Yaser Birjas – Work Hard Because Jannah And Jahannam Are So Close

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The physical appearance of a person is a close-k somehow, and good deeds are rewarded. consistency in behavior and behavior are important, and individuals should be sincere in their deeds to receive reward. protecting everyone from bad deeds and practicing good deeds in public settings is crucial.

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			الحمد لله رب العالمين صلى الله وسلم وبركه
		
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			نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم وتسليمًا كثيرًا
		
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			ثمًا مابعد May Allah سبحانه وتعالى make you
		
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			from the people of Al-Jannah يا رب
		
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			العالمين How close is Jannah to you?
		
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			Who knows يا جماعة?
		
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			Almost How close is Jannah to you?
		
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			Is it close or too far?
		
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			What do you guys think?
		
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			Close or far يا جماعة?
		
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			Close Okay, how close?
		
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			Very close right?
		
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			But how close?
		
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			Can you even imagine that?
		
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			Okay, what about Jahannam?
		
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			May Allah protect you from Jahannam يا رب
		
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			العالمين How close is Jahannam to people?
		
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			Is it too close or far?
		
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			How close is it?
		
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			Let's hear it from the Prophet صلى الله
		
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			وسلم From the Master صلى الله وسلم Let's
		
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			see what he's teaching us صلى الله وسلم
		
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			About how close Jannah and Jahannam to people
		
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			In hadith number 105 In Riyadh al-Saliheen
		
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			The book of Al-Mujahidah On the struggling
		
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			and striving for the cause of Allah عز
		
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			و جل قال عن عبد الله بمسعود رضي
		
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			الله عنه قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه
		
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			وسلم الجنة أقرب إلى أحدكم من شراك نعله
		
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			الجنة أقرب إلى أحدكم من شراك نعله والنار
		
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			مثل ذلك رواه البخاري He said صلى الله
		
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			وسلم Jannah, Paradise Is nearer to anyone of
		
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			you than your shoelace And so is the
		
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			Hellfire May Allah protect us from Jahannam What
		
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			does that even mean?
		
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			When he says It's closer than your shoelace
		
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			How close is your shoelace from you?
		
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			How close is it to your foot?
		
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			Is there any gap?
		
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			Unless you're wearing 10 sizes bigger But if
		
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			you're wearing the right size Your shoelace is
		
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			what?
		
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			It's touching your skin Most likely It's right
		
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			there That's what it means So why would
		
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			the Prophet use this as an example anyway?
		
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			Because that was the Arab culture That's the
		
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			thing that they recognized And part of their
		
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			expressions When they say something too close to
		
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			you It's closer than your shoelace to you
		
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			Like the foot where you're wearing your shoes
		
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			There's not even distance Between you and what
		
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			you're wearing So it's that close So the
		
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			Prophet said that Jannah is close to people
		
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			It's even closer than the shoelace is close
		
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			to your foot And also the example why
		
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			That the shoelace was mentioned Because how do
		
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			people reach destinations in Jannah?
		
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			How is that?
		
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			To walk By foot right?
		
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			You walk So it's that close to you
		
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			That close By the foot that you take
		
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			in order for you to get to Jannah
		
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			And Jahannam is as well too This is
		
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			also as close as well This is how
		
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			close that can be That's a very dangerous
		
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			statement in Jannah But what does that mean?
		
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			What the Prophet is telling us When it
		
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			comes to the subject of Mujahidah The subject
		
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			of Mujahidah Keep in mind That you can
		
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			get to Jannah With Mujahidah right?
		
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			But does it have to be great deeds?
		
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			Like does it have to be some grand
		
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			Good deeds to get you to Jannah?
		
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			Not necessarily The hadith is telling us Sometimes
		
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			little deeds Small little deeds But very good
		
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			Very sincere Can get you where?
		
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			Way beyond We were just covering this in
		
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			the class This past Wednesday How the deeds
		
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			are multiplied Based on what?
		
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			Sometimes The good deeds are multiplied In terms
		
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			of reward because of what?
		
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			Number one The quality of your Islam The
		
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			quality of your Islam So if your Islam
		
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			is good So the good deeds that you
		
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			do are multiplied As a result of that
		
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			Number two, your sincerity The quality of your
		
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			sincerity How sincere you are The more you
		
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			are sincere Obviously the reward will be multiplied
		
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			even more The same thing He says also
		
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			sometimes It's the type of good deed That
		
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			you're doing Some good deeds are higher than
		
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			others in terms of the reward So that
		
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			also can multiply The reward for using it
		
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			Also sometimes It's the timing for it Some
		
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			good deeds in certain times Are higher in
		
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			reward than others So eventually there are many
		
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			reasons why good deeds will be multiplied Sometimes
		
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			A small good deed Can be better than
		
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			a lot of good deeds Like what?
		
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			The Prophet says in the hadith He said
		
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			One single dirham Which means one dollar Surpasses
		
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			the reward Of 100,000 dollars Wow I
		
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			mean when you give 100,000 dollars That's
		
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			a lot of money How many people can
		
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			give 100,000 On a regular basis or
		
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			even once in their lifetime Perhaps Very few
		
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			But sometimes The reward for giving one dollar
		
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			Is way higher than 100,000 How so?
		
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			The one who gave a dollar Or a
		
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			dirham He has only two dirhams So when
		
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			he gave a dollar How much did he
		
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			give?
		
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			Half of his wealth Half of his money
		
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			And the one who gave a hundred He
		
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			says He has a lot of money He
		
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			took from the side of his wealth And
		
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			just gave it for charity Without even counting
		
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			And it came out to be 100,000
		
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			So 100,000 to millions Maybe billions It's
		
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			nothing So that dollar can be actually way
		
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			higher So what does that mean?
		
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			Don't always undermine Undervalue little good deeds Don't
		
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			you ever do that Like for example You
		
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			come to the masjid And you look around
		
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			Should I sit down Or should I pray
		
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			What's wrong with you You still have five
		
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			minutes You can make two rak'ah They're
		
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			just two rak'ah Those two rak'ah
		
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			If you've done them with sincerity And with
		
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			valuing the meaning of Tahiyyat al-Masjid Before
		
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			you sit down Valuing the sunnah of the
		
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			Prophet That intention can make those two rak
		
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			'ah Better than tahajjud for 100 years Probably
		
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			of your lifetime Because again the intention has
		
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			a lot to do with that Same thing
		
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			You go out and you give Charity Not
		
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			knowing the impact of that charity But Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala would know You think
		
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			I mean how much is it going to
		
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			benefit Here you go, I have five dollars
		
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			Take it Those five dollars might save a
		
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			life And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
		
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			Saving one life Like saving the entire humanity
		
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			So do not belittle Don't belittle the good
		
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			deeds No matter how little they are And
		
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			when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Was
		
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			asked Which of the good deeds are the
		
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			best What did he say The most consistent
		
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			Even if it was Little So it doesn't
		
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			matter how grand, how big it is But
		
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			how consistent that is They say consistency Sometimes
		
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			is not just in quantity It's also in
		
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			what In quality Like you're always sincere You're
		
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			always conscious of your Ibadah It doesn't become
		
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			automated It's always conscious of your Ibadah So
		
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			that's in regard to The good deed that
		
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			will bring you to Jannah This is how
		
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			close Jannah can be to people With little
		
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			good deed that you can afford doing You
		
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			can do grand things Another thing The Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said That the heaviest
		
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			thing in the scale Is your good manners
		
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			Now that doesn't require much from you Other
		
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			than just being nice and kind And smile
		
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			in the face of people And be forgiving
		
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			and being tolerant and so on And you
		
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			get subhallah the heaviest thing in the scale
		
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			Saying subhallah That is also heaviest In the
		
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			scale as well too So little things can
		
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			bring you great deeds And bring you closer
		
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			to Jannah Similarly Some people sometimes look at
		
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			some sins And they unfortunately They do not
		
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			see the gravity Of what they do So
		
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			they belittle The harm that their sins Are
		
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			causing to themselves and to other people Thinking
		
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			it's okay Like sometimes you hear somebody Backbiting
		
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			someone And he says You cannot say this
		
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			And she says to her sister Please don't
		
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			speak like this in front of me That's
		
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			backbiting We shouldn't be speaking about people like
		
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			this What is the answer you get from
		
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			many many people in that moment What do
		
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			they say Astaghfirullah may Allah forgive me Jazakallah
		
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			khair thank you for reminding me I wish
		
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			But most people what do they say The
		
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			shaytan comes in, blow into their ego And
		
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			their arrogance kicks off What do they say
		
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			I can say it in his face Yeah
		
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			right That's the common thing people say I
		
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			don't care I can say it in his
		
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			face Okay just shut up and say it
		
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			in his face next time Stop backbiting them
		
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			Those little things The prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam mentioned about people They're getting punishment in
		
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			their grave For what They're being punished in
		
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			their grave For something They did not consider
		
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			to be great Like what One of them
		
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			didn't clean himself Well after using the bathroom
		
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			I repeat Did not clean himself Well after
		
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			using the bathroom You say like wow that's
		
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			a big deal Indeed it's a big deal
		
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			It's a big deal The prophet says Like
		
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			tahara Purity and purification Is half of our
		
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			faith So yeah it's a big deal And
		
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			this person uses the bathroom doesn't clean himself
		
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			Very well She uses the bathroom she doesn't
		
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			clean herself very well And by the way
		
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			I hope parents Please teach your children to
		
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			do that To clean themselves Especially after using
		
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			the bathroom As well here in public places
		
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			like in the masjid Don't make a big
		
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			mess and leave Clean it as if you
		
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			want someone when you come in It's clean
		
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			for you as well too So that's something
		
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			people they don't really take seriously But it
		
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			causes punishment In their grave The other one
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said He
		
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			keeps you know taking the namima Tailbearing going
		
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			around circulating the gossip All over the place
		
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			And you think it's not a big deal
		
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			Yes wallah it is a big deal So
		
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			brothers and sisters Do not belittle things Just
		
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			because you don't see the gravity of it
		
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			It doesn't mean it's not considered something major
		
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			Aisha she said And other sahaba they said
		
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			The next generation after the sahaba They said
		
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			to them They
		
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			said They said that you guys are doing
		
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			things You're doing things And you think of
		
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			it so lightly Like it's very light Just
		
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			like a hair lock nothing We used to
		
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			consider that At the time of the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Some of the major
		
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			things Like this is how people They see
		
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			the gravity of the sin Depending on the
		
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			taqwa of the iman The quality of Islam
		
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			and sincerity and so on So it's a
		
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			very serious matter So that's why the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Jannah and Jahannam
		
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			can be so close Closer to people than
		
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			their own shoelaces Therefore make sure To stay
		
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			away from the things that Brings to Jahannam
		
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			And need to strive and to do mujahada
		
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			To keep yourself clear And also inshallah increase
		
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			your ta'a and your ibadah May Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala Purify our hearts And
		
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			keep us always Closer and approaching Jannah Any
		
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			questions?
		
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			Yes Yes No
		
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			True So again we request That you guys
		
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			whenever Your children hopefully you teach them at
		
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			home To use the bathroom properly So when
		
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			they come to the masjid inshallah They do
		
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			it right Also for the adults obviously And
		
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			when you come to the masjid or a
		
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			public place Make sure to keep the place
		
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			clean Better than when you used it When
		
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			you first actually came in That is wallahi
		
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			part of our deen To protect each other
		
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			And ourselves because tahara in general Is half
		
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			of our faith May Allah keep us all
		
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			purified Subhanakallah wa bihamdik ashara lant astaghfirullah Assalamualaikum
		
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			warahmatullahi wabarakatuh