Sulayman Van Ael – The Divine Names 5

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The importance of knowing the names of Islam's characteristics, the first three characteristics of Islam, and the importance of purifying one's minds and avoiding fear and doubt in the spiritual world is emphasized. The lack of knowledge and fear in the spiritual world can lead to sinful behavior and the need for men to study and practice Islam. The segment also discusses the importance of learning about religion and finding one's way to God.

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			A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem, Bismillahir Rahmanir
		
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			Raheem Wasallallahu Wasallam wa baraka ala Sayyidina Muhammad
		
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			wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in Amma
		
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			ba'du, we started with our journey through the
		
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			names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
		
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			last week we spoke about the name Al
		
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			-Musawwir, Jalla wa ala.
		
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			So if you haven't listened to it entirely,
		
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			then I would advise you to do so
		
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			because I think that many important things have
		
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			been said during the talk about Al-Musawwir.
		
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			Today, bi'idhnillahi subhanahu wa ta'ala, we
		
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			want to talk about the name of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, Al-'Alim.
		
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			We want to talk about the name of
		
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			Allah Jalla wa ala, Al-'Alim.
		
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			The first thing we need to know when
		
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			we talk about the names of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala is that we can call
		
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			it a principle that all the names of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala are perfect, meaning
		
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			they don't go through an evolution.
		
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			Like for example, now I know, tomorrow I
		
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			know better, and after tomorrow I know more,
		
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			then a week later I will forget, then
		
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			I will know again.
		
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			This is not the case with Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			And it is also not like the knowledge
		
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			of Allah Jalla wa ala is not in
		
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			need of thinking.
		
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			It is knowing.
		
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			Knowing, thinking, contemplating is not what Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala does.
		
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			He knows at all times.
		
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			So meaning, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			says, أَحْصَىٰ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ عَدَدًا He encompasses the
		
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			number and the quantity of everything.
		
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			It means at all times without needing to
		
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			count, for example.
		
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			So we are not going to say that
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is in need
		
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			of counting.
		
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			So when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
		
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			that He encompasses the numbers of everything and
		
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			all, then we need to know that this
		
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			means that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't
		
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			have to count.
		
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			Like if I were to ask you, how
		
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			many hairs do you have on your head?
		
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			You don't know.
		
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			But nevertheless, it's your head.
		
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			It's your hair.
		
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			It's your body.
		
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			But you don't know how many.
		
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			Even your eyebrows, which are few in number,
		
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			not as much as the hair on your
		
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			head.
		
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			Or your moustache, for example.
		
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			You don't know.
		
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			You need to count.
		
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			And counting it might even be impossible.
		
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			When we say that Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala is al-'alim, meaning that He knows, then
		
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			He doesn't have to count.
		
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			Meaning that He knows how many hair you
		
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			have on your head together with mine and
		
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			that from Nisar, divided by two, multiplied by
		
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			three.
		
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			He knows everything and all possibilities at all
		
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			times.
		
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			So when we say that Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala is al-'alim, we mean actually that
		
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			it is not a knowledge that has been
		
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			acquired.
		
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			It is a knowledge that was always there.
		
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			And this is why He's perfect.
		
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			So when we say the names of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala are perfect, لَا نَقْصَ
		
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			فِيهِ i.e. there are no shortcomings in
		
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			the names of Allah jalla wa ala, then
		
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			this is what we mean.
		
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			When we say Allah is the strong one,
		
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			we can't say tomorrow He will become stronger
		
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			than today because His strength is perfect.
		
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			Because that which is perfect is that which
		
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			is unlimited.
		
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			Allah's strength is an unlimited strength which can't
		
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			be described by the human tongue.
		
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			So this is one of the important things.
		
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			So we say the strength of Allah, we
		
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			don't say Allah will be stronger tomorrow than
		
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			He is today because He doesn't go through
		
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			an evolution.
		
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			His strength was always there.
		
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			When we say Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is al-Qawiyy al-Mateen, this is affirming
		
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			what we are saying.
		
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			He is the strong one, but His strength
		
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			never decreases.
		
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			You see this?
		
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			And this is why we say, for example,
		
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			there was a challenge.
		
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			100 seconds holding on to an iron bar
		
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			and you will receive $100.
		
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			You had these men with muscle and hustle
		
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			that would try to hold on for 100
		
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			seconds.
		
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			They couldn't.
		
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			You had these small little tiny skinny guys
		
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			and they would hold on for an hour.
		
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			So what I would say is, when we
		
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			say that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
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			perfect, then we mean that Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala is perfect in every sense of
		
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			the word.
		
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			Is that clear?
		
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			So one, when we speak about the knowledge
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the first
		
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			thing we say, His knowledge was not preceded
		
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			by ignorance.
		
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			That's one.
		
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			So His knowledge was never preceded by ignorance
		
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			or by not knowing.
		
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			Two, His knowledge is all-encompassing.
		
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			That's point number two.
		
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			Meaning that there is not a thing that
		
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			He does not know and not a possibility
		
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			that He doesn't know.
		
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			He knows how your life went and how
		
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			it would have gone if you would have
		
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			made 10,000 other choices, then still He
		
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			would subhanahu wa ta'ala know what would
		
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			have happened.
		
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			And this is why we with our small
		
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			human brain, we are not allowed to say,
		
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			لَوْ أَنِّي فَعَلْتُ كَذَى وَكَذَى لَكَانَ كَذَى وَكَذَى
		
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			If I would have done such and such,
		
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			then such and such would have happened.
		
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			How do you know?
		
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			I even don't know what's going to happen
		
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			when I drive home.
		
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			I don't know.
		
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			So this is the first thing.
		
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			His knowledge was never preceded by ignorance.
		
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			Two, His knowledge is never accompanied by forgetfulness.
		
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			وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ نَسِيًّا Says Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			It is not for your Lord to forget.
		
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			He does not forget.
		
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			He doesn't.
		
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			And three, His knowledge is not connected to
		
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			what we call now.
		
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			He knows what happened.
		
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			He knows what is happening.
		
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			And he knows what will happen forever and
		
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			ever and ever and ever.
		
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			You see this?
		
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			So this is what we mean when we
		
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			say Allah is Al-Alim.
		
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			But now there is a difference.
		
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			We have tangible knowledge, knowledge of something we
		
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			can touch, knowledge of something we can see,
		
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			and knowledge of meanings.
		
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			Like, awe, hope, despair.
		
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			We can't touch this.
		
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			I might be hiding a feeling that you
		
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			don't know of.
		
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			I might be smiling in front of you.
		
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			But yet in my heart, I might feel
		
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			very sad.
		
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			And you don't know.
		
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			And this is when Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala says, يَعْلَمُ السِرَّ وَأَخْفَاهَ He knows that
		
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			which is hidden and that which is even
		
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			more hidden than that which is hidden.
		
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			Meaning, the hidden things that even we don't
		
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			know about.
		
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			You see?
		
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			And this is when Isa a.s. will
		
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			come to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			He will say, تَعْلَمُ مَا فِي نَفْسِ You
		
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			know what is in me.
		
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			You know what I have.
		
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			You know what I think.
		
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			You know what I feel.
		
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			And I don't know مَا فِي نَفْسِ And
		
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			I don't know anything that you might be
		
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			concealing for me.
		
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			So this is very important.
		
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			That we know Al-Alim subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala is, and this is where we are
		
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			going to dig deep.
		
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			When we say that Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala knows that which is even more hidden
		
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			than the secret.
		
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			He knows why you are not increasing in
		
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			spirituality, for example.
		
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			Why you are not increasing in prayers.
		
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			In good behavior.
		
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			Why you are not able to lower your
		
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			gaze.
		
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			While everything in you is saying, I want
		
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			to lower my gaze.
		
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			So you see that there are things in
		
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			life that you want.
		
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			Even things that are good.
		
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			Like I don't want to look at haram
		
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			anymore.
		
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			I don't want to listen to haram anymore.
		
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			I don't want to say anything haram anymore.
		
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			But it's stronger than you.
		
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			And you don't know where it's coming from.
		
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			Because everything in your heart is saying, I
		
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			don't want this.
		
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			And this is why the mu'min feels bad
		
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			when he sins.
		
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			When a mu'min sins, like Abdullah ibn Mas
		
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			'ud r.a said, when a munafiq sins,
		
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			it's like a fly on his nose.
		
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			And he, you know, waves it away.
		
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			It's nothing.
		
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			He says, but when a Muslim sins, a
		
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			mu'min, it's like he's sitting at the foot
		
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			of a mountain, waiting for the mountain to
		
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			collapse, to fall, to break down, to crush
		
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			upon him.
		
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			So, when we keep on sinning, and we
		
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			do not know why, because everything in us
		
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			hates it, then we have to ask him
		
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			by the name al-alim.
		
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			Then we are going to ask Allah s
		
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			.w.t by the name al-alim.
		
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			And you are going to ask him s
		
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			.w.t Ya Rabbi, I ask you that
		
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			which you know to be the reason behind
		
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			my sin, I ask you to remove it.
		
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			And this is why Allahumma astaghfiruka, I ask
		
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			you to forgive me for that which I
		
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			know of and that which I don't know
		
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			of.
		
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			Because there might be sins within me that
		
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			I do not know of because of two
		
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			reasons.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So I might be committing sins that I
		
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			do not know of because of two reasons.
		
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			One, lack of knowledge.
		
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			Lack of ilm.
		
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			If I don't have knowledge about outward behavior,
		
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			social behavior, about fiqh of mu'amalat, buying
		
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			and selling, or just spirituality of how to
		
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			increase in hope and gratitude, I will be
		
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			sinning without knowing because I have no scale.
		
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			And this is why the lack of knowledge
		
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			is the most dangerous thing that came over
		
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			this Ummah.
		
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			Which is very it's actually very strange to
		
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			see the people that talk about knowledge increase
		
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			but the people that study decrease.
		
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			This is not normal.
		
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			Like how can people increase in talking about
		
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			religion but decrease in studying religion?
		
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			That doesn't make sense.
		
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			But this is one of the signs of
		
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			the end of times.
		
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			When the Messenger ﷺ said until there is
		
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			no scholar left فَاتَّخَذَ النَّاسُ رُؤُوسًا جُهَالًا فَاتَّخَذَ
		
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			النَّاسُ رُؤُوسًا جُهَالًا يَعْنِي رُؤَسَاتُ وَهَلَاءُ They will
		
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			take leaders that are ignorant.
		
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			Ignorant about the deen.
		
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			Ignorant about the fatwa.
		
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			Ignorant about the results of what they say
		
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			and talk about.
		
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			So he said فَسُئِلُوا فَسُئِلُوا فَأَفْتَوْا بِغَيْرَ إِلْمٌ
		
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			And they will give fatwa without knowledge.
		
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			فَضَلُوا And they are misguided themselves, وَأَضَلُوا They
		
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			will misguide others.
		
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			So one of the signs of the end
		
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			of times is that knowledge will be disappearing.
		
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			The Messenger ﷺ he made clear until jahil
		
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			will come down on the earth and knowledge
		
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			will be removed from the face of the
		
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			earth.
		
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			So I said, when we are sinning, this
		
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			is due to two reasons.
		
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			I might think I'm alright, but subhanAllah, I
		
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			can't get higher.
		
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			I want to have these tears, I want
		
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			to have these fears, I want to have
		
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			this hope, this love, this awe.
		
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			But it seems that there is a sinning
		
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			that I can't get through.
		
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			And this is because of sins.
		
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			Which sins?
		
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			One, the ones I don't know of, or
		
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			two, the ones that I do not see
		
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			because I'm not pure enough.
		
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			The purer you become, and the more you
		
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			work on your soul, the more you will
		
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			actually see that you fall short.
		
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			You see this?
		
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			Like, I always give an example of Usain
		
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			Bolt, for example.
		
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			You know Usain Bolt?
		
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			He's the quickest man on earth, ever recorded.
		
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			Running very fast.
		
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			Like, he was training for a year to
		
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			break his own world record.
		
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			What are we talking about, about this?
		
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			It's even quicker than this.
		
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			He's training one year for quicker than this.
		
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			Yes or no?
		
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			Waking up, building his life, his food, his
		
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			sleep, everything around a microsecond.
		
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			Where are our microseconds?
		
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			And when he looks back and he sees
		
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			that he has broken his record, he says,
		
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			yes, he's so happy.
		
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			And he says, how could I have been?
		
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			I was so slow before, and now I'm
		
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			so fast.
		
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			Even the difference between women running, the 100
		
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			meter, and men is less than a second.
		
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			But it's so much.
		
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			Like, when you look at it, 10.5
		
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			and 9.8. All of a sudden it
		
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			becomes a world.
		
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			But it's nothing.
		
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			It's nothing.
		
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			So if now, when Usain Bolt looks back
		
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			and says, how slow was I?
		
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			This is what they said of the Messenger
		
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			ﷺ when he said, إِنَّهُ لَيُغَانَ عَلَى قَلْبِي
		
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			Like in the Jami' of Imam Suyuti ﷺ.
		
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			Yeah, sometimes my heart is covered.
		
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			I'm going to explain the hadith.
		
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			He said, فَأَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَ So I
		
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			do istighfar.
		
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			And in another narration, the Prophet ﷺ said,
		
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			استغفِرُ اللَّهَ فَإِنِّي أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ وَأَتُوهُ إِلَيْهِ فِي
		
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			الْيَوْمِ مِئَةَ مَرَّةٍ In another one, سَبِعِينَ مَرَّةٍ
		
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			يَنِي أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ فَإِنِّي أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ وَأَتُوهُ إِلَيْهِ
		
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			Because I beg him for forgiveness 70 or
		
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			100 times a day.
		
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			Now, Imam Munawi ﷺ, in the explanation of
		
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			this hadith, in his book, Fayru Al-Qadir,
		
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			he says, how do we understand this?
		
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			Like, why should the Prophet ﷺ ask Allah
		
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			for forgiveness?
		
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			It is not because he is sinning.
		
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			It is because the state of Prophets is
		
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			always ascending.
		
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			It is always going up.
		
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			It is never going down and there is
		
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			no stagnation.
		
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			So, when they look back in the state
		
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			that they were in, they say, I didn't
		
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			give Allah his due.
		
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			I didn't give him what he deserved.
		
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			While they were giving him what he deserved,
		
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			but because the worship of Allah is eternal,
		
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			because his being is so beautiful that it
		
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			has the right to be worshipped at all
		
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			times, then we will see that our getting
		
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			to know Allah is eternal, forever.
		
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			And this is why he created paradise.
		
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			So, because, you know, getting to know him
		
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			is limitless.
		
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			So, a world that is limitless had to
		
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			be created.
		
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			You see?
		
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			So, now when the Prophet ﷺ looks back,
		
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			we say, the mu'minun, they say their faith
		
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			goes like this, up, down, up, down.
		
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			They say the angels, stagnation.
		
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			They say Iblis, only downwards.
		
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			And the Prophets, only upwards.
		
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			And this is how we should understand the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ making istighfar.
		
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			Is that clear?
		
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			So, now to come back.
		
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			The reason why we might not know or
		
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			be aware that we are sinning is because,
		
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			one, lack of knowledge.
		
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			Two, a lack of spiritual insight.
		
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			So, the more that we purify ourselves, one,
		
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			the more sins we will find within ourselves.
		
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			And two, the bigger the sins will appear
		
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			in our eyes.
		
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			Something that I say now, it's okay, it's
		
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			just a little riba.
		
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			I said, once I went to a sheikh
		
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			in Jordan.
		
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			And I had some people that wronged me.
		
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			And they really, how can I say, they
		
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			spoke very bad gossip and this and that.
		
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			So, anyway, I went to the sheikh.
		
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			And this sheikh, these same people declared the
		
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			sheikh to be kafir.
		
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			So, I went to the sheikh and I
		
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			said, yes, I'm going to empty my heart.
		
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			And I said, sheikh, I'm very sad, what
		
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			should I do?
		
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			I said, this person, and I named him
		
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			by name, was the same one that declared
		
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			the sheikh kafir.
		
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			I said, he said this, this and this
		
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			about me.
		
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			The sheikh's face turned pale.
		
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			He put literally his hand in front of
		
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			my face.
		
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			And he said, we, the people that are
		
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			in search for Allah, are not allowed to
		
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			listen to gossip.
		
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			Either you don't mention names or you get
		
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			out of my house.
		
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			This was the best lesson I ever had.
		
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			Myself, I said, but sheikh, I didn't say
		
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			this.
		
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			Sheikh, they declare you kafir.
		
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			And then I had the feeling when he
		
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			said this, that qiyama was coming down upon
		
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			my head.
		
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			Then I said, ya Rabbi, are people still
		
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			this pious today?
		
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			Yes, there are many pious people.
		
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			And you are ahlullah, you are welcomed in
		
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			Allah's house.
		
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			Wallahi, if he wouldn't have wanted you in
		
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			his house, you wouldn't be here.
		
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			وَأَنَّ الْمَسَاجِدَ لِلَّهِ The mosques are Allah's.
		
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			If he doesn't want you here, you don't
		
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			get in.
		
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			Subhanallah, subhanallah.
		
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			So now to come back.
		
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			So these things, Allah is al-'alim.
		
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			When we say al-'alim, يَعَلَمُ He knows as
		
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			sirrah wa akhfah.
		
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			That which is hidden and that which is
		
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			more hidden than that which is hidden.
		
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			And these are the things we do not
		
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			know of.
		
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			Is that clear?
		
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			So we have to ask Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala by his ilm.
		
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			Remember when we said that Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala said, وَلِلَّهِ الْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَةُ فَادْعُوهُ بِهَا
		
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			To Allah belong the beautiful names.
		
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			And now this is amr, fi'lu amr.
		
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			Yani Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving
		
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			a command.
		
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			And in usul al-fiqh we say, الْأَمْرُ
		
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			يَدُلُّ عَلَى الْوُجُوبِ Meaning, when a command is
		
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			given, then it shows that it is obligatory
		
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			to do so unless there is another proof
		
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			taking it away from being obligatory to being
		
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			what?
		
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			Encouraged.
		
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			And this is not the case.
		
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			We have to ask Allah by all of
		
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			his names.
		
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			How many names did we use by Allah?
		
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			How often did we say, يَا قُدُّوسِ Why
		
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			should I say Quddus?
		
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			How often did I say, يَا خَافِدِ يَا
		
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			رَافِعِ يَا مُعِزِ يَا مُذِلِ يَا مَلْكِ الْمُلْكِ
		
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			يَا ذَلْ جَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ Some names are used
		
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			more like, رَزَّقِ رَزَّقِ رَزُقْنِ يَا غَفُورِ يَا
		
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			تَوَّابِ But the other names, how often did
		
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			we say, يَا وَدُودِ And it is exactly
		
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			when you use the correct names that you
		
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			plug your heart in the right, how do
		
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			you call that?
		
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			In the right socket.
		
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			Every name has an effect.
		
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			We can't say that there is no effect
		
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			when you pronounce or ask Allah by a
		
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			certain name.
		
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			That's not true.
		
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			Every name, immediately, when it comes from the
		
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			heart, has an effect on you.
		
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			So now it is for you to look
		
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			for the right name.
		
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			Look for example, your husband or your wife
		
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			doesn't look at you in the same way
		
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			that they used to look at you in
		
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			the first three months of marriage.
		
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			Like, oh, my husband, oh, my wife.
		
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			And all of a sudden, you come in
		
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			and nobody looks at you.
		
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			They say, can you please take out the
		
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			garbage?
		
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			It's not even salam, how are you?
		
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			No, I see your face, I think about
		
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			garbage.
		
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			So anyway, just joking.
		
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			So now, there is nothing going on.
		
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			So you say, where has it gone?
		
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			Well, did you ever ask Allah by His
		
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			name, Al-Wadud?
		
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			وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَكُم مَوَدَّةً وَرَحْمَةً You say, Ya Wadud,
		
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			I ask you to place love, once again,
		
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			between me and my wife.
		
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			Between me and my child, Ya Wadud.
		
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			You see this?
		
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			And now what are we going to do
		
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			with Al-'Alim?
		
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			Many things, but one is, Ya Rabb, that
		
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			what you know, which is the cause for
		
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			me to sin, which I don't know, please
		
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			remove this from me.
		
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			And with this name, بِإِذْنِ اللهِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى
		
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			this will happen.
		
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			So first thing, Al-'Alim, his knowledge is never
		
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			preceded with ignorance or not knowing.
		
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			Two, his knowledge is never accompanied by forgetfulness.
		
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			وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ نَسِيًا We also said, Allah
		
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			doesn't need to count to know something.
		
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			وَأَحْصَى كُلَّ شَيْءٍ عَدَدَ أَحْصَى He knows it.
		
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			Like how many, how many, I don't know,
		
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			whatever.
		
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			Whatever you can imagine, خَلَص So now Al-'Alim,
		
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			Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, also, and this is
		
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			very important, every new invention that we see
		
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			now, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala made it
		
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			very clear in the Qur'an, وَيَخْلُقُ And
		
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			He creates, مَا لَتَعْلَمُ What you do not
		
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			know yet, but how does He create it?
		
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			By inspiring the human brain.
		
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			By inspiring the human brain.
		
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			Everything you see around you, first was an
		
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			idea of someone, a dream, imagination.
		
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			Where did this imagination come from?
		
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			We call this, إِلْهَامٌ إِلَٰهِ It's a divine
		
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			inspiration.
		
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			How people all of a sudden thought, like
		
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			150 years ago, I don't know how much,
		
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			to make a plane, or to make a
		
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			car.
		
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			They were inspired.
		
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			What is it?
		
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			It is actually what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta
		
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			'ala says, وَلَا يُحِيطُونَ بِشَيءٍ مِّنْ عِلْمِهِ إِلَّا
		
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			بِمَا شَاءُ They can't encompass anything of His
		
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			knowledge, apart from that which He allows them.
		
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			So when you see something new, it is
		
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			through the knowledge of Allah.
		
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			It is unveiling a part of the knowledge
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Like now if we look at the body,
		
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			we look at the lungs, we look at
		
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			the heart, the way that the child has
		
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			been created, and so forth, in the womb.
		
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			When we look at this, before we didn't
		
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			know it, but it was always happening.
		
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			And it was in harmony with Allah's knowledge,
		
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			and power, and will.
		
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			And then He allowed us to witness His
		
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			knowledge, to witness His power.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			So when you, this is why we say,
		
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			the Alif Lam in the Arabic language, SubhanAllah,
		
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			has more than 10 meanings.
		
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			The Al, there is للملكية, there is للاختصاص,
		
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			للاستغراق, للاستحقاق, and so forth.
		
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			I'm not going to mention all of them.
		
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			So when we know that, and what was,
		
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			what did I say before this?
		
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			This is why we say, الحمد لله, when
		
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			we say all praise, in all forms, and
		
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			for any reason, whatever it might be, is
		
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			Allah's.
		
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			So even when I see a new car,
		
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			I praise Allah.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because He's perfect, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			and He just shared with us knowledge which
		
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			was necessary, to what?
		
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			To create something.
		
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			And this is why, Allah Subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala says, that Allah is خير الخالقين, and
		
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			أحسن الخالقين.
		
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			He's the best of creators.
		
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			Meaning why?
		
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			He's the only creator, and the others, they
		
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			make through inspired, through being inspired by Him,
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And this is why, the greater your knowledge
		
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			becomes, the more humble you are.
		
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			And this is why Imam Sha'arani, not
		
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			Sha'arawi, Imam Sha'arani, رحمه الله عز
		
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			وجل, in his book, تنبيه المخترين, he said,
		
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			the only one that is sure, and certain,
		
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			of his ignorance, is a alim.
		
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			Because every page that he turns, seems to
		
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			be telling him, this you didn't know, that
		
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			you didn't know, this you had to learn,
		
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			this is a new detail, this is a
		
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			new alim, this is a new book.
		
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			So you will see that, a scholar is
		
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			humbled, while people without knowledge, are filled with
		
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			pride, when they talk about religion, not in
		
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			general.
		
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			You see this?
		
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			So he said, that, the only one that
		
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			is certain, of his ignorance, is the alim.
		
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			And the more you learn, the more afraid
		
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			you are to speak.
		
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			I had a sheikh, Sheikh Ali Han, in
		
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			Jordan.
		
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			He's very strong in tafsir, very strong in
		
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			qiraat, and he's a miracle, in the Arabic
		
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			language.
		
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			And subhanallah, because he knew, that there was
		
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			so much to learn, if you would talk
		
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			to him, of course not everybody, a student
		
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			of knowledge, would speak with him, and you
		
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			would commit an error.
		
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			He said, where did you find this?
		
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			He said, find what sheikh?
		
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			He said, do you have another way, of
		
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			a grammatical, you know, approach of the word,
		
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			or is the word pronounced, like this as
		
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			well?
		
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			I said sheikh, I just you know, committed
		
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			a mistake.
		
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			He said okay.
		
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			You know, because he was so humble, he
		
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			would be open, to everything.
		
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			He would ask, he would be humble.
		
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			So subhanallah, so sheikh Ali Han, he was
		
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			incredible.
		
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			He has an explanation, of al-fiyat, and
		
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			of al-ajr, a very good one as
		
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			well.
		
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			And he's very strong in tafsir, and you
		
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			will hear more about him, in a year
		
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			or 20.
		
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			Because he says, he's not ready.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			Okay, so to continue is, they say that
		
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			scholars, with regards to ilm, go through three
		
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			gates.
		
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			Scholars, or people in general, go through three
		
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			gates.
		
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			The majority of people, get stuck in the
		
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			first one.
		
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			They say the first gate, of knowledge, is
		
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			pride.
		
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			Because you get in, you learn one hadith,
		
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			one ayah, one name of a sheikh, you
		
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			say, I will tell everybody.
		
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			I know everything.
		
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			Because, you know, if you have just one
		
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			book, or two books, or just a couple
		
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			of books, you read them, you say, that's
		
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			it.
		
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			Or when you Google, Google is really, who's
		
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			behind Google anyway?
		
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			Like you Google, once, I asked on my
		
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			Facebook, like, when a worm comes out of
		
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			the apple, is the worm haram or halal?
		
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			All the mashayikh, the online mashayikh, started answering.
		
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			Everything was copy and paste.
		
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			The danger with copy and paste, is that
		
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			when you Google it, it brings you immediately
		
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			to one sentence.
		
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			You don't know what preceded it, you don't
		
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			know what follows it, and you don't know
		
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			if the sheikh is actually affirming it.
		
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			He's maybe just mentioning, waqatqeem, and it has
		
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			been said, this, that, and that.
		
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			So you say, qala ibn qudama fil mughni.
		
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			Ibn Qudama, the great humbly scholar, said in
		
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			his book, al-mughni.
		
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			Or Imam al-Nawawi, in al-majmua, the
		
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			shafi'i scholar, whatever.
		
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			So, and I said, Ya Rabbi, the scholars
		
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			would be afraid to talk in the name
		
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			of religion.
		
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			Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi, rahimahullah azwajal, once he
		
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			was asked, he said, aftina feehi bi ra
		
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			'yik.
		
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			He was asked, give us a fatwa, what
		
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			is your opinion, yaani with your opinion.
		
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			And he didn't answer.
		
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			While he was a very big scholar, and
		
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			he had a lot of personal opinions that
		
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			would go against the former dharib.
		
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			And he said, akhaafu am us'ala yawm
		
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			al-qiyama, ya Ibn Hazm.
		
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			I am afraid that yawm al-qiyama, I
		
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			will be asked, oh Ibn Hazm, why did
		
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			you teach people to worship me through your
		
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			opinion.
		
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			Once somebody came to Imam Malik, and he
		
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			said, Ya Imam Malik, I want to ask
		
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			you a question about wudu.
		
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			And Imam Malik turned pale, wudu.
		
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			He said, Ya Imam Malik, innahu la sagheer.
		
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			They said, it's a small thing.
		
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			He answered, Qul kullum min indi Allahi fa
		
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			ma liha ulayhi alqawmi la yakaduna yafqawna al
		
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			-hadithan.
		
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			He said, everything is from Allah.
		
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			And so everything is big.
		
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			What is wrong with people that they don't
		
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			understand?
		
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			You see?
		
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			So when Imam Ahmed, rahimahu Allah azawajal, was
		
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			asked, like Imam al-Dhahabi, rahimahu Allah tabaraku
		
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			wa ta'ala, mentioned, if someone memorizes 100
		
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			,000 hadith, you should know that in the
		
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			first generations, when they said hadith, they didn't
		
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			mean just hadith from the Prophet a.s.
		
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			They meant Quran, ahkam al-fiqhiyya, the ahkam
		
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			that have to do with jurisprudence.
		
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			They meant the hadith of Rasulullah a.s.
		
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			They meant knowledge of the ijma', of the
		
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			consensus, of analogy, and also of the sayings
		
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			of the tabi'een and the sahaba and
		
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			the tabi'een.
		
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			So they said, if one knows 100,000
		
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			things, can he give a verdict?
		
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			He said, no.
		
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			Qalu, they said 200,000.
		
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			Of course not.
		
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			They said 300,000.
		
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			He said, no.
		
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			They said 400,000.
		
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			So he said, maybe.
		
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			They said 500,000.
		
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			He said, who was that?
		
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			This without any doubt.
		
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			Today, wallahi, the cheapest thing is talking about
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			And this is one of my, I'm in
		
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			panic, to be quite frank, when I see
		
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			that if I were to ask you, how
		
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			can you arrange this door?
		
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			You say, I have no knowledge.
		
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			I will call an architect or whatever.
		
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			If I ask you about, what's the price
		
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			of the tomatoes today?
		
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			You say, I don't know.
		
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			I didn't go to the souk.
		
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			We are shy and humbled when we have
		
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			to talk about things that we can see,
		
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			but when we talk about religion, maalish.
		
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			Do not, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has
		
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			made clear, don't say with your tongues, هذا
		
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			حلال وهذا حرام لتفتروا على الله الكذب إِنَّ
		
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			الَّذِينَ يَفْتَرُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ الْكَذِبِ لَا يُفْلِحُونَ Do
		
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			not say with your tongues, this is halal,
		
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			that is haram.
		
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			Because eventually you will, without any doubt, lie
		
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			about Allah.
		
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			And this is why Ibn Al-Qayyim, Rahim
		
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			Allah Azawajal, when he wrote his book, and
		
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			you can say it in two ways, اعلام
		
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			الموقعين or اعلام الموقعين عن رب العالمين Which
		
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			means, like those who put a signature under
		
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			the name of Allah.
		
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			Imam Al-Shafi'i said, مَنْ أَفْتَى فَقَدْ
		
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			شَرَّع If someone says something about religion, he
		
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			has claimed that it is sharia.
		
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			And when you claim that something is sharia,
		
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			you claim that this is what Allah wants.
		
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			This is why very often you see the
		
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			first fuqaha, لَا أُحِبُهُ أَكْرَهُهُ لَا يُعْجِبُنِي They
		
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			say, I don't like it.
		
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			I'm not fond of it.
		
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			Actually, they meant it's haram.
		
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			But they were afraid to give a hukam.
		
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			Only if it was clear cut, then they
		
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			would say haram.
		
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			So haram would be a very difficult word.
		
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			Haram means if you do it, you can
		
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			be punished.
		
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			That's haram.
		
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			غَضَبُ اللَّهُ If you do this, it's the
		
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			ghadabullah.
		
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			I remember having read in the book تعظيم
		
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			الفتح of Imam Ibn Al-Jawzi رحمه الله
		
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			عز و جل with the verification of Sheikh
		
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			Hassan the mashoor, Ali Salman.
		
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			He said that one of the fuqaha gave
		
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			a fatwa.
		
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			He gave a fatwa in the mosque.
		
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			Someone came to him.
		
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			And when this man left him, he said,
		
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			oh no, it was a wrong answer.
		
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			It was a sheikh.
		
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			He said, oh no, it was a wrong
		
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			answer.
		
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			So the faqih of Baghdad at that time
		
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			stopped giving verdicts.
		
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			And he put a poster on every wall
		
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			saying a man came to me on that
		
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			day after Salatul Doha.
		
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			He asked for a fatwa.
		
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			Please come back.
		
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			It took one month and a half.
		
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			During one month and a half, he didn't
		
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			answer any questions.
		
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			He was afraid.
		
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			He said, what if this man spread my
		
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			knowledge and my knowledge was wrong?
		
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			Until yawm al qiyamah.
		
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			If you say something, Wallahi, people will pass
		
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			it on.
		
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			And you will carry it.
		
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			You will carry it.
		
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			When the people came to Abdullah ibn Umar,
		
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			ibn al-Khattab r.a, during hajj, they
		
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			kept on asking him questions, questions, questions.
		
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			And then he said, alaykum anni, leave me
		
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			alone.
		
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			He said, but you are this and that,
		
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			this person.
		
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			He said, the only thing that you want
		
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			to do is make me a bridge for
		
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			you over * so that you can walk
		
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			over my back into Jannah and that I
		
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			will end up in *.
		
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			So the people were frightened to talk.
		
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			Today, to be quite frank, Wallahi, to see
		
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			real scholars has become very, very scarce.
		
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			To find people that talk about religion, a
		
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			lot.
		
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			But people with knowledge, they, subhanallah, it became
		
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			a fashion today.
		
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			We all want to be students of knowledge.
		
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			Well, like Sheikh Saeed al-Kamali, Hafidh Abdullah
		
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			az-Zarajal said, if you don't memorize Quran,
		
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			you're not a student of knowledge.
		
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			This is the first thing.
		
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			If you can't memorize the basic text, what
		
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			are you going to do?
		
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			So just say it's not for me.
		
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			I'm just going to learn a bit.
		
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			That's it.
		
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			So like in Morocco, 70 years ago, if
		
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			someone would talk on the street about knowledge,
		
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			it would not have been approved of by
		
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			the government 100 years ago.
		
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			They would take him to the Qadian.
		
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			They would say, this man is a fattan.
		
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			This man is creating chaos.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			When someone came to Imam Malik, rahimallah, and
		
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			Imam Malik didn't answer so many questions.
		
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			He said, what should I tell the people
		
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			when I go back to Baghdad?
		
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			I came all the way to Medina.
		
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			He said, ride on a horse or a
		
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			donkey and go around Baghdad and tell everybody
		
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			that Imam Malik didn't know.
		
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			The students of Imam Malik said, we have
		
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			learned from Imam Malik saying, I don't know.
		
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			Or Allahu alam.
		
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			So I say, nisful ilm.
		
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			Saying Allahu alam is the half of knowledge.
		
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			So now, Allah is al-alim.
		
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			وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يُعْبَدُ بِالْعِلْمِ وَلَا يُعْبَدُ بِالْجَهْلِ And
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is worshipped through
		
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			knowledge, not through ignorance.
		
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			And intentions don't count when the action is
		
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			wrong.
		
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			فَمَنْ كَانَ يَرْجُ لِقَاءَ رَبِّهِ فَلْيَعْمَلْ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا
		
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			وَلَا يُشْرِكْ بِعِبَارَةِ رَبِّهِ So let the one
		
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			that wants to meet Allah in the best
		
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			of states, let him perform good actions and
		
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			have a pure niyah.
		
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			This is a free interpretation.
		
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			But this is one of the verses that
		
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			the people used to show that we need
		
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			al-amal, al-salih, which is al-amal
		
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			al-muwafiq lil-'ilm, which is deeds that are
		
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			conformed to knowledge.
		
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			And secondly, with a sincere intention.
		
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			If one of both is absent, there is
		
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			no good deed.
		
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			Qalas, finished.
		
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			Imam al-Ghazali rahim Allah, he even goes
		
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			further in his book Ihyan al-Madin fi
		
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			kitab al-salah.
		
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			He says that the scholars of the akhira,
		
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			he means the educators, the spiritual scholars.
		
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			He said there's a consensus amongst them that
		
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			a prayer without khushur is not accepted in
		
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			the akhira.
		
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			In this dunya, yes.
		
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			In this dunya, it's accepted.
		
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			What does it mean?
		
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			That the qadi will not give certain rulings
		
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			that are only applicable upon people that pray.
		
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			So here the only thing is, if someone
		
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			prays, qalas.
		
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			Things that have to do with marriage and
		
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			other things, inheritance, between Muslims.
		
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			But he says in the akhira, the Prophet,
		
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			peace be upon him, very clearly said, laysa
		
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			lil-mar'i min salatihi, someone will only
		
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			have from his prayer what he remembers.
		
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			Is that clear?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So Allah is al-'alim.
		
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			So one of the things we are going
		
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			to ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
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			to grant us knowledge.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			To grant us knowledge.
		
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			And knowledge, or Islamic knowledge, has always been
		
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			through memorization.
		
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			Like Imam Ibn al-Jazari, rahimahullah azawajal, said
		
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			in his tayyibat al-nashr, he says, wa
		
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			ba'du fa inna al-insana laysa yashrufu illa
		
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			bima yahfadhu huwa ya'rifu Someone will not
		
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			be honored but by that which he knows
		
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			and memorizes.
		
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			Memorization.
		
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			We are the ummah of memorization.
		
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			And now we are the ummah of appization.
		
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			App.
		
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			All on apps.
		
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			And when you take away the phone, you
		
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			take away the brain.
		
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			Scholars, they have a book in front of
		
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			them to read from, and they explain it
		
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			from their heads.
		
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			If we live in a time where people,
		
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			or a lot of people that talk about
		
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			religion, aren't capable of talking without something in
		
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			front of them, this is wrong.
		
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			Either we go for it, we make it,
		
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			but we don't fake it.
		
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			And this is what is happening today.
		
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			So the Messenger ﷺ said, like in the
		
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			Sunnah of Abu Dawood and others, that one
		
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			day people will come and they will be
		
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			subhanAllah.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ said that there will be
		
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			youngsters that talk about the general affairs of
		
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			religion.
		
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			He called them ruwaybiba.
		
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			Ruwaybiba.
		
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			People without knowledge, deep knowledge, vast knowledge, talking
		
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			about big things.
		
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			And this is what we have to stay
		
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			away from.
		
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			Okay, so in brief, you see that I'm
		
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			talking about knowledge a lot, right?
		
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			Because I think it's necessary for us as
		
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			a ummah to study again.
		
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			Because knowledge is dying.
		
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			Wallahi, knowledge is dying.
		
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			When I see a poster on Facebook, Sisters
		
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			Tafseer Night, cupcakes included.
		
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			Tafseer was the last thing, the last thing
		
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			that scholars would do.
		
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			Tafseer is the end of the end of
		
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			the end of the end of the end.
		
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			Not just because it's Allah's word, but because
		
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			you are in need of every other knowledge.
		
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			Of morphology, of grammar, of art of speech,
		
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			of the fundamentals of fiqh and hadith, of
		
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			seerah, of everything you can imagine yourself.
		
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			And now let us have tafseer night.
		
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			Oh yeah, that's good.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			You know, I think I have read about
		
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			70 tafseer.
		
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			And that's not enough.
		
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			Every tafseer you read is different.
		
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			Every tafseer you find that one little tiny
		
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			thing that adds up to the puzzle.
		
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			And subhanAllah, and you can't get enough.
		
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			Once I had a dream, and I'm not
		
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			going to mention the names of the scholars.
		
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			And I saw three scholars.
		
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			And they were very strong in Quran, like
		
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			they're from the past.
		
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			They were so strong.
		
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			And I asked them, if Allah would bring
		
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			you back to the dunya, what do you
		
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			regret most?
		
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			And each one of them said that I
		
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			haven't invested more time in tafseer.
		
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			They all wrote tafseer.
		
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			They said that I haven't invested more time
		
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			in tafseer.
		
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			So now with what are you going to
		
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			do tafseer?
		
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			When you ask people that come to you
		
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			say, brother, I want to give you sincere
		
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			advice for Allah.
		
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			Once, two years ago, I had a khutbah
		
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			in, I think it was somewhere in Birmingham.
		
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			And they say the holy, what holy state
		
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			of Birmingham, or how do we call it?
		
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			I don't know.
		
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			So anyway, so I went there, and I
		
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			gave a khutbah.
		
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			And then there was a man that came
		
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			to me, mashaAllah, dressed very nicely, according to
		
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			the sunnah, everything.
		
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			He said, brother.
		
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			I said, yes.
		
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			I need to give you advice.
		
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			I said, no problem.
		
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			I said, please do.
		
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			He said, you invite towards the sunnah, but
		
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			you, but you, you destroy it.
		
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			I said, why?
		
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			He said, because during your khutbah, you made
		
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			dua, and you said, Allahumma salli wa sallim
		
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			wa barik ala Muhammad alaihi salam.
		
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			He said, I didn't find barik in the
		
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			Qur'an and the sunnah when it comes
		
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			down to the salah over the messenger.
		
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			I said, look, in places where there is
		
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			a dua, a specific dua, that has been
		
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			said, I will stick to the wording of
		
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			the Prophet alaihi salam.
		
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			But in a general dua, that has not
		
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			been specified, I can do what I want.
		
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			He said, this is too much of a
		
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			philosophy.
		
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			This is too much philosophy.
		
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			I said, it's not philosophy.
		
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			This is usul fiqh.
		
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			I said, we can sit together, and we
		
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			go over the usul, and...
		
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			He said, no.
		
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			He said, second.
		
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			He said, when you read, walad dhalim, he
		
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			said, your count was five and a half
		
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			instead of six.
		
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			I said, look, I can be mistaken.
		
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			But I said, if one thing I'm sure
		
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			of, it's my qiraat.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, I finished my ten qiraat, and my
		
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			fourteen, and inshallah I have ijazah in it,
		
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			so I don't doubt my shaykh who gave
		
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			me my ijazah, and I have ijazah from
		
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			more than one shaykh.
		
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			So anyway, and he said, no, it was
		
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			five and a half.
		
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			I said, maybe.
		
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			Yes, I'm a human.
		
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			I'm a human, I make mistakes.
		
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			Then he took, like, a big book, said,
		
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			look at my ijazah.
		
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			I said, why are you showing me this?
		
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			So that you would believe me.
		
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			I said, barakallahu feekum, brother.
		
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			I really love you, for Allah's sake.
		
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			And then, subhanAllah, he made a mistake in
		
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			the Arabic language.
		
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			Then I just went off.
		
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			So I had another one coming to me
		
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			as well.
		
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			He spoke to me, he was giving me
		
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			advice, and then he went, he went and
		
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			he said to a girl, he said, kayfal
		
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			halakoo.
		
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			He made, like, five mistakes.
		
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			I said, how can you give advice and
		
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			not know the language of the Qur'an?
		
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			So anyway, we, when we want to study
		
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			our religion, we really need to go for
		
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			it.
		
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			And we need people.
		
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			We need women and we need men to
		
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			be teachers.
		
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			We really need this.
		
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			And this is like a cry for help.
		
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			Like, the people that are doing it are
		
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			over their heads in dawah and teaching.
		
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			So, please, if you feel that you want
		
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			to be a part of that, then inshaAllah
		
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			we can talk later on, inshaAllah.
		
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			Okay, bismillah.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is al-'alim,
		
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			as I said.
		
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			And the beauty of Him being al-'alim is
		
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			that He does not punish us according to
		
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			His knowledge of what we are going to
		
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			do in the future.
		
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			So, He does not punish us, punish the
		
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			people in harmony with what He knows that
		
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			they will do.
		
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			Like, if I do tawbah now, as we
		
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			said before, I repent now, say, Wallahi ya
		
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			Rabbi, never again.
		
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			He knows I will do it again.
		
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			But nevertheless, He will forgive.
		
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			Because He judges us according to what we
		
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			are, not according to what He knows what
		
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			we will do.
		
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			Otherwise, we would all have been destroyed.
		
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			And the beauty between two sins is, like,
		
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			I promise that I won't sin, and I
		
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			will sin again, and He knows this.
		
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			But after my repentance, while I'm heading for
		
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			the new sin, which I even don't know
		
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			of, He takes care of me, and He
		
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			shows me love.
		
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			And He shows me His presence.
		
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			And He bestows His blessings upon me.
		
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			While He knows that I'm about to sin
		
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			in a year, or a month, or a
		
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			week.
		
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			This is so beautiful.
		
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			So, His knowledge is also the knowledge of
		
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			how we were created, and how weak we
		
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			are, and how tempted we are.
		
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			And if it were not for that knowledge,
		
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			we would have been destroyed.
		
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			And this is why Allah Subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala, He's Al-Haleem in His ilm.
		
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			So, He's Alimun Haleem.
		
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			Alimun Haleem.
		
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			And Shaykh Ahmed Zarruq, may Allah have mercy
		
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			on him, the Manic scholar, he said in
		
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			his explanation of Hizbul Bahr, of Imam Abu
		
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			Hassan Al-Shadili, may Allah have mercy on
		
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			him, and Zarruq was a very big Manic
		
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			scholar, he said, Al-Haleem is the one
		
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			who is not pushed by his anger to
		
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			punish.
		
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			So, meaning, Al-Haleem is the one that
		
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			has every right to be angry.
		
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			Every right to punish.
		
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			Every right to destroy, but he doesn't do
		
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			it.
		
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			You see?
		
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			So, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, being the
		
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			Alim, He already knows where we are heading
		
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			for.
		
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			And this is very often an issue that
		
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			people don't understand.
		
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			It's like, if Allah knows everything, then why
		
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			do we need this life?
		
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			Why doesn't He just put us in *
		
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			or in Paradise?
		
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			*, Paradise.
		
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			Well, they say, like Imam Al-Hakami, may
		
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			Allah have mercy on him, said in his
		
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			Surah Al-Wasul, لِكَيْ لَيَكُونَ لِلنَّاسِ عَلَى اللَّهِ
		
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			حُجَّ بَلْ لِلَّهِ أَعْلَى حُجَّ عَزَّ وَجْهَلٌ Meaning,
		
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			so that there wouldn't be an argument.
		
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			Like, we wouldn't feel wronged.
		
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			We would know, this is the result of
		
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			what we have lived.
		
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			And what we should know is that everyone
		
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			amongst us has made a choice.
		
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			When Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala took us
		
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			out of the back of Adam Alayhi Salaam,
		
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			He took all the souls in front of
		
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			Him.
		
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			All of us were in front of Allah,
		
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			without any exception.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions this, that
		
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			He took every soul out of Adam that
		
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			would exist until the Day of Judgment.
		
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			فَأَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ So He made them testify
		
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			against them.
		
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			يعني, if they would be lying, it would
		
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			be against them.
		
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			أَلَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ And He said, Am I not
		
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			your Lord?
		
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			And everybody said, Balaam.
		
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			Everybody.
		
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			You said in front of Allah, yes.
		
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			And in harmony with the strength of your
		
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			yes, you will be stronger in your faith
		
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			and you are weaker.
		
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			But now, what made me stronger or weaker
		
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			in my yes?
		
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			Because everybody was shown a way to paradise
		
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			and a way to *.
		
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			That is where you made your choice.
		
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			And now to be quite frank, even if
		
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			I would tell people now, you know, until
		
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			you're 50, you can live the way you
		
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			like.
		
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			On a road, every 5 kilometers, you have
		
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			a hotel, 5 stars.
		
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			Everything's paid for.
		
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			A hotel, 5 stars.
		
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			You have, you know, everywhere you go, there's
		
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			a Halal beach.
		
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			And you can drink what you like, eat
		
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			what you want.
		
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			Every 500 kilometers, you have a Bentley or
		
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			a Rolls Royce Phantom or a Bugatti.
		
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			Whatever you like, everything is there.
		
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			You will never be sick.
		
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			There is no violence, no animals, nothing.
		
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			During 20 years, this is your path.
		
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			But at the end, you will be poor.
		
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			You will have nothing.
		
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			At the end, you will be poor in
		
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			a small house, full with moisture.
		
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			You say moisture, you say?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			I got to know this in England.
		
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			So, moisture.
		
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			So, and then you show them the second
		
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			way.
		
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			Look.
		
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			Or you can go 20 years on a
		
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			road.
		
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			There is nothing 20 years long but dates
		
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			and water.
		
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			There are wild animals.
		
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			And there are minus one star hotels with
		
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			fleas and lice.
		
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			So, anyway.
		
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			So, really terrible situation.
		
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			20 years.
		
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			The other one, 20 years, good road.
		
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			And at the end, you have a palace.
		
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			Wallahi, a lot of people will say, I
		
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			want it now.
		
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			A lot of people say, just standing in
		
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			front of the road, looking at these wild
		
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			dogs and pumas and anacondas and, you know,
		
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			minus one star hotels.
		
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			You're going to say like, I'm not doing
		
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			this.
		
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			Yes, but at the end, you will be
		
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			happy.
		
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			I am not doing this.
		
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			I believe it.
		
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			But I can't.
		
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			And the other one will say, no, I
		
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			want it now.
		
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			The other one will say, no, I will
		
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			be patient.
		
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			Aqal.
		
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			They use their mind.
		
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			Say, no, I will be patient 20 years
		
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			and then I get to that final destination,
		
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			a palace.
		
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			And this is what Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala showed us.
		
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			Wahadaynahu al-majdayn.
		
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			Says Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in Surah
		
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			al-Balad.
		
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			We showed him the both ways, the path.
		
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			And that also refers to the path in
		
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			the akhira.
		
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			And you were standing, and if you die
		
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			as a Muslim, you made the choice for
		
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			that difficult road.
		
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			But in harmony with how much you wanted
		
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			the other one, you will be stronger or
		
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			weak.
		
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			You see this?
		
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			Because you were a bit, and you feel
		
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			this sometimes.
		
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			All of a sudden, it's more to the
		
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			dunya.
		
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			What am I doing?
		
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			And that was your choice.
		
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			So subhanAllah, we were all in front of
		
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			Allah jalla wa ala.
		
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			We made our choices there and then.
		
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			Allah.
		
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			And then Allah sent the Prophets to remind
		
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			us of our promise.
		
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			To remind us that we gave a covenant,
		
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			that we told Allah that we would be
		
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			good and follow the right way.
		
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			Anyway, so Allah is Al-Ali.
		
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			So when we go to paradise or go
		
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			to *, may Allah protect us all.
		
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			Then, it's so that we would have an
		
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			argument for ourselves.
		
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			And this is why the people, when they
		
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			enter the hellfire, they won't say like, I
		
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			didn't deserve this.
		
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			What's happening?
		
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			No.
		
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			Allah jalla wa ala in Surah 39, Az
		
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			-Zumar, He makes very clear that they will
		
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			say, the moment they enter hellfire, وَلَكِنْ حَقَّتْ
		
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			كَلِمَةُ الْعَذَابِ عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ The punishment is justified
		
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			for those who ignored and denied Allah.
		
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			They won't feel that they are wrong.
		
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			There's one thing that the people in *
		
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			won't have.
		
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			And that is that they are certain of
		
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			the divine justice.
		
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			They won't blame God ever, which they did
		
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			here.
		
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			They know now that He exists.
		
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			And this is what makes it difficult for
		
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			them because they're not allowed to look at
		
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			His beauty.
		
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			إِنَّهُمْ عَنْ رَبِّهِمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ لَمَحْجُوبُونَ Allah jalla wa
		
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			ala in Surah Al-Mutafi'in, He says,
		
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			that day they will be, what?
		
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			Veiled from their Lord.
		
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			And this is the biggest punishment.
		
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			Exactly that being close to Allah is the
		
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			biggest reward of the people of paradise, the
		
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			biggest punishment of the people in * is
		
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			not just the physical pain.
		
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			It's being veiled from the one now they
		
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			know that exists.
		
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			That makes it the غضب الله, the anger
		
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			of Allah on the people of * is
		
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			their biggest punishment.
		
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			And Allah being content with the inhabitants of
		
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			paradise is the biggest, what?
		
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			Joy.
		
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			And this is why Allah, and that's the
		
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			last thing I want to say, is that
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the
		
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			Qur'an, لِلَّذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا الْحُسْنَةُ وَزِيَادًا For those
		
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			who do good, there is paradise and more.
		
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			What is more?
		
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			Being close to Allah.
		
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			Better than all these castles of silver and
		
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			gold and diamond.
		
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			Are you going to compare creation to creator?
		
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			Abadan.
		
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			Like if Allah would be angry, which can't
		
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			be, if Allah would be angry with the
		
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			people of paradise, they wouldn't rejoice.
		
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			It's His divine love.
		
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			He's saying, سَلَامٌ قَوْلًا مِنْ رَبِّ الرَّحِيمِ That
		
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			He will say, سَلَامٌ Allah will say, سَلَامٌ
		
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			to the people of paradise.
		
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			So it is the divine nearness.
		
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			It is the divine love and contentment that
		
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			we will rejoice in with our souls before
		
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			rejoicing in paradise with our bodies.
		
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			That's the biggest thing.
		
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			So Al-'Alim subhanahu wa ta'ala, as you
		
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			see, it's a very large name.
		
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			It's a very beautiful name.
		
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			So what are we going to do with
		
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			this name?
		
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			One, we are going to ask Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala by His beautiful names to
		
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			show us our shortcomings so that we can
		
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			see them and can get rid of them.
		
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			Two, we are going to ask Allah, when
		
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			you don't grasp anything, something that you are
		
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			studying, ask Allah.
		
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			Allah sometimes says, I don't understand this.
		
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			Ibn Sina, he read 40 books before understanding
		
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			something.
		
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			40 different books.
		
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			He said, and then my opening came.
		
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			And the Fathullah.
		
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			So now ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			to grant you knowledge and insight.
		
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			But before you do something, and that's for
		
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			next time, Al-Istikharah, where you ask Allah
		
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			to make a choice on your behalf.
		
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			That's Istikharah.
		
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			Istikharah means that you ask Allah to choose
		
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			on your behalf and that you have no
		
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			feeling.
		
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			You say, Rabb, it's for you.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So we are going to talk about Istikharah
		
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			next time in the light of the name
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Al-'Alim.
		
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			I ask Allah to make this beneficial.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			grant us deep knowledge.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			grant us love for the Prophet ﷺ and
		
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			to make us love him more than we
		
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			love ourselves.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			protect our families and the poor people and
		
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			the oppressed in the whole wide world.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			give ease to everybody who's suffering and to
		
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			cure all the sick.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			bring an end to the war on the
		
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			world, in this world.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Wa sallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			Mubarak ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			Wa alhamdulillahi rabbil alamin.