Yousuf Raza – Quran Daily Surah alFatiha Ayah3 Maaliki YaumiDeen I

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The speaker discusses the "habitable attributes" of Islam, including strong relationships with the divine and jamal dimensions and the importance of responding appropriately to one's actions and attitudes. They stress the importance of satisfaction in shaping behavior and perception, which can lead to negative consequences. The satisfaction of actions and attitudes is crucial for building a "habitable life."

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			All right, assalamu alaykum everyone, bismillah, alhamdulillah, wassalatu
		
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			wassalamu ala rasoolillahi wa ala alihi wa ashabihi
		
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			ajma'in.
		
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			We are continuing with our discussion of surah
		
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			al-fatiha.
		
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			We shared a few ideas with respect to
		
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			ar-rahman ar-rahim after covering alhamdulillahi rabbil
		
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			alameen, obviously.
		
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			And there's quite a lot to share on
		
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			that, particularly in that idea of grace.
		
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			There's so much that can be said, but
		
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			i'm going to suffice with whatever has already
		
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			been said and ask for you to hold
		
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			on for more when, of course, these attributes
		
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			are going to repeat themselves in subsequent ayahs
		
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			of the Qur'an.
		
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			So right now we'll try to get a
		
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			move on and move on to the next
		
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			ayah of surah al-fatiha, which is the
		
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			third one which reads that he is the
		
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			malik, the king, the owner, the master, of
		
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			the day of judgment, of the day of
		
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			recompensation.
		
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			So when we talk about Allah being introduced
		
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			as Rabb, and we spoke about Rabb in
		
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			the context of love and love being that
		
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			relationship through which he looks to bring out
		
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			the best in us.
		
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			Right?
		
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			The greatest potential that we have for us
		
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			to manifest that potential.
		
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			That is his nurturing, loving relationship with us,
		
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			his rabbiyah with us.
		
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			Now one dimension of that rabbiyah is seen
		
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			in the attributes of Allah which we can
		
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			attribute to his jamal, to his beauty, and
		
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			we see that irresistible beauty of Allah manifesting
		
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			itself, particularly in the form of his mercy
		
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			and grace, as ar-Rahman and ar-Rahim
		
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			represented.
		
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			Now if we were to restrict the entire
		
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			understanding of the divine, of Allah and his
		
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			rabbiyah, to his jamal only, to his beauty
		
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			only, to his mercy and grace alone, and
		
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			just that one half is covered, then what
		
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			we understand or what would result from that
		
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			is a lack of growth.
		
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			That growth actually far from being realized, far
		
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			from an individual growing, the person, the individual
		
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			becomes stunted.
		
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			They stop growing, they stagnate, or worse, they
		
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			start regressing, right?
		
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			They become not the best version of themselves,
		
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			rather they keep becoming worse off.
		
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			And how does that happen?
		
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			Simply because of the complacency and laziness that
		
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			settles in with this recognition of only the
		
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			beautiful attributes of Allah, of only the jamal
		
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			dimension of Allah.
		
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			This sense of entitlement settles in, in which
		
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			the human being is not pushed to play
		
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			their part in what it is that they
		
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			have to do, that the human being becomes
		
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			prone to one of the greatest evils that
		
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			we can become prone to, which is laziness.
		
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			That a luxury that settles in our attitude
		
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			when we have, when we continue to receive
		
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			and we continue to get and there is
		
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			no check on how much we get or
		
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			what we get, then it is the human
		
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			being tends to become, we tend to become
		
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			spoiled.
		
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			The sense of entitlement, us just wanting more
		
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			and more, not recognizing anything of a sense
		
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			of responsibility, not recognizing any need for self
		
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			-discipline, right?
		
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			So a relationship with the divine, with the
		
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			Rabbul Alameen, which only sees the beautiful dimension
		
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			of the divine, the jamal of the divine,
		
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			the Rahman and the Rahim of him will
		
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			not inspire the necessary recognition of responsibility, the
		
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			necessary dimension or the necessary practice rather of
		
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			self-discipline so as to become that better
		
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			version of ourselves.
		
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			And so with this in the background, with
		
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			this understanding, Allah gives us an introduction, an
		
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			introduction to his Jalal side lest we become
		
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			spoiled and therefore not grow and that is,
		
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			that introduction of his Rabbul Biyah, of him
		
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			being Rabbul Alameen, is manifest in Maliki Yawmuddin,
		
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			that he is the Malik, that he is
		
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			the king of the day of recompensation, that
		
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			Allah is going to be the owner of
		
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			everything.
		
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			He is the owner of everything as we
		
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			speak in this world as well.
		
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			But what we get from there, what we
		
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			get from from this ayah is that there
		
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			is a dimension of freedom that human beings
		
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			have been given in the life of this
		
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			world and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
		
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			'la, God's own freedom, his choice, he has
		
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			taken a step back willingly so as to
		
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			enable us, so as to empower us and
		
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			as necessary as that is for our development
		
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			and growth that cannot go on indefinitely.
		
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			So our power, our freedom for as long
		
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			as we have it is not going to
		
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			go unchecked.
		
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			It is not going to go unrestrained, right?
		
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			We find manifestations of that in the life
		
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			of this world with the different restrictions and
		
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			limitations that we do experience to our own
		
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			will, to our own power, to our own
		
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			resources, to our own health, right?
		
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			And then this would ultimately manifest itself on
		
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			the day of judgment in which when we
		
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			have power, i.e. now, we give judgments
		
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			and our judgments are in the form of
		
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			the choices that we make, the attitudes that
		
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			we choose or the actions that we choose
		
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			to do.
		
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			On the day of recompensation, on the day
		
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			of judgment, in the afterlife, our judgments are
		
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			going to be judged.
		
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			The choices that we made and the actions
		
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			that we did and the attitudes that we
		
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			chose are now going to be judged on
		
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			the day of judgment by the ultimate judge
		
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			that is Allah ﷻ himself.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So that dimension of Him being Malik is
		
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			going to come into a full manifestation.
		
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			His Jalal is going to come in full
		
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			manifestation on the day of judgment itself.
		
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			It finds manifestation in the life of this
		
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			world when our experiences show us through the
		
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			consequences of our actions and attitudes that judgment
		
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			is even being passed right now in a
		
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			restricted sense, in a temporary reminder kind of
		
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			a sense, right?
		
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			So when things don't really go our way
		
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			and we face the consequences of our actions,
		
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			we face the consequences of the attitudes that
		
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			we hold on a daily basis, on a
		
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			weekly basis, as our life goes on, the
		
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			different stages and time periods within our life
		
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			give us trailers, if you will, snippets of
		
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			how the judgment of the divine proceeds, how
		
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			everything that we do has consequences.
		
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			Yes, a lot of those consequences we may
		
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			not have to face.
		
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			They may be forgiven.
		
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			We may be allowed leeway.
		
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			But if that mercy of Allah, if that
		
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			Rahmah of Allah is taken for granted and
		
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			a sense of entitlement prevails in our attitude,
		
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			then as we said, there is not going
		
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			to be growth.
		
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			So we find Allah's being Malik, Allah's being
		
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			the the master, the owner, manifesting itself during
		
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			the course of our routine life and then
		
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			how it will manifest itself on the day
		
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			of judgment ultimately so as to ensure that
		
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			this human being that we are, this human
		
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			life that we've been given is is headed
		
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			in the direction of actualizing its potential.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So whenever those restrictions are placed before us,
		
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			whenever we see our own limitations, whenever we
		
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			are forced to acknowledge, through pain often, our
		
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			consequences of our actions or the dire consequences
		
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			of our actions, then that speaks to us
		
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			of the control and discipline that we have
		
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			to master, that we have to develop within
		
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			ourselves.
		
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			And if we pay heed, then that is
		
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			the point of those experiences is served prior
		
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			to us having to experience that on the
		
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			day of judgment.
		
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			The earlier we pay heed, the earlier the
		
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			Jalal of Allah is acknowledged and responded to,
		
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			the better our development is going to be.
		
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			And if that be the case, if we
		
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			do respond to the manifestations of Allah's Jalal
		
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			in our individual lives, then really that Jalal
		
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			the manifestation of his I think I did
		
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			not elaborate as to what the Jalal represents.
		
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			The Jalal represents the irresistible power of Allah.
		
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			It represents the control of Allah, at times
		
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			manifesting in his anger, being brought before us.
		
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			So if we are able to respond appropriately
		
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			by rectifying our attitudes and actions, then that
		
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			Jalal is leading for us to appreciate his
		
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			Jamal better.
		
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			The wrath of Allah veils his mercy.
		
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			Provided we respond appropriately.
		
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			And like we said before, if Jamal is
		
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			all that's appreciated, the beauty, the mercy is
		
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			all that is seen, then that can be
		
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			destructive.
		
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			If our attitude devolves into a sense of
		
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			entitlement, we lose a sense of responsibility, and
		
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			there is no discipline in our lives.
		
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			For what is discipline, but a recognition of
		
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			boundaries, and then living our lives with the
		
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			recognition of those boundaries, fulfilling the responsibility that
		
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			we have.
		
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			Right, so that's all for today, for this
		
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			Qur'an daily segment.
		
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			I hope this was beneficial.
		
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			I'm going to build on these ideas with
		
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			respect to Maliki Yawm al-Din, as to
		
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			how it ties in with the previous ayat
		
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			in the next video as well.
		
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			Thank you very much for watching.
		
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			Again, if you're benefiting, have others benefit as
		
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			well.
		
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			Jazakumullah khayran.
		
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			Wa akhiru da'wana an alhamdulillah.