Shakiel Humayun – Why did Allah Command TheseTarawih Talk 3 Ramadan 2023

Shakiel Humayun
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The speaker discusses the importance of the Sharia, which is the standard of Islam for maximizing benefit and repelling harm. The speaker explains that the principles of maximizing benefit and repelling harm are the same, but the repelling harm is greater. The speaker also discusses the importance of fasting, which is a way to avoid causing harm, and the importance of avoiding alcohol and drinking.

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			We are in Surat Al Baqarah where Allah
		
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			Subhanah
		
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			is
		
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			speaking about
		
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			Ayats regarding Hajj
		
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			from
		
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			190s to the early 200s.
		
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			And these verses
		
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			we have some indication that relate
		
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			to an event that happened in the time
		
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			of the prophet Muhammad
		
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			which was the treaty of Hudaybia
		
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			with the prophet Muhammad
		
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			and the companions
		
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			wanted to make Ummrah in Mecca,
		
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			and they were prevented from entering into Mecca.
		
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			And so they made a treaty.
		
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			This treaty had some unfavorable terms
		
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			for the prophet Muhammad
		
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			and the companions
		
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			and Islam in general
		
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			as the companions thought.
		
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			But the prophet Muhammad
		
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			wanted to go ahead and sign this treaty
		
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			anyway.
		
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			Some of the companions were upset. They thought
		
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			they were getting a bad deal. Umar Radiallahu
		
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			Anhu said
		
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			Aren't we on the truth?
		
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			Aren't they on falsehood?
		
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			Why are we settling for a lesser deal?
		
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			Abu Bakr reminded him Radiallahu Anhu he said,
		
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			That he's the messenger of Allah and Allah
		
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			will never abandon him.
		
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			And so Allah Subhanahu
		
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			revealed a verse here
		
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			regarding the situation that if there's a command
		
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			to sign this peace treaty,
		
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			the certainty
		
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			as Muslims, as believers, we should have that
		
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			all the commandments of Allah are for our
		
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			good and our benefit.
		
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			So
		
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			Allah
		
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			revealed. Oh you who have believed enter into
		
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			a silm.
		
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			All of you.
		
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			A silm has two meanings. 1 is Islam,
		
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			enter into Islam fully.
		
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			The second meaning of is
		
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			that all you who have believed enter into
		
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			this peace and reconciliation
		
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			treaty in accord,
		
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			all of you
		
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			and believe
		
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			that it is beneficial
		
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			because Allah is commanding it.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu says after that
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ala says, and if you slip
		
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			after clear evidence has come to you, know
		
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			that Allah is.
		
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			You would expect
		
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			it to say most forgiving, most merciful. If
		
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			you slip, you make a mistake. You accept
		
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			You expect Allah to end the verse by
		
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			saying he's the most forgiving, most merciful, but
		
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			he doesn't.
		
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			He says if you slip after clear guidance
		
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			comes to you then know
		
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			that Allah is al Aziz. He is mighty.
		
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			He is hakeem.
		
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			He's wise.
		
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			He's mighty, meaning if he's telling you to
		
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			go ahead and sign this treaty, it's not
		
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			a weak deal because Aziz, the Aziz, the
		
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			mighty will not tell you to do anything
		
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			weak.
		
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			So any commandment that comes from Allah, no
		
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			one can think this is a weak position.
		
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			Obedience to Allah can never be a weak
		
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			position.
		
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			Then he says he's Hakim, he's all wise,
		
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			meaning
		
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			that commandment must have the greatest form of
		
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			benefit
		
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			and the greatest form of avoiding harm.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'anhu uses this as a preface
		
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			for a bunch of ayaats that come after
		
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			it
		
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			where the fiqh of Islam starts to develop
		
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			further
		
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			where people say
		
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			wine and gambling. They ask you about
		
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			menstruation
		
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			and having physical intimacy during those times. They
		
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			ask you about the orphans.
		
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			They ask
		
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			all these questions and you have
		
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			mandates and aham being revealed
		
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			not to marry a mushrik, a polytheist.
		
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			One may think why?
		
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			Why not wine? Why not gambling? Why not
		
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			marrying a polytheist?
		
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			So to remove these thoughts of the why
		
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			Allah gave
		
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			that verse in the beginning
		
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			to show
		
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			the example of the tree of Hudaybiyyah that
		
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			everyone thought a lot of the some of
		
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			the companions thought that it was a bad
		
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			deal.
		
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			But after trusting in Aziz and Al Hakim,
		
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			they found out it was one of the
		
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			best deals they could have ever gotten.
		
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			So sometimes when we have the commandments of
		
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			Allah,
		
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			we may not understand why, but our trust
		
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			in Allah that it is maximizing
		
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			benefit and repelling harm
		
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			is the crux of the Sharia. And this
		
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			is why to one of those questions Allah
		
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			subhanahu lays down this principle
		
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			that every single commandment that exists in the
		
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			Sharia that exists in Islam
		
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			has this principle of maximizing
		
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			benefit and repelling
		
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			harm.
		
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			They ask you about
		
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			alcohol, wine, and gambling.
		
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			Say to them,
		
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			the sin in both of these things are
		
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			huge, meaning the harm is huge.
		
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			And there are benefits in them for people,
		
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			but the sin, the harm is greater than
		
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			the benefit. So Allah subhanahu wa'ala gave us
		
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			the standard of of all
		
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			his aham and his commandments how they are
		
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			legislated.
		
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			So if something has
		
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			a greater good and little harm Allah mandates
		
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			it. Like fasting for example. There's harm in
		
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			fasting.
		
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			You get headaches.
		
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			In Ramadan, we're deprived of sleep. There's harm.
		
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			But the benefit is greater than the harm
		
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			where our bodies physical bodies biologically benefit to
		
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			a great degree. In the hereafter, we'll be
		
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			rewarded
		
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			with fasting with unlimited rewards. There's a whole
		
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			gate dedicated
		
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			for those who fast, arayyan. The benefit is
		
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			greater than that minor headache. Anyone who enters
		
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			to that through that gate to paradise will
		
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			never remember the headache or the thirst.
		
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			And if the harm is greater than the
		
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			benefit, then it's prohibited like wine and alcohol.
		
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			But if
		
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			the benefit and the harm are equal,
		
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			then the principle on the Sharia says Darul
		
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			Mathasid Muqaddam Al Jal Bil Masalih
		
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			The repelling harm takes precedence over attaining benefit,
		
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			attaining good.
		
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			So for example,
		
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			the prophet Mohammed Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told us
		
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			when we make wudu
		
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			to sniff in water as much as we
		
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			can
		
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			in our noses and
		
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			then snuff it out
		
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			except if you are fasting as the prophet
		
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			Muhammad said.
		
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			Well, it's to bring in water into your
		
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			nose while you're making wudu
		
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			except if you're fasting. Because if you bring
		
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			water into your nose to a higher degree,
		
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			you may have
		
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			the risk of swallowing it and breaking your
		
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			fast.
		
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			So here,
		
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			we have good and harm.
		
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			We have the good of making wudu
		
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			in a recommended way, and then you have
		
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			the harm of the fast being broken. So
		
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			when they're equal, the repelling harm takes precedence.
		
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			So the prophet Mohammed
		
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			said, except while you're fasting, do not sniff
		
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			the water in all the way up as
		
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			you would do it as you would do
		
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			on normal days. So all of Allah's commandments
		
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			fall under one of these three things, either
		
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			it's legislative because the benefit is greater, it's
		
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			prohibited because
		
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			the harm is greater regardless if there's some
		
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			minor benefits in there. Sometimes we look at
		
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			the minor benefits and get confused. For years
		
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			people were looking at the benefits of alcohol
		
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			and drinking, but today they're realizing that the
		
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			harm is way greater
		
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			and they are now prohibiting. Or number 3,
		
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			if the benefit and the harm is equal,
		
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			we have to take the course which repels
		
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			the harm.