Walead Mosaad – AlFath alRabbani of Shaykh Abd alQadir alJilani Class 14

Walead Mosaad
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The importance of reading the Quran and Sun parables in understanding the church's theory is emphasized. Pr practicing sunGeneration and understanding the church's theory is crucial to building a path towards their spiritual understanding. The importance of individuals making their own plans for their health and wealth is emphasized, along with fulfilling their distributors' responsibilities and not becoming annoyed or agitated. The cycle of acceptance, compliance, and love for the Lord is emphasized, and the proper adab is the combination of the heart and the tongue. The experience of death is a cycle of acceptance, compliance, and love for the Lord, and the proper adab is the combination of the heart and the tongue.
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So

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we can give another opportunity

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to read from

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this work of

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Siril Mahdi

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Adil Qadil 'Azilani,

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rahim Allahu wa rahmahirullah Anhu.

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So the Sublime Revelation

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of Siri Adafatir Gilani,

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the renewer of wujahedid, or one of them

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at least, of the 6th

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century of hijra.

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So we have arrived at

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the 16th

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discourse,

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and

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this this course has a few themes within

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it. One of them

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is the relationship,

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which we'll be reading first, the first excerpt,

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of the believer with the Qur'an and with

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the sunnah.

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What are some of the,

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sort of, terbiyah

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aspects

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that one should benefit from by reading the

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Quran and

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being acquainted and familiar with the sunnah of

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our Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam.

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And also

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talking about how to build, how to make

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what's called taimir,

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in this life, in this dunya,

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He says, Qalal Hasilul Basri, Raheemu

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Dunya Finna Wa Allahi

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Latul Tiboo Illa Gadi iha Natiha.

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Only after has been treated with

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contempt.

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I think what he means by that, Allahu'ala,

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is that,

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the believer should not let the delights and

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the pleasures of the dunya

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enter one's heart to the degree that it

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then becomes the focus of their life,

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the focus of their aspiration, the focus of

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everything that they do

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in life. Rather,

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this idea of ihana,

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means put it in its proper place. So

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contempt,

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kind of, is a shade,

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an illustrative shade of the meaning of Ihana.

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But it can also mean put it in

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its proper place. Lower it. Right? Because dunya

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means the lowest

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form of existence. So

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So it will not,

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it will not acquire a pleasant odor or

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have a pleasant fragrance until after you have

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made this ihana

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of the dunya. You put it in your

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proper place. And then what should be in

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its proper place as well?

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Al Uhhra

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and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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So at the top should be Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala. And then the akhira also has

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its proper place, but it is higher than

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the dunya, but lower than

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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Then he says,

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Putting the Quran into practice

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will make you familiar with the one who

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sent it down. And practicing the sunnah will

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make you familiar with the messenger our prophet

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Muhammad He is always around the hearts of

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the Lord's people, ahlillah,

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with his heart

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and his spiritual

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aspiration.

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It is he who makes their hearts fragrant

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with perfume and incense,

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who purifies and beautifies their innermost meanings.

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It is He who opens up for them

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the door of newness to the Lord. He

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is the maidservant who repairs their attire and

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mal Shudda. He is the ambassador of the

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Sefu between their hearts and inner beings and

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their Lord. Whenever you take a step closer

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to him,

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his happiness

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increases.

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So when we

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look at our approach to Allah

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the door to Allah

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is only 1 and that is our Prophet

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So if it was not for our Prophet

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we would not know Allah, we would not

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know the Quran,

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we would not know the sunnah, we would

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not know

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ourselves.

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And as a symptomatic, after

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they

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had finished bearing the prophet,

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the day that he passed

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or a few days later actually.

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He said we did not finish,

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bearing the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam and

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wipe the dirt

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off our hands

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except that we no longer knew ourselves. And

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in the iwaya,

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another narration, we no longer knew our hearts.

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So,

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it is the prophet

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who is still amongst us. Wa'alamaanafiqum

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Rasulullah. Know that the prophet is still amongst

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you.

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And,

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you know, the way that we recite the

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Qur'an, the meanings we derive out of the

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Qur'an because the sunnah

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is a,

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it's an explication. It's a shahr.

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So the ulama used to Imam al Sharha

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used to say, I believe, that the sunnah

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explains the Quran

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and the,

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the 'amal of the mashaikh and the ulama

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the works of the ulama and the scholars,

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that explains

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the sunnah. So it's all deen at the

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end of the day.

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So the the fallacious argument why don't you

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follow the Qur'an and sunnah? Why are you

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reading Abdul Qadr Gilani?

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And why are you reading,

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Iqnaw Ta'il the secondary? And why are you

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reading Imam Al Ghazali? And why are you

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reading Shafa Ayur Malik?

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Is it the Quran on Sunnah enough? Is

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a is a fallacious argument and a fallacious

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question to begin with because this is the

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Quran on Sunnah. What do you think we're

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doing? We are reading about the Quran and

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Sunnah. We're living reading

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about people who put the Quran and Sunnah

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into practice,

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and they are our waseela. Right? They're a

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way for us to know the Quran and

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Sunnah, and most,

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significantly for us to know the Prophet And

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the Prophet said, alaykum bis sunnati was sunnatul

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khalafa al Mahdiyeen

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mimbaadi.

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You follow the sunnah, my sunnah, and the

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sunnah of my rightful khulafa, my rightful stewards

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and heirs after me. And that's not just

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the 4 khulafa,

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of Abu Bakr and Umar and Uthman and

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Hari, but anyone who is

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an heir of this knowledge, an heir of

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the prophet

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So they also say that,

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ahlulquran

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ahlulahi wakhasal.

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Wa ahlulhadith

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ahlulhusulillahi

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sallallahu alaihi salam.

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They are the people of Allah Subhanu wa

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Ta'ala. Because this is our Allah Subhanu wa

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Ta'ala, this is Karamullah, this is the word

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of God. This is how He communicates with

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us.

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And,

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and in it there is tibiyan likhulishi

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as the Qur'an says about itself. And in

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it there is a

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tibyan, there's

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a

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clear explanation for everything.

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And so people who who still, you know,

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looking

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for the the master equation that's going to

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give us what the world is really about

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and what it means or the theory of

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everything and that sort of thinking. We have

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it already

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in the Quran.

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The Quran.

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We were not negligent or remiss in anything

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in the kitab. So everything that that is

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contained in in the Quran, in in this

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kitab

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has a direction for us. It points us

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in the right direction.

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It's a book that is matlu.

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Right? We recite it. We tilawayani.

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We read it. We contemplate its meanings. Tidabu

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al ma'ani is one of the rights of

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the Qur'an upon us.

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Zaruq says in his book, Naseih al Kafi'ah,

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that Naseih al Kitab is includes,

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tilawah, is to ponder it, is to,

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recite its verses as an 'ibadah as an

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act of worship and it remains an act

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of worship and a spiritual benefit

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whether you understand the meanings or you don't

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understand the meanings.

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Obviously, understanding the meanings is much better. But

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even if you don't,

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there is still

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a benefit in it, still a spiritual benefit

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in it. It's kalamullah.

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So

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just like

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it's you take certain

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physical

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medicine

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or even if you hear certain tunes and

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rhythms, it creates a mood and makes you

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feel better. But what about Kalamulullah?

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What about the word of Allah SubhaanaHu Wa

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Ta'ala? Can we imagine if we really took

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that into

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our consideration and, you know, made

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a, concerted effort to make this book

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a big part of our lives. And in

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order for it to be a big part

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of our lives, it should be a daily

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part of our lives. I mean, really we

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should strive to have a wird of Quran,

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a daily one, in whatever capacity you're able

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to do. If you can do 1 page,

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that's great. You can do half a page,

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good. Few verses, that's okay.

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If you can do 1 juz, excellent. Half

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a juz, good.

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But the idea is consistency. The idea is

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to,

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you know, to develop a relationship with the

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book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You know,

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nata daalasal Quran. Because this is what we're

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doing here. We're actually nata daalasal Quran. We

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are studying together

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the meanings of the Quran,

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albeit in

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a version that comes from one of the

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great inheritors of the Quran and great inheritors

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of the Prophet

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But basically, we are still studying

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the meanings

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of the Qur'an.

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And

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the same is true for the sunnah of

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our Prophet

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And there are certain

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kind of entry points

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into understanding

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and having a connection

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with Our Prophet

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So amongst those entry points is studying the

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Seerah and studying the Shama'il.

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So the Seerah is obviously the

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biography of the Prophet Muhammad

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and the Shamayl

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is

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a genre,

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of Hadith

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that are descriptions

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of our Prophet

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Both physical,

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you know, outward, what they call, al khalq,

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and both,

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description of his inward characteristics or al khaluk.

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So all of that

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also.

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Those two things

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are pathways or gates towards our Prophet Muhammad

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salallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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Reading Hadith in general, reading what he said

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also

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is a pathway to our Prophet Muhammad salallahu

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alaihi wa sallam. But probably,

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or I would say

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in our opinion, not probably but most certainly,

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the

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surest and

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most ascertained way by which to have a

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path to the Prophet

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is having a relationship with his heirs. Having

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relationship with the true 'alama. As his Sirab

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Abdul Kalani mentions here,

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al ummah, al 'alama, al aamiyun.

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Right? The ones who know and the ones

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who do by their knowledge.

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The ones who know the the sunnah and

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the seer of our prophet

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and then they are

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walking shama'i. Right? They are walking,

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version of our Prophet Muhammad

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They embody

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the prophetic traits of our Prophet Muhammad

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And for many, many people the shema'il actually

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really become alive

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And many people, their relationship with the prophet

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comes alive

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when they come into contact with or have

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a basic relationship or even just see them

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once,

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one of the heirs of, our prophet Muhammad

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salallahu alayhi wa sallam. So we ask Allah

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Subhana Wa Ta'la to facilitate that for us

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and to give it to us, you know,

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consistently so that we may too

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have,

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a share of this if,

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So,

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the sheikh then goes on to talk a

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little bit about

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our relationship

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with

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Dunia and how to

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build something.

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Right?

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And it's interesting.

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So this,

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page 108, if you're following the second or

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third paragraph,

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The believer has a correct intention in all

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his undertakings.

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He does not work in this world for

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this world's sake, he builds in this world

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for the sake of the hereafter.

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He constructs mosques, mazajidhani,

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bridges, schools and guest houses,

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and mends the roads of the Muslims.

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If he builds anything else, it is for

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the benefit of those who cannot look after

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themselves,

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for widows and the poor and to meet

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essential needs.

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He does so that its equivalent will be

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built for him in the hereafter.

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He does not build to satisfy his natural

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impulse or his taba',

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his desires, his hawa and his lower self

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or his nafs.

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When a human being is truly fit, he

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is with the Lord of Truth as subawajal

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in all his circumstances.

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He comes to be such that his absence

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is because of Allah and his presence is

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because of Allah.

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His heart is linked to the prophets and

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Mabiyeen and the messengers Arun al Sayyun.

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He accepts what they have bought by word

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and deed with faith and conviction.

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He is surely linked with them in this

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world

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and the hereafter.

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So this is a common question

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that many people have.

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Because we hear, especially in books like this,

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about zemidunya.

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You know, zemidunya means the condemnation of dunya,

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and how one is very dangerous and one

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should stay far away from it and should

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take it out of his heart and so

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forth.

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And

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even to stay away from it. But what

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if you have dunya? What if you do

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have wealth? What if you do have means?

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So the idea then is

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not necessarily to give all your means away.

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You know, the Quran says,

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you know, takhilu baynazaliqa sarila.

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Laatabsudhaqulal

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bast. You know, don't give it all away

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and don't constrict all of it,

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but take something in between.

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Take away

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a moderate way, a medium way between those

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two extremes.

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And so,

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if you have dunya, if you have means

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then

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make the way that you deal with it

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your tasarif as he says here.

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So in all of his or her matters,

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all of her his or her affairs,

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have a good intention, have a good nigga.

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Don't go into it with your taba, right,

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with your,

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you know, your just inclination.

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Right? That is that could be based upon

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Hawa, that can be based upon caprice,

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that can be based upon just a desire

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for fame or a desire to be noticed.

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Don't make those the,

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the,

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the motivators, the reasons why you're doing something.

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Make the reason why you're doing something a

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good intention for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So

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he even mentions,

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build schools, build

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bridges, build hospitals, build whatever,

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build orphanages,

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take care of people who are in need.

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These all require resources. These all require,

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a considerable amount of resources and funds to

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do. And and there has to be people

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of the ummah

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who take that upon themselves. And so that's

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that's an important thing. So if one is,

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has wealth or has accumulated some of it,

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and that's your intention in doing so, that

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you, you know, you want to do it

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for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

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then that's a good intention.

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They also said,

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Imam al Shawani,

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I was reading the other day,

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he said,

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From a spiritual perspective,

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don't look at yourself as the

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sovereign or the owner, the manic

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of whatever wealth that you have. If you

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see yourself as merely

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a wasi you know, the wasi means the

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one who is the, the administrator over it.

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Right?

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Manaladi

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wasa Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Who is the

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one who gave you that

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administrative capacity? Who is the one who has

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assigned you that? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So

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the true Muati,

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right, the true giver

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is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And the prophet

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even mentioned this in hadith narrated in Bukhari.

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Ana qasimu Allahu al Muati.

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I am the distributor

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and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'alaahu Wa Ta'alaahu Wa

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Ta'alaahu Wa Ta'ala. He is the one who

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gives. So the one who truly gives is

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So if he's giving

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you,

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then he's giving you not so that you

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can indulge yourself,

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but rather,

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He wants to see His work done but

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by your hand. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is

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giving you the opportunity

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to

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you know spread the good

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and enjoying the common good and to take

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care of the needy and to take care

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of those who are in need by

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your hand. And you know, that's what you

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should be happy with.

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You know, and then I'm not a second.

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He

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says,

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Right?

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Say, by the the the bounty and the

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virtue of Allah and His mercy,

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I find falaq. I rejoice.

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Not

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it not because of what I accumulate.

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So see yourself as

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a distributor.

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Right? And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given

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you the opportunity to be that, much in

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the same way that the prophet salallahu alaihi

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wasalam. What did the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam

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distribute?

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Everything.

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Obviously wealth too, but knowledge,

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nubuwa, the meanings of nubuwa, the meanings of

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prophethood and prophecy. He was the emissary from

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to the people.

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And you too can have that role,

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so don't see yourself as the sovereign, as

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the owner, so that your heart does not

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become attached to it, but see it as

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a custodian of it. You know, you've been

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given this

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responsibility.

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And that means

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that if people come to you in need,

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whatever need, if they need your time,

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if they need something of your wealth, if

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they need something of your attention, if they

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need something of your concern,

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do not grow agitated from that. Don't become

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agitated, don't become annoyed and say, why are

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these people coming to me? Why I think

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they'll go ask

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this person, ask this person why they was

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coming to me. It's a blessing and it's

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actually an honor that they're coming to you.

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Right? When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants to

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see

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good in one of his servants,

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then he sends his other servants to him

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or to her.

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So if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala puts you

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in the matham, puts you in in the

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station,

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that Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la

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wants you to be the

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extender and the distributor of good,

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then this is a blessing and this is

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an honor and you should share Alhamdulillah.

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And the way to show gratitude for that

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particular blessing

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is to fulfill that honor. And so if

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people come to you then

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help them, take care of them. And it's

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a mimetic said the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa

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sallam, kala yaka deenwubulullah.

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He would almost never say no.

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And if Haseh'il came, if someone came,

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then,

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either he would give them what they were

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looking for.

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He will give them what they were looking

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for. Even if he wasn't able to accommodate

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them at that particular time, he would still

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give them even,

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a kind and a gentle word and deal

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with them

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kindly and, you know, without,

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you know,

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without being aggressive and without malice and so

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forth.

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Right? Ask for the the one who asked,

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the one who's asking for something.

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Right? Do not revile them.

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So, you know, our ethos is very different.

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We don't we don't see people being in

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the particular position that they're in,

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as something of their own doing. This is

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circumstances that have been put upon them by

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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And I believe

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that,

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you know, in our particular situation now with

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this pandemic, all those people on the front

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lines,

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the doctors, the nurses, the first responders, the

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police,

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the

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National Guard, the,

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the even the, you know, politicians who are

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overseeing this and people in health administration and

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all that sort of thing, I think this

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is a maqam for them. And they may

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get something out of this. Allah has put

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them in this position, you know,

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literally to

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save humanity or at least to ameliorate the

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difficult situation that all of humanity finds itself

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in now. That's that's a great honor, that's

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a great matam. And so we should be

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praying for those people and we should be

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praying that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala keeps them

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safe and keeps their families protected and

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raise them in ranks and in degrees and

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so forth. And

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everyone,

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eventually will will find a point in their

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life or more than once where they will

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feel like they're in that position will come

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to them. And so some days you might

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be on the receiving end and some days

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you might be

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on the giving end. But the important thing

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is is to have the proper etiquette

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and add up with,

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Allah.

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So,

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the next section,

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which comes right after, he says

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or,

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let me actually address the points before that.

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So if the human being is

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yeah, we see this sort of tabir with

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the Sheikh Allah, Saha al Sahir, yeah, and

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he is

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spiritually fit. You know, it's in a place

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that's supposed to be.

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Then they are with Allah in

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all of their circumstances and situations.

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You'll see So, in your absence and in

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your presence, whether you're absent from a particular

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situation or circumstance or whether you're present in

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it, then let it be

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by Allah's

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And this also is connected if you recall

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when,

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Sheikh, he talked about before we do something,

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there are certain gates

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it must pass through. So we talked about

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the gate of the Qur'an and the gate

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of the sunnah,

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right. Is it Sharayani? Is it halal? Is

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it right? It's Haram? Is it mandoo? Is

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it wajib obligatory?

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Has to pass through that gate. And the

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gate of,

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the khanb.

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Right? The gate of the heart which is,

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you know,

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that that which is good and which is

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true.

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That which is right in and of itself.

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The heart will be

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will be inclined to it.

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Wawomeh veyinradelika,

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yaharpu firklal. And that which is not inclined,

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when you feel like it's wrong, astaghtirqalbahuwin

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afdukal muftoon,

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then you know something's wrong with it. So

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it passes through that gate. And then the

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last one that he mentioned if you recall,

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is to have witnessing of fa'ilalafiq.

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It's to have witnessing of

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the act of God

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passing through you. So this

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is,

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a little more difficult to witness than seeing

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the act of God and everybody else.

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So it's easier if you're gonna say like,

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okay,

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I can see that that that's Allah. I

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know that that person did that but clearly

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I can see Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, He

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is the one who is behind that. So

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I can see fa Allahu falaanu falaanu falaanu

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falaanu and so forth. But then to see

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it within oneself

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is more difficult, right? Because you have a

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big obstacle inside namely your nafs,

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your ego, your appetite, and it wants to

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be the,

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the one that is doing everything and and

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the owner of everything. And so that's kind

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of getting in the way. But it's actually

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no different.

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I mean, hayesulhatika,

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Right? From the reality,

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the true inner reality of things. You are

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no different than anyone else. So if Fa'Allahu,

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if the act of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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is yasri

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is

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going through them and they are the ones

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being,

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kind of,

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yuhalakoon.

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Right? They're the ones who are being moved

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to do things, then that's also true for

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you. But then the question becomes how does

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one witness that

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within themselves?

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So he kind of, I think,

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touches upon that here. You'll see, wu faqduhu

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billah wujudhu

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billah.

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Right? You're fucked, your absence

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is with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and your

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presence with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So it's

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not,

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by

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your own volition, right. You're not witnessing yourself

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in yourself

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but you're witnessing the divine

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as it

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executes

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within you.

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And that is Maqam al Musaheda. That is

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the the idea of Musaheda.

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If you reach that then yal tahequqalbahu

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bin nabiyeen wal mursaleen.

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Right? Then your heart becomes connected within nabiyeen,

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with the prophets and messengers because that's what

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they are too. Right?

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They're on a much higher level but that's

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the basic premise. Yapbulu marja ubihiqawlun waaman wa

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Iman wa Iqalen. Then you accept everything that

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they came with, in terms of deeds, in

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terms of what they said. Iman and wa

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iqalen.

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By way of iman and by way of

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certainty that's backed up by Musaheda, by witnessing

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of this.

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Then

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there is a certainty,

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that's what that means,

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that you will be connected with them both

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in the dunya

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and in the ekhir.

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So he he says he is surely linked

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with them in this world

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and in the hereafter.

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Wunuqallibawumzatil

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yameenee wathatashimaal.

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He who remembers Allah SubhanaHu Wa Ta'ala

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is always alive. He passes from life to

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life,

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experiencing death for an instant only.

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Right? Because death is actually it's a

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it's a it's a it's a passageway. It's

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a gateway.

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So you're passing from one life to a

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different type of another life. So you pass

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from the life of dunya, this life, and

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then you enter into life of Al Barzakh.

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Right? The Barzakh is the in between life,

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between

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this life

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and al akhira al abediyah.

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Right? And the akhira that is for forever.

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But in barzakh, which is the life of

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the grave, it is part of akhirah, but

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it's not akhiran abediyah. It's not the one

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that's forever. It's temporary, ilayyum sah, ilayyum unbath

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until, the resurrection, until the day of judgment

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and then we'll all be resurrected.

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But as you pass through, these are gateways

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so you only really,

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taste death. Kulu nafsun the Iqatul mawt as

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the Quran says. The Ita, yaani will taste

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it or is tasting it.

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And it's interesting here even in the Arabic,

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the ithaqqal mawt which is isimfa'al

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which means that is your state right now

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not that you will do that in the

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future. So you are tasting death in a

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sense as you are now. This could mean

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mawt enafs

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qabla antamut hasabu and fusible qablanta hasabu.

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And in fact, sleep is considered to be

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the lesser death. Right? Because you're in a

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state where you're in a different type of

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life. You can be going to all these

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different places and you wake up, and then

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that just felt like you were somewhere completely

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different. That's what this life will feel like

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when you die. So when you're where people

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are asleep in this life, and when they

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die, they wake up.

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Right?

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Hadid.

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Then your basar, how you see will be

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hadid, will be steely,

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in terms of its penetration. It will not

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make a mistake.

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So things that were

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mani, things that were merely meaning in this

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life will be mutajestic in the next life.

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They will be

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take on

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real, and will appear to us, and they

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are real physical forms, but a physicality of

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the akhirah, not the physicality of the duniya.

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So

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we only experience death for that instant,

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and

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in terms of passing from one to the

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next.

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So when remembrance zikr has come to be

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established in the heart, the servants remembrance of

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Allah is constant even if he does not

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remember him with his tongue.

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And we've talked about this, dhikr khanp dunal

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lisan So the real dhikr is the dhikr

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of the heart and then the lisan taba

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and then the tongue follows based upon the

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dhikr of the heart because the dhikr of

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the heart is constant.

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As long as a servant is constant in

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his remembrance of Allah, he is also constant

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in his compliance with his wishes

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and His ready acceptance of His workings.

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

If we do not conform to the Will

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of the Lord of Truth, Azzawajal,

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when summer comes around, the heat of the

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summer will leave us exhausted.

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And unless we conform to His will, when

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winter comes,

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the cold of winter will leave us chilled.

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And we talked about this the last session,

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Seasons, the circumstances that come to us,

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right. Summer comes and we're very happy and

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it's great

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and then winter comes and we're constricted

00:33:08 --> 00:33:10

But the idea is to have the proper

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edab in each of them, so that when

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summer comes you don't feel like you're too

00:33:14 --> 00:33:15

hot, you don't feel muzaj,

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you don't feel irritated and agitated with the

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circumstance of summer.

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And then when winter comes

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you also have the adab and etiquette. So

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maybe this needs forbearance, maybe this needs patience.

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So then you have the etiquette,

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the proper adab in the winter. So you

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don't become chilled or too cold.

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By adjusting to them both, we avoid the

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discomforts caused by their extreme conditions.

00:33:40 --> 00:33:43

In similar fashion, by adjusting to trials and

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

tribulations,

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we dispel the anxiety, distress, anguish, worry,

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and disturbance that comes with them. How marvelous

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are the affairs of the people of the

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Lord, Al Qom.

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And you'll find this word a lot. Ahuwal

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al Qawm the people of Al Qawm. It

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means people of the path, of people of

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taking

00:33:59 --> 00:34:01

deskiyah or the path of Muqal Rabeen,

00:34:01 --> 00:34:02

the path of those who are closest to

00:34:02 --> 00:34:05

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. How excellent are their

00:34:05 --> 00:34:06

states, their ahuwer.

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

Everything they receive from the Lord of truth

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

is a delight to them.

00:34:10 --> 00:34:12

He has let them drink the sulfuric drug,

00:34:12 --> 00:34:13

al banj,

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of his intimate knowledge, Marifa,

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and their sleep is in the lap of

00:34:17 --> 00:34:20

his tender care. He has entertained them with

00:34:20 --> 00:34:23

his friendship, so of course it delightful for

00:34:23 --> 00:34:24

them to stay with him and away from

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everything apart

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from him. They remain lifeless in his presence

00:34:29 --> 00:34:32

for awe has possessed them. Then He so

00:34:32 --> 00:34:33

wishes, He

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resuscitates them, resurrects them, revives them and wakes

00:34:37 --> 00:34:38

them up.

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This can refer to both

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the the between dunya and efirah, so the

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actual death and then the resurrection.

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Or it can mean

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the death of life which is death of

00:34:48 --> 00:34:48

the nafs,

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or the overcoming

00:34:50 --> 00:34:53

of the muleed or the disciple over their

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

nafs, over their ego, over their appetite,

00:34:55 --> 00:34:56

into a more focused

00:34:57 --> 00:34:59

and intimate relationship with Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la.

00:34:59 --> 00:35:01

And so at that point there's a bit

00:35:01 --> 00:35:02

of lifelessness

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

of the nafs

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and then it's resuscitated

00:35:05 --> 00:35:06

or revived

00:35:06 --> 00:35:08

in terms of the gua and the seer.

00:35:10 --> 00:35:12

Then when Musa wishes he resuscitates them, resurrects

00:35:12 --> 00:35:14

them, revives them and wakes them up. In

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his presence they are like the companions of

00:35:15 --> 00:35:16

the cave,

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Ashabil Kaf, in their cave concerning whom he

00:35:19 --> 00:35:20

said,

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and we turn them over to the night

00:35:21 --> 00:35:23

then over to the left.

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

Right. And the qaddu mumu that, qaddu mumu

00:35:25 --> 00:35:27

that, shimagwaddu qadbuunbaal saqadbu wa ahi billawasi.

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And it said, one of the tafasir of

00:35:30 --> 00:35:31

this this verse

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is that the cave was open and,

00:35:36 --> 00:35:38

you know, sunlight would come in and

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and so forth.

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And also,

00:35:42 --> 00:35:45

you know, imagine sleeping through a 109 years

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

on only one side of your body.

00:35:48 --> 00:35:49

You know, what type of bed sores are

00:35:49 --> 00:35:51

you gonna have after that? People get bed

00:35:51 --> 00:35:53

sores if they stay 9, 10 days in

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

a hospital bed.

00:35:54 --> 00:35:56

So here this is referring to Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala, yuqadiboom datilliminu zatashimin.

00:35:59 --> 00:36:01

So their bodies were being turned by Allah

00:36:01 --> 00:36:03

Subhaana Wa Ta'la to protect them

00:36:03 --> 00:36:04

from,

00:36:05 --> 00:36:07

you know, having, you know, atrophy

00:36:07 --> 00:36:08

or a bedsore,

00:36:09 --> 00:36:10

you know, from from one side of on

00:36:10 --> 00:36:12

one side of the body versus the other.

00:36:12 --> 00:36:12

And another

00:36:13 --> 00:36:15

and another, the sierra belief also for the

00:36:15 --> 00:36:17

sun coming in and out, also not to

00:36:17 --> 00:36:18

be hung by the sun on one side

00:36:18 --> 00:36:20

and not on the other. So more

00:36:21 --> 00:36:23

of an even, restful sleep that they were

00:36:23 --> 00:36:27

there for 300 years or so. And so

00:36:27 --> 00:36:29

the the the metaphor here is we too

00:36:29 --> 00:36:31

have witnessing mushahadah of QadrAllaha

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

yasilifiq.

00:36:33 --> 00:36:34

Have a Musaheda that the,

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

the Qadr the the divine decree of Allah

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

Subhaana Wa Ta'ala is

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

running through you. So let Allah Subhaana Wa

00:36:40 --> 00:36:43

Ta'ala be the one holding the steering wheel,

00:36:44 --> 00:36:45

not you.

00:36:46 --> 00:36:48

That doesn't mean that we're fatalistic,

00:36:48 --> 00:36:51

but it means that we realize the haftikla,

00:36:51 --> 00:36:53

that it's truly Allah driving.

00:36:53 --> 00:36:56

But at the same time, he's given us

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

some aspect of Iftiyar. He's given some aspect

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

of choice, And in that aspect of choice

00:37:01 --> 00:37:02

we choose to choose him.

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

So let's choose to choose Allah Subhanahu Wa

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

Ta'ala and not choose something else.

00:37:07 --> 00:37:10

Then our deeds and our acts and our

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

aqwal and everything about us, our ahuwad or

00:37:12 --> 00:37:14

states will be commensurate with,

00:37:15 --> 00:37:18

the divine decree that seeks a nayyah for

00:37:18 --> 00:37:20

us, that seeks special attention and

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

gives us,

00:37:21 --> 00:37:22

divine gifts.

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