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So today inshallah ta'ala we are blessed to
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Hussain.
And so since it is, 501 EST, Sheikh
Hana, if you are ready, let's go ahead
and kick things off. Assalamu alaykum.
And how are you doing today?
Pleasure to be here again.
Please go ahead.
So I want to,
you know, thank Al Maghrib for allowing us
to be conscious of these days.
Brother Abdulrahman mentioned,
a lot of times these days just kinda
come and pass. You know, I will be
honest. Most of my life, we had no
idea what to do or the significance of
the. Like,
just kinda went, you know, maybe, you know,
they have a few friends on HUD or
family members, and that's kind of it.
So it's also you know,
sometimes in Ramadan, Ramadan can get tiring.
We go through the nights.
It's like Allah is saying, now you have
the days when you're talking about how, you
know, oh, if if we only had we
had daytime.
And here now, he's given it to us.
So
may Allah forgive us, for missing out on
the in the past, but we we can't
change that.
So,
to have awareness and consciousness.
You know, just practically speaking,
I know many are on summer vacation.
A lot of times,
in work, whether we have business businesses or
whether we work for someone, there's flexibility, you
know, flex Fridays.
So let us utilize the days. You know?
If that means cutting lunch shorter, not having
lunch at all and fasting, that would be
the ideal.
But just little things we can do,
can be incredibly
useful. You know, one time I I conducted
an experiment,
when I was driving from my home to
the to the gym. So I had a
little counter, like a real like a physical
counter.
And I said, you know what I'm gonna
do? I'm I'm gonna say
and then I'm gonna click.
And I I can't, like I'm not trying
to
it's all about quality. I'm not trying to
hit a certain number. Like, it has to
be
just like that. Click.
Click. So
I clicked so that's what I was doing.
So I drove in about a
5, maybe 10 minute drive
there, 10 minute drive back. I came back,
and, I asked the community that night, you
know, what what do you think
how many what do you think the counters
show? You know, people like,
40, 50,
you know,
a100. There's always that one person, you know,
who just throws out a ridiculous number and
then everything else just so that nothing else
has any effect. You know? There's always that
person in the community.
But
it was something. I I don't remember now
exactly. It's been a long time, but it
was, like,
700
something. Like, it was a massive number.
And that was doing nothing other than
just going from my, you know, normal swole.
That's all I was doing. It's not like
I was doing anything outside of the ordinary.
And so
there's there's no reason why you know, sometimes
we think about, I I wanna add this.
I wanna do more in these days, and
that's great, to do that. We absolutely should.
But there's a lot of time we already
have that we're just not utilizing,
and that, insha Allah, is something we can
do. So that's just some advice to myself
and all of us. And, again,
may Allah reward Al Maghrib for allowing us
to be conscious and and front and,
facing
for us.
So I have the,
pleasure
of speaking about the conversion of Omar.
Other
of course, in his fantastic name,
There's many, many wonderful things that Umar radiAllahu
an
accomplished in his life, and there's so many
directions we can take
his story.
I'm going to just sort of look at
what,
kind of day to day things that we
go through as in. That's sort of what
I'm looking at, and,
you know, again, there's many angles we can
take.
Where I would start with Omar Radiallahu An,
one of the reasons why I love him
so much
is
he is like the perfect definition
of what masculinity
truly is.
This,
nowadays, there's
confusion
on all of these topics
related to masculinity,
gender, gender roles.
Just so much confusion,
so much, so much is going on. But
he was, like, the epitome of
true masculinity.
And
the reason is because when many when many
of us think masculinity, we think
powerful,
strong,
which he absolutely was. He was physically
very,
you know, he was large. Some narrations have,
like, when he sat on a camel or
or an animal to ride, his legs, like,
touched,
like, the ground. Right?
He had very
physically, his you know, hands were big. His
voice was very deep,
and he was, you know, he was he
was he was rough. He was rough. He
was tough.
So that part is kind of there.
But what really takes it to the next
level
was his humbleness
and concern for justice
and those who are oppressed in society.
And when you combine that together, like, that's
truly
what,
like, a gentleman
is. Right? That's, like,
what every
man is aspiring to be. Right?
And who every woman is trying to marry.
Okay? But that's a very high standard.
But that's what we're trying to do. Right?
So it's like, you know, he he he
could've you know what's what power really is?
True power is when you can crush someone,
but you don't,
and you restrain yourself.
Just how the prophet told
us that that's what true power is. It's
not someone who just can physically, you know,
throw somebody around.
It's the ability
to
consciously refrain
and engage.
And that's what he did. And so his
service,
he was very approachable. You know, you would
even though he was, you know, some were
intimidated by him, but he he was approachable
during his,
time as Khalifa.
And we know, you know, the Islamic Empire
spread,
quite a bit under his rule, but how
did he rule?
And when you when you look at his
rule, it wasn't, you know, this sort of
crushing, overpowering. Like, it was
all about justice and helping those who are
being oppressed.
And so you combine all that together,
and that just is
really like the epitome
of of what,
you know, being a man is all about.
And, you know, he he prayed the Hajjid,
you know,
so so often.
Just the the the combination of the power
and the humbleness
is is really something that we're all striving
for. So that is you know, there's many
things to love about him, but that really
stands out because
he had, you know, he was different than
like Abu Bakr. Right? He was a little
bit different approach, more more sort of mild
mannered.
But he was able to combine these two
things, and the prophet
did not make him change who he was,
just like he didn't make Abu Bakr change
who he was.
His companions,
you know, he saw their strengths and what
each could bring,
and, you know, he let them thrive in
their positions and in which he, you know,
certainly certainly did.
So
that's just something that really stands out to
me. You know? I think,
you know, perhaps people in the in the
chat could just put things that that that
they love about
that might be,
might be worthwhile.
So, of course, we know,
and we won't go over this in detail,
but we know that,
in the beginning was
not Muslim, and he was a staunch enemy
of Islam. He would first Muslims early on,
spit on them.
It was very harsh. Right?
And,
he decided one day that he was going
to
take out the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And
on the way, he got into a little
scuffle,
and, you know, basically, he was told that,
hey. Why don't you take care of your
own house? Meaning,
that people in your own family
are leaving the religion that you're on,
before worrying about the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
why don't you take care of what's happening
in your family? Now if somebody
says that to you, you're gonna have one
of those, like, oh, no. He didn't moments.
Right?
And then he's like, I do I am
gonna go and take care of my own
house. So, of course, he went to,
his sister's home,
and, you know, he heard recitation from inside.
He bursts in,
and, he is, you know, beating
his then brother-in-law,
and he strikes his sister,
and blood starts coming down her face. So
he feels
some regret,
right, when he when he sees that.
And it's almost like there's a there's this
this change there. And he says, you know,
what were you reading?
And, of course, his sister tells him that,
well, you can't see it right now. You
have to go and purify yourself. So he
makes
a and he comes back,
and he is,
starts reading Surat Baha,
and that was
that was it. And then, of course, he
goes to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And this was
incredibly significant. You know, some historians say after
the prophet
his Islam,
converting to Islam was the most significant.
Because after he became Muslim,
he,
would protect people,
the Muslims when they were praying. Like, they
they just they felt
a power and emboldened even though they were
still small in numbers,
that they could do things publicly now.
And
that
was a big deal because they were
hiding, right, in Darul Arakam, and they just
were having,
you know, they were they were being abused
in various ways. So he kind of
helped put a stop to that.
And, ibn Mas'ud he,
of course, was beaten because he would read
the Quran publicly. He said, Inna Islam, Umar
Qana Fathhan.
The just Umar
becoming Muslim, that was victory in itself, Waqanat
Hijratuhun
Nasran, and his Hijrah,
his traveling was a victory.
And, his leadership,
Rahma. His
leadership was a mercy. So he kind of
described him in all these different ways,
and,
you know, he upheld the rights of those
who were
weaker, those who were oppressed. And a lot
of times, we pride ourselves,
particularly in Western countries,
even though we don't always do a very
good job about it. But at least we
say that, oh, we're all about helping those
who are weak and oppressed.
So that was, you know, after he became
Muslim. But before, he was a fierce fierce
enemy
of of Islam.
And Allah
says,
That you cannot guide who you love,
only Allah
guides. And so
this was for Abu Talib, the uncle of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, who, you
know, basically had his back and protected him.
But at the end of the day,
he did not
accept Islam.
So the other day when we were, having
the the program here for afterlife explorers,
you know, we talked about the
the least
punishment in
in Jahannam, in the hellfire,
is someone who'll have, like, sandals
with coal burning under them, and the brain
will be boiling.
And,
in one narration, this is for Abu Thanib.
So it's like
because he was, you know, he was so
good to the prophet
in his life,
but
he still gets this punishment, although it's the
lightest one. So who can even imagine? And,
of course, we went through, some of the
other horrors. May Allah
protect us,
from from the hellfire.
But but he didn't have iman. Right? And
so Omar radiallahu an,
does accept Islam,
and Allah
guided him
from being one of the most staunch enemies
to being someone who is revered
by Muslims all across the world and whose
name is mentioned,
and who gets duas
for 100 and 100 of years after.
Now
in the times that we live in,
in an American context
and probably in a European one as well,
There is a lot of tribalism,
perhaps more than many of us have seen
in our life.
There's a lot of hatred and anger towards
others.
Now even if you don't live in America
or
in, you know, perhaps Canada or the European
countries,
Speaking from an American context, I remember one
time, I had a teacher, and,
it was in,
I think, it was in my graduate program.
So you're talking about how she had a
friend from
it was, like, Ireland,
and they were talking politics. And this person
in Ireland
was, like,
knew more about American politics than she did.
And she's like,
you know, like, I'm not not trying to
be rude or anything. Like, you live in
Ireland.
You're it's not like you're even neighbors with
us. Like, why do you know so much
about American politics?
And her friend says to her, like, see,
you don't understand.
When America sneezes,
we catch a cold.
So
what the policies,
you you put out, what's happening there, directly
affects us.
So
all of us in some sense are are
certainly affected by that.
We're seeing our
brothers and sisters in in Palestine and Palestine.
May Allah
grant
them, victory and ease. But this is a
direct,
or there there's a lot that has to
do with the policies
in America of why this continues and why
it's not stopping. Right? So there is a
direct relationship.
So the tribalism
and the,
just the hatred that people have,
is something which is really spread here. And
we're starting to see now
in European countries, you know, people voting for
very
right you know, far right type of policies
and things, and we're kinda like, what you
know, what happened? Right? Because all these things
have an effect.
Now some of those
people using that rhetoric or saying these things,
I still don't think that they hate Islam
as much as Omar
might have hated it before he became Muslim.
Right?
Now
I don't know
how to measure it exactly. I I do
believe many of the politicians and leaders, it's
to get in power. Do they really have
a deep down hatred? Some of them, I'm
not denying that they do, but others, it's
like a political game.
You know? If if if someone told them,
just change this a little bit,
and you'll get the vote and you'll win,
then they will change it into you know,
they're playing sort of a game. But when
you when when when
some scholars say that
only Abu Lahab had a greater hatred of
Islam than Omar Radiallahu An before Islam. That
is something which makes your ears stand up.
Right?
Who is more vicious than Abu Lahab in
his hatred for Islam?
So Omar radiallahu an
had a hatred for Islam in his heart
before he became Muslim,
and when we look at the times that
we live in, we see a lot of
hatred. But despite
that,
everybody
still
has a chance to be guided if Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala wills.
We cannot ever write anyone off.
We cannot say this person is beyond
being saved.
Or, you know,
this person oh, they're never gonna become
Muslim or get, you know, guidance or whatever
the case may be.
I agree that a 100% of those people
are not going to get guidance. That's Allah's
will.
But
maybe
their image of Islam might be altered somewhat,
and that's a victory.
You know, I I used to work with
with someone,
and, this was when I was doing
my internship in counseling.
And,
I think they were more interested in Islam
than in my actually,
working in the internship.
So when I would have my reviews,
I'm a
on on one of the reviews,
the,
my manager said,
you know, I'm supposed to ask you these
questions about how you're doing here and stuff,
but can we just talk about your religion
instead? I'm like, yeah. That's cool.
Yeah. Sure. Of course. That probably means I'm
doing pretty good. But yeah. Of course. And
so these would be sort of ongoing conversations.
Now
her beliefs
and values
weren't even close to Islam.
I'll leave it at that.
K? So it's not like,
okay. Maybe it was someone, you know, a
a religious person. No. No. No. No. No.
No. No. Not close.
But we had those conversations,
and,
then, you know, she she told me she
was visiting a city, and there was a
there was a she went to a halal,
burger place.
And her and it was, like, someone in
her family, maybe her brother-in-law.
And he started, you know, trying to
say some things about Islam and stuff, and
here she is now
saying like, well, actually, I don't think you're
properly informed. And, you know, I I know
someone who, you know,
is a spiritual leader in his community, and
I just work with him every day, and
we've talked about it. So it's like
I mean, may Allah guide everyone, but
that's still, like, a win
that this person is able to speak to
someone they're close to and dispel
some of the,
negative
rhetoric, some of the stereotypes about Islam. So
I'll take that. Right? Now ultimate ultimately, obviously,
we wish for everyone's guidance, but
I'm good with that. So that's still a
positive thing.
But if we took the
attitude
that I just hate this person because of
what they stand for, what they believe, and
I'm not even gonna engage with them,
then where would we have
been? Where would we have gotten?
So the next question then is why
would we have such hatred in our heart
for people in general?
Like, why?
And that's a question to ask ourself
because there's a difference between having hatred for
the sake of
Allah and just being a hateful person,
and we're not trying to be the latter.
Every single one of us should be angry
when
the rights of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala are
violated.
Every single one of us.
Nobody was more pleasant than the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Nobody
hated wrongdoing more than the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam.
Nobody
hated
wrong more than the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
So we are definitely not saying that just
everything is all good,
And, you know, don't hate for the sake
of Allah
because this is also a trendy thing. Right?
Oh, we don't hate don't hate anybody. Yes.
Of course. Generally speaking, I get the message,
but we we can't let it get get
to a point where we start
hating
what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has actually prescribed
for us.
That's that's where we've we've dropped the ball
if that's what we're getting to.
So we definitely hate for the sake of
Allah
That doesn't mean that we don't use wisdom
or we don't look at our approach
when it comes to,
how we handle things in society. So I
work with a lot of people in addictions.
I hate alcohol.
I hate drugs. When I go to the
store
and there's a section on alcohol,
you know,
you just see all the destroyed families and
and all the sorrow behind all of that.
That doesn't mean I'm gonna go in there
and start
breaking all the bottles. That's not gonna accomplish
anything. Right?
But when I get a chance to educate
people, I will,
and I will hate that in my heart.
K? So that's, an important point I wanted
to make. So now we return to the
question, why do we hate people?
So one of the reasons that we hate
others
is arrogance.
So that someone actually thinks that they are
better than somebody else.
This can be because of
social factors.
So in the Quran, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
talks about
Innaqarunakanaminnaqawmi
Musa fagahu alayhim.
Qarun was from the people of Musa alayhis
salam, and he rebelled against them. So great
was his treasure
that the keys literally, you know, he said
the keys to the kingdom, the keys literally
had to be carried by a bunch of
people with strength because it was such a
massive,
treasure.
But as people warned them, latafraha.
Inna Allah Allah yuhibulfarihain.
Don't elevate yourself.
Don't exalt yourself above others.
Allah does not care for these kinds of
people, and of course he did.
And as a result, Allah
caused the earth to continuously
have him swallow, and and that's will be
his fate.
Right? So that is,
being arrogant out of social status.
And so we actually think that we are
superior to another, so we develop a hatred
for those who have left. And you see
this sometimes
that people who have a lot when they
see someone who don't who doesn't,
the assumptions come. Oh, they had bad parents.
You know, someone who is,
homeless on the street. Oh, they're all
drug dealers.
They're all addicts. They all have mental health
problems.
There's a lot of people
who are on the streets, who are like
you and I, who got a bad break,
and any one of us could be in
that same position. Just recently,
someone contacted me
and said this family
is going to be evicted from rent.
They're gonna be evicted. They can't pay their
rent. Is there some way we can try
to help them?
And they said, what makes this even more
difficult is they were very well off.
And he said,
imagine
something like this in your families, to go
from having so much
to almost nothing. And you know where I
also saw this when I was in Egypt
during what happened in Syria, because a lot
of Syrians came to Egypt at the time.
These people are at the top of the
chain,
and now it's like they have to reset.
And those are the people that made it
out.
There are many that didn't even make it
out. So this arrogance develops
because one thinks that they are superior
from sort of a economic standpoint.
And so as a result, a hatred comes.
Another hatred that comes,
in in regards to this is
a feeling of superior superiority by race.
So there are people that actually think because
of their,
ethnic background or the language they speak or
their skin color that they actually are superior
to others. Now it doesn't mean that they
go along
around and say, I am better than you.
But you know what?
That what shows it? Their actions.
Actions are far more important than words.
When you come
and, you know, you're just,
you just
blow off the masjid volunteers and just park
wherever you want and block everyone from getting
up, you're telling me that you think you're
beyond the rules.
And you're basically
thinking that you are better than others.
Right? So a hatred develops
for others that are not in your particular
clan or whatever it is. Right?
So
that is one reason why, you know, people
hate. In other, of course, is the environment
that we're raised in.
So
are we raised in an environment
of inequality,
injustice? What what do people see in the
homes that they grow up with
grow up in?
What are they seeing?
And a lot of time, the hate just
sort of carries over, and you ask them
3 generations down, why do you hate this
other group of people? And they can't give
an answer.
Because our great great great great grandfather
hated them.
You know? But most of the time,
it would be nice if someone actually asked
them, but no one asked them. So generations
and generations go on, and they're just copying
the same thing that was that was there
before. Right?
Now that's so that's another reason. But there's
another
reason why, and I want to be hopeful
and say that this is the biggest reason
because
it's the easiest to change, and that is
simply
ignorance.
People just don't know.
You know, I saw the other day there
was somebody was passing by a masjid.
He posted on social media, and he's urinating
in front of a sign of an Islamic
center. And he says, found some place, you
know, to
to use the the bathroom. He didn't say
that, but he said something else.
And he's posting himself
urinating
in front of the must have thing.
I don't know if I felt hatred. I
felt sad for his ignorance.
Now on the surface, he may appear like
he hates Muslims or others, but it's probably
and almost certainly because of ignorance.
He doesn't know.
And a lot of people around us, they
they're in it's it's out of ignorance. They
don't genuinely
hate Muslims or hate other people.
They
they don't know.
And so
it's really important to keep that in mind
because that will
soften our heart
and make the default
that this person doesn't know. The default shouldn't
be that this person is evil.
Many of us
in the environments we grew up in,
in in western countries,
it may not be well, actually, I can't.
I don't wanna speak for every western country.
But I'll say, at least in America, the
average person's like a nice person. They're they're
they're not they don't like, the default is
not that we hate people.
Right?
And any single one of those people,
there's a chance
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can give them
guidance. Maybe he put us in their lives
for a reason.
But do you really think that they hate
Islam as much as Omar
did before his conversion?
I don't I don't think so.
But are they unaware
and ignorant of many teachings? Of course.
Of course, they are.
And if they are, then, you know, it's
it's easier
to to fix ignorance than it is generations
of people, you know, where this stuff is
passed down, or to change the environment that
they're in. So So I think that's really
crucial. The the crux of the story
is that no one is beyond guidance.
And
if Umar Radiallahu An can be guided, then
even
despite the environment that we are in now,
and just the constant back and forth
arguing and,
you know, call this person out and call
that person out,
instead of that,
you know, someone once said very, very beautiful,
let's have a call in culture.
Let's call you in. Let's have a discussion
instead of just shutting you out, and we
don't want to,
talk about anything. Right? Let's not give anybody
the benefit of the doubt. Let's just just
cancel them. Right? That's not the culture that
we want to live in,
and
the story of
shows us truly that anyone is,
is capable of guidance. Now in in these
last just minute or so,
of course, Omar Radialahuan
was a,
convert to Islam. Just wanna make some brief
points about,
our convert brothers and sisters. Whether you prefer
convert or revert, I think it's just semantics,
whatever you prefer. You know?
But I I think we need to be
careful
by
putting them in positions,
that is not fair to them.
You know, Omar,
he was
he wasn't
asked to go and like, that was just
who he was. He's like, we're gonna pray.
We're gonna start praying publicly.
I'm gonna fend off people that are trying
to
intimidate or harass Muslims that are frank. That
was, like, that was him. That's who he
was. Right?
But a lot of times, we take converts,
and we just wanna put them in such
a difficult position, like, they are now representatives
of Islam,
while they're working through their stuff
as if we don't have plenty of stuff
to work through ourselves.
And that is
that is not a good place to put
them, particularly those that, you know, have maybe
some sort of a public following, whether it's
locally, whether it's nationally, whether it's internationally. I
think it's incredibly unfair,
to put them in that position,
and,
you know, I I just hope that we
will we will think about that and give
consideration to that. So,
so this is just some reflections,
on the life of Omar Radiullah. As I
said, there's many directions we could take it,
but,
just sort of seeing what's happening nowadays, that's
sort of what,
what resonated with me. May Allah
grant us the courage, strength,
and mercy
of.
And, may
Allah accept our
in these days of.
Thank you so much
for sharing those reflections is always
even though it's a story that many of
us grew up with, but it's always powerful
when we're able to take these well known
stories and apply them to the modern context.
Right? And to understand what it is, how
can I engage with this,
with this lesson
based on what I'm dealing with every day?
And so we ask a lot of our
time to bless you and reward you.
Let's see, I know there were a couple
of quick questions in the chat.
Have to keep me honest. Do we have
time for a couple of questions?
We okay? Alright. Great.
Great. So, one question that came through in
the chat, Sheikh Omar, was,
what techniques did Omar use
for anger management that we could also implement?
We often we see this
transition in his life of going from, you
know, being very stern to
being soft in so many cases, right, without,
you know, losing his, you losing his ability
to stand up when he needed to. Is
there anything that we can glean from how
he approached,
that aspect of his life?
One of the most common,
techniques used across the mental health professions
is something known as cognitive behavioral therapy
or CBT for short.
Basically, what that's saying is
how we think
affects
how we feel and what we ultimately do.
Like, our actions are linked to our thoughts.
When we look at Umar, what
changed?
What changed was the mentality.
So when I when when I hear anger
management, that seems to me like someone has
an anger problem, and they can't control it.
When I think of Umar, I think of
someone
who
just despised Islam before his conversion
and just naturally being, you know, kind of
tough and rugged,
he did things like, you know, spitting on
companions and and, you know, and and doing
things like that.
So I don't think it was an issue
of him not being able to control his
temper,
but when he became Muslim, it's just the
energy was channeled to something else.
So now when he had that conviction,
now anything that was
against Islam, that's where the energy was being
channeled.
So now
we want his strength and toughness
when the mushrikeen are attacking,
right, when they are on the battlefield.
And
his passion and zeal for Islam
was a beautiful compliment
for with the other companions that were around,
like like Ali radiAllahu and like Abu Bakr,
and, you know, of course, with the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
So I don't I don't think that it's
a it's a matter of that, you know,
he had, like, anger issues. It's just that
the mentality
shifted.
And
a lot of times that determines how our,
behavior is. You know? The the the Quran
teaches us to think like a Muslim as
much as it tells us about actions, and
same with the sunnah of the prophet
So if something
terrible happens to us,
our mentality is there's some good in it.
If it's a test, we're trying to pass
it. If it's a punishment, we're trying to
go back to Allah
so it's removed. That's a completely different mentality
than why does God allow this to happen
to children in Palestine?
You know, that's not
that doesn't register with us.
Sometimes,
you know, I hear, Muslims saying,
you know, oh, my iman is getting weak
because of what's happening in Palestine. You know
whose iman is not getting weak? The people
in Palestine themselves.
Why is that? Because their mentality
their mentality is connected to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
So I don't know if there was
specific techniques and that he had an anger
problem. I think that it was just that
it was channeled, and what he was passionate
about was directed
into a positive
and healthy and productive direction.
You know? Just like,
you know, maybe someone training,
in jujitsu or something. Like, you it's directed
to something positive.
And if self defense is needed, then, you
know, then you utilize it. So that's that's
how I see it.
Excellent.
For sharing that. Really appreciate that, and appreciate
your time today.
In all of your efforts, and thank you
for,
sharing this amazing reflection about the story of
Omar, the best, one of the best of
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To everyone.
So
the conversion of Umar RadiAllahu Anhu,
what an amazing story it is. And,
you know, it reminds you of the fact
that guidance is truly in the hand of
Allah,
right?
The person for whom Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
intends guidance,
SubhanAllah,
they will be guided. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will change their heart. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will open up their heart
to accept guidance.
Right. Omar Radiallahu Anhu was someone who was
so deep in his so intense in his
hatred,
right, for Islam. Like, imagine
not just Islam as a concept, as a
religion, but the people.
Right? The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam SubhanAllah,
he was
someone
who hated them, someone who opposed them.
But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala changed his heart.
Right? So,
I thought about, you know, which with the
which duas to cover today, which theme to
cover today, and I was like, how about
duas for guidance?
Because
this is what we learn from the story
of Rama Rudi lahu aranhu.
So,
we see that
the most important Dua.
All right. And the Dua that we're supposed
to make
the most frequently
is actually the dua for
guidance.
Right?
Right in the beginning of the Quran.
Ihdinas Surat al Mustaqeem Allah
teaches us that we should say this, that,
Oh Allah, guide us to the straight path.
And this dua is not just a dua
that we have been taught in the Quran.
This is a dua that we're supposed to
make in every single salah, in every single
rakah.
Right? It is as though the purpose of
salah
is to ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for
guidance.
Because if you're praying
and you don't recite Suratul Fatiha, right, your
rakara,
that that unit, it does not count. Right?
You have to
repeat that entire raka.
Your salah is not valid
without,
without the recitation of Surat Al Fatiha.
Right? And this is one of the reasons
why Surat Al Fatiha is also called a
salat,
because it is the essence,
the main purpose of of prayer
that you ask Allah
for
guidance.
And this is because
without hidayah,
without guidance, there is no success. There is
no salvation.
A person will be a loser
no matter who they become in this world
and no matter what they attain in this
world.
If they don't have Hidayah,
they will be an eternal
loser.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in the
Quran
that,
Whoever
follows my guidance,
meaning the guidance that I send.
And the person who follows that guidance,
then that is the person who.
Right? There will be no fear on them,
and they and they will not grieve, meaning
they're the ones who will enter paradise,
which means that the opposite is also true.
Those who do not follow the guidance that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sends,
right, then where will they be?
What condition will they be in? They will
be in a state of permanent fear and
never ending grief.
And that is juhannam.
SubhanAllah.
So without guidance, there is no salvation. There
is no success.
And the reason why we ask Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala for guidance
is because
guidance is not something that a person can
attain themselves.
Guidance is something that Allah
gives,
and he knows
about who is worthy
of that guidance.
He guides those who turn to him. He
guides those who seek that guidance.
But guidance is not something that you can
acquire on your own without
Allah. It's not possible.
It is something that you ask Allah
for, and he gives it.
So and and this is why guidance is
not even something that you can give to
others. Right? Allah
tells his messenger
that
Right?
You cannot guide those whom you love, no
matter how much you love them. Because guidance
is not in your hand.
It is Allah who guides whomever that he
wills.
And
the other thing is that either a person
is upon guidance
or they are upon misguidance.
Alright? There is no third option.
This is why we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala for Hidayah
that guide us to the straight path, which
is
the path of those whom you have bestowed
favor on, meaning the people
whose whose actions you have accepted,
whose deeds you are pleased with, who have
attained your approval, and who will be admitted
into paradise.
Right? And then we
say, not the path of those who incurred
anger in your anger
and not the path of those who are
astray.
So
those who are astray are those who are
lost, meaning those who don't know any better.
And those who
receive the wrath of Allah
are those who know what the truth is.
Right? They recognize what the truth is,
yet they reject it, it, yet they oppose
it.
So they're also not rightly guided.
So,
there is no alternative
to hidayah.
Right? There is no alternative.
This is this is the only way to
salvation.
And this is why we ask Allah
for Hidayah.
Now let's talk a little bit about what
exactly Hidayah
is, what it means. Alright. And also the
levels of guidance.
And why we should be asking for guidance
even though we're already Muslim.
Right? Because generally we think guide us to
the straight path, meaning guide me to Islam.
Well, I'm already Muslim. I'm praying.
Right? I'm praying.
So why am I asking for guidance?
Because
guidance is not
simply to
show someone
what the right path is.
Okay?
Hidaiya is yes. It is to show someone
what the right path is,
but then, hidaya is also to ensure
that they remain
on the right path.
They don't veer off of it. Alright? And
then
is to
to guide someone is to ensure that they
reach the destination.
Alright?
So hidaya
is not just
instruction.
Okay? That that here, this is what you
need to do. No. Hidaya is to give
the instruction,
but then also to enable,
to assist, to allow, to follow the instruction.
Alright?
And then to ensure
that a person
attains the right results,
they actually get to the destination that they
want to get to.
Right? This is what hidayah is.
So when we are asking Allah
for guidance, we're not just asking, oh, Allah,
guide me to Islam.
We're asking, Allah, oh, Allah, keep me firm
on Islam.
Oh Allah, enable me to remain firm on
Islam until I meet you,
until I enter paradise.
Make me reach the very end.
Idina sliratum mustaqim.
Now when it comes to Hidaya, there are
levels of guidance. K. There's levels of Hidaya.
The first,
level of hidayah,
of instruction,
is to
is, what is,
known as, you can say, general hidayah. Alright?
Which Allah
gives to
all the creatures.
Okay?
He is the one who.
Right? He has guided
every creature,
as to,
what it should eat, how it should live.
Right? How it should breathe,
how it should find its sustenance.
This intuition,
this this instruction
is from who?
This is from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Alright. But and this is the basic level
of hidayah
in which you can say human beings and
animals,
they're the same. Allah
has, you know, he has guided us as
to how to breathe, how to open our
eyes,
right, how to walk.
And the same kind of, you know, instruction,
intuition is given to who? The rest of
the creatures as well. Right?
But then there is a higher level of
hidaya, which is
to teach.
Okay?
And this is the reason why
Allah
has
sent his messengers, his prophets.
This is why he sent,
revelation,
right, different scriptures
over the course of the centuries.
Why? To teach people
about what the truth is, about what Allah
wants from them, about how they should live
in a way that is pleasing to Allah.
Alright?
And this kind of guidance is something that
the prophets of Allah were sent to impart.
Right? So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
the Quran, wa inna kalatahdi
irasuraatulmustaqim.
That, oh, prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
you guide people to the straight path, meaning
you show them
what the straight path is.
Right? You teach them as to what the
straight path is.
Alright.
Now there is an even higher level of
Hidaya, which is the Hidaya of Tawfirq.
Okay? Which is to enable someone
to accept the truth.
The prophet
showed people what the straight path is, but
not everybody accepted it.
Right? Like his uncle Abu Talib did not
accept it.
Umar
accepted it. Right? This
is because Tawfiq
comes from Allah.
The ability to accept the truth comes from
Allah alone.
Okay?
Now there is an even higher level of
guidance, which is
guidance to the path to paradise,
which is essentially guidance to Jannah.
And this is going to be on the
day of judgment
when the believers will be guided to paradise.
Okay?
So when we ask Allah
for guidance,
We're asking Allah
to guide us in this world
and also in the next world.
In this world, we're asking Allah, oh Allah,
teach me what the truth is.
Give me the ability to accept the truth.
Give me the ability to adhere to it.
Allow me to die on it.
And then on the day of judgment,
guide me
to Jannah. Don't let me slip
on the on
the. Allow me to
pass that with safety,
with security
until I enter paradise.
So
is not just a simple request to, you
know, that that, oh, Allah, guide me to
Islam.
Now let's let's break this down a little
bit more. We're asking Allah
to guide us here, now, in this world,
on the straight path. What does that mean?
That means that we're asking Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
to guide us to the correct beliefs
and also to the correct actions.
Okay?
Correct beliefs,
meaning: O
Allah,
give me such
knowledge.
Okay?
That removes doubts.
Give me such understanding
of the truth that brings me conviction.
Such conviction
that I don't fall for lies
no matter how convincing they may seem and
no matter how common they become.
Okay?
And
ibn Sa'adi, he said that when we ask
Allah for guidance,
we're basically asking Allah
for the truth,
that, oh, Allah, enable us to recognize the
truth,
lead us towards the truth,
and make us adhere to the truth.
And sometimes what happens is that the truth
becomes very obscure
because of the lies of people or because
there's so much conflict,
right, that you don't know
what the truth is, what what the right
thing is.
And even, you know, in in domestic affairs
sometimes, you know, when you in in in
situations of conflict, things become very
unclear.
Right? Very tricky.
It's it's very difficult to even see between
your children who is right and who is
wrong.
Right? So
the prophet
when he would begin his tahajjud prayers, he
would he would he would make a certain
dua.
Dua.
Oh Allah, guide me to the truth
in in in matters in which there is,
in which there is a lot of difference.
So with your permission, guide me to what
is the truth.
It is only you who can guide people
to the straight path.
So when we ask Allah
for guidance in this world, what is it
that we're asking Allah for? 1st and foremost,
knowledge, awareness.
Right? The ability to see the truth, to
recognize the truth.
The second thing we're asking Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala for is that, oh, Allah,
guide me to such actions that are pleasing
to you.
Such acts of worship
that you will accept.
Such
and such
that you will be pleased with.
Because sometimes what happens, people are trying really
hard to, you know, to please Allah,
but their actions are based on pure ignorance.
And so those actions are not accepted by
Allah. Right?
Or they are contrary
to the teachings of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. So, again,
because their actions are based on big innovation,
their actions will not be accepted by Allah.
So,
oh, Allah, guide us to such actions that
are pleasing to you,
that will be accepted by you.
And also
guide us in the in the hereafter, meaning,
to Jannah.
And Ibn Khayim said that the more firm
a person is on the straight path in
this life,
the more firm and steadfast they will be
on the path to paradise on the day
of judgment.
And either way that you are on the
straight path now, the way your,
faith is the way your actions are,
that will become your physical, your tangible condition
on the day of judgment. That is how
you will cross the bridge on the day
of judgment.
So
Now there's a question.
Why is it that we are asking Allah
for guidance over and over and over and
over again?
Why?
Hey.
It's it's something that we repeat
so many, many times.
Why do you think so? You can you
can write in the chat. I finally have
the chat open in front of me.
Okay.
Because there are too many temptations.
Right? Because it's very easy to get derailed.
Good.
So we don't forget. Alright. Good. There's too
many worldly distractions. We are very vulnerable.
Guidance is not always guaranteed.
We can make mistakes. The heart can easily
turn. Masha'Allah. Excellent responses.
The reason why we ask
for guidance over and over again is because
we are always
in need of guidance.
In every
single
moment, in every single affair, in every single
situation,
We are always in need of guidance.
Why did Allah
create us?
He created us to test us.
Right? To test you as to which of
you
are excellent in terms of action.
So every action that we do, right, any
action,
big or small,
we are being tested. And and, basically, we
have a choice,
right, to say one word or another,
to respond in one way or another.
Right?
So given that we're always deciding what to
do,
what to say, how to respond, what to
do with our time, what to do with
our resources,
then what are we in need of?
Guidance.
That we make the best decisions.
Right? We we say those things that are
pleasing to Allah. We do those things which
are pleasing to Allah.
How merciful is Allah
that he didn't just put us in in
in this test
and leave us to ourselves.
He put us in this test,
and then he also
is here with us guiding us.
And he has obligated us to ask him
for guidance.
So we're always in need of guidance.
Right? Now if you think about it,
if a person
is doing something wrong and they don't even
know about it,
And they're asking Allah for guidance.
What does that mean?
It means that Allah will now guide them
to repentance.
Right? Guide them to knowledge and awareness.
I remember,
a sister once came up to me and
mentioned to me about how she was a
regular in in my classes. And
she mentioned to me about how,
not too long
before she joined the classes, she was
living in a different country,
in a haram relationship,
raised as a Muslim,
but she had no idea that what she
was doing was wrong.
She had no idea.
This also happens at people
who are raised as Muslim, they don't even
know what the basic haram things are.
Alright? So she's living with her fiance, a
non Muslim fiance, and,
she doesn't even know that what she's doing
is wrong.
Okay?
And Supamalala, she said that
she was at
some party, some gathering somewhere, and this lady,
you know, was asking her about, you know,
how's things and what are you doing. And
when she mentioned
to her about, you know, how she she
had already moved in with her fiance
and whatnot, and that he was not a
Muslim.
She said the lady said to her that,
you know, I think you should do istikhara.
And she's like, what is that?
And she's like, well, you pray to raka,
and then she gave her the dua, and
she said, make this dua.
Right? Because,
and she and she said, you know, make
us dua. Ask Allah.
And she's like, I didn't get the point
of that because, like, I I didn't even
know. I didn't even feel that I was
doing anything wrong. But this lady's like, do
is stikhala. Or what? She said, I don't
know.
But she said, I did
it. She said, I prayed 2 rakah, and
I made that dua.
And she said, since I did that, there
was something in my heart that I just
wanted to get out of there.
I wanted to get out of there.
So she moved back to the country where
her parents are from.
And
she you know, it was just something so
strong in her heart that she, you know,
she broke off that engagement. And then,
you know, how she
because she did give you know, ask her
fiance if he would convert to Islam or
not, but he refused. And subhanAllah,
you know, how Allah
guided her.
Right? She was someone who didn't even know
that she was doing something wrong.
But when she asked Allah for guidance, what
happened? Allah
guided her
to make tawba.
Right?
Guided her to learn about what is right,
what is wrong.
And how often it happens
that we're doing something wrong. There's something wrong
in our akhlaq,
but we fail to recognize it.
There's something wrong in the way that we're
behaving with our parents,
and we fail to recognize it. There's something
wrong in the way that we're dealing with
our siblings, that we're children.
We fail to recognize
it. Right? So when we ask Allah for
guidance,
what happens? Allah
shows us the way
so that we're able to see the mistakes
that we're making. We're able to recognize
the wrongs that we're doing.
And Allah gives us the tawfiq to repent.
Now, if we're doing something good,
okay,
based on knowledge,
like for example, you're praying salah. Right? According
to the sunnah,
and you're praying on time. Excellent. Very good.
Why are you asking Allah for hidayah?
Well, because
there's always room for improvement.
Right? So when you ask Allah for Hidayah,
you're asking Allah for the ability
to beautify and perfect your prayer and to
pray with more hushur,
with more ihsan.
Right?
Sometimes what happens is
that we know we're supposed to do, you
know, certain good things. Like, for example, it's
the days of Dhul Hijjah, the first 10
days of Dhul Hijjah. Right? Good deeds done
at this time are more beloved to Allah,
more rewarded by Allah than deeds done at
any other time of the year.
But what happens? You intend to do certain
good deeds, but you still fail to do
them. Why do you fail to do them?
Because your circumstances don't allow you or because,
you know, your nuffs overtakes you or
something or the other happens and, you know,
you're not able to do good.
So when you're asking Allah,
what are you asking for?
Tawfiq
and ease
and the ability
to do good.
Sometimes what happens,
your circumstances
do allow you to do good. Like, for
example, you have all the time to recite
Quran.
You do. You can recite the Quran.
But what is holding you back?
It is your naps.
Right? So then again,
oh, Allah, guide us to the straight path
so that I can overcome my naps, and
I can recite Quran in the time that
you have given me.
Right?
So no matter what condition we are in,
no matter what state we are in, what
are we in need of?
Guidance. And even if we
have had guidance up until this point in
our lives,
there's no guarantee that there will be guidance
in the future.
Right? We want that guidance to continue.
And this is why we ask Allah, iddin
asrata al mustaqim.
Because guidance is
more important than anything else in your life.
It's more important than food. It's more important
than any kind of wealth.
In fact, the Urimah said there is no
comparison between guidance and any other blessing in
your life.
Because the one who has given hidayah,
right, becomes of who? Those who are righteous.
And those who are righteous, what does Allah
say about them?
That
That whoever fears Allah, Allah
will make a way out for him from
every trouble and will provide him from where
he does not even expect.
You have Hidayah,
Allah will provide for you.
And if you don't have Hidayah,
then no matter what you're given in this
life, it's not gonna be of benefit
to you. So it is more important than
anything
in this life.
Another thing is that when it comes to
Hidaya,
the condition of the heart is such that
it changes a lot.
Right? It can suddenly change out of nowhere
even.
And the reason why the heart is called
the Kalb
Kalb is because it keeps turning about because
of it's the qallub.
It doesn't stay the same.
In one hadith, the prophet
mentioned that the heart is like a feather
that is hanging off a tree.
Like, imagine a feather that is attached to
a tree, right, is just stuck.
And as the wind blows,
what happens to the the feather?
It turns from one direction
to another.
And this is the state of the heart.
Right? And this is why we keep asking
Allah.
We can never ask Allah for enough guidance.
There's always always room for more guidance.
Alright. Somebody's saying guidance is like the pumping
of our blood around our body. It benefits
every aspect of our body. Absolutely, it does.
Excellent.
Yeah. Sometimes the ego.
Right? SubhanAllah.
You know, when a person begins to think
that, yeah, I you know, they become delusional,
basically. They think that, yeah. I'm I'm fine.
I'm perfect. I'm great.
Then they stop.
They they they they they fail to see,
you know, places where improvement is needed.
Right?
And and that is a a recipe for
disaster.
Alright.
If there's any comment somebody wants to make,
I have a couple of points. I want
to add them
along with the reflections.
Afsa?
I mean,
sorry.
Go ahead.
Yes.
So, yes, if you have a reflection,
and on topic and, hopefully, brief reflection just
because you wanna get folks who want to
be able to participate,
then feel free, we're going to ask you
to unmute. I know sister Rahma has had
her hand up since the beginning pretty much
of the session. Sister Rahma, if you have
something to share, I'll go ahead and let
you unmute and do so.
Assalamu
alaikum.
How
Good.
You have something to share?
Yes.
So
I wanted to say that
that,
like, Allah
is,
you know,
the most merciful.
Mhmm.
So that's why that
Allah gives us tests to test us.
And in the Quran, it's also said,
even though he says he believes,
will will Allah
not test him?
Well, like the hypocrites
in time
sent, I believe, but Allah tested
them. But they they were actually misguided.
So they didn't tell the prophet Muhammad.
There's also,
a story. I heard somewhere
that tells the hypocrites that they will also
hurt the prophet, and they drop stone from
the roof.
That was the that was somebody else. But,
yeah, there there were people who tried to
hurt the prophet
in many different ways.
Yeah. Like Abu Jahl,
who one day went to
his house,
and the people
the people who tried to kill him went
to sleep. And the prophet Muhammad
Muhammad
escaped in early morning,
and Ali bin
went to sleep in his bed instead.
And
Mhmm. Allah
let nothing happen to him because,
he had
faith in him. So that's what Allah wants.
We have we want to have faith in
Allah.
Mhmm.
Alright.
Somebody wrote in the chat something with Suratunas,
And I thought, yeah. Solanjur,
Surat Unas comes to mind. Yeah. Absolutely.
Because in Surat Unas, we're asking Allah
to protect us from waswas,
right, from the whispers of Shaytan.
Why? Because Shaytan's goal is to misguide us.
Right?
And, yes, cover to cover, there is guidance
in his book. Absolutely.
The Quran begins with
Right? And then you move on to Surat
Al Baqarah. And in Surat Al Baqarah, right
at the beginning, Allah says,
This book is a book of guidance.
So Allah
has sent the guidance, and and those who
seek it will find it in his book.
Alright. Hannah, go ahead.
How are you?
Good. Great session. I was I just wanted
to,
emphasize on what whatever you already said how,
it's so important to continue to ask
Allah for guidance, especially to remain steadfast because
sometimes we in our head, we are thinking,
oh, we are following everything that Allah has
said. For example, offering,
prayer or, you know, observing fasts or
performing Hajj, for example.
But, you know, to continue
but as you said, there is
there will always be room for improvement, and
we should continue asking for
guidance.
And I think before today's session, I didn't
not think about this perspective. So this was
very helpful that we should continue asking for
guidance even though we are already
performing
all the tasks. We are already fulfilling our
first our obligations
towards Islam. It's, it's always
important to, you know, fulfill them with perfection,
with more and more perfection
and whatever it is
in a way that is pleasing to Allah.
Absolutely.
And then also to any part of asking
Allah for guidance is to, you know, is
that we're asking Allah for for beneficial knowledge.
Right? And how often it happens that we
don't even know the most basic things
or we we we don't even realize that
we don't know.
Right? And we don't
and sometimes we don't
recognize
the deficiencies
in our own selves,
right, in our akhlaq, in our salah. Know
how sometimes it happens. You're praying salah and
somebody says to you, oh, by the way,
your hands should have been here, not here.
Right?
And
that somebody told us because we didn't know
before that.
So there's always room for improvement, for growth,
for learning.
Right? And that's why we're always asking Allah
for guidance.
Raissa, go ahead.
But you said we can't hear you
for some reason. You hear me now? Yes.
Now we can hear you. Perfect. It was
because of my earphones.
Well, one one thing that,
I I that this sort of session has
made me think of is the way
that some people, myself included, in the past
have taken,
you know, the comment, may Allah guide you
as an insult. You know? If,
especially, like, online, you know, if somebody comments
that it's like a huge note. Oh my
god. How could you say that to somebody?
But I think what this session has made
me realize is that, you know, even if
somebody says that to you and they're coming
and, you know, it comes from a place
of arrogance, because sometimes it does. But even
if it does come from a place of
arrogance or they're saying that to belittle you,
take it as a compliment. Like, because somebody
saying may Allah guide you
is
actually such an important dua, and you should
be thankful that, you know,
however, like, whatever the intention is behind it,
that, you know, that the law is being
made for you. Because as you said, guidance
is, like, the most important thing and
the most important blessing. So I think that,
you know,
if somebody says I mean, if somebody says,
I just say Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. We
should. Not take it as an insult. Yeah.
Thank you so much for pointing that out.
Thank you.
Alright. We'll take the last comment.
Geneva?
So,
what really stood out to me I'll start
with what Sheikh Omar said.
So, like,
the fact of
what is it?
How people are so ignorant,
how arrogance is, like,
such an important factor, and people often have,
like, grudges
and often are really angry and have all
these things
toward someone
because of their ignorance, because they're not educated,
and because Allah
has not opened their hearts. Going back to
the story of Umar
he had, like, so much hate for the
Muslims, but
Allah guided him
because Allah saw his potential and Allah
guided him, and then he became one of
the Hadifas.
It was, like, really,
significant to me.
Very true. Very true. And, like,
another thing that, I found really significant is,
like,
how, like, somebody, like, was hating someone. Like,
that example, like, when somebody is hating someone
because, like, their, great grandfather or something,
or whoever from like, their ancestors
hated him.
Like,
so it shouldn't be, like, because somebody else
did it. You should do your own research.
You should get
educated yourself
before,
taking grudges or being angry at someone. And
when that happens,
like you said, you should you should feel,
like, kind of bad for them
and give them so
instead of being angry.
Mhmm. And going on to what you said,
Estadatemia,
about guidance,
Allah like, who's really significant to me is
that Allah guides whoever he wills.
So,
even though, like,
he was trying to get his uncle,
Abu Talib,
to even though he was such a good
uncle,
he isn't going to go to paradise because
he did not convert to Islam. He was
ignorant despite how much
prophet
Mohammed
tried to convert to Islam,
he said no. He refused. He was educated,
but he refused because Allah
did not accept it for him. Allah had
sealed his heart, but then going back to
he didn't even know anything about Islam. He
was ignorant, but Allah opened his heart. So
it's really profound, like, that nobody
can open.
Like, nobody can,
guide someone. Give you guidance. Right? It is
Allah who guides.
Alright. There's a lot to say, but,
it's 6:19, and I think we should
end the program now. Go ahead.
Always wonderful to hear from those bright, bright
spots in our young.
Thank you all for sharing, for taking the
time, and for being with us this evening.
May Allah sponsor bless you. Thank you so
much, Tamia, for,
sharing the importance of guidance and some profound
reflections about that, and for everyone for joining
us for Dhul Hijjah 360. Inshallah,
we will be back with you same time,
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