Yahya Rhodus – Knowledge & Wisdom Imam alHaddad #10 Ustadh Amjad Tarsin

Yahya Rhodus
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The importance of clinging to Islam is discussed, with speakers emphasizing the importance of control and achieving excellence in worship. The importance of affirming oneself by recitation and proper actions is emphasized, as well as avoiding false accusations and hesitant behavior during recitation. The importance of avoiding bad places, being with good people, and being around good companies and ALLAH Subhan ha Tada is also emphasized.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen from

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the nearly uchumi Jalali watchI wildly Miss Vani Allahu Malacca Al

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hamdu Hata tarball were like Al hamdu is probably to a local

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hamdulillah Reba, so Subhanak learner Selita an early curtain

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took a sneak To add an app Sook Watson Allahu wa salam ala optical

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Mustafa Sayyidina Muhammad or other early Hill Aadhaar was hard

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to hit up here woman Toby our son in law who didn't either Yeoman

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Dean or any Namaha morpheme erotica or hum Yahama Rafi mean

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hello Marlena million federal now when certain MB my LANTERNA was in

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early Maniar Karim your Halima Hello Konami Hello controlling

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Mohaka Konami halco

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alumina wiener to Aluma Tallinn what does it call what is key when

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NASA will interact? While is etha when is the further when has had

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domestic be Kitab Allah was Sunette Yasuni he would do you

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know who the with the law. If the law which Allah Amaravati he will

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be he was our behind Subhana wa Tada and hamdulillah

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we're continuing where she left off from this very unique book and

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profound book of the mom and her dad, which is been translated into

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English by Dr. Mustafa Badawi, known as knowledge and wisdom and

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full sorted in me I want all sorted hijk Meow, or elphic, EMEA.

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And we're on the 11th chapter where a mom and her dad is

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focusing on son. And the chapter is titled, The chapter is titled

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acting with excellence. So your mom and her dad says, may Allah

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have mercy on him and benefit us by His knowledge. I mean,

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people have realisation, direct knowledge, clear vision and

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certitude give preference to excellence, son in the act over

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the act itself. This is because to them the formal performance of

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Acts, whether it'd be the ritual prayer, fasting, recitation of the

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Quran, or the invocation of God the Exalted is nothing but

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unprofitable, hardship and toil, in the absence of thoroughness and

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excellence, perfection of the inner dimensions, and what is due

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to God in the way of reverence humility, attentiveness and

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courtesy, that be fit that holy and sublime presents. So remember

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head that here is talking about the importance of whenever an act

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of very bad is done that the it Fein, the people have direct

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knowledge of Allah subhanho wa Taala the people have insight. And

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really the purpose of the spiritual path within Islam is

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really to help us reach this point. Where we recognize that a

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bad is not just something that we're ticking off of a list. You

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know, I did my prayers today I did my Sooners today I did this and

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that and the other, but in actuality that these are the means

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by which Allah subhanho wa Taala has invited us and given us the

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opportunity to be in the Divine Presence. So the point of ADA is

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horrible. The point of worship is to have presence with Allah

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subhanho wa Taala is to be in a state of remembrance as Allah

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Subhana Allah says in the Quran to Prophet Musa alayhis salam or

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ugliness, Salah tele decree and establish the prayer for my

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remembrance, so that we can be in a state of remembrance according

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to the manifested into being in a state of remembrance of Allah

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subhanho wa Taala so that our Salah that is devoid of vicar is

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really devoid of the soul. And there's like a lifeless body if

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someone had like, you know, there's a human being but they

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have no soul. You know that person is of no use and that person is to

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be you know, to be buried. So a bad without presence of heart

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without sign in it is a bot that is just a shell and outward shell

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that has no life inside. So the mom and her dad is saying that it

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fiend the people have spiritual insight. The people have the path

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of sun, the higher road of of a better and worship. Their concern

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is not I did X number of records, or I read a whole number of edges

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that today of Quran or I did X number

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have, you know La Ilaha illa Allah. But their goal was that as

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I'm going to do this act of devotion for Allah to Baraka with

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the IRA, I am going to do it with the utmost edip when it sun, and

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reverence and humility and all of the Divine jelajah learner.

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And even if something is, is literal in amount, quantitatively,

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the quantitative value might be small, the qualitative value will

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be great. And if someone has a quantitative I prayed this many

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rocker has already fasted this many days. But they don't have

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whole dude with Allah and they don't have a sign excellence in

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that very bad, then it's, you know, it's light, it doesn't hold

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a lot of weight. So that's what the mom and her dad is talking

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about in this chapter and really bringing to mind is that when we

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are engaged in an act of worship, that we need to do so with our

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son, that some of those oily hain, they would put on their best

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effort and their best erode when they would go into Halawa and pray

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alone, in front of Allah subhanaw taala. Why, because it's this is

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completely for a lot about a katana, and they would put on good

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clothing. And sometimes they would burn, you know, behold, and rude

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and so forth, to beautify the themselves and to have the utmost

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sun and edit so that they can be in the Divine Presence. And if you

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put on a practical level, if someone has a job interview, or

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someone is going to meet, you know, an ambassador or a

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dignitary, what a learning method add to allow belongs the highest

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similitude. But this is something that helps us understand, you

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know, a person might think about it in advance, and they might say,

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Okay, I gotta buy some new clothes, I gotta get a nice

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haircut, I have to make sure that nothing else is I have no other

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plans that day, nothing gets in the way. And they think about all

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those, all those things. Why? Because it's so valuable and

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important. And asylee Hain and the IoT fiend that people have true

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knowledge and deep knowledge. They recognize that a loss of Hana data

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is the most deserving of that. Allah subhanho wa Taala is the

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most deserving of those considerations. So their concern

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of his son in the act of a bada was greater than the act itself

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and so on. I said what do you mean like the slot as the most

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important thing Absolutely. But I'll saw law that fulfills the

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objective of Salah is better than a Salah that actually contradicts

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the objective of sunnah. Even if it has the same form.

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Imam had that goes on to say, it is to this, that his saying refers

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May blessings and peace be upon him, the messenger of allah

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sallallahu Arny who are earning, he was talking to Salam. He said

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in a hadith narrated by a necessity and even manager, how

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many a person in night vigil and Liam Elaine gains nothing from his

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vigils, but sleeplessness and weariness, and how many a fasting

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person gains nothing from his fasts, but hunger and thirst,

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there was a story where the Prophet sallallahu Arny, who are

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early he was talking to Salem was told of two women who were fasting

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and the past, so I sent them said they're not fasting. And they

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said, notice hula, these women, they constantly they're always

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fasting, they're in a state of exertion, and it's a hot summer

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day, and they're, you know, pushing themselves in the worship

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of Allah subhana with Allah and this fasting, and the Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he knew from the unveilings that

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Allah subhanaw taala had given him that they had not established the

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reality of the fasting. So he went to these women, and in reality,

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what they had been doing on the days that they were fasting was

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backbiting people. So they'd been fasting, but they didn't establish

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sign in there fast. So the prophets of Allah Marathi who was

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sent him said, you aren't fasting, vomit, what you've been eating,

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and they started to vomit, chunks of of blood and flesh. The

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spiritual reality of backbiting manifested when the Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, one of the miracles is that they began

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to vomit. And he said they haven't been fasting because they've been

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speaking about people behind their backs. So what Allah Subhana Allah

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wants from us in fasting, what Allah subhana wa Tada wants from

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us in Salah is to be in presence is to control the knifes is to

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control what we're saying is to be mindful of Allah Tabata Katana is

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that the heart comes out in a state in which it was better

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or then how it entered

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and save now it may God be well pleased with him said, there is no

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good in a recitation on accompanied by reflection, save

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nearly an hour before Allah, may Allah be well pleased with him and

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ennoble his countenance. He said, you know, reading a quote, I did

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have him mashallah this beautiful, a Hutton, we, we recognize the

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value of these things in and of themselves because we revere the

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symbols of God. You know, I've one shot at Allah. But say not in

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saying that's not the point in and of itself. Just go read and read

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and read, which is why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for

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the vast majority of the Sahaba he told them not to do a Hutton, more

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than every three days, more than once every three days, there were

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some of the Sahaba who were the deepest and knowledge like save

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the Earth man had been our fun out of the Allahu Anhu and others who

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would do a hunt him every day. But generally, the prophesy centum

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said don't do a Hutton more than once every three days. Why?

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Because you need to have time to reflect upon the Quran. You need

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to internalize the message that Allah subhanho wa Taala is sending

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us we need to ponder, it needs to hit us. And it's not just smart

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not to remember him. And if I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not

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even trying to get to the end as fast as possible know, if we read

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the Quran, as the Quran should be read,

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they will take a very long time, because just reflecting on that

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ocean, how are you going to get to the bottom of the ocean that is

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endless, you never will. But you'll keep going and going and

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going. And one of the earlier Matt, he said, You know I have a

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HUD term, a type of reading of the Quran that I do every X number of

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days, one day or three days, something to that effect, so that

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I have another HUD term that it takes me a month. I have another

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Hutton it takes me a year. And he said I have another item that I

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haven't finished yet.

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I've never completed it. But it's all different levels of deepness

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until the book. So and this is the beautiful thing also not so that

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we don't misunderstand what the mom and her dad is saying.

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Remember how that is not saying don't do a lot of very bad. This

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is someone who has a child would do 200 Different kinds of Nilufer

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between Valhalla and Aslan.

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May Allah be well pleased with him. But it's not just I want to I

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want to be in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most sought

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out and one day know, they were in a state of how does a child a

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young child do 200 archives? Because his heart is attached to

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Allah subhanaw taala

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and his grandmother said, take it easy on yourself. So he said okay,

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I'll do about 100 and they'll cut it in half. But their goal was to

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be in a state of remembrance with Allah subhanho wa Taala and you

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see that in obviously the Prophet sallallahu Arny he wanted a new

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Simonsson but even though Sahaba will be low on that they would the

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prophesy said I'm gonna say now behind Abdullah, give us our

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comfort when he would tell Satan there'd be learn to make the other

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than he was like, give us our comfort. For them being in the

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dunya was something that they're fed up with Allah, they, they they

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were in the dunya but there are times where they could be

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exclusively focused in a Budda was their comfort. You know, a lot of

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people unfortunately, we're, we're kind of in the opposite state now,

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where it's like, the bed is heavy. We got to pray now. Let's get it

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out the way. And that's not that's not the way that we should be,

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which is why a mom and her dad is saying having excellence in the

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worship is more important than just establishing the worship

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itself. So say nobody said there is no good in a recitation and

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accompanied by reflection.

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Imam had that goes on to say some of those who performed the outward

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form of such acts but without excellence, even though they

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expend much effort may fall into sin.

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Allah subhana wa Donna says

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in salata,

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the meaning of the IRA is that prayer prevents us from corrupt

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actions in a solid 10 her an infection you will mooncup that

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prayer prevents us from corrupt and vile deeds. Right? So the

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lemma they say but what about people who pray but still have a

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lot of corrupt and vile deeds? Then the answer to that is they

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haven't established the reality of the prayer.

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So Imam had that is saying here, some of those who performed the

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outward form

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In this session, but without excellence, even though they

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expend much effort, may fall into sin, and sometimes people, it can

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even shake their faith. They see someone who outwardly has

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established a lot praise and has outward knowledge and so on and so

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forth. But then they might do something that's extremely

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unethical or immoral or haram.

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And people are shaken up, but this person prays and does this and

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that and the other. Have they been taught? Or have they achieved sand

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under a better? That's the real question, that we don't have to

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judge other people buying but that we have to judge ourselves by when

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we stand before Allah subhanaw taala Where is my heart? When I

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stand before Allah subhanaw taala Where are my thoughts? When I

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stand before Allah subhanho wa Taala Why am I doing this? Is it

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with a son or is it as the moment had said then says this may happen

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to ostentatious people, and to others who are less thorough than

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they ought to be, during their recitations, bow wings and

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prostrations and do not perfect them as they should.

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They will thus have performed acts of worship that are no will only

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bring lassitude will only bring toil and tiredness, and be the

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cause of sin. Why?

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When we are establishing something that is supposed to be only for a

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lot of Baraka with the idea, and then we do it without a son, and

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it falls into the realm of ostentation, then we fall into

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something that's haram than the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa early

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he was talking to send him he warned us and he said a person,

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when they pray, they will get the portion of their prayer will be

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accepted according to their focus in the prayer. So person for some

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people like the prophets, I send them and they'll Sahaba and

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they'll slowly Hain who are in witnessing Allah subhanaw taala

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and present with ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada, they get the full prayer,

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some people might get nine tenths of the prayer, some people might

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get half of the prayer, some people might only get a very small

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portion of the prayer. And have also some also taught us that when

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a person is done with their Salah, the prayer will either praise them

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and ascend to the heavens and be beautiful among the angels and

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with Allah subhanaw taala or the prayer will insult the person and

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say, May Allah treat you as you have treated me.

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And that the prayer will be thrown back in the face of the person

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like a rag thrown back in their face. Because like this is what

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you're gonna present along with. Oh, where was your heart Where was

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your mind.

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So we have to be careful. Therefore, when you act be

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thorough, giving every component of your act, its do with regard to

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God the Exalted, both in conforming to outward injunctions

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and inward dimensions in the way of presence with Allah the Exalted

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sincerity and courtesy before him. Thus, will a few acts performed

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with excellence, be better and pure in God's sight, then a great

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many performed and properly and without excellence, know this and

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act on it. And may God guide you, if someone came to you, and they

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brought you a relatively small diamond. But it's like a, you

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know, three carat diamond, for example. But it's compared to a

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rock that you get outside, it's small. They say this is iron, they

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have a nice little case for it. And they say, this is a gift for

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you. And you open it up. He said, What's this tiny little thing? You

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open it up and inside, there's a diamond.

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There's a beautiful gift. But then someone comes with this big, you

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know, box and you're like, oh, what's in here? And then you open

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it up? And it's just a bunch of rocks?

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Are the two the same? Absolutely not even though the person came

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was small. So the mom and her dad is saying that's what we have to

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understand. And someone might say, you know, I don't have a lot of

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time for that. I don't have time to have the proper edit outwardly

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and inwardly and Inderal cool and in the sujood and to think about

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Subhana Biella ATHLEAN blow aureus is my Lord, the Almighty and

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magnificent and glorious as my Lord, the Most High that we say in

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sujood Subhanallah BL Allah and to really think about that, and to

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reflect upon every aspect of the Salah that is full of deep meaning

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I don't have time for all that. Okay, you know what I have?

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Don't do a whole lot more, but have excellence in what you're

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able to do.

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Nobody's telling you to pray all night long in this fight.

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ashen and to be tired for the rest of the day. But the Salawat that

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you do have put everything else aside and bring your heart to be

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present with Allah subhanho wa Taala

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the messenger of God May blessings and peace be upon him said, God,

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the Exalted has decreed excellence for every act. God the Exalted has

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decreed excellence for every act, that Allah cateva

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son, Allah cliche. Therefore, when you kill animals, in other words,

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when you slaughter or sacrifice an animal kill Well, this is

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something that even in the 21st century, we don't do, and when you

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slaughter slaughter, well, and what does that mean? It means that

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you do it with precision with care with it's on that you're you have

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perfection. And you know, like in most people's minds, when we think

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about people who were very

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intentional in everything that they did you think of the Samurai,

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you know, that they would sharpen their sword and they would make

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sure that everything was in its proper place, even when they would

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pour tea, it would be done with intentionality, and so forth. And

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you see, the people of Allah subhanaw taala have that,

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especially and even more so, in their relationship with Allah

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subhana wa.

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Reflect and understand His words may blessing and blessings and

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peace be upon him, God the Exalted has decreed excellence for every

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act, and you will know that the command is general and covers

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everything. Excellence is the essence of things, such that when

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deprived of it, they become defective and ugly, or merely

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mediocre and banal. So, environment had that is teaching

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us here. That if Sun is really the diamond,

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that if you present diamonds, in your a bada, and you have

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presence, and you have humility, and really they're a bandha you

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bring to their EBA what you are supposed to bring, and then you

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will get out of that Ariba what you're supposed to get out, which

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is an increased state of hurdle of presence with Allah subhanho wa

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Taala an increased understanding of the Quran. When you fast you

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get a deeper control over your neffs you watch what you say, you

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watch what you look at, you watch what you listen to, and you are

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imprisoning your knifes in the prison of fasting and depriving it

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of Halal pleasures. Let alone haram desires, then you start to

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really transform

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then you start you know, why does Imam Al Ghazali say that? You

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know, one of the titles of his books is you know the alchemy of

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happiness. What is alchemy is that you turn rocks into gold, that you

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turn this enough sell amount of the SU which every human being

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has, when a person comes and fulfills what Allah terracotta

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Allah wants from them. Then they become Yeah, you get to her Nestle

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Mothma Inna, look at the huge difference between the the the

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soul that insights and commands to evil. And then a person through

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this process of tests Kia, have refinement and devotion to Allah

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subhanho wa Taala and striving to rid oneself of the lowly traits

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and adorn and beautify the soul with the praiseworthy traits of

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in those traits that are

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beloved to Allah terracotta Anna, then they become type of human

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being that when they die, Allah Jalla Jalla the Lord of Majesty,

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the Lord of infinite perfection and beauty, the Lord of the lofty

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throne says yeah, a year 200 Soon Mothma inna Oh, serene so it'll be

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clear all the attend Model D come back to your Lord, return to your

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Lord pleased and well pleasing, fed holy theory buddy with holy

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Jannetty enter into My servants and enter into my garden. Right so

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this is this is what Dean is about.

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This is what Dean is about. This is what Islam is all about. And

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this is what human beings are needed. If this chapter in and of

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itself if we as an ummah, were able to implement this chapter,

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things would be very different.

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Islam as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us in the

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lodge, I mean on your head. Bucha man, Allah is beautiful and he

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loves beauty.

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And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam in Hadith Gibreel when

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Gibreel allihies Salam asked the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam what are they? What is the sun? And what is spiritual

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excellence and tabooed Allah aka Anika Tara for Olympia, contour

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Rahu for Yurok, that you worship Allah as though you see him and if

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you do not see him knowing that he sees you that this word is San is

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related to beauty. Right that Hassan and Hussein and the names

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of the parasites and his grandson, their grandsons, they're related

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to the word of beauty that they were beautiful that the deen is

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meant to beautify. And the spiritual path is beautified,

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beautifying your soul beautifying your inner state, unifying the

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aspect of you that is eternal, that Allah subhanho wa Taala will

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allow to continue into the athlete or and it will be everlasting.

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So, you know, a lot of people are concerned about the outward

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beauty. But the outward beauty will eventually fade one way or

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the other.

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It'll fade by old age or it'll fade by the end of this life. But

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we need to beautify ourselves in our state with Allah subhanho wa

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taala. And we do that by having a son in our acts of worship,

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whatever it may be, having a son in service, having a son in vicar,

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having a son in Florida, having a son in sadhaka. You know, and all

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of the different aspects of worshipping Allah subhanho wa

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taala. We'll look briefly at chapter 12. And we'll end here in

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sha Allah, because it's related to chapter 11, where a mom and her

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dad talks about acting with excellence and chapter 11. He then

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talks about abstaining with excellence in chapter 12. He says,

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it is as it is incumbent upon you to excel in everything that you do

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for the sake of God, in the way of good works devotions and

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benevolence. So is it also incumbent upon you to excel in

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abstaining for the sake of God, from evil, forbidden and suspect

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things and cravings? Excellence here is to refrain from them out

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of sincerity, reverence, modesty, fear, apprehension, and all of

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God, transcendent and Exalted is He and not out of shame

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dissimulation or fear of people. So in other words, when we abstain

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from abstain from that, which is Haram has nothing to do with other

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people.

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Has nothing to do with other people, whether they're going to

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judge us for doing it, or whether on the flip side, they're going to

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judge us for not doing it. Oh, you're like that? You don't do Oh,

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you're so backwards. You're so old fashion, your soul, whatever now

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Subhan Allah is the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told

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us what happened at the end of time, is that people would find

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virtue blameworthy and would find vice praiseworthy, flipped. It's

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inverted. To do what? You look, you know, you look like someone

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out of the 19th century looks so old fashioned Get with the times.

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It's like no, but the times, the times need to get right. Not me. I

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don't need to get with the times. So even when we're abstaining,

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it's not for the blame of people or it's not out of fear of the

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praise of people, or wanting the praise of people or out of fear of

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their blame is doing it. Because Allah Subhana Allah Allah is that

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of Buddhism. He is the Lord of Majesty. And he is also as we

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focus on and ponder and have hope in Allah subhanho wa Taala as

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attributes of beauty. We also have fear of Allah's attributes of

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majesty, that Allah subhana wa Tada is the one on the Day of

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Resurrection, who's going to make the mountains crumble into dust.

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Allah is the one on that day when that majesty becomes more manifest

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and there's no veil. We can't be heedless of it. The only way Danna

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Sheba the little kids will be go great in their hair when they

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recognize the majesty of that day, and the reality of that day. So we

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recognize that now and we avoid the Haram because of that.

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Excellence in abstention also includes avoiding situations where

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one may lapse, and any bad company that may encourage or drag you

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into them. No this successes from God Transcendent is He. It's

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amazing how he mom and her dad, may Allah be well pleased with

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him. The one kind of example or advice that he gives is staying

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away from Bad Company in places

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If you can avoid bad environments, and you can avoid bad and toxic

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company, you're already in a much better place in abstaining with

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excellence from the hat. And for the vast majority of people if

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they want to get right with Allah subhanho wa taala. If they want to

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devote themselves with ALLAH SubhanA, WA Tada, they need to

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avoid bad places, and be in the presence of good places. And they

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need to avoid bad people and be with good people.

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It's really that simple. It's simple, but it's not necessarily

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easy for people. It takes a big sacrifice in the minds of most

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people. But it's that simple, as far as I sent him said, that a

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good friend, and a bad friend is like someone who sells musk, a

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perfume seller, and someone who's a blacksmith, and the good friend,

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they'll either gift to you or give you

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this perfumed and beautified scent, such that when you leave

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their presence other people go

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that's such an amazing, beautiful, I feel like my day has been

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positive, positively affected by seeing you from being in the

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presence of someone good.

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So then you pass it on that person becomes beautified. Even in the

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surroundings, their clothing, their smell, so on and so forth.

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And other people are positively affected. And a bad friend is like

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a blacksmith, that person might burn you they might be you know,

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working with something very hot and you might get burnt, or at the

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very least you're gonna get dirty from all the soot

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and then you walk out and person comes in, they're unclean, other

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people don't want to be around them. So company is everything.

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And the mom and her dad just really kind of very succinctly

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focusing on that point is an indication of how impactful it can

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be. So we need to be around good company and ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada

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says in the Quran, yeah, evil ADINA, I'm gonna talk Allah Allah

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Kumar Saudi clean, are you who believe, be mindful of Allah and

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be with the Saudi of clean be with the people who are true in their

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dealings with Allah subhanho wa Taala and the dilemma they say

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it's a mercy from Allah that Allah didn't say well Kunal mineral

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scientifically and be of the Saudi of clean because that's a tall

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order, but be with the Saudi lien seek out their company, be in

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their presence. And as Allah teaches us in the story of the

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people of the cave, and Surah Tilka that even a dog is mentioned

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in the Quran and is honored by it's mentioned in the Quran

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because it was in the company of us have will.

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So if if now in total we had in our to our is a form of very bad

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to recall the story of this specific dog because it was with a

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slightly Hain than what about us if we connect with the inheritors

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of the Prophet sallallahu Arny he was salam and we fulfill being

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with the Saudi clean. May Allah subhanho wa Taala give us a son

00:33:12 --> 00:33:17

Allama yum and Wafaa Halal Halal Farah Annamalai are filthy natural

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hair we're an ally. Oh Allah Oh One who has granted enabling grace

00:33:21 --> 00:33:26

to the people of goodness and assisted them in it grant us still

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feel the NSA in goodness and assist us in it. Yeah, hammer

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rock. I mean, we ask you your Allah, Allah to help them now

00:33:33 --> 00:33:38

clear magnetically Sharma and then I mean, Do not deprive us of the

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best of what you have due to the worst of what we have are most

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Merciful and most generous and grant us and our loved ones and

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all who listen to this and watch this and hear this lesson. Grant

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us your economic Ramin to be allowed to be connected to the

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best of gatherings and the best of company and the best of

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environments and protect us from the worst of environments and the

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worst of company yet economic economic well some alota on a CD

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now Mahamadou early he was heavy Ultramarine Subhanak Allahumma

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will be home they can shadow Allah Allah Allah and still feel come on

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a two week

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follow up and I'm gonna be my attempt to rob the Alim nella, the

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owner of beef again now off again

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about the learner feeding in

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good returns

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