Yahya Rhodus – Lesson – 1 Introduction- What Is in a Name

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The importance of knowing the Prophet's name and his deification in the spiritual world is discussed, as it is not allowed to be used. The Roha is about learning the names of the Prophet and bringing in the benefits of his image, while also discussing the importance of learning the names of the Prophet and their characteristics, which increases one's love for him and her love for him. A culture worker recites a passage of literature to encourage people to visit his resting place, and a book about the resting place describes a woman and her face.

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			In the name of Allah, and peace and
		
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			blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, and
		
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			upon his family and companions, and upon all
		
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			who follow him.
		
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			And the 201 or 202 names, it has
		
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			the transliteration of them as well as the
		
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			translation.
		
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			And if you purchase the book, you also
		
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			have access to the recording of their recitation.
		
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			So it's good to constantly and regularly hear
		
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			the recitation of the blessed names of Rasulullah
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			And it's also one of the great ways
		
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			to come to know him, learning his names.
		
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			Because each one of those names tells us
		
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			something about him.
		
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			This is why he was given that name.
		
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			So today we're just going to read the
		
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			opening bit here, which is a type of
		
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			introduction to these blessed names of Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			And these names are still there today, that
		
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			if you walk in the blessed mission of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ, if you notice to your
		
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			right, you will see them written in beautiful
		
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			calligraphy to your right.
		
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			As you enter into the blessed gate that
		
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			leads to where you then send salams to
		
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			the best of creation ﷺ.
		
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			So those that are following along with the
		
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			book, we are going to read from part
		
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			two, where it states, what's in a name?
		
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			So mostly we're going to be reading, which
		
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			is very light commentary for this session.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ is described in many ways
		
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			throughout the Quran and in prophetic literature, hadith
		
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			and seerah.
		
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			The Arabs say that the more names a
		
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			thing has, the more noble it is.
		
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			A number of scholars have compiled collections of
		
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			names of the Prophet ﷺ to increase the
		
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			appreciation of who he actually is.
		
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			So notice he didn't say was, who he
		
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			is.
		
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			He was, is and will be ﷺ.
		
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			Who he was, who he is and who
		
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			he will be.
		
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			In some cases, they collected 99 names to
		
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			match the 99 names of Allah mentioned in
		
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			a famous hadith.
		
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			Qari Abu Bakr ibn Arabi relates in his
		
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			commentary on the Kitab al-Shamayun, the great
		
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			hadith compilation of Imam al-Tirmidhi describing the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			So he mentions in his commentary that some
		
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			Sufis have said that the Prophet ﷺ has
		
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			a thousand names.
		
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			Ibn al-Faris includes 2,020 in his
		
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			Tafsir Asma al-Rasul.
		
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			While Abu al-Hassan al-Subqi states that
		
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			they number 4,000.
		
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			Imam al-Qastanani relates just over 500 in
		
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			his work in Mawahib al-Ladunniyya.
		
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			The great Imam Qadi Iyad in his famous
		
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			book Ashifa the Healing.
		
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			His classic treatise on the Prophet ﷺ limits
		
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			himself only to those names ascribed clearly to
		
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			him.
		
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			He also says that the Prophet ﷺ has
		
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			30 names which are also among the names
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			So there's different approaches that the different scholars
		
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			have taken to list the blessed names of
		
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			our Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Other authorities such as Imam al-Nawi, Imam
		
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			al-Suyuti, Imam al-Sahawi derived his names
		
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			not only from names clearly described to him
		
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			but also from various actions attributed to him
		
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			as well.
		
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			So he took an action and attributed that
		
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			to him and described him in a certain
		
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			way.
		
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			Imam al-Jazudi collected 201 according to the
		
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			collection of Abu Imran al-Zannati al-Fasi.
		
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			Although I have numbered them as 202, it
		
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			may well be that Imam al-Jazudi considered
		
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			Ra'uf and Rahim as a single name
		
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			since they come together without any conjunction in
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			Imam al-Ghazali relates that the learned are
		
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			in agreement that it is not permissible to
		
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			give the Prophet ﷺ a name unless either
		
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			Allah has given it to him in the
		
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			Quran or else it has come to us
		
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			from previous scriptures or from his father Abdullah
		
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			or his grandfather Abd al-Muttalib or he
		
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			gave it to himself.
		
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			Any name we attribute to him must have
		
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			been related through some valid source.
		
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			Scholars consider it permissible to extrapolate names not
		
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			only from rigorously authenticated or sound traditions but
		
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			also from weak ones that have not been
		
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			rigorously authenticated because they do not believe this
		
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			to be one of the matters of tenets
		
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			of faith which require definitive knowledge concerning which
		
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			there is no doubt.
		
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			And because this just gives us a more
		
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			complete picture of our blessed Prophet ﷺ increases
		
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			our knowledge that in him and this is
		
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			why they deem this to be permissible.
		
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			Nevertheless we are not allowed to devise or
		
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			invent names for him even if they allude
		
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			to a perfection fitting for him.
		
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			The reason why it is not permitted is
		
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			that it is only fit for us to
		
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			ascribe to him qualities which are fit for
		
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			man.
		
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			If we were to ascribe any perfection to
		
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			him beyond those that have come to us
		
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			through the Quran and hadith we could unwittingly
		
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			lapse by ascribing to him attributes which are
		
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			only fit for Allah and thus fall into
		
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			the unlawful.
		
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			Or that you could ascribe an attribute to
		
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			him that you think is something good to
		
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			attribute to him but it actually is something
		
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			negative or that indicates something that we shouldn't
		
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			ascribe to him ﷺ.
		
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			So Sheikh Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Fasi in
		
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			his commentary on Ad-Dilai al-Khairat says
		
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			about the benefits of knowing the names of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			This is a long quote.
		
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			One of his many merits, Allah bless him
		
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			and give him peace is that mentioning his
		
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			names enables one to visualize him and bring
		
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			him to mind and to gain true knowledge
		
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			of him his names, his attributes and the
		
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			glorious station he has with his Creator.
		
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			So this is why we are doing this
		
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			as a part of the Roha officially moving
		
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			on.
		
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			It is going to take us a while
		
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			to get through all of this.
		
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			But this segment of the Roha is about
		
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			coming to know the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			We all want to know Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			That being the prerequisite of falling in love
		
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			with him.
		
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			We want to know him.
		
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			And we are going to be taking steps
		
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			in that direction by studying his names and
		
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			also studying his Shamail, his blessed characteristics ﷺ.
		
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			So the quote continues.
		
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			Qadi Iyad says in Ash-Shifa One of
		
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			the things Allah has made unique to him
		
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			is that he has made it so that
		
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			his names incorporate praise of him and by
		
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			remembering him, one shows the gratitude that is
		
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			his due.
		
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			The purpose behind them is to gain greater
		
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			knowledge of him knowing that his many names
		
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			indicate his greatness brings about veneration for him,
		
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			increases one's love for him.
		
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			Knowing each specific name also increases one's respect
		
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			and adoration for him and encourages one to
		
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			invoke abundant blessings upon him.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			So one got that?
		
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			This is why we study these names.
		
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			The increase in veneration, respect, love, attachment and
		
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			then we send more salawat upon him.
		
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			And then something that wasn't mentioned here is
		
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			that if they say When you mention the
		
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			righteous mercy descends then they used to say
		
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			Then how about the most righteous person ever?
		
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			If mentioning Awliya which were great but they're
		
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			not prophets mercy descends through mentioning them in
		
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			their stories then what about Rasulullah?
		
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			When you mention him, what type of mercy
		
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			descends?
		
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			What type of light enters into the heart?
		
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			What happens in the unseen?
		
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			How much purification takes place when this happens?
		
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			This is one of the most important things
		
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			of all.
		
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			The righteous, they tend to have their discourse
		
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			revolve around Rasulullah.
		
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			They're always reminded of him.
		
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			They tie things back to him.
		
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			And the higher one's maqam with Allah the
		
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			more that they constantly speak about Rasulullah.
		
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			Such that we reach the highest degrees of
		
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			representation of the Prophet in this world almost
		
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			everything that they speak about is tied to
		
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			the Messenger of Allah.
		
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			Because of the doors that have opened up
		
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			for them to know who he truly is
		
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			and understanding is that when you spend time
		
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			thinking about and loving and praising and discussing
		
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			the Beloved of Allah the single most beloved
		
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			person ever in human history in existence to
		
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			Allah Jalla Jalaluhu you realize that the more
		
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			that you take part in that the more
		
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			that you get.
		
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			And if you don't take part in that,
		
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			you're the one who loses.
		
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			And he's not harmed in any way.
		
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			But the more that we take part in
		
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			that the more the floodgates of mercy open
		
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			up for us.
		
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			So he goes on to, this is still
		
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			the quote.
		
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			Many of these names are mentioned in the
		
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			following chapters which concern the way to invoke
		
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			blessings upon him.
		
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			But they are collected together here beforehand.
		
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			This is in order that anyone reciting the
		
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			blessings on him in the subsequent chapters will
		
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			be aware of these qualities enumerated in regard
		
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			to him and know they are truly his
		
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			names.
		
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			Allah bless him and give him peace.
		
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			Likewise, Sheikh Ibn al-Fakihani compiled a chapter
		
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			dedicated to his names in his book Al
		
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			-Fajr al-Munir as did Abu al-Khair
		
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			al-Sakhawi in Al-Qawla al-Badi'a.
		
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			And Allah knows best the intention of them
		
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			all.
		
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			So this is from his Matala al-Masarrat
		
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			is his commentary on Dala'il al-Khairat.
		
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			So Sheikh Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Fasi goes
		
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			on to explain the wisdom behind the names
		
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			being mentioned before the image of the resting
		
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			place of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			So that if you look in your copy
		
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			of Dala'il al-Khairat is that he
		
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			mentions many of the fada'il and the
		
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			merits of sending salawat upon the best of
		
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			creation ﷺ and then that there the names
		
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			are mentioned.
		
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			Sayyidina Muhammad, Sayyidina Ahmed, Sayyidina Hawa, Sayyidina Mahmood
		
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			until the end.
		
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			And then there's a Sifat al-Rawda al
		
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			-Mubarakah that is a mention of the description
		
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			of the blessed Rawda of our Prophet ﷺ
		
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			and we start to see here how the
		
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			grave of the Prophet ﷺ is how the
		
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			grave of Sayyidina Abu Bakr is and how
		
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			the grave of Sayyidina Umar bin al-Khattab
		
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			is.
		
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			And it's explained for us there.
		
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			So he's explaining the wisdom of including that
		
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			here.
		
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			And he says that he also explains why
		
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			we recite the poem entitled Qasidat al-Salam
		
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			said to have been composed by Imam al
		
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			-Jazuri when he visited the tomb of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ we're going to end the rauha
		
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			tonight with that and that's the one So
		
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			why does he include this brief map of
		
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			the resting place of Rasulullah ﷺ and then
		
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			this blessed poem in which the line says
		
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			if he comes distant from me and difficult
		
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			for me to visit is that my image
		
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			of it in my mind is the very
		
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			best of images of all in other words
		
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			is that I can use my ability to
		
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			I can use my ability to think about
		
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			things that are I can use my ability
		
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			to imagine things that are in a totally
		
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			different place thousands of miles away to bring
		
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			me closer so we want the road of
		
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			Sharifa to be imprinted on our imagination because
		
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			at any given moment you could be in
		
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			the worst of places you could be in
		
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			a place outwardly that's filled with crime and
		
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			dirty and dark you imagine yourself in front
		
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			of the road of Sharifa and a person
		
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			is where their heart is person is where
		
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			their heart is and Alhamdulillah has blessed us
		
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			to be speaking about all of this and
		
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			have a blessed carpet that was actually in
		
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			that space in proximity to Rasulullah ﷺ So
		
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			he also explains why we recite the poem
		
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			entitled Qasidatul Salam, he says Then the author
		
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			Rahimahullah may Allah have mercy upon him and
		
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			be pleased with him followed the names with
		
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			a description of his blessed resting place in
		
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			the sacred graves following Shaykh Tashiddin Ibn al
		
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			-Faqihani who devoted a chapter of his book
		
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			Al-Fajr Amir to a description of the
		
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			graves one of the benefits of this is
		
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			that those who have not had the opportunity
		
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			to visit his resting place can visit its
		
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			image instead he who yearns to do so
		
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			may gaze upon it press his lips against
		
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			it and increase in love and longing for
		
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			it many people have taken the image of
		
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			the sandal in place of the sandal itself
		
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			and shown it honor and respect authors have
		
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			exposited its special qualities and blessings which have
		
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			been tried and tested and cited many verses
		
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			on the subject many books have been compiled
		
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			concerning the image of the sandal and scholars
		
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			have cited proofs for the permissibility of doing
		
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			so one of them said when yearning for
		
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			it makes me restless and my desire to
		
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			stand before it is unfulfilled I engrave an
		
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			image of it on my palm until my
		
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			eyes hold fast to this another reason why
		
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			it is found here is that the grave
		
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			is mentioned in three or four sections of
		
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			the book also at the end the author
		
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			mentions the graves of the Prophet and his
		
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			two companions may Allah be pleased with them
		
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			both moreover the book describes a number of
		
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			his inward and outward qualities as well as
		
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			his way of life salient features, miracles and
		
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			states with which this chapter is concerned some
		
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			authors have described them in their books on
		
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			the life of the Prophet some of those
		
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			who have spoken about the litanies and the
		
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			manner in which one should compose oneself when
		
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			invoking them state that after invoking one should
		
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			visualize his noble entity in front of oneself
		
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			as a human figure of light in garments
		
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			of light taken into consideration the reality of
		
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			his human nature and that his garments follow
		
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			suit thanks to the fulfillment of the greatest
		
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			miracles with which Allah has honored him that
		
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			is a means for his image to be
		
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			imprinted on one's soul and so that one
		
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			may find solace with it in a manner
		
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			in which one may benefit from his secrets
		
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			and draw from his lights what a blessing
		
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			to have this in English to have this
		
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			in English with such that beautiful prose the
		
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			same author continues but if one cannot bring
		
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			his image to mind one should see oneself
		
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			sitting before his blessed grave porting towards it
		
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			whenever mentioned him for when the heart is
		
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			preoccupied with something it is prevented from accepting
		
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			anything besides it at that moment hence anyone
		
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			who is invoking blessings upon him from this
		
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			book and does not know the noble resting
		
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			place in the sacred graves in whose state
		
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			is preoccupied as we have described which means
		
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			the majority of people needs to envision them
		
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			in order to recognize their image and bring
		
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			them to mind and help us be present
		
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			in fact I've read a treatise by one
		
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			of the scholars from the East saying an
		
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			aspirant who invokes the majestic name of Allah
		
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			should write it in gold on a parchment
		
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			of paper and place it before his eyes
		
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			therefore if the reader of this book draws
		
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			the image of the resting place of the
		
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			messenger of Allah peace be upon him and
		
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			beautifully would find colors specifically in gold well
		
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			that will be equivalent to what has been
		
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			mentioned and Allah knows best this is the
		
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			end of the quote from the Tariq al
		
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			-Musammat so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give
		
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			us tawfiq in this endeavor and open up
		
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			the doors for us in order to come
		
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			to know our prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa alhamdulillahi rabbil
		
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			alameen