Safi Khan – Soul Food The Journey to Allah 7 Shaykh Omar Suleiman

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The host of a Thursday night series introduces a guest named Sharon who is supposed to join them. The guest discusses the book "by the proph bus" by the prophet, which provides insight into one's deeds and advises pursuing a higher level of worship. They emphasize the importance of consistency and understanding one's values and goals in order to achieve success. The speakers also discuss the importance of sh cycle and the importance of learning to be a part of one's journey with Allah. The series is scheduled to continue every Thursday.

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			Alrighty.
		
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			Everybody.
		
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			Welcome home
		
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			as Stud Murphy has coined
		
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			here at Roots.
		
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			Welcome to our Thursday night series that we
		
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			have here every Thursday.
		
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			We're extremely, extremely honored. Obviously, I'm not alone
		
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			here.
		
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			We are super, super blessed to have Sheikh
		
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			Omar
		
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			join us tonight. I know this is like
		
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			we actually kind of didn't publicize this on
		
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			purpose just to kinda keep the,
		
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			Sharon's nodding, just to keep the experience authentic
		
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			and organic.
		
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			We kind of just very in the fine
		
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			you have to really read the fine print
		
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			tonight to know that Sheikh Omar was gonna
		
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			be joining us. But, again, just for the
		
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			sake of keeping it organic and keeping it
		
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			honest, we wanted the program to kinda keep
		
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			it same flow and same same feel.
		
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			So
		
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			we are continuing on with our series called
		
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			the journey to Allah, which is based off
		
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			of this incredible text that was, authored by
		
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			a famous scholar, Ibn Raja, and,
		
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			and, I know that, you know, Sheikh Omar,
		
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			he's definitely, you know, had programs and classes
		
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			in which he has taught certain texts and
		
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			and and and statements
		
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			teachings of Ibn Raja
		
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			So,
		
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			tonight, we're going to be able to learn
		
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			from him,
		
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			you know, for a special session that we
		
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			have here. And it's going to be a
		
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			very kind of back and forth talk show
		
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			style format where I kind of share some
		
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			questions with him from the the book, the
		
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			chapter that we're going through. And,
		
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			we're excited to hear from him as well.
		
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			So first and foremost, Sheikh, just wanted to
		
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			ask you before we start, obviously.
		
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			How are you, And, how's everything going? How's
		
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			life? How's the family? Everything's doing okay, hopefully.
		
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			Everything is going really well. I'm glad you,
		
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			didn't publicize it too much. It's nice to
		
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			actually get the authentic experience and to be
		
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			here.
		
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			SubhanAllah, I didn't know that you're actually covering
		
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			this text.
		
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			So this is actually one of my favorite
		
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			texts. Al Majatufi Sayidul Jha. I actually have
		
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			studied it with my teachers and I taught
		
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			it,
		
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			as
		
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			a, as a Makra at VRIC in the
		
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			Old Valley Ranch Islamic Center. I had students
		
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			read it to me in Arabi, and then,
		
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			we we did a shara habate. We did
		
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			an explanation of it as well. So it's
		
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			one of my favorite texts.
		
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			Ibn Raja
		
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			is a scholar
		
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			who I feel like was gifted in his
		
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			writing and that his writing is very personal.
		
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			It's very deep, but it's also very simple.
		
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			You know, when you didn't ask me a
		
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			question about the text, but I just got
		
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			excited when you said what
		
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			you're studying. Family is great. We'll talk about
		
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			the text in a bit. Everything is going
		
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			well.
		
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			School started,
		
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			so
		
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			everything's back in full swing for us.
		
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			I am enjoying the the sub 100 degree
		
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			weather now,
		
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			that we have here.
		
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			And,
		
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			I don't know. How many of you come
		
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			to Valley Ranch on Tuesday nights? Not many
		
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			of you. So I just wanna invite you
		
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			all Tuesday nights as well. Valley Ranch Islamic
		
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			Center. We're in full swing with the first,
		
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			so
		
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			we're going through the companions every Tuesday night
		
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			between Maghrib and Isha,
		
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			there. It's just been nice to see the
		
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			masjid full and,
		
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			to see people excited about learning
		
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			from the Yeah. It's,
		
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			I I I I could've sworn I was
		
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			excited to see Shay Oren pull up in
		
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			his park at a night, you know, 78
		
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			degrees out tonight or alhamdulillah. You're not you're
		
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			you're a Louisianan actually. You're a you're you're
		
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			you're local to Louisiana. So he's naturally like
		
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			a a Pelicans and a Saints fan. Right?
		
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			And I just Saw Shari walking around worship.
		
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			I know. I know. He he's like the
		
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			resident Pelicans fan that's kinda peeps his head
		
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			over the top of the crowd once in
		
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			a while whenever he can.
		
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			Whenever Zion plays the 2 games, 3 year.
		
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			I'm just gonna give this a really bad
		
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			shot.
		
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			I'm glad that, I'm glad that you shake
		
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			actually that you're you're familiar with this text
		
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			and more than familiar it seems. So, you
		
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			know, the the conversation I wanted to kind
		
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			of actually share with you tonight was essentially
		
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			about the premise of the book itself actually,
		
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			which is based on a very particular hadith
		
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			of the prophet where he teaches us that
		
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			your deeds alone will not
		
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			attain you paradise
		
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			just by its own merit. Right? Which is
		
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			kind of like antithetical to what we grew
		
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			up as kids learning. Right? Which is it's
		
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			almost like a quantifiable
		
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			game of life where if you end up
		
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			with better more good deeds versus bad deeds,
		
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			you end up with a better chance of
		
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			going to paradise. But Right. The whole premise
		
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			of the book by Ibn Rajab is about
		
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			how that's not alone enough to get you
		
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			there, rather the prophet he teaches us that
		
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			unless I'm enveloped with the mercy of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, it's not even possible even
		
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			for me. Right? So from your experience kind
		
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			of benefiting from this text
		
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			and just from your own experience as a
		
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			person,
		
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			what does that teaching kind of do for
		
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			you? Right? I mean, when a person hears
		
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			that your deeds alone are not enough to
		
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			get you to paradise, it almost, like, gives
		
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			you a little bit of an ominous feel.
		
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			Right? Right. But for a person, it could
		
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			become hopeful in a certain way. Right? So
		
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			I wanted to actually get your thoughts on
		
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			that a little bit. So the text is
		
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			based on several
		
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			iterations of 1 hadith. Right? So the hadith
		
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			is
		
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			and and then it goes into multiple things.
		
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			That hadith has been narrated in multiple,
		
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			places.
		
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			It's a profound hadith because
		
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			it gives you a methodology of succeed
		
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			succeeding, and then it gives you hope
		
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			that,
		
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			you will fall short, and Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala will still have mercy on you so
		
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			long as you're in the process.
		
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			So the hadith,
		
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			of just
		
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			to be moderate proportionate.
		
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			And then worship Allah
		
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			a little bit during the day and a
		
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			little bit during the night.
		
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			Some of the scholars commented on that. They
		
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			said that it is Aflul Manahaj and Aflul
		
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			Awkaat. The prophet started off with a methodology,
		
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			which is worship Allah,
		
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			you know, proportionately,
		
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			at a pace that's healthy, something that you
		
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			can keep up. Right?
		
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			So you're trying to stay straight, you're trying
		
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			to straight stay moderate,
		
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			and not fall off that path with Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Then
		
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			So the prophet gave the best manhaj, the
		
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			best methodology of worshiping Allah which is in
		
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			moderation.
		
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			And then he said, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			Worship Allah a little bit in the morning,
		
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			a little bit in the night,
		
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			and and,
		
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			you know, specifically between Asr and Maghrib. So
		
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			the first time is between Fajr and Duha,
		
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			Fajr and Sunrise, small window.
		
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			The second time is between Asr and Maghrib,
		
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			small window but a little bigger.
		
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			And then The whole 3rd of the last
		
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			3rd of the night, if you can catch
		
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			a few minutes,
		
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			Catch a little bit of it. The prophet
		
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			shalallahu alaihi wa sallam mentions, tabluru.
		
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			You will succeed. And then he goes on
		
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			to say And by the way, no one's
		
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			gonna get into jannah except by the mercy
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So it's interesting
		
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			because when you cut these ahadith up,
		
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			then you might almost intentionally decontextualize
		
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			the hadith.
		
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			Right? Because if someone just takes the the
		
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			the second part of that because in some
		
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			narrations, this is all one long narration. Someone
		
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			just takes the second part of that, they'd
		
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			say, look. We're all getting in by the
		
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			mercy of Allah anyway. So there's no point
		
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			in really trying because I need the mercy
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala at the end
		
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			of the day. But if you're reading it
		
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			as
		
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			the second paragraph
		
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			of a paragraph about how to work
		
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			and then how to put your trust in
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			then that completely changes the context. What that
		
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			means is, look,
		
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			if you worship with moderation,
		
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			you're gonna feel like it's not fast enough.
		
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			You're gonna get frustrated sometimes that, you know,
		
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			this isn't the this doesn't feel like the
		
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			transformative change that I thought it was gonna
		
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			feel like. I'm supposed to be taking leaps
		
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			and bounds. It feels like I'm taking baby
		
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			steps. And the prophet is saying that the
		
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			journey to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is actually
		
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			one of baby steps.
		
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			The reason why it's one of baby steps
		
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			is that Allah never takes baby steps towards
		
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			you.
		
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			There's no concept of that.
		
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			Right? You come to me walking, I go
		
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			to you running.
		
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			So the journey to Allah is one of
		
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			baby steps.
		
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			And then
		
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			look,
		
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			the timing after fajr
		
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			is the easiest time to worship Allah
		
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			Why? Because
		
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			what else are you gonna do? Go back
		
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			to sleep?
		
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			Right? There's barakah, there's blessing. Use that time
		
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			wisely after Fajr. Fajr to sunrise. If you
		
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			start your day off right, everything falls into
		
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			place for the rest of the day.
		
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			And then
		
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			the second timing that Allah gives or that
		
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			the prophet gives here is actually, according to
		
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			the scholars, better than the first timing.
		
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			So there's actually a, you know, a way
		
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			for you to actually,
		
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			pursue a higher level.
		
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			The hardest time to remember Allah during the
		
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			day is between 'asr and Maghrib. Subbas'ud radiAllahu
		
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			anhu said it's actually greater than the first
		
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			time. So it's easiest to do it in
		
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			the morning.
		
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			It's harder to do it between asr and
		
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			Maghrib.
		
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			So you've gotta graduate a bit. Why? Because
		
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			at that time, you're tired, you're exhausted, you
		
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			probably had several fights with people,
		
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			you've you're probably burnt out, you know, work,
		
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			school, whatever it may be. You're exhausted at
		
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			that time. Most people between Asa and Maghrib
		
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			wanna rest.
		
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			Right? But you say, no. I actually wanna
		
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			I've got some zikrs to do. I have
		
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			some worship to do. I've gotta get through
		
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			this 15, 20 minutes of remembrance of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And then what's harder than
		
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			that time is the last 3rd of the
		
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			night. Waqtudulja.
		
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			Shayun min al dulja. Something in the last
		
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			3rd of the night. To wake up actually
		
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			before Fajr at some point and to remember
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So the prophet salAllahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam is giving
		
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			you something to build up to, something to
		
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			work up to.
		
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			Now the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, you
		
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			know, if you've if you've met someone,
		
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			like it's very hard for someone that's high
		
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			performing
		
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			to give reasonable
		
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			lesson plans. Let me let me put this
		
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			in terms of physical fitness.
		
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			Right? Someone that's been working out in the
		
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			gym too much and and that's that's really,
		
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			really, really swole, like all of you, Masha'Allah.
		
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			Alright? Someone that's really, really, really built,
		
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			and they're trying to they almost forget what
		
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			it's like to be a beginner and usually
		
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			see that they crush someone who's a beginner
		
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			unless they are, you know, fitness instructors. Right?
		
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			But, usually, when they take someone to the
		
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			gym for the first time,
		
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			and they're not fitness instructors, they're gonna hurt
		
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			that person
		
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			because they don't know they don't understand what
		
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			it's like to be a beginner anymore. Alright?
		
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			Unless they're fitness instructors.
		
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			The prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, doesn't just
		
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			worship Allah a little bit in the morning,
		
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			a little bit in the in the evening,
		
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			and then a little bit in the night,
		
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			shay'im and adurjah.
		
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			Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam worships Allah a
		
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			lot.
		
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			Right? So if you're a companion because a
		
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			lot of times I tell people you need
		
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			to hear a hadith the way that a
		
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			companion would have heard at that time.
		
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			You're like, yeah. You're saying that, sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam. You're saying that, but we see
		
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			you worshiping Allah all day, basically.
		
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			Right? We see you in a state of
		
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			worship all day. So you're saying a little
		
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			bit here, a little bit there, a little
		
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			bit there and you'll succeed.
		
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			So the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
		
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			By the way,
		
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			no one And you can see how the
		
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			sahaba even heard it.
		
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			I told you this text is amazing, subhanAllah.
		
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			Because even What was the first question the
		
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			sahaba had when the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam said, No one enters Jannah except by
		
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			the mercy of Allah. What did they say?
		
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			But what about you?
		
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			Not even you, oh messenger of Allah. You
		
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			don't enter by your deeds? Because we've seen
		
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			your deeds.
		
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			Like you're giving us the baby steps.
		
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			But we know what you worship like, salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam. So it's like,
		
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			He's saying not even me.
		
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			Until Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala embraces me,
		
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			in his mercy, envelopes me in his in
		
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			his mercy. So it's a really comprehensive hadith
		
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			because it gives you the start of a
		
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			conversation,
		
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			which is here is how you start to
		
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			build.
		
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			And then it gives you the end,
		
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			which is look,
		
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			no matter what
		
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			you accomplish,
		
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			you will need Allah's mercy.
		
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			Meaning what?
		
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			Do not depend upon your deeds. Meaning what?
		
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			If you falter in your deeds, do not
		
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			despair from the mercy of Allah. If you
		
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			falter in your deeds, do not despair in
		
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			the mercy of Allah. Because I'll tell you
		
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			what, I don't know a single person
		
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			that has ever not faltered in their deeds
		
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			or let themselves down.
		
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			In some point, at some point in your
		
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			journey,
		
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			you're gonna let yourself down. You're gonna feel
		
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			like I set a goal for myself and
		
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			I didn't meet it. I don't care who
		
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			you are. I don't care if you're the
		
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			greatest scholar in the world. You set a
		
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			goal for yourself at some point that you
		
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			didn't meet. So if you falter in your
		
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			deeds, don't despair from the mercy of Allah.
		
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			But don't use the mercy of Allah as
		
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			an excuse to not do the deeds in
		
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			the 1st place.
		
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			So there's an unhealthy and and the book
		
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			does a good job. I don't wanna like
		
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			jump chapters, but subhanAllah, chapter 7, because I
		
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			love this book so much. It's it's really
		
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			a risad. It's a small book. Right?
		
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			But, the book actually ends off a little
		
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			scary. It starts off hopeful and it's actually
		
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			like the last chapter is actually like a
		
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			beat down.
		
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			Yeah. It's like, alright. Now we've been talking
		
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			about mercy, hope, consistency. By the way, don't
		
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			forget
		
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			hellfire, hypocrisy, all this is real too. Why?
		
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			There's a healthy hope and there is a
		
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			healthy
		
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			fear.
		
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			There's an unhealthy hope, there's an unhealthy fear.
		
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			Healthy hope is when you are doing but
		
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			you are depending on Allah.
		
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			You are doing but you're still depending on
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Unhealthy hope is called ghur, deception, self delusion,
		
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			right?
		
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			Where you're not doing and you're depending on
		
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			Allah. There's a healthy fear
		
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			which is
		
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			you are
		
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			motivated by your fear of Allah
		
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			to work. And there's an unhealthy fear, which
		
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			is you are so scared you see no
		
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			point in even starting
		
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			despairs from the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala except for the losers.
		
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			So this is where
		
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			you have to have hope
		
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			in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala while you're doing
		
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			your utmost best and realizing
		
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			that even the best of all performers,
		
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			the best of all creations, the best of
		
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			all performers,
		
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			if there was any human being that could
		
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			ever depend upon his portfolio, that could show
		
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			up to Allah and say, I feel pretty
		
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			good about what I've put forth.
		
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			It's Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			But even he says, I need the mercy
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So you will
		
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			never excel him in deeds, Therefore, you will
		
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			never become independent
		
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			of needing the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. May Allah grant it to us. Amin.
		
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			So you you touched upon something really incredible
		
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			actually. Right? That there is this kind of
		
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			really,
		
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			you know, beautiful understanding of balance in our
		
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			deen.
		
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			Even the Quran, Allah mentions this several times,
		
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			right, that we've created you,
		
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			a balanced nation. And so there's this really
		
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			big emphasis on balance in our in our
		
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			entire religion. And, you know, in one of
		
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			the more early chapters of the
		
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			And, you know, in one of the more
		
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			early chapters of this book, and we're kinda
		
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			going through a chronological order, so we don't
		
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			wanna spoil it for everybody. No. No. You're
		
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			totally good. But, like, you know,
		
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			you know no. It's good. You're prepping them.
		
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			So, you know, there's an earlier chapter in
		
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			this book in which Ibn Rajab, he essentially
		
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			focuses completely on this particular,
		
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			supporting hadith of the prophet where he said
		
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			that the the most beloved deeds to Allah
		
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			Right? That they are the ones that are
		
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			done consistently
		
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			even if they're small, even if they're, you
		
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			know, little.
		
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			So from your experience,
		
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			right, and, you know, you can kinda read
		
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			the room and see the majority of the
		
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			the demographic in here are younger Muslims.
		
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			In a world where
		
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			we do struggle to be a balanced kind
		
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			of example, right,
		
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			there are so many extremes to follow. There
		
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			are so many extreme things to kinda fall
		
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			into ourselves. And a lot of people can
		
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			kinda be confused on, like, which where do
		
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			I go? Right? And, we have, like you
		
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			said, the example of the prophet to kind
		
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			of guide us, but in terms of our
		
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			deeds being consistent. Right? Because sometimes when people
		
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			discover Islam, they kind of, like, dive in.
		
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			Right? And then sometimes there's reality of burnout.
		
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			And then there's, like, the almost the variable
		
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			of, am I doing enough or am I
		
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			doing too much?
		
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			So how does a person understand that statement
		
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			of the prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, that
		
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			the most beloved, these ta'ala, are consistent?
		
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			And from your experience,
		
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			how have you kind of traversed the path
		
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			of
		
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			consistency?
		
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			Is this something that, you know, really never
		
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			stops as a journey?
		
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			I just wanna get a little bit of
		
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			thought from that inshallah.
		
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			Alright.
		
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			Excellent question.
		
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			Definitely multifaceted.
		
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			So the prophet mentioned,
		
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			which means get as close to perfection as
		
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			possible, understanding that you will never get there.
		
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			So is like balance.
		
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			Is you gotta have a vision of where
		
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			you wanna get.
		
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			If you don't have a vision of where
		
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			you wanna get, then you won't get anywhere.
		
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			Right? So, you know, you think about a
		
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			and a lot of spiritual fitness can be
		
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			understood from physical fitness because Allah created the
		
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			body
		
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			as an example for the soul in many
		
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			ways.
		
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			Let's say you set yourself a weight loss
		
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			goal. You know you're not gonna lose £30
		
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			overnight, but you know you wanna lose £30.
		
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			Right? Like you set yourself a goal or
		
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			you wanna build x amount of muscle. You
		
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			know how much you wanna build
		
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			and you set a 1, 2, 3 year
		
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			plan to get there. But the point is
		
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			that you know where you wanna get. So,
		
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			consistency,
		
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			does not mean loss of sight. Consistency
		
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			means
		
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			understanding
		
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			of current circumstances.
		
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			Because if you try to go too fast,
		
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			too hard,
		
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			then you're gonna quit.
		
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			And that's really the warning. In fact in
		
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			every chapter
		
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			of Al Mahajatufi Sayyiduja, there's a warning at
		
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			some point of A burnout, burnout, burnout, burnout.
		
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			Like a hadith about burnout shows up at
		
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			some point in every single one of these
		
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			chapters.
		
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			Right? When
		
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			no
		
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			one tries to take all of the religion
		
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			altogether except that it's going to defeat them.
		
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			But you gotta have a vision of where
		
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			you wanna go. Alright? You gotta set a
		
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			game plan for yourself. Now,
		
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			working up to that game plan,
		
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			or working up to that vision,
		
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			means setting
		
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			myself
		
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			up for success
		
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			through these reasonable small steps.
		
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			So there are multiple hadith where the prophet
		
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			will say the most beloved of this and
		
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			the most beloved of that. So for example,
		
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			Messenger mentions
		
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			that the most beloved of religion to Allah
		
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			is Al Hanafiya to Samha.
		
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			The monotheistic religions,
		
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			Samha,
		
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			leniency.
		
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			The Prophet
		
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			mentions to us,
		
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			the most beloved of deeds to Allah
		
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			or the best of deeds to Allah
		
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			are,
		
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			their endings or found in their endings. Right?
		
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			Really interesting because
		
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			actions are but by their intention and actions
		
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			are but by their ending.
		
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			And if you think about that, the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is telling you if
		
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			you start right, you're gonna end right.
		
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			Between aniyah
		
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			walkitam,
		
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			you're gonna
		
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			right?
		
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			But if you start right, you're gonna end
		
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			right, insha'Allah ta'ala. Right?
		
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			So
		
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			So consistency is, how do I get there?
		
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			Right?
		
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			So I'm gonna give a little bit of
		
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			of the prophetic methodology in that regard, but
		
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			then also just some personal experience like you
		
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			said.
		
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			Start with the easiest
		
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			of deeds
		
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			for you to perform.
		
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			Let Let me give you an exa you
		
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			know, so you can choose either to go
		
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			with the easiest or the most virtuous.
		
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			Let's say, for example, look, I really want
		
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			to start praying sunnah.
		
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			Choose the easiest sunnah for you to pray.
		
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			The easiest one, and see how long you
		
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			can pray that for, without giving it up.
		
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			No, Sarah. You know, I saw this video,
		
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			12 sunnahs a day.
		
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			Try to go from praying no sunn a
		
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			day to 12 sunn a day. See, that
		
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			probably lasts you 3, 4 days.
		
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			Right? It's just not gonna work that way.
		
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			But like, hey. You know? And by the
		
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			way, I wanna start praying the 5 daily
		
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			prayers. I get it. Maybe some of you
		
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			are struggling with even the 5 daily prayers.
		
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			That's
		
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			start with the ones that you know you
		
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			can do. You know what? If you've you're
		
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			combining prayers.
		
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			Right? Because you're not at a point yet
		
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			in your faith where, you know, you feel
		
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			like you can pray this on time, pray
		
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			that on time. But
		
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			I'm not saying that it makes it okay.
		
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			I'm saying that build build towards something. Don't
		
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			just give up on it altogether.
		
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			What the shaitan will try to get you
		
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			to do is he'll try to get you
		
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			at a point where you're low performing and
		
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			make it no performing. He'll try to get
		
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			you to a point of low faith and
		
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			make it no faith. He'll try to get
		
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			you at a point of sin and then
		
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			identify you by that sin so that you
		
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			don't see any point in even activating your
		
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			worship.
		
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			Prophet is saying take it slow,
		
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			consistent.
		
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			Slow, consistent.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Small deeds.
		
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			So some people, you know, I'll give you,
		
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			like, a personal example.
		
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			One of the most eye opening hadith, and
		
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			and it is in the book, I'm pretty
		
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			sure, is the hadith of Al Witter, where
		
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			the prophet asks Abu Bakr and Umar what
		
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			time they pray Witter.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Abu Bakr
		
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			prays
		
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			before he sleeps.
		
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			Umar prays
		
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			when he wakes up in the last 30
		
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			of the night.
		
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			Why?
		
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			The Prophet told Abu Bakr, You have taken
		
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			the path
		
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			of caution,
		
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			and he told Umar, you have taken the
		
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			path of 'azimah, of determination.
		
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			He praised both of them in that regard.
		
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			Umar was like, I gotta wake up in
		
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			the last 30 of the night. I'm gonna
		
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			pray witzirah. Abu Bakr said, just in case
		
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			I don't wake up tonight, I'm gonna pray
		
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			witsdah now.
		
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			One of the things that I recommend people
		
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			is to
		
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			start your night devotion before you sleep.
		
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			Meaning what?
		
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			Instead of, you know, La la Land,
		
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			I'm gonna start waking up for qiyam every
		
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			night from now on, Can you allocate 20
		
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			minutes, 15, 20 minutes before you go to
		
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			bed?
		
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			Read Surat Al Mulk. Read the evening remembrances.
		
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			Pray Witir.
		
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			Can you do that? Just 15, 20 minutes
		
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			in solitude.
		
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			What that will do
		
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			for your faith
		
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			will be incredible.
		
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			The life that will give to your heart.
		
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			During the day, there's a lot to distract
		
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			you.
		
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			At night, that is the best time to
		
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			generate
		
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			a meaningful spiritual connection. It's quiet.
		
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			You know, and and you can have multiple
		
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			things to incentivize that. Don't they say blue
		
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			light is horrible for your sleep? Messes your
		
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			brain up, messes your entire biological clock up.
		
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			So if you go to sleep on your
		
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			phone, you're not getting good quality sleep, you're
		
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			not getting good quality spirituality. So use that
		
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			as an incentive. Like, you know what? 15,
		
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			20 minutes before I sleep, I'm putting the
		
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			phone away, and I'm gonna go and pray
		
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			with it and read a little bit of
		
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			dua and Quran every single night.
		
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			What that's gonna do is it's going to
		
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			generate something inside of you, to where you'll
		
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			start to wanna do something else. So on
		
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			a personal level, I'll tell you like, you
		
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			know, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam mentioned,
		
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			travel is punishment.
		
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			Travel is torture.
		
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			Travel is a part of torture.
		
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			Now some of you are like, travel's awesome.
		
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			Right? Tourism,
		
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			get to go here, hang out.
		
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			But
		
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			the rinamat started with and you can ask
		
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			any of your teachers here at Kalama about
		
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			why travel is torture.
		
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			Alright?
		
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			It messes up any routine you have.
		
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			Physical, spiritual, it just messes up your routine.
		
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			You can never you feel like you can
		
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			never get into a routine
		
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			because travel
		
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			messes it up.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So I realized for myself, I was like,
		
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			alright.
		
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			I was making excuses for myself when I
		
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			travel
		
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			not to do some of these basic things
		
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			of my of my wit.
		
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			So I literally chose the time of the
		
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			day that's easiest for me to do my
		
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			wird.
		
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			I already,
		
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			I already take into consideration
		
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			my weekly goals with my weekend travel, that
		
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			I'm not going to be able to do
		
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			as much when I travel on the weekend,
		
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			but I don't forsake it altogether. So I'm
		
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			still gonna do some reading on the weekend.
		
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			I'm still gonna do, inshaAllah, some sort of
		
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			dikr,
		
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			have some sort of regimen. But I already
		
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			know, look, I I've I've been traveling for
		
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			enough years now to know I can do
		
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			about a fourth of what I do on
		
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			a normal day, and I'm okay with that
		
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			now.
		
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			Because before what would happen is I was
		
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			setting myself up for disappointment
		
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			every single time. It's like when they tell
		
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			you, look, you can't go to the gym,
		
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			do a 100 push ups in the room.
		
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			Can't do 50. Do just don't not do
		
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			anything.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So
		
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			consistency
		
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			is key
		
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			and consistency
		
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			is a sign to Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			of your sincerity. I think this is also
		
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			under underrated.
		
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			A lot of people make grand claims with
		
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			Allah that one day I wanna get here.
		
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			Now if Allah finds you,
		
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			you know, you set your goal and you're
		
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			still here and you went from step 1
		
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			to step 3 of a 50 step journey
		
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			and you die at step 3,
		
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			the fact that you even move from 1
		
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			to 3 is a sign to Allah that
		
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			you wanted to one day get to 50,
		
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			that this wasn't just empty talk.
		
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			So what's the hadith that I'll give you?
		
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			The man who killed
		
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			99 people then killed a 100,
		
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			there's a methodology
		
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			here.
		
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			The man told the sheikh told him what?
		
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			You need to go somewhere else and you
		
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			need to start your life over. You've got
		
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			bad influences around you. If you stay here,
		
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			you're gonna stay corrupted.
		
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			You need to you need to seek forgiveness
		
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			from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and you need
		
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			to take a journey and go somewhere else
		
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			and start over.
		
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			Alright? So, by the way, just FYI,
		
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			you're never
		
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			I don't wanna say never. Never is, can
		
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			sound like, despair.
		
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			You're likely not going to make progress in
		
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			your faith if all of your friends are
		
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			at a place of your of faith that
		
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			you don't wanna be at.
		
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			Alright? It's just not smart to think that
		
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			you can get to different places with the
		
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			same friends that you have, unless your friends
		
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			are also waking up to a new reality
		
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			and trying to get there with you. It's
		
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			just not wise. It's not smart. It's not
		
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			practical.
		
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			The methodology of that hadith is he had
		
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			to take a journey.
		
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			He died on the way.
		
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			He died on the way. And Allah forgave
		
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			him because he was closer to the place
		
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			that he was going than the place that
		
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			he left. And in one iteration of the
		
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			hadith, Allah shook the earth to make him
		
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			closer
		
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			to the place that he was going, rather
		
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			than the place that he left. So
		
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			if you die anywhere along the way, your
		
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			testimony to Allah is, you Allah, I was
		
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			I was getting there. Now who's to say,
		
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			like, if you, these hadiths sound really, really,
		
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			really great until you meet a murderer.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Let me ask you a serious question. If
		
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			someone got out of prison,
		
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			got out on parole after killing a 100
		
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			people for whatever reason,
		
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			Alright?
		
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			Would you wanna hang out with that person?
		
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			Would you feel safe being with that person
		
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			late night hanging out behind Kalam?
		
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			You got any serial killers around here? Alright.
		
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			You probably would be a little nervous. Right?
		
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			Who's to say that man wouldn't have lost
		
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			himself again and killed a few other people?
		
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			We don't know.
		
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			But the fact that he even started that
		
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			journey back to Allah.
		
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			The fact that he started that journey to
		
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			Allah. So your proof of the journey is
		
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			that you are
		
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			that you're driving.
		
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			Even if you're driving at 5 miles per
		
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			hour, you're moving. You, Allah. This is where
		
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			I wanted to get. If Allah knows that
		
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			you're telling the truth, Allah
		
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			will treat you on the day of judgment
		
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			as if you already got there.
		
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			How beautiful
		
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			is
		
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			that? Those who strive in our path, we
		
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			will guide them to our ways.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accepts
		
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			from those people of consciousness. So you were
		
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			trying to get there. Allah will treat you
		
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			on the day of judgement, insha'Allah, as if
		
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			you already got there. Because he knows you
		
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			were trying to get there. And you have
		
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			the proof of what? You have a track
		
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			record. You Allah, I was taking baby steps.
		
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			They were really slow, but I was trying
		
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			to get there. The prophet
		
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			said,
		
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			in one narration, some of the riddema,
		
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			considered it authentic. Others said the meaning is
		
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			is correct, but the actual mattan is not.
		
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			Where the prophet
		
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			in one narration was to have said
		
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			that, There is no such thing as a
		
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			major sin if you seek forgiveness for it.
		
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			And there is no such thing as a
		
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			minor sin if you insist upon it.
		
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			So just like the most beloved of good
		
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			deeds to Allah are the ones that are
		
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			consistent,
		
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			the most
		
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			hated of sins to Allah are the most
		
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			consistent.
		
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			Because it means that you have no problem
		
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			consistently disregarding
		
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			Allah, and you don't even have a guilty
		
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			conscience over it anymore. Like, yeah. Whatever. Yeah.
		
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			This is who I am. I do this
		
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			all the time. Right? And I'm gonna keep
		
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			on doing it with no intention of ever
		
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			forsaking it. So the most beloved of deeds
		
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			to Allah are the consistent ones, even if
		
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			they're small.
		
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			The most hated of deeds to Allah, of
		
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			sins to Allah, are the consistent ones, even
		
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			if they're small, because it demonstrates a track
		
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			record. Have a good track record with Allah
		
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			when you meet him on the day of
		
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			judgment with your scrolls.
		
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			Sheikh, you know, the, it's really interesting. There
		
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			is a part of the book where he
		
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			quotes,
		
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			the specific ayah where Allah says,
		
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			Right? That, like, Allah wants for you ease,
		
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			and he does not want for you,
		
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			a
		
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			a difficulty. But, you know, I was remember
		
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			I was going through some reflections of this
		
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			this incredible
		
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			aya
		
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			where it's almost that Allah is giving you
		
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			the choice of ease
		
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			because he also expects you to take that
		
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			ease with.
		
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			And that, like, you know, if you do
		
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			choose the easier route and, right, you you
		
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			mentioned the advice of even if you feel
		
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			like you're at 0, just start doing the
		
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			things that are almost considered low hanging fruit.
		
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			Right? I mean, you're already awake and Isha
		
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			time has come in. Don't test yourself at,
		
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			like, 12 p 12, you know, at midnight.
		
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			Right? Try to pray Isha, you know, because
		
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			you know you might knock out, Right? You
		
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			know? And you might not you might miss
		
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			your prayer. So take those little hanging fruit.
		
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			But then there's this concept of as well
		
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			with that. Right? So if you're going to
		
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			do the things that are easy, make sure
		
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			that you do them really well. And, obviously,
		
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			that famous hadith of Jibril Allah, it that
		
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			where the prophet says
		
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			That Ihsan is worshiping Allah as though you
		
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			can see him, and although you can't see
		
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			him know that he sees you. And so
		
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			I wanted to ask you kind of in
		
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			the final kind of moments of the program,
		
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			you know, are there and, masha'Allah, you teach,
		
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			you know, that you mentioned on Tuesdays, the
		
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			first, the stories of the companions, and every
		
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			story of the companions is almost interlinked with
		
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			the story of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam. Right? It's just probably one of the
		
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			coolest things about the stories of the companions.
		
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			Is there a particular kind of moment that
		
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			you think of that
		
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			that idea of Ihsan kind of, like, comes
		
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			out at you where it almost, like, just,
		
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			like it almost exudes in this story
		
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			of this particular companion or the prophet, sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, where they just did something
		
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			simple,
		
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			but they did it so well. Right?
		
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			And it could be something that, well, like,
		
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			possibly people in here could very much easily
		
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			do,
		
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			but the reason why it was, you know,
		
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			it was elevated is because
		
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			is the the the quality that they did
		
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			it with.
		
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			So
		
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			firstly, just
		
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			to that to that first part of what
		
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			you mentioned,
		
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			Allah desires for ease. Allah does not desire
		
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			for your hardship. That verse comes in the
		
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			capacity of fasting.
		
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			So it's like, fast, but if you're sick
		
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			and traveling, you don't have to fast. You
		
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			can make up your days later. So it's
		
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			interesting because
		
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			when Allah says he desires for you ease,
		
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			it's in the capacity of him giving you
		
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			a command to do, to perform.
		
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			So you could take that verse once again,
		
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			cut it out of context, say, you know,
		
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			I don't need to fast Ramadan, man. Allah
		
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			desires for you ease. It's hard for me
		
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			to fast in Ramadan.
		
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			Right?
		
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			By the way, ironically, I've had that used.
		
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			And I was like, did you read
		
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			up a little bit, like, in the eye,
		
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			you know, before or after?
		
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			Because I've actually had it used by a
		
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			person who does not fast because he said
		
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			he gets headaches. And I was like, what
		
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			what kind of headaches are we talking about?
		
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			Like migraines. Like, no, you know, headaches and
		
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			stuff like that. So you know Allah's desire
		
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			is for you to ease. Right? I said,
		
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			alright. Let's let's open the Quran, Surat Al
		
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			Baqarah. Go to this this section of Ayat.
		
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			So Allah gave you a command, but Allah
		
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			told you my command is not unreasonable.
		
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			So if you are unable
		
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			to perform
		
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			this fast because you are sick or travelling,
		
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			then Allah desires for your ease. Right? So
		
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			it's okay. You can make it up later.
		
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			The point though about Ihsaan and excellence that
		
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			you mentioned with the companions.
		
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			So here's why
		
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			people are like people ask me, when are
		
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			you gonna stop teaching the firsts? Because you're
		
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			on we're on episode 122.
		
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			I'm like, you know, maybe like 500, 600.
		
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			We'll see him sometime. As long as Shrek
		
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			with the Nostra Seattle Podcast. Yeah. Almost there.
		
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			What's where where is he at so I
		
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			can find out? I think it's like 205
		
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			or something like that. I'm gonna go 210.
		
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			I'd go 206. You
		
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			know?
		
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			But honestly,
		
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			personally,
		
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			what I love about telling the stories of
		
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			the companions
		
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			is that it's like you get to get
		
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			reintroduced to the prophet
		
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			every single
		
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			week. Because every companion story, the the the
		
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			the pinnacle of it is when they meet
		
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			the prophet
		
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			Right? So it's like you get to get
		
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			reintroduced to him through a new set of
		
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			eyes
		
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			every single week. And that's what I always
		
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			loved about the Sahaba, studying the lives of
		
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			the Sahaba and studying, you know, another
		
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			another entrance, another entrance, another entrance, another entrance.
		
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			It's like you get to get into someone
		
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			else's body and walk into the and and
		
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			all over again and have a conversation with
		
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			the prophet
		
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			through a fresh set of circumstances, a fresh
		
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			set of eyes. I love being able to
		
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			do that. I feel like it's one of
		
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			the most effective ways
		
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			to have to aluk, to to have a
		
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			closeness,
		
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			to the an attachment to the messenger alayhi
		
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			salatu wa salam.
		
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			But that point of ihsan,
		
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			you know,
		
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			like, we're doing Khadiz al Warizz radiAllahu ta'ala
		
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			Anhu right now.
		
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			You know, people ran away from the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi sallam.
		
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			There are people that ran away from the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			And that sounds crazy.
		
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			Why? Because they killed Muslims.
		
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			They inflicted all sorts of pain on him.
		
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			They thought there is no way we're gonna
		
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			be forgiven.
		
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			There was a lot of apprehension.
		
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			Like, think about a later Muslim. There was
		
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			a lot of apprehension
		
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			to approach the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam after
		
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			having done what you've done to him. And
		
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			this isn't like 2 or 3 people.
		
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			This is thousands of people.
		
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			Apprehension.
		
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			What's he gonna do to us after all
		
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			that we did to him? And their fleeing
		
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			from the prophet salAllahu alaihi wasalam was actually
		
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			their fleeing from Allah.
		
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			And what I love about the the story
		
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			of the Sahaba who are the greatest aggressors,
		
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			like Khali munid
		
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			this guy's no joke. He carried out the
		
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			worst massacre of Muslims.
		
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			And he was He's wondering like, So, when
		
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			I approach the Prophet
		
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			how does this go down?
		
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			And what does he say? He said, I
		
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			came to the Prophet
		
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			and the Prophet greeted me with a huge
		
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			smile.
		
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			Right? Like, welcome to Islam.
		
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			And immediately,
		
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			You Rasulullah, can you forgive me for everything?
		
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			Can you make du'a'a to Allah forgive Oh
		
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			Allah, forgive him for everything he did before
		
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			he became Muslim? And then Khaled radiAllahu anhu
		
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			was saying, I never preferred anyone to me
		
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			after that day. It was like we were
		
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			best friends this whole time. It's as if
		
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			nothing ever happened in the past. Like as
		
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			if I never hurt him, salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			Like, the ihsan then
		
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			is what that did to them. When they
		
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			came to the Messenger, alaihis salatu wassalam, and
		
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			they saw that he was willing to accept
		
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			them back
		
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			Like some people fled Mecca,
		
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			and Fathir Makkah
		
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			because they were like, no. No. If we
		
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			get caught, we're done.
		
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			Some people fled Mecca, and the prophet
		
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			had to send messengers.
		
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			You know, some of them were literally getting
		
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			on a boat in Jeddah to go to
		
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			Yemen,
		
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			and the prophet
		
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			sent someone to go tell them, just come
		
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			back.
		
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			I'm not gonna kill you.
		
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			I'm not gonna take revenge on you.
		
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			Now when they saw the capacity
		
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			of the prophet, salallahu alaihi, salam's rahma,
		
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			that inspired
		
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			great enemies to become
		
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			great
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			Great companions like, Woah.
		
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			If this is how he treats us, man,
		
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			let's go. I wanna be with him.
		
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			So so, Halalah, you know, one of the
		
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			interesting things in Sira is that right after
		
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			Fathuh Makkah comes the battle of Hunayn. Some
		
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			of the fiercest enemies of the Prophet shalallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			when the battle of Hunayn happens,
		
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			right after Fathuh Makkah,
		
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			some of those same people, fiercest enemies of
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			were right at his side
		
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			a few weeks later and did not flee
		
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			from him. They had his back, like we're
		
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			not leaving the battlefield. We're with him because
		
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			he showed us that rahma. We're gonna meet
		
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			that rahma with ihsan to him, sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam. What's the point that I'm getting to?
		
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			Allah meets you with rahma even greater. The
		
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			rahma of the Prophet
		
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			is a portion of the rahma of Allah
		
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			He is His whole sending is rahma
		
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			means mercy to the worlds.
		
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			The Prophet
		
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			was able to have that capacity because Allah
		
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			gave him that capacity.
		
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			And so when you go back to Allah,
		
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			the shaitan is gonna kinda get in your
		
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			ear a bit and be like,
		
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			You really think all that stuff is forgotten?
		
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			You know who you are
		
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			You really really really think you can somehow
		
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			one day become this type of Muslim?
		
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			You know who you
		
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			are He'll put you down. He'll inflict you
		
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			with self doubt.
		
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			Ehsan is to say
		
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			you Allah
		
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			You let me live
		
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			to turn a page with you
		
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			The fact that Allah did not take you
		
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			at your worst moments is a sign of
		
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			his mercy to you.
		
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			One of the names of Allah because you
		
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			know, Ar Rahman, Rahim, these are not the
		
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			only names that denote mercy. One of the
		
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			names of Allah is Al Halim,
		
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			Allah's forbearing. I love this name
		
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			because it's the hardest human quality to have.
		
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			The proof of that, as the Prophet SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam said,
		
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			He
		
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			said, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, knowledge is through seeking
		
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			knowledge, forbearance.
		
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			Probably not it's not a really familiar word,
		
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			but I'll explain it in a bit, inshallah.
		
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			But forbearance
		
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			is through practicing forbearance.
		
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			Their enema said he chose the hardest quality
		
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			for a human being to attain. Let me
		
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			explain this to you.
		
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			I'm not gonna tell you to raise your
		
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			hand if you have a hot temper.
		
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			Alright?
		
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			Because don't expose yourself. Alright?
		
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			But there are very few people that you'll
		
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			meet in life who had a hot temper
		
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			once upon a time, and then they subdued
		
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			it for the sake of Allah.
		
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			There are a lot of people that made
		
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			other changes in their lives, religious changes in
		
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			their lives.
		
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			Very few people who were known for being
		
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			hot headed,
		
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			hot tempered, quick to anger,
		
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			that learned how to control that. And that's
		
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			why the prophet mentioned it because he said
		
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			just like you
		
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			go to a university, you go to a
		
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			seminary to learn,
		
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			and you go from ignorance to knowledge,
		
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			you practice
		
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			forbearance, you practice patience until you attain it.
		
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			Helm
		
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			is an added level of patience. Helm is
		
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			when you are patient with people.
		
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			Alright? You're patient with people. Meaning, you don't
		
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			act out on them right away
		
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			when they upset you. You're not quick to
		
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			to anger.
		
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			Imagine if every time we sinned, a lightning
		
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			bolt struck us.
		
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			You know, you see someone, subhanAllah, that Allah
		
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			has hope in,
		
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			who's been sinning against Allah for 30, 40,
		
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			50 years, and Allah still has hope in
		
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			that person.
		
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			And Allah's still willing to accept that person.
		
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			With one sincere moment of tawba,
		
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			it all goes away.
		
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			Shaitan hates that, by the way. Hates that
		
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			because he works so hard on you.
		
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			And then in one moment of closeness to
		
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			Allah, it just all goes away. You ruin
		
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			his life's work with you.
		
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			That's why the worst day of the year
		
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			for shaitan is what day?
		
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			What's the worst day of the year for
		
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			shaitan? Does anybody know?
		
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			Arafah. He hates Arafah.
		
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			Like I've been working on you your whole
		
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			life,
		
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			then on arafah, Allah forgives everything.
		
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			All that work went to nothing.
		
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			The point is is some people run away
		
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			from Allah or some people don't find Allah
		
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			approachable because they feel like they've already
		
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			done so much to themselves.
		
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			Ihsan comes when there's a moment of You
		
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			Allah, you gave me another chance, I'm gonna
		
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			make this chance count.
		
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			So the sahaba that missed Badr,
		
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			one of them says, If Allah gives me
		
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			a chance, You Rasulullah, to get to Uhud,
		
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			or to If Allah gives me another chance
		
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			in another battle,
		
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			Allah is gonna see what I'm gonna do.
		
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			That was the uncle of Anas ibn Malik
		
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			radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. His name was actually Anas.
		
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			Anas ibn Nadar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. And Allah
		
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			said,
		
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			There are people, believers, that are truthful to
		
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			the promise that they take with their lord.
		
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			Some of them have a moment, or some
		
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			of them are able to fulfill their promise
		
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			to Allah right away. Some of them are
		
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			delayed. But you know
		
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			what?
		
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			They never lost their resolve. So what I'm
		
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			saying to y'all is, I don't care where
		
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			you are in your journey with Allah
		
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			right now.
		
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			You know when excellence
		
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			comes? When you realize how excellent Allah has
		
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			been with you.
		
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			The fact that Allah brought you here, the
		
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			fact that Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, is even
		
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			opening your heart to this, the fact that
		
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			Allah is opening your ears to this, the
		
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			fact that you're even considering making
		
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			significant life changes and sacrifices for him
		
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			is a sign that Allah
		
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			wants khair for you, wants good for you.
		
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			Ihsan is when you have a realization.
		
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			Like, wow. Allah took me and and brought
		
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			me to that
		
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			place. So I'm gonna get really personal. Alright?
		
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			And I'm not gonna say this from a
		
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			place of, I'll tell you why that that
		
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			hadith is very significant to me
		
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			I actually said this as asked in an
		
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			interview recently about this
		
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			and,
		
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			when I was young
		
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			Before I had my religious turn in life.
		
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			I actually had a reputation for my temper.
		
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			And I thought it was going to be
		
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			impossible to change my temper. I'm not known
		
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			for being a hot tempered guy, by the
		
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			way. Alright? Look Sharayev smiling. He's like, I
		
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			never saw you lose your temper, except when
		
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			this ain't safe. On the court.
		
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			Just chill.
		
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			But,
		
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			you know,
		
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			I had a hot temper, and I thought
		
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			that's one thing that I'll never be able
		
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			to change.
		
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			And it took a lot
		
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			of work, a lot of work.
		
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			And And if I was on social media,
		
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			it would come back out. And I'm like,
		
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			no. No. No. Forget this.
		
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			Right? But the point is is that,
		
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			the moment that came to me is,
		
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			you know, you know when Allah says
		
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			forgive and pardon, don't you want Allah to
		
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			forgive you?
		
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			The moment that came to me is like
		
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			there are so many moments.
		
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			If Allah would have took me in that
		
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			moment, I would have been done.
		
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			I would have been done. The fact that
		
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			Allah spared me in that moment, when I
		
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			was in that state, when my heart was
		
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			that hard, and Allah didn't take me right
		
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			then,
		
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			alhamdulillah.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			That would have been
		
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			bad. Because we know some people that didn't
		
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			get the chances that we have. The fact
		
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			you're here means you have a chance.
		
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			So I'm just gonna say
		
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			Ihsaan, the process of Ihsaan, excellence,
		
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			starts
		
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			when you realize how good Allah has been
		
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			to you, how excellent Allah has been to
		
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			you.
		
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			And then this becomes a journey of love
		
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			not obligation.
		
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			The journey to Allah is a journey of
		
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			love not obligation.
		
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			Right? But you can't love without obligation.
		
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			Okay? But the journey to Allah is a
		
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			journey of loving Allah, not just a journey
		
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			of obligations. May Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la open
		
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			in our hearts
		
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			the ability to to love Him and to
		
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			recognize the love that He's shown to us
		
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			and to meet
		
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			Al Muhsin with Ehsan,
		
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			the one who has excelled towards us with
		
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			excellence in our deeds, and allow us to
		
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			reach him, inshaAllah,
		
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			in a state that he's pleased with us.
		
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			We're going to, put a sweet bow on
		
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			the the program with that. I believe that
		
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			was a great
		
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			conclusion point.
		
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			We wanna thank Yousha Hamer for coming through.
		
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			Really appreciate your time, man. And,
		
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			you know, like he said, you know, there's
		
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			you know, the problem with Dallas is a
		
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			good problem. I'm I'm a transplant to Dallas
		
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			actually. When I moved here in 2019 to
		
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			start my studies at Durham and then, you
		
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			know, start working at roots, you know, I
		
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			I came from a smaller community where, like,
		
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			we had, like, that one halakkah a week.
		
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			So everyone was kinda just, like, doing their
		
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			thing and, like, that was the one that
		
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			they went to every single week. But in
		
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			Dallas, the reality is, I mean, Michelle, you
		
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			have, like, Sheikh Omar teaching on Tuesdays, and
		
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			you have Sheikh Mikhail teaching on Wednesdays, and
		
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			then you have so many different opportunities. So
		
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			definitely visit Sheikh at his Masjid in in
		
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			Valley Ranch and, a lot of people here
		
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			are probably local too. The good thing is
		
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			that the highways in Dallas are not too
		
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			far from one another. So y'all be fine,
		
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			inshallah. Let's take that George Bush turnpike all
		
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			the way.
		
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			So,
		
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			you know, make dua for Shaykh and all
		
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			the work that he does. May Allah accept
		
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			from him. And,
		
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			we're super super glad that you guys spent
		
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			your Thursday night with us. We appreciate y'all's
		
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			time. And,
		
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			I know Shaykh has to run, so we're
		
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			going to let him, run really quickly, but
		
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			we're we're super happy that you guys were
		
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			here tonight, and we'll continue the series every
		
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			single Thursday. For those of you here for
		
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			your first time, you're you guys are welcome
		
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			any single Thursday inshallah here at Roots. Jazakam
		
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			Khairan. We appreciate you guys.
		
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			And everyone could just do me one favor
		
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			really quickly as we wrap up the program.
		
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			The folks who are sitting on the backjacks
		
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			on the floor,
		
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			if y'all could just kind of bring them
		
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			up to the front of the space and
		
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			looking to kinda line them up so that
		
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			tomorrow when we have Jummah, obviously,
		
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			folks can come and we can kinda clean
		
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			the space before, obviously, we open up the
		
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			shop for for post pre JAMA, post JAMA,
		
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			rush inshallah. That'd be much appreciated. Alright.
		
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			Thanks for having me. I appreciate you all
		
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			for being here. So Hope to see you
		
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			here again. Hope to see you as well
		
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			at VRIC. We also say welcome home at
		
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			Valley Ranch. Do you? We do. Oh, may
		
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			the better welcome home win. I'm just kidding.
		
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			I'm just kidding. We're all we're all one
		
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			team. We're all