Safi Khan – Soul Food For College Students Dear Beloved Son #08

Safi Khan
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The upcoming Darodigit session will focus on fulfilling rights of Allah, including the importance of understanding the three questions of the Bible and preparing for death. The importance of practicing the message of Allah to avoid confusion and mistakes, and the importance of not just memorizing facts and not knowing what to say is also emphasized. The importance of purifying oneself for others, including belief in the daily operation of the gods, and shukr is emphasized. Visits to share blessings from others and use them to dominate others are advised, and advice on using the strongest form of shukr is given. The session also includes a presentation on using the blessings of Allah to benefit others, including sharing them with others and not to use them when they are not needed.
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Everyone. How's everyone doing?

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So,

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we're going to continue on. Myself and Sud

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Murphy both are, basically playing this crazy game

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of

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against time,

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where we're trying to finish a a meaningful

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lesson,

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by the time that Maghrib Salah comes in.

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So,

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in another week or so, I believe, we're

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going to be planning to begin the program

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after

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Insha'Allah. That way, we just have a little

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bit more time, to engage. We can go

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back to the q and a sessions that

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we normally do.

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But just for this week, Insha'Allah, last week,

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we're gonna kind of, like, do a little

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bit of a consolidated version,

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of the regular,

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main lecture.

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And then next week, we're going to be

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going back into the,

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the q and a, format.

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Okay? So last week,

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we began the conversation

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of the idea of hypocrisy.

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Now this chapter is titled hypocrisy,

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but it has a lot to do with

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the idea of 1,

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not fulfilling the rights of Allah,

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and in fact, giving the rights of Allah,

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to other than Allah. Okay?

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And this is problematic on multiple levels. As

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Imam Al Ghazali

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begins kind of pry away at this subject

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with his students where he says,

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you have studied elaborate elaborate subjects in your

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life. Right? And he lists all of these

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different ones, theology and medicine and poetry and

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astronomy and syntax and morphology. Right? You've studied

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Sarf and Nahu. You've studied all these different

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things,

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but

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you have wasted your time against the will

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of Allah

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through this. Now last week, I mentioned that

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what this means is not that it's haram

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to engage in dunya,

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you know,

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endeavors. Of course, it's not. Anyone

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knows that a person who engages in any

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subject matter of the dunya. Muslims are not

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afraid of any subject, by the way. You

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know, there's, like, a lot of times

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we hear that, you know, religious people are

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afraid of certain topics. Why? Because it's a

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threat to their their faith. It's a threat

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to their entire fill you know, religious philosophy.

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And the reality is no. A person who's

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Muslim is not afraid of science at all

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whatsoever, actually.

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People who are Muslim are not afraid of

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of of medicine. In fact, there are hadith

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of the prophet

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where he actually said in a very authentic

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manner that for every disease, there is a

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cure.

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For every disease, there is a cure.

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And this particular

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hadith,

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it is used as a really great evidence

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for a lot of people who go into

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other things, like medicine and science and whatnot.

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Right? But the problem that Imam al Ghazali

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presents here is when a person pursues matters

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of the dunya

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in negligence

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of their rights that are due to Allah.

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Right? And I mentioned the examples of a

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person who says, yes. I want I I

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want to, you know, gain a good living.

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I want to go, and I want to

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earn a degree so I can work hard

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and I can make money for myself and

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my family. But along the way,

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they forget to

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fulfill their salawat.

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They forget to pray their at the masjid.

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They forget to make their du'a. They forget

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to do their adkar. They forget to read

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their Quran.

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These are the ways in which dunya

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comes

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at the price of a person's

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their their their the rights that they are

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that that they that they should owe Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala. Okay?

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And so

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after this, he mentioned something very, very interesting.

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He says,

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He goes, it is said in the gospel

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of Isa, Injil i'isa alaihis salam, the gospel

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of Isa alaihis salam. And by the way,

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this is all, you know, isla iiyat, you

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know, the the these are narrations that are

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sometimes pulled from narrations before the time of

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the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

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And he says that there was a narration

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from the time before the Quran was revealed,

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before the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wasallam, and it was attributed to Isa alaihis

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salam, that he said from the moment that

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a body

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is placed

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on the funeral bed, okay,

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when it is placed on the funeral bed,

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until it is placed

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at the edge,

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at the edge of the grave.

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Allah

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will ask this this person

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40 questions.

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Okay?

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Subhanallah.

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You know, we we we we look at

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the process of life and death. There's a

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video that came out today that Roots published

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from last week's class about the reality of

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death, that death is merely a journey

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that a believing soul takes

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from this dunya to

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their rub, to their creator.

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Right? But even then, subhanAllah, I want you

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guys to think about this, the beauty of

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the process of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Allah does not allow a soul to to

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to to perish in this dunya, and then

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immediately right away, they go straight into the

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akhirah. What happens in between?

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They pass away. There's the rights of the

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janazah.

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They're they're wrapped. They're buried.

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They live a life of the the the

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grave that we call the barzakh. Right? They

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live a life in the grave. And within

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this grave, they have a period of time.

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They're asked certain questions. Now there's a narration

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that mentions in the prophet

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what? That when a person is in their

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kabr, they're in their grave, they're asked 3

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questions.

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Right? And the questions are simple, and every

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single person here, by the way, should know

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these 3 questions. The questions are,

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who is your Rab?

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Who's your Lord?

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What is your Din?

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And who is your

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prophet?

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These are the three questions.

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Any person who has, like, been Muslim

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for even, like, a few days We'll be

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able to know the responses to those questions.

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But why

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are three questions that are seemingly so simplistic?

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Why will those 3 be asked the time

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when a person's in their grave? Because when

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a person's in their grave, they won't be

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so simply able to answer that unless they

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have those answers within their heart.

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It's easy to fake it till you make

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it in the dunya, y'all. I can go

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stand in salah for for 40 minutes

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during salatul tarawih.

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I can go and I can, you know,

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engage in in in in in a halakat

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because, yeah, my friends are around me, and

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I'm feeling the mood, and I'm feeling the

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emotions, and I feel like I wanna be

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a part of this.

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But in the barzakh,

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you know, while you're while you're in the

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grave and then you're asked those questions,

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you won't be able to answer those questions

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unless you truthfully, truthfully believe in what you're

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saying.

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You'll be thinking Allah when the angel asks

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you who's your creator,

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but the word Allah will not exit your

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tongue. It will not exit your mouth.

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You know the answer of who is your

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prophet as the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam. But a person who is absent from

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practicing the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam will not be able to so

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easily utter his name. Why? Because this is

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a time in which the heart and the

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tongue will be 1.

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In the dunya, the heart and the tongue

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are separate. Right? The heart truly feels something,

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but the tongue sometimes

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is coerced to say something else.

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How true is that for everybody in here?

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Sometimes we feel a certain way, but we

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say something different. Alright? Somebody asks you, hey.

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How was the food?

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Delicious. Right? Like, your stomach is churning and,

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like, you know, like, how do I look?

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Amazing.

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I'm just kidding. Like, you know, it's

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you're you you wanna say something,

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but the heart, right, the tongue, they're 2

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separate things. By the way, anyone know know,

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Sultanulukman?

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Right? Sultanulukman, the 31st chapter of the Quran.

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It talks about a man by the name

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of Luqman al Hakim, Luqman the wise. Right?

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There's a funny story from Luqman's life, by

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the way, where a person who was in,

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like, a a a position of authority during

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his time, they asked Luqman alaihis salaam to

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slaughter a sheep and bring

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bring him the 2 best parts of the

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sheep. And And so Luqman alayhis salaam, he

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he he slaughtered the sheep, and he brought

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this master of his,

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the tongue and the heart. Okay?

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And so then after, you know, that part

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was over, the same person, he says, yeah,

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Luqman, slaughter another sheep and then bring me

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the 2 worst parts of the sheep.

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The 2 worst parts of this animal. And

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so Luqman, he slaughters another sheep, and he

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brings to his master the tongue and the

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heart.

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And so the master, he says to Luqman,

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he says, yeah, Luqman, what are you what

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are you doing? What game are you playing

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with me right now? I asked you to

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bring me the best, and I asked you

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to bring me the worst, and you brought

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me the 2 exact same same vessels each

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time. What are you trying to say here?

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In Luqman,

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he says, verily, the tongue and the heart

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can be the best

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of

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our our ourselves

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if

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they are upright

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or they could be the worst of ourselves

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if they're corrupted.

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And how along the same lines

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does the prophet

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share his hadith?

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What does he say? He says that verily,

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there's a piece of you, a morsel of

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flesh.

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If it is upright and straight, the rest

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of the body will be upright and straight.

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If it is corrupted,

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then the rest of your body will be

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corrupted.

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He says that this is the heart.

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SubhanAllah. How in line of the same same

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advice do you find in the advice of

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Luqman alaihi salaam? So on the day or

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on the day in which you're buried, right,

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you'll be asked these questions. They're not gonna

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be so easy to answer. You know, nowadays,

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like, we think, like, yeah. You know, I'll

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memorize those things. I can say them in

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my sleep. But the reality is truth will

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come out that day unlike

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any other day that you've ever witnessed in

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your entire life.

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So

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the the advice that the prophet he gives

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us is prepare for that day. Not just

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like you prepare for a test, by the

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way. Sometimes and y'all know this, college students,

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students in general, y'all know. Sometimes you can

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memorize facts for an exam.

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Yeah. This is this is the equation for

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that, and this is the, you know, the

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mitochondria is the powerhouse of the human cell.

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Like, you you you can memorize that stuff

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and not know what in the world that

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means.

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You've memorized names of, like, presidents in US

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history. You have no idea who they are.

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You've memorized certain things in your class, and

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you have no idea. On the day in

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which you'll be asked by those Malaika,

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you unless you truly understand and believe the

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answers about what you're saying,

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your tongue will not be able to follow

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suit.

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So as much as we're so used to

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just memorizing and regurgitating,

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a part of our deen teaches us to

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internalize

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and understand

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and practice

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anything that you preach.

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Anything that you preach. Guys, what was one

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of the greatest evidences

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of the the the the the truthfulness of

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the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?

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There was not one commandment

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that the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he

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gave that anyone around him could claim that

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he does not follow.

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Not one.

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Not one.

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Be good to your neighbors. He's the best

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of his neighbors.

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Be good to your own family, he's the

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best to his own family.

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Be generous to those who have less than

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you, he is the most generous to those

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who have less than him.

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Spend time in the evening for Allah

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He used to spend the most time in

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the evening with Allah

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Look at this. I mean, there's nothing that

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you can take a dig at him. Saying

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that, he doesn't do what he says to

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other people.

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And now look at where we are. It's

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a great lesson for all of us to

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really think about, like, you know, how how

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sincere are we? And we're gonna talk about

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that sincerely inshallah in just a moment.

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So he says here

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that

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in this particular narration from Isa alaihis salam,

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you will be asked 40 questions by Allah

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And he says

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here, the first of them will be this,

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Youkullu Allahu Ta'ala, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will

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say, oh my servant,

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oh my servant,

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you have purified yourself

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in the sight of mankind

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for years,

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for decades.

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As long as I have allowed you to

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live, you have dedicated yourself for the sight

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of those around you.

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But

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you have not purified yourself

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for even 1 hour for me.

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You have not purified yourself for even 1

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hour of me. What does this mean? That's

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a powerful statement. Right? You think about the

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idea of of of of purifying yourself for

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other people. What does that mean? He says

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that you have purified yourself in the sight

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of mankind for years.

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Now, subhanallah, there's a powerful word here that's

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used. Imam Al Khazari, he says, you have

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purified yourself in the, what did I say,

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sight of other people.

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It's very visual.

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It's not internal.

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Can someone not look like the cleanest person

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on the outside, but be the most filthy

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person internally?

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Exactly.

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So Imam al Khazadi, he says, you've taken

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so much time

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to make sure that you dress nice.

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Right? You smell good. You look presentable.

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Everything on the outside

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is perfect.

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Everything is up to shape. Everything is up

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to par,

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and you've spent day night

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working hard to present yourself as this type

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of person to the public eye.

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That when you walk by, everyone's like,

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That person's got their life set. That person

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looks like they have themselves put together.

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It seems like everything is good on the

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outside. Right?

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And you do things for the eyes of

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other people, for the sight of other people.

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You are so worried about what other people

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will see of you, so that's all you

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care about. And I'll tell you guys something,

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subhanAllah, it's very, very it's it's scary

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that a person who is so fixated on

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the sight of other people, they rob themselves

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of sincerity when those eyes are gone.

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When those eyes are no longer there,

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that person does not really care about the

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details anymore.

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When they present themselves in public, they are

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the greatest,

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you know, person who pays attention to detail.

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Everything has to be like this, and everything

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has to be like that.

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But then when no eyes are on them,

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whole different human being.

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Whole different human being. Okay?

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But then he says, but when it comes

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to me,

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my servants, my worshipers,

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you have not even spent 1 hour

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to purify yourself

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for me.

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Okay?

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And, you know,

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may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us from

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ever being people who

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think of others before we think about Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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We worry so much about the perception

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of other people that we completely forget about

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what would Allah

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think.

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It's to the point in within our our

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our acts of worship, in our duas, in

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our adkar, in our salah, in our Quran

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that we're constantly thinking about, like, hey. You

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know, am I praying

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in in a way that if somebody walked

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in, they would be like, wow.

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That person's praying so beautifully.

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But while we're so concerned about the person

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who walked in to look or to see

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us,

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we're completely

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void of what Allah would think about us

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internally.

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SubhanAllah. I'll tell you something, it's so interesting.

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One of my teachers told me, he goes,

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somebody who, quote, unquote, praise beautifully

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could be standing beautifully in their salah, but

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they could be silently not reciting anything.

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They could just be standing there, just worried

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about what other people are thinking about them.

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They forget to recite Fatiha.

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They forget to praise Allah

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All of those internals are missing.

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Right? There's a reason why Islam is iman

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and aamal.

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There there's a reason why Islam is deeds

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and faith.

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Because if it was all deeds, then it

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would all it would we would only be

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judged upon things that you can do on

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the exterior.

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There's also something called iman.

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Iman is something that you cannot see.

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SubhanAllah, when the prophet was answering those questions

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from Jibril, alaihis salam, when Jibril asked him,

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you Muhammad Akhbirniya anil Islam,

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teach me, tell me, inform me about Islam.

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What did the prophet say? The 5 pillars.

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He said,

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dashhadan la ilaha illallah. Witnessing and testifying. There's

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only one God, and the prophet is his

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final messenger. Salah, zakah,

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som, fasting, and hajj.

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All those things are

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external.

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You can see people praying. You can see

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people fasting.

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You can see people giving giving charity sometimes.

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You can see people in Hajj. But then

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Jibril alaihis salam, he asked him, you Muhammad,

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akhbirniyanal

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iman.

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Oh, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam, tell me about

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iman. What does the prophet says? He says,

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iman is

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belief in Allah, belief in His angels, belief

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in His prophets, belief in His books, belief

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in the day of judgment, and belief in

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divine decree. Khadihi washadrihi, whether you think it

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is good or whether you think it is

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bad.

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Can you see any of those things?

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You cannot see Allah.

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You cannot see a person's belief in the

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angels. You cannot see a person's belief in

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the books. You cannot see a person's belief

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in the prophets. You cannot see a person's

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belief in the akhirah. The akhirah hasn't even

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happened yet.

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You can't see a person's belief in divine

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decree and their contentment with Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala's will. Those things are all internal.

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What do we call those 6 things? We

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call them the 6 pillars of

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iman.

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Why?

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Because there's a part of you that must

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be polished internally.

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There must be a part of you that

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is polished that no one else can physically

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see.

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Islam is the perfect balance between

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things that are unseen and things that are

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seen.

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If everything is seen, then

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there's nothing for us to worry about on

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the inside.

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And if everything is just internal, then we

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wouldn't have the motivation to get up and

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actually do things.

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So a Muslim

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is a person who is perfectly balanced in

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that full

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holistic way.

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Right? And so he says here, oh, my

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servant, you haven't even purified yourself for me

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in for one moment.

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Okay? And so what I share with everybody

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here is a great lesson, which is when

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you purify yourself for other people, you're purifying

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yourself on the outside.

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This is important. The prophet said this. He

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says, cleanliness is what?

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Half of your faith.

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Cleanliness.

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Yes. This is why you do wudu. This

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is why wudu is not internal. Somebody can't

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be like, yeah. I'm ready for a bridge.

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You do wudu? Yeah, man. Internally.

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What does that mean? I mean, like yeah.

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You know, just did did did did washing

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of my internal arm. Like, no. No. No.

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No. You have to wash yourself externally. This

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is a part of your this is a

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part of your faith. This is a part

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of your practice.

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But at the same time, even a person

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who does wudu can be void of purity

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when they say

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and they begin to stand there.

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So purifying yourself for Allah means

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purifying yourself for Allah

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internally.

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Internally.

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Okay?

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You know, subhanallah. You know, it's so interesting.

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Right? One thing that I always like to

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share when we go over this particular part

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of, Ayuhul Walad is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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deserves your attention

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more than anyone else that you know.

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala deserves your attention more

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than anyone else you know.

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This claim

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that Imam al Ghazali is making that Allah,

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azzawajal, he's he'll he'll be telling somebody,

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on on on the day in which they're

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buried in their butt in in their grave

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that you've spent so much time for other

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people and you've not spent any time with

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me.

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It's like a person who, and you guys

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know this kind of vibe. You know, when

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when when people come over to the house,

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you present yourself in a certain way. Right?

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Yeah. You know, this is this is me.

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Right? You're smiling.

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Everyone's happy.

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Right? Like, can I offer you some chai,

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some dessert, some coffee perhaps? Right? And, masha'Allah,

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you kick it with that person for, like,

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an hour and a half, 2 hours. The

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entire time you're like this. Right? And then

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as soon as, like, the guests walk up

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and head out that door, you turn around

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and you see you're like

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like, so how long? What kind of shaitan

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just came out? Like, what is this? Right?

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It's like your mom. Right? She's like the

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sweetest woman on earth when guests are over.

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The guests leave, and she's like, you stupid

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or, like, like, immediately the insults start hurling

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out. Like, so so so we don't ever

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wanna be like that.

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We don't ever wanna be like that,

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where we're performing with people

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just for a period of time

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just for a period of time.

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Because those people, subhanAllah, will not know who

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you really are.

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The guests, you'll present your best part of

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yourself to your guests.

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That's a good thing. You should. Guests deserve

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honor. Right? When you invite somebody to your

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home, you wanna show them the beautiful part

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of your home and the beautiful part of

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yourself and whatever it was. Right?

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But that does not mean that once the

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guests

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leave, your family can't even recognize you.

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How depressing is that?

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That, you know, whenever we see other people,

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my family acts so happy and so nice

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and so caring and so kind. And when

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there's nobody around us and it's just us,

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a whole different person. I by the way,

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I I have spoken to people. I've spoken

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to people in my own office about this.

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You know,

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like, it's over and over again. Yeah. You

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know, my family members, my parents, my kids,

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when when we have people over, it's like

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the best time ever.

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You know, my dad is happy.

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My mom is happy.

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But when those guests leave and it's just

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us,

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they don't even talk to us.

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They didn't even spend time with us.

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Imagine if that's how we treated Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala.

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That when people are around us, we pray

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so beautifully.

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Well, when there there's no one around us,

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their isha prayer still needs to be prayed,

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but we have no ihtaram, no respect, no

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love,

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no muhabba to meet with Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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It's like the evidence of when we pray

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in public, we're taking our sweet time and

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praying. We're praying in private. What is it?

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Boom. Done.

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Right? Those 2 salawat, and then we're done.

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We try to spend the least amount of

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time. As the prophet

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he says,

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They peck at the ground 4 times.

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That's all they

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do. And they don't remember Allah

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in their prayer

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except just a tiny little bit, and that's

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it.

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And, you

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know,

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if this was a friend that we were

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treating with, the friend would claim that this

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person really doesn't care about me.

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How can this friend care about me?

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They claim to care about me. They claim

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to love me.

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They only care about me when those other

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friends are around.

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And when those friends leave and it's just

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me and them 1 on 1, there's no

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conversation.

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There's no meaningful time, no meaningful dialogue that

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is made.

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They just speak to me just to get

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it over with. Can you imagine, subhanallah?

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We are so fortunate that Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala is al Rahman y'all.

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We're so fortunate that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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is alifafura salam.

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We're so fortunate that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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continues to love us despite

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our lack of showing that love to him.

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Allah

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continues to give us

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food and and shelter and family and loved

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ones despite the fact that we barely spend

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any time with him.

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But sometimes it's so easy to do so

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on the exterior.

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And so then Imam al Khuzari, he says

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something very powerful.

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He says,

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every day,

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Allah

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looks into your hearts and he says,

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He says, every day he looks into

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into your hearts.

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And he says,

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what are you doing for other creatures

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though you are surrounded

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by my kindness?

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Are you so deaf that you cannot even

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hear anymore?

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Now this is very interesting. The Arabic is

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actually beautiful. He says,

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He says that,

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what are you doing for other creatures?

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And you are surrounded with so many blessings

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from me. What does this mean?

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It means now check yourself. Allah talked about

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the internals.

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Now the opposite also applies.

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Allah

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has done so much for each and every

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single one of us. Now what do you

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use

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the nam of Allah

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from Allah to do? Do you use your

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blessings to please Allah, or you do you

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use your blessings to neglect Allah?

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Imam Al Ghazali, he says, by the way,

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you know the idea of shukr?

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Everyone knows the word shukr? The word shukr

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means what?

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Gratitude. Right? He said, the highest

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level,

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the highest form of shukr

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is

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a person

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who sees a blessing from Allah,

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and the only thing they can think about

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to do with that blessing is to somehow,

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some way please the bestower of that blessing.

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It's like when you receive a gift from

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a friend, all you can think about to

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do with that gift is to somehow, some

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way do something for that friend in return.

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Right? That friend gave me, like, a gift

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card to this restaurant. What's the first thing

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that that that person thinks about?

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Hey. You and me should go out to

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that restaurant

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because you're the one that gave that to

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me. I don't wanna use this gift for

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other people. Like, I I wanna give I

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wanna share it with you. Right?

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Now imagine

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the worst type of way to use that

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gift,

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to use it with another person, and then

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to spend that time at that restaurant backbiting

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the same person who gave you that gift.

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This is the opposite of shukr.

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This is the opposite of gratitude.

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Right? There's a hadith I wanna share with

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everybody here. It's very very powerful insha'Allah before

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we close in the next 10 minutes.

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The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he says

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something beautifully. He says

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that,

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kurbatan

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min

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kurabid dunya

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nafasallahu

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anhu kurbatan

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min kurabi

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yawmulqiyamati.

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He says,

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if anyone

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removes

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one of the anxieties of this world from

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a believer,

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Allah will remove one of their anxieties on

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the day of judgment.

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You think about, like, being nervous on yomul

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kiyama?

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How am I going to own up to

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all of my realities and all of these

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questions that I'm gonna be asked? How do

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I how do I how do I come

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to terms with this? What does the prophet

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say?

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Remove a little difficulty from the people around

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you in this world.

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Remove some hardship from the people around you.

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Use a blessing that you have to benefit

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the people around you.

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This is the way to save yourself on

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the day of judgment, by the way. And

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then he says,

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if one smooths the way for one who

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is destitute and poor,

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Allah will smooth the way for him in

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this world

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and in the next. And if one conceals

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the faults of a Muslim, Allah will conceal

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their faults in this dunya and

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in the hereafter.

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Look how poetically reflective this relationship is.

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Imam Al Ghazari, he says that Allah says

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that I've given you so much. What have

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you done with those things to benefit the

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people around you?

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You've been given a heart that is beating,

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use that heart to feel for other people

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around you. How much of a how much

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of a, a deprivation is it for a

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person who has a beating working heart to

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not feel for those around them?

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You look at something that should tremble the

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heart,

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and that heart feels nothing.

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Allah gives you a tongue to say beautiful

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things to other people,

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and that tongue is only used to curse

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and to backbite.

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Allah gives you ears to listen to things,

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to learn things, and and they'll only only

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use that ear to consume haram, those eyes

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to consume haram.

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One of the ways to attain the love

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of Allah

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is

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to use the faculties he gave you to

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benefit the people around you.

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Ask yourself, am I selfish with my blessings?

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By the way, there's a difference between the

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gifts that you give people and the gifts

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that Allah gives you. The gifts that we

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internally give other people, they have limitations.

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That Target gift card is $25 on it.

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Once you spend it, there's nothing left.

00:29:20 --> 00:29:22

That $100 Best Buy gift card only has

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a $100 on it. Once you spend it

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on, like, one SD card, you're done. You're

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cooked. Okay?

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But the gifts that Allah

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gives you have no limitations.

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The gifts that Allah

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gives you has no limitations. Y'all ever y'all

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ever feel like you know, sometimes when

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when somebody gives you a gift, you're like,

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man, I gotta use this thing.

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I gotta use this thing before it, like,

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loses, like, its value, or I gotta use

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it while it's still relevant.

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The gifts of Allah

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do not have an expiration date.

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The blessings of Allah

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do not have an expiration date.

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Use those blessings that Allah gave you to

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benefit those around you. And I'll tell you

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even more.

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When a person uses the blessings that Allah

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gives them

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and they use it to help other people,

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Allah will only increase them in that blessing.

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You use your time to benefit others. What

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will Allah do to that time?

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Expand it.

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Expand it.

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When a person only uses their time for

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their own selfish reasons, what will they find

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out about their time?

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It's gone.

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I I lose my time all the time.

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When a person uses the wealth that Allah

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gave them to benefit the people around them,

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what do they always find? What do we

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say in Islam? When a person gives, what

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would Allah do to your money?

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He will double it. He

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will increase your wealth.

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Does the the idea of zakat to purify

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your wealth? Allah will purify your wealth and

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increase it.

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What does every sheikh say during a fundraiser?

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Who wants to give 10,000? Me. May Allah

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reward you and increase you.

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Why? Why does he say that? Because we

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believe it fundamentally.

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But if a person hoards all their money

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and they buy it themselves, only things. Right?

00:31:05 --> 00:31:06

How many of us in here well, I'm

00:31:06 --> 00:31:08

telling you guys right now. How many people

00:31:08 --> 00:31:12

in here, we sincerely, generally enjoy spending money

00:31:12 --> 00:31:13

to pay for food for our our family

00:31:13 --> 00:31:16

and friends. If it it's such a beautiful

00:31:16 --> 00:31:17

feeling. Some of y'all like, man, I'm broke.

00:31:17 --> 00:31:19

I ain't prepared for myself. So, like,

00:31:19 --> 00:31:21

y'all lucky. Probably we should have other people.

00:31:21 --> 00:31:23

So, like, it's but somehow, think about it.

00:31:23 --> 00:31:25

You you you have above $20 in your

00:31:25 --> 00:31:26

bank account one day Right?

00:31:27 --> 00:31:28

You're like, you know what?

00:31:28 --> 00:31:32

Sonic blaster on me. Right? Like, Brahms Twister

00:31:32 --> 00:31:35

on me. A dollar 79, I got you.

00:31:35 --> 00:31:37

You know? So, like, you know,

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when we have the opportunity here,

00:31:39 --> 00:31:41

trust me. Trust me.

00:31:41 --> 00:31:44

Do your best to share the nirm of

00:31:44 --> 00:31:44

Allah

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with the people around you. Allah will only

00:31:47 --> 00:31:49

increase you. And then the final thing he

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says in this chapter, and it's so powerful.

00:31:51 --> 00:31:53

He says at the very end, he says,

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He says, are you so deaf

00:32:00 --> 00:32:01

that you cannot hear?

00:32:02 --> 00:32:03

Meaning

00:32:05 --> 00:32:07

that your your ears are supposed to hear,

00:32:08 --> 00:32:10

but you are so deaf. You are so

00:32:10 --> 00:32:12

blind. You're so hardhearted

00:32:13 --> 00:32:15

that the faculty, what it's supposed to do,

00:32:15 --> 00:32:17

no longer does its basic function anymore.

00:32:18 --> 00:32:19

Your ears, by the way, do a lot

00:32:19 --> 00:32:22

more than just hearing. Everyone know this. Right?

00:32:22 --> 00:32:24

Your hears your your ears can hear.

00:32:24 --> 00:32:27

Your ears can internalize. Your ears can listen.

00:32:27 --> 00:32:30

Right? Ash Sheik Mikayil, he wrote a book

00:32:30 --> 00:32:33

about it. Right? Your eyes don't just see.

00:32:34 --> 00:32:36

Your eyes do much more than seeing. Your

00:32:36 --> 00:32:38

heart does much more than feeling,

00:32:39 --> 00:32:41

but the bare minimum of what it's supposed

00:32:41 --> 00:32:42

to do is

00:32:42 --> 00:32:44

hear, see, and feel.

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So Allah,

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according to Mahmoud Ghazari, he says, are you

00:32:48 --> 00:32:50

so deaf that you cannot do the basic

00:32:50 --> 00:32:52

function you cannot even hear? Then what's the

00:32:52 --> 00:32:54

point of even having this thing?

00:32:55 --> 00:32:57

What's the point of even having your heart?

00:32:57 --> 00:32:59

What's the point of even having your eyes?

00:33:00 --> 00:33:01

Right? We ask Allah

00:33:02 --> 00:33:03

to protect us.

00:33:04 --> 00:33:06

We'll pause with that for Asadullah Maghrib.

00:33:07 --> 00:33:08

Next week,

00:33:09 --> 00:33:11

we are about to embark upon one of

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the most legendary lines that Imam Al Ghazali

00:33:14 --> 00:33:16

has ever written in his life. Okay? I'll

00:33:16 --> 00:33:18

give you guys a little sneak peek preview

00:33:18 --> 00:33:19

right here. This is it right here. We're

00:33:19 --> 00:33:21

gonna talk about this for a long time

00:33:21 --> 00:33:24

next week, Insha'Allah. Knowledge without without action is

00:33:24 --> 00:33:26

insanity, majnoonun,

00:33:26 --> 00:33:29

and action without knowledge is

00:33:29 --> 00:33:31

vanity, yakunun. So inshallah, we're gonna talk about

00:33:31 --> 00:33:32

this inshallah,

00:33:33 --> 00:33:35

next Thursday when we meet again for soul

00:33:35 --> 00:33:36

food. We ask Allah

00:33:36 --> 00:33:38

to allow us to be people of remembrance.

00:33:39 --> 00:33:39

We ask Allah

00:33:40 --> 00:33:42

to make us of the people who are

00:33:42 --> 00:33:44

reminding ourselves about Allah

00:33:45 --> 00:33:46

in every situation that we have in our

00:33:46 --> 00:33:47

lives. And we ask Allah

00:33:48 --> 00:33:50

to allow our faculties to do their jobs,

00:33:50 --> 00:33:51

to feel and to see and to hear,

00:33:51 --> 00:33:52

and we ask Allah

00:33:53 --> 00:33:56

to protect us from negligence, from mindlessness, from

00:33:56 --> 00:33:57

heedlessness, and we ask Allah

00:33:58 --> 00:33:59

to bless us in this dunya in the

00:33:59 --> 00:34:00

hereafter.

00:34:06 --> 00:34:08

We'll see you guys next Thursday for another

00:34:08 --> 00:34:09

session of soul food.

00:34:14 --> 00:34:16

We're gonna pray Maghrib in the,

00:34:17 --> 00:34:19

immediately. So if everybody wants to kinda make

00:34:19 --> 00:34:21

their way over, that'll be perfect. Alright?

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