Salah Mahmoud – Fortress Of The Muslim- 10.8.24

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The transcript describes the importance of being truthful in Islam, especially in facing challenges and challenges to oneself and others. It emphasizes the need for everyone to be truthful to oneself and others, especially when facing evil behavior. The Sun principal is the one who wants to make everyone feel safe and make them feel happy, and is willing to reward actions for their actions. The importance of being truthful is crucial to Islam, and the Prophet units the importance of being true to oneself and others.

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			In the
		
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			name of Allah,
		
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			the Most
		
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			Gracious, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate, the
		
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			Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.
		
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			And when the Surah is revealed, some of
		
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			them look at others, saying, Does anyone of
		
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			you see?
		
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			Then Allah turns their hearts away, because they
		
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			are a people who do not understand.
		
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			There has come to you a Messenger from
		
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			among yourselves, exalted above all that you have
		
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			done, eager to help you, to the believers,
		
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			kind and merciful.
		
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			So if they turn away, say, Allah is
		
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			sufficient for me, there is no god but
		
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			He.
		
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			I have put my trust in Him, and
		
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			He is the Lord of the Great Throne.
		
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			In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
		
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			the Most Compassionate.
		
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			The disbelievers say, This is a clear magician.
		
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			Indeed, your Lord is Allah, who created the
		
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			heavens and the earth in six days, then
		
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			settled on the Throne.
		
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			He arranges the matter.
		
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			There is no intercessor except after His permission.
		
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			That is Allah, your Lord, so worship Him,
		
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			or do you not remember?
		
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			To Him is your return, all of you.
		
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			The promise of Allah is true.
		
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			Indeed, He begins creation, then repeats it, to
		
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			reward those who believe and do righteous deeds
		
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			with justice.
		
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			And those who disbelieve, for them is a
		
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			drink of boiling water and a painful punishment
		
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			for what they used to disbelieve.
		
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			He is the One who made the sun
		
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			a light, and the moon a light, and
		
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			He has determined for it stages, so that
		
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			you may know the number of years and
		
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			the reckoning.
		
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			He arranges the matter.
		
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			He explains the signs for a people who
		
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			know.
		
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			Indeed, in the alternation of the night and
		
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			the day, and what Allah has created in
		
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			the heavens and the earth, are signs for
		
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			a people who are righteous.
		
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			Indeed, those who hope to meet Us and
		
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			are pleased with the life of this world
		
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			and are assured of it, and those who
		
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			are heedless of Our signs, for them is
		
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			their abode is the Fire, for what they
		
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			used to earn.
		
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			ALLAH IS THE GREATEST Indeed,
		
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			those who believe and do righteous deeds, their
		
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			Lord guides them by their faith.
		
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			Rivers flow beneath them in the Gardens of
		
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			Bliss.
		
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			Their call therein is, Glory be to You,
		
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			O Allah, and their greeting therein is, Peace.
		
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			And their last call is, Praise be to
		
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			Allah, Lord of the worlds.
		
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			And if Allah were to hasten the evil
		
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			for the people, He would have hastened for
		
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			them the good, and their term would have
		
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			been decreed for them.
		
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			So leave those who do not hope to
		
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			meet Us.
		
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			In their transgression they are blind.
		
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			And when harm touches man, he calls to
		
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			his side, or sits down, or stands up.
		
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			But when We remove his harm from him,
		
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			he passes away as if he had not
		
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			called us to harm that touched him.
		
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			Thus was made beautiful for the transgressors what
		
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			they used to do.
		
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			And We destroyed the generations before you when
		
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			they transgressed, and their messengers came to them
		
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			with clear proofs, but they did not believe.
		
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			Thus do We recompense the guilty people.
		
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			Then We made you successors after them, that
		
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			We might see how you would act.
		
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			Allah is the Greatest, Allah is
		
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			the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest,
		
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			Allah is
		
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			the Greatest.
		
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			As-salamu
		
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			alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
		
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			By the Grace of Allah, we have just
		
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			finished Surah At-Tawbah and started Surah Yunus.
		
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			In these two beautiful surahs, one of the
		
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			ayat that I recited in the beginning was,
		
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			Allah says, Be mindful of
		
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			Allah and be with the truthful one.
		
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			Throughout the whole entire surah, Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala has been telling us about the
		
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			qualities of al-munafiqeen, from the beginning of
		
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			the surah till the end of the surah.
		
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			So in the middle, Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala is telling us, be truthful, be truthful
		
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			to yourself, be truthful to people, and be
		
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			truthful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala can see your heart, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala knows what you have
		
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			in your mind, what you think, and which
		
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			group are you following, right?
		
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			And especially nowadays, you really need to be
		
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			ma'as sadiqeen, you need to understand which
		
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			group, which side are you taking exactly, right?
		
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			Is it the side of the enemies, or
		
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			the side of al-munafiqeen, or the side
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, The quality
		
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			of being truthful is one of the most
		
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			important qualities in Islam.
		
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			That's why out of all the qualities and
		
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			traits, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chose that
		
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			quality for Rasulullah ﷺ, that khuluq.
		
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			The honest, the trustworthy, right?
		
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			So sifat al-sidq, this is a very
		
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			essential sifah and quality and the trait for
		
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			the believers.
		
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			Ibrahim ﷺ asked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and said, And the Prophet ﷺ said, So
		
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			you seek, you are truthful and you continue
		
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			to seek truthfulness until Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala writes you down amongst al-sadiqeen.
		
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			So in everything that you do in your
		
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			life, try to always check your heart and
		
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			see if you're sadiq with your nafs, are
		
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			you sadiq with people, are you sadiq with
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, or are you
		
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			just doing something for the sake of people
		
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			and for the sake, you know, and thinking
		
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			that you're doing the right thing, but in
		
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			haqiqah, in reality, you are not doing this,
		
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			right?
		
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			So that's the first ayah.
		
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			It's a direct command from Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala to be mindful of him and
		
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			to be truthful.
		
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			The last ayah in this surah about the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, It's a beautiful
		
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			ayah where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells
		
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			us that a messenger from amongst you, He's
		
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			from us, he's from our lineage, he's a
		
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			human being, right?
		
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			So he's anxious whenever you're injured, whenever, that's
		
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			one of the tarjama, whenever you're struggling with
		
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			something, that the Prophet ﷺ would care for
		
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			you.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ, when you're facing difficulty, he
		
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			would always feel sad and, you know, he
		
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			feels that for his companions and for the
		
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			believers in general.
		
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			And he genuinely cares for you, right?
		
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			He wants to make sure that you follow
		
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			the path of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and follow the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			until you exit this dunya and you are
		
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			safe.
		
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			Until you go to Jannah, inshallah, right?
		
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			That's why the Prophet ﷺ, if a janazah
		
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			for a non-believer or a non-Muslim
		
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			passed by the Prophet ﷺ, would really feel
		
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			upset and sad.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because he was not able to save a
		
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			human from Jahannam.
		
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			And subhanallah, when someone accepts Islam, the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ would always be happy because he was
		
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			able to save someone from Jahannam.
		
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			He cares for you.
		
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			Everything that he says to you, he asks
		
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			you to do, it's for your own benefit,
		
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			for your own interest.
		
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			He's so merciful, so kind to the believers,
		
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			right?
		
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			So when you think the Sunnah of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ is difficult to follow in the
		
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			path and the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			is difficult and to make our lives, subhanallah,
		
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			difficult, that is not true at all.
		
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			It's not true, right?
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ cares for us.
		
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			He tells us what is best and what
		
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			is good for us.
		
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			So, ikhwan and ikhwati, today, inshallah, let's follow
		
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			some of the Sunnah as much as we
		
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			can, inshallah, some of the Sunnah of Rasulullah
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			Then, inshallah, later on, we're going to reflect
		
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			on Surah Yunus, inshallah, because it's a beautiful
		
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			surah and it has a lot of mawa
		
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			'iz, a lot of reminders for all of
		
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			us.
		
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			I ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to
		
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			accept our amal, ya rabbal alameen, and to
		
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			make us from those who recite Qur'an
		
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			and implement Qur'an in their lives.
		
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			Allahumma ameen.
		
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			I say this and ask Allah's forgiveness for
		
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			me and for you.
		
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			May Allah reward you well.
		
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			May Allah bless you.
		
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			Inshallah, we'll be up at 8.15 p
		
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			.m., inshallah, we'll be up at 8.15
		
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			p.m., inshallah.
		
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			May Allah bless you.