Suhaib Webb – Heavy Rotation- Explanation of the Qurans last Two Chapters- Falaq and Nas

Suhaib Webb
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The speakers discuss the importance of understanding the concept of God and holding parents accountable in religion. They criticize the way Allah is portrayed in religion and stress the need for educators to address political and economic issues. The importance of sh matter is discussed, including their use of negative language and their desire to fall into a YoBCious mood. The segment also touches on the use of negative language in shhanded men to motivate them and their use of negative language in shhanded men to motivate them.
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Praise Allah

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We send peace and blessings upon our beloved

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messenger, Muhammad

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My apologies for being late. We started late.

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And then also,

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we have I'll I'll try to make it

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as as quickly as I can. And then

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next week or the week after, we'll start

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our series on nikah.

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It'll be about 36 classes

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on marriage

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and divorce. So if it goes well in

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marriage, then we'll we'll also talk about divorce

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because as I said earlier, I believe these

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things should be taught in Muslim high school.

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You know. But unfortunately,

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you know,

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resources are limited.

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Also our brothers from Bangladesh wanna congratulate

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them on,

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removing Sheikh Hasina.

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One of my best friend's father grandfather was

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the head of Jamaat Islami. He was assassinated

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by her. He was in his eighties.

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Actually was executed.

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So

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we hope that Bangladesh, which was the premier

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place to build ships

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for many years, will and many great great

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scholars.

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And,

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came from Bangladesh. So

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we have we hope like all that's going

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on, there's been this beautiful

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expression,

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of

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effort in Bangladesh. May it inspire the rest

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of the Muslim world, Alhamdulillah,

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to do better inshallah. So

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if you're talking to, like, coworkers, you're talking

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about non Muslims or maybe you have a

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non Muslim partner, let's just be honest, man.

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It gets thick in these streets

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or friend, and they may ask you, like,

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what's god in Islam? Like, you really wanna

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know

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because if you can just play explain a,

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like, uniqueness,

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that's very important.

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I remember growing up in the church. In

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every church I would go to, god looked

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like the race of the congregants.

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So go to white church, freaking,

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I don't know, JT.

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You go to the my friend's church in

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the city. It's Luther Vandross. You know? Go

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to Latino church.

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And it's always a guy. It's

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Ricky Martin. Right? And so I remember as

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a young person,

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I was very young,

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saying that this is idolatry.

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Like,

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nobody feels weird that they're praying to a

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god that's their color. It's very odd. Right?

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And so that was one of the things

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that really when I went to the mosque

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for the first

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time, I was looking at the walls.

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And doctor Rial saw him, Chacha, uncle.

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He said to me, like, yeah, we don't

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have paintings.

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And I said, why? He said, because god

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is not physical.

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And I was like, wow. Like, that's that's

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makes sense.

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Right? And those of us who embraced Islam,

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obviously,

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in the early nineties were deeply driven by

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Al Hajmalaq Shabaab's

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story, like Malcolm X's story.

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And central to that story

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is that like, how did he emancipate himself

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from the toxicity of racism in America?

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And it was through Tawhid.

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So I remember being really blown away by

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that. So that's something like it's powerful when

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you talk with people.

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What does a mean? The one who gives

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and needs nothing.

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You'll say. So that takes away the idea

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of, like, offerings.

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God needs my worship.

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Sometimes Muslims ask this question. I saw today

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a man on TikTok. He said he left

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Islam, and then he said, well, he he

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has his own Islam.

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That's fine. We don't need to make fun

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of people. Right? It's easy to hit someone

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when they're down. Why not build them back

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up?

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Like, try to take what's good in that

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and amplify that and help him come back.

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But as he was talking,

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one of the things that he mentioned was

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like, you gotta do 5 this, 33 this,

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this, this, like like God. It's like

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someone hasn't explained to him who Allah is.

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Because Allah doesn't need our worship.

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Everything that Allah has legislated

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is for our benefit.

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We are in need of that.

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Prayer keeps away from sin and evil and

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oppression.

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So

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my own family, you know, one time they

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were asking me, like, what's the offering you

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give to God?

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Because within Judaism and then Christianity, Jesus is

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kinda seen as this

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final offering for people's

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salvation,

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I used a summit.

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I said, you know, one of God's

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ways God describes himself in the Quran is

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with this word that means the one who

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needs nothing and gives all.

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And my mom's like, that's God. I'm like,

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exactly.

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That is God. Right? That is that is

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God.

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And I think when we teach religion, we

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do we do you a grave injustice that

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we teach you religion that would work 500

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years ago.

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But we don't get in the trenches with

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you. And then

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you're held accountable sometimes by, quote, unquote, imams

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and shuk and teachers. But if you're not

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equipped

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and given the vocabulary

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to function, then you'd be like Adam if

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he didn't have a Asmael.

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How would he function without names?

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So we need also

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to hold educators accountable

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in a in a in a way that

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doesn't destroy them also,

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but recognizes the need for professional training.

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So al Samad

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is the one who provides, and also that

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that means, you know, the hadith of the

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prophet the last hadith that even Abu Bari,

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he said this the last hadith the prophet

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said, alayhis salatu salam is that everybody is

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dependent on Allah, and the best of you

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are those who looked after those who are

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dependent on him. I had to hit social

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policy that touches on so many things, man.

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Dealing with political poverty, political economics, how we

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look after one another, how we should make

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sure people are taken care of. I mean,

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I remember Imam Waddid Mohammed in Chicago. He

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would go in his house, and there were

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there were bags of groceries on his wall

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that his community had provided. And if you

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try to talk with him, every 10 minutes,

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someone is knocking on the door, imam, could

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I get my bag of groceries?

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Like, that's the presence of the imam in

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the neighborhood. When imam said, Abideen,

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you know, the the the son of Sayna,

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Imam Al Hussein, when he died, zakat request

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went up in his village by, like, 10%,

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because he has a benefit to the people.

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He's not living theology in the madrasa. He's

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not living theology in the masjid.

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He's living theology in the streets.

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So al

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Samad should think about that beyond you know,

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there's that great scene in Shashank Redemption, which

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reminds me of what happened when I went

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to the Eshar and even others. I love

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my time at Eshar, but also I had

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to un Eshar myself

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to to a certain degree with respect to

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what I learned there.

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And it we would be we would be

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foolish to think that a university in Egypt

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can answer all the world's problems,

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or in Medina, or in Morocco.

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They may give us the skill set to

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function.

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Doctor Mohammed Imara told me, you'll be as

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hari after as hari.

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Like, you'll grow, you'll you'll blossom after as

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but

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that scene where the guy goes, he gets

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out and he goes and kills himself. And

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Morgan Freeman is talking

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to the guy and he said, well, he

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was institutionalized in a way that he couldn't

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function outside. Right? That's sort of what happens

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within community.

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We may be institutionalized in a way that

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we can't survive outside,

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but we need to be prepared.

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When I was in Oklahoma City and we

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started an Islamic school, the last year of

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our school, which was 8th grade, we would

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have those kids go to high school,

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public

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school. Why? To prepare them. So that during

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their whole 8th grade, they're coming with, like,

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Spice Girls. This is the late nineties, early

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2000 Spice Girls and, you know,

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whatever, all these Christians.

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You know, but they we they were able

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to prepare

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for the transition

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into

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those spaces. We don't do a good job

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on that.

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So, I wanna challenge you, when you go

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home,

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how do you apply that to water around

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you?

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People asking questions.

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I

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noticed something here in Arabic. What Georgiani, there's

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a great book called Dalal Ejaz. He

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said

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Hajib said the most difficult thing in rhetoric,

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Arabic rhetoric is this thing called fossil and

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wasil. Wasil is run on sentences.

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Arabic has run on sentences like Al Fatiha.

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Doesn't say what what what what. There's no

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well. There's no conjunction. It's just a big

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run on sentence.

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Arabs do that for a really cool reason.

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Same thing here.

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To show you that Allah is so great,

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it's like all of these qualities are 1.

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All of them are 1.

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Why? Without wow to show in all of

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those qualities in being truthful, in being obedient,

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in being sincere, it's like they're one quality.

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They don't say

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and and and. You just run the names

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of Allah together. Why? To say within all

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the names that I know, Allah has mastered

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and perfected them like their one name.

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That's the meaning.

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If the context, of course, you're trying to,

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like,

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destroy someone, I mean, all these qualities they're

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so bad at. It's like they're 1.

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So here,

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We all know what this means. Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala wasn't born

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nor has he give birth to anyone.

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And there is absolutely nothing like him.

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Imam Abu Hassan,

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Rahimahullah,

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he took certain qualities

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that we understand are the foundations of our

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belief in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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from this chapter. Number 1, Allah exists.

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Number 2, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is wahed,

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is 1, ahad.

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But we know one means unique as Razi

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mentioned.

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Something nice

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about that. SubhanAllah.

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Al Samad,

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that Allah doesn't need anything.

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That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala provides everything

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and needs

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nothing.

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Again,

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He's not like creation. Creation is not like

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him.

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And also the other quality that we took

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from this

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is that he has no beginning and no

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ending.

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As Samad

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and also

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So one of the main qualities we took

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of Tawhid from this chapter, the foundational qualities,

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what we call

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But I wanna make it easy for you.

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Number 1, existing, no beginning, no ending,

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opposition to creation, creation's opposition to him.

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Absolutely

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in need of nothing and giving all and

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one.

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And those may seem like simple qualities,

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but the the more you live and the

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more you unpack them, no, you more you'll

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appreciate them.

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Again, I'll mention them because they're crucial.

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Number 1,

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But everybody close their eyes and try to

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imagine a new creation, a new color, a

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new shape, a new thing

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that it's not called a thing.

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Something that's never been seen. You know why

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you can't do it? Because it's not in

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your hard drive to even imagine creating.

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You can't. You just can my daughter's like,

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chocolate had a dragon. I was like, still

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chocolate.

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Still a dragon.

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Right?

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It's impossible for us. Matters neither created nor

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destroyed. Yeah. Absolutely. Except for Al Khaleq, subhanah.

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Number 2, no beginning, no ending.

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The 3rd

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Everything else, Imam Al Razi, that's why I

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appreciate classic theologians because they argue Islamic theology

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and not using the bible. They argued the

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Christians using Islam

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because they were confident in Islam.

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So what's the first thing he says in

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Usur al Khamsim?

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First thing he says,

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Everything has a beginning and end except Allah.

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See?

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And and this this is at a micro

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and a macro level. So at a physical

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law level like walking is a beginning and

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ending. That's why I say Jesus isn't God.

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There was a macro there. He was measured.

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He existed in a time, a space, a

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measurement. Allah is beyond that.

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Anything you can imagine is not Allah.

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So

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no beginning, no ending.

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Unlike anything, and everything is not like him.

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And that is in 2 areas, god

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partially or completely.

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There's nothing

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in completely like God.

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Partially,

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there's nothing like his likeness.

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So you see the,

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domestication

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of

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transcendence within even slang, that's a God MC.

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Ain't no God MC.

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God's a God when he dunked on somebody.

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That guy's a God professor.

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No. It's just a person.

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We're very careful with our language.

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So

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existing,

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no beginning, no ending, opposition,

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oneness,

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and complete,

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you can say autonomy.

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He doesn't need anything.

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Means exist

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because of himself.

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With young children, I teach him

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theology. I say, what what what are your

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b's? Because b in Arabic means because

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of so we say ask them, what are

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your b's?

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I'm b because of my mama. I'm b

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because of my baba. I'm b because of

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oxygen.

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I'm b because of,

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you know, if you give a mouse a

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cookie.

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I'm b because of this. And mister Allah

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is b because of

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Doesn't need anything.

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And that answers the question then you get

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in the middle of school. Does he need

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my prayers? Does he need my fasting?

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The next two chapters,

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for those people who are gonna have this

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question, we're gonna do a a session. We

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did it a few years ago on the

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spooky. Remember Halloween? I don't know how many

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people here. We answered all the questions about

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gins, demons. I showed you how to do.

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Remember? So that way you stop calling me

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and call other people. Call yourself.

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Because the best person to do that

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is you.

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So

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I appreciate you explaining things, man. Thank you.

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And if you need me,

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don't be shy.

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I got you. Alright?

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Thank you. Appreciate you guys being here, man.

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These last two chapters, the Quran Abu Musa,

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Ashari said that before this, the prophet would

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read a lot of stuff related to possession

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or someone trying to put the spooky on

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him.

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Right?

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But at the end of his life, just

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these two chapters.

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And and and this is an embodiment of

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the how merciful the prophet is. The prophet

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who said, haray salam, if it wasn't that

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I was fearful for my people, I would

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command them to make

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before the prayer.

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Like, can you imagine if that was far?

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We'd all be waiting for everybody to brush

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their teeth.

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It's like, you know what?

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Like, if how many like, Shukh and imams

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You know, if I didn't fear for the

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Ummah of the prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

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I would do this. I would the prophet

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who shortened this prayer when he heard children

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crying behind him.

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Because doctor Mahmoud Abdulrahman Abdulman said and Sheikh

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Al Mawlud Suriri said, like, one of the

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beautiful things about the Sharia is that it

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really looks after the most vulnerable.

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But the unfortunate quality of the TikTok and

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the Twitter,

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you know, turbines

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and

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the Facebook

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and

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the ins you know, the the gram gram

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muftis,

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not gram.

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Gram muftis

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because that they

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inverted this. I'm not talking about scholars. I'm

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talking about people who shouldn't be doing this.

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They made things hard on people.

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So here, the end of the prophets life,

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this is something that bothers people. A lot

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of us, we have older people in our

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family. We know they're always worried about any

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creeks in the house, you know,

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TV turned on with no reason, you know,

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whatever. Tesla's lights are on outside,

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and they're like, oh my gosh. You know,

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there's there's a jinn in my house.

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Satan is in my house. And then people

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tell them, like, you should read this, drink

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this water, do this, do this, do this.

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Man, just read

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That's all you need. Just do that. Read

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the last two chapters, and you can read

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it in any language. Do I have to

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read it Arabic? No.

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Any language that you the meaning how it

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impacts you is also important.

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So these two chapters is what he would

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stick to. Doesn't mean you can't do the

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other things. Somebody might feel therapeutic. They may

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feel more safe. They may feel

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at ease. They may experience a sense of,

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you know, tranquility.

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But that's what the prophet did

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at the end of his life

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to facilitate for his community.

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Surat Al Farak, there are different

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narrations as to why it was sent. The

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strong narration is that the prophet was impacted

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by magic. Maybe somebody says, how could a

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prophet be impacted by magic?

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Well, we have a very important principle, and

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theology says that prophets can experience any of

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the natural occurrences that people have,

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as long as it doesn't compromise

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their abilities to be prophets.

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Marzouki says

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You know, like, it's possible that these things

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could impact them.

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Right? That the prophets can experience things like

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we do. I think that's very important. I

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don't necessarily relate to the prophet's piety.

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Like, I relate to the prophet's humanity

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because I'm not

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prophetic in that way. I wish I could

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be. Right? But I Sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam. And that he commanded Sayna

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Adib Nabib Talib to read these, and his

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last two chapters and then he was, alhamdulillah,

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he was emancipated or protected

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from this. It starts cool. Last three chapters

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are called the 3 o'clock. It's commendable to

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read them at night before you sleep. We

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know that. The prophet used to do that,

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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Means to seek safety and protection.

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To seek shelter.

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With who?

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With Allah.

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There's 2 different opinions about the. Same thing

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as. That's why we can finish them relatively

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quickly. That number 1 is.

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I seek refuge with Allah like Allah is

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with me, Allah has my back. Alhamdulillah.

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Allah will protect me. I'm not alone.

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Allah is with you wherever you are by

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His knowledge.

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The other is the

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cause like I seek refuge by the cause

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of Allah. So I have hope that Allah

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will remove

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this difficulty from me.

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The other meanings was called

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from the stain.

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Just as I use a pen, I write

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be the pen.

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I seek refuge.

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SubhanAllah.

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With the help of Allah.

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Here it doesn't say Allah says. Why? Because

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the name Allah, it can, like,

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it's big, you know, like, Allah.

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But Rub,

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it brings about that's why it's or

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Arabic to the prophet. The first verse that

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can recite with the the names of who

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was rub, not Allah, because the prophet is

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already terrified.

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He's already scared.

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But when you hear the word rub,

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that's your your caretaker,

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one who looks after you, one who cares

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for you, the one who looks after you

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is there for

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you. So in this moment of, like, sultan

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falak and sultan nas, persons are already somewhat

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cathartic,

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so there's a usage in the language

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to to calm them. You have,

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You have someone that has your back. You

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have someone who supports

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you.

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Don't be scared. Don't worry.

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You have. And your is the is the

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is the is the is the is the

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is the is the

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is

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the is the is of course translated as

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dawn, but the word fadaqah means to break.

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In the

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6th chapters of the Quran, Allah is the

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one who breaks the seeds.

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One of our teachers says something nice about

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this because the Arabs, they used to be

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terrified of the night.

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I experienced this. My grandfather had a farm

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in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, and the bathroom was outside,

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man. I would hold it, man. At night,

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it could be, like, 8 o'clock, because they

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went to sleep

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early. That's it. If you have to use

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the restroom when you're, like, under 6, under

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4,

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the ADHD is running, there's no riddling in

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you.

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You know, your mind's worried. You see demons

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and gin and all kind of crazy stuff

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outside that bathroom.

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It's gonna be a long night, bro.

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I was terrified of the night.

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So the Arabs, they were worried. That's why

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when you go to, like, Babu Zulein and

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Qahira.

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Right? Those big walls around the old cities

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because they used to shut the city down

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at night. In Medina, if you came late,

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you didn't get in

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because of of robbers and and crooks and

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criminals and animals.

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So

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teacher said to us, and I think even

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Ashur also mentioned this in his tafsir,

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the one that breaks things. Because just as

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he broke

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the darkness

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with the dawn, he's gonna break you from

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whatever is worrying you.

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He can break you like that.

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Fariq,

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between

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good and evil,

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the one who breaks it.

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Also, there's a great analogy here mentioned by

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Iva Nawi that,

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you know, the dawn takes time.

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So whatever I'm going through, it's not beyond,

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like, the laws of the farm.

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It's very beautiful what he said. He's talking

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about trials and tests and difficulties.

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And he said, you know, the darkness

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of the night has bright stars, meaning in

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the moment that you're going through it, if

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you squint, you'll appreciate small blessings like stars.

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Like, at night, if you get lost one

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time I got lost in Norway, it's a

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long story, with those dogs. You know?

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Long story. And then I was trying to

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see the northern lights, man. It's amazing in

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Trumpskull.

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And

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it's the end of the world, man. And

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then I looked up. I saw the stars.

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I could tell which way to go. I

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I was like, oh my gosh, stars are

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a blessing.

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Never thought about it before.

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He said,

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Like, if you're going through it, someone calls

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you, I hope you're okay.

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I talked to an imam yesterday. He's like,

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I'm done. I quit. I'm through. I can't

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handle people no more. And we're talking. He's

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like, oh, subhanallah. He said what? He said,

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I just saw a comment on Instagram. It

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said, keep going. Don't stop.

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I said, that's your star.

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Because the Arabs say, use stars to what?

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Navigate through

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the night. So small blessings will help you

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navigate too.

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Then he says,

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until the sun shines. Here, the same thing

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is Suratafalak. What even Nahua is saying is

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it might take time to get through the

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test.

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Just like it you know, the night you

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have to wait for the dawn to come,

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so

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also This means it's gonna happen immediately

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because sometimes

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failure

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teaches us how to accept success

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and locates in a place where we'll be

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mature enough to appreciate it and then pass

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it on to others.

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The process then becomes in hindsight a blessing

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even though at the moment was a disaster.

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So from the evil you created, we believe

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Allah created good and evil. We talked about

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this a lot before in the Hicom.

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And through the evil of the night.

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And

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here's the context those women that were paid

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to blow on those

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knots and put a spell on the prophet

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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And the one that has envy.

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We know that envy is a problem. We

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ask Allah to protect us. I have a

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whole series. We'll do it in right before

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Halloween here also, but if you go on

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my Instagram, it's somewhere. I go through all

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this stuff about envy, everything you need to

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know.

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If you pay attention to this chapter, it's

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very interesting. It's talking about the in inner

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sort of concerns

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related to, like, things you can't see.

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The next chapter, except when it talks about

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shaitan,

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also adds a layer of this protection

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that it addresses

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the, as we see,

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prime

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archetype of evil.

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Say, I seek refuge in lord of human

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beings.

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We understand not all people are good that's

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why we have to seek refuge in Allah

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from some of them.

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But notice how it doesn't call them like

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by bad names, still affirms their humanity.

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You can learn who is marik if you

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look at the world around you.

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It's all in evidence that Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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Who is Allah?

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Is the one that's worshiped.

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The one that cherish the word rub has,

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like, 5 or 6 meanings. Cherisher, sustainer,

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creator,

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manufacturer,

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caregiver,

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not the word lord.

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I believe the word lord was the outcome

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of people influenced by

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it doesn't mean they're bad people,

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By whatever English language thing was popping at

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that time. You know, this lord, that lord,

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whatever.

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But Rub is the one that

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gives you everything you need.

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And if anything falls, it's there for you.

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And Nas are human beings

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who understand

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that our lord is the lord of human

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beings. We are an ummah also sent to

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human beings. That's why there is a strong

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opinion,

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you know,

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that when the prophet said, and my will

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divide into 73 *. Although this hadith is

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weak, it doesn't just mean us. It means

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everyone that came after the time of the

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prophet or the Muslim or non Muslim.

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It's one opinion.

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Because the ummah of the prophet is not

00:29:04 --> 00:29:04

just the Muslims.

00:29:06 --> 00:29:07

It's the ummah of his risala.

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The people who will be around when his

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message is there. That means we have a

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responsibility

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to people.

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Can you imagine if we cared about people's

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guidance as much as we cared about their

00:29:21 --> 00:29:21

politics?

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That makes Muslims mad.

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But if you guide your enemy, you ain't

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got nothing else to worry about. Look at

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Omar,

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radiAllahu anhu. He becomes Muslim.

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Things change.

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Hind, the wife of Abu Sufyan,

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no one could believe she embraced Islam. I'm

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a second. And they weren't from the Tulaqat.

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They became Muslim before this.

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But,

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when she became Muslim, it has an impact.

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She brings with her all her evil, suddenly

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became

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she became like

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an ally to the community.

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We can't forget our main job. Our main

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job

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is to open a door to Allah.

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And I told you the story of that

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brother that became Muslim that was a heroin

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addict and people at at the Masjid in

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Oklahoma. A lot of crazy stuff in Oklahoma,

00:30:10 --> 00:30:12

man. Country people are wild.

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And, you know, he would have this problem

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of heroin, which is still

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we see today. People nodding off in certain

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neighborhoods.

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And

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the sheikh people got mad, you know, how

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could this brother come to the masjid, you

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know, who gave him dawah?

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And I remember Sheikh Ahmed in the eye

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from Saint Louis in Iraq. He said,

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bring him to Allah. Allah will clean him

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up.

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That's not your business. Allah will clean him

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up. Let Allah clean him

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up. That's not our job. So

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it's it's interesting the chapter begins.

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It ends the Quran begins with It ends

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with It ends with

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You see something.

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Say, I seek refuge in the lord of

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humanity,

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the the sole controller of all humanity,

00:31:15 --> 00:31:16

the only true

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object of worship of humanity.

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From what?

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From the evil.

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Means to come is a whisper, but is

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the one that comes and goes.

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Khan, come and go. Because when you remember

00:31:36 --> 00:31:38

Allah, shaitan go he he'll run away.

00:31:39 --> 00:31:41

When I forget to remember Allah, shaitan will

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show up.

00:31:43 --> 00:31:45

So from the evil of the one that

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whispers.

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Of course, it doesn't mean literally he's whispering.

00:31:51 --> 00:31:53

It's meant to highlight how subtle he is.

00:31:54 --> 00:31:56

And there are 6 goals

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shaitan has through his whispers we should remember

00:31:59 --> 00:32:00

as we finish.

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Number 1, to make us disbelievers.

00:32:03 --> 00:32:05

Like, that's the primary goal. Like, if that

00:32:05 --> 00:32:06

can happen to Falam Makafarakaalaiinibriomik,

00:32:08 --> 00:32:10

that's his main goal. And how does he

00:32:10 --> 00:32:12

make people disbelievers? Ibn Qayyim has a great

00:32:12 --> 00:32:13

discussion. He said 2 ways.

00:32:14 --> 00:32:15

Number 1, doubts.

00:32:17 --> 00:32:19

How many times when I first started here,

00:32:19 --> 00:32:20

sorry, sorry,

00:32:21 --> 00:32:21

sorry.

00:32:22 --> 00:32:24

I told you, if you say sorry, you

00:32:24 --> 00:32:25

have to buy me some Bitcoin.

00:32:28 --> 00:32:30

No. No. If you say sorry at NYU,

00:32:30 --> 00:32:32

if you say sorry, you have to give

00:32:32 --> 00:32:33

$5 to a non profit.

00:32:34 --> 00:32:36

And people were like, so

00:32:37 --> 00:32:38

that's Chipotle, man.

00:32:38 --> 00:32:41

Right? College student. It got quiet quick. Then

00:32:41 --> 00:32:43

I said sorry once and they made me

00:32:43 --> 00:32:44

I had to pay

00:32:44 --> 00:32:45

$5 to,

00:32:47 --> 00:32:48

in what I see in life.

00:32:49 --> 00:32:50

But why do we create that environment in

00:32:50 --> 00:32:52

our community? People should be able to ask

00:32:52 --> 00:32:54

questions. People We don't need to

00:32:55 --> 00:32:56

create imams and teachers

00:32:57 --> 00:32:59

as some, like, you know, Gandalfian

00:32:59 --> 00:33:01

type of freaking thing that we can't even

00:33:01 --> 00:33:04

talk to. That's that's not good.

00:33:06 --> 00:33:08

Respect is where I trust someone enough to

00:33:08 --> 00:33:09

ask them questions.

00:33:10 --> 00:33:12

I told my daughter this, if you love

00:33:12 --> 00:33:13

me, ask me.

00:33:14 --> 00:33:16

Right? If if I earned your trust,

00:33:17 --> 00:33:19

then any situation you need me,

00:33:19 --> 00:33:21

you can contact me. Just don't ask me

00:33:21 --> 00:33:22

for money.

00:33:24 --> 00:33:26

Right? But I'm saying, like, we we get

00:33:26 --> 00:33:27

it twisted.

00:33:27 --> 00:33:30

When parents will come to me or couples

00:33:30 --> 00:33:31

will come to me, I can't believe my

00:33:31 --> 00:33:32

spouse said this.

00:33:33 --> 00:33:35

I just can't believe they told me this

00:33:35 --> 00:33:37

thing they're struggling with. That's because they love

00:33:37 --> 00:33:38

you.

00:33:40 --> 00:33:41

Who are they gonna go to for shelter

00:33:41 --> 00:33:42

in this moment? Are you?

00:33:43 --> 00:33:45

When parents come to me, you will not

00:33:45 --> 00:33:47

believe what my daughter said. She said she

00:33:47 --> 00:33:48

likes some guy.

00:33:49 --> 00:33:51

This is the most disrespectful thing that could

00:33:51 --> 00:33:53

have ever happened in my life. I tell

00:33:53 --> 00:33:54

them, no, no, this is the this is

00:33:54 --> 00:33:57

the ultimate sign that you're a great parent.

00:33:58 --> 00:33:59

That they were able to go through all

00:33:59 --> 00:34:02

that cultural stuff, all this weird religious stuff,

00:34:03 --> 00:34:05

and go straight Khadija on it. Yeah.

00:34:06 --> 00:34:08

And tell you what they're interested in. And

00:34:08 --> 00:34:09

they're like, wow,

00:34:09 --> 00:34:11

you're right. Yeah. What happened to say to

00:34:11 --> 00:34:12

Khadija?

00:34:13 --> 00:34:14

Would you rather than be quiet and not

00:34:14 --> 00:34:16

tell you? And then you don't know what's

00:34:16 --> 00:34:18

going on? People will find people to talk

00:34:18 --> 00:34:18

to.

00:34:20 --> 00:34:20

So,

00:34:21 --> 00:34:23

here we, subhanahu wa ta'ala,

00:34:23 --> 00:34:25

shaitan will come to us with doubts. You

00:34:25 --> 00:34:29

should be able to ask questions. Snapchat imam

00:34:29 --> 00:34:30

was a purposeful strategy.

00:34:32 --> 00:34:34

Instagram q and a, done on purpose, because

00:34:34 --> 00:34:36

I have to do that. Allah will ask

00:34:36 --> 00:34:37

me.

00:34:37 --> 00:34:39

If you don't make yourself available to answer

00:34:39 --> 00:34:42

questions that you know, Allah will ask you.

00:34:43 --> 00:34:45

And to these non Muslims, doctor Jackson used

00:34:45 --> 00:34:47

to tell me, man, for us who became

00:34:47 --> 00:34:49

Muslim, we understand what, you know, what it

00:34:49 --> 00:34:49

means

00:34:50 --> 00:34:52

to be in certain locations, and to

00:34:53 --> 00:34:55

give certain messages, whether urban, country, whatever.

00:34:56 --> 00:34:58

These people will hold us by our neck

00:34:58 --> 00:35:00

and say, this person never told me. I

00:35:00 --> 00:35:01

sat right next to him.

00:35:02 --> 00:35:03

Never modeled for me religion.

00:35:04 --> 00:35:05

Just lives

00:35:05 --> 00:35:07

like in my ratchetness with me.

00:35:09 --> 00:35:11

So the way to deal with doubts? To

00:35:11 --> 00:35:11

learn.

00:35:13 --> 00:35:14

To ask,

00:35:15 --> 00:35:15

to probe,

00:35:16 --> 00:35:17

to discuss,

00:35:18 --> 00:35:19

not to be quiet.

00:35:21 --> 00:35:21

The second

00:35:22 --> 00:35:23

is desires,

00:35:23 --> 00:35:25

because desires are the worst mufti.

00:35:26 --> 00:35:28

Desires will tell you everything is halal, man.

00:35:29 --> 00:35:31

Right? It won't find it won't find it

00:35:31 --> 00:35:31

is strange.

00:35:32 --> 00:35:33

It is strange.

00:35:33 --> 00:35:36

Shopping, man. You know, it will it will

00:35:36 --> 00:35:37

push us.

00:35:37 --> 00:35:39

Or the other way, desires will lead us

00:35:39 --> 00:35:40

to a impractical,

00:35:41 --> 00:35:42

illogical conservatism

00:35:43 --> 00:35:45

that breaks our sense of

00:35:46 --> 00:35:47

feeling the warmth of religion.

00:35:48 --> 00:35:51

So the outcome of falling desires is irresponsible,

00:35:52 --> 00:35:52

lackness

00:35:52 --> 00:35:53

or irrational

00:35:53 --> 00:35:54

hyper strictness.

00:35:55 --> 00:35:56

Both

00:35:56 --> 00:35:59

are. Shout to be says something beautiful. Extremism

00:36:00 --> 00:36:02

just to be hard. Extremism also can be

00:36:02 --> 00:36:03

to be a heathen.

00:36:04 --> 00:36:05

Like, there's this middle.

00:36:07 --> 00:36:10

How do I overcome that? Think about death.

00:36:14 --> 00:36:16

Prophet said think about death.

00:36:17 --> 00:36:19

I'm young. If you die tomorrow, you're old.

00:36:22 --> 00:36:24

The second thing that shaitan tries to get

00:36:24 --> 00:36:26

us to fall into are major sins.

00:36:28 --> 00:36:30

The third are minor sins.

00:36:31 --> 00:36:33

Difference, major sins are mentioned in the context

00:36:33 --> 00:36:35

of *. Minor sins are rebuked without mentioning

00:36:35 --> 00:36:37

* or any type of grievous punishment.

00:36:39 --> 00:36:40

The 4th,

00:36:41 --> 00:36:42

shaitan tries to get us to fall into

00:36:42 --> 00:36:45

the dislike. Dislike to Makru is is permissible,

00:36:45 --> 00:36:48

but it's disliked. Matish say Makru is the

00:36:48 --> 00:36:50

is the security system around your house.

00:36:51 --> 00:36:52

If you don't protect

00:36:52 --> 00:36:55

yourself, then shaitan has easier access to you.

00:36:56 --> 00:36:59

The 5th is that shaitan will make us

00:36:59 --> 00:37:01

choose a lesser of 2 goods. So you're

00:37:01 --> 00:37:03

doing good. I'm not falling into sin, But

00:37:03 --> 00:37:05

he doesn't stop. He doesn't give up.

00:37:05 --> 00:37:07

Khalas, so the lesser of 2 goods.

00:37:08 --> 00:37:10

So I could go to listen to shaheed

00:37:10 --> 00:37:12

or there's like a protest for Palestine and

00:37:12 --> 00:37:12

Bangladesh

00:37:13 --> 00:37:15

and Kashmir. That's more important. Listen to me.

00:37:16 --> 00:37:17

And why would you be here now? Why

00:37:17 --> 00:37:19

would I do that now? Unless you didn't

00:37:19 --> 00:37:20

know how to pray.

00:37:20 --> 00:37:21

You wanna learn how to pray

00:37:22 --> 00:37:23

so you can pray

00:37:23 --> 00:37:24

there. But,

00:37:25 --> 00:37:26

what's a priority?

00:37:26 --> 00:37:28

I remember at the Azhar, when I would

00:37:28 --> 00:37:28

have exams,

00:37:29 --> 00:37:31

I had a I did not like inheritance.

00:37:31 --> 00:37:33

Inheritance law is a monster and I'm horrible

00:37:33 --> 00:37:35

at math. I hate it for the sake

00:37:35 --> 00:37:37

of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So I

00:37:38 --> 00:37:39

I had to, like, study

00:37:39 --> 00:37:42

rahabi'yah, you know, like a lot, man. And

00:37:42 --> 00:37:43

I remember while I was doing it, I

00:37:43 --> 00:37:45

had an exam and shaitan was like, man,

00:37:45 --> 00:37:46

you need to re you need to review

00:37:46 --> 00:37:47

Sha'ba.

00:37:48 --> 00:37:49

I would have was was.

00:37:49 --> 00:37:51

Like, you need to go review this qira'ah.

00:37:51 --> 00:37:52

You forgot it.

00:37:53 --> 00:37:55

I'm like, 2 days ago, I didn't have

00:37:55 --> 00:37:57

this feeling. Why now? When I'm studying the

00:37:57 --> 00:37:59

inheritance, suddenly I wanna do qira'ah because Shaytan

00:37:59 --> 00:38:01

wants you to do the lesser of what?

00:38:02 --> 00:38:03

Too goods.

00:38:03 --> 00:38:05

Like when we're with our kids, oh, man.

00:38:05 --> 00:38:07

I gotta put this on Instagram. I gotta

00:38:07 --> 00:38:09

edit this. I gotta put this video. And

00:38:09 --> 00:38:11

there's your child saying, spend time with me.

00:38:11 --> 00:38:12

Your presence is a gift. That's why it's

00:38:12 --> 00:38:13

called a present.

00:38:14 --> 00:38:15

Give me your presence.

00:38:16 --> 00:38:18

When we're with our parents, they're older, you

00:38:18 --> 00:38:20

know, make sure you spend time with it,

00:38:20 --> 00:38:21

man.

00:38:22 --> 00:38:24

What's important? Shaitan will make us choose the

00:38:24 --> 00:38:26

lesser of 2 goods.

00:38:26 --> 00:38:27

I'm gonna

00:38:27 --> 00:38:29

oh, man. I just gotta see what's going

00:38:29 --> 00:38:31

on Facebook. I'm gen gen x Facebook is

00:38:31 --> 00:38:32

my thing. You know what I mean? So

00:38:32 --> 00:38:34

oh, okay. I missed the whole halakal.

00:38:36 --> 00:38:37

So having priorities.

00:38:39 --> 00:38:40

The last is that shaitan will make us

00:38:40 --> 00:38:42

waste our time when they're permissible, but we

00:38:42 --> 00:38:43

neglect what's important.

00:38:45 --> 00:38:46

Those are the strategies of shaitan.

00:38:51 --> 00:38:52

So he says,

00:38:54 --> 00:38:56

doesn't mean like shaitan's up in your chest

00:38:56 --> 00:38:57

like

00:38:58 --> 00:39:01

Right? All this is is is metaphorical. It's

00:39:01 --> 00:39:03

just an idea of how

00:39:03 --> 00:39:05

shaytan inspires us. There's a lot of discussion

00:39:05 --> 00:39:07

about how that happens amongst

00:39:07 --> 00:39:11

ancient Muslim theologians and psychiatrists, and I think

00:39:11 --> 00:39:13

sheikh Makal Smit, he has a good book

00:39:13 --> 00:39:14

he did recently

00:39:14 --> 00:39:15

on this.

00:39:17 --> 00:39:20

Oneness from jinn and human beings. We believe

00:39:20 --> 00:39:22

jinn exists because it's mentioned in the Quran.

00:39:22 --> 00:39:24

I don't know why Muslims know jinn exist,

00:39:24 --> 00:39:25

jinn don't exist. It's in the Quran. If

00:39:25 --> 00:39:26

it's in the Quran,

00:39:28 --> 00:39:30

We affirm it, and we did. We'll talk

00:39:30 --> 00:39:31

about it.

00:39:31 --> 00:39:33

Our section on the spooky before,

00:39:34 --> 00:39:34

Halloween,

00:39:36 --> 00:39:37

talk about jinn. But jinn are from a

00:39:37 --> 00:39:39

word which means you can't see. That's why

00:39:39 --> 00:39:41

in in, you know, Pakistan, the group.

00:39:42 --> 00:39:43

Right? It's an Arabic word, Janoon,

00:39:44 --> 00:39:44

tajannah,

00:39:45 --> 00:39:47

to be crazy, because when someone's

00:39:48 --> 00:39:50

in classical language, when someone had lost their

00:39:50 --> 00:39:53

mind, it was like their mind was covered.

00:39:53 --> 00:39:55

That's why it's called Jannah because you can't

00:39:55 --> 00:39:56

see inside it.

00:39:57 --> 00:39:59

That's why the embryo is called what?

00:39:59 --> 00:40:00

Janine.

00:40:01 --> 00:40:03

May Allah bless the people of Janine

00:40:04 --> 00:40:05

because you can't see it.

00:40:06 --> 00:40:08

So jinn exists, but we can't see it.

00:40:08 --> 00:40:10

And so be careful of people who say,

00:40:10 --> 00:40:12

last night, I saw a jinn, or have

00:40:12 --> 00:40:14

a shaykh who saw a jinn. Imam Shaifiri

00:40:14 --> 00:40:15

said, whoever

00:40:20 --> 00:40:21

Whoever said that they saw a jinn, like,

00:40:21 --> 00:40:23

we don't accept them as witnesses anymore

00:40:24 --> 00:40:24

in cases.

00:40:25 --> 00:40:28

Why? Because it's impossible. The only person who

00:40:28 --> 00:40:29

could see jinn are prophets.

00:40:30 --> 00:40:31

According to the

00:40:32 --> 00:40:34

all basically, all normative

00:40:34 --> 00:40:36

theological schools within

00:40:38 --> 00:40:39

Islam. It's ancient in the Quran.

00:40:40 --> 00:40:42

It ends with ins and jinn.

00:40:43 --> 00:40:45

Jin and human beings because the verse

00:40:46 --> 00:40:47

says what?

00:40:52 --> 00:40:54

I did not create jinn in men except

00:40:54 --> 00:40:56

to worship me, jinn and human beings except

00:40:56 --> 00:40:58

to worship me. And the Quran

00:40:58 --> 00:41:00

ends with jinn and human beings to tell

00:41:00 --> 00:41:01

us, you guys,

00:41:02 --> 00:41:03

this is on you.

00:41:04 --> 00:41:05

So we ask Allah

00:41:06 --> 00:41:08

to accept from us. We had one brother.

00:41:08 --> 00:41:09

He brought

00:41:11 --> 00:41:12

some. No. Actually, it's

00:41:13 --> 00:41:15

but we would take some if you had

00:41:16 --> 00:41:18

it, but some sweet when we finish the

00:41:18 --> 00:41:21

of Quran. Ask Allah to accept it from

00:41:21 --> 00:41:22

us

00:41:22 --> 00:41:24

and to put at the end. Of course,

00:41:24 --> 00:41:25

we kind of rushed. If there's any questions,

00:41:25 --> 00:41:27

we'll take them. If not,

00:41:27 --> 00:41:29

we want to give people time to get

00:41:29 --> 00:41:30

home.

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