Sadullah Khan – Jumuah 13 September 2024

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The CEO of Islamic College, Sheikh Sad bulk Khan, discusses his past experiences with a new born child and the passing of the son of the nation. He also talks about his past experiences with a new born child and the importance of life and death. The speaker emphasizes the importance of valuing one's life and not avoiding the concept of death. They also announce upcoming events and updates on various programs.

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			Respected teachers,
		
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			and fellow students.
		
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			It is with great respect and honor that
		
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			we introduce our esteemed speaker for today's Jumu
		
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			Akhutba,
		
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			none other than Sheikh Sadullah Khan.
		
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			Sheikh Sadullah Khan is a renowned scholar with
		
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			a professional understanding of Islamic teaching, but he
		
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			also serves as the CEO of Islamic College.
		
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			A role in which he demonstrates remarkable leadership
		
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			and commitment to our education and spiritual growth.
		
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			In the name of Allah most gracious most
		
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			merciful,
		
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			all praise is due to our creator, our
		
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			cherisher,
		
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			our nourisher, our sustainer.
		
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			We bear witness there's none worthy of worship
		
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			but Allah.
		
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			We bear witness, we believe in all the
		
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			prophets who came throughout history.
		
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			And we bear witness that prophet Muhammad ibn
		
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			Abdullah,
		
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			Rasulullah
		
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			He's the final
		
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			of all the inner cities of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Educators,
		
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			elders,
		
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			brothers and sisters,
		
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			respected youth,
		
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			I greet you with the Islamic universal greeting
		
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			of peace.
		
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			May the peace, the mercy, and the blessings
		
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			of Allah be upon each and everyone present
		
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			here
		
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			at this auspicious hour of Jummah.
		
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			I see we have but more space today
		
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			with the young people having exams
		
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			so they leave a bit early so
		
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			the school has been dismissed earlier this morning.
		
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			So alhamdulillah
		
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			I think,
		
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			we have a bit more space so I
		
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			would like all the people who are outside
		
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			not to pray on the outside but to
		
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			come inside.
		
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			Many of you don't get a chance to
		
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			come inside at some jummas.
		
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			Today is your turn.
		
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			Last night,
		
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			I received a message
		
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			from
		
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			a husband and wife
		
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			who are on the staff at the school
		
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			here
		
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			and sent a message that,
		
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			they have a newly born baby.
		
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			I sent a congratulatory
		
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			note
		
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			and a Mubarak note,
		
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			and as I'm typing that note,
		
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			my phone pings and I get another message.
		
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			And it
		
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			was
		
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			the announcement of the passing
		
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			of Sheikh Siraj Johan.
		
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			And it makes one realize not only transitory
		
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			nature of life but also the
		
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			contrast
		
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			that within a moment
		
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			and in fact at the same moment
		
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			while celebrating and congratulating
		
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			someone,
		
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			someone else
		
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			receives a message of condolence.
		
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			Birth notice,
		
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			congratulations.
		
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			Death notice,
		
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			message of condolence.
		
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			And this
		
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			immediately brings many thing to our mind.
		
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			Among them is
		
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			never take things in life for granted.
		
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			2 weeks ago,
		
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			just before Jum'ah,
		
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			I went to visit someone
		
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			at the hospital,
		
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			a regular mussali here and we used to
		
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			often meet
		
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			immediately after Jumayah and chat.
		
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			I went to visit him
		
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			and upon visiting him,
		
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			the speaker here was Sheikh Abdullah Bayat.
		
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			He's also a student
		
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			at Eco Saudi days also alumni of the
		
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			school. His father was one of the founding
		
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			members of this institution.
		
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			And the day or so after that he
		
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			entered into hospital.
		
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			And may du'a for Allah to grant him
		
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			recovery.
		
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			But among the people we meet in the
		
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			afternoon I was speaking about is a brother
		
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			whom we know for a long time, brother
		
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			Ibrahim Mohammed,
		
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			and this week we buried him.
		
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			While visiting him in the hospital,
		
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			Sheikh Abdullah who spoke here took ill the
		
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			following day,
		
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			and in this week
		
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			2 friends
		
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			have passed on.
		
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			People also remember politically Steve Vico passed away
		
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			in 12 September.
		
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			One of the great, poets and writers of
		
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			our time,
		
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			James Matthews passed away in this week as
		
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			well.
		
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			But I want to focus a bit
		
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			on this precarious nature of life.
		
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			My topic was gonna be about gender by
		
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			the way today
		
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			But
		
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			I was just overwhelmed by this
		
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			passing of Sheikh Siraj.
		
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			I thought
		
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			we rather reflect on the reality of life
		
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			and death
		
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			for this moment.
		
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			Sheikh Siraj was one of the first teachers
		
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			among the first teachers of tafir ul Quran
		
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			in this institution.
		
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			So many of the first graduates who graduated
		
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			at this institution
		
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			were students of Sheikh Siraj Juha.
		
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			And my association with Sheikh Siraj
		
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			spends many years.
		
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			He was the eldest in our group who
		
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			memorized the Quran under Sheikh Salih Khabadi at
		
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			that time. It included people like Sheikh Fawad
		
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			Kabir,
		
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			Mulla Abdul Ali Maklika,
		
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			Doctor.
		
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			Mohammad Khan,
		
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			Mulla Abdul Rahman Hefiji,
		
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			Mulla Abdul Haq Magda,
		
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			and just of course prior to us were
		
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			people like Sheikh Abdul Rahman, Sali, Sheikh Mohammed
		
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			Murat.
		
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			But that group, Sheikh Siraj was the eldest
		
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			and I was the youngest of that group.
		
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			And when we completed our tafeez, Sheikh Siraj
		
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			left for Mecca
		
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			for a few years
		
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			and he instructed me to go to 2
		
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			of his students to revise the Quran.
		
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			One was Sheikh Siraj
		
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			who was still young that time of course,
		
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			he was late teens or early 20,
		
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			just to revise the Quran with him and
		
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			he lived nearby Queen Mary flats in the
		
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			book up around the corner from where I
		
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			lived.
		
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			And also to go to Imam Shamshuddin, also
		
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			an outstanding student of Sheikh Saleh Habadi.
		
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			Sheikh Shamshuddin Farfari.
		
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			We read our first Tarawi. I read my
		
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			first Tarawi
		
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			with Sheikh Siraj in Fostrid Mosque in the
		
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			booker.
		
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			And on the weekends,
		
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			Mullna
		
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			Yusuf Kiran, you should come down
		
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			and pay us a visit.
		
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			And on the 28th Ramadan, we would go
		
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			and read in The Strand,
		
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			sometimes at Habibi on the 28th night or
		
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			29th night but we used to go to
		
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			The Strand and read.
		
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			And as we go to the funeral today,
		
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			so many people from our childhood come
		
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			come to the fore.
		
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			It makes you realize
		
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			how life passes by so quickly.
		
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			How many people have passed on
		
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			and where are we in that
		
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			line of life?
		
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			The first I've quoted from Surah Hajj Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			Allah brings to attention all humankind.
		
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			A whole series
		
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			of explanation,
		
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			unfolding of the stages of human existence and
		
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			human life.
		
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			And he says, we created you from dust
		
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			then within the human being is a drop
		
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			of sperm and
		
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			the egg that
		
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			unites.
		
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			Then all of that
		
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			an embryonic stage
		
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			yet incomplete,
		
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			and then you rest in the womb of
		
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			the mother until stage of development
		
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			sufficient for you to be able to be
		
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			born.
		
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			And as you grow you develop
		
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			your understanding, you develop your strength,
		
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			and you develop knowledge, you acquire position and
		
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			authority,
		
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			and then
		
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			you fade away,
		
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			and then death comes.
		
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			But in that verse Allah
		
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			says
		
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			Some passed away in their childhood and in
		
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			the youth,
		
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			and some reach old age,
		
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			but everyone
		
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			is guaranteed
		
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			a long life.
		
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			So as I reflected on last night,
		
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			on the one
		
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			hand, a joyous,
		
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			hearty
		
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			celebration of birth and the arrival of new
		
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			life,
		
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			and simultaneously
		
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			on the other hand,
		
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			the sorrowful morning,
		
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			brokenhearted
		
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			at the death and the departure
		
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			of another life.
		
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			And between the coming and the going, which
		
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			we all have to endure and go through
		
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			and experience,
		
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			there's the adventure
		
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			which we call the test of life.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			refers to this in the famous surah of
		
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			the Quran
		
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			and he begins with
		
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			Allah has given you death and life,
		
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			from non existence to existence
		
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			to the passing on to the barzakh and
		
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			to the
		
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			resurrection.
		
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			Has given you death in life
		
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			in order to test you
		
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			by your deeds,
		
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			those of you who are best and those
		
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			who are good.
		
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			My last visit to the Sheikh Siraj
		
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			was more about reminiscing.
		
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			Reminiscing about childhood, about the past
		
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			and it reiterated for me the significance of
		
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			those things
		
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			that we take for granted
		
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			because at the end of life is the
		
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			memories that count.
		
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			We didn't speak about
		
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			the degrees he may have had.
		
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			It's the memories that count, and he was
		
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			recalling with joy as much as he was
		
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			in a bit of pain at that time,
		
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			recalling
		
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			moments
		
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			that he interacted with people, with his sheikh,
		
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			with his students, with each other that he
		
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			remembers so fondly.
		
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			And I thought to myself,
		
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			indeed
		
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			life is a continuous
		
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			flow of unfolding reality,
		
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			providing us with opportunities
		
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			for and for for goodness and for excellence.
		
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			Opportunities for us to express
		
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			goodness and to manifest excellence.
		
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			Life is not a rehearsal for some future
		
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			event.
		
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			Sometimes we live life as if something is
		
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			gonna happen. It is happening.
		
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			Life is the event. Now is a moment
		
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			and we don't know how many more moments
		
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			exist
		
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			before all our time is up
		
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			in the life that we have been granted
		
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			as a gift.
		
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			We have become accustomed
		
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			in our times to a degree of false
		
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			invincibility.
		
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			We we make surgery. Many people do this
		
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			surgery to make them look younger.
		
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			Diet pulls to make them look thinner.
		
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			I don't say you mustn't
		
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			diet. I don't say you mustn't beautify yourself
		
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			but I'm just saying the vainness.
		
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			Millions are spent
		
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			on surgery to make us look younger.
		
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			Diet pools to make us look thinner,
		
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			medication to make us seemingly live longer,
		
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			but an assumed
		
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			prolonged life
		
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			is merely a postponed death
		
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			because death and departure
		
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			from this world
		
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			is inevitable.
		
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			Wherever you are,
		
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			death will come and fetch you.
		
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			Even if you are in a fortified building,
		
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			death will come and fetch you.
		
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			Said N Ali
		
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			most eloquently eulogized even the passing of Rasulullah
		
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			He said,
		
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			He said death
		
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			spares
		
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			nobody, it leaves nobody.
		
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			And this
		
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			is how it will be until everyone on
		
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			earth is no more.
		
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			The prophet lived amongst us,
		
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			but he did not remain and even was
		
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			not spared the passing on.
		
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			If Allah kept anyone forever, it would have
		
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			been the prophet,
		
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			but he did not preserve me in that
		
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			way.
		
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			The arrow of death never misses his target.
		
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			The arrow of death
		
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			never misses his target.
		
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			If the arrow passes by someone today,
		
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			be sure tomorrow it'll hit.
		
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			We are never
		
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			as aware of our being alive
		
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			as when we are at the funeral of
		
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			the dead.
		
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			And therefore, Rasul
		
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			hadith documented
		
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			in the Sahih of Imam Muslim.
		
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			He said words which we are also encouraged
		
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			to repeat.
		
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			May Allah have mercy on those from among
		
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			us who have passed on before us
		
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			and by the will of Allah eventually
		
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			we will be following and joining up with
		
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			you.
		
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			As we have witnessed,
		
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			we have witnessed every day someone leaves this
		
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			world behind,
		
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			We are all in the same line
		
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			without paying attention to the line.
		
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			We never know how many people are before
		
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			us
		
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			or how many people are in the line
		
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			behind us.
		
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			We cannot
		
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			move to the back of the line
		
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			nor can we avoid the line.
		
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			So while we are in the line,
		
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			it's important for us to make every moment
		
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			count.
		
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			The poet
		
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			says in Urdu,
		
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			He said, we are born
		
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			We are born sentenced to life without our
		
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			choosing.
		
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			We are sentenced to life without our choosing.
		
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			And he goes on to say the destination
		
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			of the living
		
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			has no alternative
		
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			but to pass through the avenue of death.
		
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			It is the last stage of our existence
		
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			on this earth.
		
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			So there's no choice of birth,
		
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			no avoidance of death
		
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			except utilize
		
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			the interval
		
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			in between
		
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			in a most effective manner.
		
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			In other words,
		
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			live life meaningfully.
		
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			And meaningful life create memories
		
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			and memories
		
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			are what lives on after we are gone.
		
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			Stop taking what we have for granted.
		
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			Instead,
		
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			be grateful
		
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			and do whatever good we can
		
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			wherever we are and realize
		
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			that we have to value
		
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			what we have
		
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			and we need
		
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			to motivate ourselves to do what needs to
		
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			be done
		
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			with full vigor,
		
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			and therefore we're encouraged
		
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			by saying
		
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			Prepare for the hereafter
		
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			as if you're gonna die tomorrow
		
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			but work in this world as if you
		
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			are living forever. Do what needs to be
		
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			done. Don't avoid this with the excuse of
		
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			death but be aware that death may come
		
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			at any moment.
		
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			Imam al Shafi'i.
		
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			Very thought provoking poem that he wrote.
		
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			And it makes us realize that sometimes,
		
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			as I mentioned, young people pass on
		
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			and olives,
		
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			people who are on the deathbed,
		
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			attend eventually the funerals of those who came
		
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			to visit them in the hospital door.
		
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			So Imam al Shafi'i in his poem says,
		
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			He said, how many healthy have died without
		
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			any ailments
		
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			and how many of those who are sick
		
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			have lived for a long time?
		
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			How many youth go to sleep and wake
		
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			up laughing?
		
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			But at sunset, they were buried
		
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			without even knowing that that's the
		
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			destination. How long can you live?
		
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			As long as you may live,
		
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			there's no doubt a day will come when
		
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			you'll have to be in the darkness of
		
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			the grave
		
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			And he goes on to say,
		
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			Oh you who are proudly enthralled
		
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			by the palatial abodes that you are living
		
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			in. This world is but a place really
		
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			for prayer
		
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			and for humility and piety.
		
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			Know that tomorrow you will enter in a
		
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			boat
		
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			that is narrow and dug out for you
		
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			with the people your neighbors around you will
		
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			be silent
		
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			and motionless.
		
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			We close by reflecting and I beg your
		
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			indulgence I'm really not
		
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			really in the real spirit of
		
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			giving the Jumah to walk today is just
		
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			overwhelmed by just so many things that happened.
		
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			So I beg your indulgence.
		
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			But we close by
		
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			reflecting upon the Quranic parable
		
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			that refers to the transitory nature
		
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			of our life on earth.
		
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			A life
		
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			that we come into
		
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			without our asking,
		
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			a life we live
		
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			without our permission.
		
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			Allah
		
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			We read this on Fridays.
		
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			Allah says 4th a parable example of life
		
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			in this world,
		
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			it is like the rain which we send
		
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			down from the skies,
		
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			the earth vegetation absorbs it,
		
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			it becomes
		
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			alive, it blooms, it blushes, it it it
		
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			it it flourishes,
		
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			but soon it becomes dry
		
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			fragments
		
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			and then the wind scatters it away
		
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			and only Allah prevails
		
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			over everything.
		
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			The Quran brings to our attention here
		
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			that just like the rain falls on the
		
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			surface of the earth,
		
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			it revives the land,
		
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			green vegetation grows,
		
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			lasts for a while.
		
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			It's our youth and our
		
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			main part of our life
		
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			and eventually
		
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			it dries up and blows away.
		
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			So too human life on earth.
		
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			We are born,
		
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			we develop,
		
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			we flourish,
		
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			and eventually,
		
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			if we are lucky, we age,
		
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			but all of us eventually die.
		
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			We are born
		
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			without bringing anything into this world,
		
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			and we die without taking anything from this
		
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			world.
		
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			We are born
		
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			without bringing anything into this world.
		
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			We die
		
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			without taking anything,
		
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			and the saddest thing of all
		
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			is in the interval between our coming and
		
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			going,
		
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			we fight over things
		
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			that we have neither brought
		
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			nor we will take with.
		
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			Much of the animosity between people, the fights
		
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			between people,
		
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			wars being fought
		
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			of a wealth, of a greed, none of
		
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			which power,
		
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			authority,
		
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			name, titles,
		
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			none of these will matter
		
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			at all.
		
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			What helps
		
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			when we leave the world
		
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			is the good
		
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			that we have done.
		
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			What is of continuous blessing,
		
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			everlasting benefit
		
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			is the good that you have done.
		
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			So what we
		
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			do with our lives
		
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			will help us when we leave the world
		
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			and with the good we did
		
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			and the memories
		
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			that we leave behind.
		
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			What consoles those who we leave behind
		
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			are the fond memories
		
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			that we have created.
		
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			Such
		
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			is the temporary nature of life,
		
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			the fleeting reality of our stay on this
		
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			earth.
		
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			Advised us in a hadith
		
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			documented in the
		
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			Be in this world
		
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			as a stranger
		
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			or as a passerby.
		
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			May Allah grant those who have passed on.
		
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			Those who are ill, may Allah grant them
		
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			recovery
		
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			or whatever is best for them. May the
		
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			mercy of Allah envelop
		
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			all of those who are ill, those who
		
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			have passed on, and all of us.
		
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			We are in the week
		
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			of the coming and the passing of
		
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			Rasulullah
		
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			This is the week in which the Rasul
		
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			was born and passed away. Some people differ
		
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			9th,
		
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			12th, 17th, doesn't matter.
		
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			He was born in this week
		
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			and he passed away
		
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			in this week.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			grant
		
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			that the Ummah which is going through a
		
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			very trial
		
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			trying time to the moment.
		
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			May Allah grant us
		
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			to be of those who bind themselves to
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			So so much so that Allah
		
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			grants us the
		
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			capacity to do what is best
		
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			for ourselves
		
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			and for the world as Allah mentions
		
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			If you bind yourself to the way of
		
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			the prophet, to the message of the prophet,
		
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			to the mission of the prophet, to the
		
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			example of the prophet, if you bind yourself
		
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			to the prophet, Allah says,
		
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			I'm on your
		
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			side. Never mind the world and all it
		
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			contains.
		
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			I'll give you the pen with which to
		
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			write your destiny.
		
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			We'd like to say to
		
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			Sheikh for the inspiring hootba which always helps
		
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			to strengthen our faith and practice.
		
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			There are just a few announcements.
		
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			We would like to announce
		
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			On behalf of our principals, Mashiro Farquhan and
		
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			the extended family, we would also announce,
		
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			we'd also like to say
		
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			to every single person present today.
		
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			Islamic college once again has the honor of
		
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			officiating the Jamaal proceedings.
		
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			The first adhan and second adhan will be
		
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			rendered by none other than Sheikh Farooq Mohammed,
		
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			our very own esteemed teacher of islamia college.
		
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			Assalamu alaikum wa rakatuh.
		
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			Inshallah. Everyone is invited to join us inshallah.
		
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			Some,
		
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			between short period of time make that intention
		
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			to spend
		
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			that time
		
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			between
		
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			and program. Males and females are welcome to
		
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			come Some refreshments after some coolness will be
		
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			served
		
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			after the program.
		
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			Along
		
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			with love.