Shadee Elmasry – How Do You Love Someone You’ve Never Seen

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			Not only is what is coming better,
we're going to receive something
		

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			that will make us happy because
isn't isn't every creature living
		

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			to attain the level of happiness?
Right? Trees, the lean towards the
		

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			sun, everyone is living and
existing for what would make it
		

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			happy. And we shouldn't shy away
from that. That's one of the
		

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			reasons people love Allah subhanaw
taala and have devotion is because
		

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			makes them happy.
		

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			Right? Yesterday, we just attended
three more than we talked about
		

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			the love of the messenger peace be
fine. And but I wish that the
		

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			topic came up. And if I had had a
chance to talk to you, I know what
		

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			it said. People don't really
understand how is it you love
		

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			somebody you've never seen? It
doesn't make any sense. So the
		

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			concept and the idea is that
people love the Salawat. First,
		

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			the practice, because saying the
Salawat. You may think like, I
		

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			don't know if I'm going to try it,
right. But when you do.
		

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			It's almost like a spiritual honey
enters inside us such a Sakina and
		

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			a cure for all of these terrible
things that happened to people and
		

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			these feelings that are inside
one. I just gone. Like I can't
		

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			even explain how nothing changed
in the world, the feeling is gone.
		

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			So people first love the Salawat
because they experience it. You
		

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			cannot just love somebody who's
just an idea.
		

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			You have to feel something first.
If you can't see it, you got to
		

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			feel that at least. So that's what
we do have we do have that
		

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			feeling, right? And then there's
like the other aspect of well, the
		

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			profit is purely mental. And we
live now you look around, there's
		

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			no drugs, there's no alcohol.
There's no Zina.
		

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			You don't realize how massive
these three things are. There's no
		

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			interest. Because credit cards, I
want to get something I'll pay for
		

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			it later. Right? It's, it's one of
the most tempting ideas. If there
		

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			was interest, I would have started
50 businesses by now. Right? Yeah.
		

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			Because there's interest gambling,
these people are almost like
		

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			suicidal, right? When they mess
up. So all these things that are
		

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			actually like they ruin people's
lives.
		

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			They mentally realize, thank God
that we have this religion because
		

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			otherwise I wouldn't be able to,
		

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			to apply that to myself or others.
So all these is how the prophets
		

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			of Allah who it was some of them
by the law that Allah brought
		

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			through him, saved us from all
these problems. So that's mental,
		

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			then the Salawat that's a feeling.
So people are always trying to be
		

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			happy. And, and those Salawat
that's why people love the
		

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			messenger. First, they love the
sun a lot. Then, after some time,
		

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			they start to attribute that to
the Prophet himself, that they
		

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			start to connect it to the just
like in Islam, people love the
		

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			acts of worship first. And they
love Allah after that. Because you
		

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			think of the acts of worship, they
give us something to do masajid
		

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			ombre, you go to Ramadan every
night. It's like all of a sudden,
		

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			like I got friends I know people
are there's always something to
		

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			do. So you love the acts of
worship first. And then the one
		

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			whom you worship. That is comes
later. Right? So there's always
		

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			got to be this connection. So here
when we say this was a sofa, y'all
		

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			DECA book of eternal love, people
love Allah because Allah makes
		

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			them happy. That's a real simple
answer to it. Right? If someone
		

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			asked me, Why do you do it? What's
going on? What do you do? This
		

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			makes me happy. What can I tell
you? Right? I had issues.
		

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			I said, let me give this a shot.
My issues went away. I wanted
		

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			things. I said, let me go to this
source. I got those things. It's
		

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			very selfish in the beginning, but
that's okay. Because that's the
		

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			actual reality of life. People
care about themselves first.
		

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			Right? And then after that, you
start looking at who gave me all
		

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			this now. You reach the point that
Okay, from here on. I want to live
		

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			as a grateful servant. I want to
be grateful for this. I want to
		

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			show gratitude for this. And
that's how you live so this is the
		

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			importance of this as well as
selfie or decode a book of a total
		

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			dog right Allah Tada is gonna give
you so that you become happy