Yusha Evans – Formula for Success

Yusha Evans
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The importance of pursuing the Islam formula for medication is emphasized, as it is a combination of inactive and active ingredients that make it possible for the medication to work. The speaker emphasizes the need to strive hard for what is important to Allah Subhanahu wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa
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My brothers and sisters, inshallah

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today I wanna share with you a formula

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for success.

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In

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this life and the next that Allah has

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given us in the Quran over 14 100

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years

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ago. A formula

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about which we complain about not having these

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things, yet Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has already

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given us a very simple method of how

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to obtain them in the Quran.

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So if the reason we do not have

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the results

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is because we are not applying the formula.

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This formula is like a medication.

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It is a medicine in the sense that

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if you look at most medicines today, if

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you go to Walgreens, CVS, or whatever,

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and you take a medication off the shelf,

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you will have 2 types of ingredients.

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You'll have one set of ingredients

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that are known as inactive ingredients.

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These inactive ingredients are binders and other things

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that make it possible for you to take

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the medication.

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Then you will have either 1 or 2

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or a couple, what is known as active

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ingredients,

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which are the actual thing that you need.

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For instance, if you go and get Tylenol,

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It is,

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anacetaminophen.

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That is the active ingredient. But then there

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are other ingredients that are binders

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to put it into pill form, so that

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you can take it. Otherwise, you couldn't take

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it directly whether it was intravenously or whatnot.

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So these things allow the medications to work.

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This formally is very sim similar that Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given us in the

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Quran,

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in that it has inactive

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and inactive ingredients.

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But without them all together, just like the

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medication on the shelf,

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you it will not work. It will not

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work. You have to put them all together

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and take them as a whole in order

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for them to be beneficial for you. But

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if you do, I want to show you

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today, insha'allah,

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how much Allah is prepared to give you

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for 3 simple things.

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3 simple things.

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And 2 of them,

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you already have by default

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as a Muslim. 2 of them you already

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have by default as a Muslim.

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It is the active ingredient that we are

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missing.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala begins this formula by

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asking a question.

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And whenever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala asks a

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question in the Quran,

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it is something that we should pay attention

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to. The mafasireen of the Quran going all

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the way back to the Sahaba, say when

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Allah presents a direct question to you, it

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shows the importance of the answer. The importance

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of the answer.

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And this question is actually a question

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that is

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known.

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The answer is known to everyone. Allah says,

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Very beautiful question.

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1st and foremost, I want you to understand

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who is the questioner.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And who is the

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being one being questioned? Us. And if you

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look at the grammatical state of this question,

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it's being asked to us in such a

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beautiful manner. A manner that we don't deserve

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to be addressed in this way as human

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beings. But

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is asking us in such a beautiful tone.

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Oh, you who believe,

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can I show you? Can I guide you

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to a tijara,

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to a business?

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Allah refers to this

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formula as a tijara with him, a business

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done with him. Can I guide you to

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a tijara, a business

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that will avoid you a painful punishment?

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Look at this. Look at the beauty

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of the Quran. Look at the beauty of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the question he's

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asking us. Asking us so gently,

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like you would ask one of your children,

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can I guide you to something that if

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you do it, it will avoid you from

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being painfully punished?

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And who is the punisher? Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala. So Allah is telling us, my slave,

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can I show you something

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that if you get into this business with

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me,

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it'll prevent me from having to punish you?

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This question, we know the answer. Right? No

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one in their right mind is going to

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say, no. No. That's okay. You Allah, keep

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your business, and I'll just take the punishment.

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All of us want to avoid this punishment.

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No one wants to be punished by Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala. So we know that the

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answer is

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yes.

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So in the next verse, Allah lays out

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a formula in 3 parts.

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In 3 parts, Allah lays out a formula.

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The first two of them are inactive.

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The first two of them, the first one

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Allah says,

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First, believe in Allah

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And if you are people whom Allah is

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addressing,

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Those who believe, then you have that first

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one by default. You believe in Allah, we

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say we believe in Allah. You cannot be

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a Muslim without saying

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You cannot be a Muslim without confessing

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that you believe in Allah. So the first

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one,

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You have that

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one. And His Messenger. You have that one.

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If you are someone who believes, you have

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belief in Allah and His Messenger. There is

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no entry into Islam without saying,

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That we believe in Allah and His oneness,

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and we believe in the messengership of Muhammad

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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So by default,

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2 thirds of this formula,

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you possess it.

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But they are inactive,

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meaning that they are just

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something which we say. They are just something

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which we profess. But what do we do

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about it? Hassan al Basir, rahu ala'ta'ala,

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said that iman

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is not just a profession of your lips.

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Iman is not just saying you believe in

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Allah. He said iman, real iman, real faith

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is that which it sells itself in your

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heart, and then it becomes manifested

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through your actions. It is the doing that

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becomes the faith, not just the professing.

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So what is the third

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thing

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that

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Amal

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says?

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That you strive hard and you put in

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work,

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which is effort, striving, struggling, cause, fighting for

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the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Putting

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in the effort and the sacrifice and the

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work

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for

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what? For Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala.

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This is what is missing.

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This is the part of the formula

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that we as an ummah miss. We work

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so hard.

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If you look at our lives, nobody has

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time for anything. I know. I'm one of

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them. I don't have time for nothing anymore.

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Our lives are becoming so busy.

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Time is slipping away from us. Time is

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blink like the blink of an eye, it's

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gone. It's our it's it's about to be

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June

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in 2024.

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We don't have time. We're working and working

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and working tirelessly

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for what?

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For this world,

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for this for this thing that doesn't want

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us, for this thing that you cannot catch,

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for this thing that one of the Sadaf

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said it's like your shadow. It was Hassan

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Obasuri again. Said that this dunya is like

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your shadow.

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If you chase it, it just runs from

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you. I dare anyone to go out there.

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It's not sunny today, but on a sunny

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day, try to catch your shadow. You'll get

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a lot of exercise, but you're gonna keep

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chasing it. He said, but as soon as

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you turn away from it and walk away,

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it follows you. As soon as you put

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no importance on it, this dunya is just

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a means, and you focus on pleasing Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala and doing the work of

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Allah, then the dunya will follow behind you.

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Allah has made it so. This is the

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formula.

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We must put in the work. If you

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look at the life of the Prophet

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his life was at work for Allah

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If you look at the lives of the

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companions, yes, they had jobs, they had businesses,

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they

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had wealth, they had means. Some of them

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were rich, some of them were poor, etcetera.

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But their primary goal,

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their primary aim, their primary concern

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was what was the work that needs to

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be done for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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That took precedence over everything.

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If there was work to be done for

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Allah,

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then that was primary.

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The other work was secondary.

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We have flipped it around.

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I remember there was a speaker a long

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time ago

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when I used to first get involved in

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in being a part of listening to Islamic

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lectures and things about that, he said something

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very profound.

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He said that the companions,

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may Allah be pleased with all of them

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and grant them the highest ranks of

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The companions wore this deen on their head

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like a crown.

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The companions wore this din on their head

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like a crown. It was their honor. And

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they carried the world around. They carried the

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dunya around in their hands.

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So that if something became misplaced with what

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was on their head, if their crown became

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crooked, they would put that which is in

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their hands down to fix that which was

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on their heads. That was their methodology.

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Our methodology,

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the caliph,

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our methodology

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is that we wear the dunya on our

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head like a crown, and we carry the

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din in our hands. And if something becomes

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misplaced with what is on our head, we

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put down what's on our hands to fix

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it.

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We flipped the entire scenario. You see their

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methodology was that the work for Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala came first. Can everyone move up

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a little bit We have brothers trying to

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get in to scoot up a little bit.

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The the the work for Allah

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was primary.

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And Allah says if you believe in Allah,

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if you believe in His Messenger,

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and you make effort, Juhud, for His sake,

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then that will, number 1,

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avoid you a painful punishment. It answers the

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it's the answer to the question. Right? To

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avoid you a painful punishment. Now what if

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that was it?

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If all that Allah said He would give

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you for these three things is that He

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would not punish you, would you be okay

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with that?

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I would be okay with that. I'm okay

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with that. If all Allah said to me

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on the day of judgement is that because

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of you doing these three things, I will

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not punish you. Just stop existing.

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Gone. I'm okay with that. No punishment. Just

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never exist.

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No problem. Like the animals. Just gone.

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I'm okay with that. That is mercy from

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Because he has the

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right, the capabilities,

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and

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I have done enough to warrant his punishment.

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So if he decided not to punish me

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for these three things, more than enough, more

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than merciful.

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But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is more merciful

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than we have the capabilities

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to understand. He wants more good for you

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than you have the capability to understand. Because

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in the next two verses, Allah gives us

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so much for these three small things.

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So much.

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The next verse. The first thing Allah says

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he will do.

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I will forgive you of your sins.

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Not only am I not going to punish

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you, because he cannot punish us and just

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stop existing. But I am going to give

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you

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Forgiveness.

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Forgiveness.

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Anywhere you find in the Quran, a lot

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of places

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where you find Allah talk about forgiveness of

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sins,

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the next thing you'll find Allah talk about

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Jannah.

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Because Allah could not punish you and just

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called you to cease existing. But when he

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decides to give you his rahma, his magfira,

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this is where you are allowed to enter

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into prayer. This is what is known as

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tamanuljannah,

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as I've mentioned. The price, the entry ticket

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to Jannah.

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Allah says

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I will forgive you of your sins and

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I will put you in paradise.

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I will forgive you of your sins and

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I'll put you in paradise.

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If Allah stopped right there, He's already given

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us more than we could ever ask for.

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He's already given us more than we can

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ask for. But for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

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it's not enough.

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Allah says, not only will I enter you

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into Jannah, underneath which rivers flow in between

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them. How we can't comprehend.

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But I will give you beautiful homes,

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in the most prime real estate of paradise.

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The most prime real estate. We will fight

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over prime real estate here in this world.

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We'll work ourselves to the bone 40, 50,

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60 years to live in a nice neighborhood

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so our children can feel safe, etcetera. Allah

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is telling us for these three simple things,

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I will give you the prime real estate

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in jannah that is forever,

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that never ceases to exist. It's yours forever.

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We our minds can't comprehend forever. We don't

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really have the capacity to understand what forever

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means. Time without an end.

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And then Allah says,

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This is the greatest achievement you'll ever achieve.

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This is the greatest. When Allah says,

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This is the greatest achievement. Greater than what?

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Greater than everything. There is nothing you can

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ever accomplish in your life

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that will be greater than this,

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for these three simple things. Look at what

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Allah is prepared to give us. Allah is

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prepared to not punish us, which is a

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mercy, because we all deserve it. All of

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us deserve

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it. The prophet

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said, if a man was born and went

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into such death, and stayed in that position

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until the day of judgment,

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we'll leave the sins alone for a second.

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No matter how much goodness you do,

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you could never

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ever do enough good

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to out to to repay Allah for the

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good he's given you. You could never out

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give Allah.

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We do all we can, and Allah gives

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without

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without any

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doubt of it, without any need. He just

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gives freely. He is al Ghani. He's the

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one who's rich with no need. He gives

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us air to breathe. He gives us water

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to drink. He puts a heart in our

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chest that beats until the day we die.

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He puts a kidney and livers to filter

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out the toxins in our system, a stomach

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that processes our food. With none of and

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none of this we have to think about

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it. It just works.

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Look at what Allah has given you. Your

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eyesight for those of you who can see.

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Your hearing for those of you who can

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hear. The use of your limbs for those

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of you who can. Look at what Allah

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has given us. There is no way for

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you to get out of this debt.

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This is why we are called Abdi. We

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are referred as as as slaves. Abdullah,

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for our sisters. Why? Because we are perpetually

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indebted to

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Allah And there is no amount of life

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we could live. If Allah gave us a

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1000000 years, we would just go farther into

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debt.

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Every day you're in debt. So for Allah

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to to not punish us is a mercy.

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It is a mercy. But not only that,

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Allah says I will forgive you and I

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will enter you into paradise

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underneath which rivers flow and then give you

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prime real estate.

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In the best part of Jannah.

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You can't accomplish anything better. So brothers and

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sisters,

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we have to ask ourselves,

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what is the work of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala in the world we live in today?

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This is the question. This is the the

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thought process that we should have, is to

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be thinking what is the work of Allah

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in the world today,

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in our condition, in our situation. There is

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so many opportunities

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for you to work for

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Allah For you to become in the employment

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of Allah

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For you enter into tajara with Allah

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You have the opportunity to give dawah to

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the people you know here, your friends, your

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neighbors, your coworkers, etcetera. You have the opportunity

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to help those who are less fortunate. You

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have the opportunity to help around the world.

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We have a global system now. You You

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have the opportunity to help our brothers and

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sisters and fathers. May Allah,

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ease their condition and free them from from

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the enslavement that they have found themselves into

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and the and the horrible atrocities that are

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being committed upon them.

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Anything else that happens that our brothers and

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sisters in China, don't think we've forgotten about

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the Uighurs, our Uighurs brothers and sisters. Our

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the Rohingya, we have not forgotten about them.

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All the places where Muslims are suffering. Allah,

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if Allah has given you a position to

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help, help. There's so much tijara you can

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do with

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We live in a time now where the

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the business with Allah is wide open. It's

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wide open. There's so many avenues for you

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to get involved in it with. And it

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is a tijada that is never a loss.

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It is a business.

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It is one business that is there is

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no loss. You can get involved in many

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businesses in this world, and you may put

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in a big investment and lose it. You

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may get it back in but there's always

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a risk. How many of these investment companies

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you see, they always let you know in

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the fine print There is a risk of

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loss of your principal. You can lose everything.

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With Allah

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business, there's no loss. There is nothing but

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gain. Nothing but gain.

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So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is prepared to

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give you everything in the next life. But

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there's one more greater thing that we'll talk

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about in the same

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Those are all things that are in the

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next life. Yeah. Everything that Allah has mentioned,

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he won't punish us. He'll forgive us. He'll

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grant us Jannah. He'll grant us beautiful homes.

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All of this is in the next life.

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Allah

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understands our condition

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and that we live in this world

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for the period of time from when we

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are born to when we die.

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And we are going to need help in

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this world.

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That the people of belief are always gonna

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be met with opposition.

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This is the way it's always been.

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The people of belief have always dealt with

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opposition.

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This is just the system of the world.

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This is because this is the enmity that

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Shivan has against those who believe, and he's

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had it since the first of us. And

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he's made a promise to Allah

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that he would do whatever he could,

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whatever he could to misguide the majority of

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humanity. And Allah promised him that he would

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be successful except for those whom Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala has chosen.

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So those chosen ones,

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you and I, who have been chosen to

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be those who believe and stay upon belief,

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they will be met with opposition. And Allah

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knew this.

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So Allah

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says in the next verse,

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something which we cry and beg for all

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the time. We beg for it. We beg

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for it in Nur Ramadan. We beg for

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it in in in Qiamulayl. We beg for

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it in Qanut. We we ask

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Allah We beg for it on the the

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members of fighting for Allah to give victory

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to this ummah. Right?

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May Allah give victory to this ummah. Ameen.

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But Allah says in the next verse,

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I'll give you something else which you love.

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I'll give you something which your heart loves.

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Look at how Allah referred to He framed

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this one because he knows

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is something that, yes, we love it, but

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it's hard to conceptualize

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because it's in the unseen world. Right? It's

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hard to conceptualize

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the things that Allah speaks about in in

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in the in the hereafter.

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But Allah says,

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I'll give you something else. Would you love?

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I'll give you help that comes from me,

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and I will give you a clear victory.

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I'll give you help that comes from Allah

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and a clear victory.

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So give glad tidings to those who believe

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that if they do these three things,

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I will help them.

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I will help them. Allah didn't say I

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will send you help. Allah says I'll help

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you.

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And then Allah says, if Allah helps you,

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who could stand against you?

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If Allah decides to help those who be

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deaf,

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who could stand against Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?

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No one.

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No one. If Allah decided

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today

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that I am going to give victory

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to this Ummah,

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there is not a single soul on this

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planet. There's not a single entity. There's not

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a single government. There's not a single tyrant.

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There's not a single army that could do

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anything about it.

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Because when you stand against Allah

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you are done. You are done.

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Look at the battle of Badr.

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Very simple analogy that we all know.

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If it were just according to numbers and

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arms and and capabilities,

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they would have been done. They were so

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outnumbered.

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But our prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam stood on

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the battlefield of Badr,

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and he raised his hands to Allah.

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And he said, oh Allah,

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These in front of me

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are all of your worshipers.

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These are all the slaves that you have.

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This is it. This is your Ummah right

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now. If we are defeated today, you won't

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be worshiped on this Earth anymore.

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If we go down today,

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then you will no longer be worshiped on

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this Earth.

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And we know what happened. Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala sent his help. His help.

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And when his help comes, oh,

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You're done. It's over. It's game over.

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It is game over. Allah says I will

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send you my help, and then

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I'll give you a clear victory, like what

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happened in Badr,

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where even

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the Quraysh saw the angels. They saw them.

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They saw people on the battlefield that no

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one could stop.

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This was a clear victory.

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Clear victory. This was the victory given to

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our Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam. And we see

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it again, time and time again throughout the

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history of this religion. We see it after

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the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with the

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lives of the companions

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and their victories that they were given.

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We see it with the fall of the

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Roman Empire. We see it with the fall

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of the Persian Empire. And look at the

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look at the the the the the the

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tenacity

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that they had and the and the honor

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that they had.

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Like when Khaled Imu Walid said, I am

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sending to you an army. The beginning of

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it

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reaches you. The end of it will be

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leaving Madinah.

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And

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every man in there

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loves death

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as much as your people love life.

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Can you mind can you imagine getting a

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letter like this?

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That every person in this vast army coming

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to you loves death

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as much as you love life.

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Napoleon said the very same thing when he

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tried to fight the Muslims. He came back

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and he said, how can I defeat a

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people who see paradise at the end of

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our canon?

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How can we go how can you defeat

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someone

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who sees victory

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at the end of our weaponry?

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These were different people.

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They had different priorities.

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This life for them was a bypass. It

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was literally a stop along the way.

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We existed before this world.

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Allah created all of us in the loin

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of Adam

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We existed before this world, and we'll exist

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after it.

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This is literally a stop along the way.

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But while we're here,

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we have to work.

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Yes, we have to work to pay bills.

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We have to work to put food on

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the table. We have to work to survive.

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That's fine.

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But our focus

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should be what can we do for Allah?

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What tijada can I do for Allah? What

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business can I do with Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala? Because that is the business that does

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nothing but multiply.

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For these three simple things, brothers and sisters,

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Allah has promised to give us everything.

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Everything.

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He's promised to give us everything.

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The best of this world, help from him

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and a clear victory. The best of the

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next life, not punishing us, forgiveness of our

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sins, entry into paradise, beautiful homes, and the

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prime real estate of Jannah. What else could

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you want?

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What else do you want? Everything you want

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from Allah, He's already given you the formula

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of how to get it.

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The problem is we're just not willing. We're

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just we're just not willing to put in

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the work. We're not willing to put in

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the work. We'll go work 70, 80 hours

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for someone who will replace you in an

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instant if you die.

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Your job?

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He'll replace you in an instant. The day

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the day you die, the next day they'll

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have an an an adult looking to replace

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you.

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But business with Allah

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is perpetual.

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It is perpetual. It is gaining you something

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which you will see forever, insha'allah.

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So make sure

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that when you are planning your life and

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the work that you want to do and

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the things that you want to accomplish,

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you are putting priority in the business with

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Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Because the business with

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Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is the best business.

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Right after salah, I literally have 30 seconds

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of announcements to just stay seated for 30

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seconds.

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