Safi Khan – Soul Food For College Students Dear Beloved Son #7

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The Maghrib program will start soon and cover topics such as death, life, and the importance of knowing one's weight and responsibility. Visitors will also discuss the struggles of graduating high school and losing loved ones, the importance of learning and finding one's way to achieve success in life, and the negative consequences of living in difficult environments. The speakers also touch on the negative impact of past events on one's life and the importance of avoiding graduation. The conversation ends with advice on how to avoid confusion and allow oneself to remember the person they want to forget.

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			All right, inshallah, we're gonna go ahead and
		
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			get started.
		
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			All right Bismillah walhamdulillah, as-salatu was-salamu
		
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			ala rasulillah wa ala alihi wa as'habihi
		
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			ajma'in Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu
		
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			So, alhamdulillah, as you guys have probably noticed,
		
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			we're inching closer and closer to like a
		
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			very very early time for Maghrib So time
		
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			is against us, but alhamdulillah Inshallah, in just
		
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			about another few weeks, maybe four weeks or
		
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			so We'll be, a part of the program
		
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			will be inshallah to do sohbah and spending
		
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			some time together socially prior to Maghrib Then
		
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			we'll pray Maghrib together and then the class,
		
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			the halaqa will start officially after salah is
		
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			over So that'll be in the next like
		
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			four weeks probably inshallah, three to four weeks
		
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			So we just have this next like two
		
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			to three weeks of like that crazy fast
		
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			halaqa So that we can make it to
		
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			Maghrib on time inshallah, okay?
		
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			So what we're gonna cover today is a
		
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			about like a chapter and a half, okay?
		
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			Because the first chapter is rather short And
		
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			this chapter is titled at least the the
		
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			English translation is titled the chapter that is
		
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			reflecting upon death It's reflecting upon the idea
		
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			of mortality the idea of a person's Finite
		
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			nature of their life that everything will come
		
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			to an end at some point and so
		
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			imam al-ghazali rahimahullah in this chapter He's
		
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			giving his student who asked him for advice
		
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			beautiful beautiful advice about the Duration of a
		
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			person's life and the shortness of the time
		
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			that they have in their life Okay, and
		
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			so he begins by saying he says live
		
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			as long as you may Okay, he says
		
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			Live as long as you may whatever time
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has given you
		
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			and by the way this is something that's
		
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			very incredible because a hadith the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam teaches us that When you
		
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			were in the womb of your mother when
		
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			you were in the womb of your mother
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala He dispatched Jibreel alayhis
		
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			salam to go and to essentially breathe your
		
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			ruh into you, okay, and Even before this
		
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			took place Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Would give
		
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			you certain things in your life in terms
		
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			of the stages of it Okay, that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala created you min nutfa, min
		
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			alaq, min mudgha, right?
		
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			He made you this tiny little drop of
		
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			Existence and then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala then
		
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			made you into what we call alaq Alaq
		
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			basically is like a clot of cells that
		
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			are together and then mudgha Mudgha is basically
		
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			this lump of flesh aka the embryo and
		
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			so Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is giving a
		
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			beautiful kind of nuanced detail of the the
		
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			trajectory and the phases of your life even
		
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			before you grew consciousness Okay And then the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says that Allah
		
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			then sends Jibreel alayhis salam To breathe your
		
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			soul into you and along with that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala determines a few things in
		
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			your life and One of the few things
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala determines in your
		
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			life is something that we call al ajal
		
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			The time that you've been given Okay The
		
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			time that you've been given isn't it kind
		
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			of interesting to think to yourself that the
		
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			determination of how long you will live in?
		
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			Your life has already been decided for you
		
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			Like you are living in your life, right?
		
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			Experiment if you have if you could know
		
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			how many years you would be alive for
		
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			in this dunya Would you opt to know
		
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			or would you opt to not know?
		
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			There's always like a mixed review in the
		
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			crowd, right?
		
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			Everyone says that yeah I'd like to know
		
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			because if I know that I'm gonna live
		
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			40 years and at least I know Exactly
		
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			how much time I have in the dunya,
		
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			but then the other opposite side would say
		
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			no I don't want to know anything because
		
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			if I know something I might get lazy
		
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			or I might get anxious or whatever and
		
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			whatnot Right.
		
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			That's why sometimes we've had a lot, you
		
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			know human beings They don't understand the the
		
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			weight and the burden of knowledge, right?
		
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			Everybody wants to know things but they don't
		
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			realize that with knowledge comes great responsibility I
		
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			mean if you knew that you were going
		
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			to live 40 years of life You were
		
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			not going to see the 41st year of
		
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			your life.
		
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			What would you do differently?
		
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			What would you differ do differently?
		
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			There was a companion who came to the
		
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			Prophet alayhis salatu was salam one time and
		
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			he asked the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			He said ya Rasulullah Tell me about when
		
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			The last hour will strike meaning like tell
		
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			me when this world will come to an
		
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			end and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			He would respond to him by saying what
		
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			are you doing to prepare for it?
		
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			He answered that question with a question.
		
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			The more important question is how are you
		
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			preparing?
		
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			Are you just worried about the exact moment
		
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			or are you thinking to yourself?
		
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			What am I going to do in preparation
		
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			for the reality of that moment, right?
		
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			And so Imam al-Ghazali he mentions first
		
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			and foremost he says live as long as
		
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			you may okay fa innaka mayyitun He says
		
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			for verily you will pass away Verily you
		
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			will pass away.
		
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			Okay, fa innaka fa inna It's it's it's
		
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			it's an emphasizing moment, right that there is
		
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			no doubt.
		
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			There is no doubt Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala He says in the Quran and social
		
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			NBA.
		
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			He says kullu nafsin da'iqatul mawt He
		
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			says that every soul will taste death Every
		
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			soul will taste death.
		
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			Wa ilayna Turja'oon and you will all
		
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			return back to me.
		
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			Don't get this mistaken, right?
		
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			There there are not many things that human
		
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			beings have the privilege of knowing with Absolute
		
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			conviction in this life One of the things
		
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			that you know with absolute conviction is that
		
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			you will pass away at one point Okay,
		
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			so Imam al-Ghazali he's drawing to attention
		
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			this point to his student Sometimes we we
		
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			are so engrossed with our day-to-day,
		
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			you know, I get up every morning I
		
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			wake up for Fajr.
		
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			I go, you know back to sleep maybe
		
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			for an hour or so Then I get
		
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			up I wash up I get ready for
		
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			my classes or for work or whatever it
		
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			is I go from 9 a.m. To
		
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			like 1 p.m. Classes after classes I
		
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			go I get some studying done.
		
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			I get some lunch.
		
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			I go home.
		
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			I see my family I head out at
		
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			night for whatever I have committed to myself
		
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			in my life and I come home and
		
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			then I wash up Pray my isha rinse
		
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			and repeat and in the mundane miss of
		
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			our schedules.
		
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			We start to kind of think that this
		
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			is life This is all there is to
		
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			it There's nothing more and this is the
		
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			trap of the dunya the dunya will try
		
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			to convince you that your daily is forever
		
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			It's gonna be like this forever How many
		
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			times has life hit us in the face
		
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			y'all like you got a reality check,
		
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			right?
		
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			You thought something was gonna be forever and
		
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			then you graduated and you're like, well what
		
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			now?
		
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			there there are certain people in here who
		
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			are like in the realm of a graduation
		
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			and Post-grad and now you're like in
		
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			this limbo stage of life.
		
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			You're in the barzakh of the dunya You
		
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			don't know what to do.
		
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			All right, you've been institutionalized.
		
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			I go to class every day I go
		
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			study for exams.
		
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			So after I get that diploma and I
		
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			walk across the stage the next Monday hits
		
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			and you're like Do I do?
		
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			Do I just do I go into class
		
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			like do I still go then?
		
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			You're that weird super senior that nobody likes
		
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			you're saying hi to your teachers and she's
		
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			like, what is this guy doing here again?
		
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			So like it's you know, what do we
		
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			do?
		
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			Right?
		
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			So Imam Ghazali, he says that in the
		
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			cat mate You will pass away.
		
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			Okay, and then he draws attention to something
		
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			else He says love whoever you wish he
		
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			says What a bib?
		
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			Men, shut up, man.
		
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			Shit.
		
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			So he says Love whoever you wish you
		
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			will have relationships in your life.
		
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			One of the blessings of Allah subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala is to love Right.
		
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			Everyone knows that ayah in the Quran that
		
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			everyone recites at every nikah since the beginning
		
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			of time Right Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala mentions
		
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			that we have created you right from men
		
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			and women From the first from the first
		
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			creation Adam alayhis salam Wa khalaqa minha zawjaha
		
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			wabatha minhuma rijalan kathiran wa nisa'a Wattakullaha
		
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			allathee tasa'aluna bihi wal arham.
		
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			What does that mean?
		
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			It means in in in in a glimpse
		
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			Allah azza wajal wattakullaha Be conscious of Allah
		
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			The one who gave you the ability to
		
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			have relationships in your life in the first
		
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			place You wouldn't know what love was if
		
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			it wasn't for Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Isn't
		
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			it a great crime to use a natural
		
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			pure emotion that Allah gave you to manifest
		
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			into actions?
		
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			That is displeasing to him Think about that
		
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			Love something that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala gave
		
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			you to exercise in a pure and halal
		
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			way But sometimes people take that beauty that
		
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			ni'ma of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and they
		
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			use it in ways to displease him may
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala protect us and So
		
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			he says love whoever you wish and he
		
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			says but know that these same people Fa
		
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			innaka mufariquhu He says for one day you
		
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			will taste The separation from these people that
		
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			you love You'll taste separation from the people
		
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			that you love You know you look at
		
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			your parents and subhanAllah How many of us
		
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			have you know as you get older and
		
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			you guys are in you know You're your
		
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			college years your your years where you're kind
		
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			of like formulating these real kind of Experiences
		
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			as a young person as a young man
		
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			a young woman How many of us have
		
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			pondered over the the mortality of our own
		
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			families so often now our parents are aging
		
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			in front of us Right, you see your
		
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			parents no longer being the younger people that
		
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			they were when you were kids You're seeing
		
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			them age.
		
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			Your mother is visibly older.
		
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			Your father is visibly older.
		
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			Your families are getting older and Imam Al
		
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			Ghazali he's drawing to attention this truth this
		
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			reality even the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam he
		
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			was taught in a very very almost a
		
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			really really abrupt manner The reality of losing
		
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			loved ones the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam a
		
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			man who lost you know he buried five
		
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			of his six children Think about this the
		
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			only child of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			that outlived him was his daughter Fatima Radhi
		
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			Allahu Anha She's the only one that outlived
		
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			him Can you imagine a father burying five
		
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			of his six children?
		
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			I mean this is this is a tragedy
		
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			beyond tragedy Losing one child is enough Losing
		
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			a second and a third and a fourth
		
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			and a fifth so this was Allah's way
		
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			of of polishing the sabr the patience in
		
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			the heart of his messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			and Not only that he lost his mother
		
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			Amina When he was six years of age
		
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			He lost his own father before he himself
		
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			was even born His father Abdullah passed away
		
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			some of the narrations mentioned two months before
		
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			he was born Never knew his father in
		
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			this dunya Loses his grandfather Abdul Muttalib when
		
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			he was eight years of age Loses his
		
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			only protector from the Quraysh his uncle Abu
		
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			Talib Loses his wife Khadija bint Khuwaylid radiallahu
		
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			anha the first person who ever Believed in
		
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			la ilaha illallah in the community of the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam He lost each one
		
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			of these people don't you think there was
		
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			some sort of just difficulty and separating from
		
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			things that he loved But this is the
		
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			Tarbiyah of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala The development
		
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			the teaching that Allah azza wa jal gives
		
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			every single one of us So if any
		
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			of you have ever lost somebody in your
		
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			life Any of you have ever lost somebody
		
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			in your life thing to yourself This is
		
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			one of the realities of this world and
		
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			this is one of the ways that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala Reminds us that inna lillahi
		
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			wa'inna ilayhi raji'un We all go
		
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			back to him None of us are here
		
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			permanently.
		
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			In fact Imam Al-Ghazali in another beautiful
		
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			book that he wrote Okay, it's actually the
		
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			small pamphlet such a tiny little book.
		
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			It's called Sharh Sadr It's a very small
		
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			book You know in most bookstores, you won't
		
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			even see it because Imam Al-Ghazali he
		
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			wrote so many prolific and famous books He
		
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			wrote the alchemy of happiness.
		
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			He wrote a lot of books on Shafi
		
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			'i fiqh one of the books that he
		
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			wrote that was a tiny little manual is
		
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			a book called Sharh Sadr which means like
		
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			the expansion of the chest and in this
		
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			book, all he writes about is the reality
		
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			of the journey of death and He reminds
		
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			the reader and he says note that death
		
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			is Nothing except a journey from this dunya
		
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			to the Creator Every one of you your
		
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			nafs your soul within you is yearning to
		
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			go back to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
		
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			You don't realize it though Because there's this
		
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			exterior part of you that is in love
		
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			with this It's in love with this and
		
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			we crave the food and the sleep and
		
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			the luxury and the leisure and the daily
		
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			Activity and the friendships and the social lives
		
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			and the money and all these different things
		
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			But there's a deeper part of your soul
		
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			that yearns for Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala And
		
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			so Imam Al-Ghazali he's saying to anyone
		
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			who's lost anyone know that this separation Although
		
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			it's difficult the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used
		
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			to cry by the way He used to
		
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			cry anyone know what what what the year
		
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			in which the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam lost
		
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			Khadija and Abu Talib was known as Aml
		
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			Huzn the year of sorrow the year of
		
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			sadness Why was it who was who?
		
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			Why was it called that?
		
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			Why was it called Aml Huzn the year
		
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			of sorrow the year of sadness because it
		
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			was visible on him the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam That he was in grief The Sahaba
		
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			some of the Sahaba RadhiAllahu Anhum Ajma'een
		
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			they used to they used to tell the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Ya Rasool Allah It's
		
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			time to come out of the home After
		
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			his wife Khadija passed away.
		
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			It's time to come out of the home.
		
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			He was heartbroken His beloved spouse had passed.
		
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			I mean, this is a human emotion.
		
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			This is a human relationship But Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa'ta'ala reminds us Kullu Nafsin Da'iqatul
		
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			Mawt You will you will taste death It
		
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			is a reality of life and you will
		
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			feel the sting of separation from the people
		
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			that you love when their time is called
		
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			back to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala But this
		
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			is the consolation for the believers as much
		
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			as you're hurting and you're missing your loved
		
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			ones as Much as the the heart is
		
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			in grief and the eyes are shedding tears
		
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			Know that the believing souls that were with
		
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			you that departed from your company and they're
		
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			going back to Allah They are ecstatic To
		
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			be reunited with their Creator They're so excited.
		
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			My grandfather Rahim Allah one time, you know,
		
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			he was saying Before he passed away My
		
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			mother was telling us a story she said
		
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			that I was sitting next to the bedside
		
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			of my father, so my grandfather her father
		
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			and She asked him how he was feeling.
		
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			He was laying in bed.
		
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			She asked him how he was feeling and
		
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			My grandfather he just said two words.
		
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			He said I'm ready Said I'm ready What
		
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			a what a what a statement?
		
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			I'm ready.
		
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			What does that mean?
		
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			It means that I'm I'm ready to to
		
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			see a lot to meet Allah And one
		
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			of the things that Imam Al-Ghazali talks
		
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			about by the way in short I saw
		
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			the small book that he wrote he said
		
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			that one of the things that one who
		
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			journeys to Allah at the time of Death
		
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			has to do is that they have to
		
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			sever they have to sever the ties that
		
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			are holding them back to this dunya You
		
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			know when you are graduating college you have
		
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			to sever the ties of your college experience
		
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			You have to move on you you walk
		
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			into your first day of your big boy
		
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			big girl job No one's nice to you
		
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			There are no academic advisors You know the
		
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			people next to you in the cubicle are
		
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			like what are you looking at?
		
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			Right same Spanish like the harsh reality is
		
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			you have to be able to sever the
		
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			ties You have to be able to move
		
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			on you have to be able to graduate
		
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			into the next stage of your life and
		
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			The same exists for those who are leaving
		
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			the dunya and journeying towards Allah azza wajal
		
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			So he says everyone will taste the separation
		
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			of those who they love When they journey
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and then he
		
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			says and Do whatever you will He says
		
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			what I'm in mash it.
		
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			He says do whatever you will Do whatever
		
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			you will he says for in Naka Majzyun
		
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			be he he says Because you will be
		
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			recorded accordingly to whatever you did This entire
		
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			chapter of death is a major reflection on
		
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			Knowing that everything you do has an equal
		
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			and opposite consequence Look at that read through
		
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			the read through the wording live because you
		
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			will pass away Love because you will be
		
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			separated from those you love act Do deeds
		
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			because your deeds will be rewarded accordingly for
		
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			whatever you did Fama ya mal mithqala dharratin
		
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			khayran yara wa may ya mal mithqala dharratin
		
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			sharrayra Everything will be Exposed every stone will
		
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			be turned every leaf will be turned over
		
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			this is actually almost a a a Continuation
		
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			of the chapter of Mahasabha of the chapter
		
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			of accountability Why because you realize that whatever
		
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			you're going through is not forever and there
		
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			will be a time where you'll be asked
		
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			about what you went through You'll be asked
		
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			about it the friends that you had Who
		
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			were they?
		
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			What did you do with your friends?
		
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			How did you treat them?
		
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			the families that you have The parents that
		
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			you've been given just as your parents will
		
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			be asked about how they raised you You
		
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			will be asked about how you treated them
		
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			All of these realities will come into fruition
		
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			and that the end of it all Allah
		
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			will ask you about your amal your deeds
		
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			How did you behave?
		
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			Not only the what but the how Sure
		
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			you can tell Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala that
		
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			you pray but Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala will
		
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			ask how you prayed How did you pray
		
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			how did you fast how did you live
		
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			how did you how did you speak to
		
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			people and You know something that I wanted
		
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			to mention to everybody here that's so powerful
		
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			You know the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam He
		
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			mentioned that all the the deeds of the
		
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			sons and the daughters of Adam Alayhis salaam
		
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			will cease to exist upon the time of
		
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			their death Meaning that nothing will benefit you
		
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			There's no action that you can do that
		
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			will benefit you once Allah calls your name
		
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			back to him But there are three things
		
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			that will continue to benefit you What are
		
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			those three things that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam he mentioned number one?
		
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			He says a sadaqa jariyya The gift that
		
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			continues to keep going that continues to keep
		
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			giving what is that?
		
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			That means that when you give one small
		
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			thing that small thing was given with so
		
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			much Sincerity and so much goodness that it
		
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			grew into something much bigger You gave one
		
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			dollar that one dollar turned into ten dollars
		
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			in value, right sadaqa jariyya You undermined your
		
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			generosity, but Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala elevated it
		
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			because of the pure intention that you had
		
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			behind it the second is Second is knowledge
		
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			that benefits Ilman nafia as they say Knowledge
		
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			that benefits you teach somebody one small thing
		
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			and that one small thing turns into a
		
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			lifestyle that that person lives by this is
		
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			why by the way teaching people Quran and
		
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			hadith is so beautiful not in like a
		
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			holier-than-thou Smiting you.
		
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			Hey, right.
		
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			We're not telling people about religion in a
		
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			way that demeans them and belittles them But
		
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			imagine teaching a person subhanAllah.
		
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			I'll give you an example.
		
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			Imagine teaching a person that's smiling Smiling to
		
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			your brother or your sister is a form
		
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			of charity And so that person when they
		
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			go around they see their brothers and they
		
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			say salamu alaykum how are you and they
		
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			have a smile on their face and Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala puts the edger of sadaqa
		
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			on their on their scales and They do
		
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			it because you taught them that one hadith
		
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			How powerful is that and then when you
		
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			once you are done in this dunya you
		
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			are no longer living in this dunya Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala continues to record good deeds
		
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			for you every single time that that one
		
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			person smiles You do not have anything to
		
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			do physically with him smiling at all.
		
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			It's not like you are reaching from the
		
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			grave and right No, but you taught him
		
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			this You taught them that You taught this
		
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			person maybe like how to pronounce the letter
		
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			BOD the letter AIN or GHAIN or SEEN
		
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			or SHEEN small things nothing big But that
		
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			person now benefits so much that even when
		
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			you're gone, you're still getting good deeds recorded
		
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			on your scales the last thing the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says is Righteous
		
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			offsprings that make dua for you Righteous offsprings
		
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			that make dua for you Families as I'm
		
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			telling you we have no idea how much
		
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			spiritual effect our families have on us and
		
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			This is why it's one of the most
		
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			difficult relationships to many of us Think about
		
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			this how many people in here have ever
		
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			had family at the family challenges raise of
		
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			hands I'll raise my hand every pretty much
		
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			everyone in here everyone in here mothers fathers
		
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			siblings Cousins, whatever they may be whoever they
		
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			may be Why why is that relationship?
		
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			So so sensitive because there's so much writing
		
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			on it.
		
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			There's so much writing on it The way
		
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			you treat your mother The way you treat
		
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			your father the way that your parents treat
		
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			you people can attain Jannah because of these
		
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			things So remember this, okay, and so We'll
		
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			inshallah just kind of preview Walk into the
		
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			next chapter.
		
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			The next chapter is about something we call
		
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			Nifaq or Hypocrisy now hypocrisy is a very
		
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			serious thing.
		
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			It's a very serious thing The Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam one time and I'll share
		
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			this hadith inshallah even next week The Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that there are
		
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			a few characteristics of those who are hypocritical
		
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			The first characteristic of a person who's hypocritical
		
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			is that whenever they speak they lie They
		
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			either had death like Heather, but when they
		
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			speak they lie The truth is not very
		
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			often found upon their tongue They just became
		
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			a person who is used to the the
		
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			cadence of lying in their life And by
		
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			the way, lying is not just something that
		
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			is done actively verbally lying can be done
		
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			in various forms Right being dishonest being untruthful
		
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			in a lot of different ways Can somebody
		
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			also lie by cheating somebody at work?
		
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			Of course they can Can somebody lie by
		
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			spreading false gossip about somebody?
		
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			Of course, they can Lying kid that becomes
		
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			in various forms guys various forms So he
		
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			says when they speak they lie.
		
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			The second is when they make promises they
		
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			break those promise What either why are there
		
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			a lot of a lot of that they
		
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			break it They completely up they break whatever
		
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			promise they made to people You can't trust
		
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			these people Why because they tell you that
		
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			they're gonna be there for you and when
		
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			they when it's time for them to be
		
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			there for you They're no longer there What
		
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			either why are there a lot of that
		
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			and then the final is when they are
		
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			entrusted with something they abandon that trust Way
		
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			out when they are entrusted with something they
		
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			abandon it.
		
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			Hey, can you hold on to something for
		
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			me?
		
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			Yeah, man, I got you You come back
		
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			and that iPhone that iPhone 14 for some
		
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			reason is now an iPhone 12 How did
		
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			it change colors and like?
		
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			How did it change like it's like processing
		
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			speed and every you know We leave something
		
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			with somebody and we are so scared because
		
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			we know that this person never upholds the
		
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			trust of their given SubhanAllah may Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa'ta'ala makes it make us friends that
		
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			are trustworthy.
		
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			So everyone say I mean So he says
		
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			yeah, you had wallet my beloved son he
		
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			says Hey, you Satan House, he's a hassle.
		
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			Okay, mint.
		
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			Ah, sweetie.
		
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			He says so what have you gained from
		
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			learning?
		
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			these beautiful beautiful things theology Kalam well, he
		
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			left, you know medicine and administration and poetry
		
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			Astronomy and syntax and morphology He mentions all
		
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			these different sciences and he says at the
		
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			end of it all except to waste your
		
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			time Against the will of Allah subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala He gives a very harsh wake-up
		
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			call He says you engage in so many
		
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			things you engaged in all of your studies
		
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			you engaged in you know biology and chemistry
		
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			and you know a IT and this and
		
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			neuroscience and medicine and all these different things
		
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			language you dabbled in so much But what
		
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			have you done at the end of all
		
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			of this is that you went against the
		
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			will of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala Now, what
		
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			does this mean?
		
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			There's a very specific meaning to the statement
		
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			of Imam Al Ghazali Rahim Allah He doesn't
		
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			mention.
		
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			He doesn't mean that in Engaging in studying
		
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			of the dunya is haram every single person
		
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			by the way It has these things that
		
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			they engage in whether it is secular studies
		
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			or hobbies or interest that is completely permissible
		
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			It's not bad to go and major in
		
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			pre-med.
		
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			It's not bad to go major in chemistry
		
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			It's not bad to go major in in
		
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			in in in in in you know architecture
		
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			or whatever It may be these are all
		
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			completely permissible But what he's mentioning here that
		
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			is extremely unfortunate is when a person uses
		
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			their dunya To now neglect Allah, they're so
		
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			enamored with their classes.
		
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			They forget to go to Juma on Friday
		
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			They're so they're so, you know into their
		
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			their labs and their exams They're studying day
		
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			in and day out at nighttime.
		
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			They forget to pray their Isha They're so
		
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			focused on their exam the next morning that
		
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			they sleep through their Fajr prayer So Imam
		
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			Ghazali He says you've been you you've really
		
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			locked in with all these things in your
		
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			life to only just abandon the commands of
		
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			Allah Subhanahu wa'ta'ala One of the things
		
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			that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
		
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			this is from Aisha radiallahu anha She reported
		
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			that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Yazkuru
		
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			Allah ala kulli ahiyanihi He said she would
		
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			say what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			that He would remember Allah in every circumstance
		
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			every time When he was going out and
		
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			hanging out with his friends who would remember
		
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			Allah when he was Walking taking his daily
		
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			walks.
		
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			He would remember Allah When he was buying
		
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			and selling and trading in his regular job,
		
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			he would remember Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala He
		
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			wouldn't use his occupation to neglect Allah in
		
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			fact, he would use his occupation to remember
		
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			Allah You know Imam Abu Hanifa rahim Allah
		
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			before he became a scholar.
		
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			He was actually like a merchant He was
		
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			a merchant How many of us and think
		
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			about this realistically how many of us can
		
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			close our eyes and we think of every
		
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			Sahaba?
		
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			Every one of the Sahaba radiallahu anhum the
		
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			companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			And we think that all of them were
		
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			just scholars.
		
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			Anybody have that idea?
		
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			Like all of them were just scholars, right?
		
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			Abdullah bin Mas'ud Right, Abdur Rahman bin
		
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			Auf, Ali bin Abi Talib You know Abu
		
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			Ayyub al-Ansari all of these guys Zaid
		
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			bin Haritha, Zaid bin Thabit All these guys
		
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			were all just they were alims.
		
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			They were all scholars and the reality is
		
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			the majority of the Sahaba They were actually
		
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			not ulama They were they did not spend
		
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			their time Particularly studying the religion they were
		
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			far more religious than any of us ever
		
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			will be they were far more pious than
		
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			any of us Ever will be but they
		
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			did not spend their occupation being scholars There
		
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			were a couple of them that did Abdullah
		
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			bin Umar, Abdullah bin Abbas, Abdullah bin Mas
		
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			'ud These these people were scholars of the
		
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			religion.
		
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			They would study hadith, they would study Quran
		
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			The majority of them they were just people
		
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			that were merchants There were people that used
		
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			to be agriculturalists, there were people that used
		
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			to go and farm There were people that
		
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			used to go and and and and be
		
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			shepherds in their in their in their lands
		
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			That's what they used to do for a
		
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			living but check this out Why are they
		
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			even more pious than the scholars that exist
		
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			today?
		
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			Because even if they only knew Some hadith
		
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			they used to act on it like it
		
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			was scripture Everything that they used to do
		
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			used to go back to Allah subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala Everything they used to say would go
		
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			back to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala They would
		
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			remember Allah at every end over all of
		
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			their life They would spend time in their
		
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			homes with their families and they would remember
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
		
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			The mundane became extremely sacred The issue with
		
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			us is that when we go and we
		
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			engage in our studies and school and friends
		
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			and socializing We completely forget about Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa'ta'ala.
		
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			When was the last time that we were
		
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			ever out just driving and Aside from the
		
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			road raging on George Bush Turnpike, right?
		
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			You're driving through the streets and you saw
		
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			for some reason Texas has the most beautiful
		
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			sunsets of all time We have the worst
		
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			land but the most beautiful skies Right, even
		
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			California doesn't have anything on the Texas sky
		
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			So we look at the sky when was
		
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			the last time we're just driving down a
		
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			highway and we see subhanallah The sky is
		
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			so beautiful and in your drive.
		
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			You just say subhanallah You're driving.
		
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			You're driving to grab like like share tea
		
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			You're you're driving to grab coffee You're going
		
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			to like la la land to grab like
		
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			your Oreo like McFlurry latte, whatever that is,
		
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			right?
		
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			But on that drive of the merely mundane
		
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			you remember Allah azza wajal This is what
		
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			made the Sahaba so special This is what
		
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			made the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam so special
		
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			The mundane was not mundane.
		
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			Everything could be sacred if you put the
		
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			right mind to it If you put the
		
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			right heart to it We attribute religiosity when
		
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			it comes to praying when it comes to
		
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			reading Quran when it comes to making dua
		
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			when it comes to You know giving sadaqa,
		
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			that's when we make religion religious But do
		
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			we ever make sacred our hangouts with our
		
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			friends?
		
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			Do we ever make sacred?
		
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			Sometimes when we cook food for our families
		
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			Do we ever make sacred our sleep?
		
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			Wajal no no McComb subata Certain there were
		
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			narrations that would say that certain pious people
		
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			would say Oh Allah bless me in my
		
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			sleep.
		
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			Why?
		
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			When we're like face planning like a like
		
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			a like a flying squirrel into our beds
		
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			People would make dua to Allah to bless
		
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			their sleep Why because their sleep is a
		
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			form of reenergizing themselves so they could wake
		
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			up and worship That's how you make something
		
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			completely mundane extremely sacred, right?
		
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			So inshallah with this we are going to
		
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			pause for the day it is 753 743
		
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			and inshallah Salah isn't about another three to
		
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			four minutes.
		
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			So I don't want to take up inshallah
		
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			any time that would you know?
		
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			Take away from the salah.
		
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			So we're gonna start inshallah with the next
		
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			part of the advice of Imam Ghazali here
		
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			about this idea of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
		
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			questioning somebody when they pass away and then
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala statement at the very
		
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			end of this Chapter here.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to make
		
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			us of the people who are conscious of
		
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			our mortality We ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
		
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			to never allow ourselves to neglect our rights
		
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			that are that are due to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa'ta'ala and we ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala to always make us people of thoughts
		
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			and of perception and of mindfulness and thoughtfulness
		
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			and we ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to
		
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			always allow us to remember him in every
		
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			interval of our lives and we Ask Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala to allow us to be
		
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			people who follow in the footsteps of his
		
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			Habib Rasool Allah Sallallahu alayhi wasallam Ameen Inshallah,
		
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			just a couple of announcements before I let
		
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			you guys go.
		
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			We have a really exciting program coming up
		
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			on the 15th of September It's going to
		
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			be a program called convert connections We have
		
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			Ustadh Mahmood who's running around with his son
		
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			Ahmed in the back behind there Ustadh Mahmood
		
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			inshallah will be leading that program so if
		
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			you have any people in your lives that
		
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			you feel would benefit from a program that
		
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			is related or Geared towards converts people who
		
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			are new to Islam or even people who
		
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			are who are tenured in their Islamic journey
		
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			But they have a convert experience of somebody
		
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			who basically joined the religion from another Another
		
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			you know life that they may have lived
		
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			beforehand This is going to be a program
		
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			inshallah that you can spread And tell people
		
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			who are interested in Islam or who are
		
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			already Muslim.
		
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			It's a program called convert connections It'll be
		
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			at 10 a.m. On September 15th inshallah
		
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			also We are debuting a program this coming
		
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			Saturday called college conversations I don't know if
		
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			anyone saw I actually posted on my own
		
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			personal Instagram a little bit of like a
		
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			questionnaire About like what topics would be amazing
		
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			for a roundtable conversations I'm gonna we all
		
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			benefit from the halaqas that we do during
		
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			the week on Thursdays for soul food But
		
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			one thing I really want to do with
		
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			the college community is host like a roundtable
		
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			Where everyone gets to speak and speak freely
		
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			and openly that's going to be a series
		
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			called college Conversations and that the first episode
		
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			of that will be this coming Saturday at
		
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			4 p.m..
		
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			Inshallah, so inshallah We want you guys to
		
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			come out.
		
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			It'll be a gathering.
		
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			That's very very it's not gonna be live
		
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			stream It's gonna be literally like a circular
		
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			kind of like group discussion roundtable discussion We're
		
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			going to inshallah have like a series of
		
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			topics that we're going to lay out for
		
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			the rest of the year We look forward
		
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			to inshallah hosting that Saturday at 4 p
		
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			.m. Last thing inshallah is myself and and
		
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			Sheikh Mahmood We are extremely excited to debut
		
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			a lot of college campus visits this year
		
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			inshallah So we're going to begin with you
		
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			know visits to like for example like UNT
		
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			Inshallah make dua for us because we will
		
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			be combining our prayers while we go.
		
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			I'm just kidding We're inshallah going to be
		
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			visiting certain campuses like UNT, UTD, SMU Inshallah,
		
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			we're excited for that So if you want
		
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			routes on your campus to a certain level
		
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			whether it's like a Friday khutba Whether it
		
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			is just like a you know, very very
		
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			easy conversation a halaqa at some point of
		
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			the week Let us know inshallah.
		
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			We'll try to do our best to accommodate
		
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			but we wanted to start with those campuses
		
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			inshallah Ta'ala myself and Sheikh Mahmood.
		
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			We're gonna kind of lead this effort together
		
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			bismillah ta'ala Jazakumullahu khairan everybody.
		
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			Thank you so much for being here inshallah
		
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			We're gonna go walk over to the Masala
		
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			to pray We'll see the rest of you
		
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			guys inshallah on Saturday for college conversations.
		
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			Assalamu alaykum y'all