Safi Khan – Soul Food for College Students- Dear Beloved Son #19

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The importance of du decades and du sofas in praying and finding permanent protection from harm is emphasized, along with the need for du decades to be sincere and that du decades are transformative in terms of emotions and relationships. The speakers stress the importance of praying for the Prophet's salall Drive and finding blessings in completion, finding a friend in a difficult situation, and avoiding conflict with family. Pr anecdote stories and advice to parents stress the importance of trusting parents, getting married and marriage, and giving back to others.

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			All righty, inshallah.
		
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			We're gonna go ahead and begin.
		
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			All right.
		
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			Bismillah walhamdulillah, salatu wassalamu ala rasoolillah, wa ala
		
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			alihi wa ashabihi ajma'in, assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi
		
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			wabarakatuhu, everybody.
		
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			Inshallah, you guys are all doing well.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, ready to end your week, right?
		
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			Inshallah.
		
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			How many people in here have like exams,
		
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			exam season right now?
		
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			So that's yesterday.
		
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			MashaAllah, that's why there's such a glow on
		
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			your face.
		
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			There's a nur on your face right now.
		
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			I can see it's just, mashaAllah, mashaAllah.
		
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			Anybody graduating this year?
		
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			Anyone?
		
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			MashaAllah, some people, okay.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, very, very good.
		
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			How many people just started this year?
		
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			MashaAllah, the rest of you guys are just
		
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			in the thicket, huh?
		
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			Yes, inshallah, inshallah, that's awesome.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, enjoy it.
		
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			Enjoy every experience, right?
		
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			I always, you know, my teachers used to
		
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			always tell me that don't ever dread any
		
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			particular situation in your life because you might
		
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			go back and look at it and see
		
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			a lot of the reasons why who you
		
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			are today is because of the reasons and
		
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			the situations that you were in before.
		
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			So, alhamdulillah, everything has a particular purpose.
		
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			So, alhamdulillah, we are basically now diving into
		
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			our final chapter of the Advices of Imam
		
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			al-Ghazali series.
		
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			Inshallah, we're going to basically start the final
		
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			chapter today and we're going to finish the
		
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			final chapter next week.
		
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			Next week, inshallah, Sheikh Nouman Hussain who, mashaAllah,
		
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			is one of our instructors here, he joined
		
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			us a few, I believe like a month
		
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			or so ago.
		
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			Sheikh Nouman, inshallah, will be with us, inshallah,
		
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			next week to close out our session.
		
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			We'll do a dual session together, inshallah ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			So, this particular chapter and Imam al-Ghazali,
		
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			alhamdulillah, he ends his book with a beautiful,
		
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			beautiful chapter with concluding du'as, okay?
		
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			One of the things that I want everyone
		
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			to kind of think about is that du
		
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			'a is the way that you begin and
		
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			end everything, okay?
		
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			When you begin anything in your life, you
		
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			begin with a du'a to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, right?
		
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			Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad, right?
		
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			You begin with a praise of the Prophet
		
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			salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			You begin with praising Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, right?
		
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			As-salatu was-salam ala Rasool Allah.
		
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			There's always ways you begin every endeavor that
		
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			you undertake, right?
		
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			This is one of the ways to incur
		
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			blessings in your life, right?
		
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			Whenever somebody begins with the name of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, you will realize that
		
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			there are unspoken blessings in that particular action
		
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			that you're about to engage in that you
		
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			cannot describe, right?
		
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			And subhanAllah, some of us, and there's truth
		
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			to this, right?
		
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			The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, he mentions
		
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			even the idea of eating, of partaking and
		
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			eating food.
		
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			He says that a person who begins eating
		
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			food without saying the basmala, without saying Bismillah
		
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			ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, literally shaytan will take
		
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			a seat next to them.
		
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			And he will start eating with this person
		
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			until that person remembers Bismillah.
		
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			And then as soon as that person remembers
		
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			Bismillah, shaytan will basically regurgitate all the food
		
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			that he ate at that moment because he
		
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			can't stand to be in a sitting, in
		
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			a situation where the name of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala is being mentioned, right?
		
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			So you think about all the different things
		
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			you do in your life, the way you
		
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			begin anything begins with the name of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because it brings so much barakah in anything
		
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			that you do.
		
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			You walk into your home, you say Bismillah.
		
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			You walk out of your home, you begin
		
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			with a dua, right?
		
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			So the beginning and then the conclusion as
		
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			well, right?
		
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			When you finish something, you also end with
		
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			a dua because that dua puts such a
		
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			beautiful gift wrap around whatever you just did.
		
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			And I'll give you the greatest example of
		
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			this.
		
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			This is actually the example of Prophet Ibrahim
		
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			alayhi salam.
		
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			When Prophet Ibrahim alayhi salam, he built the
		
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			Kaaba with his son, right?
		
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			This is the greatest structure that has existed
		
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			throughout the history of humanity, right?
		
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			And after he built the Kaaba, Ibrahim alayhi
		
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			salam, he makes a famous dua.
		
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			He says, رَبَّنَا تَقَبَّلْ مِنَّا إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ السَّمِيعُ
		
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			عَلِيمٌ He says to Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala, Oh our Lord, رَبَّنَا تَقَبَّلْ مِنَّا Accept
		
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			this offering, accept this action from me.
		
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			Accept this offering, accept this action from us.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Couldn't someone just say, well, I mean the
		
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			Kaaba is so clearly religious, right?
		
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			It's so clearly spiritually oriented.
		
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			Why does somebody need to like ask Allah
		
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			to accept it?
		
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			Well, because the whole reason as to why
		
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			you did it could have changed throughout the
		
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			course of the action.
		
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			How many times do we ever start something
		
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			with a particular intention, and by the end
		
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			of that action, the intention is completely different,
		
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			right?
		
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			Especially if the action is a little bit
		
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			more long-winded, right?
		
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			You begin a semester of college in a
		
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			certain way, and then you end it in
		
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			a completely different way.
		
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			You begin a certain friendship in one way,
		
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			and throughout its course, it changes, right?
		
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			So in order to make that action super
		
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			holistic, you ask Allah whenever you end something
		
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			with a du'a, right?
		
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			You ask Allah to accept it.
		
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			You ask Allah to put a blessing in
		
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			it.
		
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			This is a part of why you do
		
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			what you do.
		
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			So always remember du'a is the beginning
		
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			and the end, okay?
		
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			And just to kind of structure in our
		
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			minds what du'a is, just to reiterate
		
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			it, we did an entire series about du
		
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			'a literally half a year ago, right?
		
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			And subhanAllah, it was so interesting.
		
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			We did a roots retreat this past weekend.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, I think I see some familiar faces
		
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			from there.
		
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			And one of the attendees that came to
		
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			the retreat, they were telling me, they said,
		
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			you know, the du'a series that you
		
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			did was like, he's like, you know, I
		
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			used to listen to it on my car
		
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			ride to work every single day, which makes
		
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			me feel really awkward being a part of
		
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			someone's speaker experience as they go to work.
		
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			But alhamdulillah, they were like, yeah, the du
		
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			'a series was so cool.
		
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			And I realized it's actually, of course, nothing
		
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			to do with me whatsoever.
		
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			It is the fact that du'a in
		
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			and of itself is just such a quality
		
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			topic, right?
		
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			Du'a is something that's transformative.
		
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			It has no prerequisites.
		
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			Du'a is something that Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala listens to more than whatever you
		
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			ask for, right?
		
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			But that's the key to du'a.
		
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			Du'a is something that has to be
		
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			felt from the heart.
		
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			Sometimes the most effective du'as can be
		
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			the ones in which you don't find the
		
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			right words to say.
		
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			And your heart speaks louder than your tongue
		
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			might.
		
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			And your heart is able to speak for
		
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			you when maybe your physical faculties cannot express
		
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			the words, right, in a cohesive way.
		
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			That's what du'a is.
		
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			All that du'a has in terms of
		
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			its prerequisite is that du'a just has
		
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			to be extremely sincere.
		
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			That's all there is to it.
		
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			If your call to Allah is sincere, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala will answer to you,
		
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			right?
		
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			But it has to come from a place
		
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			of sincerity.
		
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			That's the only prerequisite to du'a.
		
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			So Imam Ghazali, he opens up this chapter
		
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			and he says, Oh my son, ayyuhal walad,
		
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			he says that I have addressed the things
		
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			you asked for in this conversation that you
		
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			and I have had.
		
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			And you have to carry them out, okay?
		
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			He goes, you have to do them.
		
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			And then he says, after that, he says,
		
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			and do not forget me in this.
		
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			Meaning that I've written 22 letters to you,
		
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			23 letters to you.
		
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			So do not forget me as you're reading
		
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			all of this, right?
		
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			How many of us have ever sent text
		
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			messages to our friends and we're like, hey,
		
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			just like remember me, right?
		
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			And they're like, why are you being so
		
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			morbid?
		
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			And you're like, I'm not, just remember me,
		
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			right?
		
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			That remembrance is such a beautiful thing.
		
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			How many of you guys have ever gotten
		
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			text messages?
		
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			By the way, if you want like a
		
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			crazy life hack of like beautiful friendships in
		
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			your life, just send text messages like with
		
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			like random moments and experiences and just send
		
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			somebody be like, hey, I'm thinking about you.
		
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			It means so much more than like that,
		
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			like fake long essay that you write.
		
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			Just send them like, you know, if you're
		
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			going somewhere, right?
		
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			SubhanAllah, I had a good buddy of mine.
		
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			He's an imam now in New Jersey.
		
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			He sent me, mashallah, he went to Umrah
		
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			and he FaceTimed me from Umrah.
		
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			And he goes, he goes, I'm just thinking
		
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			about you while I'm here.
		
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			And subhanAllah, you know, that in and of
		
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			itself is so much more meaningful than anything
		
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			else that he could have said.
		
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			Just thinking about you, right?
		
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			That means that a person literally like whenever
		
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			they're going through an experience, your kind of,
		
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			you know, essence comes to the top of
		
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			their mind, right?
		
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			So Imam Ghazali, here he says, you know,
		
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			when you're going through all of these advices
		
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			that I gave you, do not forget me
		
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			in this.
		
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			Do not forget me in this.
		
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			And then he says, make sure that you
		
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			remember me and also mention me in your
		
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			dua.
		
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			He says, تذكرني في صالح دعائك.
		
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			Make mention of me in your most sincerest
		
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			duas.
		
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			How many of you guys have ever asked
		
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			people to make dua for you, right?
		
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			You ask people to make dua for you.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because you're like, you know what?
		
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			Like you're going somewhere that's special.
		
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			You're going to be in a state that's
		
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			extremely special.
		
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			You're going to be in a situation that's
		
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			very special, spiritually special.
		
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			Please remember me in your duas, okay?
		
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			You know, subhanAllah, of course, there are two
		
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			sides to this story.
		
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			Get used to asking people to make dua
		
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			for you, right?
		
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			If you hear about somebody going somewhere, tell
		
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			them to make dua for you.
		
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			This is a very humbling kind of, you
		
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			know, situation for a believer.
		
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			Don't ever allow a situation to pass by
		
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			you if somebody is going somewhere or doing
		
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			something pious.
		
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			Please remember me in your duas.
		
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			And then number two, when you're on the
		
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			inverse side of this, make sure that you
		
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			remember people in your duas when you're doing
		
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			something, right?
		
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			And I'll tell you guys something subhanAllah very
		
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			powerful here, is that one of the signs
		
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			of true muhabba, true love, is when you
		
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			make dua for a person.
		
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			Really it is.
		
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			Because dua does not have a price tag
		
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			on it.
		
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			It doesn't have like a certain kind of
		
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			monetary number that's associated with it.
		
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			You don't have to be a certain like
		
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			kind of wealth class to go and like
		
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			get this person the best dua.
		
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			Dua is sincerely a sign of how much
		
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			you love somebody.
		
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			Because it's literally a testimony of how much
		
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			you think about them in front of Allah.
		
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			It's very very like, subhanAllah, if you think
		
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			about it, it's super super synonymous with probably
		
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			what the situation of the Day of Judgment
		
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			is going to be like.
		
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			Like when you're in front of Allah on
		
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			the Day of Judgment, you're going to be
		
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			thinking about yourself and only yourself.
		
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			But there are going to be moments where
		
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			you're possibly going to be kind of thinking
		
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			about, and the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			himself will be thinking about you.
		
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			He'll be thinking about where you are, how
		
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			you're doing.
		
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			So please, please, take this seriously.
		
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			If you love somebody, make dua for them.
		
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			Take 10 minutes, take 5 minutes and just
		
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			remember them in your dua.
		
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			You don't even have to say anything.
		
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			Just think about them as you're saying Allahu
		
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			Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Whenever you're telling Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			faghfir li, Allahumma faghfir li, Allah forgive me.
		
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			Also think about that person that also would
		
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			benefit from that forgiveness, okay?
		
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			And one of the greatest kind of, you
		
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			know, I guess one of the greatest forms
		
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			of sincerity is when you make dua for
		
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			somebody so often that they don't even know
		
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			that you're making dua for them.
		
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			Like think about your own family.
		
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			Think about how many duas your mom threw
		
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			up for you, right?
		
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			She lobbed you duas when you were a
		
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			kid.
		
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			There are a lot of the rizq that
		
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			you have today, that you're healthy, that you're
		
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			able to like function as an adult on
		
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			your own, may be an answer to the
		
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			dua of your own mother or your own
		
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			father.
		
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			And you never even knew about it, right?
		
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			And they didn't even care that you knew
		
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			about it.
		
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			They didn't even care that you didn't see
		
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			them making dua for you, you know, late
		
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			in the evening when you were like studying
		
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			for like, you know, your calc exam, right,
		
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			in 11th grade.
		
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			And your mom was making more dua for
		
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			you than you were making for yourself.
		
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			You were like knee deep in your study
		
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			guide, and your mother could have spent an
		
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			hour with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala asking
		
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			Allah for the passing of your grade or
		
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			the passing of that class, right?
		
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			And the most beautiful thing, subhanAllah, of all
		
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			of this is even though you didn't know
		
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			about it, you didn't know about that dua
		
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			that was made for you, the Prophet salallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam, he says that when a
		
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			person makes dua in the absence of their
		
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			brother or sister, who are the ones saying
		
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			Ameen for them?
		
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			It's the angels.
		
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			The angels are the ones that are saying
		
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			Ameen for you.
		
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			If you're making dua by yourself, away from
		
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			your friends, for your friends, the ones who
		
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			will be saying Ameen are the mala'ika
		
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			that are hearing your dua.
		
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			They'll say Ameen, Ya Rabb.
		
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			And for you as well, right?
		
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			So if you want to get married, just
		
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			make dua for your friends.
		
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			I'm just kidding.
		
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			So, you know, just think about that, right?
		
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			Think about how deep that kind of spiritual
		
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			connection is, right?
		
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			Those who make dua for other people, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala usually keeps them together,
		
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			right?
		
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			There's a sincerity in that relationship that cannot
		
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			be found in a lot of other relationships.
		
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			And so then Imam al-Ghazali, he says
		
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			that after you mentioned me in your duas,
		
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			ask for the prayer which you requested from
		
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			me.
		
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			His student asked him, you know, what are
		
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			the best duas to make?
		
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			How many of you guys have ever asked
		
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			that question?
		
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			What's the best dua to make?
		
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			Shaykh, what's the best dua to make?
		
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			You're like, is there a dua for my
		
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			exam?
		
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			Is there a dua for my personal life?
		
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			Is there a dua for my family life?
		
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			Is there a dua for my future?
		
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			Is there a dua for my job, right?
		
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			Of all of these kind of requests that
		
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			a person asks, what's the dua for this,
		
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			what's the dua for that?
		
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			Imam al-Ghazali, he says, as for the
		
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			prayer which you requested from me, look for
		
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			it amongst the supplications and the collections of
		
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			the authentic traditions of the Prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			He said that the best duas that you
		
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			can make are the duas that the Prophet
		
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			salallahu alayhi wa sallam already made.
		
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			You can add your own kind of flavor
		
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			to it, but the best duas you can
		
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			make are the ones that were made by
		
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			the most beautiful and the most favored creation
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the Prophet
		
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			salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			If you think about it, right?
		
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			I mean, he made duas that were accepted
		
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			by Allah.
		
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			There was not one dua of the Prophet
		
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			salallahu alayhi wa sallam that Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala did not respond to in a
		
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			way that was beneficial for him, okay?
		
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			Even the duas that the Prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam made that unfortunately may not have
		
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			been brought into fruition.
		
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			The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam made dua
		
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			for even his own uncle Abu Talib becoming
		
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			a Muslim, and Allah did not give that
		
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			to him.
		
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			Perhaps there was wisdom in that.
		
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			Allah guided, instead of his own uncle Abu
		
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			Talib, Allah guided Umar ibn al-Khattab.
		
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			So you think about this.
		
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			I mean, it's an unbelievable realization that sometimes
		
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			you make dua for something that you really
		
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			want, and Allah gives you something else that
		
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			you didn't even ask for, but that thing
		
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			that he gave you was better than the
		
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			original thing that you asked for.
		
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			And you're like, I didn't even think about
		
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			that, right?
		
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			Growing up, especially after the Prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam received revelation, when he looked at
		
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			a person like Umar ibn al-Khattab, he
		
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			would say to himself, yeah, I don't ever
		
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			see this guy being my friend.
		
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			This guy actually wants to hurt me.
		
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			He wants to harm me.
		
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			How can I ever imagine that this guy
		
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			is going to be an ally of mine?
		
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			Allah said, hold on a second.
		
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			Let me guide Umar ibn al-Khattab to
		
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			Islam, and let you see what that can
		
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			do for your community.
		
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			And Umar ibn al-Khattab radiallahu anhu became
		
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			one of the most influential friends of the
		
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			Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			It is because of Umar ibn al-Khattab
		
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			radiallahu anhu, by the way, hint hint, coming
		
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			up in Ramadan, you guys are going to
		
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			be praying taraweeh in the masjid.
		
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			Because the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam used
		
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			to pray taraweeh at home.
		
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			Umar ibn al-Khattab is the one that
		
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			actually started the tradition of praying it inside
		
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			the masallah, right?
		
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			If it wasn't for him, there would be
		
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			so many things that we would have missed
		
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			out on.
		
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			And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam never
		
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			even realized that Umar ibn al-Khattab was
		
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			going to become such a beautiful friend of
		
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			his, right?
		
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			So du'a is quite a literal translation
		
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			of the qadr of Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala, the divine decree of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			But he says, if you want to know
		
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			the best of du'as, I can teach
		
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			you the du'as of the Prophet salallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			What you do, and I'm going to teach
		
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			you guys how to kind of harmonize your
		
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			own du'as with the du'as that
		
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			the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam used to
		
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			make.
		
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			Start off every du'a that you make
		
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			with some du'a that was uttered by
		
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			a Prophet.
		
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			Because it's a way to kind of like
		
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			jumpstart your du'a, right?
		
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			It gives you like the initial boost that
		
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			you need.
		
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			And then whatever du'a you're going to
		
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			say, you're going to make it after you
		
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			mention whatever du'a that the Prophet made,
		
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			okay?
		
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			And so he says, go back to the
		
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			authentic traditions and recite this prayer during all
		
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			the moments that you have.
		
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			In particular, he says, in particular, after you
		
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			have done your fard.
		
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			He says, after you've done salawatika.
		
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			After you've done your actual prayers.
		
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			So another beautiful hint here, I'll share with
		
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			you guys, is don't think that du'a
		
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			is a substitution for the obligations that you
		
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			have.
		
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			Some people, subhanallah, they'll make du'a, but
		
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			they'll forget to pray to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			They'll make du'a, but they won't do
		
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			the things that Allah had ordered them to
		
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			do.
		
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			So your du'a is only going to
		
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			be as beautiful as your obeying of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, right?
		
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			And this is why they say the most
		
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			beautiful du'as are the ones that you
		
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			do after your salawat.
		
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			After you're done praying, sit, think, contemplate about
		
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			your life.
		
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			After you're in a state of spirituality, after
		
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			completing one of your obligations, then offer your
		
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			du'a.
		
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			Why?
		
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			It's like basically when you ask somebody for
		
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			a favor, right?
		
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			It's like when you ask somebody for a
		
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			favor after you do something that you know
		
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			that they love, right?
		
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			You know that, let's say for example, your
		
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			friend, they love a certain type of food,
		
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			right?
		
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			Not saying that you should only ask for
		
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			things after you do things for people, but
		
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			giving an example.
		
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			If a friend of yours likes a certain
		
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			type of food, you go and buy them
		
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			that food, and then you ask them, Hey,
		
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			if you have some time, I'd like to
		
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			talk to you for like five minutes, right?
		
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			But if you constantly request and request and
		
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			request and request, the beauty and the quality
		
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			of your request will diminish because you don't
		
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			actually love that person.
		
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			You only talk to them when you want
		
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			to and when you need to.
		
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			Talk to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala after
		
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			you know that you've done things that He
		
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			loves.
		
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			Don't only talk to Him when you absolutely
		
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			need to.
		
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			Talk to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when
		
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			He wants to talk to you, right?
		
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			Don't be that friend who only picks up
		
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			that phone when you need something from somebody.
		
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			Nobody likes that one friend.
		
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			Be that friend that sends that text message
		
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			when you have nothing to ask them.
		
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			Just be like, Hey Salams, just wanted to
		
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			kind of catch up with you.
		
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			How are you?
		
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			We haven't talked in a few weeks.
		
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			You know, what's going on?
		
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			Thought you and me should just catch up
		
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			a little bit.
		
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			Be that friend, right?
		
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			And so Imam Ghazali, he says, make these
		
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			duas more meaningful, especially after your formal prostrations
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And then he begins by sharing.
		
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			And today inshallah, we're going to be going
		
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			through two particular duas, okay?
		
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			Alright, these are the two duas that we're
		
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			going to go over inshallah together.
		
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			And I'll kind of help us understand exactly
		
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			what these duas mean.
		
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			These duas are all from the books of
		
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			the hadith of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			So the first dua he teaches to his
		
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			student, and it's the first paragraph.
		
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			He says, اللهم إني أسألك من نعمتي تمامها
		
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			He says, Oh Allah, I ask you, I
		
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			beg you.
		
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			By the way, اللهم إني أسألك أسألك translates
		
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			out to like, I'm asking you, right?
		
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			But أسألك means more so, Oh Allah, when
		
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			it comes to Allah, I'm begging you, Ya
		
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			Allah.
		
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			I'm begging you.
		
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			I'm not just asking, I'm pleading.
		
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			I'm desperate for this, right?
		
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			Because if you approach Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala without need and desperation, Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala is going to say, Well, the
		
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			servant of mine is not really in need
		
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			of me.
		
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			They think that they can function without me.
		
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			And even if you say أسألك, which means
		
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			that you can ask, but in your heart
		
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			you have to beg.
		
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			In your heart you have to plead.
		
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			Because without that pleading in your heart, that
		
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			sincerity behind that du'a is not going
		
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			to be felt.
		
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			That sincerity behind that du'a is not
		
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			going to be sincerely felt within the heart.
		
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			So when you begin by saying اللهم إني
		
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			أسألك You're saying, Oh Allah, I beg from
		
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			you.
		
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			I'm pleading you, right?
		
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			He says, من نعمتي تمامها For grace in
		
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			its completion.
		
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			نعمتي تمامها نعمة تمام It means blessings that
		
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			are in full measure.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			SubhanAllah You know, this is, you know, a
		
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			lot of people sometimes they ask the question
		
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			like, Oh, I feel bad asking for like
		
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			things that are too much, right?
		
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			Like, am I being selfish?
		
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			Am I being selfish in what I'm asking?
		
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			Like if I ask Allah for like a
		
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			4.0 GPA and like a full ride
		
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			and like a good job after I graduate,
		
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			like is that too much?
		
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			And what I tell people is, think about
		
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			the one who you're asking.
		
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			Think about the one you are asking.
		
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			You're not asking like a random human being.
		
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			Yes, if you're to go up to a
		
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			person and be like, Yeah, so I need
		
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			you to wake me up at like 6am
		
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			for Fajr.
		
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			And then after Fajr, I need you to
		
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			go and get me like that halal bacon
		
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			cheeseburger.
		
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			And then after breakfast, I need you to
		
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			take me to my classes.
		
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			Then after my classes, we should go to
		
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			lunch together.
		
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			And at lunch, I need you to pay
		
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			for me.
		
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			Then after we're done eating lunch together, I
		
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			need you to drop me back off for
		
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			my afternoon classes.
		
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			And then after that, you need to give
		
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			me a ride home.
		
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			And after home, I'm going to hit you
		
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			up in about like an hour so we
		
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			can go out again.
		
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			Like that is going to drive a person
		
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			insane.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because they're human beings.
		
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			And with that humanity comes limitations.
		
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			And one of those limitations is impatience, right?
		
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			How many of y'all have ever been
		
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			on the receiving end of this, right?
		
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			A friend who sometimes asks you for too
		
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			much.
		
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			And you're like, Listen, I love you, but
		
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			I don't love you that much.
		
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			You're pushing it at this point, okay?
		
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			I've given you like four rides this week.
		
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			Like I might as well just give you
		
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			my car at this point.
		
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			I've bought you boba like five times.
		
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			Like you have a boba addiction issue.
		
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			Like there's a problem that you have in
		
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			your life, right?
		
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			Like there's limitations.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because human beings have limits.
		
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			Human beings have limits.
		
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			Patience, money, you know, time, energy.
		
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			All of these things are limitations of a
		
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			human being.
		
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			But when you ask Allah, ask Allah in
		
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			fullness.
		
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			I ask you for blessings in completion.
		
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			Don't shy away from asking Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala for the best.
		
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			Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the
		
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			only one who's capable of giving you the
		
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			best.
		
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			Even your parents.
		
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			I want to pull a little bit of
		
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			like, you know, your heart strings here.
		
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			Even your parents.
		
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			No matter how hard they try.
		
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			They try to give you the best.
		
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			But the best is not possible for human
		
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			beings.
		
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			There are moments where they'll fall short, right?
		
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			I'm sure everyone in here has tried hard.
		
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			Everyone in here has tried hard.
		
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			You've tried hard in your relationships.
		
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			You've tried hard in your studies.
		
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			You've tried hard in just generally your worship,
		
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			your duas, your prayers, your devotion to Allah.
		
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			You've tried hard.
		
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			But you've fallen short.
		
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			And that's fine.
		
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			Because that's what you're made to do.
		
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			You're made to have limits.
		
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			But ask Allah for things that you may
		
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			even think are impossible.
		
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			Allah, please, I know that like, I'm only
		
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			like a, I only have 25 credits underneath
		
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			my belt.
		
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			But yeah, Allah, please allow me to graduate
		
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			on time.
		
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			And you're like, yeah, well, what's the point
		
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			of making that dua?
		
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			But guess what?
		
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			Hasn't Allah allowed the most miraculous things to
		
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			happen to people?
		
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			Of course.
		
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			So ask for it.
		
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			Don't shy away from that.
		
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			Okay, then he says, He says, and in
		
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			regard to protection in permanence, Oh Allah, I
		
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			ask you for permanent protection.
		
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			I ask you for protection from harm and
		
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			evil permanently.
		
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			And subhanAllah, sometimes like you'll think to yourself,
		
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			well, like I've gone through harm.
		
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			So what's the point of asking Allah for
		
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			permanent protection from difficulties in life?
		
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			Well, subhanAllah, I'll rewire everyone's brain for a
		
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			second.
		
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			When you make dua for permanent protection in
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you will start
		
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			to see the trials that you go through
		
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			as not bad for you anymore.
		
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			Because true harm cannot afflict a person so
		
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			long as they think that the harm that
		
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			they're going through is actually not harmful.
		
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			Yeah, sure.
		
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			Even if I failed a class.
		
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			Yeah, I thought that was harmful.
		
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			But me failing that class may have been
		
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			necessary.
		
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			It was necessary.
		
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			Now don't tell your parents that.
		
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			Like going up to like your mom, you're
		
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			like, I thought you're gonna be a doctor
		
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			by 25.
		
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			And you're like, no, no, no, it was
		
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			necessary that I'm 26 and I still didn't
		
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			graduate.
		
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			But like this idea, man, subhanAllah, when you
		
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			enact this idea, you will avoid any sort
		
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			of frustration with your spiritual qadr.
		
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			You will never complain about where you are
		
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			in life.
		
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			You may look at it and be like,
		
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			you know what, I need to do something
		
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			about it.
		
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			But you'll never wallow in its sorrow.
		
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			You will never be grief stricken by what
		
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			Allah has given you.
		
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			So protection that has a permanent nature.
		
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			And then he says, وَمِنَ الرَّحْمَةِ شُمُولَهَا He
		
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			says, and regarding your mercy in its totality.
		
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			Your mercy in its totality.
		
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			Oh Allah, don't hold your mercy back from
		
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			me.
		
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			If anyone's asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			for his mercy, they should ask Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala for his mercy in absolute
		
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			totality.
		
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			Overlook every sin that I've committed.
		
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			Don't ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			nitpick.
		
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			You know, sometimes when you have like teachers
		
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			in your student life, you have certain teachers
		
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			who look at an exam, they're like, you
		
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			get the gist of it.
		
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			I'm not going to nitpick small little things
		
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			that you missed.
		
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			And then you have certain teachers that are
		
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			like, oh yeah, this person did great.
		
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			But there's that one mistake that they made,
		
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			and they'll magnify that mistake.
		
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			And this happens, by the way, in social
		
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			life.
		
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			You've done everything right.
		
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			You may have made one small mistake, and
		
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			certain people magnify that one small mistake that
		
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			you make.
		
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			And they make you feel bad.
		
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			Even though you did 99% of things
		
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			in your life you did correctly.
		
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			But that 1% of time that you
		
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			messed up, certain people will hold you accountable
		
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			for that 1%.
		
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			And it makes you feel really deflated.
		
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			So when you ask Allah for his rahmah,
		
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			ask for his rahmah shumoolaha.
		
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			Ask for it in its totality.
		
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			And this is why you make a dua.
		
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			If anybody wants to kind of make a
		
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			powerful dua, I'll share a dua on top
		
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			of this one.
		
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			When you make dua to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, you say, Which
		
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			basically means, O Allah, hold us to account
		
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			with an easy account.
		
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			Don't judge me too difficultly.
		
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			Don't judge me too critically.
		
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			Don't judge me too harshly, O Allah.
		
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			Overlook my mistakes.
		
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			Just like a person would like to not
		
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			have every small thing that they've done held
		
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			against them, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala takes
		
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			no pleasure in nitpicking the small mistakes that
		
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			you've made in your life.
		
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			So ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for
		
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			his mercy in totality.
		
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			And then he says, He says, And in
		
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			regards to well-being, attaining it.
		
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			Attaining well-being.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Your aafia husoolaha.
		
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			It's attainment.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So you want well-being in your life
		
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			and you want to be able to attain
		
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			that well-being in your life.
		
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			Well-being.
		
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			What is well-being, guys?
		
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			What's aafia?
		
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			Anybody know what aafia is?
		
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			Aafia is an all-encompassing word talking about
		
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			being well.
		
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			Mental health.
		
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			Physical health.
		
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			Financial health.
		
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			Social health.
		
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			All of these fall under the idea of
		
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			aafia.
		
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			When you ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			for aafia, you're asking him for well-being,
		
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			for health.
		
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			And we know that health is not just
		
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			physical.
		
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			Health is mental.
		
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			How many people, subhanAllah, have been in states
		
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			of physical health that were good, but in
		
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			our mentality we were suffering?
		
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			Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for goodness
		
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			in your mental health as well.
		
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			Mental health is a huge, huge, you know,
		
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			a huge element in Islam.
		
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			The Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam would make
		
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			dua for the right states of people's minds.
		
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			Because if your mind is not in this
		
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			right state, the rest of your body will
		
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			suffer.
		
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			It doesn't matter how healthy you are on
		
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			the outside.
		
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			Internally, you also have to be healthy, right?
		
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			And then he says, وَمِنَ الْعِيشِ أَرْغَدَهُ He
		
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			says, then, in regards to your livelihood, make
		
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			it plentiful.
		
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			Make it plentiful.
		
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			You know, how many of you guys have
		
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			heard the word holistic before?
		
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			Making something wholesome, right?
		
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			When you have livelihood, you want it to
		
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			be wholesome, right?
		
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			Everything that you do, you want it to
		
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			be wholesome in your life.
		
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			You don't want it to be missing things,
		
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			right?
		
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			You're like, well, I have a family, but
		
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			I don't feel whole.
		
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			I have friends, but I don't feel happy.
		
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			I have this, but I don't feel content.
		
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			This idea of wholesomeness and holistic nature is
		
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			that whatever you have, you feel whole with
		
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			it.
		
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			Even if you have one friend, that one
		
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			friend could be the quality of ten.
		
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			Even if you have ten dollars in your
		
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			bank account, it's true for a lot of
		
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			you, okay?
		
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			That ten dollars feels like you have a
		
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			hundred.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because there's barakah in everything that you have,
		
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			right?
		
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			A person could have a million dollars and
		
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			have the barakah of a hundred dollars.
		
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			So whatever you have in your life, ask
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to stretch it
		
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			for you.
		
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			That wholesome nature in your life is something
		
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			that we yearn for.
		
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			You wanna go home to a happy home?
		
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			How many people in here have like had
		
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			like a glimpse into the future?
		
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			And you're thinking to yourself, you lived a
		
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			life now as like a child, as like
		
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			a son or a daughter.
		
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			Now how many of you guys have like
		
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			had a glimpse into the future about what
		
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			you want your adult life to look like
		
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			with your own family?
		
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			Like I wonder what it's gonna be like
		
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			to live with me and my husband or
		
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			me and my wife and you know if
		
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			we have kids inshaAllah.
		
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			I wonder what my home will feel like.
		
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			And I'm sure every single person in here
		
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			wants their home to be a place of
		
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			sakinah.
		
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			You want your home to be a place
		
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			that you're excited to go back to, not
		
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			a place that you dread going back to.
		
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			You want your family to be people that
		
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			you're able to confide in and not people
		
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			that you run away from.
		
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			If that's something that you want, ask Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala for it.
		
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			Ask Allah to put wholesome nature into your
		
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			future.
		
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			Into your livelihood.
		
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			That's what this part of the dua is
		
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			asking for.
		
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			And then he says, وَمِنَ الْعُمُرِ أَسْعَدَهُ And
		
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			when it comes to my umari, my life
		
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			in general, I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala to make it the most happy life.
		
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			The most happy life.
		
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			Happiness, by the way, is a very very
		
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			subjective term.
		
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			What makes one person happy may not make
		
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			the other person happy.
		
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			This is why when this dua says أَسْعَدَهُ
		
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			Make it the most happy.
		
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			Make it the most happy.
		
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			It's the happiness that you find within your
		
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			heart.
		
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			How many people find it the happiest that
		
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			you are is when you're randomly walking through
		
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			Kroger and you're just happy.
		
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			That's my life at this point, a 31
		
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			year old man.
		
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			Happiness to me is just going through the
		
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			snack aisle at Kroger.
		
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			Now that we're following the BDS boycotting rule,
		
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			all the Kroger brand stuff is so good
		
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			all of a sudden.
		
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			I'm flying through the soda aisle buying all
		
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			the Kroger brand stuff.
		
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			Happiness to me, I always tell people, I
		
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			have a really weird, I don't know why,
		
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			but I love shopping for furniture.
		
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			My wife tells me, I think we need
		
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			a new patio set.
		
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			I'm like, really?
		
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			Say less.
		
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			Let's go.
		
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			We'll go to Nebraska.
		
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			We'll hit it up.
		
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			That's happiness for me.
		
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			Another person might find Nebraska furniture like a
		
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			torment.
		
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			They're like, oh my God, this is torture.
		
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			This is going to be a part of
		
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			my Jahannam.
		
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			Auzubillah, right?
		
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			So happiness is subjective.
		
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			Happiness for you might be like a quiet
		
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			evening at home by yourself, right?
		
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			To an extrovert, that's like, are you being
		
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			punished?
		
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			To an extrovert, they're like, happiness for me
		
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			is being surrounded by 30 of my friends
		
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			at some random restaurant that we all go
		
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			to on a Friday night, right?
		
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			Happiness to me is like 15 of my
		
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			friends hanging out at Arwa Coffee, just chilling,
		
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			right?
		
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			To another person that's like, anxiety, right?
		
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			Getting anxious thinking about that situation.
		
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			So this idea of life, as'adahu, happiness
		
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			in whatever fits you, right?
		
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			Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for that,
		
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			okay?
		
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			And then he says, he says, وَمِنَ الْإِحْسَانِ
		
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			أَتَمَّهُ He says, and for in regarding to
		
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			or in regards to beneficence for the most
		
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			perfect of Ihsan, okay?
		
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			Ihsan, أَتَمَّهُ Okay?
		
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			You want quality in your life.
		
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			You don't just want quantity, man.
		
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			Dude, I'm telling you guys something, subhanAllah, anything
		
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			that is quantity will come and go.
		
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			How many of you guys have realized that?
		
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			Anybody in here like watch numbers like a
		
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			crazy person?
		
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			Like you watch like your grades like a
		
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			crazy person?
		
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			You watch money like a crazy person?
		
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			How many people check like Instagram every like
		
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			10 minutes?
		
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			You watch like numbers like a little bit
		
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			of like a, you know, like a little
		
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			bit of a concerned human being.
		
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			And one thing you'll realize about numbers, numbers
		
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			are meant to go up and they're meant
		
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			to go down.
		
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			So if you put all of your faith
		
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			in numbers, you'll never be happy, right?
		
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			So you ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			for what?
		
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			You ask Allah for Ihsan.
		
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			You ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for
		
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			quality.
		
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			You don't ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			for quantity.
		
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			Allah could give you, Allah could give you
		
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			so many people in your life and you
		
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			will still feel lonely.
		
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			But ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for
		
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			quality for the people that you have in
		
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			your life.
		
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			That's what will make a difference, okay?
		
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			And then he says, وَمِنَ الْإِنْعَامِ أَعَمَّهُ He
		
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			says, and I ask you O Allah in
		
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			regard to favor for the most inclusive of
		
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			it, for the most inclusive of your favors.
		
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			Meaning that O Allah, make everything you give
		
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			me inclusive and all-encompassing, right?
		
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			So if I have, you know, I want
		
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			to feel the sense of belonging.
		
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			Inclusivity is a synonym for the word belonging.
		
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			I want to feel like I belong somewhere.
		
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			How many of us, subhanAllah, we go around
		
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			the dunya and we still feel lonely.
		
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			We don't feel like we belong anywhere.
		
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			We feel like we're still wandering around looking
		
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			for places where people will be like, you
		
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			know what, just come join.
		
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			You can sit with us.
		
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			You can sit here with me.
		
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			This part of the dua is for inclusivity
		
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			of the favors of Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			You want to feel the sense of belonging,
		
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			the sense of welcoming, right?
		
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			There's nothing like that.
		
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			When the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, guys, when
		
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			he moved to Medina, the reason, I always
		
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			ask people, why do you think the Prophet
		
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			salallahu alayhi wasalam chose to pass away in
		
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			Medina?
		
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			Like, wasn't Mecca a Muslim city before the
		
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			Prophet passed away?
		
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			Of course it was.
		
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			After the conquest of Mecca, they did their
		
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			tawaf and their umrah, everybody in Mecca became
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			There were very few people that were not
		
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			Muslim in Mecca.
		
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			Why did the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam choose
		
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			to go back to Medina?
		
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			Because Medina was associated in his mind with
		
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			this idea of inclusivity.
		
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			I was a stranger.
		
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			I was a traveler.
		
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			And they took me into their home as
		
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			though I was one of their own.
		
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			I will never forget that for the rest
		
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			of my life.
		
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			How many of you guys ever been to
		
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			Medina tul Munawwara before in your life?
		
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			Oh, there is a peace in that city
		
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			that cannot be described.
		
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			The brisk air that is felt in Medina
		
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			cannot be described in any other city in
		
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			the entire world.
		
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			It is something special.
		
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			And it's something special, why?
		
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			Because it has barakah in it, because it
		
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			was built off of selflessness.
		
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			It was people that were there, that lived
		
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			there, that brought in the Prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wasalam as though he was their brother, as
		
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			though he was their son, as though he
		
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			was their own family member.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And then Imam Ghazali, he continues and he
		
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			says, وَمِنَ الْفَضْلِ أَعْذَبَهُ He says, and for
		
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			in regards to generosity, the most sweet, the
		
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			most sweet version of your generosity, you know,
		
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			this is like, you know, when you give
		
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			somebody something, can you give something, can you
		
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			be generous to somebody in like a rude
		
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			way sometimes?
		
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			Like they ask you for something and you're
		
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			like, fine, just take it, right?
		
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			I mean, they're still giving it to you,
		
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			right?
		
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			But that's not the same as like, I
		
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			love doing this for you.
		
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			I love giving you this thing.
		
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			I love doing that favor for you.
		
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			So when you ask for the generosity of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you ask for
		
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			it in its most sweet manner.
		
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			You ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			give you in the most sweet way possible.
		
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			How many of you guys have been given
		
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			a gift in a really sweet way?
		
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			And how many of you guys have been
		
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			given a gift in a really, really weird
		
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			way?
		
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			Like a person bought something for you, but
		
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			then they made you feel like they bought
		
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			something for you, right?
		
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			Like, hey, remember, spring 2024, I bought that
		
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			gift for you.
		
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			And you're like, do you want it back?
		
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			Like, what's wrong with you?
		
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			Do you want me to just continuously praise
		
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			you because you remind me every single second?
		
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			No, no, no.
		
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			When somebody gives you a gift, they give
		
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			it to you because they gave it to
		
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			you in a very sweet way, right?
		
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			And this is the generosity that you want
		
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			from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And then finally, he says, وَمِنَ اللُّطْفِ أَقْرَبَهُ
		
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			Okay?
		
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			He says, and from your gentleness, وَمِنَ اللُّطْفِ
		
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			أَقْرَبَهُ And from your gentleness, in its most
		
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			close state.
		
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			أَقْرَبَهُ أَقْرَبَهُ means that Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala is always close to you.
		
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			Allah is gentle with you.
		
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			You know, I always tell people that sometimes
		
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			when you are going through a rough moment
		
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			in your life, the thing that you need
		
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			the most is an amazing companion, an amazing
		
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			friend whose shoulder you can just lean on.
		
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			You don't have to say anything.
		
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			And they don't have to say anything to
		
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			you.
		
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			But you just have a person that you
		
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			can sit with, and you can just lean
		
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			against, and you can just sit there quietly
		
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			with them because you know that they're close.
		
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			This is the type of closeness that you
		
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			want with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			You want to be with Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala in the closest state.
		
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			And you may not have anything that you
		
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			can talk about because your emotions are too
		
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			great.
		
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			Your sadness, your anxiety, your frustration, your grief
		
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			may be too great.
		
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			But you're just sitting on the prayer rug
		
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			and you feel close with Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			It's like a friend who says, just come
		
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			here.
		
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			Let's not talk about it right now.
		
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			Just come.
		
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			You don't have to speak.
		
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			I'll just sit with you.
		
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			This is like when Khadijah radiallahu anha after
		
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			the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam went through a
		
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			very difficult time receiving revelation for the first
		
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			time from Jibreel alayhi salam.
		
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			And he came down from the mountain, from
		
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			Jabal al-Nur, and he ran home, and
		
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			he told his wife Khadijah, zamiluni, zamiluni, dathiruni,
		
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			dathiruni.
		
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			Oh Khadijah, cover me up and conceal me.
		
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			Cover me up and conceal me.
		
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			You know Khadijah radiallahu anha, she did not
		
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			even ask what happened.
		
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			She did not even ask what happened.
		
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			She didn't say, where were you?
		
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			What were you doing?
		
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			Why were you away for so long?
		
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			She literally covered him up.
		
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			Y'all know the ayah in the Quran
		
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			where Allah describes marriage?
		
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			Hunna libasun lakum wa antum libasun lahun.
		
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			He says that about partners, about a husband
		
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			and a wife.
		
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			Hunna libasun lakum.
		
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			They are garments for you, wa antum libasun
		
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			lahun.
		
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			And you are going to be a garment
		
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			for them.
		
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			She was literally a garment for him at
		
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			that moment.
		
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			He came running down from that mountain scared.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because he experienced a very, very supernatural moment
		
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			with an angel of Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala telling him to read.
		
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			And he had no idea what to do.
		
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			And he was scared because Jibreel alayhi salam,
		
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			he squeezed them.
		
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			And after that experience was over, he came
		
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			to the first person he thought in his
		
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			mind would be there for him and she
		
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			was Khadijah radiallahu anha.
		
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			And when he sat with her, he said,
		
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			cover me and she covered him.
		
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			Conceal me and she concealed him.
		
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			And he was shaking and he was shivering.
		
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			And he did not know what to say.
		
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			And what did she say to him?
		
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			Ya Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam, Allah would not
		
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			forsake you.
		
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			Allah would not do something to you that
		
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			you would dislike.
		
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			You are good to your family.
		
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			You're good to your friends.
		
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			You're generous with your people in your life.
		
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			You give to those who are weak.
		
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			You always take sides with those who've had
		
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			their voices taken away from them.
		
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			You're a good neighbor.
		
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			She mentions fact after fact about the Prophet
		
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			salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			And at that moment, his anxiety began to
		
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			dissipate.
		
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			It began to go away.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because she was that friend that he needed
		
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			at that moment.
		
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			So this idea at the end, wa minal
		
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			lutfi aqrabu aqrabahu.
		
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			You're asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			be that friend for you.
		
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			It's not always about talking.
		
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			Sometimes it's just about being there for one
		
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			another.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is there
		
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			for you.
		
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			But are you there with Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala when He's there for you?
		
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			Or do we just kind of neglect Allah
		
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			and we go by Him?
		
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			We see that prayer rug in our room
		
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			and we know that, you know what?
		
00:43:05 --> 00:43:06
			I should stop.
		
00:43:07 --> 00:43:07
			I should pray.
		
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			I should be with Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala right now.
		
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			But we get distracted, y'all.
		
00:43:12 --> 00:43:14
			We get distracted by the tens of million
		
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			things that are in our newsfeed, in our
		
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			For You page, in our text threads, in
		
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			our group chats, in our updates on Twitter
		
00:43:22 --> 00:43:22
			and TikTok.
		
00:43:23 --> 00:43:24
			We get distracted.
		
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			But Allah was always waiting.
		
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			So ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			be close to you.
		
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			What is the famous statement from Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala?
		
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			Ya Rasulullah, if my servants ask about me,
		
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			tell them, فإني قريب.
		
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			Tell them that I'm near.
		
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			Tell them that I'm close.
		
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			It's like a friend who's always there just
		
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			in case you need.
		
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			Just in case you need.
		
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			And for months and weeks and possibly years,
		
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			you have looked at that friend and you've
		
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			walked right past them.
		
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			You didn't acknowledge them.
		
00:44:00 --> 00:44:01
			They were waiting for you.
		
00:44:02 --> 00:44:02
			They didn't leave.
		
00:44:02 --> 00:44:04
			And this is the difference.
		
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			Human beings, if they're waiting for you long
		
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			enough, they'll realize that you have no interest
		
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			in them and they'll walk away.
		
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			They'll say, yeah, I send text messages.
		
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			I call them.
		
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			I ask them if they want to spend
		
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			time.
		
00:44:15 --> 00:44:18
			And they continuously said no.
		
00:44:18 --> 00:44:19
			Or they continuously left me on read.
		
00:44:20 --> 00:44:21
			Or they continuously just ignored me.
		
00:44:22 --> 00:44:23
			That person will eventually move on.
		
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			This is the nature of human beings.
		
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			They'll move on.
		
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			But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala being who
		
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			He is, He will always wait there just
		
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			for you.
		
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			We don't deserve, wallahi, guys, we don't deserve
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's grace.
		
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			We don't deserve Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
		
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			grace and His kindness.
		
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			But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, in His
		
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			infinite love, in His infinite mercy for all
		
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			of us, He will remain there until it
		
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			is too late, until we pass away.
		
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			Turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
		
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			ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to be
		
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			close to you.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			InshaAllah.
		
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			We're going to end with that because the
		
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			next dua, inshaAllah, I'm going to have Qari
		
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			Nouman cover with me the next few duas,
		
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			inshaAllah.
		
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			We have the next one and then about
		
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			two more after that.
		
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			And Imam Ghazali, rahimahullah, he wraps up his
		
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			book, Ayyuhal Walad, in the next three paragraphs.
		
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			So inshaAllah, we'll stop here.
		
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			But what we're going to do now, inshaAllah,
		
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			we have ten minutes left with each other.
		
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			What we're going to do now is we're
		
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			going to open up the Q&A portal
		
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			for everybody, inshaAllah.
		
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			And we're going to allow folks to go
		
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			ahead and submit questions so that we can
		
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			do a little bit of interactive Q&A,
		
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			inshaAllah, before Salat al-Isha tonight.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So y'all can go ahead and scan
		
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			the QR code right here and y'all
		
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			will be able to, inshaAllah, join and submit
		
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			your questions.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So I'll give everybody a little bit of
		
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			time to go ahead and submit questions.
		
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			InshaAllah, I'll go ahead and start answering some
		
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			of them that came in already, inshaAllah.
		
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			And again, like usual, this is all anonymous,
		
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			guys, so don't worry about anything being exposed
		
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			in terms of your privacy.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So I'll go ahead, inshaAllah, and start answering
		
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			some of these questions and you guys will
		
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			even be able to see them, hopefully, on
		
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			your side.
		
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			Actually, I think I can approve some of
		
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			these.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Go ahead and approve all of these, inshaAllah.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			All right.
		
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			So you guys will be able to see
		
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			the questions that I went ahead and approved.
		
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			And y'all will be able to...
		
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			Let me go back to the top.
		
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			I want to zoom in on the QR
		
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			code, though, inshaAllah.
		
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			On the Slido app, you guys can, inshaAllah,
		
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			go ahead and see it.
		
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			But inshaAllah, I'll just kind of bump some
		
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			of the ones to the top that you
		
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			guys are asking, inshaAllah.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So somebody said, I want to travel to
		
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			Mas Iqna, but my family doesn't want me
		
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			going alone.
		
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			I have friends with family there that I'll
		
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			be there with.
		
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			I feel stuck in my state.
		
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			Very good question.
		
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			So a couple of things that I'll share
		
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			regarding this question, when it comes to traveling
		
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			and, you know, there will be a conflict
		
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			with family and parents, like, you know, allowing
		
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			you to do certain things.
		
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			A lot of times we focus more on
		
00:47:47 --> 00:47:50
			the what we're asking about versus, like, how
		
00:47:50 --> 00:47:52
			that conversation is taking place.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			When it comes to any conflict with family,
		
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			especially regarding, like, permission to do certain things,
		
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			I'd focus less on what you're asking about,
		
00:48:01 --> 00:48:02
			and I'd focus more on how you're asking
		
00:48:02 --> 00:48:03
			it.
		
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			Okay.
		
00:48:04 --> 00:48:06
			If there's a conversation where, like, a parent
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:08
			disagrees with me about something, I'm like, hey,
		
00:48:08 --> 00:48:10
			can I go here with my friends?
		
00:48:10 --> 00:48:12
			And they're like, no, I don't really feel
		
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			good about that.
		
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			And the moment that that disagreement takes place,
		
00:48:16 --> 00:48:18
			I begin to lose my cool, and I
		
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			start to kind of argue immediately.
		
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			Know that you've already probably lost that battle.
		
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			Okay.
		
00:48:23 --> 00:48:24
			You've already lost that battle.
		
00:48:25 --> 00:48:27
			So first step is to make sure that,
		
00:48:27 --> 00:48:28
			like, you don't lose your cool first.
		
00:48:29 --> 00:48:29
			Okay.
		
00:48:30 --> 00:48:34
			You are required in Islam to always be
		
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			in a state of tranquility whenever speaking to
		
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			people, especially people like your parents.
		
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			All right.
		
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			As frustrating as that may sound, all right,
		
00:48:43 --> 00:48:47
			parents are not there to cause distress and
		
00:48:47 --> 00:48:49
			disappointment in your life.
		
00:48:49 --> 00:48:52
			They're literally, literally thinking of the worst case
		
00:48:52 --> 00:48:56
			scenario, and out of fear, they may disallow
		
00:48:56 --> 00:48:57
			certain things.
		
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			So don't think that it's coming from a
		
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			position of, like, making your life miserable.
		
00:49:01 --> 00:49:01
			Okay.
		
00:49:01 --> 00:49:05
			Now, what I'll say after that is the
		
00:49:05 --> 00:49:07
			way you approach parents when it comes to,
		
00:49:08 --> 00:49:10
			like, oh, traveling or doing certain things that
		
00:49:10 --> 00:49:12
			they may be a little bit uncomfortable with.
		
00:49:12 --> 00:49:15
			I always tell people, do your parents know
		
00:49:15 --> 00:49:16
			who your friends are?
		
00:49:17 --> 00:49:18
			Do your parents know who your friends are?
		
00:49:18 --> 00:49:21
			Because in this insane world that we live
		
00:49:21 --> 00:49:23
			in today, guys, I don't blame parents for
		
00:49:23 --> 00:49:23
			being crazy anymore.
		
00:49:24 --> 00:49:26
			Well, lie, the stories that you hear are
		
00:49:26 --> 00:49:28
			actually, like, it's sick.
		
00:49:29 --> 00:49:31
			It's, like, very, very alarming stuff.
		
00:49:31 --> 00:49:31
			Okay.
		
00:49:32 --> 00:49:34
			So the way that you ease the hearts
		
00:49:34 --> 00:49:35
			of a lot of the people that you
		
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			live with, whether it be parents or siblings
		
00:49:36 --> 00:49:39
			or whatever it may be, is make sure
		
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			that there's a lot of candidness about who
		
00:49:41 --> 00:49:42
			you spend your time with.
		
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			Right.
		
00:49:43 --> 00:49:44
			Who are your friends?
		
00:49:44 --> 00:49:45
			Who are you traveling with?
		
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			I'll tell you, like, when I was growing
		
00:49:47 --> 00:49:50
			up and I was in college, sometimes, subhanAllah,
		
00:49:50 --> 00:49:52
			I had a friend, very good friend of
		
00:49:52 --> 00:49:52
			mine.
		
00:49:52 --> 00:49:53
			He's still, alhamdulillah, a good friend of mine,
		
00:49:53 --> 00:49:54
			but he lives in Tennessee still.
		
00:49:55 --> 00:49:56
			I used to be at his house until,
		
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			like, 10 p.m., 11 p.m. at
		
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			night, and my mother would be, like, worried
		
00:50:00 --> 00:50:02
			about where I was after Isha.
		
00:50:02 --> 00:50:04
			And then she would see my location, and
		
00:50:04 --> 00:50:05
			she would see that I'm, like, right where
		
00:50:05 --> 00:50:08
			he was, and she's like, oh, okay, he's
		
00:50:08 --> 00:50:09
			with him.
		
00:50:09 --> 00:50:10
			I'm good.
		
00:50:10 --> 00:50:10
			I'm chilling.
		
00:50:10 --> 00:50:11
			Okay.
		
00:50:11 --> 00:50:13
			Because she had so much confidence in that
		
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			relationship and that trust that she had with
		
00:50:15 --> 00:50:16
			this friend of mine.
		
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			So number two is do my parents know
		
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			who I spend time with?
		
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			And number three, number three, if you feel
		
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			that your parents are being completely unreasonable, like
		
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			beyond a shadow of a doubt, like you've
		
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			done step one, step two, step three, then
		
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			is when you kind of, like, ask for
		
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			a little bit of help.
		
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			Don't think that you have to fight every
		
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			battle on your own.
		
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			If you feel like there's, like, a battle
		
00:50:37 --> 00:50:40
			that you're fighting right now, and you're calm,
		
00:50:40 --> 00:50:42
			you're collected, you're doing things in good manner
		
00:50:42 --> 00:50:44
			and good faith, your parents know who your
		
00:50:44 --> 00:50:46
			friends are, and even after you've checked off
		
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			everything off that list, like your parents are
		
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			completely, like, unreasonably being against whatever you want
		
00:50:51 --> 00:50:53
			to do, ask somebody for help.
		
00:50:54 --> 00:50:56
			You can't do everything on your own, and
		
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			it's never going to be that way.
		
00:50:57 --> 00:50:58
			Trust me, as you get older, you'll still
		
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			see the same exact thing.
		
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			Okay.
		
00:51:00 --> 00:51:01
			So ask for help.
		
00:51:01 --> 00:51:02
			Ask for somebody who you know that your
		
00:51:02 --> 00:51:05
			parents may trust, they may respect, they may
		
00:51:05 --> 00:51:07
			take their word a little bit more.
		
00:51:07 --> 00:51:08
			Ask that person for help.
		
00:51:09 --> 00:51:10
			Last but not least, and this is the
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:12
			fourth advice that I'll give you in regards
		
00:51:12 --> 00:51:15
			to this question, if it is something that
		
00:51:15 --> 00:51:18
			is so distressing, that is literally, like, breaking
		
00:51:18 --> 00:51:20
			the family apart, every night you go home,
		
00:51:20 --> 00:51:22
			you're arguing with people, I'm telling you, it
		
00:51:22 --> 00:51:24
			just may be the best, and I know
		
00:51:24 --> 00:51:26
			it's a really tough pill to swallow, it
		
00:51:26 --> 00:51:28
			may be the best for you to be
		
00:51:28 --> 00:51:30
			the bigger person in this situation right now.
		
00:51:31 --> 00:51:32
			It's not worth it.
		
00:51:32 --> 00:51:35
			It's not worth putting up that fight and
		
00:51:35 --> 00:51:38
			arguing nonstop, day in and day out, especially
		
00:51:38 --> 00:51:40
			when you see nothing budging.
		
00:51:40 --> 00:51:42
			You've done everything, and they're still insisting that,
		
00:51:42 --> 00:51:43
			no, this doesn't happen.
		
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			May Allah reward you for your sacrifices.
		
00:51:47 --> 00:51:49
			May Allah reward you for your sacrifices.
		
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			Imagine what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam went
		
00:51:51 --> 00:51:54
			through when he went to Hudaybiyyah, and he
		
00:51:54 --> 00:51:56
			wanted to do Umrah, and all the Quraysh
		
00:51:56 --> 00:51:57
			in Mecca said no.
		
00:51:57 --> 00:51:59
			I'm not saying that your parents were like
		
00:51:59 --> 00:52:01
			the Quraysh of Mecca before Islam, but what
		
00:52:01 --> 00:52:03
			I'm saying is, it's the same kind of
		
00:52:03 --> 00:52:06
			principle of, he wanted something, and there was
		
00:52:06 --> 00:52:06
			khayr in it.
		
00:52:06 --> 00:52:07
			There was khayr in Umrah.
		
00:52:07 --> 00:52:08
			Of course there is.
		
00:52:08 --> 00:52:10
			There's khayr in going to Masjid Iqna.
		
00:52:10 --> 00:52:10
			Of course there is.
		
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			But, it may not be written for you
		
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			right now.
		
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			But it will be, inshallah.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So have faith in that.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Very, very good.
		
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			Oh boy, a marriage question.
		
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			Me and Saladur Rahman are going to be
		
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			notarized as the imams that answer marriage questions
		
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			after every halaqa that they teach.
		
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			We're just going to start a new business
		
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			on the side.
		
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			Submit all your marriage questions here.
		
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			I want a good husband.
		
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			I'm only 18, but never talked to anyone,
		
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			and everyone around me has.
		
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			It feels like I have no options.
		
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			How do we meet others in a halal
		
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			way?
		
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			First of all, you're 18.
		
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			I will tell you guys, give yourself a
		
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			little bit of time and experience and wiggle
		
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			room just to learn in your life.
		
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			Can I be honest with you?
		
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			I'm saying this on live stream here.
		
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			I never want marriage to be something that
		
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			Muslims speak about the same way that people
		
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			speak about pre-marital relationships in non-Muslim
		
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			culture.
		
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			Oh, I just need to get married.
		
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			That's not what marriage is supposed to be.
		
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			It's not supposed to be like a box
		
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			that you check off your list and just
		
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			kind of like, boom, I'm done after that.
		
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			Marriage requires a lot of sincerity, a lot
		
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			of ihsan, a lot of thought, a lot
		
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			of due diligence.
		
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			So if by 18, and this question, this
		
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			person is saying that everyone around me has,
		
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			I'll be honest with you.
		
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			It doesn't matter if everybody around you has.
		
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			You're just chilling.
		
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			What does that chill guy mean, right?
		
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			You're just a chill girl.
		
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			This girl is asking about her husband.
		
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			It's okay.
		
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			It's okay.
		
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			You're Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Allah has given you so many other joys
		
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			in life that you don't have to worry
		
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			about marriage right now.
		
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			We need to do, by the way, we
		
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			need to do classes in Islam about the
		
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			blessings of being single.
		
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			I'm telling you, it's not a horrible state
		
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			to be in.
		
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			I'm telling you guys.
		
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			I know that like we've manufactured this idea
		
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			of like, yeah, if you're married, you're successful.
		
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			If you're single, you're a loser, right?
		
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			We need to cut that joint out.
		
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			There's a lot of beauty in focusing on
		
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			the stage of life that Allah has given
		
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			you.
		
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			Don't think that just because you're married, you're
		
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			like the most successful person on earth.
		
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			If you're single, ask Allah to put barakah
		
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			in your life right now.
		
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			Because guess what?
		
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			After marriage, you'll go into a next stage,
		
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			and you won't have that anymore, right?
		
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			And you'll always see grass is always greener.
		
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			But if you appreciate where you're at, you'll
		
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			always realize, no, no, the grass is green
		
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			where I am right now.
		
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			So alhamdulillah, don't worry about that too much
		
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			in regards to comparing and contrasting.
		
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			Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for barakah
		
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			wherever you may be in your life, okay?
		
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			Very good.
		
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			All right.
		
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			What if you buy gifts for friends for
		
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			celebrations and they end up not giving you
		
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			one?
		
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			Is it bad?
		
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			I feel like I give more than I
		
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			receive.
		
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			I feel unloved.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless
		
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			you for the courageousness to ask this question.
		
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			When it comes to giving more than you
		
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			receive, I'll share something, you know.
		
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			Number one, the Prophet ﷺ, he would say,
		
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			اليد العليا خير من اليد السفلى He would
		
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			say, the upper hand that gives is better
		
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			than the lower hand that receives.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Being a giver is a very beautiful trait
		
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			to have as a Muslim.
		
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			Because you never feel that anything you do
		
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			is transactional.
		
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			You don't give just to receive, right?
		
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			This is not what we do in life.
		
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			We don't ever do nice things for people
		
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			so that we know that transactionally they'll do
		
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			nice things for us.
		
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			That's not the way that we operate as
		
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			Muslims, okay?
		
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			But I will say, if you feel in
		
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			your life that you are giving a lot
		
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			more in certain relationships in your life than
		
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			people are giving back to you, then what
		
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			I would suggest for you to do is
		
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			instead of quantifying your relationships with, Oh, I
		
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			give a lot more than I receive, focus
		
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			on a few people in your life that
		
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			give you the same energy back.
		
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			Don't expect that energy from everybody.
		
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			I'll tell you guys something very honestly, and
		
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			you guys are alhamdulillah younger than me.
		
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			As you get older in life, your social
		
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			circle begins to shrink like crazy.
		
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			But guess what?
		
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			You start becoming really happy about it.
		
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			Because you realize that the people that I
		
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			have in my life that I consider very
		
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			close to me, they are the people who,
		
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			subhanAllah, يُحِبُّ لِأَخِيهِ مَا يُحِبُّ لِنَفْسِهِ They love
		
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			for me what I love for them.
		
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			They check on me just like I check
		
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			on them.
		
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			Give the people benefit of the doubt that
		
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			you want them to be close to you,
		
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			but they may not be as close to
		
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			you as you want, and focus on the
		
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			people that are actually there for you, alright?
		
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			And always remember, it's always better to be
		
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			a giver than a receiver at the end
		
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			of the day, okay?
		
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			Very good.
		
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			What if I hurt people and they really
		
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			get hurt by me, and I'm the reason
		
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			for their sadness?
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			MashaAllah, maybe this question or this comment is
		
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			a means of you coming to a sense
		
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			of realization, right?
		
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			If a person is open enough to kind
		
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			of share this and text this and ask
		
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			this as a question, you're already on the
		
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			path of muhasabah, of accountability.
		
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			You're taking the first step to realizing that
		
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			I might be the source of certain people's
		
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			sadness.
		
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			So I don't want to be that way.
		
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			So the only question to ask now is,
		
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			now that I've admitted it, what am I
		
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			doing to own up to it, and what
		
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			am I doing to remedy this, right?
		
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			I don't want to be that person anymore.
		
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			So ask yourself the symptoms of why.
		
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			Why do I feel like I'm a person
		
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			who adds certain troubles in people's lives?
		
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			And start very, very calculatively deducing the reasons
		
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			as to why this is a possibility in
		
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			my life, right?
		
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			Very good, mashaAllah.
		
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			You're on the right path though, alhamdulillah.
		
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			Very, very good.
		
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			Okay, can you make dua?
		
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			I got a job.
		
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			Oh Allah, give this anonymous person a job.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Very good.
		
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			How to deal with fluctuations of your iman?
		
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			Your iman is supposed to fluctuate.
		
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			Don't get frustrated by that.
		
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			Embrace the high points, and when you have
		
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			a low point, ask Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala and tell him, Ya Allah, I miss
		
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			you.
		
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			I would like to be back at that
		
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			level that I was at.
		
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			Don't get frustrated by your highs and lows
		
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			of iman.
		
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			That's literally what you're supposed to go through
		
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			as a human being, okay?
		
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			Very good.
		
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			Why are we God's favorite creation if we
		
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			neglect Him?
		
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			SubhanAllah, very good question.
		
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			Why are we Allah's favorite creation if we
		
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			neglect Him?
		
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			We are Allah's favorite creation because Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, He says in the Quran,
		
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			إِلَّا الَّذِينَ أَمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتُ أُولَٰئِكَهُمْ خَيْرُ
		
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			الْبَرِيَّةِ خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ means that you have the
		
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			potential to be the best of all creation.
		
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			We may not always be the best of
		
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			all creation, but we have the potential to
		
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			be.
		
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			So potential is everything.
		
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			This is your ceiling and Allah knows it.
		
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			And Allah told His angels that you don't
		
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			know things about them that I know.
		
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			And when Allah says that I know things
		
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			about them that you may not know, trust
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows what
		
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			He's talking about, okay?
		
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			Alright, JazakAllah khairan guys.
		
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			InshaAllah we'll take care of some of the
		
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			questions next week with Shaykh Nouman and we'll
		
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			see you all inshaAllah next Thursday.
		
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			We have a great event coming up on
		
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			the 14th by the way.
		
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			We're doing a full on end of semester
		
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			Q&A and boba social here on Saturday
		
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			night at 7pm inshaAllah.
		
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			We'd like to see all of our college
		
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			community here inshaAllah ta'ala at that time.
		
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			Alright guys, we'll see you all inshaAllah Saturday
		
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			night.
		
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			Assalamualaikum.
		
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			I want everyone to not miss their Isha
		
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			Salah, so I would encourage everyone to go
		
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			ahead and make their way over to the
		
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			Musallah inshaAllah.