Tom Facchine – Allah Will Ask- What Did You Do With Your Freedom

Tom Facchine
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The recent "har yours on children" attack on hospitals and the horrifying images of people being engulfed in flames is discussed, as well as the ongoing war against Iran and Iran's military presence in the Middle East. The struggles of the current president, including the ongoing war against drugs, are also discussed, along with the unique and essential meaning of ":15" in Surah Al-Kah Joey, which is said to be the only unique word in the Qworkah. The law of least effort is emphasized, which involves removing obstacles and making things easier to do, and is used to reset behavior and make things easier to do.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

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Welcome back to what used to be Imam

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Tom live.

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We've got big news, and it's going to

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be good news, hopefully, insha'Allah ta'ala,

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that the live stream will be coming to

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an end.

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Well, wait a second.

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How can that be good news?

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It's going to be good news because it's

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going to make way for two or three

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new programs that we're going to be doing

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through Yaqeen Institute, hosted by myself.

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So stay tuned for that.

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You can continue to expect the weekly program

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being uploaded.

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Unfortunately, I will miss interacting with you all,

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and we had a really nice run.

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But hopefully, insha'Allah, this is paving the

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way for something greater in the near future.

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Now, when it comes to the past week,

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we've had certainly, subhanAllah, a lot of stuff

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going on.

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All of our hearts are bleeding because we've

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seen the attack on those hospitals yet again.

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And subhanAllah, you know, some people have said

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that this is a war on children, and

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we could also say that the last year,

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the last 12 months, it's been a war

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on hospitals.

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How many hospitals have been bombed?

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How many times have we seen people evacuated

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from hospitals in wheelchairs or being carried out,

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hooked up to IVs, you name it.

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Things that I think for many of us,

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we never ever could have imagined seeing.

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And so, some of the horrifying, horrifying images

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that came out of this past week's hospital

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attack on Al-Aqsa and Shifa Hospital were

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people being engulfed in flames.

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As they're hooked up to IVs, as they're

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still on their hospital beds.

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Truly, truly horrifying images.

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And someone pointed out to me, subhanAllah, a

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connection that hadn't occurred to me, which is

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that it's almost as if we're being given

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a preview into hellfire.

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Not to say, of course, that the people

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who died in this sort of tragic way

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are in heaven, you know, martyrs, insha'Allah.

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But that, when we think normally, you walk

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around and you see people and you might

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say, okay, this person, they have their private

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lives and I don't want to sort of

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interfere or anything.

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I don't want to be noticed as a

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Muslim or I don't want to explain Islam

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to them and sort of hide your Islam

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away.

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But when you see people actually burning up,

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it reminds you of the hellfire.

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And it makes you both scared for yourself

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and it makes you also, hopefully, more empathetic

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to other people and trying to represent Islam

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in the best possible way to minimize the

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amount of people that end up in that

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particular way in the hereafter.

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Shaban was the name of one of the

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martyrs.

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The video of him was particularly gruesome.

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And it's important that we remember their names

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and their stories.

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And he was a hafidh of the Qur

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'an.

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He was somebody who has avoided and dodged

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many near-death experiences in the last 12

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months and somebody beloved to his family and

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his community.

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And we're happy that Shaban has achieved martyrdom.

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But, of course, we are aggrieved by the

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criminal circumstances in which he was martyred.

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And so we're praying for the martyrs of

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Gaza and Palestine and for the people in

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general.

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In other news, we had Israel, not surprising,

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attack UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.

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And this is something that has become another

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regular occurrence, just like it is a war

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against children.

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It is a war against hospitals.

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There's also a war against international law.

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287 aid workers have been killed since the

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conflict began on October 7th, 2023.

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This in total includes 205 UNRWA staff members,

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marking the largest recorded loss of UN personnel

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in a single conflict.

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And most of these have taken place in

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Gaza.

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In other news, we've got that the U

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.S. has both simultaneously tried to say that,

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this was leaked by the Biden administration, that

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it has given Israel 30 days to sort

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of ensure that humanitarian concerns are going to

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be honored.

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At the same time, they have deployed U

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.S. soldiers to the Middle East and given

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a THAAD missile defense system to Israel.

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The troops that are going to be there

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are going to help operate the system, and

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that is in response to the escalating missile

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attacks from Iran and also from Hezbollah in

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Lebanon.

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And so this is sort of another sort

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of technique that we've seen from the incumbent

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administration of sort of saying one thing and

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then doing something else entirely.

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Here at home, we've had a tragic incident

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in Detroit, where a seven-year-old girl

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named Saeeda Meshra had her throat slashed by

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a man in a Detroit park in what

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is a brutal and infuriating attack committed by

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someone who was a 73-year-old man

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identified as Gary Lansky, who did it with

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a pocketknife.

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Now, somehow this is not being charged as

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a hate crime.

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Lansky is being charged with assault with intent

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to murder and felonious assault, but is not

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facing hate crime charges despite the political context

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and despite the potential symbolic significance of what's

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going on.

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Obviously, this has sparked outrage in the community.

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No secret to anybody, Detroit is the home

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of one of the largest Arab American communities

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in the country.

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It looks fishy.

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Let's just put it that way.

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So, we ask Allah to give patience to

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the family.

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Finally, one of the clips that have gone

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viral in the past week, we had Mehdi

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Hassan giving sort of a plea to the

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Muslim community.

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What I want to address here is one

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of the sort of the secularist claims that

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Mehdi made in his video.

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The trope or the sort of suggestion that

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Mehdi was making that faith has nothing to

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do with politics, that the Imams are abusing

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their station or that they are weaponizing Islam,

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that they're blackmailing people spiritually into doing this

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or that political action.

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And this is a very, very problematic framing

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because as we know in Islam, we don't

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have this bifurcation between our private sort of

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secularized faith and our public secular existence.

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That we see our faith informs everything that

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we do and that your political decisions are

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also moral decisions.

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They have moral dimensions to them, that how

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you vote, how you spend your money, the

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policies that you support one way or another,

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you could face consequences in the afterlife because

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of it.

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You will stand in front of Allah and

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you will be asked, what did you do

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with your opportunities?

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What did you do with your vote?

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What did you do with your freedom?

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What did you do with your ability to

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speak?

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And if you did something that contributed to

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the suffering of another person or spread corruption

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on earth or spread harm or spread oppression,

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then that is something that you will be

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spiritually liable for unless Allah chooses to forgive

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it.

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And so to attempt to artificially separate these

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two things is a very, very surprising, but

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also, I guess, non-surprising tack.

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We hope that we do not leave our

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faith at the door when we walk into

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the polling station on November 5th.

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We hope that our faith guides our actions,

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all of our actions, from something as simple

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as how we use the bathroom to how

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we vote to how we organize politically.

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Remember that this is something that the companions

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were proud of when they were asked by

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the Quraysh in a sort of mocking way.

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It's like you even follow instructions about how

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to use the bathroom.

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And they said, yes, proudly, proudly.

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We have guidance for how to use the

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bathroom and clean ourselves.

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Islam is something that touches every aspect of

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your life.

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It's not just for the mosque.

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And now it's time for our next segment,

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which is Tafsir.

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Moving on to Surah Al-Kahfirun.

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And the question is, what is the unique

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word that appears in Surah Al-Kahfirun that

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does not appear elsewhere in the Qur'an?

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Remember, this is one of the linguistic miracles

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of the Qur'an.

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114 chapters.

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Every single chapter has at least one word

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that does not exist in any other chapter.

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And in Surah Al-Kahfirun, the word is

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عَبَدْتُمْ Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, when he's

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telling the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam what

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to say, saying, say to the people who

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are fighting you, the people who have rejected

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and denied faith, that I don't worship what

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you worship, and you don't worship what I

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worship.

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And I am not a worshipper.

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So we have, we're going to talk about

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that in a second.

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And I do not worship what you have

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worshipped.

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So عَبَدْتُمْ, which is a past tense verb

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for the second person plural, is a word

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that does not exist anywhere else in the

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Qur'an outside of Surah Al-Kahfirun.

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It's actually very important whether Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala is talking about something using verbs

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or nouns.

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That in Arabic, a verb indicates something that

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is a repetitive action that takes renewal.

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Okay?

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So when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,

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for example, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا He is

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saying, Oh, you people who have believed, literally,

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in the past you have believed.

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He's putting it in tense of a verb

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because that belief requires continual maintenance and upkeep,

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that you could change your mind, you could

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stop doing it.

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Right?

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And so it's almost a subtle implicit reminder

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to renew your faith, to keep doing the

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things that make you somebody who is believer.

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Now, on the flip side, if Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala uses a noun, that this

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indicates not a verb that is more transient

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that requires continuous upkeep, but rather a more

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essential state.

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So when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says

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in this ayah, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ كَافِرُونَ He

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didn't say, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ كَافِرُوا He said,

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يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ كَافِرُونَ Oh, you who have,

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basically, you have doubled down, your essence is

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to deny.

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Like you have made it your thing, it's

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not going to change.

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Right?

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That is one of the subtleties of the

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word choice that Allah uses here.

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This surah is addressing the people who have,

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who denied Islam, that he's using the noun,

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which indicates that it is something that is

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essential to them.

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Something that it's not like they're on the

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fence.

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It's not like they want to know more.

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It's not like they have some doubts that

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they want clarification for.

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No, their determined position is one of denial.

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And we've seen this elsewhere in the Quran,

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when Allah says that there are certain people

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that if you were to show them every

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single ayah, every single miracle, respond to every

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single thing, they would still not believe.

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So their doubts or their questions are not

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genuine good faith doubts or questions, that they

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are rather excuses.

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This is the type of person that we're

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talking about, right?

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And this is the type of person Allah

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references in Surah Al-Baqarah, he says, سَوَاءً

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عَلَيْكُمْ أَنظَلْتَهُمْ أَمْلَمْ تُنذِرْهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ That it's

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the same whether you warn them or not.

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This is the type of person that we

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use the ism for, that we use the

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noun for, the type of person who is

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essentially and fundamentally and through and through, they

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have resolved upon denying, no matter what.

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What should we say to them?

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لَا أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ I am not worshiping.

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It uses a verb there.

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مَا تَعْبُدُونَ What you are worshiping.

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Okay.

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So you are worshiping at that time, idols,

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superstitions, uh, ancestors.

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I am not worshiping those things.

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وَلَا أَنْتُمْ عَابِدُونَ مَا عَبُدُونَ Allah switches to

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the noun.

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Okay.

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It's very interesting.

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It says, and you all are not worshipers

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of what I worship.

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So again, Allah uses the noun here because

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he's not talking about just a transient state

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that some of them are going to eventually

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discover Islam.

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No, it's like, you are not worshipers that

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you guys have no interest whatsoever in worshiping

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the creator, the Lord of all worlds, the

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one who controls everything, what I am worshiping.

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وَلَا أَنَا عَابِدُونَ مَا عَبَدْتُمْ And I am

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not a worshiper of what you have worshiped.

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So again, the same flip, Allah uses the

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ism, he uses the noun to indicate to

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the Prophet ﷺ that essentially, fundamentally, continuously that

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he is not a worshiper of that which

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they worship, whether it's their desires, whether it's

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their ego, whether it's money, whether it's whatever,

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everything that they've been worshiping, the Prophet ﷺ

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has never been and is not, essentially is

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not a worshiper of those things.

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وَلَا أَنْتُمْ عَابِدُونَ مَا عَبُدُونَ Allah repeats, and

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you all are not worshipers of what I

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am worshiping.

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And then Allah finishes the surah by saying,

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لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِيَ الدِّينُ And to you, your

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way, and to me, mine, or to you,

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your path, or to me, mine, or to

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you, your religion, and to me, mine.

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Now, basically that this was in response to

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some of the attempts to muddy the waters,

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right?

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There were some people of the Quraysh at

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the time that would say to the Prophet

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Muhammad ﷺ, Hey, look, why don't we split

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the difference here?

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You worship our idols for one year and

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we'll worship Allah exclusively for one year, and

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we'll go back and forth.

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And so the Prophet ﷺ wanted to keep

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the Furqan clear.

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He wanted to keep the distinction between these

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two things clear, that you can't muddy the

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waters between truth and falsehood.

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You can't blur the lines, that you have

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to make it distinct.

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That my way is not your way.

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You guys are worshiping, and as we see

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elsewhere in the Qur'an, Allah exposes them

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for being hypocritical.

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They're using these idols and they're using these

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superstitions, not necessarily because they genuinely believe in

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them, but for their own sort of maslaha

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or benefit.

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Remember, if you've ever asked your parents for

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something, okay, you ask your one parent, if

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you can have some sweets and they say,

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no, what do you do?

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You go to the second parent and ask

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the same question, right?

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This is the way that they were using

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their idols, that they were using the idols

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as a ruse to do whatever it was

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that they wanted to do anyway.

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And then they would feel bad about things.

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And so they would make extra rules and

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superstitions that they had to follow.

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And this sort of nature, it was not

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good faith.

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It was motivated by ulterior motives.

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And so that type of practice cannot mix

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whatsoever for a second with true, genuine submission.

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And remember that Islam means submission to Allah's

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will and decree.

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That means that the attitude of a Muslim

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is that no matter what comes down from

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Allah and the Qur'an or the Prophet

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ﷺ, we agree, we submit, we'll do it.

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We're not going to try to find loopholes.

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We're not going to try to find workarounds.

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We're not going to try to misinterpret or

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play with it or whatever.

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Our disposition towards Allah's guidance is one of

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submission, which is completely different from the attitude,

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orientation, and disposition of the people that were

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habitual deniers.

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And now turning to our personal development section,

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we've been completing this book together, Atomic Habits

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by James Clear.

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We've been benefiting from the four fundamental rules

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of building good habits, which make it obvious,

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make it attractive, make it easy, and make

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it rewarding.

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So we've come a long way.

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We're in law number three, make it easy.

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He talks about energy and motivation is precarious

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and it fades quickly.

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How many times have you woke up in

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the morning?

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You say, yep, today's the day.

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I'm going to change my habits.

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I'm going to do this.

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I'm going to do that.

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It's going to be different.

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You've got high motivation.

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You work out, you do Qur'an, you

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read a book, you do all these things.

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You eat healthy, you cook a good meal.

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And then what happens?

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What's tomorrow like?

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What's a week later like?

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Your motivation evaporates into thin air.

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Motivation is precarious.

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It fades quickly.

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We can also see this from a different

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angle that most of the things that you

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do automatically without thinking about it, they are

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things that take very, very little motivation to

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do.

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So imagine you scrolling your phone.

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Imagine you vegging out on the couch, binging

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Netflix.

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These are things that take almost no motivation

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to do whatsoever.

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And that is the key to this particular

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law, the law of least effort.

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Imagine that you have a hose, a garden

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hose.

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Okay.

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And your garden hose is folded in the

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middle.

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It's got a kink.

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You turn the water on and there's some

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water coming out, but not as much water

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as you need.

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Now you've got two options.

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You can go back to the spigot and

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you can open the water more and try

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to blast the water as much as possible,

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or you can try to unkink the hose.

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Which is going to do better for you?

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Obviously unkinking the hose.

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Imagine that the spigot is your motivation and

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imagine that all of the obstacles, okay, is

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the kink in the hose.

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It's way easier when it comes to your

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habits rather than try to dial up that

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motivation and watch these rise and grind motivational

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YouTube videos first thing in the morning or

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whatever you do for motivation, that stuff is

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very, very transient.

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It will leave very quickly.

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It's way easier to just unkink the hose,

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remove all of the obstacles, make it easy

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to achieve your habits and do the things

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that you want.

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Structure your habits for ease.

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Now we talked about this a little bit

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when it comes to environmental design.

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He talks about automating, eliminating, and simplifying.

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So anything that you're able to automate, automate

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it.

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This is why rather than write a check

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for your bills, remember we used to do

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that back in the day, your electricity bill,

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your phone bill, right?

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You, you get out the checkbook and you

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write it and then you balance your checkbook

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and you send it in the mail.

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You've got your stamps right there next to

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you.

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Nobody does that anymore except for people in

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my parents' generation.

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You have it on your phone.

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You set up auto pay.

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Boom.

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It goes out automatically every month.

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You don't have to worry about it because

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you automated it.

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Automating your habits makes them very, very easy

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to make sure that you never miss.

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Eliminating.

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What is he talking about by eliminating?

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He's talking about subtracting any of the disruptive,

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distracting elements that you might have.

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Okay.

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There's a principle even in group work called

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addition by subtraction.

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Sometimes there's just one person in the room

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that just makes it difficult to get anything

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done.

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Sometimes you take that person out and then

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the team all of a sudden is unlocked

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and unleashed and they can do what they

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came to do.

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So there are things like that in your,

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in your life.

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One of these things is clutter, right?

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Clutter is a big thing that stops people

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from doing their habits.

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And that's why one of the things that

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he advocates for is what he calls resetting

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the room.

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There's a very, very good habit to get

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into that when you're done in a room,

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you reset it for the next action that

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you're going to do later.

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Um, so imagine rather than you sit down

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to a meal and you've got your plates

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and you've got your silverware and you eat,

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and then you've got the kitchen's kind of

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a mess.

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You've got your pots and your pans and

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you eat lunch.

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Then you run out the door because you

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have to make your next appointment.

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All right.

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Now, when it comes to, you come back

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later in the day and it's time for

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dinner.

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The house is a mess.

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You not only have to cook, but you

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have to clean up everything from before and

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then cook.

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Ah, that's when you reach for your phone

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and order out because you would rather do

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that.

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And it's easier than resetting the room.

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If your, your gym clothes are dirty or

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your jogging outfits dirty, or you don't know

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where your running shoes are, you wake up

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in the morning.

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You're like, all right, I'm going to go

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for a jog today.

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And you spend 15 minutes trying to hunt

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your shoes down.

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Okay.

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It's very, very unlikely that you're going to

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be able to, to actually complete that activity.

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So in order to make it easier for

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you, reset the room, you can flip this

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for bad behaviors.

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Okay.

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So for every bad behavior that you have,

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your job is to make it inconvenient.

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Your job is to make it difficult.

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Your job is to make it less easy.

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So if you watch too much TV, try

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unplugging the TV after every time that you're

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done watching it, just that simple action of

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having to plug it in and then fire

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it up is going to stop you from

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watching it unnecessarily.

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Your phone.

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That's the big one, right?

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Try actually turning off your phone.

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You know that it takes a good minute

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or two minutes for your phone to boot

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up.

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Right?

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So if you were actually to turn off

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your phone during work hours or special times

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of the day, you will find that you're

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using your phone less because it's not on.

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It's not convenient.

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It's not easy.

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So you can do these things in your

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life to basically shape where you're going.

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You want to make the bad habits that

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you want to minimize more and more difficult.

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And you want to make the things and

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the habits that you want to repeat and

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that you want to keep more and more

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easy.

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And with that, we will end there for

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today.

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We've got a lot more to cover.

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Um, but we will see you next week

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inshallah ta'ala.

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I appreciate everybody.

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May Allah accept your prayers and your worship

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until next time.

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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah.

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