Saad Tasleem – I feel like giving up

Saad Tasleem
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The speaker discusses their past experiences with Islam and emphasizes the importance of listening to their father's words and not thinking about their legacy. They stress the importance of collecting more things and not waking up to deeds until death. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of balancing one's life to attain a sense of success and achieving the afterlife, as well as educating people about the current unrest and staying patient with hardship. They stress the importance of rewarding one's sexual desires and finding one's own success, as well as staying patient and staying true to Islam.

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			How long can we keep seeing
		
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			people being slaughtered and killed and no change
		
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			happening until we say, that's it. What's the
		
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			point of anything? Why even try?
		
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			Distinguishing
		
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			burnout.
		
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			So this is a a topic that,
		
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			possibly you couldn't pick a more relevant topic
		
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			for me in my life right now. So
		
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			I'm just gonna apologize
		
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			right off the bat before I get started,
		
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			if this session
		
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			is a little bit personal.
		
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			So generally when I when I
		
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			teach or, you know, speak on a topic,
		
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			especially when I teach,
		
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			I try to only pick those topics that
		
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			I have some personal relevance with that resonate
		
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			with me personally
		
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			because I have always felt that if you're
		
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			not speaking from the heart, you're not gonna
		
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			reach people's hearts. And so especially with Al
		
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			Maghrib Institute, you know, some of the seminars
		
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			that were mentioned,
		
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			they're all topics that have a personal place
		
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			in my life,
		
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			and that's why I choose to speak on
		
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			those topics.
		
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			And usually it deals with things that I
		
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			have been through as well. So,
		
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			I didn't pick this topic, but when I
		
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			kit when when I saw it in my
		
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			email,
		
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			really, like, got the gears turning and I,
		
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			like, I had a lot to think about.
		
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			And I've been thinking about this topic for
		
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			quite a bit now,
		
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			And the first thing that came to mind,
		
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			is
		
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			what has been going on in my life
		
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			in the past,
		
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			few years. So in 2022, about a year
		
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			and a half ago,
		
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			I lost my mentor, probably my main mentor,
		
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			Sheikh Mohammed Sharif,
		
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			Rahim
		
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			the founder of Al Maghrib Institute.
		
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			Al Maghrib Institute for those of you who
		
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			don't know was the OG Institute
		
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			So before anything else, I'm not gonna take
		
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			other names of other institutes,
		
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			before any of those institutes that you can
		
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			think about that teach that have like Islamic
		
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			learning and Islamic classes and all that, and
		
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			Maghreb preceded all of that and they kind
		
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			of set the stage or I should say
		
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			set the bar for everything to come after
		
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			it. So the fact that you have seminars
		
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			that make Islam relevant and applicable
		
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			to young people and to, like, the real
		
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			life problems that we're dealing with, that was
		
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			kind of the idea of Almagrib Institute. And
		
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			that's one of the reasons why,
		
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			I continue to teach with Almagrib Institute because
		
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			it allows me it gives me a vehicle
		
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			through which I can,
		
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			talk about Islam in a way that I
		
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			want to talk about Islam and that pretty
		
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			much is how does Islam apply to our
		
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			real
		
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			messy lives today in 2023
		
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			with everything that's going on.
		
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			I found a lot of times that people
		
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			study Islam. It's it's almost in a very
		
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			theoretical way, which is fine,
		
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			and you
		
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			learn all this theoretical stuff, which feels good
		
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			and but sometimes there's this disconnect between what
		
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			is being said, on the mimbar or what
		
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			is being said on stage
		
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			and then our real lives. And all and
		
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			sometimes, like, the shayatan comes and says, you
		
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			know, like, that's cool.
		
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			All this beautiful stuff that is being mentioned
		
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			about Islam and how you're supposed to be
		
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			the ideal Muslim and the ideal Muslim and
		
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			so on and so forth, but that just
		
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			doesn't apply to me because I got you
		
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			know, my life is crazy. I got this
		
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			this going on, then I'm dealing with this,
		
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			I'm dealing with that. I got, like, these
		
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			real problems.
		
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			So there isn't a place for Islam, at
		
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			least the way it's being talked about.
		
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			Like, that version of Islam, like, doesn't really
		
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			apply to my life.
		
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			And sometimes we go from, like, class to
		
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			class, convention to convention.
		
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			We hear these feel good topics and we
		
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			feel good for a little bit and then
		
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			we're like, now I gotta get back to
		
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			my life, which is not, you know, as
		
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			simple as what was talked about on stage.
		
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			And so to kinda bridge that gap to
		
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			say, okay, let's talk about Islam the way
		
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			it would apply in our lives, that has
		
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			been my goal for probably over a decade
		
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			now. And that's what I've been doing through
		
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			Al Maghrib and Sheikh Mohammed Sharif allowed Allah
		
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			hamal allowed allowed for that to happen.
		
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			He started Al Maghrib Institute,
		
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			a couple years before I went to Medina
		
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			to go study.
		
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			And my goal always was to be able
		
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			to study Islam once again to bring it
		
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			home and to teach it to
		
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			us, our real lives.
		
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			And
		
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			alhamdulillah, after I graduated from the University of
		
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			Medina,
		
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			Sheikh Mohammed Sharif hired me to teach for
		
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			Al Makram Institute.
		
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			And throughout that time Sheikh Mohammed
		
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			was a mentor to me because he was
		
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			there like to me once again like studying
		
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			in Medina,
		
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			the Islamic University of Medina, I was studying
		
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			like the ideal.
		
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			But then, like, how does it apply to
		
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			our lives? Well, that was Sheikh Mohammed would
		
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			often talk to me about like these are
		
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			the classes that are being taught. These are
		
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			the problems that, you know, people are going
		
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			through and like this is how Islam this
		
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			is how like we we have to talk
		
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			about Islam. And so he was there to
		
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			mentor me
		
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			throughout, you know, my studies.
		
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			And then suddenly, he was about 47 years
		
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			old,
		
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			2022.
		
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			I believe it was July.
		
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			He just passed away all of a sudden.
		
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			Now we don't know exactly what happened,
		
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			but Allah took his life. He went he
		
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			was actually, I believe he was at the
		
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			mall with his kids. He has like some
		
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			little kids.
		
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			They went to the Musallah to pray. This
		
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			is in a Muslim country obviously. They went
		
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			to the Musallah to pray and then he
		
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			just fell after salah.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have mercy on
		
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			him and grant him to nothufr Rasool Allahum
		
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			Amin.
		
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			So that's 1.
		
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			2 months ago,
		
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			both my parents passed away about a month
		
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			apart.
		
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			My mom had been diagnosed with stage 4,
		
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			cancer.
		
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			So her death was pretty expected. I mean,
		
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			we knew, you know, it's coming.
		
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			Allah hamaha, she
		
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			was preparing us for the inevitable, right, because
		
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			she knew her diagnosis and we were able
		
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			to
		
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			we're able to spend time with her,
		
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			and kind of prepare for, you know, her
		
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			leaving us in this life.
		
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			And then she passed away and then, 33
		
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			days after that, my dad, allahu,
		
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			who didn't really have any like serious medical
		
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			issues,
		
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			he passed away all of a sudden, in
		
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			his sleep.
		
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			So that was for me, I would say,
		
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			a lot harder because with my mom, I
		
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			feel like I had time with my mom.
		
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			I got to prepare she got to prepare
		
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			and she prepared us actually, like she was
		
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			preparing her family.
		
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			Hamdulillah, she had like very strong iman.
		
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			But with my dad, you know, it's just
		
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			one day he was there, the next day
		
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			he was not. I was actually traveling. I
		
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			was out of town teaching an Almagrib seminar,
		
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			and, I just my wife called me and
		
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			she told me, like, your dad passed away.
		
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			And so
		
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			that happened 1 month after my mom passed
		
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			away, and this is about 2 months ago.
		
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			And that got me thinking a lot about
		
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			my life
		
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			and my legacy actually.
		
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			You know, with my dad, I've had to
		
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			go through a lot of my mom's stuff
		
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			we went through while she was alive and
		
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			she said, you know, this like give this
		
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			away to this and that, like all the
		
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			stuff we had to take care of it
		
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			was fine, But my dad,
		
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			he kinda just left.
		
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			And so,
		
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			and he my dad was living with me,
		
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			and so I had to go through his
		
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			things,
		
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			and it was just a weird sensation to
		
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			to
		
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			to see his personal belongings
		
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			that just remained. And I know, like, we
		
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			all know this. Right? Like when we die,
		
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			like, everything we have in this life is
		
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			just is just here. Right? We take nothing
		
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			with us.
		
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			Nothing benefits us in the in the akhirah
		
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			except our deeds. You know the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, he says that there are
		
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			three things that follow a janazah.
		
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			1, stay with the one who has passed
		
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			away and 2, come back,
		
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			person's
		
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			wealth and,
		
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			their family and their deeds
		
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			follow the person to the genaza,
		
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			to the burial, and 2 of them come
		
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			back. The family and the wealth come back
		
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			and the deeds remain with that person.
		
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			And so to to to actually literally see
		
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			that happen with my dad,
		
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			was a big eye opener and so I've
		
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			I've been thinking a lot about,
		
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			what am I leaving behind? So if lakkadar
		
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			Allah, if I were to drop dead today
		
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			or tomorrow,
		
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			what are people gonna find?
		
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			What am I what have I done for
		
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			my akhira?
		
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			What have I done in this life?
		
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			And of course, of course, to add to
		
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			that what's happening in Gaza right now. And
		
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			what's happening in Gaza is not new, and
		
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			we know this.
		
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			And this has happened,
		
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			you know, it's been happening for a long
		
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			time,
		
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			but it's probably the first time in history
		
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			that we are witnessing it directly.
		
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			Right? So it's the first time in history
		
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			that we're seeing images
		
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			from
		
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			Gaza directly,
		
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			immediately,
		
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			on a daily basis. We're watching
		
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			our brothers and our sisters and our children
		
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			in Gaza,
		
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			going through truly unimaginable, truly truly un and
		
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			I say unimaginable because, you know, even though
		
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			we see these images and we see what
		
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			they're going through we don't really really really
		
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			understand what they're going through because
		
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			like, internally what's happening, like, only Allah knows.
		
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			But to be but to witness that,
		
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			once again, I and I think if if
		
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			us as believers right now in our lives,
		
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			like put aside, you know, my personal losses
		
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			in my life,
		
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			any one of us,
		
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			If we're looking at what what's happening in
		
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			Gaza right now,
		
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			and we're not thinking about our legacy, and
		
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			we're not thinking about what life looks like
		
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			tomorrow if I wasn't here,
		
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			then there's there's a big problem. Because we
		
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			know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			gives us signs
		
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			and indications for us to wake up and
		
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			even Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says that
		
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			there are signs within yourselves like if you
		
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			just paid attention to your own life and
		
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			some scholars interpret this verse literally like in
		
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			your own bodies there are signs of the
		
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			magnificence of of of Allah and the temporary
		
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			nature of this life. I mean, think about
		
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			the fact that
		
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			if you get a if you get a
		
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			cold or if you get the flu, like,
		
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			what happens to you? You shut down.
		
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			Right? Things that you just took for granted,
		
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			you you feel like you have the ability
		
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			to do x, y, and z. You get
		
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			a cold, you get a flu, you get
		
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			a fever, and that's it. You're in bed
		
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			and you can't move and you you stop
		
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			functioning.
		
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			There are signs within yourselves, Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala says it's just a matter of paying
		
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			attention. So with what's happening in Gaza right
		
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			now,
		
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			and Gaza is once again not alone. You
		
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			know, we know what's happening in Sudan. We're
		
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			not seeing the images of of Sudan.
		
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			We know what's been happening to our Uighur
		
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			brothers and sisters in China,
		
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			over a 1000000 people. It's just that we
		
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			don't see it. Right? So it doesn't perhaps
		
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			doesn't have the same impact. And it's not
		
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			that the plight of one people's is more
		
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			important than the others. That's not my point.
		
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			My point is that,
		
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			we are now witnessing it. And so if
		
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			we're not waking up now, if we're not
		
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			thinking about what our life is about,
		
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			beyond just,
		
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			you know, accumulating things,
		
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			beyond just having more stuff. And,
		
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			you know, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			when speaking about what people spend most what
		
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			the vast majority of people spend most of
		
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			their lives doing, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes
		
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			it as takathur.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, alhaqumut
		
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			takathur
		
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			that competing
		
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			for
		
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			basically what this means is more stuff, to
		
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			have more. This competition
		
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			of collecting more things in this life, it
		
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			has Allah says it has diverted you. It
		
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			has distracted you, distracted you from from what
		
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			we know to be real.
		
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			So we may be viewing,
		
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			once again, images straight out of Gaza,
		
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			of people losing their lives in an instance,
		
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			of families being lost in an in an
		
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			instance,
		
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			dozens of people altogether dying in an in
		
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			an instance.
		
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			But then we, subhanAllah,
		
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			distract ourselves with, you know, just stuff, material
		
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			things. And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala once
		
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			again says, alhaqumuttaqathr
		
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			This
		
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			this consuming, this collecting, just competing for more
		
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			stuff, it has distracted you.
		
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			Until you visit the graves.
		
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			And this is in in in two sense.
		
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			Number 1, the main meaning is until you
		
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			die.
		
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			Right? Until you die, like, basically, the the
		
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			point here is that, oh, humanity, oh, mankind,
		
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			you're gonna keep
		
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			competing for more stuff.
		
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			And this competition is not gonna end
		
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			until you die, until you visit the grave.
		
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			Right? And when you're in your grave, that's
		
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			it. It's done. And we have the hadith
		
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			of the prophet which we all know that
		
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			if the children of Adam, the child of
		
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			Adam,
		
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			was given a valley full of gold, what
		
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			would they do?
		
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			Ask for a second one. In another narration,
		
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			it goes on. If they were given a
		
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			second valley full of gold, they'd ask for
		
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			a 3rd third valley full of gold,
		
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			meaning if they had everything,
		
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			they would just want more and then nothing
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told us
		
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			nothing will fill
		
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			the inside
		
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			of this person except iliturab,
		
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			except dirt. And once again the the big
		
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			pick the main meaning here is until a
		
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			person dies, they're gonna keep trying to have
		
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			more and more and more that you can't
		
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			say you can't satiate,
		
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			worldly desires. Right? We're just always gonna want
		
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			more and more and more. So Allah says
		
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			until you visit the graves. And our scholars
		
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			added another meaning which should give us hope.
		
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			And that meaning is that until you visit
		
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			the gravesite
		
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			and you are reminded
		
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			of your mortality.
		
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			Perhaps
		
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			when you see death,
		
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			when we look upon death, we look upon
		
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			people dying in front, perhaps
		
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			that will give us pause. Perhaps that will
		
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			be the moment that we stop and we
		
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			say,
		
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			what am I doing with my life?
		
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			What is the purpose
		
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			of my life? What is the purpose of
		
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			what I do on a day to day
		
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			basis?
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
		
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			that no, you will surely know. Like this
		
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			is not something that's gonna be left up
		
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			to. It's not there's no ambiguity here. When
		
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			that moment happens,
		
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			we will all know for sure.
		
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			Even the Muslim and the and the and
		
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			the namals, the atheists
		
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			will know for sure.
		
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			Right? The reality
		
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			of this life. And even today even someone
		
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			doesn't believe in God, you'll be hard pressed
		
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			to find a logical human being who doesn't
		
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			believe
		
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			that
		
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			they're gonna die and that they don't know
		
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			when they're gonna die, they don't know how
		
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			they're gonna die. Right? That's just we all
		
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			understand that. Right? But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			tells us you will
		
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			Allah says, if you only knew this with
		
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			certainty with the knowledge of certainty
		
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			in this life, you would have acted differently.
		
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			Alright? And so the question here once again
		
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			is when we view these world events, when
		
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			we can now begin to empathize
		
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			with death and loss and suffering,
		
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			do we have a'inmul yaqeen?
		
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			Are we certain
		
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			that this is what this life the end
		
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			of this life, that this is what everyone's
		
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			life look like? Are we certain
		
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			that we're not guaranteed a certain number of
		
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			years? And SubhanAllah, this is something, you know,
		
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			I thought about as well. A part of
		
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			me was like, okay. My dad lived until
		
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			you know, my dad was in his seventies
		
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			until he died. I've got this much time,
		
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			but that's not that's not how life is.
		
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			You know, there's a there's a a line
		
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			and I and I'm sorry for saying this
		
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			and we can probably edit this out of
		
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			this video inshallah.
		
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			But there's a movie called Batman versus Superman
		
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			and there's a there's a line there's something
		
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			that Bruce Wayne says.
		
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			And by the way, that movie, you know,
		
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			if you look at the journey of Batman
		
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			and we're gonna edit all this out. Don't
		
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			don't worry about it. Right?
		
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			That movie is really about,
		
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			Bruce Wayne, like, losing hope. Right? He's like,
		
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			you know, what's the point of anything?
		
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			And at one point in the movie, he's
		
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			like, you know, 30 years in Gotham. He
		
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			tells Alfred, 30 years in Gotham and what
		
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			what what does it accomplish? Like, they're still
		
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			criminals, and he's feeling like there's no point
		
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			to his life. And at one point in
		
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			in the in the movie,
		
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			he says, he says that, today, I'm as
		
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			old,
		
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			as my dad was when he died.
		
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			Right? So he's thinking about like, you know,
		
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			what have I accomplished? And that's kind of
		
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			why that movie resonates with you. We can
		
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			re edit now back to that regular presume
		
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			the lecture that's gonna go on.
		
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			But the point is that even at looking
		
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			at someone's regular lifespan, like, even that we
		
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			don't know. So if we if we were
		
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			to say and sometimes we find this comfort
		
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			in saying, you know, I have this much
		
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			life that's that I'm probably going to live,
		
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			we don't know that. We don't we don't
		
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			know what's gonna happen. So this is why
		
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			almul yaqeen, like this knowledge of certainty
		
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			is so powerful for us. Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala tells us,
		
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			And that's what we don't we don't want
		
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			this certainty to come
		
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			when we will see the hellfire
		
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			because
		
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			at that point, it's too late. It's too
		
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			late to to go back and say, like,
		
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			I wanted to live my life differently. Rabbi
		
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			J'oon, my Lord send me back.
		
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			Like, just, my Lord, send me back. I
		
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			promise this time,
		
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			I'm gonna live a pious life.
		
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			But, you know, they that's not true
		
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			because
		
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			the reality is we once again, we are
		
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			seeing
		
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			the reality of life with our own eyes.
		
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			We're seeing life and death,
		
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			but there are people who will take heed
		
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			and there's people who will not take heed.
		
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			There are people who allow themselves to be
		
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			distracted
		
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			by what little this world has to offer
		
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			if anything. You know the prophet shalallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam told us that he said he asked
		
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			the companions, Do you know the worth of
		
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			this dunya with Allah?
		
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			And he said, You know what the worth
		
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			of this dunya is? He said, If one
		
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			of you were to dip your finger
		
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			into the ocean
		
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			right? You all been to the beach? You've
		
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			seen the ocean?
		
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			You look out. As far as your eye
		
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			can see, there's water. You see, like, the
		
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			curvature of the earth. Right? Refuting the flat
		
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			earthers right there. But you see the curvature
		
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			of the Earth, as far as your eye
		
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			can see, there's water. Parsan have said, if
		
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			you dip your finger into the ocean and
		
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			the little bit of dampness
		
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			that you have on
		
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			your finger, that is the value or the
		
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			worth of this dunya with Allah.
		
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			Like, compare what the ocean the vastness of
		
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			the ocean versus the little bit of water
		
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			that we have and yet we crave that
		
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			little bit of dampness. So Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala says,
		
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			Then with your own eyes, you will surely
		
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			see the truth.
		
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			On that day, you will definitely
		
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			surely be asked
		
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			about your worldly pleasures.
		
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			And once again, this is actually a positive
		
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			aya. Because what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has
		
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			given to us
		
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			10 minutes? Oh, man.
		
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			What Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given to
		
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			us,
		
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			it can be used to actually attain
		
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			goodness in the afterlife.
		
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			You know the story of Qarun.
		
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			The people of Qarun, the scholars at the
		
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			time of Qarun, Qarun was like the epitome
		
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			of someone who has given into this worldly
		
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			life.
		
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			Right? Everything he had, you know, the wealth
		
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			that he had, he was like enjoying life.
		
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			And the scholars, the peep knowledgeable people at
		
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			his time, they told him, wabtariifimaataq
		
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			Allah adarul akhira.
		
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			That use what Allah has given you to
		
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			to to to to earn the afterlife.
		
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			And don't don't forget your share of this
		
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			life as well. So there's that balance
		
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			that we that we search for in this
		
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			life. But the point here is that balance.
		
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			Right? Where is that is that balance? Well,
		
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			that balance can't come if we are a
		
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			100% consumed by this life. If our goal
		
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			is the akhira,
		
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			then everything else gets into focus, even the
		
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			pleasures of this life.
		
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			Because we can have the pleasures of this
		
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			life and the goodness and the blessings that
		
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			this life has to offer, but through those
		
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			pleasures, we attain the akhirah. And if you
		
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			wanna know, like, the most,
		
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			prominent example of this, the Quran gave us,
		
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			like, the most
		
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			clear
		
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			and, like,
		
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			like, outward example of this, and that is
		
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			this MSA crowd. Right?
		
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			Like, PG 13. Yeah.
		
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			That is fulfilling our sexual desires.
		
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			Right? The prophet,
		
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			he said,
		
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			in your in you fulfilling your your, your
		
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			sexual desires,
		
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			there is reward.
		
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			And and the companion said, how can we
		
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			be rewarded for something that we enjoy?
		
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			And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
		
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			said, well,
		
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			isn't there sin
		
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			when you fulfill your sexual desires in a
		
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			Haram way, in a Haram way, in an
		
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			impermissible way? They said, yes. He said, likewise,
		
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			when you
		
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			fulfill your desires in a halal way, there
		
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			is reward.
		
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			But the point here is what is our
		
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			focus?
		
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			What is our intention?
		
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			Why are we living our lives? So once
		
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			that is set straight, then everything else falls
		
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			into
		
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			place. That we are living our lives to
		
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			attain the akhira. We're living our lives to
		
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			get dead lives to gain to gain reward
		
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			by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And that
		
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			means that honestly
		
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			our definition of success in this life will
		
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			change drastically.
		
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			Because the world keeps telling us that success
		
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			has to be seen.
		
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			We have to feel it. We have to
		
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			look at it. We have to see change.
		
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			A believer does not live their life in
		
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			that way. Because for a believer,
		
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			as long as they have the right intention,
		
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			as long as they tried their best, as
		
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			long as they are patient with with the
		
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			hardship that they go through, they know they're
		
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			successful.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
		
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			wayasbirfa
		
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			innallaha layooajalmarsinin
		
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			For the one who has taqwa, and this
		
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			is where our intention comes into play. Why
		
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			are we doing what we're doing? Whether it's
		
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			our job, whether it's school, whether it's whether
		
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			it's activism, whether it's, you know what, just
		
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			educating people
		
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			about the genocide taking place in Palestine.
		
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			Right? Because let's let's let's take that as
		
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			a case study. Well, how do we define
		
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			success in that work that we're doing? And
		
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			I know what a lot of us now
		
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			are speaking out. We're trying to, you know,
		
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			educate people about
		
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			the horrific
		
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			nature of this genocide taking place in in
		
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			Palestine.
		
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			And sometimes we look at if we take
		
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			a look at success in just in dunya
		
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			terms, we're gonna burn out.
		
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			Because how long can we keep seeing
		
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			people being slaughtered and killed
		
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			and no change happening
		
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			until we say, that's it. What's the point
		
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			of anything?
		
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			Why even try?
		
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			So the question is what are we working
		
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			for? Are we working for I have to
		
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			see a change in this life? We desire
		
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			that, we want it, we work towards it.
		
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			But what happens One second, I'm gonna go
		
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			to the very beginning of my talk. What
		
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			happens
		
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			if today is your last day?
		
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			What happens? Do we stop working for Gaza,
		
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			for Falaslien, for any other cause or our
		
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			school, job, family, whatever? Maybe do we stop
		
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			working because today's our last day? No.
		
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			Because our goal is to gain that reward
		
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			with Allah and attain paradise.
		
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			And so even if what we are doing
		
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			doesn't come to fruition,
		
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			we know that
		
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			as long as you have taqwa, you're doing
		
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			it for the sake of Allah Subha
		
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			wa yasbir. And you're patient
		
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			with all the difficulties
		
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			that you're gonna face when you're trying to
		
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			do the right thing.
		
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			Because if the right thing is working for
		
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			the sake of Allah. When you work for
		
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			the sake of Allah, you're gonna face hardship.
		
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			Khazza, one example. Your job is another example
		
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			because if your goal is to please Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you're gonna pick a a
		
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			job that is halal.
		
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			And that means you may not get the
		
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			type of lifestyle that you want, perhaps,
		
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			because you're not willing to compromise
		
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			on your morals.
		
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			Right? And so Allah says, why yasbim? And
		
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			you're patient because your goal is taqwa and
		
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			now you wanna please Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			you're working in this life, but you're patient
		
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			over the hardship that you deal with. In
		
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			this case, now glad tidings.
		
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			Allah does not allow the reward
		
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			of those who do Ihsan
		
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			to go to waste.
		
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			That is a guarantee from Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala that your reward is secure with Allah
		
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			Jala Wa'ala.
		
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			And that means our definition of success is
		
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			did we work for the right reasons?
		
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			Were we patient
		
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			with the hardships
		
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			that we face? And did we persevere?
		
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			Did we keep going
		
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			despite
		
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			everything getting difficult? Despite the odds being against
		
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			us?
		
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			So with Gaza, do we keep working to
		
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			bring justice to Gaza? Do we keep working
		
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			to free Palestine
		
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			even though the odds are against us? Even
		
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			though we don't see victory in sight? Yes.
		
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			Absolutely. Because
		
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			As long as you have taqwa and as
		
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			long as you are patient, then Allah will
		
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			not allow the reward of those who do
		
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			good to be lost, our reward is secure.
		
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			And you wanna know a good example of
		
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			that? Probably the best example that we have
		
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			today, it is the people of Palestine,
		
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			Palestine
		
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			themselves.
		
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			Because you ask yourself,
		
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			if you have any doubts
		
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			about how long your life is, ask the
		
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			people in Gaza how they feel about their
		
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			life. They will tell you, we do not
		
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			know. Forget tomorrow. We do not know if
		
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			we have tonight.
		
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			We do not know if we have the
		
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			next hour. We do not know how long
		
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			we're going to be alive. And are they
		
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			are they burnt out?
		
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			Are they saying what's the point of anything?
		
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			No.
		
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			They're saying that we will keep going.
		
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			We will continue to fight for our freedom
		
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			because our reward is secure with Allahu Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala and that comes through Taqwa.
		
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			That is the power
		
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			that Allahu Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			has given you my fellow brother and my
		
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			sister through your iman.
		
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			This is the difference
		
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			between a Muslim,
		
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			a believer and someone who does not have
		
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			iman. What makes the people of Palestine strong?
		
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			What makes them strong is their iman.
		
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			They know it is victory.
		
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			Either victory in this life or shahada which
		
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			is the ultimate victory.
		
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			And for us my brothers and sisters,
		
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			this is an aya.
		
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			This is a sign from Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			So with what we're going through in our
		
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			lives, once again, whether it be work or
		
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			school or family or career or a project
		
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			or activism, whatever we're doing, we do not
		
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			define success
		
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			by if by do we get what I
		
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			exactly wanted to get in this life?
		
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			We define success through our spirituality.
		
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			And this is why Allahu Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			tells us, tell the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, you know, think about, you know, burnout.
		
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			If there's one man
		
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			who could claim
		
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			that
		
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			it's okay for him to be burnt out,
		
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			it is the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			Because he had to bring the message of
		
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			Islam to humanity.
		
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			He faced persecution
		
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			and adversity. He faced every trial. SubhanAllah, our
		
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			scholars of Sira, they say there's not a
		
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			single
		
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			adversity that you will face as a human
		
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			being except the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			face something similar.
		
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			And you know people say, may Allah protect
		
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			all of us. One of the most difficult
		
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			things you could deal with in this life
		
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			is the loss of a child. May Allah
		
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			protect us, protect our children, Allahumma ami. But
		
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			that is something the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			himself faced. He held
		
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			his young son Ibrahim
		
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			and the narrator says he held him to
		
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			his chest
		
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			until Ibrahim
		
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			breathed his last breath.
		
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			That is what the prophet
		
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			dealt with. So what did Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala tell him? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told
		
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			him, fa idafaraqta
		
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			found sab wa ila rabbika farghab That when
		
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			you are when you have finished your duties,
		
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			meaning you have to deliver the message of
		
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			Islam to humanity, you have to fight off
		
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			the enemies, You have to give tarbia to
		
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			the companions, and you have to deal with
		
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			all the stuff that you have to do.
		
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			That when you're At the end of the
		
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			day, when you're done with all of that,
		
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			stand up.
		
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			Literally stand up.
		
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			Meaning what? Stand in prayer. Wa'ilaa
		
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			rabbikafarhab.
		
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			And to your lord,
		
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			turn.
		
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			Turn to your lord
		
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			in in your hopes
		
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			because our hope,
		
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			our positivity,
		
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			our strength, it all comes from Allahu
		
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			We can afford to lose everything in this
		
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			life
		
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			except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.