Walead Mosaad – The Merits of Fasting Mercy

Walead Mosaad
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The importance of fasting during quarantine and forgiveness during the fall is discussed, as it is the time of night for most people. The culture of the people is centered around the night, and night practices are the most impactful and most impactful thing in the night. The importance of forgiveness is emphasized, and the Day of Judgment is a higher form of fasting and is related to the Day of Judgment. The importance of graduating from the month and not let another bygones is also emphasized.
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Smilla Rahmanir Rahim hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa sallahu

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wa Sallim wa sallim wa barik ala Ruthie Ramadan Lila let me say you

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didn't know that well have you been able to find the volume

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hygiene which if you haven't recently been sad when they the

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other Mullah Mohammed Abdullah, while early was hobby one

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from Ahmedabad.

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So

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I bring you greetings and Salaam in this very auspicious and bless

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it occasion of the beginning of Ramadan. Whether you started today

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or you started yesterday,

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the month of Ramadan is upon us of the year 1442 After the Hijra of

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our Prophet so I sell them and since Ramadan was prescribed by

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last panel Tada in the second year after the Hijrah. So it has been

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approximately or this is the 1400 and 41st Approximately Ramadan

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that the OMA is participating in and commemorating and availing

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itself of the many blessings and the baraka and then never had and

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the mercies that comes specifically in this ninth month

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of the Islamic year.

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And this is no small accomplishment. And it's no small

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feat, really, to think about in terms of the great blessing that

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Allah subhanaw taala has bestowed upon us, that communities for 1440

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years,

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faster this plus a month, have stood in the evening or at night

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in prayer, and in recitation of the Quran, and in the ponderings

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of the meanings of the Glorious Quran.

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And this has been going on for over a millennia.

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And it is a great blessing that we can be part of that. And we can

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participate in that and for how

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ever number of years that we live, and how number of Ramadan's that

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we see whether they become 40, or 50, or 60. Year, we are really,

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really fortunate to be just a small part of that, and a small

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part in a sense of overall picture of Ramadan, but also a great part

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for our own individual mercy, our own individual forgiveness from

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Allah subhanaw taala. And in sha Allah, our own individual

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deliverance to the gates of paradise, and to be delivered away

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from the gates of hellfire. And as the Prophet SAW said, and

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mentioned in this plus a month, this is the month that the gates

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of heaven are cast open, and the gates of * far close shot, and

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that the demonic forces are chained.

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So far, they also say that Israel team in this blessed and beautiful

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month. So we congratulate the Allah, we congratulate Muslims

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worldwide, and we congratulate ourselves that we have made it and

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we thank Allah subhanaw taala that He has blessed us to at least

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witness the beginning of this blessed month. And so I wanted to

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take the opportunity in one of the first of the recessions to talk

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about some of the merits of Ramadan, and to talk about some of

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the aspects of this very specific spiritual training that we undergo

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in this blessed month of Ramadan. And we know that the month of

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Ramadan, and the fasting is not merely about hunger and thirst for

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the promise house and I'm sad little basalt. I mean they seven

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so yummy illa elgiva latesh. And he said, some are the ones who are

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fasting or perhaps the one who was fasting has nothing more than

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fasting except hunger and thirst. And Allah subhanaw taala has

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indicated in the verse of the Quran in surah baqarah Yeah,

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you're letting

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quotevalet camassia come up with you validate the domain of local

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local data Who are you who believe fasting has been prescribed or

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written for you, as it has been prescribed originally for those

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before you so that you may find Taqwa so that we reached out. And

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the specific Hadith I also wanted to share.

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Allahu Allah, wa taka women are not what's the key roofie human

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when I'm back home. Fisher has

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Illallah with us duck Verona. Well, I'm Melissa and he lives in

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and become an Huma that has ruined Allah has agenda what our rules

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will not be human enough.

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So part of a longer Hadith and the theme for these three sessions,

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talking about the beginning of the month as mercy and the middle of

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the month as forgiveness month Farah, and the last of the month,

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as deliverance or emancipation from the hellfire. And this hadith

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was narrated by Salman at Pharisee Radi Allahu Anhu where he said

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that the messenger Lasar, Selim, in the last day of Chavez said to

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the people, uns or people

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has come upon you or will soon come upon you this great month,

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this blessed month, this month that one night in it is better

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than 1000 months ago to further the province was referring to, he

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has made his fasting and obligation. And he has made it

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standing in prayer at night,

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voluntary meritorious act, whoever comes close

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to Allah subhanaw taala from something of good, like someone

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who does a obligatory act

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in other than the month of Ramadan. So, if you offer

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something that is voluntary the month of Ramadan, then it has the

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reward of something that is like something that's obligatory in

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another month. And we know that the word for the obligatory is

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always more than the reward for the voluntary woman at the fee for

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either and whoever does something that is a font that is obligatory

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in of itself, then it's like you did 70 of those same acts in

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another month. So this is what we call them hold off until ADGER,

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which we'll talk about in a second. So the increase in

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blessings and increase in reward from Allah subhanaw taala, and it

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is the month of patients. And the reward of patients is paradise.

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And it is a month of sympathy and consolation. And it is a month

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that the sustenance of the believer is increased. Whoever

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prepares the meal for a fasting person or feeds a fasting person,

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then this will be a forgiveness of their sins. And it will be an

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emancipation or deliverance of themselves from the fire. And he

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will have a similar reward to the one that was fasting without the

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one who was fasting losing any of that reward. So it's like you

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fasted for yourself and you fasted for the other person when you feed

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them to break their fast.

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And then some of them said of the Sahaba they said Not everyone can

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find what we have enough to feed a fasting person. In other words, we

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barely have enough for ourselves.

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The prophesy centum responded in in response

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that Allah subhanaw taala gives this reward for someone even who

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gives a date,

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a tomato, or a

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even Shabbat or just a mouthful of water, or even a taste of milk.

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And it is a month that it's beginning his mercy, that it's

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middle is Malhotra or forgiveness and that it's ending is

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emancipation or deliverance from the hellfire. Whoever lightens the

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load of their servant or their bond. Bonds people will have their

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sins forgiven. And we'll be emancipated from the hellfire. And

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then he said what stuck up him and about his art. And he urged the

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people that you increase from four things

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from four merits, two of them that you will please your Lord, and two

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of them that you

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will be unable to suffice without,

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as for the two that will please your Lord, for shahada Illallah

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so to the shahada, that there is no God but Allah subhanaw taala

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What does still feel Runa and to seek forgiveness from Allah

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subhanaw taala and as for the two that you cannot suffice without

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that you cannot do without that you should ask Allah paradise and

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that you should seek refuge from the hellfire. So many of the

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themes that we saw in this hadith are our themes of the deen in

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general and

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fasting even though it comes the fall that comes one month out of

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the year, it is from the pillars of Islam. So when the province or

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send them was asked about Islam in the Hadith Jibreel of

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Christianity, Islam, the Prophet SAW, Selim mentioned as one of the

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five we'll see I'm gonna move on, I went to some Ramadan. Also

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Ramadan, too fast the month of Ramadan. So when we say pillar,

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right when he said Booney al Islam Allah comes right in the other

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Hadith Guney al Islam Allah comes, Islam has been built upon five

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things are five pillars. So in other words, if you were to take

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this pillar away, and let's call it a building, the building of

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your deen of your personal Deen, then you'd be missing apart. You'd

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be missing something that would be the foundation of your deen. And

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so, we also know from this Sharia that it is all new, and nothing of

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Netcom there is nothing in our acts of worship or ritual acts of

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worship or in the Sharia itself. That is there is a punishment, or

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is there as Allah subhanaw taala seeking retribution upon us Pasha,

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Allah subhanaw taala holds a photo Rahim. Vox, his name's also full

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of our Rahim He is the author of giving and He is the Most Merciful

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and he does not need to punish us in this way. So then it is for our

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own benefit. The Sharia Muhammad sorry, Selim there's nothing in it

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except there is a benefit for the one who follows it. And for the

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ones who who takes the Sunnah and the ways and the

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practices of the province or send them as their own personal

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practice. So that means there is a great great meaning attached to

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fasting, a great great meaning attached to the month of Ramadan.

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And it's done over 30 days over 29 days. And it's done as a

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community.

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All of us all of the Muslims worldwide are doing it relatively

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or approximately at the same time within a day or two of one

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another. So, there is a very strong communal factor to Ramadan.

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And the Prophet SAW Selim

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prayed the TM for a number of days he prayed the thought that we are

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with the Sahaba with the companions and say normal later

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reinstituted

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as a as a practice, so communal prayers together in the evenings,

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where one can do it with the community and one can also in

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addition, or as a substitute can also pray by themselves.

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And as the Hadith mentions, it's not all work, right? It's

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something that's voluntary. And though it is voluntary, it was

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something that the prophet the prophesy seven was exhorted to do

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by Allah subhanaw taala. Yeah, human wisdom and formulae that

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Kalida and this well, one could spend we'll call the the older two

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that deals with auditing Quran Zadara he wanted to look for an

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authority law. You will resemble the one who was wrapped up when

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the prophesy centum came back from the encounter he had with Gibreel

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in Iraq for the first time. Canon was Zamberlan he had something

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like this and wrapped around him.

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So Allah subhanaw taala dressing the Prophet SAW Selim UN was them

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will

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call me later Illa kalila stand in the light except a little bit.

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Miss for her well, Kosmo kalila Oh, is it alayhi wa octiline

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Khurana Tata.

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So recite half of the night or a third of light or more than that,

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if you can

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Inessa nuclear legal covenants.

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Right, we will give you this heavy word. On Athena, the words of the

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Quran. In the nursery at the lady here are shallow water, Aqua

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mohila. And then their share of the lake, a shallow water.

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The nature of delay, the ritual practice of the night is more

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impactful. It's more penetrative. It has greater power than that of

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the day. Welcoming, cleaner, more impactful on the spirit of the

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human being. And so there are certain night practices. We look

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at the contrast of the day in the night and the Ramadan. We see that

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it's almost like flipped the opposite of what we usually do. So

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the day is about

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To not doing certain things, right, it's about not eating. It's

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about not drinking. It's not about not taking part in intimate

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relation with one spouse. But it's about

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being in such a state. We call this malarkey state, this angelic

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state, so that one may also be prepared for the night, where the

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action of the night now is different. So rather than devoting

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the night to sleep, we devote the night to reflection and to

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contemplation and to thicker, and to clear me lay, and to standing

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in the light. And standing in the night, the light and the night,

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the light of the night, and standing and receiving the the

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many blessings, the Marriott blessings from Allah subhanaw

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taala, that are described that are specific to the night as we saw in

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that verse from certain resemble, in the nursery at the lane, higher

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a shallow water aquat Maquila and what that means, how something

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that you walk over how impactful it is upon you. So it's more

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impactful those, that prayer of the night. And one of the

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principles of, of the path to a lost battle to Allah is to be in a

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state of piety or to be in a state of prayer or to be in a state of

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remembrance, while others are not. In other words, to be going

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against the,

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the predominant or the prevailing, sentiment or culture of your

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society. And so for most people, night is the time of sleep. And

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night is the time of of law. Night is the time of

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this remembrance night as the time of remissness. Night is the time

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of trying to

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fit in as much of partaking in carnal and physical the lightest

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possible before the the routine of the next day comes about. But in

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Ramadan, we change that culture, there's a different culture

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instituted or different culture that we aim to institute. So, we

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have this culture of tranquility and serenity and

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self sufficiency, doing without food and drink and otherwise

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during the day, and then when the night comes upon us, we allow

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ourselves to soak in the meanings of mercy and the meanings of

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forgiveness and the meaning of deliverance,

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that you will be in a in a, in a heightened state to receive more

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than you were, if you were not fasting. So, think of the fasting

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as a way as a

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as a weight or a standard to put yourself in preparation. And then

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with that preparation comes the the cleansing preparation, then

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comes the part of

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harvesting the fruits that will come when that is is prepared well

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enough. So think about,

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for example, the

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preparing a field

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to be to be farmed or to be planted, there takes a little bit

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of tilling and it takes a bit of a preparation, then the seeds are

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planted and then you irrigate it but then once this preparation

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takes place, then the plants can grow and the trees can grow and

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then they can bear fruit. And many have also mentioned that this is

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the state of Tasmania called Black Dahlia or the holly cobbler to

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Holly. So to have the means to empty oneself of a removal of

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obstacles and removal advice and removal of encumbrances, that

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otherwise would prevent you from availing yourself of the of the

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distinct Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala. So there's two types of

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mercies that come from the last panel data. And they're both

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mentioned in this verse.

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That I want to recite to you

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what I've met he was Aquila shape first actually lady Leia takuna we

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will let you know who we mean and let's unite everyone in the view

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of me Captech millet, okra while I've met he was the art cooler

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shape. And my mercy has encompassed everything.

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Here shape is the most

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or simplest way to refer to everything

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or it was Coalition. We even say if you Muhammad Salim Allah who

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shaped you know a thing. So the Mercy of Allah has encompassed all

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things. All things have been encompassed by the mercy of Allah

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subhanaw taala This is called the

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the mercy that encompasses all and some have referred this back to

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suffer to ramen or Ismail ramen. So one of the names of Allah

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subhanaw taala the proper names is on ramen, political Allah with a

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ramen effect you know method to fatherhood Ismail Husna call upon

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Allah call upon Allah ramen, the two proper names of Allah subhanaw

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taala and he is the one that has all of it as

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Metal has never really laid as metal has now call upon either

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one. And these are considered the proper names that encompass

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all of the attributes of Allah subhanaw taala. So Allah loves OG

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Allah is set to encompass all of the attributes of Allah subhanaw

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taala. Second only to that is, is a ramen.

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And even the pagan Arabs during the time of the Prophet SAW Selim,

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they didn't know what this ramen meant it was it was like a new

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word to them. They weren't aware of what it meant. And when, when

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the Prophet SAW Selim would begin matters by saying Bismillah AR

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Rahman AR Rahim. They said who is this Rama that you're referring

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to? Because they knew the word Allah, they knew the name of Allah

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and they would say Bismillah Bismillah Allahu Akbar is how they

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would write their documents and how they would start their

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matters. Bismillah Allahu Allah by the name of Allah O Allah. And

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then Allah subhanaw taala revealed this other name of his ramen. And

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so this gives you an indication that we're often at

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the mercy of Allah subhanaw taala is the

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kind of overarching theme of the divine nature in this world and in

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the next world, Rama

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Well, I met he was Aquila shape. Then in the second part of the

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verse festa activo Haley lady nya Taku

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for Sakura whoo ha the Latina taco, and I will prescribe it or I

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will decree it. For those who show Taqwa our Latina tacos are those I

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should say practice Taqwa. Ladino Yatta code. This, they said is a

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more distinctive type of mercy that is specific to the believers.

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And it's specific to the Motoki and specific to the Masini. Right

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Allah has filed for also says in the Quran in Naramata, Allah EBO

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Meenal mercy mean?

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The law have Allah subhanaw taala is Cody but right as close to the

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Mercy mean, so when will Tokina and Marcy Nina meaning

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I will move to clean all of those groups right and under generally

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attributes and could be of the same person, they are the ones

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these are the keys by which we can unlock Varaha of a Rahim.

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So some of the professorial said the Rahim the aspect of Rahim

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refers to this very specific Rama that is for the believers. So, the

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Rama of Allah subhanaw taala is always there the general Rama Rama

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Murthy was had Coalition and the Rama in the nature that is

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distinctive to the believers is always there. But in the month of

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Ramadan, there is something very specific about that particular

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Rama that we find in the month of Ramadan that we can avail

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ourselves of and this Rama it's it can be unlocked.

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The key to it is observing the month of Allah, Freeman Shahid

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Amin, comer shahada failures from

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over witnesses, the month of Ramadan, over is there in the

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month of failure some let them fast to unlock the never had the

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gentle breezes and associated blessings that come with the Rama

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of Ramadan, that Allah smart Allah allows us to avail ourselves of

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one we observe this blessed month. And fasting then is one of those

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keys

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as we see from the Hadith that we also just narrated this month is

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also called the month of Saba

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the month of patience, the month of forbearance, the month of

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fortitude. So by being patient with this command of Allah

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subhanaw taala by being patient with this process of the family,

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right the family is hard work, the family means you removing advice,

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the family means that you are

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going against the general nature of yourself, right, which looks

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towards self preservation, and which looks towards

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taking part in anything that is delightful and pleasing, and

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delicious and an easy. These are what the things that the neffs the

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lower soul craves. And by denying the neffs these things during the

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day of Ramadan, then that which was marginalized by the neffs,

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that which was taking a backseat to the neffs now has the

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opportunity to be at the forefront. And what I'm talking

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about here is that Maliki, that in Sani right, that angelic, higher

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human form of ourselves, namely our spirit, then can avail itself

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of all of these blessings that are there. And it is only by this

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encumbering neffs right that the Prophet SAW Selim described into

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Hadith that our dual kind of suka let you manage and make that the

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worst enemy that you have is this neffs that is part of you. This is

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what keeps you from seeing all those things. And so by this

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process of 29 and 30 days, this what we can call it I'll say an

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intensive program of the highly then in short

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Allah we can enjoy that the Halle of the nights of Ramadan to

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highlight and is taking in the

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the Vanessa hat and the blessings and the meanings and and so forth.

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And this means that we do not just substitute all of the things that

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we used to do during the day and then put them at night right so it

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doesn't mean that you know we spend the day in sleep and then at

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night we spend the day in eating and then do the same thing. No,

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Ramadan is not supposed to be a month of less production. Also,

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some people aren't the impression well you know, going to take it

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easy at work and I don't have to do as hard work as much. But

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Ramadan came the grateful to have that.

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That's what Beth was the 17th of Ramadan for Tameka was in Ramadan

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Jubilee that he said, I'm going to the province twice and review the

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Quran with him all of it was in Ramadan. So Ramadan is not

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supposed to be a month of less production as it were or less

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doing or being remissed in your other obligations. Ramadan is not

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an excuse to be more irritable, or to be less forgiving, or to

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be more coarse and austere in your relationships with people because

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you use the excuse, oh, I'm fasting.

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Ramadan is not the month either that we seek more accommodations

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for those from those who don't understand what about God. No

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Ramadan is about being better than you ever were. And being better

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than you are during the rest of the year. You can be more

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productive, you can be more insightful. You can be more

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soulful.

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You can be more

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compassionate, more merciful, which you should be all of these

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things in the month of Ramadan. So it's not something that we just

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want to get through and get over with. And then we get back to

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normal. We want Ramadan to introduce a new normal to us, this

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new normal that is informed by unlocking the keys of mercy that

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are very specific to this plus it and an Mobarak

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and wonderful and fortuitous month. So

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some of the themes that I want to talk about in terms of mercy,

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specifically to this month, and we said there's two types of mercy.

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There's the mercy that encompasses all that believer or non believer

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enjoy. And then there's the mercy that is specific to the believers.

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Then there are these types of verses that become even more

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specific in the month of Ramadan. And amongst those mercies for

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example.

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In the Hadith of the Prophet SAW Selim the whole of femicide, I

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mean Arthur Vandala, human and misc that the smell of the fasting

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person of their mouth is ultra yob. Alright is more beautiful is

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better than the smell of musk and the sounds like kind of simple

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words simple Hadith but the meaning is deep and it's saying

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that even though you suffer this perhaps

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you know when you don't eat all day and then your you know your

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kind of stomach is empty and you don't have a chance to wet your

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your tongue and your throat and smell may come out from from the

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stomach and that's not very actually pleasant.

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Man highschool Zaha right from from the unsensible aspect. But

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according to Allah subhanaw taala when high football Tynwald Haqiqa

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right looking at it from

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from its other perspective and its other aspects of formal Hatha Yoga

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from its inner reality, the ultimate woman and misc, it is

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more pleasant and it is more sweet smelling than the smell of mosque.

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This is a very specific mercy that comes to the fasting person

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and the promises and also said the * forgotten.

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Forgotten and the several forgotten and if three or four of

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them if not default, and Robbie for the saw him there is to

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happiness is that they will find happiness when they break their

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fast and happiness when they meet the Lord. And so this is also an

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indication there's another type of fasting. Right, not just the AMI

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and Mufasa Rothwell Matt Goulet. But there's those things that

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according to the jurors break our fast, but also those things that

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will raise us in degrees and the Day of Judgment.

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Some of them said so Muda, fast for all of time, and then break

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your fast in the next life, which means live a life of restraint

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live a life of temperance, live a life of EFA and and piety and

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ethos, right and altruism, preferring that which Allah loves

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over what you love, fast in that matter in the dunya and then you

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will find more than you ever expected in the next life. And

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this is a higher form of

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fasting, what a mammal has referred to as the first thing of

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how subtle hustle of personal social muscles. So the higher form

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of the highest form of fasting is to fast from everything that this

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is you busy, busy is you or makes you busy or distracts you from the

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remembrance of Allah subhanaw taala. And so that would mean a

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maraca, a vigilance of the eyes and vigilance of the ears and even

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eventually vigilance of one's thoughts. So to have more alphabet

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to have vigilance even on the level of your thoughts, and

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in order to do this

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one must have tofield and one must have a and he there. Yeah, one

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must have divine success from Allah subhanaw taala. One must

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have divine guidance from Allah subhanaw taala and one must have

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also this other thing we call an ENFJ. an ENFJ means a special

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considerate care from Allah Spano. Tada, so the month of Ramadan is

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also the month to avail yourself of this alien Casa and Anya Isla

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here, right so that everything that you hear everything that you

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see will be of you the prism of the divine command, and the divine

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will. And you know, just think about the verse in the Quran with

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koroni as corkum

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of Caroni Of course, remember me and I remember you

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there's no fast in between these two words in the Quran, doesn't

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say have Qurani well as Coco, for scrutiny as Qualcomm, any job

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talab in Arabic, so it's a direct response to your dhikr of Allah

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subhanaw taala then is Allah's vicar of you?

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You remembering Allah is Allah remembering you. And Allah also

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says in the Quran, you have boom or your buena, who, as we know,

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isn't caffeine. You're a boomer, you're a boomer who you have boom,

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will have buena. He loves them, and they love him. Your Love of

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Allah is Allah love of you.

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Your Love of Allah subhanaw taala means that Allah loves you,

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because he puts you in your heart, your love of Allah subhanaw taala.

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This is from I believe, some of the meanings of eignet and some of

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the meanings of hayday and tofi and some of the meanings of the

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vast, vast mercy that we can avail ourselves of this blessed blessed

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month. And we should also remember that this month, even though there

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is great opportunity for personal piety, and personal spiritual

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development, that it is an awesome opportunity as the Prophet SAW

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said him in the Hadith. Earlier we mentioned Shalom OSA. OSA means

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sympathy and consolation to others. One of the meanings of

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Ramadan is that when we feel hunger in our bellies, we get some

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indication of how other people feel who go hungry every day. And

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there are many, many people who who are in this predicament. And

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so Ramadan gives you the opportunity to share in what they

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feel and when you share and what they feel, then you will be more

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compassionate and more and more soulful towards them. And just as

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important the fasting Ramadan and we saw that second part of Hadith

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men Fatah rasa Eman. Whoever feeds a fasting person, right whoever

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even with a drop of water or a small glass of water or even one

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date, or even a taste of milk,

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then we'll have this great, great rewards in Ramadan, many many

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times over then one can imagine 7700 Even more, everything is

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milled off, everything is increased in this

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last month of Ramadan. And so we should also focus as well on our

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relationships with our fellow human beings.

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If we have not made the intention to forgive everyone that we have

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an issue with from the beginning of the month, then we can still do

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it now. And we can still do it in the middle of the month and we can

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still do it at the end of the month. And we can still do it

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after the month is over. But one of those keys to unlocking this

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AMA and these are ahamed very specific to specific people is to

00:34:07 --> 00:34:10

forgive everyone who has wronged you is to let bygones be bygones

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is not to hold a grudge, especially amongst Sonata rhyme.

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There is a direct proportional connection between ciliata RAM and

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our Hamet. A ram means the womb in the Hadith that is Saha that is

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narrated by a mammoth Tirmidhi

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and others. Allah Subhana Allah says Al Rahman one a HELOC to

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rhyme. Washed up to the hammock is me Furman masala was all to who

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woman kata better to

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Allah says I am the ramen. I am a halacha Rahim I have created the

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womb the Rahim which is the same literal. Try a little route. We're

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stuck we're stuck to La Herman izmi and even mentioned in this

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hadith Cozzi and I have derived the meanings of the Rahim from a

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robbing from this divine name of ramen ramen was ALLAH ha. So over

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connects r Rahim. In other words Siddhartha ROM, those who have

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some kinship relationship with you will sell to, that I will extend

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my relationship with them, or men called Raha, but to autofill the

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way and whoever cuts that off that I cut them off. So one of the keys

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then also to this drama, is cylinder, right? This is where our

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family ties and our kinship ties should be increased and should be

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focused upon, and to drop all grudges, and to extend

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that

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greeting and to extend the hair the good and to extend the

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blessing of Ramadan and, and to renew these ties of kinship and

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these family ties, and not to let another Ramadan pass, where we

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have issues with with our family. And what are

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the most important being your immediate family, your parents,

00:36:04 --> 00:36:07

your children, brothers and sisters, but even beyond that,

00:36:07 --> 00:36:12

aunts, uncles, cousins, extended families in laws, these are all

00:36:12 --> 00:36:16

people who come somehow into the depths of Siddhartha, ROM, and

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even on a greater scale, all of humanity is one family. All of

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humanity is one family, we all came essentially from the same

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womb of our mother Eve and our father, Adam, are the human set

00:36:27 --> 00:36:28

up. So

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you know, avail yourself of these habits of these mercies. You know,

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we want our, you know, our spiritual preparation and our

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spiritual development in this month to to allow it to operate at

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

its maximum potential. And so you could be fasting and you can be

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praying, and you can be reciting many Jews of the Quran. But if you

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continue to insist upon not addressing those issues of family,

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kinship, and family ties and leave them to fester as they are, and

00:37:01 --> 00:37:04

are waiting for the other person to come to you, rather than you go

00:37:04 --> 00:37:07

to them, then you didn't completely avail yourself of all

00:37:07 --> 00:37:11

that you can avail yourself of this particular time and this

00:37:11 --> 00:37:16

wonderful month and this time of ease and facilitation and Rama and

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I've never had any openings. You want to really avail yourself of

00:37:20 --> 00:37:24

the openings of this blessed month. Then avail yourself of all

00:37:24 --> 00:37:25

the things that you could be doing.

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With esoterica like the ICS we can't do it ourselves. We can't do

00:37:31 --> 00:37:33

it all by ourselves. Anything that we seek with help of Allah

00:37:33 --> 00:37:37

subhanaw taala we facilitated and anything that we seek only by our

00:37:37 --> 00:37:43

own means will be very difficult to do. So, the Stan Biller, we

00:37:43 --> 00:37:46

seek only help from Allah subhanaw taala in all that we do, and all

00:37:46 --> 00:37:50

that we made available to us. In the Hadith, Erica will call the

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rally but hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen so know that our document

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of hypocrisy that if you have the chakra Mobarak or numeric then if

00:37:57 --> 00:38:00

you have the shot or Karim when you're the Hubble window cm and

00:38:00 --> 00:38:04

our Clea Mina, one water cooler and that was to do dinner with

00:38:04 --> 00:38:08

coulomb Asada who, in that video there were Colorado what hamdu

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Lillahi Rabbil Alameen

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