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From time to time,
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our counsel,
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our advice
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is often sought from family members
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and friends.
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And as a Muslim, we have a duty
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to advise
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and give good advice.
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As the prophet said,
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this deen is established
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on sincere
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advice.
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What would we do
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if someone
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came to us in a
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state
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of panic,
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a state of anxiety,
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a state of confusion.
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This happens in the life of the Prophet
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Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam. A man comes to the Prophet Sallallahu
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Alaihi Wasallam, this hadith is found
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in the Sahih of Imam al Bukhari
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and Sahih Muslim.
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A man comes
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to the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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claiming that he is destroyed.
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The prophet
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inquires,
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you know, why
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he he feels like he feels what what
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what what happened to this individual,
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and he sees that he had * with
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his halal wife during the month of Ramadan.
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He had * during the month of Ramadan,
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and we all know from
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sunrise
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to sunset,
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it's fasting
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and staying away
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from
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*.
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This person believes that he
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has
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destroyed
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his relationship with Allah
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But what the prophet
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does
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is so amazing.
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The prophet
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puts
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hope in this person's heart.
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The prophet
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gives him
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a
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solution.
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The prophet asked him, can you
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free a slave?
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The man says he's unable to do that
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financially.
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Then the prophet
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offers him the opportunity
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to redeem himself by Allah
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by fasting 2 consecutive
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months.
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Once again,
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the man is unable to do that
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physically.
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And
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so the prophet
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tells him to,
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you know, sit down. He sits there,
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and
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in the presence of the prophet
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comes this huge
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basket of dates,
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a gift to the prophet.
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The prophet
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gives this man an opportunity,
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gives him the dates,
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and says to him, distribute these dates
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as redemption
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for what you have done
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during the month of Ramadan,
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during the day where everybody knows that one
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cannot be intimate with your spouse.
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The prophet gives him the dates and tells
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him to distribute it, and he says to
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the prophet
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in all of Madinah, there is no one
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poorer than me.
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And the
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prophet
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laughs
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and says to him,
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give it to your family
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to eat.
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This is the type of hope and the
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type of advice
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that we need to give each other.
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Sometimes we
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become
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excited
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at the pain of other people. The prophet
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never fed off the pain of others,
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but rather,
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he seek out a solution
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for their problems.
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And so we ask Allah
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when we are consulted
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that we answer
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wisely
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and we are
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problem solvers
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instead of problem
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makers.
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This Ramadan,
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do more.
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SANSAV,
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changing lives through development and relief.
