Sajid Ahmed Umar – Ramadan 2024 #23 Allah tells us the Future

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The speakers discuss the upcoming night's Surah uniting book and emphasize the importance of being guided and not wasting time. They also stress the universal aspect of thewill and the "will of the soul", with forgiveness and showing proper faith crucial for achieving success. The speakers emphasize the need for a positive mindset and acknowledge that life is full of pleasantries, with positive thinking helping us achieve our goals.

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			Allah lets things be based on a wisdom,
		
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			and he restricts events based on a wisdom.
		
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			He releases events based on a wisdom.
		
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			Same like kazza today. 1 of the sisters
		
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			was asking me on the weekend, our faith
		
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			is being
		
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			impacted
		
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			because Allah is letting this happen.
		
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			Allah my dear sister.
		
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			Allah is the one who restricts and he
		
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			releases.
		
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			We have to go back to our tuhid,
		
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			not disassociate
		
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			ourselves with our tuhid. This shouldn't be a
		
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			matter that makes our iman become weakened, but
		
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			rather it should be a matter that strengthens
		
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			our iman,
		
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			that these prophecies
		
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			were taught to us by the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, and these matters of the
		
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			end of time were revealed to us in
		
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			the Quran, and now we're seeing it with
		
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			the naked eye.
		
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			May Allah accept from us our deeds thus
		
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			far.
		
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			Tonight is the 23rd night.
		
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			What do you guys think?
		
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			How's it feeling so far?
		
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			Like it's the night?
		
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			What do you guys think?
		
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			It most likely can be subhanAllah.
		
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			The 23rd
		
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			has
		
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			had attributes to it in the past
		
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			And it is from the odd nights.
		
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			And it most definitely could be a little
		
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			Qadr.
		
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			So alhamdulillah, Allah has taken us through a
		
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			lot, alhamdulillah. We've prayed in Jama'ah together.
		
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			We've raised for a house from his houses
		
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			together,
		
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			alhamdulillah.
		
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			And now we will study from the Quran
		
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			together. May Allah take us from strength to
		
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			strength as the night progresses. Ameen.
		
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			Subhanallah, the Maqan verses
		
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			and the Maqan
		
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			chapters,
		
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			they're a potent dosage, Wallah,
		
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			when it comes to building ima.
		
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			For those who followed the recitation today,
		
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			those who understand the Arabic language,
		
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			or those who might have read a translation
		
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			of
		
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			tonight's Tarawih, the verses of tonight's Tarawih,
		
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			honestly, you can only deduce that the Makkan
		
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			verses are
		
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			indeed a potent
		
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			dosage
		
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			when it comes to iman building.
		
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			And these were the
		
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			verses that were revealed before hijra. Before hijra,
		
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			this is a period of building iman,
		
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			of building the hearts and the minds and
		
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			the souls
		
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			to a level whereby legislation could be accepted
		
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			wholly as well.
		
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			No questions asked.
		
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			When you believe
		
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			then you accept.
		
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			When you believe wholeheartedly
		
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			you accept wholeheartedly.
		
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			And
		
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			even as a believer, when you go over
		
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			the Makkan verses,
		
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			it builds your iman further.
		
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			Today, we completed Surah Zumr,
		
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			and I introduced it to you last night.
		
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			And then we went into Surah Al Ghafir
		
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			or Al Mu'min.
		
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			These are two names connected to the Surah.
		
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			And then
		
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			we began Surah Al Fusilat as we heard
		
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			in the recitation of Hafidaka.
		
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			And tomorrow you we will continue with Fussilat
		
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			again. In terms of Surah Zumr,
		
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			like we said last night, everything we said
		
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			about the Surah last night continued
		
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			into tonight's recitation.
		
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			Allah
		
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			establishing
		
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			his oneness
		
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			and especially in his worship,
		
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			but also in his lordship. SubhanAllah.
		
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			And
		
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			this whole idea
		
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			of this surah being a shar, an explanation,
		
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			a middle
		
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			explanation, meaning in terms of size
		
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			of the verse,
		
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			you alone do we worship,
		
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			and you alone do we seek assistance from.
		
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			If you understand
		
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			the implications,
		
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			the indications,
		
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			the references,
		
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			the lessons,
		
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			the reminders,
		
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			the pointers,
		
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			the narratives.
		
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			In surah Zumr, you can only conclude
		
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			You can only leave the surah
		
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			wanting to worship 1 Allah,
		
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			because you will only leave it with the
		
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			belief
		
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			that the only one who can help you
		
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			is him.
		
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			And if he is the only one who
		
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			can help you, then who else should be
		
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			worshiped?
		
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			And we exactly
		
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			say this in Suratul Fatiha,
		
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			That, dear Allah, you alone do we worship,
		
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			for you alone do we seek assistance from.
		
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			Nobody can assist us but you. Allah establishes
		
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			this, subhanallah,
		
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			with absolute
		
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			divine eloquence
		
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			in Surat Zumr.
		
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			And
		
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			I guess we should just go into the
		
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			standout verses, and I I I have to
		
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			say this just out of respect for the
		
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			book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, all the
		
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			ayaatah stand out.
		
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			When we say stand out, we mean in
		
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			terms of what we can humanly take because
		
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			of the time that we have together.
		
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			Otherwise, every verse
		
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			is a standout verse.
		
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			And I'd like to go to verse 42.
		
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			Or before that, for for the sake of
		
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			consolidation purposes, why not verse 41?
		
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			May
		
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			Allah reveals
		
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			We discussed in Surah Yasi.
		
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			And over the nights of Ramadan, we've been
		
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			establishing this that the truth stands by itself,
		
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			and the messenger's job is to convey, not
		
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			to convert.
		
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			And the people's attitude towards the messenger has
		
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			no bearing on the reality
		
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			and the fundamental
		
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			idea
		
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			of the truth that is being posited and
		
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			presented.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			consolidates this for us in ayah number 41.
		
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			Indeed, we send down to you the book
		
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			for the people in truth.
		
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			Bilhaq.
		
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			It's in truth.
		
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			Testimony from Allah. This Quran has been sent
		
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			down by him in truth. For who? For
		
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			the people.
		
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			Whoever is guided,
		
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			you will benefit yourself. Your guidance does not
		
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			benefit Allah in any way.
		
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			Your guidance does not increase his majesty.
		
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			Your misguidance
		
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			does not decrease his majesty.
		
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			He, subhanahu, is perfect from ever,
		
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			and he's perfect forever.
		
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			Your attitude towards him has no defining reality
		
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			in terms of who he is, subhanah.
		
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			If
		
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			you want to be guided, far enough seeds
		
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			for yourself.
		
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			It's not for Allah.
		
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			Allah is not benefiting from you.
		
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			He is independent of samad. You are the
		
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			dependent one.
		
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			You depend on as samad. Allah is not
		
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			sending you the book, sending you the messenger
		
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			as if he's begging you for him.
		
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			He's helping you for you,
		
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			because he only sets up his creation to
		
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			succeed and not to fail.
		
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			He only sets up his creation to succeed
		
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			and not to fail, and in surreyasil we
		
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			saw how Allah said the night will never
		
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			overtake the day, and the day will never
		
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			overtake the night, and the sun, and the
		
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			moon, and the settings has been set.
		
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			To the extent that today we can have
		
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			this discussion, Eid will be on Wednesday.
		
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			Out of respect for Allah, we say, insha
		
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			Allah.
		
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			But also recognizing Allah's law that these, the
		
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			sun and the moon, will not be set
		
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			up for failure.
		
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			And they remain on the path true to
		
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			the guidance given to them by their lord.
		
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			Thus we can say it will be on
		
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			a Wednesday.
		
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			Allah sets everything up to succeed,
		
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			including the creation that has a choice,
		
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			including the creation that has a choice, because
		
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			you have a choice you got extra
		
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			care, messenger
		
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			upon messenger,
		
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			book after book
		
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			and another book when mankind themselves changed and
		
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			tweaked and edited
		
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			the revelation that Allah sent them.
		
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			And then he benefited you and set you
		
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			up to succeed
		
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			when Allah decreed
		
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			that no prophet would come by revealing a
		
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			book that will not come in written form
		
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			but a recited form so that it can
		
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			never be changed.
		
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			Recited
		
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			and preserved in the hearts of human beings
		
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			by the will of Allah,
		
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			true to the promise of Allah.
		
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			We have revealed this book and we will
		
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			preserve it.
		
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			Its preservation is upon Allah till the day
		
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			of qiyamah it will never be changed.
		
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			This is a mercy from Allah,
		
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			and this is further evidence that Allah sets
		
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			up
		
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			his creation to succeed.
		
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			For many
		
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			if you believe,
		
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			if you learn,
		
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			if you adopt,
		
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			if you change,
		
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			if you become guided for an nafsi, it
		
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			is for you.
		
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			Then Allah says
		
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			This is again a universal principle.
		
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			And whoever goes astray only goes astray to
		
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			their own detriment.
		
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			That's it.
		
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			And then Allah reveals to the messenger,
		
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			For one moment, don't think that we have
		
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			sent you as a manager over them. You're
		
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			not a manager over
		
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			them. You cannot control your team. This team
		
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			cannot be controlled. You don't have absolute control.
		
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			You have the ability to guide. You have
		
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			the ability to convey. You do not have
		
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			the ability to convert.
		
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			Something has to come from them.
		
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			They have to show Allah that in their
		
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			heart is a desire,
		
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			and if there is the desire in their
		
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			heart then Allah will
		
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			water that desire.
		
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			Allah will fertilize that desire.
		
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			Allah gives you the choice from
		
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			for us. We read every Friday in Suratul
		
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			Kahf. Whoever wishes belief
		
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			and whoever wishes disbelief,
		
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			but whoever wants to believe, Allah will flower
		
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			it for you. He will help you. You
		
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			come to Allah walking, he'll come to you
		
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			faster.
		
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			You come to him at arms length, he'll
		
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			come to you 2 arms length.
		
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			This is
		
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			Allah
		
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			and that is why it is of absolute
		
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			arrogance when people
		
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			lay blame upon Allah.
		
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			They lay blame upon Allah when Allah only
		
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			sets you up to succeed.
		
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			That's verse 41. This consolidates everything, subhanallah, we've
		
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			been discussing.
		
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			Verse 42,
		
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			Allah
		
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			tells us about the nafs.
		
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			Now the scholars of Islam have discussed
		
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			across a long discourse
		
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			regarding the nafs. Is it the same as
		
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			the ruh?
		
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			Is the nafs the soul?
		
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			Or is the soul separate and the nafs
		
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			separate?
		
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			What is the relationship between the 2?
		
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			And to further introduce this topic, I take
		
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			you back to suratul Isra, I think I
		
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			had traveled then.
		
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			But in Suratul Isra, Allah reveals,
		
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			they ask you concerning the soul.
		
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			They ask you, O Muhammad, concerning the soul.
		
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			Tell them
		
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			Tell them the soul is from the command
		
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			and creation of Allah.
		
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			And I have not been taught much about
		
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			it except a little.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So what's the little that Allah has taught
		
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			us? Fast forward to Surat al Zumr.
		
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			Allah has taught us in Surat al Zumr
		
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			something about the soul, But before we discuss
		
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			that, let's talk about the the soul and
		
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			the nafs.
		
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			And the discourse is beyond the scope of
		
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			this discussion, but to summarize it for you,
		
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			the nafs
		
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			refers to
		
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			the soul connected to the body outside the
		
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			womb of the mother.
		
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			This is a nafs
		
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			That you are a soul in the world
		
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			of the souls.
		
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			Then you are a body growing in the
		
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			womb of your mother.
		
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			And then a time came, we Allah sent
		
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			the soul to your body.
		
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			But even then you are not enoughs. When
		
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			you are born, and you breathe
		
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			independently,
		
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			living the life of this world,
		
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			you are nafs.
		
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			So we have a body and we have
		
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			a soul.
		
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			Is the body.
		
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			Is the soul. When the and
		
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			are together, you are nafs.
		
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			And
		
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			in Surat Ashams, Allah says,
		
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			and the nafs
		
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			referring to Allah
		
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			creating it, shaping it, bringing it into existence
		
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			That Allah inspired this nafs
		
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			to know
		
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			what is sinful for it,
		
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			and what is from taqwa for it. Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			The ultimately
		
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			completely successful one is the one who purifies
		
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			these nafs. This purification
		
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			process can only happen in the life of
		
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			this world,
		
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			and this is further evidence that a nafs
		
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			refers to the soul and the body together.
		
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			In Surah Zumr, Allah teaches us something about
		
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			the soul. He says, Allah
		
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			but he uses the term
		
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			And by the way, further evidence to what
		
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			I just shared with you
		
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			is in the death of a companion of
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, for he
		
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			passed away and his eyes remained open.
		
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			So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam went
		
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			to his companion and shut his eyes.
		
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			And he said to the sahaba,
		
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			he didn't say nafs.
		
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			He said
		
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			when the soul departs.
		
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			He didn't say when the nafs departs because
		
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			now you have a body without a soul.
		
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			He said when the soul departs,
		
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			the eyesight follows it.
		
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			But why do the eyes remain open?
		
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			Because the electricity has switched off.
		
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			The soul is the electricity of the body.
		
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			And how do we know this? From Surah
		
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			Zumr. Allah
		
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			says
		
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			Allahu
		
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			Allah,
		
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			this is from the little Allah has told
		
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			us about the soul. Allah lifts the soul.
		
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			Refers to the soul.
		
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			Based on context and the discussion that I've
		
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			just shared. Allah raises the soul
		
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			completely
		
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			at the time of death.
		
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			At the time of death or whoever has
		
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			visited a person who's passed away,
		
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			you would have noticed that their bodies in
		
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			front of you,
		
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			their eyes are there, their ears are there,
		
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			their mouth is there, their tongue is there,
		
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			their hearts in place, their lungs are in
		
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			the blood's in the body.
		
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			But when you speak to this person who's
		
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			deceased can they hear you?
		
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			If you open their eyes can they see
		
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			you? The pupils are there but can they
		
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			see you?
		
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			They can't. Why is the electricity switched off?
		
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			Like any device you have, if it's if
		
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			if the battery runs out, the button is
		
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			there, the screen everything is there, but it's
		
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			not responsive.
		
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			So the electricity is the soul of the
		
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			body,
		
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			sorry, the soul is the electricity of the
		
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			body,
		
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			The jet lag is still lagging.
		
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			The soul is the electricity of the body.
		
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			Allah says Allah lifts the soul completely at
		
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			the time of death. Then he says,
		
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			And as for the being that Allah has
		
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			decreed won't die, Allah lifts the soul partially
		
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			at the time of sleep.
		
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			Allah refers to this lifting as death.
		
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			Have you ever thought why the sunnah of
		
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			the
		
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			prophet before sleeping is
		
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			Oh Allah, in your name,
		
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			I die and I live. Have you ever
		
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			thought about this? Why do you say I
		
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			die and I live?
		
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			O Allah, in your name I die and
		
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			I live.
		
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			Meaning, I die the death of sleep,
		
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			and I live if you send the soul
		
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			back to me.
		
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			And when you wake up in the morning,
		
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			you say,
		
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			All praises belongs to Allah who gave me
		
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			life
		
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			after giving me death. Which life and which
		
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			death?
		
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			The life of today
		
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			after experiencing the death of last night.
		
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			And then you say, and unto him is
		
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			our ultimate return. The day will come when
		
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			the soul will be lifted and not be
		
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			sent back.
		
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			You teach yourself this, but our duas are
		
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			merely rituals, isn't it?
		
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			We don't live the moment, that the dua
		
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			is a tarbiyah moment for us. This dua
		
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			we make when,
		
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			if we slept knowing subhanAllah that we are
		
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			going to die a partial death, honestly, who
		
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			will sleep?
		
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			But your body tires it needs to rest
		
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			and when Allah lifts that soul it's a
		
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			mercy from Allah on you. Ask those who
		
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			specialize in power naps.
		
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			They have a power nap, subhanAllah, the soul
		
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			being lifted just a moment it gives such
		
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			rest to the body.
		
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			You wake up feeling refreshed
		
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			like you've slept for a long time and
		
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			you're ready to get on with it
		
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			and that is why the scholars say the
		
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			easiest death is the death of a person
		
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			when they are asleep. Why?
		
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			Because half of the soul was lifted by
		
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			Allah
		
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			and the other half by the angel of
		
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			death, and Allah's lifting is far more merciful
		
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			than the angel of death.
		
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			The lifting of the angel of death is
		
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			the lifting of the creation,
		
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			and the lifting of Allah is the lifting
		
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			of the creator.
		
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			So we see this in Surah Zumr. May
		
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			Allah
		
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			grant us the understanding.
		
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			Also,
		
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			sublime forgiveness, subhanAllah, in Surah Zumr, there's the
		
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			ayah known as a the ayah of hope.
		
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			If you ever ask this question,
		
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			which is the eye of hope in the
		
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			Quran?
		
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			It is eye number 53 in Surah Zumr.
		
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			This is known as the eye of hope
		
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			by the scholars of tafsir.
		
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			Allah
		
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			reveals, and this is a Maqkhan Surah as
		
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			well.
		
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			Allah says to Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Say
		
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			to my Ibad,
		
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			my servants,
		
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			those who have transgressed themselves excessively,
		
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			asrafu,
		
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			they were excessive in their transgression.
		
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			They were excessive
		
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			to the extent, subhanallah,
		
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			that shaitan has every tool to push them
		
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			to the realm
		
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			of loss of hope.
		
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			Say to them, O Muhammad,
		
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			Say to them, do never ever and do
		
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			not lose hope in the mercy of Allah.
		
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			Subhan Allah.
		
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			And for those who understand the Arabic language,
		
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			this this idea of
		
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			is not
		
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			is loss of hope.
		
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			Lataknato
		
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			is
		
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			a extreme level of loss of hope.
		
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			Allah is using the extreme here that you
		
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			could have been so excessive that you are
		
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			beyond having lost hope. You are at the
		
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			point of no return.
		
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			Allah says tell them, O Muhammad,
		
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			don't lose hope in the mercy of Allah.
		
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			Indeed Allah.
		
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			Allah. The present tense in the Arabic language.
		
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			The present tense in the Arabic language carries
		
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			the meaning of something which is now and
		
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			continuous.
		
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			Allah will continuously
		
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			forgive
		
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			all your sins wholesale,
		
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			all together.
		
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			Indeed, he's the most forgiving, the most merciful.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			Now these are Maqan verses,
		
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			and the Quraysh are listening
		
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			in the arrogant denial,
		
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			denial of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his
		
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			messenger in his book.
		
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			What about the Muslims who hear these verses?
		
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			What hope should we have
		
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			in a month of hope
		
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			when the doors of Jahannam are shut and
		
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			the doors of Jannah are open?
		
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			In a month of hope,
		
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			in the nights of hope,
		
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			on an odd night,
		
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			Surely my dear brother and sister in Islam,
		
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			it's as if Allah has,
		
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			subhanallah,
		
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			what a Qadr, on this night we listen
		
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			to this verse.
		
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			That we engage him with good thoughts about
		
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			him.
		
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			Tonight, we ask Allah to forgive us, and
		
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			we wake up tomorrow believing
		
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			as if our slates
		
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			are how
		
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			they were
		
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			the day we were born.
		
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			This is how we will trade with Allah
		
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			tonight.
		
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			We will read to Allah this verse 53
		
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			from Surah Zumr,
		
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			and we will pray for her tomorrow
		
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			having a new start.
		
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			A new not a new chapter,
		
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			a new book.
		
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			This is how the believers stayed with Allah.
		
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			Allah. Surat Zumr. And do it, for it
		
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			is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who said in
		
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			a hadith, qudsiyaabina
		
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			Adam.
		
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			That, oh son of Adam,
		
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			you sin throughout the day and throughout the
		
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			night, but it is Allah who forgives all
		
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			sins.
		
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			Seek forgiveness from Allah. What does Allah say?
		
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			He doesn't say I will forgive you.
		
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			He says,
		
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			for those scholars of Usul Al Fiqh, jurisprudence
		
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			methodology.
		
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			What does this mean? This means Allah is
		
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			saying seek forgiveness from me and consider yourself
		
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			forgiven.
		
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			Do not doubt maybe
		
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			I'm forgiven,
		
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			maybe
		
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			I'm not forgiven,
		
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			maybe
		
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			I'm partially forgiven. This
		
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			is your Lord. SubhanAllah.
		
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			I introduce you to Allah through verse
		
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			53.
		
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			Then Allah takes us to the end.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			And the end, my dear brothers and sisters
		
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			in Islam,
		
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			is really the crux of Surat, Zumr. And
		
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			that is why it's called a Zumr, because
		
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			Allah tells us of these groups inshallah,
		
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			that we will listen to. I rather let
		
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			the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			reach you
		
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			in the form of recitation.
		
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			And those who believed
		
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			and those who disbelieved
		
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			will be driven to *
		
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			in groups.
		
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			They will be driven to * in groups
		
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			until when they reach it,
		
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			its gates are opened
		
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			and its keepers will say,
		
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			did there not come to you messengers from
		
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			yourselves?
		
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			One second. One second.
		
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			Remember brothers and sisters in Islam
		
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			the discourse over the last few nights is
		
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			what
		
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			they were actually telling the messengers
		
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			that if your message is true, then why
		
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			is this message coming to us
		
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			from people who are from us, who are
		
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			like us, who eat like us,
		
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			sleep like us, drink like us. Allah is
		
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			telling us what will happen on the day
		
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			of Piyamah.
		
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			That
		
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			it will be said to them. The keepers
		
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			will say,
		
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			did they not come to you messengers from
		
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			yourselves
		
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			reciting to you the verses of your Lord
		
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			and warning you of the meeting of this
		
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			day of yours.
		
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			You were told the message came to you,
		
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			the reminders came to you, they persisted with
		
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			you.
		
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			No. Allah says they will say yes.
		
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			They will say yes.
		
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			In Sura Mukha as well, we have a
		
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			similar discourse.
		
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			They will say yes, but it's too late
		
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			now. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, but the
		
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			word of punishment has come into effect upon
		
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			the disbelievers.
		
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			Now
		
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			It will be said to them, enter the
		
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			gates of * to abide eternally therein.
		
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			And wretched is the residence of the arrogant,
		
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			arrogant.
		
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			Remember we spoke from the time of Suratul
		
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			A'raf.
		
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			One of the obstacles
		
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			that blocks us from Allah is arrogance,
		
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			and he brings us down full with arrogance.
		
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			I am better than him.
		
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			What does Allah say here?
		
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			That they will be destined to the Hal
		
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			Fayou because of the arrogance. Not because they
		
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			didn't know,
		
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			they knew
		
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			but they arrogantly
		
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			overcame the truth.
		
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			It was from their own doing.
		
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			It wasn't that the messengers failed in their
		
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			duty towards them.
		
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			It wasn't that Allah didn't send miracles with
		
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			the messengers
		
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			to show them that we are like you,
		
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			but look we have these miracles.
		
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			As we will see in Surah Gafir, in
		
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			the story of Firaun.
		
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			As scholars have deduced from pondering over those
		
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			verses that Firaun deep down knew.
		
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			We'll come to that inshallah.
		
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			Now,
		
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			Subhanallah, imagine you're a disbeliever, the time of
		
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			the Quraysh, the Quran is coming down. You
		
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			hear these verses about jahannam.
		
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			Allah finishes and immediately
		
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			says,
		
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			that these believers who you are mocking and
		
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			laughing at and jeering and sanctioning
		
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			and beating and ridiculing and punishing
		
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			and sanctioning.
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			but those who fear their Lord, meaning the
		
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			believers,
		
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			they will be driven to paradise
		
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			in groups.
		
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			Allah says until when they reach it whilst
		
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			its gates have been opened.
		
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			Now there's a difference here, SubhanAllah.
		
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			When Allah spoke about Jahannam,
		
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			he said,
		
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			When he spoke about Jannah, he said, This
		
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			wow, SubhanAllah, is not misplaced.
		
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			Just one letter, one letter not a word
		
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			one letter it has an impact on our
		
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			understanding of the verse that
		
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			subhanAllah when it comes to the people of
		
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			the hellfire they will be
		
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			driven to the doors and the gates of
		
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			Jahannam,
		
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			the 7 Gates of Jahannam.
		
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			Jannah has 8 gates, jahannam has 7 gates,
		
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			as the scholars of tafsir teach us.
		
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			They will be driven to the 7 gates,
		
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			the gates will be shut. But when they
		
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			are driven there do you think they will
		
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			be driven there in a parade or they
		
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			will be driven there with force,
		
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			with fear,
		
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			with ferociousness.
		
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			Now imagine you are driven with ferociousness and
		
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			you know what's coming and you just said
		
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			you are standing in front of Allah and
		
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			you get to the gates and the gates
		
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			are shut, how do you stand in front
		
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			of the gates?
		
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			Relieved or with greater trepidation?
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			But as for the people of Jannah,
		
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			Allah says they will get there
		
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			and the gates will be opened.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			I don't know what that is, but maybe
		
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			the verses are,
		
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			or perhaps somebody's playing with, with the wires
		
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			in the control room.
		
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			When it comes to Jannah,
		
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			Allah says
		
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			and the scholars have discussed this.
		
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			And then they tapped into the Hadith of
		
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			Shafa'a.
		
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			On the day of Qiyamah, the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam will intercede
		
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			for his nation,
		
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			for the believers.
		
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			And
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam will intercede for
		
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			the opening of paradise
		
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			that he will enter, and when the people
		
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			come,
		
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			they will be driven there with excitement,
		
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			and an excitement that will be continuous. There's
		
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			no roadblock.
		
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			It's not that I'm getting there, but the
		
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			gates are shut.
		
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			SubhanAllah, that even the process of it being
		
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			driven there is a paradise centric
		
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			process by itself
		
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			that it's understand it like this, it's as
		
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			if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying that
		
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			for the people who believed
		
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			their paradise will begin before they get into
		
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			paradise.
		
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			That just the process of getting to paradise
		
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			will be a form of paradise in and
		
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			of itself.
		
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			That they won't get there and feel, oh,
		
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			it's
		
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			shut. I have to wait a minute to
		
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			see it. I've been excited. I've been waiting
		
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			for this. No. It will be welcoming for
		
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			them just by one letter,
		
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			being in the
		
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			It's
		
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			the power of the Quran.
		
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			A conversation happening in Jahannam
		
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			with the keepers of the hellfire
		
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			and a conversation happening in Jahannam
		
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			with the keepers of paradise.
		
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			What will the people what will the keepers
		
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			of paradise say? They will say peace be
		
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			upon you.
		
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			The salaam we would share amongst each other.
		
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			That salaam will be said to us by
		
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			the keepers of Jannah. Salaam Una'arikum.
		
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			Peace be upon you. Safety upon you. You
		
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			have become pure, so enter into Jannah and
		
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			abide therein internally.
		
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			And they will say praise to Allah who
		
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			has fulfilled for us his promise
		
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			and made us inherit the earth so we
		
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			may settle in paradise wherever we were.
		
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			Wherever we were. No borders,
		
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			no passports,
		
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			no visas,
		
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			no immigration,
		
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			no customs,
		
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			no shaitan.
		
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			No worry about will I wake up tomorrow
		
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			and Allah will be upset with me. That
		
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			is absolute paradise SubhanAllah,
		
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			to know that my Lord will never ever
		
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			be upset with me, just that in and
		
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			of itself
		
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			is a paradise.
		
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			They will say praise be to Allah, who
		
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			fulfilled for us his promise and made us
		
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			inherit the earth so we may settle in
		
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			paradise wherever we will. An excellent is the
		
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			reward
		
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			of the righteous worker.
		
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			The righteous slave who acts.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			So this is Surah Uzumr in a nutshell,
		
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			and then Allah takes us to another Maqan
		
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			Surah, Surah Agathir or Surah Al Mumin,
		
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			which is a surah consisting of 85 verses
		
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			and carries the same genre of knowledge as
		
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			all the other Maqan
		
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			Surahs we discussed.
		
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			But Surah Ghafir
		
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			is unique because as you heard the imam
		
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			recite today,
		
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			when he start when the imam started surat
		
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			Zumr, there was no disjointed letters before it,
		
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			it was Tanzil
		
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			al Kitab.
		
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			When Surah Ghafir kicks in, we see hamim.
		
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			And hamim
		
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			is one hamim
		
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			of the group of surahs known as al
		
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			Hawamim.
		
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			And al Hawamim
		
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			refer to
		
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			the Meccan Surahs,
		
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			and in a report that goes back to
		
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			Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhu a,
		
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			it states that the Hawamiem,
		
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			these Hawamiem,
		
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			they were revealed after Surah Zumr in order,
		
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			and they are 7 in number.
		
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			Surah Al Gavir,
		
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			Surah Fusilat, which we started tonight,
		
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			Surah Ashura, which we will do tomorrow. A
		
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			zukruf,
		
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			number 4. A dukhan, number 5. Al jathiyah,
		
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			number 6. And alaqaaf number 7.
		
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			7 surahs, one after the other all begin
		
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			with hamim.
		
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			All Maqkan surahs
		
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			and revealed after Surat Zumr,
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			So
		
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			as we travel SubhanAllah
		
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			through the nights of the Quran,
		
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			we can actually live
		
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			the periods of the Sirach
		
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			that these were intense moments
		
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			and the verses are coming down to deal
		
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			with the moments that the Muslims are going
		
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			through. That here you have surah Zumr and
		
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			then 7 consecutive Suras
		
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			dealing with matters of the hereafter,
		
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			establishing the Messenger as the Messenger, affirming Allah
		
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			as 1 in his lordship, and 1 in
		
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			his worship, and 1 in his lords and
		
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			attributes,
		
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			highlighting the reality that contrary to common opinion,
		
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			there is life after death.
		
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			And then the messenger is going through what
		
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			he's going through, so keeping him stable and
		
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			steadfast.
		
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			He's a human being
		
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			revealing to him so he doesn't break, remain
		
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			strong. The journey is long. So all in
		
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			Allah's plan, Allah lets things be based on
		
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			a wisdom,
		
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			and he restricts events based on a wisdom.
		
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			He releases events based on a wisdom.
		
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			Same like kazza today. 1 of the sisters
		
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			was asking me on the weekend,
		
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			our faith is being
		
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			impacted
		
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			because Allah is letting this happen. Allah
		
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			my dear sister.
		
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			Allah is the one who restricts and he
		
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			releases.
		
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			We have to go back to our tuhid,
		
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			not disassociate
		
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			ourselves with our tuhid. This shouldn't be a
		
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			matter that makes our iman become weakened, but
		
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			rather it should be a matter that strengthens
		
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			our iman, that these prophecies
		
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			were revealed to us in the
		
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			by the prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam, and these matters of the end
		
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			of time were revealed to us in the
		
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			Quran, and now we're seeing it with the
		
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			naked
		
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			eye. It is a matter that should strengthen
		
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			our faith,
		
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			and we go back to our tawhid,
		
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			and we recognize who our Lord is.
		
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			It's Allah who constricts
		
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			circumstances,
		
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			and he releases circumstances.
		
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			And through it, everyone will build the hereafter
		
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			and they will return to Allah. And Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			will enter them
		
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			into their zum'r, into their groups and they
		
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			will be driven
		
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			an appropriate driving.
		
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			So this is
		
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			the start of Al Ghafar.
		
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			Now what's its connection to Zumr? Remember we
		
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			said
		
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			earlier this idea of love,
		
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			fear, hope,
		
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			the story of the dove as Ibn Uqayim
		
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			described
		
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			and the 2 wings, one wing is of
		
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			fear and one wing is of hope.
		
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			Zumr
		
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			delivers fear to the disbelievers,
		
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			but ghafir
		
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			delivers hope to them.
		
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			Imagine you are a disbeliever,
		
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			you reading surat al Zumr, waseeqallatheena
		
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			kafarwilla
		
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			jahannamazumr,
		
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			you have fear in you.
		
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			Whether you like it or not, peer pressure,
		
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			public pressure, public opinion, for whatever reason you
		
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			are not
		
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			making the jump, but deep down you know
		
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			that if this prophet is true
		
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			my end is
		
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			going to be doom and gloom. Allah starts
		
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			Ghafir
		
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			with hope for the disbeliever.
		
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			He says,
		
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			SubhanAllah. The forgiver of the sins,
		
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			the acceptor of repentances, this is you Allah.
		
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			The Allah who will drive the disbelievers in
		
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			groups to the hellfire,
		
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			the same Allah will accept your Islam if
		
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			you make the step.
		
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			He will wipe out your previous deeds, and
		
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			your previous sins, and the matters of your
		
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			previous life.
		
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			And Tawb here, subhanAllah, is not Tawbah.
		
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			Tawbah is the plural of Tawbah,
		
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			and tawbah is for major sins.
		
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			And Allah is not saying tawbah, meaning a
		
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			major sin, and you repent for it, and
		
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			Allah forgives you Allah saying tawbah. He will
		
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			accept all your repentances
		
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			that there's no limit to this irrespective of
		
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			what you've done the door is still open
		
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			as long as you're breathing So look at
		
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			the banners that Allah also brings in terms
		
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			of fear and hope not just to the
		
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			believers but to the disbelievers.
		
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			This is a Quran. SubhanAllah. How deep can
		
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			we go?
		
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			There is no one worthy of worship besides
		
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			1 Allah and you will return to him.
		
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			This is the reality.
		
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			Bayib.
		
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			The contents of the surah, it contains the
		
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			knowledge that, like we said, fits the knowledge
		
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			revealed pre hijra.
		
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			And in particular, it highlights the end of
		
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			those who
		
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			who listen to the messenger
		
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			and the end of those who do not
		
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			listen to the messenger, similar to surah Zumr.
		
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			It also inspires the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam to exercise a beautiful patience. Like I
		
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			said, when you read these surahs, it's like
		
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			you're living the seerah now. You can really
		
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			see that, subhanAllah,
		
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			when these surahs were coming down, the matter
		
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			was severe on the believers.
		
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			That these are really verses coming down at
		
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			the earlier part of the prophetic mission. Things
		
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			are difficult. Things are tough. Things are happening.
		
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			The persecution is at an all time high.
		
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			Maybe not right at the beginning, but towards
		
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			the beginning, meaning not at the end, before
		
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			hijra,
		
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			but at that point where really the Quraysh,
		
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			they felt they had a hand on things.
		
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			Allah is
		
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			revealing to the Messenger
		
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			his need to bring himself together
		
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			and exhibit a beautiful patience. And we will
		
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			see this in the story of Musa that
		
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			Allah reveals in the surah.
		
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			It also lists universal evidences to prove the
		
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			existence of Allah as the Lord who is
		
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			alone in his worship. Meaning, if you're a
		
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			objective human being, you will rationally conclude that
		
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			these verses are from our Lord and it
		
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			makes sense to believe in him. It's rational
		
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			for me to believe in Ranul Allah. Put
		
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			aside that whether he's from
		
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			a human being, whether he's a human being
		
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			and not an angel or whether he, you
		
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			know, he's from you and not from somewhere
		
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			else, put all that aside, listen to the
		
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			message.
		
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			The message is very rational
		
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			but you have to be objective, you cannot
		
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			be subjective,
		
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			you got to be objective, you've got to
		
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			be in a situation whereby
		
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			you are able
		
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			to listen to the revelation
		
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			and allow it to guide you.
		
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			And to do that, you have to get
		
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			rid of the bias.
		
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			No biases here.
		
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			But if you want to engage revelation
		
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			in a manner that you will funnel it
		
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			and channel it
		
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			and bend it to fit a particular narrative,
		
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			then the revelation won't guide you. It's there
		
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			to guide, but for those who want to
		
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			be guided.
		
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			Now again, like previous surahs, Allah establishes this
		
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			in the narrative format and he also establishes
		
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			it in the story format.
		
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			And the story that I want to quickly
		
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			talk about is not a fiction not a
		
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			story of fiction, of course, a real story.
		
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			When we say story, we don't mean fiction.
		
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			It's not story time, Yani.
		
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			You know, the story time where we're just
		
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			telling fiction, fictional stories. Real stories, right? The
		
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			story of Musa, Firaun, and Banu Israel. Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala says, walakatarasallam
		
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			Musa biayatina wsuwtanimubin.
		
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			Let's listen inshallah.
		
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			And we did certainly send Musa with our
		
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			signs and clear authority, With our
		
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			signs.
		
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			To Firaun,
		
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			So up to now, we can see it's
		
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			the same story,
		
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			just different actors.
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is receiving these
		
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			verses,
		
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			and immediately he can see that, subhanallah,
		
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			Allah is revealing to me
		
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			my circumstance,
		
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			but in the story of Musa.
		
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			That Musa went through the same thing I'm
		
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			going through. It's the same story being repeated.
		
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			It's just different actors, Musa and now Muhammad.
		
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			Firaun,
		
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			Qaroon,
		
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			Haman. Here we have Abu Lahab, Abu Jahal,
		
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			and the other seniors of the Quraysh.
		
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			Same story, different actors. But Allah is teaching
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			Musa is 1,
		
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			but the Firaun's
		
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			version
		
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			has a nuanced hecticness to it.
		
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			Allah says, and when he brought them the
		
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			truth
		
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			from
		
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			us, they said,
		
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			what we will do is kill the sons
		
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			of those who have believed with him, and
		
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			let's keep their women alive.
		
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			Qurayshwar at the stage of beating,
		
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			that whoever from our tribe accepts Islam, we
		
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			will beat them publicly,
		
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			so that anyone else thinking of following Muhammad
		
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			will become afraid.
		
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			But Firaoun and Qaroun and Haman, they went
		
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			a step further. That's it. Let's just kill
		
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			everyone who believes.
		
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			And as for the women, keep them alive,
		
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			we'll enslave them. Keep them alive.
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			But the plan of the disbelievers is not
		
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			accepting error in error.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, and Firaun said,
		
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			let me kill Musa and let him call
		
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			upon his lord.
		
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			Look at this level of arrogance.
		
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			Firon is saying, they are saying, kalas let's
		
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			kill all the people who believed with him
		
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			and let's keep the women alive. Firon says
		
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			one step further
		
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			let me kill Musa
		
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			and let him call upon his lord
		
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			indeed I fear that he will change your
		
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			religion or that he will cause corruption in
		
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			the land.
		
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			Now what do the scholars
		
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			of tafsir say here? This is the evidence
		
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			that they say, Firaun deep down knew that
		
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			this Musa is upon the truth.
		
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			That he had knowledge of what happened to
		
00:44:07 --> 00:44:08
			the previous nations.
		
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			And that they all received someone who came
		
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			with a call like what Musa is calling
		
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			to
		
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			but arrogance subhanAllah has no boundaries, Let me
		
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			kill him and let him call his Lord.
		
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			You want to manifest
		
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			a
		
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			pompous
		
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			character in front of the people show them
		
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			I'm in charge
		
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			what he's talking about is fairy tales I
		
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			will kill him in front of you and
		
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			let him call his lord nothing's going to
		
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			happen
		
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			Don't fall for this message.
		
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			But Musa said, indeed I have sought refuge
		
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			in my lord and your lord from every
		
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			arrogant one who does not believe in the
		
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			day of account, meaning the day of judgment.
		
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			Subhanallah, in a subtle way Allah is revealing
		
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			to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that
		
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			with every difficulty there's 2 eases. There's eases
		
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			even amidst the difficulty.
		
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			Because of Musa alaihis salam, when Firaun was
		
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			manifesting this
		
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			arrogance,
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			and a believing man from the family of
		
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			Iran. SubhanAllah.
		
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			He who believed but he hid his iman.
		
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			And some of the scholars of tafsir say
		
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			he was the one who at the beginning,
		
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			when Musa after Musa
		
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			grew up in the palace of Iran, and
		
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			then he punched a person in defending another
		
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			person and that person died. He was a
		
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			kibbuti.
		
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			And the Firaun and his army then
		
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			wanted to go after Musa. A person came
		
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			to Musa and told Musa that they are
		
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			grouping to come to to come for you,
		
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			so you better leave. They say it's the
		
00:46:06 --> 00:46:06
			same person.
		
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			There was a person who believed that no
		
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			one from the palace of Firaun believed except
		
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			his wife
		
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			and this man.
		
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			Subhanallah, the wife of Firaun and this man.
		
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			So this man speaks up now.
		
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			All this time, he's hiding his faith,
		
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			but right now a grave oppression is going
		
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			to take place. What the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
00:46:28 --> 00:46:30
			wasallam said that the best jihad
		
00:46:30 --> 00:46:31
			is speaking
		
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			justice to in front of a tyrant ruler.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because the tyrant ruler will kill you. You're
		
00:46:36 --> 00:46:38
			putting your life on the line, but it's
		
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			the best jihad.
		
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			And this yesterday I was saying that the
		
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			the word jihad has been confiscated
		
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			and has been made to to made to
		
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			be something taboo.
		
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			But we see this word in the Quran
		
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			before Allah allowed the Muslims to defend themselves
		
00:46:53 --> 00:46:54
			against the attacks of tukraj using the term
		
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			jihad.
		
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			And here, the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam says
		
00:47:01 --> 00:47:03
			the best jihad, not taking out your sword,
		
00:47:03 --> 00:47:05
			taking out your arrows, taking out your shield,
		
00:47:05 --> 00:47:06
			wearing your armor,
		
00:47:06 --> 00:47:08
			no, speaking truth to power
		
00:47:09 --> 00:47:11
			is the best jihad. So this person here,
		
00:47:12 --> 00:47:13
			he was hiding his Iman
		
00:47:14 --> 00:47:16
			for a greater benefit, but now keeping your
		
00:47:16 --> 00:47:17
			Iman hidden
		
00:47:18 --> 00:47:19
			was not for the greater benefit. Now you
		
00:47:19 --> 00:47:20
			had to speak up.
		
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			Even though he didn't advertise his iman, he
		
00:47:23 --> 00:47:25
			came with a message of common sense. Allah
		
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			says, and a believing man from the family
		
00:47:27 --> 00:47:29
			of Firaun who concealed his faith said, are
		
00:47:29 --> 00:47:30
			you going to kill a man merely because
		
00:47:30 --> 00:47:32
			he says my lord is Allah?
		
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			And this is the same words Abu Bakr
		
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			used
		
00:47:36 --> 00:47:38
			when the Quraysh were attacking the prophet salallahu
		
00:47:38 --> 00:47:40
			alayhi wasalam at the Kaaba.
		
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			When he came and saved the prophet salallahu
		
00:47:42 --> 00:47:44
			alayhi wasalam, he said, attaktuluona
		
00:47:44 --> 00:47:45
			rajulanayaku
		
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			rabi'allalla. Are you going to
		
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			Allah.
		
00:47:50 --> 00:47:50
			SubhanAllah.
		
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			That's how close the Quran was to the
		
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			Sahaba. These are earlier,
		
00:47:54 --> 00:47:56
			revelations brothers and sisters.
		
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			So
		
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			Allah says that this is what he said.
		
00:48:02 --> 00:48:03
			And then this person said,
		
00:48:04 --> 00:48:05
			are you going to kill him merely because
		
00:48:05 --> 00:48:07
			he says my Lord is Allah, whilst he
		
00:48:07 --> 00:48:09
			has brought to you clear proofs from Allah,
		
00:48:09 --> 00:48:11
			did Musa come with nothing? Musa came with
		
00:48:11 --> 00:48:12
			a staff
		
00:48:13 --> 00:48:14
			that turned into
		
00:48:14 --> 00:48:15
			what they saw as a moving
		
00:48:16 --> 00:48:17
			snake,
		
00:48:18 --> 00:48:19
			a moving live being
		
00:48:20 --> 00:48:22
			If you put his arm under his armpit
		
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			it would shine. He came with science.
		
00:48:24 --> 00:48:25
			So this person is saying he has come
		
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			to you with clear proofs from your Lord
		
00:48:28 --> 00:48:30
			and what do you have to lose? If
		
00:48:30 --> 00:48:31
			he is lying
		
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			If he is lying then upon him is
		
00:48:34 --> 00:48:36
			the consequence of his lie but if he
		
00:48:36 --> 00:48:37
			is telling the truth
		
00:48:38 --> 00:48:40
			they will strike you some of what he
		
00:48:40 --> 00:48:42
			promises you. He's telling you, consequences are gonna
		
00:48:42 --> 00:48:44
			come. If he's telling the truth, some of
		
00:48:44 --> 00:48:47
			it's going to come. And indeed Allah does
		
00:48:47 --> 00:48:48
			not guide one who is a transgressor and
		
00:48:48 --> 00:48:49
			a liar,
		
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			subhanAllah.
		
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			Now,
		
00:49:04 --> 00:49:06
			He said, oh my people's sovereignty is yours
		
00:49:06 --> 00:49:07
			today,
		
00:49:07 --> 00:49:09
			you being dominant in the land, but who
		
00:49:09 --> 00:49:11
			would protect us on the punishment of Allah
		
00:49:11 --> 00:49:13
			if it came to us? What did Firan
		
00:49:13 --> 00:49:14
			say?
		
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			Nam.
		
00:49:25 --> 00:49:27
			He said Firaun said, I do not show
		
00:49:27 --> 00:49:28
			you except what I see, and I do
		
00:49:28 --> 00:49:30
			not guide you except to the way of
		
00:49:30 --> 00:49:33
			right conduct. This is what people who spread
		
00:49:33 --> 00:49:35
			corruption in the land to do. They spread
		
00:49:35 --> 00:49:37
			corruption on the land and they say, no.
		
00:49:37 --> 00:49:38
			No. No. No. We Muslimhood.
		
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			We only
		
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			we are liberators.
		
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			Yeah. We are here to take mankind forward.
		
00:49:47 --> 00:49:48
			We are progressive.
		
00:49:49 --> 00:49:50
			I say I shared these lines with you
		
00:49:50 --> 00:49:51
			previously
		
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			from Surat Al Baqarah.
		
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			This is what they do. This is
		
00:49:55 --> 00:49:57
			cognitive dissonance, this could be a lot of
		
00:49:57 --> 00:49:58
			things.
		
00:49:58 --> 00:50:00
			There's psychology to this.
		
00:50:01 --> 00:50:01
			Now,
		
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			And the one who believes said, oh my
		
00:50:12 --> 00:50:14
			people indeed I fear for you a fate
		
00:50:14 --> 00:50:15
			like the day of the companies, the Hazab,
		
00:50:15 --> 00:50:16
			the people of who?
		
00:50:21 --> 00:50:22
			Like the people of Nuh,
		
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			And Ad and Thamud and those who came
		
00:50:29 --> 00:50:30
			after them.
		
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			And Allah wants no injustice for his servants.
		
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			No. And all my people indeed I fear
		
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			for you the day of calling. At Tanad
		
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			here refers to Yomul Qiyamah, the day of
		
00:50:48 --> 00:50:49
			Qiyamah. Now,
		
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			The day you will turn your backs fleeing,
		
00:51:02 --> 00:51:03
			there is not for you from Allah any
		
00:51:03 --> 00:51:06
			protect and whoever Allah leaves astray, there is
		
00:51:06 --> 00:51:08
			not for him any guide. May Allah protect
		
00:51:08 --> 00:51:09
			us from
		
00:51:09 --> 00:51:10
			the difficulties
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:11
			of the day of qiyama.
		
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			What does he say?
		
00:51:30 --> 00:51:31
			Firon said, oh, Haman,
		
00:51:32 --> 00:51:34
			construct for me a tall tower
		
00:51:34 --> 00:51:36
			that I might climb it
		
00:51:37 --> 00:51:37
			and reach
		
00:51:38 --> 00:51:39
			the ways of the heavens to go and
		
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			see?
		
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			So I can go into the heavens so
		
00:51:48 --> 00:51:50
			that I may look at this deity of
		
00:51:50 --> 00:51:52
			Musa. This deity is talking about build me
		
00:51:52 --> 00:51:53
			the tower, let me go and have a
		
00:51:53 --> 00:51:54
			look for myself.
		
00:51:55 --> 00:51:57
			Why my brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
00:51:58 --> 00:52:00
			when he is being drowned
		
00:52:02 --> 00:52:03
			and Jibril
		
00:52:04 --> 00:52:05
			is dealing with him
		
00:52:05 --> 00:52:07
			and the angel of death
		
00:52:07 --> 00:52:09
			is dealing with him and the water is
		
00:52:09 --> 00:52:11
			being poured down his throat.
		
00:52:11 --> 00:52:12
			It's for a reason.
		
00:52:14 --> 00:52:16
			And at that time he says, Alaaan,
		
00:52:16 --> 00:52:17
			now I believe.
		
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			Now I believe. He says, I believed.
		
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			He says I believe in the Lord of
		
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			Musa
		
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			Allah Now you believe but before this is
		
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			what you were doing
		
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			When we gave you the chance, this is
		
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			what you were doing.
		
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			Message after message, reminder after reminder, miracle after
		
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			miracle. We gave you time. It wasn't the
		
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			case that Musa came and the next day
		
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			the punishment came down.
		
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			You continued in your arrogance to the extent
		
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			build me a tower. You you you're ridiculing
		
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			Musa in front of the people.
		
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			Build me a tower so I can go
		
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			see this madman what he's talking about. I'll
		
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			I'll go see it myself.
		
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			In ruin.
		
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			And the one who believes said, oh my
		
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			people follow me. I will guide you to
		
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			the way of righteous conduct.
		
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			Oh, my people, the worldly life is only
		
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			temporary enjoyment, and indeed the hereafter,
		
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			that is the home of permanent settlement.
		
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			I will leave you to read the remaining,
		
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			ayat from this.
		
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			But this message is coming to the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			And Allah is teaching him that not only
		
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			did Musa share the message, but even a
		
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			person from within Firon's own family is sharing
		
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			the same message.
		
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			Telling the people, put your trust in the
		
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			hereafter, not the dunya. Look at the permanent,
		
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			not the temporary.
		
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			And the way of the arrogant
		
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			is known.
		
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			Oh, messenger of Allah, remain upon your way.
		
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			Oh, believer, remain upon your way. Oh, Muslim,
		
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			remain upon your way. Everybody will make you
		
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			feel backward.
		
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			They will a time will come where you
		
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			holding on to your religion will be like
		
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			holding on to burning coal as the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said. It'll be so
		
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			difficult,
		
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			but the verses are training you that whatever
		
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			happens, die a Muslim. May Allah make us
		
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			die as believers
		
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			and our children and progeny.
		
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			Whatever happens, just die a Muslim.
		
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			Whatever happens, make sure you don't break, leave
		
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			the rope of Allah.
		
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			This is the message throughout the Quran. And
		
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			then Allah takes us to Surah Fussilat.
		
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			Maq and verse again. Like I said, dosages
		
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			of verses, they're very potent
		
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			in dealing with doubts.
		
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			You need they say sometimes you need steroids.
		
00:55:03 --> 00:55:04
			Doctors,
		
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			Taib, there's so many noticeable verses first
		
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			but because of time I'm gonna just go
		
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			through them quickly. I know we have work
		
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			tomorrow as well
		
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			But we won't get these verses for another
		
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			year, Subhan Allah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
		
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			in Surah Fussilat,
		
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			And that was your assumption which you assumed
		
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			about your lord, It has brought you to
		
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			ruin and you have become amongst the losers.
		
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			Imam Hassan al Basri was asked about this
		
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			verse
		
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			and he said some people of worship,
		
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			some
		
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			people
		
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			of worship,
		
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			they don't worship Allah, they worship wishful thinking.
		
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			To the extent that they leave this world
		
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			without one good deed.
		
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			What do they say? They say, have good
		
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			thoughts about Allah. Everything is in my heart.
		
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			You can't see what's in my heart.
		
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			You call them to some guidance, brother don't
		
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			judge me.
		
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			I have good thoughts about Allah. I have
		
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			good thoughts about Allah. Remember we said if
		
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			you flap the wing of hope without the
		
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			wing of fear, what's going to happen to
		
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			the dove?
		
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			It's going to crash.
		
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			Imam Hassan al Basri
		
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			explaining this verse in the Quran,
		
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			he said
		
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			if these people really had good thoughts about
		
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			Allah, they would have worshiped Allah with actions
		
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			not with their heart.
		
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			That having good thoughts about Allah
		
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			is putting into practice what the messenger came
		
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			to you with, putting into practice what Allah
		
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			commanded you to do. This is about what
		
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			what having good thoughts about Allah
		
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			means. Number 2,
		
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			Allah says, walatastawil
		
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			hasanatawalasayyah,
		
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			idfarabilatiya
		
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			ahsan faydalladi
		
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			baynaqaw baynaqawaqannahuwaliyunhamim,
		
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			and this is good for the day of
		
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			Eid that's coming.
		
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			Because sometimes we have families, subhanAllah,
		
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			that are at war with each other, and
		
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			the reeds come and go, and they still
		
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			don't even talk to each other, they don't
		
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			even greet each other,
		
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			they don't even respond to the salaam of
		
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			each other, or they choose to be with
		
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			each other in a very petty way. If
		
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			you scratch my back, I will scratch your
		
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			back. If you did this for my family,
		
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			I will do this for your family.
		
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			It's transactionary,
		
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			and this is not the way with the
		
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			believers.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			says with regards to an enemy
		
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			that you need to
		
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			respond
		
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			to the harm,
		
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			you need to repel the evil with a
		
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			deed which is better.
		
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			Continue
		
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			repelling the evil with goodness.
		
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			For idalladhibaynaqawbaynaqu
		
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			a dawah.
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			thereupon the one womb between you and him
		
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			is enmity,
		
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			that enmity will turn into friendship and you'll
		
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			become devoted friends again.
		
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			But Allah tells us this is not easy.
		
00:57:54 --> 00:57:54
			He says,
		
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			No one can do this except the one
		
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			who is patient.
		
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			That you can be patient with your nafs.
		
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			You know what happens when you want
		
00:58:05 --> 00:58:07
			to respond nicely? The nafs tells you, no
		
00:58:07 --> 00:58:08
			no no no no no no. People will
		
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			say you're weak.
		
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			People will say you see you are wrong,
		
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			they were right.
		
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			That's what the people will say. The people
		
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			will say you're weak. Look, this person kicks
		
00:58:17 --> 00:58:18
			you and you run where you get kicks.
		
00:58:18 --> 00:58:19
			Have you heard that one? Every time you
		
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			get kicks, that's where you run.
		
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			That's what the people will say. You need
		
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			patience to fight that ego.
		
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			There's ego. You need patience to fight the
		
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			whispers of the people.
		
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			You need patience to fight the whispers of
		
00:58:30 --> 00:58:30
			shaitan,
		
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			to do the right thing because it's right
		
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			with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And Allah says
		
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			that only the fortunate blessed one can achieve
		
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			this converting enemies into friends. And this was
		
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			the mandate of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			How many hated him subhanallah but they became
		
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			his best
		
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			and closest.
		
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			He was became the most beloved to them.
		
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			What they did against Islam, they did for
		
00:58:58 --> 00:59:01
			Islam. Whilst he was alive and after he
		
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			passed away, Khalid ibn Walid who orchestrated the
		
00:59:03 --> 00:59:06
			turnaround of events at Uhud, he was instrumental
		
00:59:06 --> 00:59:08
			towards the end of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
00:59:08 --> 00:59:10
			wasallam's life and throughout the life of Abu
		
00:59:10 --> 00:59:12
			Bakr. And even in the life of Umar,
		
00:59:13 --> 00:59:14
			even after Umar took him out of leading
		
00:59:14 --> 00:59:16
			the army and replaced him with Abu Ubaydha
		
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			ibn Jarrah, the Amin of this Umar radiAllahu
		
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			anhu Majjibani.
		
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			This is the reality of the deen. So
		
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			I want to share with you this message.
		
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			Last but not least, and I know it's
		
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			late, but we are going to go into
		
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			the last third of the night, and you
		
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			need to go with this verse. Subhanallah.
		
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			The verse of Istiqaamah, in Surat Al Fussilat.
		
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			Istiqaamah, my dear brother and sister in Islam
		
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			is very, very hard.
		
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			Steadfastness
		
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			is very very hard.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because it's an everyday matter,
		
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			and it's an every night matter. It needs
		
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			from you juhud and effort.
		
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			It needs from you
		
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			you to spend a bit of yourself,
		
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			to give up parts of yourself.
		
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			But because it's so hard, Allah makes the
		
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			reward with it worth it.
		
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			Because Allah created us and there's this universal
		
01:00:03 --> 01:00:06
			principle that governs this world. Reward is proportionate
		
01:00:06 --> 01:00:07
			to effort.
		
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			If the effort is hard, we need a
		
01:00:09 --> 01:00:11
			reward that is worth the effort.
		
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			I mean, if I told you all here,
		
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			who from here can walk all the way
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:18
			to London in the middle of winter for
		
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			a £1,000?
		
01:00:19 --> 01:00:20
			Just walk £1,000.
		
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			I'll give you £1,000. You get to London
		
01:00:23 --> 01:00:24
			but you have to walk there.
		
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			Anybody?
		
01:00:25 --> 01:00:26
			£1,000.
		
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			One guy.
		
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			2. This is Masjid donations by the way.
		
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			Hands are going up.
		
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			£1,000.
		
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			They say money has relative value.
		
01:00:39 --> 01:00:41
			Only time has absolute value.
		
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			£1,000
		
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			is can be little for the majority, but
		
01:00:44 --> 01:00:45
			it's a lot for a few. Yeah. He's
		
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			willing to go to walking to London in
		
01:00:47 --> 01:00:47
			the middle of winter,
		
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			Okay. 1,000 is not, masha'Allah,
		
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			tickling you guys.
		
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			£10,000. Put up your hands. £10,000.
		
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			More hands are going up. A few more
		
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			hands.
		
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			A £100,000,
		
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			Say Allah.
		
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			Even some of the adults
		
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			are raising their hands. A 100,000,
		
01:01:07 --> 01:01:08
			Life is harder.
		
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			Alright. £10,000,000,
		
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			the last offer.
		
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			Masha, double. 2 hands.
		
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			You see what happens, guys?
		
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			I love this. Now I'm putting myself in
		
01:01:27 --> 01:01:28
			a difficult spot.
		
01:01:29 --> 01:01:30
			It's your day. You see, look how the
		
01:01:30 --> 01:01:32
			hands are going up.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to be
		
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			people of istaqamah, but he knows
		
01:01:38 --> 01:01:40
			the task might set us back.
		
01:01:41 --> 01:01:43
			So he reveals in surah Fussilab that which
		
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			will pick us up and remember Maq converts,
		
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			Muslims are going through the grind,
		
01:01:47 --> 01:01:49
			they're going through the grind, they're being sanctioned
		
01:01:49 --> 01:01:51
			for 3 years in a valley no food,
		
01:01:51 --> 01:01:52
			no water, no drink,
		
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			no trade, no medicine,
		
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			The milk in the chest of mothers is
		
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			drying up,
		
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			babies are crying, they're going through the grind
		
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			only for la ilaha illallah, Allah reveals.
		
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			Allah says, indeed those who say,
		
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			Our Lord is Allah.
		
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			Those who say our Lord is Allah,
		
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			and then they walk the talk. I'm going
		
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			to try and use language that's good for
		
01:02:23 --> 01:02:23
			the Shabab.
		
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			They walk the talk.
		
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			They said the lord is is Allah,
		
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			and they started acting like the lord is
		
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			Allah. They started speaking like their Lord is
		
01:02:31 --> 01:02:33
			Allah. None of the swearing that we see
		
01:02:33 --> 01:02:35
			going around here. What's up, guys?
		
01:02:35 --> 01:02:38
			Schools, and buses, and parks, and kids swearing
		
01:02:38 --> 01:02:41
			like it's fashion. This is not from iman
		
01:02:41 --> 01:02:41
			and Islam.
		
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			So you said your lord is Allah, you
		
01:02:46 --> 01:02:48
			started speaking like your lord is Allah, You
		
01:02:48 --> 01:02:49
			started acting like your lord is Allah. You
		
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			started eating like your lord is Allah.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us that the
		
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			on the most scariest day of your life,
		
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			the most scariest part of your existence,
		
01:03:03 --> 01:03:04
			when no one can help you and you
		
01:03:04 --> 01:03:06
			need all the help you can get,
		
01:03:07 --> 01:03:08
			for the people of istaqam, my help will
		
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			come. When is the scariest day?
		
01:03:11 --> 01:03:12
			When you are sat in a gathering
		
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			and suddenly you see
		
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			from the creation of Allah
		
01:03:18 --> 01:03:20
			that which you used to hear about from
		
01:03:20 --> 01:03:20
			the mimbar
		
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			or in a lecture.
		
01:03:23 --> 01:03:24
			And you will look around you and see
		
01:03:24 --> 01:03:26
			everyone is carrying on normally. He's eating his
		
01:03:26 --> 01:03:29
			sandwich, he's drinking his mint tea,
		
01:03:30 --> 01:03:32
			He's carrying on with his work.
		
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			Everyone's carrying on, but you suddenly are filled
		
01:03:35 --> 01:03:38
			with fear. Why? Because Allah has lifted the
		
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			veil,
		
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			Because your time to die has arrived.
		
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			So you can see something that no one
		
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			else can see.
		
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			That's a scary moment.
		
01:03:48 --> 01:03:50
			And then you will start experiencing
		
01:03:50 --> 01:03:53
			the reality that you are owned
		
01:03:53 --> 01:03:56
			when you feel life being sucked out from
		
01:03:56 --> 01:03:57
			you and you have no ability to put
		
01:03:57 --> 01:03:58
			it back up.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			How scary will that be?
		
01:04:04 --> 01:04:05
			Because Allah will
		
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			give the angel of death the permission and
		
01:04:07 --> 01:04:09
			he will call the soul out and that
		
01:04:09 --> 01:04:11
			soul that we spoke about will start leaving.
		
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			And you will see yourself
		
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			slowly but surely becoming lifeless.
		
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			Now my dear brother and sister in Islam,
		
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			is this a happy moment or a scary
		
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			moment?
		
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			What would you pay to receive happiness at
		
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			this time? You pay everything, I imagine.
		
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			You'd give your family, your home, your wealth,
		
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			you'll give everything.
		
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			What would you pay?
		
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			Allah
		
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			tells us about the rewards of the people
		
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			of Istiqaamah. Listen to this.
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			walakumfihama
		
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			taddarunnuzulam
		
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			min ghafurirrahim.
		
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			Wallahi, if you are in a sanctioned
		
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			valley
		
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			for 3 years,
		
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			going through the * of existence,
		
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			and these verses come to you,
		
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			you receive motivation to last.
		
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			Allah says, at the time that I described
		
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			to you when all this is happening, for
		
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			the people of istiqama,
		
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			tatanazalu
		
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			alahihimul manaika,
		
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			Allah will send angels in droves from heaven
		
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			to surround the body, your body.
		
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			They will come and surround your body in
		
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			wait for the soul to be removed out.
		
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			Oh, servants of Allah,
		
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			what would you pay to see angels from
		
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			Jannah around you at that moment?
		
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			That Alhamdulillah
		
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			SubhanAllah,
		
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			scary but
		
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			And Allah says tatanazal,
		
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			present tense, meaning these angels will come in
		
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			droves, and The scholars of hadith and tafsir,
		
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			those who explain the hadith in the muslimat
		
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			of Imam Ahmad, because we have a long
		
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			hadith in the muslimat of Imam Ahmad that
		
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			describes the death of a believer and a
		
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			disbeliever.
		
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			They fill the atmosphere
		
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			with the fragrance of Jannah,
		
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			in their presence with the permission of Allah
		
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			to receive the soul of this person. In
		
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			the Muslim of Imam Ahmed, when the soul
		
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			comes out,
		
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			the angels from Jannah immediately take it from
		
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			the angel of death. They do not leave
		
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			it in his hand for a mere split
		
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			second.
		
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			That's how excited they are from for to
		
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			to receive the soul. And then the soul
		
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			is transferred
		
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			between the rows of angels,
		
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			just like I imagine, you know, a football
		
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			match when you win the premier league or
		
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			something. You see they carry the manager and
		
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			they transferring the manager one. You you know,
		
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			when you see that,
		
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			The soul is being transferred. Every angel is
		
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			trying to touch it.
		
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			Every angel wants to be part of the
		
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			celebration,
		
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			And like this, the soul goes higher and
		
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			higher and higher until it gets to the
		
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			first heaven and awaits permission
		
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			to enter, until the body is buried before
		
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			Allah sends it back to the body. But
		
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			that's a discussion for another day. Tatanazloo
		
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			alayhimul malaika, gift number 1 for the people
		
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			of Istikamah.
		
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			Allah takafu
		
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			walatakazano
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			When I was reading these verses, I was
		
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			thinking,
		
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			what life moment can I connect to this
		
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			that brought me great fear
		
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			and I would have loved to receive
		
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			something to breathe with at that moment?
		
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			And I could only think about GCSEs,
		
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			forgive me.
		
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			GCSEs, I mean, not now, now it's easier,
		
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			but back in the days, subhanallah, the stress
		
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			of GCSEs
		
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			was hectic.
		
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			We were always told
		
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			that this is the yardstick between being a
		
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			sweeper and a doctor.
		
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			This is how we were brought up. Mental
		
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			health wasn't a thing when we were growing
		
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			up young boys and girls. Our parents just
		
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			told us as it is.
		
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			So as we were getting towards g c
		
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			s, we were thinking, subhanallah, this is make
		
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			or break.
		
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			This is me whether I'm going to be
		
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			that dream car I have when we're teenagers,
		
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			we have a lot of dream cars,
		
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			or whether I'm going to be driving somebody
		
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			else's dream car.
		
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			Lots of stress.
		
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			And then you go through the grind of
		
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			exam after exam after exam to which should
		
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			last across 3 months sometimes
		
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			or 2 months.
		
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			Depends when the schedule is, how many subjects
		
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			you're taking and when the timetable
		
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			caters for your subjects. And then it finishes,
		
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			subhanallah, and you feel elation, but not complete
		
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			elation because you know one day you're gonna
		
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			be told that the results are out and
		
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			it would happen. One day you're nicely resting
		
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			and your parents come to you with the
		
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			newspaper. Where I was growing up, when the
		
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			results came out, it should be the front
		
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			page of the newspaper.
		
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			GCSE results are out. We used to do
		
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			o levels. I didn't grow up in the
		
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			UK. O level is similar to GCSEs but
		
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			it's the Cambridge,
		
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			curriculum.
		
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			Similar.
		
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			Subhanallah, you see this newspaper. All of a
		
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			sudden you feel stress overcome you. Your bright
		
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			face from all the playing becomes dark
		
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			because now you have to go into and
		
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			before you you didn't go to a computer
		
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			screen putting the code. I don't know how
		
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			it is now. Back then we had to
		
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			go to an exam center, stand in a
		
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			queue, and honestly you're standing in that queue
		
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			and it feels like, is this the day
		
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			of qiyama on earth?
		
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			Really? You're sweating, literally everyone is sweating, nobody
		
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			cares about anybody, nobody cares whose clothes is
		
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			iron, not iron, who's wearing clothes from last
		
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			year, nobody cares.
		
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			Everybody's in their own worry. This is I
		
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			remember this. This is how it was.
		
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			You're standing and all you are, you're a
		
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			number
		
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			amongst many numbers.
		
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			Now the person in front of you goes
		
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			in, he comes out crying, you say, you
		
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			Allah, save me from being that person, you
		
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			Allah.
		
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			The other one comes out smiling, you say,
		
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			insha Allah, but it makes you more nervous
		
01:10:11 --> 01:10:13
			that he won. What about my parents will
		
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			say how did he get those results? You
		
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			didn't get this is life, Yaqi, when you're
		
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			growing up.
		
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			Now I'm thinking to myself, at that moment
		
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			when I was in that line,
		
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			it would have meant everything to me if
		
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			someone came out of that exam room, walked
		
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			up to me, saw me sweating,
		
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			and said to me in my ear, don't
		
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			worry, you've passed.
		
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			Don't worry. It's all good. I've seen your
		
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			results. You're okay.
		
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			Allah, if somebody did that to me at
		
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			that moment, I'll be like,
		
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			let's see who we have here now. Look
		
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			at the people,
		
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			All the stress is gone. You have time
		
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			to live life a little bit. You are
		
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			existing, now you start living.
		
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			Allah is giving you this
		
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			opportunity,
		
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			the opportunity of angels coming to you and
		
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			saying,
		
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			the angels will tell the dying person, do
		
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			not fear.
		
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			Do not be sad.
		
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			Do not be sad.
		
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			This is what's happening effectively.
		
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			And I was thinking about this
		
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			this is also in
		
01:11:16 --> 01:11:18
			the present tense. What did we say about
		
01:11:18 --> 01:11:20
			the present tense? It's always continuous.
		
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			Then I was thinking to myself, subhanAllah,
		
01:11:23 --> 01:11:24
			even happiness
		
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			has levels
		
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			and in between the levels of happiness you
		
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			have sadness, not so? I mean if I
		
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			told you guys now guys
		
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			I give you 2 options,
		
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			you can win 1 of 2 holidays,
		
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			1 in the Maldives
		
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			and 1
		
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			in the Lake District.
		
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			Why
		
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			why are you laughing? Lake District's nice.
		
01:11:46 --> 01:11:48
			Lake District's good, man. Come on.
		
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			Tayeb,
		
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			would you be happy going to Lake District?
		
01:11:53 --> 01:11:53
			Yes.
		
01:11:54 --> 01:11:57
			No. Yes. Who wouldn't be? Free holiday. Come
		
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			on.
		
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			Would you be happy going to Maldives?
		
01:12:00 --> 01:12:00
			No.
		
01:12:01 --> 01:12:02
			No. Okay, you're out of the equation.
		
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			You're out of the equation Habibi.
		
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			You haven't tasted life, when you taste it
		
01:12:08 --> 01:12:08
			you
		
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			you change your answer. It might be too
		
01:12:10 --> 01:12:12
			late then but we give you time.
		
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			Now going to Lake District makes you happy,
		
01:12:14 --> 01:12:15
			right?
		
01:12:15 --> 01:12:16
			But Maldives
		
01:12:17 --> 01:12:18
			makes you happier, correct?
		
01:12:19 --> 01:12:21
			Between happy and happier isn't there a portion
		
01:12:21 --> 01:12:21
			of sadness?
		
01:12:23 --> 01:12:24
			Imagine I called you up after 1 month
		
01:12:24 --> 01:12:25
			and you were excited
		
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			and I called you up say Masha Allah
		
01:12:27 --> 01:12:30
			congratulations brother you won a trip to Lake
		
01:12:30 --> 01:12:30
			District
		
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			Would you be happy or sad?
		
01:12:34 --> 01:12:36
			Sad. So between happy and happy this happier,
		
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			there's a piece of sadness. Not so?
		
01:12:40 --> 01:12:42
			Are you with me? Allah says,
		
01:12:43 --> 01:12:44
			in the present tense,
		
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			meaning you will never ever ever ever be
		
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			sad. And I can only deduce from this
		
01:12:50 --> 01:12:51
			that the place that you'll be going to
		
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			is a place where
		
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			the happy moment you feel now is very
		
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			happy, but the next moment will be happier
		
01:12:57 --> 01:12:59
			than the last happy, and the moment after
		
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			that will be happier than the last happy,
		
01:13:01 --> 01:13:03
			and the moment after that will be happier
		
01:13:03 --> 01:13:04
			than the last happy. It can only be
		
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			because if it was any less happy, then
		
01:13:06 --> 01:13:07
			you'd be sad.
		
01:13:07 --> 01:13:09
			And Allah is saying, la taz and there's
		
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			no sadness where you're going.
		
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			Subhanallah,
		
01:13:13 --> 01:13:15
			I'm digressing but I want you to really
		
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			appreciate these verses of Allah.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So Allah sends you angels from Jannah. If
		
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			you're the people of Istikamah, wouldn't this be
		
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			enough for you? Of course, you would say
		
01:13:24 --> 01:13:27
			yes. Okay. The angels tell you don't be
		
01:13:27 --> 01:13:28
			afraid.
		
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			Subhanallah, bonus. Walatahasanoo,
		
01:13:31 --> 01:13:33
			you'll never ever be sad, bonus. Now I
		
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			imagine you in the queue, you got your
		
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			results. What's the next thing you're gonna think
		
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			about? The person didn't tell you whether you
		
01:13:38 --> 01:13:40
			got a's or b's, he just said you
		
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			passed.
		
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			So what's the next thing you think about
		
01:13:42 --> 01:13:43
			now?
		
01:13:43 --> 01:13:45
			How well did I pass?
		
01:13:45 --> 01:13:46
			Did I get a stars?
		
01:13:47 --> 01:13:49
			Or is it numbers now? Nines, eights?
		
01:13:50 --> 01:13:52
			That's what you start thinking. Allah tells the
		
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			angels to tell the dying person.
		
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			Allah has promised you the Jannah.
		
01:13:59 --> 01:14:01
			Allah has given you the Jannah that he
		
01:14:01 --> 01:14:03
			promised you. You're worrying about results which school
		
01:14:03 --> 01:14:05
			you're gonna go to, that school needed so
		
01:14:05 --> 01:14:07
			many nines, that school needed so many eights.
		
01:14:07 --> 01:14:09
			Don't even think about that. Allah
		
01:14:09 --> 01:14:11
			told us to tell you the Jannah that
		
01:14:11 --> 01:14:12
			he promised you that's the Jannah he's given
		
01:14:12 --> 01:14:15
			you. The Jannah you are working for that's
		
01:14:15 --> 01:14:16
			the Jannah he has given you.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
01:14:18 --> 01:14:20
			Okay. What's the next thing you think about?
		
01:14:20 --> 01:14:21
			Maybe you feel a bit
		
01:14:21 --> 01:14:23
			sad. I'm leaving my family.
		
01:14:25 --> 01:14:26
			In the dunya whenever we travel to a
		
01:14:26 --> 01:14:28
			new place sometimes you feel butterflies in your
		
01:14:28 --> 01:14:30
			stomach, it's natural. You go to a place,
		
01:14:30 --> 01:14:32
			maybe people scare you about this place,
		
01:14:33 --> 01:14:35
			You're on a charity mission, for example. You're
		
01:14:35 --> 01:14:37
			going to a place that doesn't have the
		
01:14:37 --> 01:14:38
			facilities and the amenities.
		
01:14:39 --> 01:14:41
			You have literally, you have butterflies in your
		
01:14:41 --> 01:14:42
			stomach. What do you do to deal with
		
01:14:42 --> 01:14:43
			those butterflies?
		
01:14:43 --> 01:14:44
			You call a friend,
		
01:14:45 --> 01:14:45
			a buddy,
		
01:14:46 --> 01:14:48
			call him up, right? Someone who doesn't have
		
01:14:48 --> 01:14:50
			a vision, who's just there, always available.
		
01:14:51 --> 01:14:53
			No, no, no. And you call someone up
		
01:14:53 --> 01:14:54
			you say brother
		
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			what are you doing? I say I'm doing
		
01:14:56 --> 01:14:57
			nothing
		
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			do you want a free holiday I'll pay
		
01:14:59 --> 01:15:00
			for you I'm going to this place come
		
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			with me he goes so if you're paying
		
01:15:01 --> 01:15:02
			why
		
01:15:03 --> 01:15:04
			not? So
		
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			what happens when he says yes? The butterflies
		
01:15:08 --> 01:15:10
			go away because now you're traveling together, isn't
		
01:15:10 --> 01:15:11
			it? And the prophet
		
01:15:12 --> 01:15:14
			told us, don't travel by yourself, travel in
		
01:15:14 --> 01:15:16
			pairs, travel in threes, and appoint an amir.
		
01:15:17 --> 01:15:18
			So from the guidance of the sharia,
		
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			the aim Allah doesn't want this person of
		
01:15:22 --> 01:15:25
			istiqama to feel any sadness. Allah tells the
		
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			angels to tell the dying person,
		
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			hayatidunyaawfilahirah.
		
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			We were your buddies, and helpers, and protectors
		
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			in the life of this world, and we
		
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			are traveling with you to the hereafter.
		
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			You just didn't know. You're going with your
		
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			buddies, you're not going alone.
		
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			And also,
		
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			in the world that we're taking you from,
		
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			you used to ask people for things and
		
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			I never used to give you. Where are
		
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			you going to? You just desire and Allah
		
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			will give you, you don't even have to
		
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			speak.
		
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			Just desire it in your heart and Allah
		
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			will give it to you.
		
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			But to how merciful Allah is, the human
		
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			being might be at that moment thinking wow
		
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			a perpetual life of just desiring, what if
		
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			my desires dry up?
		
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			What if my desires dry up? Allah
		
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			calms that fear for you as well. Walakumfiha
		
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			matat down. If your desires dry up, don't
		
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			worry, just speak and Allah will give you
		
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			a game.
		
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			Talk and Allah will give you again.
		
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			My brother and sister in Islam, this is
		
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			the prizes
		
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			for the people of istaqamah.
		
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			But guess
		
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			what? There's
		
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			more, and I only learned about there being
		
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			more
		
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			from the word after
		
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			this.
		
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			Allah went into detail angels coming down from
		
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			Jannah giving you the glad tidings. Don't be
		
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			afraid. Don't be sad. Allah has given you
		
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			the Jannah he promised you. We are your
		
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			buddies when we are traveling with you and
		
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			you're going to a place where you'll have
		
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			everything you desire and everything you ask for.
		
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			Then Allah says nuzula,
		
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			na ilaha illallah.
		
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			Honestly, you know, these are verses you need
		
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			to be sitting on a recliner with Moroccan
		
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			mint tea,
		
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			and you read them.
		
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			Honestly, it's just therapeutic
		
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			because
		
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			when I learned the word nuzula, it just
		
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			knocked me out.
		
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			You know what nuzul
		
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			is? Nuzul
		
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			is what we give someone who's traveled to
		
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			us from a long long long long
		
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			origin. They had traveled hours to get to
		
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			us.
		
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			They landed in Heathrow not Manchester after that
		
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			and then had to drive all the way
		
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			through the m six and all the traffic
		
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			that we see,
		
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			and they got to us tired, and they
		
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			finally got to our door, maybe just over
		
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			24 hours since they started their journey. We
		
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			opened the door to welcome them. Do we
		
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			take them and put them on the dining
		
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			table
		
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			straight away,
		
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			or do we take them and sit them
		
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			in our lounge first, and we give them
		
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			some tea,
		
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			some water,
		
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			some coffee,
		
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			some dates,
		
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			some biscuits,
		
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			some sweets, depending on your culture? What do
		
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			you do?
		
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			You consider bad manners who just take them
		
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			and put them on the on the banquet
		
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			table, let them catch their breath, freshen up,
		
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			right?
		
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			This is nuzul.
		
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			Nuzul refers to the welcoming,
		
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			the starter.
		
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			Allah is saying all these gifts we prepared
		
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			for the people of Istikamah when they die,
		
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			this is just the starter.
		
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			This is the nuzur.
		
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			What is the actual prize? Yeah. Allah, Allah
		
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			doesn't tell us. Allah says, I've told you
		
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			how good the starter is. You can go
		
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			imagine how great
		
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			the main prize is for the people of
		
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			Istikam.
		
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			Now as we sit here and go into
		
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			this 23rd night, and inshallah,
		
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			after this ayam, may it be laylatulqatr.
		
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			After we sat and learned this ayah together,
		
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			how what an honor it is that in
		
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			the month of our Quran, and in one
		
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			of the nights that the Quran was revealed,
		
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			we can celebrate the Quran with this verse
		
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			in Surah Fussilat.
		
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			If it's if it's labeled to Qadr, may
		
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			Allah make us some those who witness it,
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			As we sit and study this verse, and
		
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			you have, I'm sure this thought in your
		
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			mind, I had this thought as well.
		
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			Who can die this death, You Allah? Subhanallah.
		
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			Hey Allah, can I die this death? This
		
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			death has to be the death of the
		
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			Ambia alaihi musalat wa salam.
		
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			That this death
		
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			has to be the death of the Ambiya
		
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			alihmus salatwala. I don't think I could die
		
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			this death, You Allah.
		
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			You Allah, give me a sign. Teach me,
		
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			You Allah.
		
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			Can I die this death?
		
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			And the wrong and short, my dear brother
		
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			and sister in Islam, in the very same
		
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			verse, Allah teaches us that we can die
		
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			this death.
		
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			You know where I found it in?
		
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			In the same verse.
		
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			In the words after Nuzul, what does Allah
		
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			say? Nuzulahamin
		
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			A welcoming, Allah could have said, a welcoming
		
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			from the Lord of the worlds. A welcoming
		
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			from the all wise.
		
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			A welcoming
		
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			from the one who is upon all able.
		
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			But Allah doesn't say this. He says a
		
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			welcoming from the most forgiving, the most merciful.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			Why are you Allah the most forgiving, the
		
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			most merciful? To teach you and me, the
		
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			read of the Quran, that the people who
		
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			died this death were people like us.
		
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			We had good days, and when we had
		
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			good days, we thanked Allah for them. And
		
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			then we had bad days, and when we
		
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			had bad days we turned to Allah and
		
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			we said, you Allah forgive us for the
		
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			bad day that we've had and help us
		
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			tomorrow, you Allah.
		
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			This is Istikuma
		
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			that you try your best, but when you
		
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			sleep, you don't sleep like you had a
		
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			good day.
		
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			You make sure before you sleep, you turn
		
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			to Allah and you engage him sincerely
		
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			and you show Allah that you know you
		
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			had a bad day with him
		
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			with regards to his laws, with regards to
		
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			his mission, with regards to his instruction, and
		
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			you seek forgiveness, but you don't go to
		
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			sleep in a state of loss and depression.
		
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			You seek forgiveness and sleep with hope that
		
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			tomorrow, insha Allah, I will chase the ideals
		
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			that Allah has revealed in a better way,
		
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			insha Allah. This is the way of Istikamah,
		
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			my dear brothers and sisters in Islam, and
		
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			this is the rewards for the people of
		
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			Istikamah.
		
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			Every day, a lifelong worth of effort, but
		
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			the reward
		
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			is not proportionate to the effort.
		
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			It's greater than the effort. May Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala make us from the people of
		
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			Istikamah and the people of Surah Fussilat and
		
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			Surah Ghafir and Surah Zumar. The Zumar, the
		
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			groups that will be driven to Jannah.
		
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			Jannah driven with the letter wow, aameen, You
		
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			Rabbilahalameen.
		
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			My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, may
		
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			Allah forgive our past, inspire our futures, reward
		
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			you all for your patience sitting. Abullahi, I
		
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			knew I know we went longer because the
		
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			tafsir,
		
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			happened after a fundraiser as well, but it's
		
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			all good. These are moments of Allah on
		
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			earth and moments with Allah on earth.
		
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			May Allah bring these moments to us in
		
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			a recurring matter, that perhaps one day we
		
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			will meet in Jannah, and we will say,
		
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			masha Allah, brother, Allahu Akbar, you made it,
		
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			we made it, Masha'allah.
		
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			What brought you here? And he might say,
		
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			You know what, subhanAllah, it was that one
		
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			sitting in the dunya, 23rd night of Ramadan.
		
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			14:45 after the hijrah of the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam. We learned from the Quran, and
		
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			the barakah of that session changed my life,
		
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			changed our lives, and Allah brought us together
		
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			maybe, and it will absolutely be worth it.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			grant us latest al Qadr, accept our Ramadan.
		
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			Make us from the family of Al Quran.
		
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			I love you all for the sake of
		
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			Allah.