daughter
of God alayhis salaam, and then it was the daughter of Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam though
simply means a turn. So when we use the word door, it just refers to taking turns as gibreel alayhis
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salaam and prophets of the love it was something we used to do. And this is the tradition of mirage
of revision of the or and so he would do it regularly each Ramadan with Rasulullah sallallahu it was
in them. And then in the final Ramadan that he spent, the prophet SAW the love it was some of them
made two revisions of the Quran, Djibouti Delta, his Sunnah. So just as he did
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20 days of Africa, he did two complete revisions of the or and the GB alayhi salatu was Salam.
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So we know that he would do at the gaff in Ramadan, that's well known, and in the final Ramadan he
did to Africa hours or 20 days of Africa, not just 10 just as he did to complete revisions of the
Quran. We also know that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, did actigraph out of Ramadan, and
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Imam Bukhari Muslim and there's all relates that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam also did
Attica in the final 10 days of show while the month after Ramadan, so, and presumably, and most
likely, that was actually without fasting. So there is a concept of doing etica without fasting too.
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So he did it took off, even in Chahal out of the month of Ramadan. So Ramadan is not at the calf is
not restricted to the month of Ramadan. But most interestingly, the epigraph of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam began, even before Islam.
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So his son now I'm doing Attica
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didn't just begin in Medina.
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And he wasn't just in Makkah, before the hedra after the revelation of the Koran. He actually used
to do Africa even before the revelation of the Quran.
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Even before the age of thought,
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when he first received the word,
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Imam Hari Rama La La rice at the beginning, the third Hadees, which he relates
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about the beginning of Revelation is from Chateau de Allah. And so the third Hadeeth in the book of
cerebral Buhari is about the beginning of Revelation. And it's from Chateau de la Horne,
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who says, oh, what, oh, my God, the hero pseudo lies the lahardee who was in the
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middle, why are you sorry?
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That the
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very beginning of receiving of revelation
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on the part of the civil law, so the law it
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was actually good, true for dreams.
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And he would not see any dream except that it would appear like the
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Break of mourning.
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And the meaning of this is that
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even before receiving the first verses of the Holy Prophet
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salallahu alayhi salatu salam began seeing dreams.
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And we learn from other narrations that this was for a period of six months.
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Ruby
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is a very important month
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for a number of reasons.
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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
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was born in the month of April when
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he departed from the world in the month of April when
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he left MK he did hedger, he arrived in Medina in the month of April.
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And the first verses of the Holy Quran
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he received in the month of Ramadan.
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But the beginning of this process began in the month of April Oh, well when he first started having
these clear dreams.
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So we learn that for six months, this process continued have clear dreams. And the meaning of clear
dreams is that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would see very clear, vivid dreams that led
ultimately to receiving the first verses of the Holy Quran, in the words of Chateau de la and how
they would be like the break of mourning. So when you compare mid morning brightness and the rays of
sunlight in Arabia in the morning, as opposed to the darkness of the night, with no lighting
whatsoever, no light pollution, the difference between the two was similar to the difference in the
dreams of the Prophet salallahu, Alayhi, wasallam, and other people's dreams, other people's dreams,
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we may think they are like reality when we dream.
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No one very few people can actually tell
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whilst they are dreaming, that this isn't reality.
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We're only dreaming.
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We only think that retrospectively when we wake up,
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then we realize that we were only dreaming. And sometimes the mind can play tricks with us, in
making us believe that whilst I was dreaming, I knew I was dreaming.
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But that's what the mind does. retrospectively. Afterwards, it makes us think that even whilst we
were dreaming, we thought and we knew we were dreaming. That's what the mind plants enters
afterwards. But once we are dreaming, how many of us can tell that this isn't reality, this isn't
the world. In fact, people have dreams within dreams.
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And what they have is that they are dreaming.
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And then they wake up from a dream.
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So they realize that, oh, I was just dreaming, but they are still actually dreaming.
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And then they wake up to reality. So when we are dreaming, we think that this is reality. This is
the world. This is the truth.
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And we are frightened. This is why we have nightmares. We talk now asleep, we scream, we are fearful
because our body even though the brain is actually programmed to prevent the body from reacting to
dreams. And it's programmed to keep the body in control during sleep.
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Despite that programming and that control. dreams can be so vivid that they can still bypass that
control and that programming of the brain and make the body react.
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That's how sharp and vivid and strong these dreams are and akin to reality.
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Now we think these dreams are real. The think of this, in comparison to the dreams at the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam received in those in that period. Our dreams are still light in the
darkness of the night.
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Despite believing that
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This is reality, if our dreams are still like the darkness of the night, in comparison to the dreams
of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam which, compared to our dreams were like the bright morning
sun
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and bright dateline. One can just imagine how truthful and how real these dreams have a sort of loss
of the law it says.
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So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam saw dreams for a period of approximately six months
beginning from Ruby 101 all the way till the month of Ramadan. Then
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only in a shuttle the alarm hoces in the same vehicle hardy thumbor Bibi la Haleakala. Then solid
she
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was made beloved sort of sort of loss of the law it was.
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This means that solitude was made beloved to
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Allah.
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Allah made halwa solitude, seclusion retreat, beloved Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he
was driven to Biola and this was during the period of vivid dreams.
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So one morning and Chateau de Allah says, What can the Yoruba Harare Hara in
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faith Hanafi
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la earlier the word in added,
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then, after solitude was made delivered to the sort of loss of the lahardee or seldom he would
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seclude himself in the cave of * up.
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And he would worship there sorry, for the handler fee, he would do the handles there.
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He would do the handles therein,
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and the meaning of the handle of his wish,
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and he would do it a layer earlier the word added for a few nights. That means day isn't that
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then meaning a shot of the alarm says he would then return to his family.
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And for that period that he would remain in the cave of Hira. He would wait deservedly that he would
actually take provisions with him for that seclusion for that period. Then he would return to Him
for the general the alarm her and she would prepare more provisions for him, and then he would
return to the cave of header.
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This process continued, and in another video Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says that I
remained secluded in the cave of Hello Shara for a whole month.
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We learned from other narrations that which month was this this was the month of Roma.
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So for a whole month the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam remained in the cave of Hitler.
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Now what do we learn from this?
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Is that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam.
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After solitude and seclusion were made delivered to him, he was driven to spending time in solitude
in
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seclusion, in retreat, in the cave of Hello.
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You spend a few days there, come home, prepare, take provisions go back, spend a few more days. But
then there came a time when he spent an entire month
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in the cave of *.
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And then when we need to shuffle the alarm her also says that he would remain secluded in the cave
of he and I hit our head
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until the truth came.
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And that was in the form of Djibouti relays to them bringing him the first words of the Holy Quran.
So let's think about this. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would spend many days and nights
alone in the cave of Hira.
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Today, mocha mocha Rama is a vast city, with millions residing in the city. However,
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in those days before Islam,
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NACA wasn't very large at all.
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And even though it was regarded as a city, owing to the small populations of the time,
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it was actually less populated than some villages in parts of the world.
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With no artificial lighting
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at night with no light pollution, one can just imagine the surroundings of monka.
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At night, and yet in that period, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would leave muckety, muck
alone, and travel to the cave of Shut up.
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Which if we accept that it is where it is today is at a distance of a few miles, a few, a few miles
from the center of the city, the province and the love it was no more travel, they're all alone,
climb all the way up to this hidden cave, and then remain in solitude alone, with no one around.
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No Sam,
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no people
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in total silence, and he would remain there in solitude, not for one or two hours, for four days,
and now and before the revelation of the poor and for the whole month, and that was actually the
month of Ramadan and slightly before.
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So he remained
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alone.
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One could just imagine
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the loneliness, the solitude, and then what would he do? On what Nina shadow the alarm on her
essays?
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For your fi, what can he do to be Hari Hara. So he would seclude himself in the cave of Hira fear,
the hunger for fi and he would do the handedness therein.
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And the meaning of panels, again, for those of you who are students of Arabic,
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atheist agenda or annual hint
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he would
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protect himself
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from the HUD, one of the meanings of the HUD, again for the students of Arabic, that the foul
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the verb of the feral includes some
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and each dinner.
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So that means the gym, the Barony if
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the gym the burning
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the hood,
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the gym, the Baron alleged was
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one of the meanings of the 100 is that you distance yourself from lying down.
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That That means you distance yourself from sin. The handle means you distance yourself from him
which also means sin. So, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would do the hand within the
meaning of the handedness is he would distance himself and protect himself from sin.
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And that was one of the purposes of secluding themselves. So, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
would go away from from the hustle bustle of the city and distance himself from everything and
everyone
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in the clear air and the climate of the desert, alone in a cave.
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And this in itself was the meaning of a bother because we do not know from the narrations. What kind
of ibadah the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did.
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Salah wasn't introduced as we know it, there was no tilava of the Quran as a whole and had not been
revealed.
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So what would the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam do for all these days and that?
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Well, the act of seclusion in itself meant so much one. And he would reflect on the last panel
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he would devote himself to Allah has a vigil in a particular way. Without even the ritual forms have
evolved or has been out. And that would just mean sitting and reflect on Allah has the wisdom, not
for one or two hours, but for entire days, nights, for weeks for a whole month.
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Now what benefit was that? What sort of what benefit was there in this? This is what actually led
him and remember, he didn't do this to earn and win profit. He didn't do this to acquire profit.
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As a last round of what I say is what the Cabal Len for her there. In sort of the Dora, Allah found
you in search and he got
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Love found you in search, and he got
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so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was driven to solitude and seclusion. And when he did
this, he wasn't hoping for Prophethood. He wasn't asking for that special privilege and position.
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Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah still guided him to it. And this whole process of clear and vivid
dreams, brighter than the crack of mourning, than the break of
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these vivid dreams, this love of solitude, this reflection of lost power,
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this retreat, this seclusion, this distancing himself from everything and everyone else. This whole
process eventually led him to the time and place where of when of when and which mean anti shuttle
the alarm, says, had a hole until the truth came.
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And then gibreel le salon visit.
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This is what seclusion led him to this is what solitude led him to this is what the level of
loneliness led him.
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Remember, this practice
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was known to the Arabs.
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It was known to the non Arabs
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even before Islam, from the time of
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the great prophets, Isa memoriam it himself and his followers would also retreat into seclusion. And
although some took this too far, as Allah has original says in the Quran, what abahani marketed
naturally ellipta is one in LA from out of Korea yet
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that that monasticism which they invented, we did not decrease for them. But still they did it.
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With one in LA seeking the countenance of a lost season last year, unfortunately from our our happy
hour yet, they were not able to keep it as it should mean as it should have been kept. They were not
mindful of it as they should have been mindful of it. So last panel with their honor, approved
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some
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of this seclusion, this retreat and this monasticism that they practiced,
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but unfortunately they took it to extremes. And part of that extreme was that they unfortunately
they would pride themselves on this was some of the moment of the
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monks and the hermits of the desert. They would pride themselves on self flagellation.
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So they would whip themselves beat themselves.
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That was disapproved of, obviously, self flagellation was disapproved of the beating and punishing
of oneself physically was disapproved of
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that was part of the
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monster system that Allah disliked and disapproved. And that was part of the extreme monasticism
that they practiced. Another one was absolute celibacy. And
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some of them would practice standing on one spot.
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for hours and hours on end again, there was no purpose to that. So seclusion was good.
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distancing oneself from everything and everyone else in order to focus and devote oneself to Allah
subhanho wa Taala was good. But self flagellation,
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punishment.
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These kind of awkward things were disapproved off.
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And a lot of these sincere followers of Ysidro meridiam, Prophet Jesus and Amos Salaam, were
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hermits and this monastery ism the solitude. This loneliness actually led them to great things, they
attain great spirituality. And this is actually known in the east to remember the spiritual world
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exists.
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And we can't deny
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and part of materialism is the belief that the only thing that exists is matter. And there is no
spiritual realm whatsoever.
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And yet, the people of the East, including their philosophers have always believed in
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The spiritual
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separate from religion.
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So even the ancient non Muslim philosophers
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believed in a world beyond this physical material. And they actually tapped into it. And they can
tap into.
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So, Confucius,
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even Buddha,
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and others,
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these ancient Chinese, and Indian philosophers, monks and hermits, they actually display tremendous
feats of spirituality. I don't mean Islamic spirituality, just spirituality, in the sense that they
tapped into the non material, spiritual world beyond the physical realm as we know it. This is why
they have in the past, and they still continue to practice amazing feats of remaining hungry and
thirsty for days, weeks on end.
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One of meditate, of staying in one spot of absolute car, of practicing and exercising mind over
matter, self discipline, control,
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of withstanding pain,
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and the strange terms that we hear of, of being able to harness the inner power such as chief.
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We may laugh at some of this martial artists, especially from China and Far East, they practice
harnessing the power of ci, the inner power.
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Others, they are able to meditate, and for days on end, and they remain very calm.
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They are hardly ever provoked.
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People can punch them, and they want where
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they are able to withstand pain such as walking over coal, burning cold, hot embers, people, hitting
them striking them. And they being able to absolutely withstand all of this and control their pain,
with mind over matter. How do they do this, they tap into the spiritual into that world beyond the
physical world. So whether it's the ancient Chinese and Indian philosophers, hermits and monks, or
whether these were the Christian monks, of the deserts of North Africa, of Arabia, whether these
were the monks, and the nuns, of other periods, and even of Europe, in the ancient world, they were
able to display tremendous feats and achievements because they tapped into that spiritual world. And
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it can be tapped into, as long as one moves away from the physical realm. You can't be in the
physical world
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all the time, and still tap into that spiritual, you have to somehow move away even temporarily. You
can't be in both worlds at the same time.
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And this is one of the reasons why Rasulullah sallallahu it said, when he moved away from muckety,
muck around and secluded himself, in the cave of alone, in the darkness of those nights, for days
and nights on end, with a little food, with no one's keeping company, not even members of his
family. And he devoted himself to a last panel with the other he secluded himself. He went into that
retreat. He focused on a lot of solitude. And as we know, we were none of the narrations tell us how
he would worship Allah azza wa jal in those days and nights and the solitude and the retreat of the
Cave of Hira what we do know is that there was no need for him to re
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there was no
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Salah as we know it's for him to fall.
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There was no other ritual form of worship, as we know it that's been mentioned in any of the
narrations of the Cave of hero. This is why the older man say that most likely he spent that entire
time only in the
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eye in reflecting on a loss
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in focusing on a loss or
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impending loss
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and in some way communicating with the law
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And what did that seclusion lead him?
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He didn't just manage to tap into a small part of the spiritual world know, Allah subhanho wa Taala
prepared him for the coming of Djibouti, and the revelation of the holy crap.
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And that was no small thing, even though a lot destined for him to be who he was, even though Allah
has his origin, prepared him and was preparing him for a whole period.
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In fact, Allah has the word y'all had made him Nabhi and Russell and who he was, from the beginning
of creation, of course, a lot has destined that. But the practical preparation itself took not only
his lifetime, but the intense preparation for receiving the words of the holy war and began six
months earlier, with clear vivid dreams, which as I explained, we shouldn't just think, oh, they
were clear dreams, no, our dreams, that we think our reality are like night compared to the dreams
that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam saw in those six months before the revelation of the
Quran, and that intense preparation, all the way up to six months before the coming of gibreel Sara,
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with the words of the Quran, in that preparation, when the spiritual world opened up before him,
what was the ultimate reaction of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he was filled with all
anthrax.
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And he ran
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to de Janeiro de la Mancha and told her throw water on me cover me cover me.
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And he was trembling,
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in feed
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the alarm to reassure him. So with all of that preparation, with just one meeting with gibreel
alayhis salam, and with just five verses of the holy for an despite all of that preparation, that
was the power that the spiritual world had on the Prophet sallallahu it was the other world hat.
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And just for that little amount of loss that prepared him practically in such a way as opening a
shot of the lover and her sees through a bit illegal color. Then solitude was made beloved to him,
meaning Allah made loneliness and solitude delivered to the sort of law. So the law it was
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a last panel with Anna prepared him in that manner.
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Now,
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I've gone into this lengthy explanation to show that retreat, seclusion. solitude
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is a necessary requirement for being able to
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access that spiritual world beyond the physical world.
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And Allah subhanho wa Taala has given us the opportunity in Nevada,
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and especially in the month of Ramadan, and not just in the final 10 days, if we do
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our whole Ramadan should be a retreat, our fasting should be a retreat, our Salah should be a
retreat. And this is the meaning of mentally prepare ourselves. Because the reality is we are given
this opportunity five times a day. But how often can we do we make our solar a form of Africa
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a retreat from the world do we have
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now how is solar a form of Africa a form of seclusion or retreat
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when we begin Salah.
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The first that could be
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is known as
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the Kabira three era
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that's one of the names you can call it the harima you can call it the first that we can call it the
headin. You can also call it that that could be of the heading. And you can also call it the beat of
era.
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So it's known as the miracle era.
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Now we know the meaning of heroin.
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We are familiar with the term
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and what
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we normally associate it with the clothing
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for
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the two simple pieces of cloth for men
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and restricted clothing for women, specific for
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and hedge. That's a common meaning of prom, but a real
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did not mean and it still doesn't mean I'm not saying it's wrong to use it. Yes, we all use the word
haram for the clothing of hygiene Amara
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Hara
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originally me
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make making some things sacred. That's the original meaning of
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making something sacred. And in fact making something wrong. And the original meaning of harm isn't
unlawful as isn't something bad.
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The original meaning of Haram is also sacred. That's why we have illustrated
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the sacred precent the sacred mystery.
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And the idea was that any area which is sacred is also forbidden.
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You couldn't enter it a sacred area, you had to tread very carefully, and it was normally forbidden,
you weren't allowed to enter that area.
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And that's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, and these later Bukhari and others from
a normativity Machito de la horn, Allah in the liquidity millikin, Shema, were international law him
having know that every king has a
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a sanctuary Hema doesn't mean boundary means a sanctuary know that every king has a sanctuary.
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And traditionally, the Arabs
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when they will travel.
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Since the nomads,
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the leader of the tribe,
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he would claim
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he would stake his first claim on a number of things. One of the things he would do is that when he
was traveling, he would travel they would set up his tent in a certain place. And then a boundary
was created an artificial boundary.
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Sometimes as far as the howling, or the barking of a dog could be heard, etc. And then it was
announced to the rest of the tribe that
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the chief
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This is His sanctuary. No one else can hunt
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or claim any animals or allow their own animals to graze in this
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sanctuary
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or
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grazing, herding.
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Capturing of prey and other animals must take place for everyone else outside this small area,
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which was now the hammer the boundary sorry, the sanctuary of the king.
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In fact, even now,
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who doesn't know Genghis Khan?
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Who hasn't heard of him? Now, when Genghis Khan died? His followers remember he was a nomad as well,
a nomadic chieftain.
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When he died, his followers set up a Hema a sanctuary of approximately 200 square miles
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around his gray burial place. And no one knows the exact burial place, but they set up a boundary of
200 square miles. And that boundary is actually still honored till today, that sanctuary. So they
call it the forbidden area proximately 200 square miles.
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So the Prophet sallallahu Sallam says Allah in the liquidity, Millikan, Haman know that every king
has a sanctuary.
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And that sanctuary is forbidden.
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In the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, we're in the Himalayan Mountains. So what can be
said of the King of kings, and indeed the sanctuary of Allah are his forbidden sin.
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So everything which Allah has made forbidden, as part of a law sanctuary, do not go anywhere near.
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So the meaning of haram originally was something sacred. And something sacred is something
forbidden. You don't go there, because it's forbidden, not because it's bad, because it's too good.
That was the original meaning of Halong. I'm still having mystery.
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And the meaning of home therefore, is to make something her arm which is sacred
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So when we say Allahu Akbar,
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we do and say,
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a number of things we stand facing that
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we prepare ourselves with,
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we wash ourselves rich,
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in a manner as though we are washing away our connection with a dunya. Now, we can't do this before
every Salah. So
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Islam has reduced the process of purification from the full source.
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And stand this,
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it'd be too much to do hostile before every seller. So
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Islam has reduced the full hosts, to just a symbolic hosts.
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And the symbolic awesome.
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The symbolic bathing is to wash not the entire body, but those parts of the body that are commonly
exposed to the face.
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And it should have been the whole head as well. But then again, to reduce the requirement, instead
of washing the entire head thoroughly, we are mainly required to pass water over with a wet hand. So
to me,
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again, that's just to reduce the burden. But to watch the full facts, and actually the whole head
that's exposed, but the head was just the muscle, and then the hands and the arms, and then the
feet, because these are the common areas of exposure. But why only these areas, the reason is that
they symbolize and they represent the entire body. And in reality, we should be doing listen for the
whole body before every soldier.
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But to reduce the burden, we aren't required to do hospital before every so I'll be only required to
do will do which represents us. One, two, it should have been we'll do before every seller. But
again, to reduce the burden. As long as we haven't broken and violated that we'll do. We are able to
repeat as many sellers as we can and as we want with the same will do. That's just to reduce the
burden. So in order to stand before last panel, without I think of the process, we wash ourselves
from the world. So in a way we're actually doing, so we wash ourselves, we wash away from us, we
wash our hands our entire body of the dunya.
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Then we stand before Allah, and we face one particular direction.
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And that means devotion, focus, concentration. Once we've done that, we raise our hands. And this is
again symbolic in the sense that we throw the dunya and the world behind us. We raise our hands, we
are throwing the dunya and the world behind us. We shun we renounce everything. And once we've done
that, we say Allahu Akbar, and the saying of Allahu Akbar,
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marks the consecration of our prayer. It ties the knot, this with the word Allahu Akbar, with that
declaration. With that pronouncement. We now make our state sacred.
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We may have a state how long
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once we say luck, but what do we do now? We are now in the sacred and haraam state of summer where
things off a bit
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so in reality, this whole process leads us into a form of Attica, our Salah is a retreat. It's a
seclusion, it's a renunciation of the world. We don't talk with anyone else. We don't look left or
right.
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We don't speak, we don't eat, we don't drink. All of that is physical, we don't even turn away. All
of that is physical, but spiritually and mentally, we should be aiming for focusing on just a last
panel with Allah on the words of Allah azza wa jal on our a bother on our prayer on our
communication because we are in conversation with Allah. That's meant
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and This in itself is a form of retreats.
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When we do sutra
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one of the phrases referring to Salaam is the holy
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which means making Hello
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So when we say salaam aleikum, wa rahmatullah salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
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say salam is it just because when we complete our Salah, we are now to spreading greetings. Now, the
reason for Salaam is we had retreated into a different word.
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We had secluded ourselves,
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we had secluded,
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we had retreated into a different realm, we had entered into a harem state in which we had forbidden
so many things, including speech communication with the world contacting the world. And if we can
take our Salah to the best position, then we had actually made any thought of the world hard on
ourselves.
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We were away, we were absent, we were in a different world.
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And then, when we finish our Salah, we end the harem state by making ourselves and our state Hello,
okay. And that's marked with words, we have to have some sort of declaration for that. So just as we
had a declaration for entering into the haraam sacred state by saying Allahu Akbar, we now have a
declaration for exiting the haraam state, which is salaam aleikum. And that's why the sneem of Salah
is also known as the making of Halla making ourselves Hello. So why do we say Salaam So what? Why?
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And what why was the declaration Allahu Akbar?
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Why was that declaration chosen for the process of entering into the sacred state? Why? Because we
remove ourselves from the world, and we present ourselves before last panel with Allah, we gradually
come into the presence of a lot. So when we come into the presence of Allah, we greet Allah. First,
when you come into someone's presence, you greet them. And the greeting of last panel with Allah
when we assure ourselves into his sacred presence is with the words, the first words are simply of a
law, you are the greatest. That is our declaration
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of entering into their sacred state, and why that particular declaration, because we push ourselves
into the presence of a last panel with honor, and in doing so, the first words that we say to Allah
are, Allah Your Grace. With that we begin our communication our conversation with the law. So when
we end that, we end with a prayer just before leaving.
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And then when we leave the nodal presence of the last panel with the other, and we exit the haraam
state, and we want and once again, enter the halaal, state of the dunya. We do it by meeting your
world again.
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By meeting everyone else again, by exiting that sacred world, and coming back to the normal coming
back into the normal world. And the first people that we see in the normal world are those around
us. So this is why the Greek the declaration chosen for that exiting is just as the declaration
chosen for entering the sacred world is greeting the last panel with the declaration for exiting the
sacred world is greeting the P. That's why we say a Samadhi Samadhi
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This is reason so the whole of Sunnah is a retreat, it's a seclusion we're actually entering into a
haram state. So isn't just for Hajj we enter into a haram state
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and as a last panel with Anna season sort of the vaquera and hydroshield melmoth from and follow the
theme that had to Florida for what I've talked about
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the hedge is a period of nine months so whoever makes hedge obligatory on themselves and the meaning
of making hedge obligatory upon themselves in these nine months. It means entering into the state of
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So again, we enter into the state of calm isn't the clothing at home is a sacred state. So one could
actually be in a state of home without the clothing and one could be with the home with the
clothing, but not in the state of so home is a state just like the salon was a state of being in
Herat or haram state, the
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heroine is a state again, how do you mark
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getting into that state? It's done with a declaration. So how do you you can put on the clothing.
You can read it yourself. But you need a declaration you need a mark which shows that you have now
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exited the halaal state into a haram state. So how is that done? It's done with love bake, love,
bake La MaMa bake love Baker nursery calacatta bake in the handle Nicoletta lockable milk lash,
reconnect again, the bake,
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I present myself before
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repetition, I present myself before presence, presence, presence presence, or law presence presence.
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This is how we announce our presence before last panel data in the state of error. Once we are in
lost presence, we are away from the dunya more things become Halong for us.
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And that's in the realm of hedging.
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And then again to exit that harm state.
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There is
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a physical decoration, we shave ourselves, our heads etc. And there are other markings. Similar is
the sacred state of fasting. This is why I say even fasting is a retreat.
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How do we fast?
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Just last week, hammer hood there are other C's of her arm. And I'll mention this in a moment. But
how do we fast we normally have the knee
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and the knee is sufficient. But we make we enter into a hot arm states fasting as a sacred state.
Now to understand the state of fasting, compare it with Hajj and Umrah What does the last panel with
Allah seen in the Holy Quran about the state of Islam from unfollowed the feeding the Hajj, fell out
of the earth will will argue that whether makes harem Hajj obligatory on themselves in these months
by entering into the state of Allah. Then Allah mentions three things lots of things are what are
lots of things are Hara, in Iran of Hajj and Umrah but Allah only mentions three things.
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He doesn't mention the removal of hair, which is how it isn't mentioned the applying of fragrance,
which is how he doesn't mention the clipping of nails, which is how long
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a lot dimensioned any of these things, what law chooses to mention is something which was wrong,
even out of error, three things.
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So in error, you have a number of things which become harm which were already Hello.
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The trimming of hair, the clipping of nails, the application of fragrance,
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conjugal relations,
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etc. These were Hara. Now they become Haram. A surprisingly Allah speaks about haram doesn't mention
any of the heroin things of harm that we had before which suddenly became heroin. Rather law only
mentions three things which are haram anyway.
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Why? Because Allah wishes to lay emphasis on these three things that these are haram anyway, but
even more so in the state of her arm. We all seem to be careful about removal of hair,
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application of fragrance we all are in a home. I shouldn't do this. I should be careful, no clipping
of nails, no trimming of hair, no application of fragrance we are extremely careful. Well, we've
become quite absent minded and complacent about other things that we are so accustomed, because
these heroin things we do day in day out.
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So last panel with an age reminding us of all these things, now specially and the three things which
he mentions in the state of her arm are referred for so they are referred means vulgarities,
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leanness indecency even verbally. That's our offer. Number two for soap, sinfulness and number
three, Judah Coralie.
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Now remember these three and one of the most famous had Eve and authentic had he about fasting
related by mumble Hardyman Muslim and others. Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says
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what either gana Yama saw me
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and so when one of you is fasting on any day
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now what fasting is a sacred state? What was helana becomes Haram. So what was Hannah eating was
Helen has become haram drinking was Hello, it's now become Halong conjugal relations were Hello.
They've now become
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so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was speaking about fasting wounds is but just like Allah
in that verse. He didn't warn us about those things that were hello and have become
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haraam in the sacred state of fasting just like a law. He warns us about those things which are
haram anyway.
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But which we have become so accustomed
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that we need reminding of with emphasis. And just like Allah, what does he say? Subhana love a
correlation between the words of a lungs of a source of love. It was seldom about the sacred states
of her arms,
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and her arm in CRM and fasting, the sort of loss of love it seldom says we're either gonna Yama
somatic woman, one of you is fasting. What shouldn't he do? fella Yarrow, fourth, let him not do
refer. Just as a last a is there fell out office. Let there be no indecency. But sort of last name
Selim says, follow your fourth. Let him not be indecent or vulgar in speech? Well, yes. And let him
not shout or raise his voice for insert but we'll add an obatala. And if someone quarrels with him,
abuses him or actually quarrels with him, then what should he do fileopen in the room saw him then
he should simply say, I am a fasting person.
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So again, no quarreling, no rough, no sinfulness now quarreling. These things were her arm anyway.
But a lot is also the law volumes that emphasize them again for both hedge and fasting, because
ultimately, we enter into a sacred state, and we need to guard and preserve that sacred state. So
fasting is a sacred state solar is a sacred state. The whole of Ramadan is a sacred state, and we
should treat it as a retreat. We should treat as a form of Attica at the Gulf isn't just physical.
This is why we can be in Africa, and yet have no actigraph whatsoever.
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Hmm. People are in the masjid.
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They're in the masjid of Allah. In the final 10 days of Ramadan. They are in the sacred state of
Aeronautica.
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Let's speak of ourselves. A laugh a bit the IB in the
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in the final 10 days of Ramadan in Africa with intention of sooner Hezekiah.
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planning to stay for the whole 10 days and never leaving the masjid
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and fasting in those 10 days. So a jewel Attica, the attic off of the masjid, the Aligarh for
fasting, they have the Gulf state of fasting. I'm in seclusion. I'm supposedly in retreat from the
world.
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And yet there I am sitting on my smartphone, surfing the net. I'm not saying it's wrong.
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I'm just saying that I can be an ethnographer and you're not being etica. I'm surfing the net.
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I'm attached to the world.
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I don't, but I could be reading gossip
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vane world in US
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irrelevant things.
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And then having finished from my browsing session.
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I could then have a friend sit next to me.
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And whilst being in the Attica secluded inside a tent
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I could be engaged in conversation with another person in Attica in the machine in the state of fast
both of us backbiting someone else
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and engaging in the verbal sin of backbiting.
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And so I am in the center of the machine maybe right next to the member and then we'll subtler and
the subject of the email. Maybe I am the email.
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I am the email.
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I've just finished leading salah
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and I'm in my tent surrounded by students.
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Enemy engaged in backbone panel. I could be in at the caf and yet have no Attica because at the golf
isn't just a physical state. It's a mental state. It's an emotional state. It's a spiritual states.
The real meaning of Africa, not just inside the masjid is a retreat from the whole world. Just as a
sort of muscle alive, it has retreated from the dunya.
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You have to detach yourself from the physical world to tap into that spiritual and it has to be a
complete break. It's like going from one room to another, one world to another one realm to another
one complete
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state to another. You can't have your feet in both places at the same time.
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And that's the meaning of Attica. And this is what Ramadan is designed to do. This is why the whole
atmosphere of Ramadan changes. We should be doing this five times a day with our Salah. It's not
easy. Can you imagine? The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was in retreat and in seclusion from
this world, whenever he would be engaged in the vicar of Allah. But even more so in Salah. This is
why, on that famous occasion when he led Salatu coup, he led Salah to pursue
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the prayer for the eclipse of the sun. And that was on the day that his son had done.
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Ibrahim rhodiola one
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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was leading Salah. And he suddenly took a step back.
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Prior to that, it took a step forward.
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And he told us how about the law?
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Do you know why step four. Do you know why.
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The reason for his stepping back insula was a flame of the fire of janam laptop.
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And the reason for stepping forward is
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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam saw one of the one of the sort of bunch of the grapes of gin
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and him forward to
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take and had he been able to take it, the people of the world would have consumed just from that one
bunch of grapes till the end of time.
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Now the purpose of mentioning this is that the Salah have Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
such that Jen and Jen opened up before insula, whilst he was on his feet were planted on earth.
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And yet his retreat from the world was so complete.
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But Jim,
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physically, not just mentally.
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So imagine
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the retreat of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
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we should we we should be able to do some of that five times a day, it's difficult, we should be
able to do that. Whenever we have knuffle fasting.
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And it's much easier to do it in enough or fast than it is to do five times a day in Scala.
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Because the hunger and the thirst, create sharpens our consciousness, it does. And it folk it helps
us focus it really does. So it's easier in occasional fasting than it says in regular five times
Allah because we're so accustomed to it. But then the easiest time when Allah when the time when
Allah has made it easiest for us isn't the month.
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Everything changes, the climate changes, the atmosphere changes, the rewards change, the sharpener
chained,
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the doors of gym are flung open, the doors of gentlemen slammed shut.
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Mercy reaches the people, angels descend, angels make nightly announcements.
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There is regular forgiveness, there is an atmosphere, a climate, a period of forgiveness of mercy.
There is a change in the air
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in the world, all of that helps people
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in spending Ramadan and the facets of Ramadan in a special way.
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And therefore, we should try to make our whole Ramadan, a spiritual retreat, a time of seclusion, a
time of add to carve out the calf isn't just being in one particular place.
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Africa, of course, that's what the prophet sallallahu Sallam did. And that's a son now of Africa.
And there are all the laws attached to it. But I'm not talking about the laws of the garden. I'm
talking about the spirits of Africa. And the spirits of Africa means that you could be in Africa and
you have no ettercap whatsoever. And yet, at the same time, you could be out of conventional Africa
and be in a state of Africa. So you could be strictly speaking, you could be in the marketplace. You
could be in the marketplace, and yet be in a state of Attica.
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There are similar Aloma who are trying
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There is no harm in trading
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in work in doing business.
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People ask why did the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam stop trading? He was a trader and it was
a management. But after Nobu, why did he stop trading? He did Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
more or less stopped trading after the revelation of the Holy Quran.
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Wow.
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Yes, for a pseudo loss of love it was his was now a completely new position. And it wasn't befitting
his status, to be a trader to continue as a trader whilst being in the beat and a messenger.
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But he lived a normal
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event to the marketplace. He shocked and that's one of the things that the Braves couldn't
understand. What kind of Prophet is he? We expect an angel perfect in every sense.
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And they used to say Mally harder or soulier Allah, William schieffelin.
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Marley however soon yeah, kutamo him she Phil as well. What is it with this messenger, he eats food,
and he walks in the markets.
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So last panel huhtala talk even about Miriam alayhis. Salam, and even eat about Isa it has Salaam
Gan, Kalani, they would both eat food
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that even even Jesus who is hailed as God and the Son of God, and even Mary, who is hailed as the
Mother of God, they needed to eat
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and they would eat.
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So even the Prophet salallahu it who was
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at walks in the marketplace, he shocked for his name.
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He carried out his chores.
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As part of the law, essays when she was asked, What would the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam do
at home? She says he would do what men do that means what real men do. So what do real men do at
home? She explains a lot.
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Kind of female.
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He would be in the service of his family.
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That's what real men do. He would be in the service of his family.
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He would patch his clothes himself. He would milk the goat himself with his noble hands.
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He would repair his sandals.
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He would remove lice from his clothes and blankets himself.
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Then when it was time for Salah he would get it and he'd leave for slaughter.
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That's what real men do.
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They do housework.
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A lot grant as though feel. I know we don't do it. But we should attempt to follow in the footsteps
all of a sudden last Friday. So she says when she was asked what would he do? She says he would do
what men do.
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So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam lived a normal life. But as far as trading, he he stopped
being a trader in the traditional sense that he was before. What but Rama Sahaba. Many of them were
traders, a man Buhari was a trader. Many remain humble and he loves to trade.
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So there's no harm in earning a living we have to in trading and doing business. So there are many
orlimar who used to
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trade in the marketplace, and what would they do?
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One
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and we're not talking about other classical scholars many centuries ago, one alum of the last
century.
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He was a trader. And he used to have a market stall in the middle of the market in a marketplace.
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And it was half with of the Quran and it was an animal scholar.
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And he used to buy guns he used to sell.
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And whilst he was sitting at the market stall, he would be reciting the whole report. And his habit
was that in the market, not even at home and not throughout the day, but just in the hours that he
would sit in the marketplace every single day he would complete one hole
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one hole
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and not just absent mindedly vocal devotion. And by heart.
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I mean baja
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100 every single day. So you can be in the middle of the marketplace and yet be inactive.
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Africa in the spirit of Africa, if you are removed from the world mentally, emotionally and
spiritually, though physically you are.
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That is the real meaning of Africa. It's not about physical Africa. It's about mental, spiritual and
emotional. And the reason for being it being physical is that that's what helps you. So when you
pinch yourself in seclusion in the machine, it should help you achieve that mental, emotional, and
spiritual ethic off of achievement, retreats and seclusion, but the one does not necessarily
guarantee the
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same so you can be in physical Attica, and not be an attic if at all, and some people are so
enlightened, that they could be
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physically not in the state of Attica, but in reality, actually in a state of Attica, mentally and
emotionally and spiritually. Ramadan, the whole month is a state of the gaff, let us mentally
prepare ourselves for the coming month. And I pray that Allah enables us to
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prepare ourselves mentally and spiritually and to make our fasts and our whole time in the blessed
month, whether in or out of the masjid a lot enable us to make it's a form of Attica form of
seclusion, a form of retreat from this dunya and a form of attachment and devotion with Allah and
devotion to Allah subhanho wa.
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I ended this was the law house and America after he was sued in the Vietnam eduarda. He was, I mean,
a lot
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of stuff.
