Yaser Birjas – Asr Khatirah – Asking For Coolness Of Our Eyes Through Our Families

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The "iva of the family" is the worshippers who pray and make "the gifts" of their faith, while the "iva of the family" is the worshippers who want comfort and hotness. The "iva of the family" is the worshippers who want to express comfort and hotness, while the "iva of the family" is the worshippers who want to be models for the father's generation. The "coolness" concept is related to the "coolness of the eyes" and is the reward for those who bring the highest balances in Jannah, and rewarded for their actions.

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			Today, inshallah, we have in a special, du'a.
		
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			And that du'a
		
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			This dua is from the family, for the
		
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			family.
		
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			Can you guys hear me?
		
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			Okay. We got we got one.
		
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			So this dua is a very special dua.
		
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			The Dua of for the family as Allah
		
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			Subhanahu mentions Surat Al Furqan
		
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			chapter 25,
		
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			number 63. Actually, a matter of fact, it's
		
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			60 exactly to be specific, it's 60, 74.
		
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			So from the,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			they are those who pray,
		
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			our Lord bless us with 5 spouses
		
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			and offspring
		
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			who will be the joy of our hearts
		
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			and make us models for the righteous.
		
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			So he, his,
		
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			says here,
		
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			And they and there are those who pray,
		
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			those who say those who make that dua.
		
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			What is what Allah's talking about? Anyone
		
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			knows the context?
		
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			Who are these people? Allah's talking about those
		
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			who say and those who pray and those
		
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			who make that dua. Who are they? Dua.
		
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			These are the worshippers
		
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			of the most merciful.
		
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			Because if you go back in the Surah,
		
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			going back to aya number 63.
		
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			Aya number 63, Allah says,
		
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			And the true servants of the most compassionate
		
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			are those who walk on the earth humbly.
		
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			And when the foolish address address them improperly,
		
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			they will respond with peace.
		
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			Allah has mentioned many beautiful qualities about them.
		
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			Those who when they are approaching,
		
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			they do well, they stay away from haram.
		
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			When they, protect themselves against committing adultery or
		
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			fornication, they keep themselves
		
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			just. Those are so I mentioned many of
		
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			them
		
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			And
		
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			among what they say, he said,
		
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			they are day and night in a and
		
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			worship to Allah
		
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			And among all these beautiful qualities,
		
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			there was one particular thing
		
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			to their families, and that was towards the
		
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			end. Towards the end of the series of
		
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			their qualities,
		
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			he said,
		
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			A gift, absolute gift, there is nothing under
		
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			it. Like, we don't deserve it, but we
		
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			want this to be a gift from you,
		
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			my lord.
		
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			Now the word
		
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			sometimes might be might be misunderstood by saying
		
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			from amongst our offspring or among our spouses,
		
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			which means not all of them. No, but
		
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			here actually means which
		
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			means all of them. You Allah,
		
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			You Allah, grant us.
		
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			Make all our our families, our offspring, our
		
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			families,
		
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			whether
		
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			So they're making du'an for their spouses,
		
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			and they make du'an for their families,
		
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			their children, their offspring.
		
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			What exactly they're asking for?
		
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			You Allah, make our spouses, our children
		
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			What does
		
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			mean in in Arabic language?
		
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			So the original meaning of
		
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			the word comes from
		
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			or which is basically means coolness or cold.
		
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			Opposite to heat.
		
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			Why would the Arab use the coolness or
		
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			cold for comfort?
		
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			Why is that?
		
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			Because their life is always hot, Ajayama. They
		
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			live in the desert, it's always hot for
		
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			them. So, when they wanna express comfort, they
		
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			express comfort with coolness and cool.
		
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			So, they
		
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			use
		
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			So, when they say,
		
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			What does that mean? It say, It
		
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			means coolness
		
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			for our eyes which means comfort to our
		
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			eyes.
		
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			Why the eyes in particular? Why didn't they
		
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			say the coolness of my heart, the coolness
		
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			of my heart, my my life, the the
		
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			coolness of my eyes?
		
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			Many things.
		
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			One of these things is that when they
		
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			say in the Arab culture, whenever they wanna,
		
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			talk about tears,
		
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			tears of joy and tears of grief.
		
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			So the tears of joy they describe as
		
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			being what? Being
		
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			cool.
		
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			The
		
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			person is so happy. He showed joyful
		
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			joyful tears. These are cool joyful tears.
		
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			But if it was out of sadness or
		
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			grief, they say,
		
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			which means hot.
		
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			It's not cool anymore.
		
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			So, the expression of the eye is the
		
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			expression of joy that you are so much
		
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			so joyful to the moment of what?
		
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			You start tearing up.
		
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			SubhanAllah. Just like, you know, how the act
		
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			the the opposite effect can have the same
		
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			exact results. Like, when someone's in extreme joy
		
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			or extreme sadness, what is the act? What
		
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			are the results here?
		
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			Tearing up. And that's what the Imam al
		
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			Hazem says,
		
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			sometimes,
		
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			how that opposite attracts. He brings this example.
		
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			He goes, don't you see that sometimes,
		
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			the opposite things give the exact same effect
		
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			because he's was referring to the subject when
		
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			people are looking for a spouse. They're always
		
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			looking for someone who's absolute match.
		
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			They want someone to be matched so they
		
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			can find that. Look, sometimes the complete opposite
		
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			also can be the same exact joy.
		
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			Like, many some of different qualities completely
		
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			can have the same exact effect as well
		
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			just like the effect of, tearing up for
		
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			extreme joy and extreme sadness. So even Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala express that because
		
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			again coolness of the eyes coolness of the
		
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			eye. Also,
		
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			the eye is where people see what?
		
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			The outcome, the effect.
		
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			So when you look at somebody, where where
		
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			do you find joy or grief? By
		
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			glancing at it, seeing it. So when you
		
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			see something beautiful,
		
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			it result with that kind of moment of
		
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			joy.
		
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			When you see something sad, you start tearing
		
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			up as a result of that. So that's
		
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			why he said,
		
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			which means make our glance at them,
		
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			bring to us that coolness to our eyes,
		
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			in that meaning.
		
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			So, again, the meaning of in
		
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			the coolness of the eye is because,
		
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			looking at them, very pleasant. So how is
		
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			that? What does that mean?
		
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			And make us our lord,
		
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			make
		
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			us morals for the righteous.
		
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			Now when he says
		
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			make them coolness of our eyes, he also
		
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			brought
		
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			the concept of righteousness over here. If we
		
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			can ask the parents to take their kids
		
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			within the trees for the moment.
		
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			So he said,
		
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			make us models for the righteous.
		
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			Obviously, no one wants to be a model
		
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			for the wicked.
		
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			Although, unfortunately, this society will lie, you'll be
		
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			surprised.
		
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			Like, people, they wanna be models for the
		
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			wicked. It's like, the example of, I would
		
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			have been love of, yeah, I knew. Man
		
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			is a bad * lot and man is,
		
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			and so they don't care. Sometimes they they
		
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			brag about that stuff. But even
		
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			the that's the meaning of being a role
		
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			model, to be a man of the righteous.
		
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			And he says that,
		
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			they ask in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so
		
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			that our spouses, our children, when we look
		
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			at them,
		
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			they are pleasing to our eyes, bring comfort
		
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			to our eyes because we see them
		
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			They are in obedience to Allah Subhanahu. That's
		
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			what brings us comfort when you look at
		
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			our children.
		
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			Not just because they're successful in the duniya.
		
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			No. What matters to be successful in the
		
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			akhirah. That's more important.
		
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			You find joy when you see your children
		
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			praying without being told to pray.
		
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			You find joy when you see your spouse,
		
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			waking up at night doing tahajjud without being
		
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			told.
		
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			You find joy and coolness in your eye
		
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			when you see your children read the Quran
		
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			and come into the masjid and helping with
		
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			good deeds and smile, you know, in in
		
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			in the face of other people. Like, all
		
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			these beautiful good deeds.
		
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			When you look at your children, your family,
		
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			it brings you joy and happiness
		
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			because that's the meaning of and that's the
		
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			meaning of make us models for the righteous.
		
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			Some, they say, actually, make us not model
		
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			for the righteous,
		
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			make us follow the model of the righteous.
		
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			So either way, it's still following the concept
		
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			of righteousness and obedience to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			Allah,
		
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			he
		
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			gave the reward for those people
		
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			called These are the ones all these qualities
		
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			were mentioned before including this ayah. Those are
		
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			the ones who will receive the reward with
		
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			the elevated mansions.
		
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			Is high mansions and above the the highest
		
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			level in Jannah.
		
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			People will be looking up to those mansions
		
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			from from below. In Jannah,
		
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			people looking up to those mansions, which means
		
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			they are higher than the average reward, obviously.
		
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			And they shall receive the greetings
		
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			of peace
		
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			and welcome.
		
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			Like, they will find the ushers at the
		
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			gates of just leading in, come immediately.
		
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			Come on in. Peace be with you for
		
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			what you've what you've done in this dunya.
		
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			So that is the dua that we'll make
		
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			and we ask Allah to
		
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			give us
		
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			So we repeat the dua together.