Yahya Rhodus – The Spheres of Islam, Iman, Ihsan & Irfan #4

Yahya Rhodus
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The speakers discuss the importance of protecting one's spirituality and maintaining good relationships with others. They stress the need to learn to achieve goals in learning, mastering the process, and not criticizing anyone. They also emphasize the importance of maintaining good health and maintaining good relations with other centers in the stomach and the importance of being a Shuhada. The speakers stress the need to practice learning and understand the nuances of one's life, and emphasize the importance of protecting one's spirituality and being a Shuhada.
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he'll recommend or email him. Did he die here a bit? I mean, well

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after the sadati but Tim Bucha sitting at a CU dinner, or Mowlana

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Mohammed and while early or Sahabi he was an investment in Subhanak

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Allah in Winona lemma I loved Hana in the country valium and Hakeem

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but I thought, what a quarter in

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knowing how to animate that name whenever when does that what does

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occur with good what is deferred? What has that atomistic indicator

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of Allah also noted Assouline. Salalah it cinnamon do eyelid

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Hooda with the lead and affair if Jehovah wishes are more loyal to

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your good with Robbie subhanho wa Taala Hello, then saw the hidden

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near nests at a law in your yard and I'm gonna do my laminate and

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zoom in when you're cleaning, I need a Payment How can you clean

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or you're gonna come out and whatever it they say you didn't

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we're ascending.

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So we've taken thus far,

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the introduction of his work as long as a we briefly discussed the

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biography of the rock man, but a little bit Fergie.

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A lot to Allah have mercy upon his soul and benefit us through him.

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And after his introduction, where he clarifies the scope of his

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work, he then says we're about to proceed. Now he's going to

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actually get into that, the book itself and that in particular,

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that what led to its authoring

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and so he says here for in one month early

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and mobile Alena Fila, Allah happened Imani Italica Sani Allah

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Allah year, wala Alia and earth god Allah will see it and jam tip

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me need to corner the hilltop zero turn what at Kubota nephew, Dean.

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So he says one of my brothers from the people of Allah, who

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befriended me for his sake upon true faith, and the path of our

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son implored me to provide him with a clear and comprehensive

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counsel, that will be a source of insight, and a beneficial

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reminder, and religion. So this is how it began. So if we look at the

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Arabic about that one, right, one of my brothers, and he describes

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this person as an ally law, he's from the people of Allah. So this

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tells us a little bit about how scholars and righteous people

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viewed one another.

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If you think about one of your friends, in the spiritual path,

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how many of them would you have the humility to ask to write a

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piece of advice for you to write a treaties for you, or to that, give

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you some pointers on what it is that you should do? These people

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were humble, and that they saw the fallen for people other than their

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own selves, is that they like to notice what was good in other

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people and highlight it. And they like to downplay their own selves,

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they would highlight the good and others and downplay the good that

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is in their selves. And this person is from the animal why Lean

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Fila and this is one of the greatest things of all while you

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are Lee

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is to be friends, someone for Allah sake, and to support someone

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for Allah sake. And to that assist one for Allah sake. And while in

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Fiddler.

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And this is what we want, we will always want in addition to our

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teachers, and they say that every student, every person, needs a

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teacher and a friend, a teacher and a friend. Because when you're

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around your teachers, there are certain things that you do and

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certain things that you don't do. And that you need to have friends,

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that will that assist you in the affairs that your teachers that

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don't directly assist you in because there's certain things

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that you're going to mention to your friends that you would never

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ever mentioned to your teachers, and they're there to help you and

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they're there to support you. So how was this Malala the support

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this is befriending him. Allah Imani for delicate SN Allahu

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Akbar, that who befriended me for his sake upon true faith in the

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path of your son.

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So this is how we described him.

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Masha Allah Huckle Eman fie Sarika?

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And he says here Allahu Allahu Allah, Allah, Allah. Is it so he

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implored me and he asked me that time and time again to provide him

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that with a clear and comprehensive counsel, so a we'll

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see Yeah. is a way of counsel will see is also the word that we use

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for like writing or will a will. But here it has this idea of

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counsel. We'll see I jam Yeah.

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So it's not just a council but its journey to being in and of itself

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that it will be comprehensive

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lead to, quote, an autopsy to attend kin and Fer and that how

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will this council help me? Is it pub sitter with Kira? The club

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Sara is he translates it here as

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a source of income that will be a source of insight. In takia,

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Nafisa, he translates here as a beneficial reminder. So the same

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word topsail relates to the very word of this work that we're

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studying fits through basalt, Juan,

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okay, and that it will be a source of insight and at the same time, a

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beneficial reminder beforehand in the religion.

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And then he says further, that will follow over and Taccone

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Sharmila 10 V. Walton, he will law heavy

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and he requested it be inwardly and outwardly complete. This is a

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big request. This is a big request that he wants to brief but at the

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same time, inwardly and outwardly complete. I want you to Jarrett,

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bein Academy Lula, and with Turkey will odia al Ali theme, love Akbar

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and it be inwardly and outwardly complete. And then it'd be a

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compilation of the words of the God fearing scholars who are

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saints and knowers of Allah.

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So what he's asking here is that he wants a piece of advice, that

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is sound outwardly and deep inwardly. And this is ultimately

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what is that we want to combine between the outward and inward, we

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want to combine between the shittier outward practice of this

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religion and between the inner path that you and I take to draw

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near to Allah subhana wa Tada. So he requested that this treaties

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join between that the aroma what they have to say, but not just any

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item with the poor of item, and with joking, people of Taqwa. And

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then also the Olia, the people of Allah, or the it Fein, the knowers

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of Allah subhanho wa taala.

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And I remember when I first arrived, to study him, and I asked

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one of my teachers, you know about this matter, because I had been

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exposed previously to a methodology where

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there tended to be more focused upon outward notes before they

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even embarked upon a study of inward knowledge. And I asked him

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about this, and that he responded by saying is that the total, the

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different ways that outward inward knowledge was studied,

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traditionally, were three

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is that you had those who that first studied outward knowledge

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and then after reaching a certain degree of our knowledge, then

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plunged into the depths of inner knowledge. That's a valid way. He

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said, But also you have that different people that they would

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study inward knowledge first,

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to develop purity of heart before studying our knowledge.

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He said, No, then you have that methodologies that join between

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both. That just as you study our knowledge, you combine with that a

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study of inner knowledge. He said, This is our way here. And so that

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every book of filk, there was a corresponding book of the soul.

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And that's really what we want, that we want to study physics, and

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we want to study to solve we want to study physics, and we want to

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study to solve together. And that both go hand in hand. But our

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knowledge is extremely important. And as we will see that he's going

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to mention fairly soon, is that outward, no, which is the gate to

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inner knowledge, there is no that understanding of inner knowledge

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without outward knowledge, it has to be from the gate of the

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outward. And this is how we verify that it's valid and authentic.

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And this is how we differentiate that true esoteric knowledge from

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that false spurious esoteric knowledge. The likes of the ball

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tonight said only focus upon the internal meaning, and that to the

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extent that it might contradict even the outward meaning, and

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that's rejected.

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And so we want to join between both. And then he says, well,

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Rafi, but Yuliya

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FEMA I limped to who my daddy was about to who was the Who was your

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Rhabdo? Who, an element where you're clean. And so he said, he

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saw of me that which I have fully acquainted myself with, and that

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which I've explored thoroughly and experienced through knowledge and

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certainty. So another viable is to desire something. This is one of

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the Arabic words

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Depending upon the

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particle that you use after it as it if you say lovely Buffy it's to

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desire something, if you say really bad, and it's to the

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inclined away to have an aversion towards something.

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And so that, that our Prophet said sort of I sent him and Nick are

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home in Suniti for man rod Lima rally by Anson knitty Felisa

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Minda, that Nikka marriage is from my suno. So returns away from my

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sunnah is not from us. So well another thing about LA, but here,

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it's not used that fee or and it's ILA. And what this means is that

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he had a desire in relation to me, he sought of me, what FEMA I

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limped to him and Danica, so he's desiring what to know what I know

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from this knowledge, so he wants that this treaties to be a source

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of insight, he wants it to be a beneficial reminder. He wants it

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to be comprehensive, and overarching, as an outward

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dimension and an inward dimension. And it fuses both the knowledge of

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the aroma outwardly and the knowledge of the outer thing

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inwardly. SubhanAllah.

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And at the same time that he wants to know about his experience, so

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these three words that you see there, what,

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what are the only thing I know to me that it will happen to us about

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your job to all three roughly mean the same thing? That How about

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here means relates to feabhra? What is that I know this word?

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Subhadra? Yes, Butoh Oh, seborrhea smooth, both are valid.

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permeations means something similar is to investigate

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thoroughly. And then Joe ruptor. Who is that to try or to test

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something out? So what I've experienced what I've investigated

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myself, and what it is that I've tried,

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min, Edelman europeen in relation to the knowledge that I have in

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certainty. So he responded to him. And there are so many treaties

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that this is how that they came about. Was it someone asked him

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about a particular question, they asked him to do something for

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them, they asked him to write a word for them. And then the author

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was inspired to write, and ultimately, is that the inheritors

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of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, they are the most humble of

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people. And while oftentimes they will go out of their way to

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benefit people, even if they're not as they will go out of their

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way to teach people even when they do not ask is that they also see

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that everything being from Allah. So when someone asks them, that

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for something outwardly, is that they tend to see that everything

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they see everything being from Allah, and they tend to see that

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as a sign that is, they should actually do that thing that is

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being requested of them.

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So he says, whoa, call will be learned Tofik. So I say, and my

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Tofik is from Allah. And he translates it here as in through

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Allah is guidance, and enabling grace for a cool. So this is his

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response to this brother of his in the path. And who asked for this

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treaties, that was comprehensive, and all the ways that was just

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mentioned, as well. So he's going to start, this is what He wants us

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to know. And this is another very long text. So we were going slow

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at the beginning, we're going to pick up the pace, don't worry,

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eventually, but we want to get the foundation strong before it is

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that we start moving a little bit more quickly.

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So he says here now this is going to be I'm going to need everyone's

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attention here. This is going to be a little bit deep. What he's

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going to say. And the implications of these very short packed phrases

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are many we're not going to go into too many of them but that you

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know when you see someone speak like this, like you are in the

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hands of a true expert

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and he's going to very gently guide you along the way and give

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you what it is that you need that at every step along that way.

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And so he begins by saying

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no, yeah.

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And how the AMA that this matter no matter what matter this matter

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of Deen this matter of the spiritual path this matter of what

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it is that you are asking about

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what Lobi diet all one kneehigh.

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It has a beginning and an end. It has a beginning and an end.

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Okay, whoa, whoa, what are here, a first and a last for Balton. We'll

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go ahead and inner aspect and an outer aspect will also women or

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photo roots and branches will fall soon. We'll do more how

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ARPs in holes.

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So I'm going to read the next sentence and we'll come back to

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that

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we'll add to the reco. Elaborate aquilini Hidayat, its utmost limit

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can only be reached by implementing its guiding

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principles. What I to not only hire to elaborate with it, it's in

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point can only be reached from the correct starting point.

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Well, I can rally or Woody 11 are here. The first is only complete

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when the last is completed. What I also like about any lemon law

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here, its inner aspect can only be reached through its outer aspect.

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One atellica, Ada photo 11, also to hear its branches can only be

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reached through its roots. What I typically imagine are here, let me

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magnify it for slowly Li. And its whole can only be truly known by

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knowing its parts. Allahu Akbar, that is absolutely amazing. He

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basically just summarized the entire approach that we need to

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have to the D.

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There's a B diet, and there's any higher bid, it literally means

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there's a beginning and the high is an end.

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So there's a beginning of the path, and there's an end. And what

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he's essentially saying here is, is that you have to know this, if

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you're going to achieve what it is that you're seeking. And it's like

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anything else, if you would want to put this gazebo together. And

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you wanted to start by putting a piece that you can only put at the

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end isn't going to help you know, you have to start in the proper

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way. There's a process that you have to go through this direction

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booklet. And the very first thing is we have these right to choose a

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flat spot and we have this specific type of rocks that are

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going to bear the weight of the gazebo. And then we build the

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foundation and end of the until eventually that we can then have

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this nice carpet in his nice pillows and then add everything

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else that we need to live string and the seats that were sitting on

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and cushions and so forth. But we're not going to bring cushions

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in here if the roofs not on yet. The point is, it's no different in

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terms of the deme. So just that in of itself eliminates this idea

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that people think that they can just go online and find out their

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Deen.

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It's a huge fitna, huge fitna. And that

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without going into too much detail, the fact that we have that

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so many religious works available to so many people is also a fit.

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And I'm not saying that you don't make religious works available.

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But it is a fitna, this unmitigated access to an abundant

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amount of information, that it's just too much for people to

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process, as it's like train to that do a whole bunch of different

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things and a computer that's very old and simply can't handle it.

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And it just gets slows down because it can't process it that

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quickly. And this is one of the biggest fits in of our time, is

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that information overload.

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And this is in general, but also in relation to Dean is that you

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cannot take Dean from books, you have to take the Dean from living

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representatives. And even the senator who came before so used to

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say this about the science of hadith is that the science could

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be a source of misguidance except for the OMA and Hadith su medulla

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tone, il onomah. Now, this does not mean that we don't read books

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like Riyadh, the Saudi Hain and Michiga Mesabi. And books of this

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nature that are meant for common folk to read. But what it means is

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if you just plunge into the depths of the books of Hadith, you could

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become confused. And because you don't know what to take, and when

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not to take from and so forth. And you have these examples of the

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early Hadith scholars coming to the likes of Imam Malik, where

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they studied so many Hadith that they started to get confused. And

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then you know, Malik tells them that leave this hadith and to take

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this hadith and to leave that and to understand this in this way,

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and so forth and so on. Right so that, that you can put everything

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in its proper place. The demons like this. Everybody has to have a

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guy we know this and everything is that we do that we don't do

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anything in life, except that we have a teacher. We go through

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certain types of training, that we go to school for certain reasons.

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And why do we think it's any different than the dean?

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And then even if we're convinced that okay, I need teachers, that

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why is that not our number one priority? This should be the

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number one priority of any Muslim community anywhere.

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Is to that train a generation of learned people, that can be us

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that could be sources of guidance for the community. Like it's just,

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it's actually beyond me, that you actually you hopefully don't have

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to convince the Muslim community on this, this should be so obvious

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is that the vast majority, or the greatest percentage of our

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resources go into this. Because that what ends up happening is is

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that it becomes full without substance. And if you look at the

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description of our profit, is the Prophet said is that there are

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going to be many on that day where the nations will gather together

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and eat from the Ummah, the way that people eat from a plate.

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And then I'm in it in your mind and your Rasul. Allah will be few

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on that day on Messenger and no, you will be many, but you will be

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like the foam on a flash flood, meaning you will be many a number,

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but you lack substance. So for those of us living in the end of

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time, that is the question that you and I want to ask ourselves,

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How can we live a religious life such that we are we have

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substance? And how does that relate to belief? How does that

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relate to practice? How does that relate to spirituality, it's

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coming.

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But this is very, very important. And that if people are convinced

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of this reality, and they that make strong intentions to do

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something about it, and they do what they can to work towards it,

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Allah will bring these people

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he'll bring these people to us, and He will allow them to grow in

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these lands and be embedded here, right in the societies in which we

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live. It's not far fetched. This is our job. This is our task. This

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is our duty. This is our mission, that this is the single most

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important thing that all of that our scholars of this generation

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that we know that converted from schicke no keler to Dr. Omar

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Farooq, Abdullah to Sheikh Hamza Yusuf to Imams a chakra, and

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Sheikh Abdel Hakim Murad, all of them recognizes this is what

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they're all doing. This is what they're doing in their own ways.

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Some of them are focusing more upon spiritual training, but

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they're teaching the training. They're raising and nurturing a

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whole generation.

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And others are focusing more on that outward forms of learning,

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combined with a general understanding of the spiritual

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path. But they're all doing the same thing. Because they recognize

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this is the way this is how the people before us did it. And this

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is what we need to do.

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And this is what's going to come back that often times very dry

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feeling that you feel when you visit Muslim communities, in

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places like the United States of America, where there's not a lot

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of knowledge, where there's not a not a lot of focus on

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spirituality,

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and that this is the solution that we all have to work towards. So

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there's a B Daya in any high it's very important. This is the first

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thing he mentioned. There's a B die in any higher. And from here

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we can reference the great book of human realizzati be dieted he

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died.

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And he died as guidance, the beginning of guidance. And one of

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the things that was that he states in his work is, is that I'm going

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to mention to you the beginning of guidance so you can test yourself.

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Are you really sincere in this path or not? I'm just going to

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mention to you that the basics. If you find yourself hasty wanting to

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put them into practice, you're serious. And this is a sign that

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Allah was good for you. But he said if you find yourself that

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being lazy and postponing and procrastinating, he said, This is

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a sign that she upon has overcome you and you think that you want

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something that you don't really want in reality. And you don't

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know the difference between he doesn't say this, I'm adding this

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between Rajat and Timoney.

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What's the difference between Rajat and too many I hear, you

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should know this by now. That he just not here to demo. So I'm

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calling him

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is true.

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That's how we transit in class. Reject is true hope to many is

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false hope, Rajat is a hope that you actually work towards to

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attain that, which is you hope for. Whereas too many is it's

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false hope you want something you hope for something but you don't

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put in the work to attain nothing. So there's true hope and there's

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false hope. So there's a B data and any higher there's an O one

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and an R here. There is a that first part and an N, there's a

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first and a last. Meaning there's things that come in order. You

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can't get into the more advanced steps. If you're still in the

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beginning stages. There are certain things that take

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precedence. And this is again why we need teachers. If we're left to

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ourselves, you'll be in

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disaster.

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And I like to laugh at myself. When I remember one time when I

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was in Mauritania, and, you know, you get exposed to the curriculum

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there. And it's a long curriculum because they memorize everything.

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I mean, it takes you, they don't have like a set, it's just, you

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know, you just keep studying. But if you do even do the basics, it

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takes you 10 plus years. Anyhow,

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I remember staying up really late one night. And they have this, I

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think, actually still have that binder.

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And I was writing down all the books that I wanted to study

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that's planning everything out. I will do this first. And this after

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that. And I stayed up really late.

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And one of the older students, I'm going over the house, his name was

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SIBO. I love preserver. I still eat lunch with him almost daily.

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And he was one of the great students. I'm going up with that

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house. As that he noticed that my flashlight, they don't have lights

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like this little lantern flashlight thing was on late. So

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he asked me next day at lunch, like what were you doing up so

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late? And I was like, I was planning out my studies for the

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next 10 years.

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And I was like, it's so important. I wanted to put, I want to just

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plan everything that I need to do. And he looks at me, he just

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laughed.

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He just laughed at me. Right? Because I was like, this is

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important. He just like he just laughed. He didn't even respond,

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he just left, right. And then I didn't even read my law had that

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day because I was so tired in the morning, or you end up sleeping in

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night and then you up. You didn't even do that the work of the day.

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So how are you going to attain what you need? How are you going

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to reach what is it you want to attain in 10 years,

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a basic level of planning is fine, but you focus on the moment. And

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mastering what it is is before you the step that you are on. And

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that's the sign of a senior person is that they're they know where

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they're at. And they're not worried about where someone

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else's. So if you think of being let's say, there's 100 steps, and

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your friend or someone next to you, or whatever else still in

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step 37, let's just say in your own 15, what does it matter where

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they are, it doesn't matter where everyone else's, what matters is

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where you are. What matters is if you're 13, you want to get to 14,

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if you're at 14, you want to get to 15. So maturity is is that you

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focus on your own self. And you don't try to act like other

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people, you focus where you're, you do what you need to do. And if

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there's things that you need to get at that stage, you get them.

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And that's a sign that that person when he does reach 37, or he does

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reach 50, or even beyond that is that they're going to do what it

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is that they need to do in that moment. This requires maturity,

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and they're not bothered by what other people are doing, we should

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focus on our own self. And then there's a Balton of it in a law

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here,

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as whole affair has an inner aspect. And an outward aspect is

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that this Dean has an outward dimension, and an inner dimension

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we want to join between the two. Remember we mentioned those two

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archetypes of how people go astray, laden with blue guiding

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Well, darling, is it again, one is more of an outward, that going in

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East and East exoteric way of going astray. And the other one is

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a more inward and more esoteric way of going astray, what we want

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is the perfect balance between the two.

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And that, from the bursting of a lot of medical data, we find that

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in our profits a little earlier I just sent him so there's a button

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in the nozzle Vahagn. But then there's also and photo. And now he

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started going into more scholarly terminology. It generally

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translates here as roots and branches. But there's all soil in

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this photo. And this could be understood in a number of

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different ways. And you have in generally in general, you speak of

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the science of soul. And then you speak of the science of FIP and

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that the individual rulings of fic are derived from the principles of

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basalt

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and all of the right the guidance scholars that is that are valid

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and an obligation for us to follow that they had no salt, they had a

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methodology on how they extracted law from the keytab in the Sunnah.

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And then that by way some of those who used analogical reasoning and

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then also ajumma there was a way that they came to know what it is

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that they know but then in a in a more general sense

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is that there are the roots and branches. There are that certain

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disciplines that that serve as the source for that other disciplines.

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And

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this is a very important topic and of itself. And there is a

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hierarchy of knowledge. And there are many scholarly works that talk

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about the

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Various types of knowledge, the memo is that it goes into great

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detail about this

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in the Hannah Medina in the keytab n, where he talks about the

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foundational sciences, and then what stems from that and lays it

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out in a very clear way. And other scholars have done this as well.

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But the whole point is, is that there's also an in there for is

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that this Dean is massive. This Dean is something immense is it,

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we have to know how to learn it, you cannot learn it overnight. In

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the head that Dean Mateen, this Dean is something great, an

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immense, it's monumental for oh, you will feel beautiful can enter

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into it gently enter into the Dean gently and learn from the proper

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sources. And that if you that learn traditionally,

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and that you do, what is it you're supposed to do, you will reach

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where it is that you need to go. All of the traditional chains that

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still exist on the face of this earth, if you learn from them with

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sincerity, and you put that knowledge into practice, it leads

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to the same goal.

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Don't mix and match at first, learn what it is that you need to

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learn. And then once you reach a certain level, then you can go

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somewhere else and learn something else, then you can add to that,

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then you can add to that. And you can develop a level of maturity

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where then you can study on your own. And it enhances you as

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opposed to leading you astray. In the beginning, if you tried to

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study too much on your own, is that you could make a lot of

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mistakes, and sometimes severe mistakes, you have to have

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teachers that helped unlock the meanings of this theme to you and

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tell you what to do at what time.

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So then he says then there's full zoom, and there's Joomla, there's

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parts, and there's holes.

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Okay, and that

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it's not as easy as just understanding the whole, you have

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to understand the part.

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And if you understand that part, you can understand another part.

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And then you combine the knowledge of those two, and then you

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understand another part, and then you understand another part. And

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sometimes you end up having to do that.

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Is that understand individual parts? And then after that, you

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start to put them together? This is how learning is? Is it if you

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think about this in terms of learning tissues, if you don't

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know how to read Arabic? Is it? Can you just start reading a word?

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No, you have to that just recognize the letter in and of

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itself. And then Oh no, the letter looks different. When it's in the

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first part of the word, or it's in the middle, or it's at the end, I

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hold on, I just I finally got the letter, but then it looks

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different in different parts of the word. And then what is that

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it's pronounced differently. If there's that little mark here are

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there, then there's different marks. And then when you think you

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got that, and then Oh, my God, then there's a thing called a

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sukoon. And then it's a tab moto Bucha, whatever it is, but it's

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pronounced like a hat. If you stop on it, then you start adding at

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that point. And then only then are you going to be able to get to the

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color color and the different types of modules and everything

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else that you need in terms of Tajweed later, but you got to

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learn those individual parts. And then eventually you put it

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together as a whole but then you don't even stop there. And

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sometimes people stop on the part of Tajweed which is the greater

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whole of what what's the whole purpose of Tajweed

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for hosting today the whole purpose of Tajweed is to

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facilitate reflecting upon the meanings of the Quran

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that's the purpose of tissues not that we become so preoccupied with

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our attention read that that's what we're focusing on. No you

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learn to read so you can recite the Quran properly. And then when

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you're reciting with tears read that your focus is on the meanings

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in recitation of tears with tears we enables you and facilitate for

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you to understand the meanings in greater depth. So, these are

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examples of parts and then how they relate to the whole okay.

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And then

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he has this he each one of the things that he mentioned

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is that he says here that

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will lead to direct hire to elaborate McQueeney hedaya to its

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utmost limit, the higher the greatest thing that you are

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seeking is that it can only be reached by implementing its

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guiding principles. This is a good transition. I like how I like this

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transition. Mashallah, because this is difficult to Queenie Hey,

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Dieter COVID.

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Well your call window

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literally means to

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like uphold or to establish

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and to rectify erect even he died to its but here I like how we put

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this implementing its guiding principles you know this this is

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that really what it means here is that you have to put it you have

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to let because he died is about a path it's about a way it's about

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that that that

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that going that that on a path

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no

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and then he says that will add to not only hire to elaborate or

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Sahibi data, its endpoint can only be reached from the correct

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starting point you got to put everything in its proper place.

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Without Kamali overly elaborate, Arkady, this is amazingly

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beautiful. So let's come on, there's no perfection for its own

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one, which is what you begin with. Okay. So the first is only

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complete when the last is completed in lebih activity. What

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does that mean? It means is that the Haqiqa is mecamylamine Alicia,

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thereby experiencing spiritual realities, it helps you perfect

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your implementation of the sacred law. In other words, is it you

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know how to pray you learn a can legal rulings for prayer, you

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learn that what needs to be there for your prayer to be valid, but

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your heart might not be present. You can know all of the outward

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rulings, but your heart's not present.

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And so that it's only when you start experiencing spiritual

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realities, you move to higher degrees of Sn. Then, before when

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you study the Allahu Akbar in the Shafi school, and some of the

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latest that the some of the works of the latest scholars, they

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mentioned 16 up to 20 different conditions for saying Allahu

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Akbar, when you enter into prayer.

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You don't want to be thinking about those 20 conditions for

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saying Allahu Akbar, all you want to do is just say, Allahu Akbar.

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But the idea of the Haqiqa is were really in your heart, nothing is

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echoed by that Allah, that you say, Allahu Akbar. And one of the

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wisdoms of lifting the hands, right rough as your deen is, is

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that you throw the entire dunya what's in it behind your back Alo,

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where you throw the dunya behind your back, and you bring your

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hands back down. And you tried to actualize in your heart that

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meaning that Allah is greatest. This is an example. So you begin

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by learning Oh, okay, I need to enter into my prayer by saying

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Allahu Akbar. But the end is where like really in your heart, that

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nothing is greater than Allah. And so that there's no perfection to

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its own word, which is what you learn in the beginning, except is

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what comes at the end.

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Well, I will say it I bought any illumines are heating is that

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there is that

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its inner aspect can only be reached through its outer aspect.

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And this is also very, very important. And that we learn in a

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hadith of our Prophet slicin liquidly I attend of the verse,

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every verse of the Quran has Allah Hold on while Balto noon. And

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outward at me in an in room meaning will hug doing a limit

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will look taller or Mattila and a vantage point or a rising point.

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And that

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this last meaning follow up is a if you translate it as a vantage

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point that it's been in a particular area and gazing that

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down then and a Mattila is arising point. And what that really means

00:39:16 --> 00:39:16

here is,

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is that there's no way for you to access the internal meanings

00:39:22 --> 00:39:28

except from the outward. The Sherea is a shell that preserves

00:39:28 --> 00:39:33

the inner meanings. It's like that oyster shell where then that

00:39:33 --> 00:39:34

you're going to find that pearl

00:39:35 --> 00:39:39

and you need that outward shell to protect the oyster or it's just

00:39:39 --> 00:39:43

going to be that exposed to whatever. And so the Sharia is

00:39:43 --> 00:39:49

there it's like gravity, it that grounds that our understandings of

00:39:49 --> 00:39:53

the inner science and it is impossible for there to be a

00:39:53 --> 00:39:57

contradiction between Sharia and Haqiqa. Impossible. There's never

00:39:57 --> 00:39:58

a contradiction.

00:39:59 --> 00:39:59

Sure

00:40:00 --> 00:40:04

Yeah is in its place in hockey because in its place, and that the

00:40:04 --> 00:40:10

shittier is always what we go back to. This is why that my, the

00:40:10 --> 00:40:14

guidance, the recommendation of our teachers is, is that do not

00:40:15 --> 00:40:20

learn from anyone, unless they're people have Shediac especially in

00:40:20 --> 00:40:24

the spiritual path, do not learn from anyone in the spiritual path,

00:40:25 --> 00:40:27

unless you know them to be a person of Shediac.

00:40:29 --> 00:40:33

You know them to be a person who takes the sacred law seriously.

00:40:34 --> 00:40:39

And if you see a teacher, not taking the sacred law CRC, that

00:40:39 --> 00:40:44

respectfully distance yourself from him or heart, right, so that,

00:40:45 --> 00:40:48

that you can protect yourself, because there is no contradiction

00:40:48 --> 00:40:54

between the two is that there is no access, right? That to the

00:40:54 --> 00:40:59

inner meanings of the sacred of the deen, except through the

00:40:59 --> 00:41:03

outward dimension of the sacred law. And this is very, very

00:41:03 --> 00:41:06

important. Its branches can only be reached through it's okay,

00:41:06 --> 00:41:09

excuse me, it's interesting that can only be reached through its

00:41:09 --> 00:41:14

outward aspect, when I tried to call ADA photo 11 are solely its

00:41:14 --> 00:41:18

branches can only be reached through its roots. Oh, my God,

00:41:18 --> 00:41:21

this is such an this is really profound. It really is profound.

00:41:21 --> 00:41:22

Because

00:41:24 --> 00:41:28

you see how people make mistakes, especially in the modern world,

00:41:28 --> 00:41:30

when they don't take from traditional scholars, they make

00:41:30 --> 00:41:34

major mistakes, and they don't realize what they're doing is that

00:41:34 --> 00:41:37

they develop judgments of individual rulings of the sacred

00:41:37 --> 00:41:42

law, bypassing completely and understanding No, no, there is no

00:41:42 --> 00:41:42

soul.

00:41:44 --> 00:41:48

That is the source of those rulings that you cannot bypass.

00:41:49 --> 00:41:53

Right? That its branches can only be reached through its roots.

00:41:54 --> 00:41:57

You cannot reach it any other way. And if you do, you could make

00:41:57 --> 00:42:01

major mistakes. And it might think that you might think that oh my

00:42:01 --> 00:42:03

god, I'm so intelligent, and I'm doing the right thing. And it

00:42:03 --> 00:42:07

makes so much sense now. But you do not realize the door that you

00:42:07 --> 00:42:07

open.

00:42:09 --> 00:42:13

And you don't realize the consequences of that position that

00:42:13 --> 00:42:13

you've taken.

00:42:14 --> 00:42:18

And this is really, really serious. And there's so many

00:42:18 --> 00:42:21

different examples of this, that we don't really want to go into

00:42:21 --> 00:42:24

cover this because sometimes when you mentioned specific examples,

00:42:24 --> 00:42:29

it becomes polarizing in the communities. And it hunted enough.

00:42:29 --> 00:42:34

This is part of the reason why we came out here, just so we could do

00:42:34 --> 00:42:37

what we want to do. And we don't want to bother anyone. And it's

00:42:37 --> 00:42:39

absolutely important that we maintain good relationships with

00:42:39 --> 00:42:43

all of the other centers in the stomach communities in masajid.

00:42:43 --> 00:42:48

Locally, absolutely. But we need to and an unabashedly unwavering

00:42:48 --> 00:42:51

sense, be firm on what it is that we're on. And we have the right to

00:42:51 --> 00:42:56

do so. Right? That this is lands belong to Allah to Allah and

00:42:56 --> 00:43:00

everyone's free to be wherever it is that they want to be. But this

00:43:00 --> 00:43:05

is very important. Because there's a lot of confusion on this. In our

00:43:05 --> 00:43:12

time, there is no way to reach the branches, except through the

00:43:12 --> 00:43:12

roots.

00:43:13 --> 00:43:17

And then he says will add to take up the imaginary end of humanity

00:43:17 --> 00:43:23

pursuing its whole can only truly be known by knowing its parts.

00:43:25 --> 00:43:29

And sometimes you have to focus on the parts before you bring it

00:43:29 --> 00:43:34

together as the whole. Now he's going to say though, and this is

00:43:34 --> 00:43:38

amazing, will couldn't know who Dino wha hid.

00:43:39 --> 00:43:44

That everything that has been mentioned, mentioned constitutes

00:43:44 --> 00:43:48

one religion. So these aren't like separate Dean's. It's one, the

00:43:48 --> 00:43:49

dean is one.

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And if you take it back to its origin,

00:43:55 --> 00:43:58

this was the experience of the sahaba.

00:43:59 --> 00:44:01

If you look at all of the individual disciplines that were

00:44:01 --> 00:44:03

studied, and are studied now,

00:44:04 --> 00:44:09

in those parts, that you have to get in order to bring together the

00:44:09 --> 00:44:13

whole all of it was taken directly from the Prophet Salah license.

00:44:14 --> 00:44:18

Can you think about Tafseer during the time of the Prophet slicin?

00:44:18 --> 00:44:21

What anyone that speak about tafsir when you have Rasul Allah

00:44:21 --> 00:44:25

Satellizer, before you, he's reciting the Quran to the

00:44:25 --> 00:44:28

Companions, he's explaining the Companions, the Koran to the

00:44:28 --> 00:44:32

Hadith, the whole science of Hadith, where the whole if you

00:44:32 --> 00:44:35

said to us a hobby that this hadith is Sophia, like, What do

00:44:35 --> 00:44:40

you mean? They don't know those technical terms. They're learning

00:44:40 --> 00:44:43

it directly from nano solar Sierra. They're witnessing it

00:44:43 --> 00:44:47

right before their eyes, the Arabic language, they're already

00:44:47 --> 00:44:51

masters of it. They were masters of the Arabic language, and all of

00:44:51 --> 00:44:54

the language all of the other sciences included in the Arabic

00:44:54 --> 00:44:58

language, who will suit that again, is that the Prophet was the

00:44:58 --> 00:44:59

legislator and you did

00:45:00 --> 00:45:03

Have companions then that were then conveying the meanings what

00:45:03 --> 00:45:05

they learned, learn from the resource? And yes, that you did

00:45:05 --> 00:45:08

have companions that the prophets sent, like, what are the

00:45:08 --> 00:45:11

mudgeeraba? Will you hear this? I have this amazing statement about

00:45:12 --> 00:45:16

what it was that he was going to do that if you didn't find the

00:45:16 --> 00:45:19

question that was presented on in the book of Allah, so the Prophet

00:45:19 --> 00:45:22

was opening up the door for each Jihad amongst the companions. But

00:45:22 --> 00:45:26

the point is, that was taken directly from him, all of the

00:45:26 --> 00:45:29

knowledge that needs to be learned, he was the source of

00:45:29 --> 00:45:33

everything. And he was the focal point. Some of it right here, some

00:45:33 --> 00:45:38

of you said him. And this is why you cannot separate the prophet

00:45:38 --> 00:45:42

from the Dean. I mean, it's so obvious that the fact that we even

00:45:42 --> 00:45:47

have to emphasize that it's almost insane. Of course, you can't. He

00:45:47 --> 00:45:52

did not just come to convey the message. And that's it. No, your

00:45:52 --> 00:45:55

connection to him is your connection to the dean, your

00:45:55 --> 00:45:58

connection to the dean is your connection to him.

00:46:00 --> 00:46:05

They both go hand in hand. And your love of Him is directly

00:46:05 --> 00:46:10

connected to your Eman in Allah and in the dean. It's directly

00:46:10 --> 00:46:12

connected. And

00:46:13 --> 00:46:14

do you even go further

00:46:15 --> 00:46:20

is that one of the greatest sources of protection of our faith

00:46:21 --> 00:46:22

is to believe in wrestling.

00:46:25 --> 00:46:29

Because when you start to get into complicated theology, there's

00:46:29 --> 00:46:31

certain things where you might just reach the point of like, I

00:46:31 --> 00:46:35

just don't understand how I don't I'm confused by that particular

00:46:35 --> 00:46:36

question or that issue.

00:46:37 --> 00:46:40

But if you take it back to something simple, in the end of

00:46:40 --> 00:46:43

the day, either Rasul Allah is telling the truth, or he's not

00:46:44 --> 00:46:45

sure who that is not.

00:46:46 --> 00:46:51

He can always ground us, no matter how in depth and complicated the

00:46:51 --> 00:46:56

philosophical discussions become, I believe in Rasulullah. And that,

00:46:56 --> 00:46:57

in of itself,

00:46:58 --> 00:47:04

is the means for us to have the highest degree of ethical image of

00:47:04 --> 00:47:05

realization of human

00:47:06 --> 00:47:11

because, say no Bakr, Siddiq, that's how he became a Sandeep. It

00:47:11 --> 00:47:17

was his belief in Rasul Allah. And this was a great test for some of

00:47:17 --> 00:47:21

the believers, you mean to tell me this distance that we traveled, it

00:47:21 --> 00:47:26

takes us a long time to get there that you went by night, right from

00:47:26 --> 00:47:31

that Mecca to Jerusalem, and then you came back, and he ascended

00:47:31 --> 00:47:33

into heaven. There were people around the prophet who were

00:47:33 --> 00:47:38

telling him not to tell people about it. And we just read the

00:47:38 --> 00:47:42

narrative not too long ago on the 27th. Tonight, I'm Raja

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

on the 27th of Roger but the point here is, is that when they came to

00:47:47 --> 00:47:53

say no McKenna Siddiq, what did he say? His famous statement, and

00:47:53 --> 00:47:56

Carla halfa could suck, if the prophet said it.

00:47:58 --> 00:48:03

He is truthful, he's true, it is true, what us he has told the

00:48:03 --> 00:48:06

truth if he said it, he has told the truth. In other words, if he

00:48:06 --> 00:48:11

said it, that's what happened. And I affirm and it is to our belief

00:48:11 --> 00:48:15

in the Prophet, that you and I could potentially become Shuhada

00:48:15 --> 00:48:16

witnesses

00:48:17 --> 00:48:21

for other prophets from previous nations.

00:48:24 --> 00:48:28

Because we testify to the truth of the Prophet sallallahu Senem and

00:48:28 --> 00:48:32

we learn about these prophets and their teachings in the book of

00:48:32 --> 00:48:37

Allah Tada. And so we can actually testify right to the truth of our

00:48:37 --> 00:48:41

teachings because we believe in Rasul allah sallallahu alayhi wa

00:48:41 --> 00:48:46

sallam. This is fundamental, nothing is more dangerous, than to

00:48:46 --> 00:48:51

try to separate the love and connection that the OMA has to

00:48:51 --> 00:48:56

Rasulullah sallallahu Sena, this is very serious. And we must

00:48:56 --> 00:49:00

preserve this in a balanced way, the way that the right guidance

00:49:00 --> 00:49:05

scholars always have throughout the centuries. And we join between

00:49:05 --> 00:49:07

love in metabo

00:49:08 --> 00:49:14

is not just blind love, is love, and metabo we love Him and we

00:49:14 --> 00:49:18

follow Him. We follow him and we love him. We join between the two.

00:49:20 --> 00:49:26

And love is the foundation and letaba following leads towards

00:49:26 --> 00:49:26

perfection.

00:49:28 --> 00:49:32

The perfection of love is in metabo This is why the greatest

00:49:32 --> 00:49:37

phrase that you can give someone to say is that they closely follow

00:49:37 --> 00:49:40

the messenger of Allah Sunlen Lohar DO IT Savvy sudden. So

00:49:40 --> 00:49:45

everything that has been mentioned is one Deen it constitutes one

00:49:45 --> 00:49:52

religion. And it is what he says here. It is the set auto stocking

00:49:53 --> 00:49:58

recruiting and why you don't want to recon Mr. Payne and

00:50:01 --> 00:50:03

It is a straight path.

00:50:04 --> 00:50:07

And then he says, Love hope manners.

00:50:09 --> 00:50:15

Okay, Nasrallah that in Xero has number of meanings. One of them is

00:50:15 --> 00:50:20

to travel, a Manziel. It's a house, yes. But it's also a

00:50:20 --> 00:50:26

waystation. So you talk about the lunar mansions, that each night

00:50:26 --> 00:50:33

that it's an additional 15 degrees further in the sky. And a Menzel

00:50:33 --> 00:50:36

is if you're traveling somewhere, it's a waystation, someplace that

00:50:36 --> 00:50:39

you stop, because you can't do it all at once. And then you travel

00:50:39 --> 00:50:41

the next distance, and then you travel the next step. So the dean

00:50:41 --> 00:50:46

is like that. There's a nozzle, you have to do this. And then you

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

do this. And then you do this. And then you do this. And if you

00:50:50 --> 00:50:54

remember, what we discussed last year at the summer retreat, and I

00:50:54 --> 00:50:58

don't know if anyone is able to attend those sessions or not. We

00:50:58 --> 00:51:01

can give you the videos if you want. It's a very important topic

00:51:02 --> 00:51:05

that we looked into the book of human animal walk about the

00:51:05 --> 00:51:09

stations of religion, we talked about nine stations of religion.

00:51:10 --> 00:51:15

Actually, I think we didn't do the last class. But, anyhow, that you

00:51:15 --> 00:51:16

got to know where you're at.

00:51:17 --> 00:51:21

Because you don't know you got to know where you need to go. And you

00:51:21 --> 00:51:25

got to know how to get from where you're at, to where it is that you

00:51:25 --> 00:51:25

need to go.

00:51:27 --> 00:51:27

Okay?

00:51:30 --> 00:51:34

No, so everything that has been mentioned constitutes one

00:51:34 --> 00:51:39

religion, it has stations, okay, or waystations. And it has mana

00:51:39 --> 00:51:45

Hill manhal. And he translates it here as springs, but a min * is

00:51:45 --> 00:51:47

like a watering hole.

00:51:49 --> 00:51:56

Okay, it has different places that you go to receive that your

00:51:56 --> 00:51:56

portion firm.

00:51:58 --> 00:52:04

And it also has delta jet. There's various degrees, or he translates

00:52:04 --> 00:52:07

to here as grades. And then there's more on YouTube. And then

00:52:07 --> 00:52:13

there's levels. So we have to know where we're at. And that the most

00:52:13 --> 00:52:16

dangerous thing is to claim Well, we're not. So we'd have to know

00:52:16 --> 00:52:19

where we're at, and then figure out where it is that we need to

00:52:19 --> 00:52:22

go. And that equals versus would it couldn't Linda result. I mean,

00:52:22 --> 00:52:27

I mean, you know, for all their rigs, according to their deeds,

00:52:28 --> 00:52:31

Yoda for 11 million Airmen, I'm in cold weather in order in Medora

00:52:31 --> 00:52:35

shots, Allah will raise those among you who believe, and those

00:52:35 --> 00:52:39

who have been granted knowledge to higher ranks. And that even

00:52:39 --> 00:52:44

ambassadors a famous statement is that the difference between the

00:52:44 --> 00:52:51

degree of the common person and the scholar is 500, there's 500

00:52:51 --> 00:52:55

degrees of difference. He said, each degree is like the difference

00:52:55 --> 00:52:56

between the heavens and the earth.

00:52:57 --> 00:53:02

And if you think about in this world, is that all of the ways

00:53:02 --> 00:53:04

that different degrees just think about wealth?

00:53:06 --> 00:53:10

Right, there's a significant percentage of humanity that are

00:53:10 --> 00:53:11

surviving on $1 a day.

00:53:13 --> 00:53:19

And then that we have that multibillionaires. And those

00:53:19 --> 00:53:21

numbers are increasing, it's actually from the sign of the End

00:53:21 --> 00:53:23

of Time that wealth will increase.

00:53:24 --> 00:53:28

And the disparity between the riches of the rich in the poorest

00:53:28 --> 00:53:32

of the poor, and how much the riches of the rich own from the

00:53:32 --> 00:53:35

world's resources just in the country in which we live, that

00:53:35 --> 00:53:41

were 5% of the world's population, and we consume that what 30 40% of

00:53:41 --> 00:53:46

its resources or something, and a significant portion of the world's

00:53:46 --> 00:53:51

resources disproportionate to our population. And the closer and

00:53:51 --> 00:53:55

closer we get to the end of time, the more imbalanced is going to be

00:53:55 --> 00:53:59

in the world. And that if we think about it, in the sense, though,

00:54:01 --> 00:54:05

then when an athlete or two in the next world, there's going to be

00:54:06 --> 00:54:09

that even more preference and even greater disparity.

00:54:11 --> 00:54:16

Okay, and that, not that we see this disparity as good here in

00:54:16 --> 00:54:21

this world. Okay, when we talk about the increasing gap between

00:54:21 --> 00:54:23

the rich and the poor, that should bother us. And we, as Muslims

00:54:23 --> 00:54:25

should be at the forefront of conversations to do something

00:54:25 --> 00:54:27

about that. And many of these other very important

00:54:27 --> 00:54:30

conversations, but the reality is, in the next world, there's going

00:54:30 --> 00:54:35

to be that greater difference in degrees and ranks because it's the

00:54:35 --> 00:54:40

Arcata. It's more expensive than this world. And that

00:54:41 --> 00:54:47

the dunya in his expansiveness, compared to the aka is, like

00:54:47 --> 00:54:50

someone experiencing the womb of their mother to the world.

00:54:51 --> 00:54:54

We're like in this whole world in which we live, it's like a womb.

00:54:55 --> 00:54:59

And what opens up into us is something that much, much greater

00:54:59 --> 00:54:59

much

00:55:00 --> 00:55:01

is much more expensive.

00:55:03 --> 00:55:07

So head on shot, let's, let's stop there. You don't want to take too

00:55:07 --> 00:55:10

much, and that we will slowly work through the introduction. And then

00:55:10 --> 00:55:13

once we start getting to the

00:55:14 --> 00:55:18

each sphere, we'll be able to move a lot quicker and be the night

00:55:18 --> 00:55:21

data. Unless you don't have to give us your feet and give us an

00:55:21 --> 00:55:25

understanding of this religion on the mythical Dean COVID-19 Well, I

00:55:25 --> 00:55:29

didn't know we'll and to give us understanding of your book Yahama

00:55:29 --> 00:55:32

I mean understanding of the Sunnah of your messenger, ya know, but I

00:55:32 --> 00:55:36

mean, ALLAH SubhanA data always keep us at the doorstep of the

00:55:36 --> 00:55:39

right the guy had skulls, who can train us and teach us this

00:55:39 --> 00:55:42

religion, when we put everything in his proper place. And when we

00:55:42 --> 00:55:46

regretted wisdom Yahama Ramin did everything in its time in a way

00:55:46 --> 00:55:49

that is most pleasing to our Lord Subhana wa Tada. We live in that

00:55:49 --> 00:55:52

upon this religion, we're not out to make us firm in it, we have a

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

high spiritual aspiration that which we cannot reach out of it. I

00:55:55 --> 00:55:59

mean, through our HT hat and our hard work that we put in net which

00:55:59 --> 00:56:02

we cannot reach by our actions that which we cannot reach from

00:56:02 --> 00:56:04

the things that we want to do. And that's when we asked you how to

00:56:04 --> 00:56:07

but I don't mean to versus to reach that through our intention.

00:56:07 --> 00:56:10

And bless us to grant us the greatest of this world in the next

00:56:10 --> 00:56:15

solely because we believe in you we know that you are the giver,

00:56:15 --> 00:56:18

and when you give it no one can prevent what it is that you get

00:56:18 --> 00:56:21

and a lot of other Qatada Busselton lives in his obedience

00:56:21 --> 00:56:23

will sell a lot. I think Muhammad didn't want to address me Salam

00:56:24 --> 00:56:25

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