Safi Khan – Soul Food Tafsir of Surah AlQasas Chapter 28 for College Students

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The book Club is hosting a follow-up week of Book Club's spring book club. The speakers emphasize the importance of not being affected by the virus and finding time to explore the Quran. They also discuss the importance of being mindful of people and not letting anyone know how to handle one's actions. The importance of personal development and compassion in learning to be a good person to be around is emphasized. The segment ends with advice on being aware of oneself and being a part of the community.

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			Alright.
		
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			Welcome. We are here today for,
		
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			our follow
		
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			up week of Eid,
		
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			with soul food. Really, really happy to be
		
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			here with everybody.
		
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			I know that, you know, we we we
		
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			hope we had a really good, day of
		
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			last Friday, had a good time catching up
		
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			with our our family.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			I'm the last carrier. It's not getting back
		
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			to the clinic things. I know the primary
		
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			is learning and literally, like, can you so
		
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			yeah. It's like,
		
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			a purchase that I had made last year.
		
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			And I was like, oh, yeah. That was
		
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			5 months ago. And it's like, wait. Wait.
		
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			I did that in October of 2019, and
		
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			it's almost it's, like, 2 months away from
		
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			being October 2020. And so I don't know
		
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			how your year has been in terms of
		
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			its,
		
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			flight. But yeah.
		
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			I feel like this summer, like, this summer
		
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			was so weird because it was so slow,
		
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			but it went by so fast.
		
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			Yep. So when I was sitting down, it's
		
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			like, oh, man. Like, you know, I have
		
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			the rest someone emailed a question. They're like,
		
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			yeah. I need this for the summer, and
		
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			I'm like, yeah. I don't know why they're
		
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			emailing
		
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			so early. Like, we have so much time.
		
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			Yeah. And I was like, no. We're at
		
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			the end of summer. Like, school people are
		
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			from school.
		
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			So much that has happened. I'm like, wow.
		
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			This summer has went by so fast,
		
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			but the days are so
		
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			slow. It's so, Ajib. I it's like it's
		
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			like an episode of, like if anybody's watched
		
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			the the show called Black Mirror, like, it's
		
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			almost like an episode of where it's like
		
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			it's like really trippy. Right? You're like, oh,
		
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			wait. It's already it's already August, but why
		
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			don't the day seem like they're like 40
		
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			hours long? It's like it's it's really like
		
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			it's it's it's messing with people's minds, but
		
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			you know, life continues and moves on and,
		
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			you know,
		
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			the the the next year has has good
		
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			in store for everybody and their families and
		
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			their and their loved ones
		
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			And so, you know, we're we're we're back
		
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			and, you know, it was another crazy thing.
		
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			I remember we were I I was in
		
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			a meeting last night with some of our,
		
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			our our youth committee here at Roots, and,
		
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			we do this thing called a Friday weekly
		
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			check-in.
		
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			And,
		
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			one I was like, because now I don't
		
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			have any feedback for, you know, this coming
		
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			months of the check ins. And they said,
		
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			well, you know, is it possible for us
		
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			to move it to a later time in
		
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			the day on Friday? And I was like,
		
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			oh, that's that's weird. Why is that? And
		
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			they're like, well, school starts next week.
		
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			And I'm like, wait. Wait. What? I'll I'll
		
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			I'll I'll do the I I did the
		
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			double pick. I was like, school starts next
		
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			week. Oh my god. It's, like, mid August
		
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			next week. Like, it it really threw me
		
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			off in terms of how fast, like, you
		
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			know, that that time goes. But, honestly, man,
		
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			right, end up in 7th April, sir. It's
		
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			it's
		
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			it's crazy. Crazy. I was just talking to
		
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			my mom about it too.
		
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			And she was just like because I I
		
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			was telling her, you know, I got to
		
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			see my mom for the past
		
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			week. And, you
		
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			know, I was like, these past couple of
		
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			months have been hard.
		
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			I'm not seeing you. She was like, yeah.
		
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			It's been a year.
		
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			I was like, a year. She's like, yep.
		
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			The last time I was here was July
		
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			4th. I left July 4, 2019.
		
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			Oh my gosh.
		
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			August on July 31, 2020. So I was
		
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			like, wow. It's definitely been a year. That
		
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			is that is insane.
		
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			SubhanAllah. SubhanAllah. If anybody's, you know, y'all are
		
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			watching and
		
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			you're kind of feeling the same way that,
		
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			like, time is just
		
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			really, really just swinging away, you know, this
		
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			this past year. I think everyone is so
		
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			caught up with, like, the pandemic and coronavirus
		
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			and everything like that. But, you know, what's
		
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			crazy is that,
		
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			like, Allah
		
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			I I you know, but in the manor
		
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			story, you know, when Allah gives something, like,
		
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			he follows it up with something that's easy.
		
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			And, you know, I don't think anyone can
		
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			deny,
		
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			you know, those those of us who are,
		
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			you
		
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			so blessed to not be affected, you know,
		
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			too directly by the virus itself. We can
		
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			say that, you know, at least time is
		
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			going by and things are kind of, you
		
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			know, getting inshallah inshallah a little bit better
		
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			as as as the as the days continue
		
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			on. And so, you know, we're we're here
		
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			back at roots and inshallah, a lot of
		
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			cool things in store for this, you know,
		
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			coming semester here at roots. We have a
		
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			lot of plans coming up, you know, I
		
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			know for sure, you're
		
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			obviously continuing all with the woman study circle
		
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			and the and exploring the Quran queries that
		
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			you do on Wednesdays and, you know, we're
		
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			back with soul food and inshallah, we're gonna
		
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			be doing some cool college programs upcoming this
		
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			semester. And then I have a brand new
		
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			series starting for teams on Monday,
		
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			literally called the 5, which is, essentially gonna
		
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			be like a feeda 101,
		
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			for for for teens. It's gonna be something
		
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			that's really interesting. So we have a lot
		
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			of things in the works, though, hamdulillah, we're
		
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			glad that you guys are be able to
		
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			join the, the semester inshallah. So today,
		
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			we are basically wrapping up, kind of, like,
		
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			putting a high on the story of prophet
		
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			Noods alaihi salaam. Right?
		
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			Because next Thursday,
		
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			we're starting a that's in the same Surah,
		
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			we're gonna be finishing these Surah Qasas this
		
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			coming month of August, in this month of
		
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			August. But the last 15 to 20 verses
		
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			in is actually the I said the last
		
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			15 to 16 verses
		
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			is about a person by the name of
		
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			Farum. And so today, we're actually wrapping up
		
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			in verses 73 or 74 and 75. We're
		
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			wrapping up the the the lessons from the
		
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			story of prophet Musa Alaihi Salam.
		
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			And in the first aya, if you guys
		
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			have your virtual Quran's or your PDF's or
		
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			your apps on your phone, whatever you may
		
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			have with you. The first verse that we're
		
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			gonna be talking about today is verse 74.
		
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			Verse 74 in Surah Al Qasas, which is
		
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			the 28th chapter of the Quran. Allah
		
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			he talks about a date. Right? He says,
		
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			right? That that there will be a date
		
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			that will come.
		
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			That there will be a day that will
		
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			come when he will call out to people
		
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			saying, where are the partners that you associated
		
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			with me? Where are where are the things
		
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			that occupied your time
		
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			that you've spent rather than giving me my
		
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			rights and my and my my deal? What
		
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			what what where are those things now? And
		
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			so, you know, myself and myself, Fatima, we're
		
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			talking a little bit ago, and we're kind
		
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			of bringing up this idea that sometimes
		
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			this verse really really for a lot of
		
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			young
		
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			that, you know, there are times where
		
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			life gets very real. Right? For example, when
		
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			you're sitting down, you're getting ready to take
		
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			an exam, life becomes very real at that
		
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			moment. Right? Sometimes that week leading up to
		
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			the exam, we may be able to flee
		
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			from the reality of the exam or the
		
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			quiz or the or the test. But when
		
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			you sit down in that chair and your
		
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			teacher's like, alright, you got 1 hour, here
		
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			here it is, your final exam that's gonna
		
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			determine whether you go and you get your
		
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			credit for this course or not. And life
		
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			is super real. So, Sala Fatima,
		
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			how do you relate to this ayah? How
		
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			do you relate to this verse as a
		
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			young Muslim yourself, and also as a person
		
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			who's been in a community of young
		
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			people? I think that one of the biggest
		
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			ways that one of the biggest things that
		
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			I see when I when I listen to
		
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			this ayah is that a lot of times
		
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			we think, okay, like, this is talking about
		
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			the disbelievers and how they associated partners with
		
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			the Allah, and
		
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			now that is the day of judgment. Now
		
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			Allah is asking them, you know, where are
		
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			those people or those things that you're associated
		
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			with?
		
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			And when I think about these verses, I,
		
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			like, try to think about a little bit
		
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			about myself
		
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			or my friends or, like, whatever kind of
		
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			situation you're in. Like, especially when you're in
		
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			college. Right? You're in college, you say like
		
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			you live with your parents right now, things
		
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			are are very hard. You know, people are
		
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			a lot of people are still staying with
		
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			their parents and stuff, not going to dorms
		
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			and stuff like that. And, you know, your
		
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			parents are always telling you, like, you're, like,
		
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			I'm going to see so and so. I'm
		
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			going to hang out with so and so.
		
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			And your parents are kinda like, well, why
		
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			do you hang out with that person so
		
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			much? Like, why don't you spend time with
		
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			the family? Or why do you go there
		
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			so much? Why don't you spend time with
		
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			the family? And granted, like,
		
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			family's family, so they can be a little
		
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			extra sometimes.
		
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			And when you get in trouble or, like,
		
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			something crazy happens
		
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			and you end up feeling like you're all
		
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			alone, like, where are those friends? Where are
		
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			those people that, you know, you were you
		
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			were, you know, you were okay with arguing
		
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			with your family about just to see them.
		
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			You're okay with arguing and and making bad
		
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			blood between you and your family members just
		
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			to hang out with them. And now that
		
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			things are very difficult or things are very
		
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			hard and you need somebody to be there
		
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			or you need somebody that you can lean
		
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			on, you don't have anyone, that is a
		
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			very important thing. That is a very important
		
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			reason why it's so important for us to
		
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			be mindful of the people
		
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			that we are around.
		
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			And it's it's not saying don't have friends.
		
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			It's not saying don't depend on people. Don't
		
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			lean on people. But it's saying be wise
		
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			in the people that you choose. Be wise
		
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			in the things that you choose to do
		
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			in this world. Because
		
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			because
		
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			when you when you are not wise about
		
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			that, when you're not,
		
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			when you're not wise about it, when you
		
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			really don't don't actually put a lot of
		
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			thought into it, when things really get difficult
		
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			and things really hit the fan,
		
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			you will find yourself being alone. And that's
		
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			not the definition of friendship. That's not the
		
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			true definition
		
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			of having people being there for you. You
		
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			know? Mhmm. So for me, I learned that
		
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			a lot in college. I learned a lot
		
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			in college that especially my 1st semester of
		
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			college, I had so many friends
		
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			friends.
		
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			Mhmm.
		
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			Quotation marks. I had so many friends, so
		
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			many people that I would hang out with
		
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			and so on and so forth. But when
		
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			things got difficult,
		
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			you know, it there wasn't so many.
		
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			There's just 1 or 2 or whatever the
		
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			case may be. And I learned in that
		
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			moment the importance of,
		
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			you know, just being selective with who I
		
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			will sacrifice sacrifice students for and who I
		
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			wouldn't. And
		
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			what the why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells
		
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			us, you know, to be mindful of the
		
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			people that we're around. Waida, prophet tells us,
		
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			you know,
		
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			that so talks so much about companionship and
		
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			things of that nature.
		
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			And so we don't wanna end up and
		
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			I know these are examples about this world,
		
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			but we don't wanna end up in the
		
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			hereafter
		
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			where we're standing before Allah's content, and we
		
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			have sacrificed our salah to hang out with
		
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			so and so, or we should sacrifice our
		
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			fast because, you know, this person's taking this,
		
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			and I don't want them to think that
		
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			I'm super religious.
		
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			Or we sacrifice, you know, all kinds of
		
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			things for people who, on the day of
		
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			judgment, are not they don't have anything.
		
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			You know? They don't have anything
		
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			there to present to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			We don't wanna be in that situation where
		
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			Allah is asking us. You know? Allah is
		
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			asking us, and the shuraka,
		
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			We're the people you chose over me in
		
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			your life.
		
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			Where you decided, you know, hang out with
		
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			them, be with them, do all these things
		
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			for them, what was more important than your
		
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			worship to me. Where are those people now?
		
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			So that's that is something that I was
		
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			really thinking about when I heard this particular
		
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			verse.
		
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			Yeah. That's actually really powerful because it almost
		
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			kind of segues into
		
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			the next aya that, you know, Allah Khna
		
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			mentions in the Surah.
		
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			And in the next Ayah, it kind of
		
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			mentions, you know, something that you were kinda
		
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			lightly touching upon, which is the idea of
		
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			being held accountable
		
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			for for for for your actions. Because, you
		
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			know, one thing I think a lot of
		
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			people and I know I'm I myself struggle
		
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			with this as well,
		
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			is bringing a sense of reality to our
		
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			actions in this life. Right? Because, you know,
		
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			the the the the reality of this life
		
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			is that it almost presents to you this
		
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			facade
		
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			that
		
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			you can you can get away with things.
		
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			Right? But you can just brush certain things
		
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			under the rug because the nature of this
		
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			life itself is that one of, you know,
		
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			hiding. Right? You can you can hide whatever
		
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			you wanna hide. I mean, if I wanna
		
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			lie to somebody and I wanna kind of,
		
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			you know, brush it under the rug, I'm
		
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			able to do it. Or if I want
		
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			to sneak away and do something, or if
		
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			I want
		
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			to not do something that I'm supposed to
		
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			do, I can flee from my responsibilities and
		
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			somehow get away with it where nobody will
		
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			find out ever. But in this ayah, right,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala kinda makes it very,
		
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			very clear where he actually says,
		
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			right, that we will call a witness from
		
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			every ummah. Right? We'll call a witness from
		
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			every ummah. And so a lot of people
		
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			are like, oh, what's the witness here? Like,
		
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			who's the witness that's gonna be called from
		
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			every ummah? Is it gonna be me? Like,
		
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			am I gonna have to represent Dallas, Texas,
		
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			like, alone? This is really funny because Carr
		
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			is supposed to be just logged on, and
		
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			he is not the person in Dallas, Texas
		
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			to I gotta call him up. I gotta
		
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			call him up.
		
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			So so you see how it's not a
		
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			problem with faces change. It's
		
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			there's a lot.
		
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			We'll cover that at a at a later
		
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			session. We don't get too much attention. Don't
		
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			get too much fuel. Yeah. Yeah. So
		
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			so, you know, there's this idea that, you
		
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			know, oh, like, am I gonna have to
		
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			answer for other people? And that's the reality
		
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			is that, you know, we humbly love
		
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			or we have this ability or this, I
		
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			would say, blessing
		
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			where majority of our life are responsible for
		
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			ourselves. Right? Allah,
		
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			right, has given us this body, this soul,
		
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			this spirit to handle, and that's sometimes enough
		
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			for people. Right? Like, oh my god. Like,
		
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			I don't need anything more than what I
		
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			can already handle. Some people I was talking
		
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			to my sister the other day, and we
		
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			were talking about kids. Right? We're talking about,
		
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			like, oh my god. Like, you know, how
		
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			do parents do it? Like, they're they have
		
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			to handle their own lives, their own bills,
		
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			and this and that. All of a sudden,
		
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			they have to handle 2 little things that
		
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			run around their house at, like, 40 miles
		
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			per hour. Like, that's that's that's too much.
		
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			Right? Like, how do you sleep at night.
		
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			They don't sleep at night. Right? Like like,
		
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			ghost. Yeah. Exactly. But they but they insist
		
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			on living there. And so, you
		
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			know,
		
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			and so, you know, like, it's difficult. But
		
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			one thing that, you know, the the the
		
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			people the the the scholars of tafsir, they
		
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			commented on in this ayah is that the
		
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			shahid, right, the shuhada that actually be responsible
		
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			or they'll actually testify
		
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			are the prophets of Allah. The prophets of
		
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			Allah, the people that they were sent to,
		
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			they will be standing. Allah said,
		
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			right?
		
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			Actually in Arabic means that we will draw
		
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			from the community.
		
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			From every community, we will draw from every
		
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			community a witness.
		
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			And, you know, the the the the scholars
		
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			of Tashr, they actually mentioned that when Allah
		
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			draws from the communities a witness, it's said
		
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			that the prophets of Allah will be resurrected
		
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			on that day, and their people will be
		
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			able to see them, and they will be
		
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			able to see all their people. The people
		
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			that believed in their message, the people that
		
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			disbelieved in their message, and they will be
		
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			asked to testify on behalf of these people.
		
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			Did you believe in your prophets or did
		
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			you not? How did you treat your prophets?
		
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			And a lot of us are sitting here,
		
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			and we're like, oh, like, that's more relevant
		
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			towards, like, you know, the people that were
		
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			living during the Prophet's times. Right? Like, during
		
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			the times of Prophet Noah and Prophet, you
		
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			know, Idris and Prophet Salih and all these
		
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			different people. But we are the ummah of
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			Right? Like, we're we're actually 1400 years away
		
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			from the prophet, and I know it seems
		
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			like a long ways away. But a way
		
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			that Allah has preserved us into the community
		
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			of the prophet is by giving us his
		
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			by giving us his traditions. And so we
		
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			will be asked on that day, right, What
		
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			you know, how did you treat how did
		
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			you treat your prophets? Right? And the prophets
		
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			of of Allah will be testifying
		
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			on on their behalf and will say, well,
		
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			these are the people that believed in me.
		
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			These are the people that didn't believe me.
		
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			And then life all of a sudden gets
		
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			very real.
		
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			Right? Because at that moment, Allah will present
		
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			to you your your deeds, your book of
		
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			deeds. This is what you did in your
		
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			life.
		
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			Did you follow what you were told to
		
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			follow? I mean, the Quran in and of
		
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			itself is a literal kind of you know,
		
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			it's an accountability booster for us. Right? It
		
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			holds us accountable because the Quran in and
		
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			of itself, it says, you know,
		
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			that you're supposed to pray. But some of
		
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			us, we read that, and we're like,
		
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			yeah, but sleep is, like, really, really awesome.
		
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			You know? Or, like, you know, some of
		
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			us read that, you know, we should abstain
		
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			from desires. Right? But we're like, I don't
		
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			know. Like, I I think I can do
		
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			just a little bit and, like, you know,
		
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			I'll I'll get better later on. Yeah. But
		
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			on that day, you're gonna be held extremely
		
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			accountable. And so, you know,
		
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			one of the biggest lessons here that I
		
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			kinda withdraw that I that I took away
		
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			from this idea in and itself is that
		
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			it gives us this idea of ownership over
		
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			your mistakes.
		
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			That there will be a time in which
		
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			you would be presented in front of Allah
		
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			and in front of the people who try
		
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			to guide you towards good things. And sometimes
		
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			I know I wanted to start up, but
		
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			I would actually kind of comment on this.
		
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			A lot of us sometimes we feel really,
		
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			really anxious when we
		
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			are in a position where we're supposed to
		
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			kind of, you know, be the voice of
		
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			reason with people. Like, you know, when you're
		
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			hanging out with your friends and you're like,
		
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			oh, yeah. You know, it's time to pray
		
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			about or should I say it or should
		
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			I not? I don't really know. Maybe, like,
		
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			if I make it taken so well. But
		
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			there's a really beautiful,
		
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			beautiful
		
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			trait, you know, that if a person is
		
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			able to be a voice of message
		
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			to their friends and and family or people
		
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			who are around them that, hey. Maybe we
		
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			should be doing this and taking a break
		
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			from that. Or if you're in a circle
		
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			of people who are talking about somebody else,
		
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			you know, it's it's very intimidating to hop
		
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			in there and be like, hey, guys. I
		
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			don't think we should be talking about this
		
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			person. This feels really uncomfortable for me. You
		
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			know, I think we should maybe just give
		
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			it a break for a second. And there's
		
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			it takes a huge
		
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			huge amount of bravery to do that. And
		
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			the prophets of Allah were masters at doing
		
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			this. Right? And so the Fatima, I wanted
		
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			to get your thoughts on this. Like, how
		
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			do you feel about this aya right here?
		
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			Like, when Allah says that there will be
		
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			witnesses
		
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			drawn from your communities that will testify on
		
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			your behalf, and these will end up being
		
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			the prophets. What do you what do you
		
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			have to say about this? I feel like,
		
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			you know, a lot of times when we
		
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			think about the way that when we think
		
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			about,
		
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			being responsible or being the one to say
		
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			something,
		
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			we kinda have it in our heads that
		
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			it has to be rude
		
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			or it has to be in a way
		
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			that brings someone else down or it has
		
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			to be, you know, in a way that
		
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			is obnoxious
		
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			or
		
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			and we may not use those words, but
		
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			that's the feelings that we get, so therefore,
		
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			we decide to stay away from, you know,
		
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			doing our responsibility.
		
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			But what we learned from the prophet is
		
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			that
		
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			the very first thing that we learned from
		
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			the prophet is that he's also a sunnah,
		
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			that he's our example, that he's our role
		
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			model, that we go to we go to,
		
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			you know, his tradition, his sunnah, his way,
		
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			and that is how we're able to implement
		
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			things in our life. And one thing about
		
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			him is that the prophet had things that
		
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			he was responsible for. He had a role.
		
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			He had a mission, and Allah details
		
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			that in the Quran in many places. And
		
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			so law of commande says that the first
		
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			thing that the prophet
		
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			was responsible for was was
		
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			to recite the verses. Okay? So that the
		
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			prophet's very first responsibility
		
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			in his job description
		
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			was to recite the verses upon the people.
		
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			And this was this was showing the people
		
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			that the prophet was the vessel in which
		
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			the which your Quran came through. And it
		
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			doesn't mean that he was, you know,
		
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			like, the hammering it in people's head. He
		
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			wasn't, like, going and, like, roughing people up
		
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			and, like, okay. Listen to these verses. It
		
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			was just more so he was just required
		
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			to recite the verses to the people and
		
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			get them familiar with it, to familiarize the
		
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			people with the verse of the lost one.
		
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			Then the second the second responsibility
		
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			or the second job description characteristic
		
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			that the Allah says about the prophet is
		
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			that we use zakihim
		
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			and that his his job was to purify
		
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			them. And that purification again, like the first
		
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			step is reading the Quran, that reading of
		
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			the Quran, that reminder of the Quran
		
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			leads to, you know, wanting to purify oneself,
		
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			wanting to purify one's heart, wanting to be
		
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			a better person. And so the thing about
		
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			that though is that the process I'm getting
		
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			go and, like, literally take people and throw
		
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			them in the wet river. It's like, it's
		
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			time for you to wash out the line,
		
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			get your life together. But it took, like,
		
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			sitting down and being, like, a very personable
		
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			person. It took the prophet's time, you know,
		
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			someone coming to the prophet's time saying, you
		
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			know, I wanna commit dinner and him taking
		
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			them to, you know, and then standing up
		
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			and making salah with them. And then them
		
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			still saying, I wanna commit and the prophet
		
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			giving them an analogy that made them understood
		
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			why this understand
		
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			why this is something that you shouldn't wanna
		
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			do or something that you shouldn't wanna commit.
		
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			Right? And that's a form of purification. But
		
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			what did he do? He took the person
		
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			on a process. He took the person on
		
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			a journey. And then you have the 3rd,
		
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			characteristic and or job description of the process,
		
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			and that is
		
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			that he moves to teach them now the
		
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			book and hikmah and the way, the wisdom.
		
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			The teach them the Quran and teach and
		
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			teach them the way of implementing the Quran.
		
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			And what's interesting about this is that,
		
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			teaching them the book again, it wasn't like
		
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			the prophetess and I wasn't sitting down and
		
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			saying, like, if you don't do this, like,
		
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			you're going to *. Like, prayer time didn't
		
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			come up and then he's like, everybody's going
		
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			to *. We miss prayer. Like, that's
		
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			that wasn't the way of teaching. That wasn't
		
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			the method of teaching.
		
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			That rather the prophet's approach
		
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			was depending upon the people, depending upon the
		
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			time, depending upon the situation,
		
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			but it's always soft in nature and it
		
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			was always very personal.
		
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			And we go through the job description
		
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			or the characteristics
		
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			of the mission of the prophet because
		
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			it's important for us to understand that our
		
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			way of, you know,
		
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			striving for what is good and implementing and
		
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			commanding good and forbidding what is bad, and
		
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			staying away from what is bad, and telling
		
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			our friends to stay away from what's bad,
		
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			doesn't have to be in the way that
		
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			is so
		
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			hardcore
		
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			and so
		
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			offensive.
		
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			It does not have to be that way.
		
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			You know, if we're all sitting down in
		
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			a room together, you guys are all chilling,
		
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			everybody's sitting down, it's time for my breath.
		
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			All you have to say is, hi. If
		
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			you come to pray, I'm gonna go ahead
		
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			and pray. If anybody wants to join me,
		
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			please join me. Or you can get up.
		
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			You can say,
		
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			anybody gonna pray? If nobody responds, you did
		
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			your duty of reminder.
		
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			And you get up and you go and
		
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			pray. And what's interesting is that in Surat
		
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			Al Furqan, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks about,
		
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			you know, the characteristics of the Ibad al
		
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			Rahmah and the characteristics
		
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			of the servants of the most merciful, one
		
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			of the highest, you know, names you can
		
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			be called. And one of those
		
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			characters is when a person passes by some
		
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			type of frivolity. He passes by, you know,
		
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			they pass by some type of sin happening.
		
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			They pass by some type of situation going
		
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			on that they pass by kiraman with the
		
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			armor and dignity.
		
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			And when when the ayahs talked about has
		
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			talked about how Abdul Abdul Mas'ud at a
		
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			at one time, he had saw some people,
		
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			gambling. He was walking by. He saw them
		
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			gambling.
		
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			And it wasn't a situation. You have to
		
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			be able to read the room. You know,
		
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			Corona is not really reading the room right
		
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			now, but you have to read the room.
		
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			And so it wasn't a situation where Abdullah
		
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			ibn Masood
		
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			was able to advise those people. So what
		
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			he did was he just put his head
		
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			down and he walked in the other direction.
		
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			He walked away. And when he went, the
		
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			prophet then said to him, he said to
		
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			him, when you left this morning, when you
		
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			left your home this morning, you left Abdulai
		
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			with the Mas'ud. But when you came back,
		
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			you came back an honorable man. And what
		
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			that shows,
		
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			sometimes it may not be the right moment
		
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			and it may not be the right time
		
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			to say something,
		
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			but it doesn't mean that you failed
		
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			in your responsibility
		
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			as a brother or sister in Islam to
		
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			your fellow people.
		
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			That rather sometimes just your simply your actions
		
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			show as are are are as much of
		
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			your teacher as the things that you have
		
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			to say.
		
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			And so it's so important for us to
		
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			be able to be compassionate
		
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			and loving towards each other and towards people,
		
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			but still not let each other fall into
		
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			ditches. Like, your compassion, your love for somebody
		
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			should make you want to stop them from,
		
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			you know, getting in trouble, stop them from
		
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			being in a situation and vice versa. You
		
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			cannot be the one who's always saying, like,
		
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			you need to do this and you need
		
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			pray and we need to get up and
		
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			do this. We have to be better. Blah
		
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			blah. And when someone corrects you, then you
		
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			feel like, oh, man. Like so you're trying
		
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			to say I'm a bad person?
		
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			You have to be open to that correction
		
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			as
		
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			well. And real recognizing that all of this
		
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			that we're doing here, this entire conversation,
		
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			is to save us from when we when
		
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			we're standing before our loss, Fonfella, and we
		
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			have to explain to God why we decided
		
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			to do the things that we did.
		
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			You know, why we decided to stay why
		
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			we decided to neglect the things that he
		
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			asked us to do. It's all protection and
		
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			then save it for ourselves.
		
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			Subhanallah. You know, one of the things that
		
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			you said that really kind of, you know,
		
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			hit me was that
		
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			a lot of us kind of feel,
		
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			I think human beings, we struggle with this
		
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			tendency to,
		
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			to communicate what we want out of people.
		
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			Right? Like, you know, if you're around somebody,
		
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			you're like, hey. Like, we should pray.
		
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			And one of the biggest challenges for a
		
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			human being is when a person doesn't reciprocate
		
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			that sort of message. They don't listen to
		
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			them.
		
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			But
		
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			this is a lesson from the lives of
		
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			the prophets is that
		
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			they were not people who at the end
		
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			of the day control anybody.
		
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			Right? They were merely human beings, and this
		
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			is actually something that Allah mentions in the
		
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			Quran. Right? That, you know,
		
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			that, you know, you cannot always guide
		
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			those who you love. Right? You you cannot
		
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			always guide to Islam the people that you
		
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			always want to guide. There will be people
		
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			in your life that you really want to
		
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			kind of be in the same, you know,
		
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			way of life, the same mentality, the same
		
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			values, the same morals and everything as you
		
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			are. But the reality is that Allah has
		
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			created everybody different.
		
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			Everybody hits religious spiritual awareness at different times.
		
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			And what Wasedad Fatima mentioned is that the
		
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			role of the prophets
		
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			and the way that we want to emulate
		
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			the prophets is that we do what they
		
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			taught us to do, which is you stand
		
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			firm.
		
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			You stand firm on your own beliefs. 1st
		
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			and foremost, you gotta you you gotta practice
		
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			what you preach. Right? Like, you can't be
		
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			going around telling people, hey. It's salah time
		
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			right now, and then you, like, 40 45,
		
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			50 minutes late for your salah. You can't
		
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			go around telling people, hey, you know, it's
		
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			really important to spend time with your family,
		
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			and you're, like, the last person who ever
		
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			is seen with their family. First and foremost,
		
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			the way that the prophets of Allah used
		
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			to do what they do is because they
		
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			used to walk the walk. When the prophet
		
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			used to tell people that, you know, when
		
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			Allah sent down the the ayah that says,
		
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			that we have we have not sent you,
		
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			oh, Muhammad, to be anything except a mercy
		
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			to mankind.
		
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			Nobody challenged that idea because they saw it
		
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			within him. Right? They saw it within him.
		
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			So first and foremost, you know, one of
		
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			the things I think practical tips to take
		
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			away from today is if we want people
		
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			around us to be, you know, with us
		
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			in the same boat as us in in
		
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			in paradise,
		
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			And the way that we confirm our spot
		
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			is by being the best example we can
		
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			possibly be.
		
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			That's the first goal. And then the second
		
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			goal, like, the start of Fatima mentioned, is
		
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			be very kind and gentle in your message
		
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			to other people.
		
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			You know? And if they don't and if
		
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			they don't reciprocate I mean, if they don't
		
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			kind of, you know, listen or if they
		
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			don't abide by the message that you gave
		
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			them, man, there are people who didn't listen
		
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			to the prophet.
		
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			You know, like, who who are you? Right?
		
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			Like, some people get so frustrated, like, oh
		
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			my god. I keep telling my kids to
		
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			pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. I keep telling
		
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			my friends that we have to stop, you
		
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			know, hanging out here.
		
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			No one ever said that when you hit
		
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			this spiritual awareness of yourself that you're just
		
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			gonna start attracting multitudes to Islam. No. That's
		
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			not the way it works. The prophet
		
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			the first man, the first 12 years of
		
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			the prophet's,
		
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			message or the first 12 years of the
		
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			prophet's prophethood, he barely had a handful of
		
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			people fleeing away to the city of Medina
		
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			for 12 years.
		
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			Yeah. And that's just the way the cookie
		
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			crumbles. Right?
		
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			And I think it's very, very important to
		
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			remember that lesson is that, you know,
		
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			number 1, practice what you preach, and number
		
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			2 is be lenient on people's timing. When
		
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			people decide and we put when when Allah
		
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			puts Hidayah in people's hearts, they are able
		
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			to kind of approach it themselves. Right? And
		
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			at the end of the day, it's nothing
		
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			that you really did. Right? It's because Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala put it in their hearts
		
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			to actually turn to him and that's why
		
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			they turn to him. And one of the
		
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			last things I wanna mention here today is
		
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			that there's a beautiful ayah at the end
		
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			of Surah Al Zaza. You guys can look
		
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			this up in Surah in in Juz'amal, very
		
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			short Surah. Allah
		
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			says, he he says,
		
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			that the people, right, you know,
		
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			khaira yara. Right?
		
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			And every single Adam's worth from a yamal
		
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			misqala
		
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			dharatin
		
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			that every atoms worth of goodness
		
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			will be
		
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			shown that day, will be given its reward
		
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			that day.
		
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			And every Adam's worth of evil, of evil,
		
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			of wrongdoing, whatever it is, will be shown
		
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			that day, and we will be responsible for
		
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			it that day. And this is a big
		
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			reality of the day of judgment for us.
		
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			Right? That on that day,
		
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			it's just it's just us and Allah. Right?
		
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			It's us and God.
		
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			And everything else that we tried to flee
		
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			away from and everything else that we tried
		
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			to get away from, And even deeds that
		
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			you may have thought weren't really that great,
		
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			but Allah elevated it because of its intention
		
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			will be out there on the open in
		
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			front of you and Allah.
		
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			And so, you know, one of that that's
		
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			one of my reflections from today, y'all, is
		
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			to
		
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			think about, you know, our sense of accountability
		
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			with Allah
		
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			Right? Because one of the ways we purify
		
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			ourselves,
		
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			we're talking about this idea of purification of
		
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			the heart earlier today even. One of the
		
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			most beautiful ways of purifying the heart is
		
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			to be aware of the things that we
		
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			do. Right? There's a very famous hadith that
		
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			I was able to probably recount even better
		
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			than I can.
		
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			That those who who are who who know
		
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			themselves,
		
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			they know Allah.
		
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			Mhmm. Be aware of yourself,
		
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			and you'll be very aware of your relationship
		
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			with Allah. Be honest, be candid. Right? And
		
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			that's one of the lessons that we wanted
		
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			to kind of take away from you today
		
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			inshallah. So the Fatima, any any
		
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			ending piece of advice for anybody or No.
		
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			I think I think that sounds it up.
		
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			So we wanted to keep this again very
		
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			short and sweet,
		
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			but we appreciate you guys hanging on with
		
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			us for this episode of Soul Food, and
		
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			inshallah, we'll be back with you guys tomorrow,
		
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			next Thursday
		
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			for another session,
		
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			benefiting our college students. We have something really
		
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			exciting, that we wanted to kinda share with
		
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			this kind of in the preliminary works, but
		
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			we thought that we'd kind of share this
		
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			a little bit with everybody. After we're done
		
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			with,
		
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			what we're gonna be doing is thematically breaking
		
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			down topics for Sophie.
		
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			So topics like, you know,
		
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			and we'll be talking about really relevant topics
		
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			as well, cancel culture, What it means to
		
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			be an advocate for social justice? Where do
		
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			you draw the line as a Muslim on
		
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			morals and values? Right? All these different topics
		
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			that are always on our minds. We're gonna
		
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			be kind of addressing them during soul food,
		
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			Inshallah, starting in the month of September. So
		
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			we're really looking forward to,
		
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			going through that with you guys. May Allah
		
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			reward you guys for being with us, being
		
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			a part of our community. Jazakamu al Khairan,
		
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			inshallah. We'll see you guys next Thursday again.
		
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			Assalamu
		
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			alaikum.