Safi Khan – Soul Food For College Students Dear Beloved Son Class 11

Safi Khan
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The importance of the Prophet's name and the need for people to not give anything are discussed in a series of talks on Islam's subhanonic punishment, including subhanous punishment for the here after, the implementation of punishment for the death of a Islamist, and the importance of setting boundaries and boundaries in one's life. The speakers also discuss the importance of forgiveness and the need for individuals to focus on their emotions and actions. Prayer and guidance are also emphasized, along with the use of words like "hasn't done it" to describe behavior and struggles.
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Okay, inshallah, let's go ahead and begin.

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All right.

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Bismillah walhamdulillah, as-salatu was-salamu ala rasulillah,

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wa ala alihi wa as'habihi ajma'in.

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Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.

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Alhamdulillah.

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Very, very proud of our community, masha'Allah.

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Tonight we debuted a new program on the

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masjid side, the salawat.

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Alhamdulillah, jazakallah khairan, alhamdulillah, thank you so much.

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We debuted the salawat, the Thursday evening salawat,

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alhamdulillah, rabbil alameen.

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And so I'm sure a lot of you

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guys were over there enjoying the salawat in

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the masjid after as-salatul maghrib.

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As I explained, right, the salawat is so

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important because the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

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someone who obviously is near and dear to

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Allah, more near and dear to Allah than

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any creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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And so the hadith where he said that

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if a person sends salawat upon me on

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the day of Jum'ah and the night

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of Jum'ah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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will also bless them for 10 days continuously,

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right?

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So it's a very, very beautiful, beautiful narration.

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So alhamdulillah.

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Inshallah, we're going to continue on with the

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beloved son series, ayyuhal walad.

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Today we're inshallah going to finish up the

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chapter that we began last week and we're

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going to introduce the next chapter, which is

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going to be the chapter that talks about

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efforts and ihsan and the amount of love

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we have for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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and not us denying Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala.

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And so we'll begin inshallah with the ending

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of last week's chapter, where Imam al-Ghazali,

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rahimahullah, he begins by sharing a quote of

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Hassan al-Basri, rahimahullah.

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Hassan al-Basri, rahimahullah, he says, one day

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was given this drink, this cold drink from

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another person, this cold cup of water, and

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he took this cold glass of water and

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it immediately fell from his hands and he

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became unconscious.

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Like a very, very like, very serious situation,

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right?

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Somebody would be like, wow, that's kind of

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dramatic or like, why would that happen to

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you?

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Somebody just handed you water.

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Why would you pass out from just carrying

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water and the glass fell from his hands?

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And so when he regained consciousness, he came

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back to his senses.

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Somebody asked him, somebody asked Hassan al-Basri,

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rahimahullah.

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They said to him, what happened to you?

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Okay, they said, what happened to you?

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Why did you react like that?

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That was his name.

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And he said, Subhanallah.

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He said, it reminded me of something that

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the people of Jahannam will ask the people

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of Jannah.

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Subhanallah.

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So that moment where he was handed a

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cold drink and he passed out, he said

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that that moment reminded me of a situation

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in the akhira.

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It reminded me about something that will happen

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in the hereafter.

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And what was that specifically?

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Something that the people of hellfire will ask

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the people of Jannah.

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And what's that question?

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It's actually in the Qur'an.

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Surah al-A'raf, verse number 50.

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He says, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,

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that the people of Jahannam, they will implore,

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they will beg the people of paradise, the

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people of Jannah.

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They would say, oh people of Jannah, pour

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some water over us or some of the

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provisions that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has

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given you.

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It's a very intense statement.

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And the word particularly here in Arabic, you

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won't see it in the English translation, but

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in the Arabic it says, It means to

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not allow us to drink the water, but

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to pour the water on top of us.

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They'll be begging, oh people of paradise, pour

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the water that Allah gave you over us

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so that we're not burning and boiling like

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this anymore.

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Okay?

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Or if you can't do that, then just

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give us some of the rizq that Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala has given you.

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And subhanAllah, the response that Allah will tell

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the people of Jannah to respond with is

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extremely scary.

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He will say to the people of Jannah,

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do not give them anything.

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Do not give them anything.

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In fact, tell them, Allah has made it

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haram upon you this nice cold water that

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the people of Jannah are enjoying.

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You know, sometimes it's scary because we look

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towards the idea of religion as a form

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of mercy and Alhamdulillah, exponentially, Islam is more

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merciful than it is punishing, without a doubt.

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And we know this.

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This is the narrative that we are teaching

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our communities because we want to hope in

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the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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But at the same time, we're not oblivious

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to the realities of the punishment of the

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Hereafter either.

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You know, subhanAllah, sometimes in parenting, I have

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a two and a half year old at

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home, sometimes I'll tell Aya, Aya, if you

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do that, you can get time out.

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But if Aya never receives that time out,

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what's going to happen?

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She's going to keep on pushing and pushing

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and pushing.

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I'm sure you all remember seeing this growing

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up.

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If you're like the oldest child or the

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middle child, you know exactly what this is.

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If you're the youngest child, you have no

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idea what this is.

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You're the oldest child, the youngest child, you

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know you've seen this happen.

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You know, a parent tells you something and

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they're like, I'm going to do it.

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Next time I'm going to do it.

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But then they end up never doing it.

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And what happens with that is that the

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kid will never learn really, right?

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And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, as merciful

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as He is, At the same time, the

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reality of the hereafter is that there's truth

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to it.

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There's truth to the hereafter.

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There's truth to the punishment of the hereafter.

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There's truth to the azaab of the hereafter.

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It wouldn't be something that is real if

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there was not a Jannah and a Jahannam.

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So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will tell

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the inhabitants of Jannah, when the people of

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Jahannam ask for relief, Allah will tell the

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people of Jannah, don't give it to them.

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Don't give it to them.

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Why?

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Because they had a chance.

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They had a chance in dunya to refuse

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all the indulgences.

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All of the things that I made haram

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for them.

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Allah says, I've given them chances to refuse

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all those moments.

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But they chose, their transaction was, I'll take

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it now and I'll suffer later.

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I'll take it now and I'll suffer later.

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The people of Jannah will say, I might

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give some conveniences up now, but I'm going

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to enjoy for the rest of my existence.

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That's the mentality of the people of Jannah.

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Another really incredible thing to look at when

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it comes to this particular passage is, look

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at the taqwa of Hassan al-Basri.

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Hassan al-Basri, he was handed a cup

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of water and he passed out thinking about

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an ayah in the Qur'an.

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Think about that.

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Sometimes Qur'an verses hit us in our

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faces and we're like, yeah man, I wonder

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what's going to happen next in Rings of

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Power.

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Right?

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You're thinking about the Amazon special that's out

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right now.

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You're thinking about the next hangout with the

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friends.

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We're thinking about the next time we go

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grab food from Talkin' Tacos.

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Good halal spot by the way that just

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opened up.

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We're thinking about all these different worldly, dunyai

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distractions.

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Hassan al-Basri, he thinks about a moment

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in which cold water reminds him of the

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hereafter.

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Subhanallah.

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You know like that reality, right?

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It's said in like a joking way, but

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like whenever somebody complains about the heat, what's

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like that classic Muslim guy say?

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Hellfire's hotter, right?

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Everyone wants to beat that dude up, right?

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It's like, come on dude.

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It's okay, I can believe in hellfire being

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hotter and Dallas also being a part of

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it, right?

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But sometimes that person says it, hellfire's hotter,

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hellfire's hotter.

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Subhanallah, this is why by the way, there

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was a really interesting narration.

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I remember reading this one time that Muhammad

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Ali, the famous boxer, he passed away right

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years ago.

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Whenever he used to, he said whenever he

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used to like get tempted towards doing something

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not permissible, whenever he would be tempted towards

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doing something that was displeasing to Allah, he

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would take a lighter out from his pocket

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and he would turn it on and then

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he would put his hand right over it.

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And he would say, and like obviously if

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anybody's ever kind of been near fire of

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the dunya, you can only get so close

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until it starts burning you.

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It becomes so painful, right?

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So he would put his hand above the

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lighter and he said as soon as it

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would get unbearable, I would tell myself, if

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I can't handle this, I can't handle that.

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So whatever I'm about to do right now,

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it's definitely not within my interest.

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Subhanallah, right?

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Sometimes it's important to give ourselves that reality

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check, right?

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Anytime you pass by like a grave or

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like a cemetery, stop for a second, stop

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for a second, look at it, look at

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it.

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Sometimes we've almost like fictionalized these experiences, right?

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Oh, the cemetery, yeah, you know, it's not

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really a real thing for me.

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Fire, yeah, it's nice to cook, but it's

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not really a real thing.

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Use those mechanisms to also address the realities

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of your existence.

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The grave will be your home one day.

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Fire is an outcome, right?

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These things are real.

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So it's important to kind of bring ourselves

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into those realization moments.

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Alright?

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So now, Alhamdulillah, we go to our next

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chapter which is the 11th chapter of Nasihah.

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The 11th chapter of advice from Imam Al

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-Ghazali, Alhamdulillah, to his son.

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And this one, the English translation mentions that

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it's labeled sleep.

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It's labeled the chapter of Naum, the chapter

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of sleep.

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And we'll talk a little bit about why.

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So he mentions here, he says, يَا أَيُّهَا

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الْوَلَدُ He says, لَوْ كَانَ الْعِلْمُ مُجَرَّدُ كَافِيًا

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لَكَ He said, if mere knowledge of the

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self, by the way, عِلْمٌ عِلْمٌ مُجَرَّدُ is

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basically translated as knowledge of self, spirituality, right?

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Like knowing what to do and what not

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to do.

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Things that will offer your best benefit and

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your best interest.

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He said, that if mere knowledge of the

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self was كَافِيًا لَكَ كافِيًا comes from the

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word كَفَا which means to be sufficient.

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If that was enough in and of itself,

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and you do not need any other عَمَل

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any other work other than this knowledge, then

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the call of Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى would be

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meaningless to you.

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What is the call of Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى

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and Imam Ghazali رحمه الله he gives us

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this beautiful hadith, okay?

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And I'll share the entire hadith with you

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guys just so that we have like a

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really good understanding of the whole picture, okay?

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The whole picture is that the Prophet صلى

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الله عليه وسلم one time he said, he

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said, verily, verily Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى slowly draws

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near until the first half of the night

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has passed.

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Okay?

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So Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى in the evening and

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by the way, we're going to talk about

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this.

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This is why praying and really locking in

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in your spirituality in the evening is so

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important.

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The evening is so important.

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Anybody ever been like traumatized by like elders

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about like not going out at night?

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Don't go out at night.

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The jinns are going to get you.

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Like there's all these like stories and by

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the way, like it's not completely false.

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Okay?

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When you read Surah Al-Falaq وَمِن شَرِّ

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غَاصِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبْ It's an ayah from the

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Qur'an.

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You know what that means?

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وَمِن شَرِّ غَاصِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبْ From the evil

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of the night when it emerges.

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What does that mean?

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It means that there are true evils in

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the evening time after the sun has set

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that are very, very real for people.

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I mean the majority of the crimes in

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the world you can't even look at it

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in the more like you know translatable scene

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state.

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I mean the majority of the crimes of

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humanity happens in the evening.

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Right?

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No one, no one ever prays Fajr waits

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for the sun to rise and says well

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this is a great time to go to

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that club.

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Like no, no one ever does that.

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No one ever makes a decision that is

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bad in the early morning after they do

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something pious.

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Right?

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All the bad thoughts happen in the evening.

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And by the way this is why I

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just want to kind of be very frank

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with you guys.

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It's so important to put boundaries and barriers

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of your social life in the evening.

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It's so important because people who are loosey

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-goosey with their morals and principles at night

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it's, it's a very slippery slope y'all.

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I'm telling you.

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9 p.m. becomes 10 p.m. 10

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p.m. becomes 11 p.m. But that

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10 minute phone call is now like Tahajjud?

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Like wait a second what?

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How did we get to this?

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You look at your call log it's 5

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hours.

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You're like how did I get to this?

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Well, it's because we didn't have barriers.

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We didn't have boundaries.

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We didn't understand that there's a moment subhanallah

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where like Shaytan hops on that phone call

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after 11 p.m. He's like yo are

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we three way in this thing?

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I'm like what?

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Can I join in?

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Like how's it going?

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Right?

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He just joins in.

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Hops on in.

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This is where the believer has to tell

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themselves man, I need to I need to

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really address the realities of the evening.

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I need to address the realities of the

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evening.

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There are certain things that I just need

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to call quits after a certain time.

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I just need to call quits man.

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It's time for me to kind of like

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be a little bit more you know intrusive.

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A little bit more you know to myself.

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A little bit more kind of you know

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introspective and a little bit more in tune

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with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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Imagine Subhanallah because the spectrum is so large.

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Imagine a person who could be doing the

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worst things in the evenings but then they

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choose to spend some time with Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala.

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Like what a beautiful transaction they've made.

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They've given up the temptation and they just

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spend 20-30 minutes with Allah.

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I mean there is a special place in

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the highest levels of Jannah for a person

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that does these things.

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And not only a person a young person.

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I'll tell you that.

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You know when you're older man like you

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wanna wind down at like 9pm you're done.

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You're cooked as they say.

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Right?

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Like maghrib hits right?

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And you're like alright it's been a nice

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day guys.

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Time to wrap it up get under my

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heated blanket and sip on this chai until

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I fall asleep eventually.

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Right?

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When you're younger what happens is like you

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have this kind of like you have this

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temptation to kind of like spark that social

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life after 9pm and you're like I wonder

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what everyone else is doing right now.

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It's like 10pm right?

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Do you think they're also on clubhouse back

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in like 2020?

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Everybody's like everyone's trying to like socialize.

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The smart person at that point knows when

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to put their phone down.

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Cause they know nothing good on Instagram happens

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after 11.

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Nothing good on TikTok happens after midnight.

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You see these like shady brothers on TikTok

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live for some reason man.

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Always after 12am.

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Always.

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This is so bizarre to me wallah it's

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so interesting.

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So the wise person knows put that phone

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down at night time.

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Just decompress a little bit.

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Okay?

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And so he says that Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala descends through the evening and specifically

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is closer than

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ever in the last third of the night.

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The last third of the night.

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So it's so funny that I mention all

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of this lead up, right?

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Like the first half of the night the

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social butterflies are out, right?

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But in the last third of the night

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the true people of of iman they actually

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wake up from their sleep.

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And the shayateen they're like passed out it's

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4am, right?

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They're like man that was a crazy 11pm

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to 3am that I had, right?

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They fall asleep at 3.30 and they're

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knocked out until like 11am.

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They're done.

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But the true believer they go to sleep

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after isha because they know I gotta be

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up for Allah at like 4am.

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I gotta be up for Allah at 4am.

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And this is when the prophet says Allah

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is closer than he ever will be.

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The last third of the night.

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And what does Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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do that last third of the night?

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It says here in the hadith that Allah

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calls out okay?

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala He calls out

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مُنَادِيًا يُنَادِي يَقُولُ هَلْ مِن دَاعٍ يُسْتَجَابُ لَهُ

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He says is there anyone calling out to

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me that they may be answered by me?

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And then he says is there anyone هَلْ

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مِن مُسْتَغْفِرٍ يُغْفَرُ لَهُ Is there anyone that's

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going to ask me for forgiveness that I

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can forgive them?

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Is there anyone who's going to call to

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me so that I can respond to them?

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Is there anyone that's going to make tawbah

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to me that I may be able to

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give them what they ask for?

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This is what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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is saying in that last third of the

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evening.

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Look at what Imam Al-Ghazali he says

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he says that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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mentions this that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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he will say هَلْ مِن سَائِنٍ هَلْ مِن

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مُسْتَغْفِرٍ هَلْ مِن تَائِبٍ These three things is

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there anybody that's going to call on me?

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Is there anybody that's going to ask me

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for forgiveness?

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Is there anyone that's going to repent to

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me?

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And imagine at that moment if the believer

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has no response.

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It's like that one time your parents feel

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generous right?

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And they're like you need anything?

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Just anything anything you want from me.

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You want something?

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And at that moment if you're like not

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even in the room and then that sale

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ends you're going to run to the train

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and be like no please please please please

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I actually have a lot of stuff I

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need and at that moment it's over though.

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You've missed the train it's over.

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This only happens in the last third of

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the night.

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هَلْ مِن سَائِنٍ Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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will say is there anything that you want

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to ask me?

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Now think about at that moment all of

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the things that you want to ask Allah

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Azzawajal.

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Allah can you give me some clarity in

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my life?

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I've been going through a lot of confusing

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situations.

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Allah why did that thing that happened to

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me a few months ago what was the

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wisdom behind it?

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هَلْ مِن مُسْتَغْفِرٍ Is there anyone that wants

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to ask me for forgiveness?

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And at that moment Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta

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'ala is opening up the doors of maghfirah

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for you.

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But imagine not being there to answer that

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call.

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هَلْ مِن تَائِبٍ Is there anyone that's going

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to repent to me?

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So that I may give them what they

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seek from that repentance and imagine that you

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missed that call.

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Allah is calling you but you're missing that

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call.

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Okay.

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Now I wanted to share a couple of

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things about the difference by the way between

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tawbah and istighfar because the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam he says هَلْ مِن مُسْتَغْفِرٍ هَلْ مِن

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تَائِبٍ There has to be a difference right?

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There has to be a difference between istighfar

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and tawbah.

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What's the difference?

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Anybody know?

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Anybody want to give a shot?

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What's the difference between istighfar and malik?

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Very good.

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You actually were mashallah very very beautifully you

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spoke.

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Tawbah is more of the process istighfar is

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more of the actual asking because the ulema

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they actually say tawbah and by the way

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if people are writing things down I 100

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% recommend this.

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Tawbah has a few steps has a few

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steps tawbah is a journey tawbah is not

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one singular action tawbah is a journey tawbah

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means that first and foremost you're stopping the

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sin you're stopping the sin you're not going

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to engage in the sin anymore that's the

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first step of tawbah the second step of

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tawbah is istighfar is to ask Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala for that forgiveness that's the

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second step to tawbah the third step of

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tawbah is to say I'm not going to

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go back to it I'm not going to

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go back to it I'm going to take

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this moment to commit and recommit my vow

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and my oath to Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala Allah I don't want to ever go

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back to that mistake that I made again

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I never want to go back and be

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known as a person who is who just

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involves themselves in this crime in this sin

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over and over again that's the third step

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and then the fourth step is to make

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sure that you feel remorseful over the sin

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that you committed remorse remorse is a good

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thing by the way we need remorse the

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remorse that is good will always lead you

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back to Allah the remorse that is bad

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will always lead you away from Allah so

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you have a question how do I know

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guilt is if my guilt is good or

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bad the guilt that leads you back to

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Allah is good guilt that leads you away

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from Allah is bad that's the recipe that's

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the equation right there that's what tawbah is

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istighfar ibn taymiyyah the scholar he mentions that

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istighfar actually is a dua istighfar is like

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a call to Allah Ya Allah forgive me

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forgive me Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah

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Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah

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Allah Allah Allah Allah of the prophet where

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he said whoever increases his prayers for forgiveness

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whoever increases themselves in their salah and their

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istighfar Allah will grant this person relief from

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worry how many people in here feel like

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anxiety is a big, big issue nowadays.

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Think about it.

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Anxiety on all fronts.

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Social, personal, emotional, right?

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Anxiety that's related to like your studies and

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academics.

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Anxiety about the future.

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Anxiety about life with your family, right?

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Anxiety about the unknown.

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I just don't know what's gonna happen in

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my life, right?

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Anxiety in moments of stress.

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I mean these are all moments of severe

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trials and tests from Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.

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The Prophet, he says a person who increases

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in their istighfar, Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala will

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relieve them from every worry they have in

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their life.

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Meaning, not that you're not gonna worry anymore,

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but you're going to be able to navigate

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your worries.

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You're gonna be able to navigate your worries.

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SubhanAllah, you know the beauty of Islam is

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not to take away your problems.

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The beauty of Islam is to be able

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to provide you a template to maneuver through

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your problems.

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That's what Islam provides.

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Islam doesn't say that, yeah, if you start

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praying, you will never be sad.

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Islam doesn't say, if you start making dua,

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you'll never be worried.

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Islam doesn't say that if you follow the

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Sunnah of the Prophet, you'll never be mad

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again.

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No, no, no.

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Islam never claims that.

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What Islam says is that if you follow

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the Sunnah, if you pray, if you make

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dua, if you spend time with Allah, your

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moments of anger, you'll be able to control

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it more.

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The moments of sadness will come and they

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will go.

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The moments of anxiety, you'll be able to

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figure it out eventually.

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You won't be stuck on it.

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That's the true tragedy.

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The true tragedy is a person who goes

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through these very human moments, but they're not

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able to get out of them.

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They're not able to get through them.

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Islam provides the manual to allow you to

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get through these moments of difficulty.

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That's what Islam does for people, okay.

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He says, Allah will grant them relief from

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every worry.

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A way out of every hardship.

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Look at that.

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Allah didn't say a way to avoid the

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hardship.

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He says, a way out of the hardship.

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You'll be in the hardship, but you'll also

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find a way out.

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You'll also find a way out.

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And provide for him in ways that they

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do not expect.

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They will find moments of relief from places

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they never saw coming, okay.

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This one I'm going to share with you

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guys, and this one is going to blow

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your mind, subhanAllah.

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It's about tawbah.

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Abu Umamah reported that the Prophet he said,

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verily the angel on the left side will

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raise his pen over the error or sin

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of a Muslim servant for six hours.

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That he will raise the pen over that

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sin for six hours.

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What does that mean?

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That when a believer makes a mistake or

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commits a sin, any sort of dhunub, the

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angel that's told to write that sin will

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raise that pen for six hours.

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Interesting amount of time, right?

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Why six hours?

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Listen to this.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, if this

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person sincerely regrets, sincerely regrets it and seeks

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forgiveness from Allah, the angel will throw it

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aside.

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The angel will throw that sin aside.

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Otherwise, it will be recorded as one singular

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sin.

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So what is what does this mean?

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It means that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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will tell the angel that is responsible to

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record your actions that are evil.

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Allah will tell that angel don't record anything

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for six hours.

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Why?

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Give that person a chance.

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Give that person a chance.

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It is very possible that within those six

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hours this person will ask me, ya Allah,

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please forgive me for that mistake I made.

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This is why it's such a huge sunnah

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to do your istighfar as often as possible.

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Every moment you get, every moment you get,

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stop and say, Allah, Allah forgive me.

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For what?

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I don't know, but there must be something.

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Get into that habit.

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Get into that habit.

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Imagine, and Allah, and this is proof that

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Allah doesn't want to punish.

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This is proof that Allah doesn't want to

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punish.

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It's like a teacher who lets you take

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an exam, and then after you turn it

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in, they're like, all right, six hours.

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You're like, for what?

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They're like, just take six hours.

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Think about if you made any mistakes.

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That person will go through that book.

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Oh man, I messed up.

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Let me go back to that teacher.

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How many of y'all have like mean

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teachers?

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The moment you turn it in, they're like,

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all right, get away from me now, right?

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Like there's no chance of making it up.

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The moment that, it's like, it's like a

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weird game of chess.

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The moment you take your finger off of

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that piece, it's like, it's over.

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It's over.

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It's game over for you.

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Allah says, no, no, you have six hours.

00:28:03 --> 00:28:05

You have half a day to think.

00:28:07 --> 00:28:09

Now, how unfortunate is the state of a

00:28:09 --> 00:28:11

person who doesn't even think?

00:28:12 --> 00:28:13

They just do things without a care in

00:28:13 --> 00:28:14

the world.

00:28:14 --> 00:28:16

Like, yeah, whatever, you know what, it's fine.

00:28:17 --> 00:28:18

I'll figure it out.

00:28:18 --> 00:28:18

No, no, no.

00:28:19 --> 00:28:20

Think about the things that we do.

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Allah does not want to punish.

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Allah wants to forgive.

00:28:24 --> 00:28:25

Allah wants to forgive, okay?

00:28:26 --> 00:28:30

And so here, Imam al-Ghazali, he finishes

00:28:30 --> 00:28:33

off with that narration that, is there anyone

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who seeks my forgiveness?

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Is there anyone who wants to repent?

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And then he says, it was narrated that

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a group of companions, may Allah subhanahu wa'ta

00:28:41 --> 00:28:47

'ala be pleased with them, they were mentioning

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Abdullah ibn Umar, okay?

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Now, this is very special.

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So, this group of companions, may Allah be

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pleased with them, they were remembering this companion,

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Abdullah ibn Umar.

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Anyone know Abdullah ibn Umar?

00:29:01 --> 00:29:02

Whose father was he?

00:29:03 --> 00:29:05

Umar ibn Khattab.

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This is the great Abdullah ibn Umar and

00:29:06 --> 00:29:07

Umar ibn Khattab.

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Anyone know what Abdullah ibn Umar was known

00:29:09 --> 00:29:09

for?

00:29:11 --> 00:29:12

He was a scholar.

00:29:13 --> 00:29:15

Not every companion, by the way, was a

00:29:15 --> 00:29:15

scholar.

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We should know that, by the way.

00:29:16 --> 00:29:19

Every companion of the Prophet, not all of

00:29:19 --> 00:29:20

them were like scholars of the deen.

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

Some of them were, you know, carpenters.

00:29:22 --> 00:29:23

Some of them were merchants.

00:29:23 --> 00:29:24

Some of them were agriculturalists.

00:29:24 --> 00:29:25

Some of them were farmers.

00:29:25 --> 00:29:25

Not everybody was a scholar.

00:29:26 --> 00:29:27

Abdullah ibn Umar was a scholar.

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So, they were all like sitting around and

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kind of like gassing up Abdullah ibn Umar.

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Like, man, Abdullah ibn Umar, mashallah, man, like

00:29:33 --> 00:29:35

this guy muhaddith right here, right?

00:29:35 --> 00:29:37

Like this guy knows his stuff.

00:29:37 --> 00:29:38

Everybody was like praising him, okay?

00:29:39 --> 00:29:42

Then, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, swung

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by.

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Abdullah ibn Umar was a young dude, mashallah,

00:29:45 --> 00:29:45

right?

00:29:45 --> 00:29:47

He was a young, young guy, young sahabi.

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So, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he

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swings by and he sees him and he

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says, He says, man, this guy's amazing, right?

00:29:59 --> 00:30:02

He says, what a great guy he was.

00:30:03 --> 00:30:05

Mashallah, he's a great person.

00:30:05 --> 00:30:13

He says, Only if he prayed a little

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bit more at night.

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Subhanallah.

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Now, I know what everyone's thinking.

00:30:18 --> 00:30:20

Everyone's like, man, did he have to come

00:30:20 --> 00:30:21

in here and just like destroy that guy?

00:30:22 --> 00:30:24

Like, everybody was like gassing him up and

00:30:24 --> 00:30:25

praising him.

00:30:25 --> 00:30:26

Like, did he have to really come in

00:30:26 --> 00:30:27

and be the Debbie Downer of the group?

00:30:28 --> 00:30:28

No, no, no.

00:30:28 --> 00:30:30

Check out why the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa

00:30:30 --> 00:30:30

sallam, said this.

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Number one, what did he start off with?

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Did he just start by criticizing him?

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No.

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He said, What a blessed person this guy

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is.

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What an amazing person this guy is.

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But, don't allow the praise to be everything.

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Y'all ever seen a person who only

00:30:50 --> 00:30:51

gets praised?

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What happens?

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A person walks around, they're like, a little

00:30:56 --> 00:30:58

bit of a half of myself, right?

00:30:58 --> 00:31:00

The guy memorized, like, Surat Al-Ikhlas one

00:31:00 --> 00:31:01

day, right?

00:31:02 --> 00:31:03

His sister comes to soul food one night.

00:31:04 --> 00:31:05

I'm a little bit of a Ghazali-ite

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

myself, actually, right?

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

Like, they're gonna host soul food in their

00:31:08 --> 00:31:09

own house the next day.

00:31:09 --> 00:31:09

Mashallah, right?

00:31:09 --> 00:31:10

May Allah bless you guys.

00:31:11 --> 00:31:12

Inshallah, if you're doing your own home, power

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

to you, right?

00:31:13 --> 00:31:15

Just don't take this one thing, by the

00:31:15 --> 00:31:17

way, I had the funniest story, and I

00:31:17 --> 00:31:18

can't use the live stream.

00:31:20 --> 00:31:24

I heard, I heard, I have to corroborate

00:31:24 --> 00:31:27

this report, but I heard that after soul

00:31:27 --> 00:31:30

food one night, there was a person who

00:31:30 --> 00:31:33

attended, who basically, this is, I think, back

00:31:33 --> 00:31:36

when we were doing the, was it the

00:31:36 --> 00:31:36

Dua series?

00:31:36 --> 00:31:38

Or maybe it was the, what was the

00:31:38 --> 00:31:38

series before, guys?

00:31:38 --> 00:31:41

It was the, I think it was like

00:31:41 --> 00:31:42

the Surah Al-Hujurat series, like, right before

00:31:42 --> 00:31:43

Ramadan, I think.

00:31:44 --> 00:31:46

So, whatever, we're doing one of those series,

00:31:46 --> 00:31:47

and somebody came up to me after, they're

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

like, Ustadh, Ustadh, I gotta tell you something

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

crazy.

00:31:50 --> 00:31:50

I was like, what?

00:31:50 --> 00:31:53

They go, dude, I went to UTD for

00:31:53 --> 00:31:57

Jummah today, and wallahi, the khatib, word for

00:31:57 --> 00:32:00

word, soul food from last night, and I

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

was like, word?

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

Really?

00:32:01 --> 00:32:03

Did he mention Aya as his son, as

00:32:03 --> 00:32:04

his daughter, too?

00:32:04 --> 00:32:06

Like, it's like, there's, like, but it's funny,

00:32:06 --> 00:32:08

I was like, I actually, alhamdulillah, honestly, it's

00:32:08 --> 00:32:09

actually a source of inspiration for me, that

00:32:09 --> 00:32:11

mashallah, that a person was so moved by

00:32:11 --> 00:32:12

it, that they want to kind of replicate

00:32:12 --> 00:32:13

it, inshallah, for their Jummah khutbah the next

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

day, but, but, but what I'm saying here

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

is that, like, the opposite is also kind

00:32:17 --> 00:32:19

of problematic, because the person just basically takes

00:32:19 --> 00:32:20

a little bit, and then they're like, run

00:32:20 --> 00:32:21

a mile with it, right?

00:32:21 --> 00:32:22

They're like, a little bit of a soul

00:32:22 --> 00:32:23

food teacher myself.

00:32:24 --> 00:32:25

By the way, the reason I do this

00:32:25 --> 00:32:26

is because I sit with my teachers for,

00:32:26 --> 00:32:28

like, 10 hours every single day, that's why,

00:32:28 --> 00:32:29

alhamdulillah, right?

00:32:29 --> 00:32:30

I get, I get slammed for 10 hours,

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

and then I teach you guys for 45

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

minutes, that's all I do.

00:32:33 --> 00:32:36

So, but, but, but just praise by itself

00:32:36 --> 00:32:39

is problematic, right?

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

You can't just praise somebody, and praise somebody,

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

and praise somebody.

00:32:42 --> 00:32:43

There has to be a little moment of

00:32:43 --> 00:32:43

teaching.

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

So what does the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa

00:32:44 --> 00:32:45

sallam, he do?

00:32:45 --> 00:32:48

He says, only if Abdullah bin Umar would

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

pray a little bit more in the evening.

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

Now, one of the reasons why he said

00:32:52 --> 00:32:53

this was, why?

00:32:54 --> 00:32:56

Is there any doubt that the Prophet, sallallahu

00:32:56 --> 00:32:56

alayhi wa sallam, was praying in the evening

00:32:56 --> 00:32:57

himself?

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

No.

00:32:59 --> 00:33:01

You know that he was the first person

00:33:01 --> 00:33:02

to follow his own advice.

00:33:02 --> 00:33:04

If he said, yeah, Abdullah bin Umar, I

00:33:04 --> 00:33:05

want you to pray a little bit more

00:33:05 --> 00:33:08

in the evening, guaranteed the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi

00:33:08 --> 00:33:10

wa sallam, is doing it himself, because it

00:33:10 --> 00:33:12

would be hypocritical at that moment.

00:33:12 --> 00:33:14

If he didn't do it himself, it would

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

be hypocritical.

00:33:15 --> 00:33:19

So, always, always practice what you preach, okay?

00:33:20 --> 00:33:25

Number two is, give people, like, correction in

00:33:25 --> 00:33:26

an empowering way.

00:33:27 --> 00:33:30

Like, make somebody feel that if you do

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

this, mashallah, man, you're gonna be taking it

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

to the next level.

00:33:34 --> 00:33:36

I praise you, you're already, mashallah, you're at,

00:33:36 --> 00:33:37

like, a really good state.

00:33:37 --> 00:33:39

But if you just add this to your

00:33:39 --> 00:33:42

repertoire, oh, you're gonna be, mashallah, man, you're

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

at the next level that you just unlocked.

00:33:45 --> 00:33:47

When you give advice to people, don't put

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

them down.

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

When you give advice to people, make them

00:33:50 --> 00:33:53

feel empowered by the advice you give them,

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

right?

00:33:53 --> 00:33:55

It'd be different if the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi

00:33:55 --> 00:33:56

wa sallam, came to Abdullah bin Umar and

00:33:56 --> 00:33:59

said, man, this guy sucks, he doesn't even

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

pray at night.

00:34:00 --> 00:34:02

No, no, no, what he said was, what

00:34:02 --> 00:34:05

an amazing person, if only he would pray

00:34:05 --> 00:34:07

more in the evening.

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

Empower them, okay?

00:34:10 --> 00:34:13

The next thing is that, help this person

00:34:13 --> 00:34:14

get there.

00:34:15 --> 00:34:17

Don't just give random advice and be like,

00:34:17 --> 00:34:18

all right, man, go do your thing.

00:34:19 --> 00:34:25

Give advice and give positive, like, realistic steps

00:34:25 --> 00:34:26

to get that person there.

00:34:27 --> 00:34:28

A person comes to you and they're like,

00:34:29 --> 00:34:30

man, you should really stop backbiting.

00:34:31 --> 00:34:32

No, no, no.

00:34:33 --> 00:34:35

Habibi, I need, what do you mean by

00:34:35 --> 00:34:35

that, right?

00:34:35 --> 00:34:37

Like, I didn't even know I had that

00:34:37 --> 00:34:37

problem.

00:34:38 --> 00:34:39

The person that you're speaking to may not

00:34:39 --> 00:34:41

even know they're going through it, right?

00:34:41 --> 00:34:41

Has that happened before?

00:34:41 --> 00:34:43

Like, hey, so I'm gonna let you know

00:34:43 --> 00:34:46

right now, you're a pathological liar, right?

00:34:46 --> 00:34:47

Like, what?

00:34:48 --> 00:34:50

God, I didn't even know that.

00:34:50 --> 00:34:50

Really?

00:34:51 --> 00:34:51

Like, yeah, man.

00:34:52 --> 00:34:53

All right, have a good day, right?

00:34:53 --> 00:34:54

Like, no, no, no.

00:34:55 --> 00:34:55

Explain.

00:34:56 --> 00:34:57

Help.

00:34:57 --> 00:34:59

Like, yeah, I've noticed a couple of times

00:34:59 --> 00:35:01

where, like, you stress the truth a little

00:35:01 --> 00:35:01

bit.

00:35:01 --> 00:35:02

I just want to let you know, as

00:35:02 --> 00:35:04

a person who cares about you, like, I

00:35:04 --> 00:35:04

want to help.

00:35:04 --> 00:35:06

I want to help, like, I was also

00:35:06 --> 00:35:08

going through this as well, right?

00:35:09 --> 00:35:10

That's nasiha.

00:35:11 --> 00:35:12

Nasiha is not vague.

00:35:13 --> 00:35:14

Nasiha is specific.

00:35:15 --> 00:35:15

Give a person specifics.

00:35:16 --> 00:35:18

Anybody been given advice or criticism that's been

00:35:18 --> 00:35:19

so vague that it actually did more harm

00:35:19 --> 00:35:20

to them?

00:35:21 --> 00:35:21

They come up to you and they just,

00:35:21 --> 00:35:24

like, lay on, like, one ambiguous tweet, and

00:35:24 --> 00:35:25

then they just walk away from you.

00:35:26 --> 00:35:29

I'm like, bro, wallah, I'm gonna go through

00:35:29 --> 00:35:29

anxiety tonight.

00:35:29 --> 00:35:32

Like, you just left me with the most

00:35:32 --> 00:35:34

ambiguous tweet of all time.

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

No, no, no.

00:35:36 --> 00:35:39

Give this person something to work with, right?

00:35:39 --> 00:35:42

The Prophet ﷺ guarantee you he would lead

00:35:42 --> 00:35:43

to hajj in the middle of the evening

00:35:43 --> 00:35:44

sometimes for his companions.

00:35:45 --> 00:35:45

Come join me.

00:35:45 --> 00:35:46

I'll be there.

00:35:46 --> 00:35:48

We'll do it together, right?

00:35:48 --> 00:35:50

This is nasiha that's actionable.

00:35:50 --> 00:35:52

The next thing is be patient.

00:35:53 --> 00:35:54

Be patient.

00:35:55 --> 00:35:58

The Prophet ﷺ doesn't expect Abdullah to become,

00:35:58 --> 00:36:01

like, a person who prays in the middle

00:36:01 --> 00:36:03

of the evening every single day from that

00:36:03 --> 00:36:04

moment moving forward.

00:36:04 --> 00:36:05

No, no, no.

00:36:05 --> 00:36:06

I give them advice.

00:36:07 --> 00:36:09

I'll give them time now, right?

00:36:15 --> 00:36:19

Be patient upon anything that befalls you.

00:36:19 --> 00:36:21

Don't expect that just because you gave advice

00:36:21 --> 00:36:22

that someone's gonna follow it.

00:36:23 --> 00:36:25

Be patient with that person, okay?

00:36:26 --> 00:36:27

And then the last thing that I want

00:36:27 --> 00:36:31

to mention from this particular hadith is the

00:36:31 --> 00:36:34

reason why he gave Abdullah ibn Umar this

00:36:34 --> 00:36:37

advice is because he knew that Abdullah ibn

00:36:37 --> 00:36:41

Umar, his standards were also extremely high, right?

00:36:42 --> 00:36:44

You always meet people where they're at.

00:36:45 --> 00:36:46

I'm not going to go to a person

00:36:46 --> 00:36:50

who barely prays once a and says, hey

00:36:50 --> 00:36:50

man, tahajjud?

00:36:51 --> 00:36:52

You should think about that thing.

00:36:53 --> 00:36:53

No, no, no.

00:36:53 --> 00:36:56

That person's praying one of their five salawats.

00:36:57 --> 00:36:59

What's a more, what's a better advice for

00:36:59 --> 00:36:59

that person?

00:37:00 --> 00:37:02

Hey, like, do you want to come pray

00:37:02 --> 00:37:03

dhuhr with me sometimes?

00:37:03 --> 00:37:04

That's more realistic.

00:37:05 --> 00:37:06

Y'all ever go up to somebody, like,

00:37:06 --> 00:37:08

who's like, you've seen this happen in front

00:37:08 --> 00:37:08

of you?

00:37:08 --> 00:37:09

They're, they're, they're struggling.

00:37:09 --> 00:37:10

They're struggling in their deen.

00:37:11 --> 00:37:12

And then one person out of nowhere comes

00:37:12 --> 00:37:12

in.

00:37:12 --> 00:37:14

They're like, so does Zabiha actually?

00:37:15 --> 00:37:18

Like, please, for the love of God and

00:37:18 --> 00:37:19

the entire ummah, bas.

00:37:23 --> 00:37:25

Please, like, stop it.

00:37:26 --> 00:37:29

That person is even struggling with their basics.

00:37:30 --> 00:37:33

Don't bring up something that's like a little

00:37:33 --> 00:37:35

bit more, you know, advanced.

00:37:36 --> 00:37:37

Get that person to home base.

00:37:38 --> 00:37:40

Get that person to the, to the start

00:37:40 --> 00:37:40

of their race.

00:37:40 --> 00:37:42

Don't try to get them to like the

00:37:42 --> 00:37:44

finish line, even before they even started.

00:37:45 --> 00:37:45

No, no, no.

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Grow that person.

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The reason why Abdullah ibn Umar was given

00:37:48 --> 00:37:50

that advice is because he was already, mashallah,

00:37:50 --> 00:37:51

an exceptional person.

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An exceptional person.

00:37:54 --> 00:37:54

Okay.

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And so we'll end with this, inshallah, the

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last line here in the, uh, lesson for

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today.

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He says here, The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,

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he said to one of his companions, Oh,

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oh, so and so.

00:38:19 --> 00:38:22

Don't sleep too much in the evening.

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Okay.

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Don't sleep too much in the evening.

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He says, for a person who sleeps too

00:38:41 --> 00:38:45

long at night, and they make sleep too

00:38:45 --> 00:38:51

much of a thing for themselves, becomes They

00:38:51 --> 00:38:53

become poor on the day of judgment.

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SubhanAllah.

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Like, think about this, right?

00:38:59 --> 00:39:03

A person who spends all evening just sleeping

00:39:03 --> 00:39:06

away, they're robbing themselves on the day of

00:39:06 --> 00:39:06

judgment.

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Because Allah has made the evening something of

00:39:09 --> 00:39:12

beauty, not for like, just socializing.

00:39:13 --> 00:39:15

Allah has made the evening a chance for

00:39:15 --> 00:39:18

every single one of us to meet him

00:39:18 --> 00:39:20

in a time when other people may be

00:39:20 --> 00:39:21

asleep.

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When other people may be just completely unconscious,

00:39:26 --> 00:39:29

they don't even think about And this is

00:39:29 --> 00:39:30

why the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he would

00:39:30 --> 00:39:39

say, Pray in the evening while other people

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

sleep.

00:39:41 --> 00:39:42

Be the exceptional.

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Be the, be the, be the one that

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on the day of judgment, SubhanAllah.

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Can you imagine going up to Allah, SubhanAllah,

00:39:50 --> 00:39:51

on the day of judgment?

00:39:52 --> 00:39:55

And you have these memories with Allah, SubhanAllah,

00:39:55 --> 00:39:56

that a lot of other people don't.

00:39:58 --> 00:40:00

You have these memories, you're like, yeah, Allah,

00:40:00 --> 00:40:00

remember?

00:40:01 --> 00:40:04

Remember that one time we spoke and at

00:40:04 --> 00:40:06

night, it was like 4 a.m. I

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woke up a little bit early.

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I made that dua and Allah will say,

00:40:10 --> 00:40:11

I, I, I know.

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I know that moment that you're talking about.

00:40:14 --> 00:40:16

And it's because of that moment that you

00:40:16 --> 00:40:17

will, InshaAllah, enter this paradise.

00:40:18 --> 00:40:19

So think about it.

00:40:19 --> 00:40:20

Think about that.

00:40:20 --> 00:40:23

So I wanted to share this last narration

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with you, InshaAllah.

00:40:24 --> 00:40:26

We'll call it a class for this Thursday.

00:40:28 --> 00:40:30

This evening prayer, right?

00:40:31 --> 00:40:34

There's something that's so beautiful about it that

00:40:34 --> 00:40:39

the Prophet ﷺ, he said one time, you

00:40:39 --> 00:40:42

must perform the evening prayer.

00:40:42 --> 00:40:43

He said that.

00:40:43 --> 00:40:45

He said, you must perform it.

00:40:51 --> 00:40:53

You have to try it sometimes.

00:40:53 --> 00:40:55

Like, you know, like when you're, you know,

00:40:55 --> 00:40:57

when you like eat like a really beautiful

00:40:57 --> 00:40:57

dish at like a restaurant.

00:40:58 --> 00:40:59

Like you like go tell your friends about

00:40:59 --> 00:40:59

it.

00:40:59 --> 00:41:01

You're like, dude, I'm telling you right now

00:41:01 --> 00:41:03

that taco was insane.

00:41:04 --> 00:41:05

I don't even know how to like describe

00:41:05 --> 00:41:05

it.

00:41:05 --> 00:41:06

Right?

00:41:06 --> 00:41:07

Like that biryani was nuts.

00:41:08 --> 00:41:09

How do you describe that?

00:41:09 --> 00:41:09

Right?

00:41:10 --> 00:41:11

They just, you have to try it.

00:41:11 --> 00:41:11

Y'all ever tried that?

00:41:11 --> 00:41:12

I'm like, you just have to try it.

00:41:13 --> 00:41:13

I can't describe it to you.

00:41:13 --> 00:41:14

Tell me what it was like.

00:41:14 --> 00:41:15

I'm like, I can't.

00:41:15 --> 00:41:16

Well, I can't.

00:41:16 --> 00:41:17

I don't have enough words.

00:41:17 --> 00:41:19

I can't describe my, my academics only took

00:41:19 --> 00:41:19

me so far.

00:41:19 --> 00:41:21

Not enough adjectives in my verb, in my

00:41:21 --> 00:41:21

vocabulary.

00:41:22 --> 00:41:23

You just got to try that thing.

00:41:24 --> 00:41:26

The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is literally in

00:41:26 --> 00:41:29

this hadith saying, you have to try Qiyamul

00:41:29 --> 00:41:29

Layl.

00:41:30 --> 00:41:32

You have to try Qiyamul Layl.

00:41:32 --> 00:41:33

Could you imagine man?

00:41:33 --> 00:41:34

Like the flex is insane.

00:41:35 --> 00:41:36

You got to try that dua.

00:41:37 --> 00:41:39

He goes, you have to try Qiyamul Layl.

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

You have to try praying at nighttime.

00:41:41 --> 00:41:41

Why?

00:41:42 --> 00:41:46

He says, because those who came before you

00:41:46 --> 00:41:49

that were close to Allah used to also

00:41:49 --> 00:41:49

pray at night.

00:41:51 --> 00:41:55

Everyone who succeeded, they said this night prayer

00:41:55 --> 00:41:57

is incomparable to anything else in my life.

00:41:57 --> 00:41:58

It's like going on like Yelp and seeing

00:41:58 --> 00:42:00

like everybody, like 4.7 out of five.

00:42:01 --> 00:42:03

It's like going to Agas in Houston.

00:42:03 --> 00:42:04

Y'all don't think I know about that?

00:42:04 --> 00:42:05

The GoChops are crazy.

00:42:05 --> 00:42:08

So like, like everybody likes it.

00:42:09 --> 00:42:10

Everybody likes it.

00:42:11 --> 00:42:11

MashaAllah, man.

00:42:11 --> 00:42:13

Like there's not one bad review.

00:42:13 --> 00:42:15

Everyone who was righteous and pious before you,

00:42:15 --> 00:42:19

they said Qiyamul Layl changed their life.

00:42:19 --> 00:42:20

That's number one.

00:42:20 --> 00:42:22

Believe that there are people before you that

00:42:22 --> 00:42:23

also enjoyed Qiyamul Layl.

00:42:24 --> 00:42:24

Okay.

00:42:25 --> 00:42:27

The second thing he says is that it

00:42:27 --> 00:42:30

brings you closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta

00:42:30 --> 00:42:30

'ala.

00:42:38 --> 00:42:40

That night prayer brings you closer to Allah

00:42:40 --> 00:42:43

than anything else that we've ever experienced.

00:42:44 --> 00:42:45

Anything else.

00:42:45 --> 00:42:46

Okay.

00:42:46 --> 00:42:51

And then he says, and it expiates your

00:42:51 --> 00:42:52

evil deeds.

00:42:57 --> 00:42:59

It takes away your evil deeds.

00:43:00 --> 00:43:01

Everything that you've done.

00:43:01 --> 00:43:04

You're just sitting there talking to Allah and

00:43:04 --> 00:43:07

sins are just falling off of your soul.

00:43:08 --> 00:43:11

The sins that you committed unknowingly are just

00:43:11 --> 00:43:12

being shed off of your body.

00:43:13 --> 00:43:13

Okay.

00:43:14 --> 00:43:19

And at the end, he says, and it

00:43:19 --> 00:43:22

prevents you from sinning again.

00:43:22 --> 00:43:23

SubhanAllah.

00:43:24 --> 00:43:27

It'll, it'll prevent you from engaging in more

00:43:27 --> 00:43:27

sins.

00:43:28 --> 00:43:30

So a person who prays in the evening,

00:43:30 --> 00:43:31

it's stamped.

00:43:31 --> 00:43:34

Everybody before you that's successful has done it.

00:43:35 --> 00:43:38

It'll bring you closer to Allah than any

00:43:38 --> 00:43:39

other thing that you've ever tried.

00:43:40 --> 00:43:43

It'll expiate your past sins and it will

00:43:43 --> 00:43:45

help you stay away from future ones.

00:43:46 --> 00:43:48

I mean, this is a recipe in which

00:43:48 --> 00:43:49

you can see that Imam Ghazali, he quotes

00:43:49 --> 00:43:54

here, that a person who's smart, they don't

00:43:54 --> 00:43:55

rob themselves of that opportunity.

00:43:56 --> 00:43:58

They don't rob themselves of that opportunity.

00:43:58 --> 00:44:00

And a person who's too into their sleep,

00:44:01 --> 00:44:07

they become By the way, in linguistic terminology

00:44:07 --> 00:44:09

is a step lower than miskeen.

00:44:10 --> 00:44:12

Miskeen is like, you know, they're poor.

00:44:13 --> 00:44:15

They may need help, but they have the

00:44:15 --> 00:44:15

bare necessities.

00:44:16 --> 00:44:17

They eat once in a while.

00:44:17 --> 00:44:20

They have some form of shelter, but they

00:44:20 --> 00:44:20

are masakin.

00:44:21 --> 00:44:21

They're very poor.

00:44:23 --> 00:44:27

People who are absolutely destitute, they have nothing.

00:44:28 --> 00:44:29

They have nothing.

00:44:30 --> 00:44:32

Forget about being miskeen on Yawm al-Qiyamah.

00:44:33 --> 00:44:34

SubhanAllah, think about what it means to be

00:44:34 --> 00:44:36

a faqeer on Yawm al-Qiyamah.

00:44:37 --> 00:44:39

A person who has nothing on Yawm al

00:44:39 --> 00:44:39

-Qiyamah.

00:44:40 --> 00:44:42

We ask Allah to protect us from that

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

state.

00:44:44 --> 00:44:47

We're going to pause there for this Thursday.

00:44:48 --> 00:44:50

And then inshallah, next Thursday, we'll continue on.

00:44:51 --> 00:44:53

Next Thursday is going to all be about

00:44:53 --> 00:44:54

dhikr.

00:44:55 --> 00:44:56

Dhikr is powerful, by the way.

00:44:56 --> 00:44:57

Dhikr, by the way, just to kind of

00:44:57 --> 00:44:58

preview to you guys.

00:44:58 --> 00:45:01

Dhikr has no prerequisite, subhanAllah.

00:45:02 --> 00:45:04

You can just sit there.

00:45:05 --> 00:45:06

There's two types of dhikr, by the way.

00:45:07 --> 00:45:09

Dhikr al-lisani, by the tongue.

00:45:10 --> 00:45:12

And dhikr qalbi, dhikr of the heart.

00:45:13 --> 00:45:14

We're inshallah going to talk about both of

00:45:14 --> 00:45:16

those concepts inshallah next Thursday.

00:45:16 --> 00:45:17

We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

00:45:17 --> 00:45:18

accept from us.

00:45:18 --> 00:45:20

We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

00:45:20 --> 00:45:22

allow us to be people who benefit from

00:45:22 --> 00:45:23

these gatherings.

00:45:23 --> 00:45:24

We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

00:45:24 --> 00:45:26

allow us to be people who spend a

00:45:26 --> 00:45:28

little bit of time in the evening with

00:45:28 --> 00:45:29

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

00:45:29 --> 00:45:30

And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:45:30 --> 00:45:32

to allow us to follow in the footsteps

00:45:32 --> 00:45:36

of his greatest creation, Habib Rasulallah salallahu alayhi

00:45:36 --> 00:45:36

wasalam.

00:45:36 --> 00:45:38

And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:45:38 --> 00:45:40

to make us of those who are worthy

00:45:40 --> 00:45:41

of his jannah.

00:45:41 --> 00:45:42

And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:45:42 --> 00:45:45

to remove all the hardships from anybody who's

00:45:45 --> 00:45:47

going through any difficulty in this room, in

00:45:47 --> 00:45:48

this hall.

00:45:48 --> 00:45:49

We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

00:45:49 --> 00:45:51

alleviate them from their pain.

00:45:51 --> 00:45:52

And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

00:45:52 --> 00:45:54

to free the people of Gaza.

00:45:54 --> 00:45:56

We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

00:45:56 --> 00:45:57

free the people of Gaza.

00:45:57 --> 00:45:58

We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

00:45:58 --> 00:45:59

free the people of Gaza.

00:46:06 --> 00:46:12

We have a college fireside session, I believe

00:46:12 --> 00:46:13

next Friday.

00:46:13 --> 00:46:15

Not tomorrow, but next Friday inshallah.

00:46:15 --> 00:46:16

So mark that on your calendars.

00:46:17 --> 00:46:18

We want to do this like once a

00:46:18 --> 00:46:20

month inshallah, where we gather all of our

00:46:20 --> 00:46:22

college students inshallah around the DFW area.

00:46:22 --> 00:46:23

We're going to do a fireside session next

00:46:23 --> 00:46:25

to a bonfire, have some snacks and some

00:46:25 --> 00:46:26

good drinks inshallah.

00:46:27 --> 00:46:30

We'll be doing that next Friday after the

00:46:30 --> 00:46:31

soul food session inshallah next week.

00:46:31 --> 00:46:33

All right, thank you so much.

00:46:37 --> 00:46:41

Oh subhanallah, would you like to come up

00:46:41 --> 00:46:41

inshallah?

00:46:41 --> 00:46:42

Is that okay?

00:46:42 --> 00:46:43

You're beautiful.

00:46:43 --> 00:46:44

Come up inshallah, come up.

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

We'd love to have you.

00:46:47 --> 00:46:51

We can inshallah actually just maybe even we

00:46:51 --> 00:46:53

can even go off the mic.

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