Walead Mosaad – AlFath alRabbani of Shaykh Abd alQadir alJilani Class 43

Walead Mosaad
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The importance of following the Sun is emphasized, particularly in regards to the success of the OMA and negative comments about federal judge Hal Jordan. The importance of regularity and regularity in life is emphasized, as it is crucial to avoiding loss of mental health and surrendering one's existence to the damself. The importance of speaking and avoiding negative behavior is emphasized, along with the need for practice and guidance on healthy eating and fasting. The speaker emphasizes the importance of avoiding anger and being mindful of one's behavior, as it is crucial to achieve healthy eating. The importance of following the Sun is emphasized, as it is related to the belief that it is a sign that the culture of the church is on fire. The speaker emphasizes the importance of fasting and meal planning for one's health and mental well-being, as well as avoiding negative behavior and avoiding anger. The importance of following the Sun is emphasized, as it is the sign of a future existence.
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I mean, a lot more suddenly we're selling robotic, a washing

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machine, you know, I mean, so you didn't have even you need to call

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it. Arginine or Sheffield was when he

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was saying he was on when I first met and even Abdullah, by the end

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he was Harvey was when he when he was studying the vicinity,

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whatever who they are when you're within about.

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So from the left we are starting the 50s

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This course out of 62

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done from the ground in Lehi.

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We're finally here with an edu Academy. Hi, Judy, some 40 Plus

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sessions.

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As we've seen,

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the sheer commercial law he

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had a lot of in a lot of aspiration and a lot of concern

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for his students. And he reminded them as we saw on several

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occasions, that he doesn't need anything from them. It's not in it

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for them or for himself, but he's in it just to

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please Allah subhanaw taala intended to leave that Baghdad and

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he was outside of the walls of the city when an inner voice told him

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that is Salah Amma is safety and salvation of his team was in being

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with people and being with his students. And that's what he did

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for 40 plus years.

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Working long and now he is probably Shut up apology Lenny,

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one of the most recognizable names of our OMA ever. He was Hassani

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and he was her SANY he was born on the 15th of Ramadan, which was

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just yesterday, which is also the birthday of Satan that Hasson

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Ignatios

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say that he Fatima on the setup. So

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humbler This is a great blessing that we're able to read it and to

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study it and try to figure out together

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consider this and without going on, you know, studying it together

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and we're benefiting together in sha Allah and this is what Allah

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subhana decrease for

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the successful from his ummah, some people are remembered for you

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know, what they spent and what they saw and what they

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you know

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things that may be trivial that people remember the form and other

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people Lexia with others you name it and actually that was awesome

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Chevy like mmm has any

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like saving that hasn't seen that I've seen our profit obviously. So

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I started them.

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memorizing them of course will be very memorable Hanifa nomadic

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remember Shafi

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sittin in the FISA,

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all of these people,

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they have something of the if so many of the legacy

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inheritance of our great profits. So a lot of incentive. And so, as

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a result, they are remembered, and the words are remembered and the

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words are recorded and the words are studied. And they still

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provide guidance to this OMA day

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even from beyond the grave, such as a loss for data rights for

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the

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solder hate acidity from his Alma. So may Allah sometimes racist in

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degrees where this rank, and give us something of the baraka the new

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order that these people brought

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to the world and continue to bring to the world.

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So imaginisce, come soon. So the 50th, Moses was just a little bit

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short. So I'm going to try to get to the one after 51 or two that

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long, but I'm going to be a little more selective. Try to read things

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or perhaps concepts that maybe we haven't seen before, even though

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it's good, our teachers used to say or continue to say,

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particular test what you know, in myeloma, by repetition, you know,

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the thing that you're studying, becomes planted becomes firm, so

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it's not really repetition. And anyone who's read the Quran,

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Mahatma, or two, or three or four, how many will see that the

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concepts are repeated, and even some of the stories in the Quran,

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especially the anecdotes of some of the prophets, before I told in

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different ways in different places, but for

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different about right, different lessons that you may, you may get

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out of it at each time. So this pothole up

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Only in favor of many obviously the apology then is what allows

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more time to open his heart to say and to convey to his students over

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these

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40 years and here we just have kind of a snapshot, a glimpse of

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it

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so he says at the beginning,

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when we started the US law, HCA masala

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were there uncompiled our team? Was it dunya the federal

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government whom you must have thought Kennedy's are suddenly a

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fool to follow who, with whom in dunya Mazel tov. Yeah, Johanna

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dunya and out of the metadata in Jersey Laker

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winter well that Hasakah though out of the laws or agenda of the

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visa,

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but I can NACA j will be he will be will be will be a Oda

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Werehog empathise

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the manager alimenta condominium funds even heavy dunya approval

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philosophy in reverse you want to study that's enough. See, we're

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still in a bear with a soldier within karate I love chicken for

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the karate I mean, so Allah azza wa jal when kanematsu out beyond

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enough See, find a handle of seeker or further later up back as

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Rajan, Sal De Molay he offered celibate JFe he offered to date

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was school who offered Zedek selling yoga when Santa la that's

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solid de Fuca well have you ready to go and follow up on my one on

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social Radha? What I stumbled around the car, though was when I

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thought about Sammy Williams Luna enough semis at him in a lot of

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software to follow me don't do extra for fear coffee of worry of

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Hollywood oddity

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in the darkest hour for the fertile woman as

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the only one

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who will occur fall waterfowl can hold up to 10 Bamboo wood so one

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of them though there are eight of them are in Dec

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in order for the hair follicle to support the Sony beignet, they

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already come to school innovative is so convenient, they support a

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variety why botany so at the end

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we never have the whole Lhasa.

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So let's look at that.

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So he says in the beginning, you're still be a slacker or Salah

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hacker. So concentrate on correcting yourself, which is not

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an exact translation. So let it slough is to rectify yourself and

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the Soloff is to be righteous to be upright. So

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this law means to put yourself in a state of Soloff to put yourself

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in a state of righteousness, so rectify itself, and correct

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yourself. Give up idle gossip and the craziness of this world of

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Plato and thought, Well, how was it dunya

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rid yourself of its cares as far as you can. As the promise I sent

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him you say, rid yourselves of the cares of this world as far

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as you can. And we hear this a lot, not just from siddhappa,

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father, Jude, anybody in general. And the idea is not to have the

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loom

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the

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the concern, or your greatest concern the dunya so that it

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occupies a big part of your heart keeps you busy from remembering

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the last couple times. So how does one exactly go about that. So as

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we've said a few times before, it's not just mere willpower, just

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kind of will it out of your heart, but it's to develop and cultivate

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within yourself, kind of spiritual repertoire of routines, and

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focused

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activities throughout your day and your night that's gonna help you

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to get there. And that's why we talked about the importance of

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having spiritual routines or a lot of a lot really means that which

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you go back to regularly, so that you may be invigorated

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spiritually, and we have a wealth of, you know, maybe two or three

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meals a day. That's kind of a weird if we go back to eating food

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because we need that to sustain our physical life. And similarly,

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you need that to sustain your spiritual life. So that's why the

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actual, you know, assess the with an SS is really the five prayers

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because these are spaced throughout the day. And they're

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supposed to give us that spiritual integration. But we also find the

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province is suggesting other times, you know, he said, you

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know, help yourself just to you know,

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with the beginning of the day after treasure and aloha, which is

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sometime in the evening with shaman

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occasional or something of the night, use the Select times, to,

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to, to build kind of a spiritual cultivation within yourself and so

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you busy yourself with good and not busy yourself with bad luck.

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Remember shuffling used to say,

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he said I learned two things from the surface, these things have to

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do with time. And

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time is like a sore either you cut with it or cut you and your soul

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your ego. If you don't keep it busy with good, then it will keep

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you busy with that. So it's kind of like to

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elevate the neffs or perhaps even from some way distracted F's, keep

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it at bay in eschatological title to help you with that. So that you

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can be

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you can have more access to the better part of yourself, which is

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your soul and your CF, or so forth, as a sheikh has talked

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about before. So we're just also yourselves in the cares of this

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world, as far as you can muscle talk, right? As much as you can.

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Oh, you're so ignorant of this world, if you really knew it, you

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would not go looking for it. If it comes towards you, it gives you

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trouble. And if it turns away, it leaves you in distress. That's

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true. Right? We're happy when it comes. And then when it leaves

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something of the dunya, then we're in distress, why should we

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surrender our happiness or outsource our happiness to such a

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fickle master, which is the dunya. But if you surrender it to Allah

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subhanaw taala, who has promised you that you will find happiness

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with him, then it seems as a much better

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endeavor to go forward with leaving it to the dunya

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he says, if we really knew Allah, you will know all the rest through

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him. But you are ignorant of him. His Messengers is also this

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prophets, his MBA and his earlier. So if you know Allah, then you

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really have the key to knowing everything. And if you don't know,

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don't know a lot of Allah, then it's like you don't know anything.

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You can know all the things in the world. But if you don't know a

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lot, and you know, Allah is One, that He created you to me, or she

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will be returning, and to him that you belong, then it's like you

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don't know anything, because you don't know, the most fundamental,

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important truth of your existence in my existence. And this all this

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whole existence that it was created by law into a license.

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Well, one, two, you can you not learn a lesson from those who have

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gone before, and their experience of this world, you must seek

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deliverance or loss from it, cast off its clothing and away from it,

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cast off the clothing of the Lord self, the neffs, and travel

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through the door to the door of the lord of truth and how when

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you're divested of the lower self, you are tested of everything apart

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from a lot, because that's what's keeping you away. This is what's

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getting in the way is you your own wounds, your own existence, or

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your own, being mired in the only the existence and the very narrow

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minded,

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short sighted realm of the neffs of the ego, which is just

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concerned with pleasure. And you know, when it eats and drinks and

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you know, who it's having relationships with, that's all

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neffs and then your world becomes actually quite small, the world

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looks very small, and your, your happiness then and your sadness

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kind of hinges on a whim. You don't like

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what somebody says to you, or what somebody doesn't say to you, or,

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you know, who's paying attention to you who's not paying attention

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to you, and to surrender your intellect not just your, your kind

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of temporal, temporal happiness, like in this life, but also could

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be happiness in the next to something so flimsy, and so

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fickle. And something that will doesn't truly know who you are, it

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only sees a certain side of you, right only sees the exterior

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doesn't know what's actually going on within you. So why would I put

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and leave all of that to something that is not trustworthy to begin

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with. So cast off the neffs traveled through the door of the

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hop when you're sick of it, then you're divested of everything

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apart from the loss.

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And so all those other things seem less important.

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Since everything apart from him attaches to the law itself, you

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got an equally massive a lot everything besides a law.

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You must turn away from your own lower self, then you may see your

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Lord at the top. That's why they use terms like infinit and Duffner

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infc, Kota and dunya. The father will definitely call them as your

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last project. So this finat

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means to see everything as Fannie write Fannie means not there like

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it's going to or it's headed towards non existence to

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annihilation. This is what the finat means. And you know, the Chi

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the simple principle that they say often is that which is certain to

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come with the future. You have to feel stuck but often feel urgent

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Hola Hola multilotto Fidel for one hop up

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Phil edge. Phil hygena for now Hola. My afternoon

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for an agent from hop, taco Phil and Phil hygiene, that will just

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certain to come in the future exists right now in our in our

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realm right now. So if all of these things are going towards

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Finet and non existence and Allah kind of not kind of he tells us

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this in the Quran or coolamon I have no way upon which we will

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because the genetic code lumen Aneja Yanni on the earth,

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everything upon it Fannin FeNi and, and that's an Arabic recall

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that is some fad. So it's not indicative of something in the

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future. It's informing of something that is a truth. That's

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a certainty and reality right now as we speak. So everything is

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funny, because that's where it's going. And that's where it came

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from. So you're only looking at kind of a blip in time, between

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the two non existences. So there's a little bit of existence between

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two non existences. But if you look at the last month or so

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there's no period of non existence, way up far. That's why

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I said way up tall and remains Gutka Allah subhanaw taala, which

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will have the confidence of God. In other words, the essence of

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God, Allah itself remains.

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So this Finet and in neffs means just kind of let it go.

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Don't see it as the peak all on the end all and the,

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you know, the pursuit of pleasures as being the

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way to happiness, because even the pleasures once you get them,

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they're also funny, right? And it's uncanny that even the most

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pleasurable thing that you like, if you're really into chocolate

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ice cream sundae.

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And that's what you really want, and someone brings that to you and

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you eat it. It's great, it's great, so forth, but then someone

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brings you a second one, like, kind of a fool, and then a third

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and a fourth and a fifth. And then you're forced to eat it now

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becomes a punishment now becomes other. When just before you engage

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in it, it was something pleasurable now all of a sudden

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becomes something

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torturous, or, and so that's the nature of the dunya. And it's

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fernet. It can also, you know,

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you know, it's prickly like thorns, it can prick you as well.

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Just like the rosebush, right there's roses, but there's also

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thorns in it. So you see the roses, but then if you rush in

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quickly, you get pricked by the thorns. So, Allah subhanaw taala

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saying, and the chef here again,

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get over yourself, is the way to say it. Get over yourself, get

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over your hangups in here, and what you think is going to make

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you happy and surrender all of that to a lost battle that

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since everything apart from him attaches to lower self, you must

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turn away from your lower self. And then you may see your Lord,

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right and the words now your self, your innermost being is allowed to

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thrive, submit Selim to Him and you will be safe set limiter.

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strive in his cars and you'll be guided Alright, give thanks to Him

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and He will add more on to you submit you and creatures to Him,

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submit yourself and creatures to him. Right look at the limit a lot

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of autonomy at our level, he will take care of it. Do not resist him

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whether on your own behalf, or on behalf of other people. The people

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of Allah have no wishes no wish. Besides their wish were alone,

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they have no preference besides their preference for him. They are

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not greedy in pursuit of their own a lot of shares are Oxfam know

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that they covered the shares allotted to others. If you wish to

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enjoy the companionship of these people in this world and

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hereafter, you must yield to him in compliance with his words, his

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workings His Father and His will His era.

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So if you want to have the proper also Safa, good companionship and

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you want to find these people

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have good companionship with Allah to begin with, right?

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Follow his commands or

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avoid his prohibitions, set a limit on

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the kadai leave surrender things to him, try to be content

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with that he has decreed for you for that he has one for you. And

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then those things where you're innaka that which is going to be

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an aid to you, it's going to help you in sha Allah will be

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forthcoming after that.

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So we're going to move on from there.

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So page three or nine, because you're following at the top, said

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if someone wishes to sit out along the path of the hot load of truth,

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he must correct his own lower self before he embarks on the journey

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itself as badly behaved, because he's always inciting

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to evil amount of soup, what would you do in the presence of the

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order food? How can you accompany you on your journey toward him,

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you must struggle with it until it becomes tame. Then once it is

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tamed, take it along with you to his door, you must not harmonize

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with it before giving it training and instruction, teaching it to be

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well behaved, and to have confidence in the Promise of Allah

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subhanaw taala. And his threat is why it's so wide worldwide. It is

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blind, dumb, deaf, confused, ignorant of its Lord, and an enemy

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to him. But through unrelenting efforts, its eyes will be opened,

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its tongue will be loosened, its ear will begin to hear and be rid

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of its confusion, its ignorance and his hostility toward its Lord.

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This calls for muscles and manpower, a bad word, when he said

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it figuratively and metaphorically. And for

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perseverance hour after hour, day after day, year after year, this

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does not come about from the effort of just one hour, one month

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or one year, you must beat it with the whip of hunger deprive it of

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its luxury, and give it all that it really deserves.

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So this differs from one person to the next and from one time to the

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next. If we follow those as any model, for example, he sticks into

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yet that you know, train your neffs and and have it used to only

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have one meal a day. And then that let that one meal be a sip of

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water and one course round loaf of bread one motif, which is a small

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number, like that big

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of bread. And if we were to tell people this today, I think they

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would, you know, they wouldn't come back. So it depends upon, you

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know, the time that you're living in and so forth. You know, we

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would say just practice the Sona.

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Food actually is step one action in terms of

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taming the neffs Step two would be speech, if I had to choose one. So

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in terms of food, it means just eat enough. So that you get up

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before you are completely satiated. That would be step one.

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So not not to deny yourself the things that you like. But, you

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know, if you're used to just filling yourself and then getting

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up, well eat till a period before satiation, you know, maybe like

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two bites less to mouthfuls less than what you're used to. So you

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get up before you're satiated. And you'll figure out that, you know,

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in the beginning, it's not like it. But you know, after a while,

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10 minutes later, when you get up and you start doing something

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else, you don't feel like you need to go back to the dinner table and

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get more it's like, okay, I got over that now I can, I can move

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on, I can I can live with that. And this is what he's moved this

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type of taming

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of the neffs. And that's why the Milan ciem fasting is so Pinnacle

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and so important in this because that's what it's supposed to do,

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we're not supposed to substitute three square meals a day that we

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had outside of Milan, in Milan during the night. And then we kind

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of just flipped today in the night. So actually, you want to

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grow accustomed to the feeling of hunger in your stomach. And it not

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be such a disaster for you like on an NF Sandy level. You know, this

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is how the taming of the neffs to some degree. And then speech also

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like not to just say everything that we think that comes into our

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head, but trying to our make our words more measured. And then as

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we've said before, you know, have the speech passed through a few

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gates before it comes out of the, you know, of its holding pen, as

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it were so you know, as what you're going to say?

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True.

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Is it valuable to someone is it going to bring about a good result

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or negative result

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is gonna hurt somebody's feelings that are hurt somebody's feelings,

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those things should be thought out. And in the beginning, there's

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going to be a lot of to cover up.

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That means you can struggle with it and be unsure of yourself. But

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after a while, Inshallah, you will find that it will be almost like

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second nature instinctual, that you think about those things

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within, you know, a flash within our time usually takes people to

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say something you'll be thinking about all those things, is it

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true? Is it beneficial is going to bring some help to somebody who's

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going to harm them, all the things will will run through your mind

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almost instantly before you actually say and if you find

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yourself in this account, and this is a great, great blessing from

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the last month that it still feels, you know, it's real

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successful.

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And so, that means just kind of have a, you know, a methodical

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approach to how we consume things and how we

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put out things so the consumption the things that are coming in. So

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obviously food

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As part of it, but also all of our senses, that which we hear and we

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listen to, and that which we look at, and see, these are all things

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for consumption. And, you know, they get in there, they get in

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your heart and they mix together and they can be a recipe for

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raising, you know, your, the appetite of souls, appetite for

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more things like it, you know, the very, very

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dark and steep slope of * for many people, both

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men and women, it's, it's a big test for them a big tragedy,

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because it works like that. You get accustomed to something and

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then it kind of takes you further and further down and down and down

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until it takes you through very dark depths that you couldn't

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imagine that you could find yourself in. But that's, that's

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how the depraved neffs works. And a model is so right on, it's

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always pointing towards suit towards evil. And so you want to

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cut it off right at the, at the source. So not even to take in

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something that let it penetrate, you keep the guards at the gates,

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right. And the guard, here's your optic, right is your intellect,

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that's wrong. And I know my nest is looking for it and wants to

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look at that image, or look at that video or see what that's all

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about. But your office's stop, hold on a second, slow down,

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because if we let this guy in, if we let this Imogen, screwing mess

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things up with us inside, so let's be more intelligent about it and

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keep it out. This is the modality neffs, right. And, honestly,

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everybody can do that you don't need a chef or teacher or mentor

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to tell you that you know, that follow the Sunnah of the Prophet.

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And even if you do have a chef or you have a teacher,

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you're going to be doing 99% of the work that I have the

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expectation that they're going to kind of just give you some

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arrived, which they will, which will be a great help and will take

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you there. But you have to also put in the effort, you also have

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to want it you also have to struggle and strive and, you know,

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it takes some Gehenna the teacher will help you get there and may

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take you by the hand and get you there quicker or more effectively.

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But

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you think that you're not going to do anything, and it's just kind of

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kind of come like that, then

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this is not how usually it works. These are not the ASVAB Summit.

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These are not the means by wildlife spa normally, will grant

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people

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entry into his kind of McCombs or Makala. To Iman, the higher

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McCollum at the higher stations of Eman of shahada, and Tawakkol and

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shawcor. And perhaps the level,

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you'll still be kind of running around between enough similar wema

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we're not in America, so

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the blame or the self and the the

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uniquitous self

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stuff that always employs you to iniquity, you'll be kind of just

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mired in that for a long time. So there has to be some logic. And

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there has to be some courage in that. And maybe even, you know,

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this is why we have the faculty of anger. So anger, if it's channeled

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in the right way, it becomes courage, you need to be able to

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courageous, and say, I'm going to stand up to myself. Right? It may

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be more difficult to stand up to yourself than to stand up to an

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outside adversary. But to stand up to yourself, I think is the most

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courageous thing you can do because yourself is your greatest

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enemy. This is the words of our province, I said, I'm not my

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words, not the words of the show called apology anymore with the

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Prophet, the worker enough to cultivate a GYMPIK your worst

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enemy is your neffs, the one between your two sides. So if you

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can stand up to that,

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then you can stand up anything. And the prophets are some also

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said he said the strong person is not the one who can pin you in

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wrestling. He said the one then younger, kind of so on the top,

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right, the one who can control themselves when they become angry,

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right, because angry, anger and appetite those are the two twin

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kind of

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foundations of the of the

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self that implores to iniquity. So when you become angry become

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compromised, in the sense that you'll do things normally wouldn't

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do. And if the Shaohua which is the appetite also becomes agitated

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and seeking when it wants, it will also sometimes lead you to do

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things that normally you wouldn't do if you had some time to stop

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and pause and think about it and so forth. So taking getting those

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two things under control as a member was any calls customer

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shouting. So the breaking into two desires, which is desire, appetite

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and desire, you know, that we should go towards anger.

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So he calls it muscles and manpower, but it's actually

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eventually just Himba you know,

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aspiration and you have to do it hour after hour, day after day.

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It will be somewhat of a struggle. But eventually your your lesson

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will get teamed. Much in the same way when they talk about they said

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the verse in the Quran certain metadata

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about animals like hunting dogs and the Falcon and others that can

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be trained to hold back on their own shadow. You know, anyone wants

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a dog or has been around dogs knows that the number one child

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for the dog is food is to eat. But yet they can be trained in a way

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where they can go get the quarry for you, bring it back, keep it in

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his mouth, but not eat from it. Because that's the condition for

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the for the hunt to be successful and for the fruit to be hunted. At

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least according to the medical school that the animal cannot eat

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from that which is brought back from so it can actually kill the

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prey. Right if it's like a wild duck or goose or something, the

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pigeon and brings it back in its mouth. And normally it's instinct

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is very instinct is to eat from that. But you know, Allah says

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mocha livina to Allah Munna Hoonah Mima anima, Hula, hula mimma

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saccadic must correspond loyally, so we can live in this world, not

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what the hunting dogs trained dogs, teach them from that point,

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you know, train them, and then they come back for a minute and

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secondarily. So each from that which they have withheld inquiry

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in their mouth and border back to you. What goes on why they and

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remember, Allah's name on it. So if the hunting dog can be trained,

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and why not the human being, you know, and his show, and his shower

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is very strong, right when you know, try to stop your pet from

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eating the food, when he puts it in, put it in the bowl. When it's

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time to eat, it's nearly impossible. But these animals can

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be trained. And so we too can be trained,

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and even prophesy celery talked about

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Teach your children

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furusiyya You know how to ride a horse properly. And the

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Remaliah, which is bow and arrow hitting the target was super

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happy. And swimming. And perhaps the wisdom behind those three in

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particular is there's a lot of training for the neffs in each of

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them. So if you can get a hold of a large animal like a horse that

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normally just with a swift kick from its hind legs can incapacity

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to kill you. But yet, you train it to go into direction that you want

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it to go. And to stop when you want it to stop and run when you

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want it to run and gallop we want it to gallop and Cantori wanted to

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cancer and so forth. And this animal normally that has its own

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knifes, and it has its own idea of how it wants to go and run. But it

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can be trained similarly

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to Remaliah. Right, anyone who's done any sort of target shooting

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with bone, our or other type of precision weapon will see that you

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won't get it right the first time or the second time or the third

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time, the fourth time actually takes practice. So there's

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precision and there's accuracy. So accuracy is to hit the bull's eye

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and precision is to be consistent in hitting the bull's eye. You

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know what they call your grouping. So you want your grouping to be

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close to, to the center of the target. And that takes practice.

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It takes patience, right, because you get frustrated and you do it

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100 times in a row the first time out, you don't get to where you

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want it to go. But you know you make small, incremental changes

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iterations in your stance in your in your grip in your form. And

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then you find after a while, it becomes almost second nature to

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you. And then you know the ball becomes a weapon becomes kind of

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an extension of your body of your arm. And similarly with your neffs

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if you train it well enough and put it through this iterative step

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one step at a time, one day after day one might week after week,

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month after month, then you will find instead of it being against

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you, it will be for you. Right. It'll help you a lot. And finally

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

the Savannah, which is swimming.

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Also, when we first structure train our force, it's a very

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unfamiliar environment. Most of us most of our lives, vast majority

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of humanity, we just used to kind of going for the thing that we

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feel like going for the thing that would feel like eating and thing

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that we feel like saying it's instinctual within us. And so to

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kind of hold back on that and train the nerves to say stop doing

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that which you think is instinctual and give it some

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thought first, take a few steps back like swimming. You know when

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you when you first get into the water, it's completely foreign

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environment. And especially if you're in you know, a pool that

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you can't stand in and then you have to keep

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paddling legs underneath it to stay afloat. Your very survival

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then depends upon your ability to adapt to this different

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environment. And so some people just merely survive in it, and

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others can thrive in it, you know, they, they perfect their swimming

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form, and they can do different strokes. And, you know, they can

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dive underneath the water for long periods of time and come up and,

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and so forth. So it becomes almost like a second nature to them. And

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in that, that physical training,

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it can be borrowed and extended to the spiritual training. So, you

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know, if you're the type person that you can go and spend

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long hours learning something like the piano, or archery, or even

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long hours in the gym working out, or any number of hours to get

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something right to perfect something, then you're already

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halfway there. Because you already have that, that we call the

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standard that preparedness to train. And so that's why we also

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encourage young people to do something like that, find

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something that you can kind of get yourself into that will take you

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on a progression from kind of a beginner level to, you know,

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martial arts also has that I would say even

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certain mind games like chess, can also provide some of this

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training.

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Look on the sheet artists and wanted to sit and tell me

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something.

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Oh, I wouldn't put video games particularly in that category.

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I think it could be an interesting about video games are actually the

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addictive nature of your game, I think is in

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it gives you a sense of accomplishment. Right? So you

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conquer level one. And then you're like, oh, okay, now I'm ready for

00:36:43 --> 00:36:47

level two. So it kind of is hitting those dopamine levels,

00:36:47 --> 00:36:50

right. And it's giving you a little bit of a rush each time

00:36:50 --> 00:36:52

that you kind of go level. So you want to come back to it and see

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

where you're going with it. And I could say you can also extrapolate

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that to fighting your neffs. So you will find that, okay, I might

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

level one of

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kind of conquering minus today. Today in lunch, I had one less

00:37:08 --> 00:37:13

spoonful than I usually had. And it was difficult, but then day two

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was much easier. And then I can go and try something a little bit

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more than that. And maybe I'll, instead of having like, five

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different categories of, you know,

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food servings around me, I mean, I can only do two, and so forth. And

00:37:27 --> 00:37:30

if I'm trying to build a repertoire of, let's say,

00:37:30 --> 00:37:34

recitation of Quran or thicker, or a word during the day, maybe I can

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

only do five minutes at a time. And then maybe the next time I'll

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try to do seven minutes. And then the next time I'll try to do nine,

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you know, much in the same way that you do anything when you're

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training. That's how training works. First time you go to the

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gym, you're not going to go to the benchpress. And you know, and

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benchpress, your, your body weight, for example, again, have

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to take time to work up to that. And so each time progressively,

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you add a little bit more weight and a few more reps until you till

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you build yourself that way. So Jonnie, it's within reach, it can

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be done in sha Allah, you also have a teacher, teacher share or

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mentor. They also encourage you along the way, and then there's

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the baraka of, of their company and their sama and so forth. So

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I guess we're just out of time, so we'll stop here. We didn't get 51

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So that will be for the next session with a lot of a lot of

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people

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