Zaid Shakir – After Life: Bliss or Torment?

Zaid Shakir

Seeing that you were dead and He gave you life. Then He will give you death, then again will bring you to life on the Day of Resurrection and then unto Him you will return. Surah Baqarah 2: 28

What happens to us when we die? What is the soul? Where are heaven and hell? Is there a reckoning with the creator? Questions such as these about death and dying have frightened and fascinated humanity since the beginning of time. This session explores these existential questions by providing an overview of answers from the sacred scriptures. It examines the viability of reincarnation, the sensual imagery of Paradise, as well as what to make of near-death experiences. Theological scholarship combined with insight and sensitivity make this session thoroughly translatable, a simple introduction to profound and complicated subjects.

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The speakers discuss the importance of remembering the Bible and bringing consciousness to life. They touch on the history of religion and the return of Islam to a new "will." They also talk about the need for people to defend their bodies against evil schemes and the importance of human freedom and living their lifespans. They end with a discussion of the return of Islam to a new "will."

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			mean was so that was cinema let's say you didn't we're sending CD you know Mohammed. While early he
was talking to me he was sent him to Simic theorize Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi, wa barakaatuh
		
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			and hamdulillah
		
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			I just want to bear witness to what Dr. Xena mentioned, just now that
		
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			once you There is a saying first, once you get a taste of sweet potato pie, you'll never want
pumpkin again.
		
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			And seriously once you experience the sweetness of course and nothing else satisfies you, I can bear
witness when I was a student, as a young man here in Washington DC recently converted to Islam.
		
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			I started reading the Quran just in English, I didn't know Arabic. At the time that I converted even
my first few Ramadan's and the use of the translation, they have the just in English marked off one
30th to 30th. And so we read myself and my wife and English, the exact the sections of the Quran
every day, the translation in Ramadan. And then I learned to recite it in Arabic, I had a Quran from
Turkey, because I converted Well, before I went to, to Turkey, I converted but there I begin to
learn. And I have an old core en and I will read it and read it and literally the covers fell off of
it from just handling so much and it was made from the old dry paper with the yellow pages. But then
		
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			when I came back to the States, and I came here to Washington, DC to
		
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			American University, but I live near Howard University, near the corner of Third
		
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			Street and Rhode Island Avenue. There used to be a supermarket there on a corner I lived right in
back in the supermarket. In any case,
		
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			I had all of these jazz albums and cassettes. We had cassettes back then. From just my prior life. I
used to love listening to jazz I would stay up all night just listening to jazz, music, all sorts of
jazz and
		
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			just the core n listening to the Qur'an and then I got Abdul Basit tapes and hercegovina tapes and
men shall we tapes and
		
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			I boxed up all of my jazz collection and I took it to this vendor at Howard University we used to
sell music and I just gave it to him and I didn't even ask for any money I just gave it away because
I had no need for it I had the car and now suddenly need the jazz anymore and no one ever told me
music is haram no we live some of you heard preacher ma moss in the harem police on your feature
must do the harem
		
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			come to Hiram police law.
		
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			Law No one told me musics haram no one beat me down threaten my life Brenda Lynch me or burn me on a
pile of musical cassettes and
		
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			melting black LPs we had the LPS tar and feather me with melted LPs and then throw me in the Potomac
River. Just they introduced me to the core and the message of the Quran and the sweetness of the
Quran. And then I just voluntarily gave up the music because it couldn't compete. Because the Quran
was too sweet.
		
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			And to emphasize that message, I don't have to repeat.
		
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			Because right from the start and into your heart.
		
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			I used to be wild and I knew how to freestyle.
		
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			But then I learned you don't have to compete and beguile just opened the door and of course n will
bring them more than you
		
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			could ever bring with words. So that's the message that needs to be heard. Moving right along.
		
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			Moving right along so the verse in question that was given it was recited by the fine young man who
introduced the session and he says a lot tired of reminders k for tech for on a big level quantum
and Where'd that come from? You me to come from? You come from LA heat origin. How could you ever
reject belief and all our K for tech for on a biller? Well, quantum whacker, and you're dead.
		
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			And then he brought you to life flew me to come, then he will cause you to die. He come, then he
will restore you to life from LA he told me Joan, and then unto him, you will be returned Subhana
Allah,
		
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			we who can who can give us life form with
		
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			this reflect
		
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			on the many ways we were dead, and in each and every single realm on the aloka give us life.
		
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			So we were dead in the realm of non existence. So the reason that they say come to fi Phil Adam.
		
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			We're in the realm of nothingness. And a lot Tyler brought us into the realm of will Jude Allah tala
brought us into the realm of existence.
		
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			So when when your atheist friends come to you and start making their their empty and vacuous and
putrid arguments
		
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			as them Can you bring the dead to life? Can you bring something out of nothing?
		
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			A lot, Tyler brought us from something into nothing.
		
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			As was the case the text tech firm owner belay will come to man wetter.
		
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			We were dead existing in the realm of physicality, in this realm,
		
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			physical stuff.
		
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			And a lot brought us to life by giving us consciousness
		
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			by giving us consciousness, this has no consciousness.
		
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			Who can give this consciousness we were in this realm. This was us.
		
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			And the law breathed breathed into us the rule
		
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			the animating spirit
		
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			and be clipped onto us consciousness and brought us to life and gave us the capacity to yearn for
him and to know him.
		
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			As if they are best mentions or in the Massoud. When a lot Allah mentions one mouth holla to Jean
was insanely Abu. I've only created the jinn and humans to worship me. That requires consciousness
of Allah, how can we worship? How can we reverence How can we elevate How can we exalt How can we
love that which we are unaware of?
		
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			And in the Massoud mentioned lelli, it funi in order that you know me, again, how can we know
someone or something that we have no consciousness of no conscious awareness of
		
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			this is what we were given.
		
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			Who can do that.
		
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			We can do it if you can do it, give consciousness to this podium, give consciousness to this
microphone.
		
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			We can do it no matter how hard we try.
		
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			But a lot of time it gave us consciousness in a unique way, no other creature possesses.
		
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			No other creature possesses. We were dead consisting of unformed earth to rob and the law Tyler
fashion does then shaped us and Allah tala made us upright. He dignified us while Khurana Benny
Adam. We've been noble the human being No, the animal is upright,
		
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			permanently. who stands like this? No other animal No, not the apes. Sometimes they can get up but
they have to go back down.
		
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			And they add an angle
		
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			uses a very long
		
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			forearms and short legs. We'll call it loss proportion does
		
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			Do you know the golden mean were proportioned according to the golden mean?
		
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			Just as the cob is proportion on the earth from north to south, and from east to west, the direct
proportions of the golden mean
		
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			because a lot of tile has made this earth for us. And he's made the Kaaba for us. And he's made
mecca for us, as the center of our spiritual universe. As the Virgin.
		
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			We're dead existing with no knowledge. That's a form of death.
		
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			And some of you read the paper.
		
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			Well, I flew from Charlotte, North Carolina this morning. After my session yesterday, I went there
for a fundraising dinner some people were having. And I flew back this morning in the airport, I
picked up the new york times in the New York Times, there was an article that's extremely relevant
to what we're talking about here, written by a prisoner in Attica prison in upstate New York,
		
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			mentioning how he's blessed to be one of the fortunate 1%.
		
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			In Attica prison,
		
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			there are 2300 2300 inmates 23 are in higher educational programs, because money for those programs
were cut.
		
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			They were cut, when the philosophy of prison became not to rehabilitate prisons.
		
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			So in 1980, there were 350 college programs. In the prisons in this country.
		
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			Most of them were publicly funded.
		
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			Now, there are a handful, most of them are privately funded.
		
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			So prisoners and the prisoners say are intellectually dead, and they come back into society
intellectually dead.
		
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			And they're expected to get on with their lives. They're expected not to get on a cycle that will
lead them back.
		
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			We know that the exorbitant recidivism rates, those who are in college programs in prisons is
mentioned in the article.
		
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			recidivism rate is 2%.
		
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			Two out of every 100
		
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			the recidivism rate in general what is it some people familiar with prisons? Hmm.
		
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			Anyone?
		
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			between 40 and 50%, almost half of every prisoner released will go back
		
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			because they were mentally dead going in
		
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			and they're mentally dead coming out. We were mentally dead and a lot kind of brought us to life of
knowledge
		
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			and taught us the purpose of this life
		
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			a person who who doesn't know the purpose is dead
		
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			so that's a form of death one of the airports mentioned Lisa men manifesta had been made in the men
made to make a U turn
		
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			in the men made to mania issue can even cast if and bad who kalila Raja, the dead or not those who
physically expire and come to a re arrest.
		
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			Rather the dead are those who are mentally dead
		
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			rather than dead or those who live with with no hope with their their hope shattered in a state of
depression, entertaining little hope.
		
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			So we were brought to life of knowledge.
		
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			Only a lot. You can do that.
		
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			We have programs
		
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			are they working?
		
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			are they teaching people the purpose of life?
		
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			They want to know and searching there was an another article in today's New York Times, Sunday Times
about how one little village in Norway had so many of the young people
		
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			going to
		
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			fight in Syria
		
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			and most
		
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			got killed because there, if you want to analyze what's happening in Iraq or Syria, what's happening
are young people getting sucked up.
		
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			Maybe some of you are here from the State Department or
		
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			some other branch of government taking note.
		
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			I mean, recall too close to Washington for that not to be the case. If you want to understand the
causes of radicalism,
		
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			then go go read the lyrics of Bob Dylan songs, only upon their game.
		
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			And just when you're thinking of some racist, who are manipulating poor white folks, to become the
henchmen for the Ku Klux Klan or something, then the people calling the shots on these groups are
manipulating young people
		
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			to go and die for nothing to go and murder innocent people murder other Muslims.
		
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			One of these poor people, poor young people from this village. He goes, he gets killed, he marries a
girl from Russia, who goes there to be a jihadi wife. And this Myskina goes to Istanbul and blows
herself up and kills a Turkish policeman. You know, that's really advancing some great interest. But
the bottom line,
		
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			these kids have empty lives.
		
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			They have empty lives. And that's not an Islamic problem.
		
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			That's a problem brought about by modernity. People in the pre modern world, they knew what they
were therefore it might have been simple. It might have been just, I'm a village farmer. They knew
and they accepted that they were proud of it. They tried to raise the best crops, the girls knew I'm
going to go up and I'm going to be a farmer's wife.
		
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			And they were they were comfortable with that. Now kids grow up, they don't know what they are, who
they are, where they're going. They're empty.
		
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			They're empty. And so they find try to find meaning. In these appeals, these manipulative,
manipulative appeals on the internet. Oh, you have meaning? You're going to be a Shahid. You're
going to be a martyr, you're going to be a Mujahid?
		
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			No, Allah tells us we were going to be someone who truly worships Allah.
		
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			We're going to be someone who, through refining our souls, will know Allah. And if we know Allah, we
understand we might be in a situation that calls for us to stand up to defend the faith, but we
won't, we won't be doing it because we're alienated. This is the common denominator. Most of these
kids were misfits and losers. Looking for purpose and meaning.
		
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			We won't do it seeking because we're alienated we won't do it because we're not in with the in
crowd. We'll do it because our spiritual maturation leads us to understand
		
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			that there's a threat to our civilization, civilizing mission, as Dr. Xena mentioned, I'm Ron,
		
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			and that we have to defend that through not running away from the emptiness of what modernity or
post modernity have made us. We're running towards the defense of civilization, and to build
civilization, and to defend the the civilizing and humanizing gains that we've made collectively, as
a human species. That's what jihad is.
		
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			And if we die, we won't die in empty death as a pawn in someone's geostrategic game.
		
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			We'll die a lie, a death of meaning and purpose.
		
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			That will give life and not cause death.
		
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			Somebody he come, and then he gives you life.
		
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			And we will give life because we've been given life and we will not bring meaningless death because
we are the victims of a meaningless life.
		
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			So we were dead. And he taught us our purpose. And he guided us and he tells us Yeah, he bet
		
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			All my servers Yeah, he Daddy, KU con darlin, lemon had a to festa, adunni and D comb, all my
servers all of you are straight except the ones I have guided, seek guidance from me, I will guide
you.
		
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			First day adunni deikun seek guidance from me, I will guide you.
		
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			This is this is what we should be after.
		
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			This is what we should be after
		
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			seeking guidance from Allah subhanho wa Taala. So we will no longer be lost.
		
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			And we will no longer fail to understand the purpose of our existence. We were dead, following our
passionate lust. So a person who just pursues their lust is dead.
		
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			And this is what the atheist, they're trying to kill us, the materialists. They're trying to kill
us.
		
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			They just want us to follow our lust.
		
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			They want us to surrender to our desires.
		
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			Again, we touched on this the other day because when we follow our lust and surrender to our
desires, someone makes money. Because you're not just following our lust. We're following their
lust.
		
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			If it was just our lust, we would never pass a billboard that said
		
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			Aren't you hungry for Burger King now?
		
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			We just be hungry for whatever we could get our hands on. No, they want us to be hungry for Burger
King. Now. We will never pass a billboard the golden arches. I'm loving it.
		
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			Some miskeen I'm hating it.
		
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			never gave it up in 1994
		
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			and then I was down to the french fries. Then I found out there was beef tallow and the French fries
when a Hindu guy sued McDonald's. It's no wonder they were so tasty.
		
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			When they got cold and stuck together
		
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			and we we pray it was just beef tallow
		
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			and not lard.
		
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			Now I'm not loving it. Some miskeen send me a thing with the Golden Arches a Muslim I'm loving it.
		
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			So I wrote them. I said why would you denigrate our religion by associating it with one of the
symbols in citadels of capitalism?
		
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			And consumerism?
		
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			I'm not loving it.
		
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			We should be loving Allah subhanho wa Taala
		
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			we should be loving Allah subhanho wa Taala are these empty?
		
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			messages, marketing slogans, one liners.
		
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			You can tweak the core
		
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			because the core and wants you to think deeply you can think deeply and something that's packaged in
164 characters
		
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			or whatever Twitter confines you to.
		
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			We have to reflect. We have to we have to go deep.
		
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			Look Korean wants us to be deep people and not to be shallow people.
		
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			Not to just live on the surface, a superficial existence and a superficial world following
superficial slogans. They'll want to reduce us the superficial people.
		
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			We want to be the Quran. Allah subhanho wa Taala wants us to be deep people
		
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			wants us to be able to fly a teta bonal core Do they not reflect on the core n?
		
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			Do they not reflect on the core end? And Dr. Xena Masha Allah Allah preserve her and bless them
bless her family or noble family.
		
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			Sarah starts with the heart FLL Brunello Quran, Allah, Lubin Oxford who
		
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			do they not reflect on the court and are their hearts sealed up? The the materialism, the
consumerism, the superficial reality wants to lock up our hearts. So we don't have the ability to
reflect on the core end so that we don't have the ability to plunge into the depths of the Qur'an.
		
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			But we have to unleash we have to break those chains and break those shackles and unleash
		
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			The potential of our hearts because that's what humanizes us. That is the source of our humanity.
That is the source of understanding the Quran. The Quran came to the heart of our messenger all men
can do when the gibreel affair and no hoonah Zelo Allah Allah cabbie is Neela Masada Lima, Dania de
bajo de la bushrod and meaning, who's an enemy on tour onto jabril, for he brings the revelation
down to your heart. And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he passed it to the hearts of
the companions, and they pass it down to us, through our hearts, through our hearts, brothers and
sisters,
		
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			free our heart by breaking the shackles of materialism, and consumerism,
		
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			and all of the other isms and schisms that seek to to limit our human potential. We were the dead
elements
		
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			of the of the earth. And Alok brought us to light in the loins of our father, Adam, reflect on that.
		
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			Reflect on we are a physical manifestation of physical the chromosomes, the DNA that's been handed
out right genetic markers, that we can trace our ancestry all the way back to Adam, and his salon.
		
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			And we were dead.
		
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			couldn't come min Adam, where Adam and Rob, all of you are from Adam and Adam is from the earth. And
from that Earth, Allah brought us to life.
		
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			And we came down and down and down from our father, Adam.
		
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			And we're one united humanity. Brothers and sisters in humanity, we're all related at the end of the
day.
		
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			We're all related. And we should never forget that because when we understand we are one vast human
family with one common parentage at the end of the day.
		
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			Adam alayhis salam, where Adam and Eve
		
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			then it becomes more difficult for people to set us against each other.
		
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			Just as it will be difficult to set us against our immediate brothers or our immediate sisters.
		
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			When we are conscious and aware of the fact that ultimately we are all brothers and sisters, it
becomes difficult for someone to manipulate us into fighting and destroying and demeaning and
defaming each other but there are people who have a different view of humanity and they want to
exploit the differences that a lot Tyler placed amongst us so we can recognize his creative power
and creative genius.
		
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			Which I know kung fu then we'll have a lady Tara foo. And they say well, Jana udon was a bad lead
the Takata
		
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			that's what they say. No, we say what the Quran says that we know one another.
		
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			Not that we do teach each other what we see happening in these various places.
		
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			The evil schemes
		
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			of the Alia of shaytaan, the troops of Satan. Satan wants us to differ. So what does the law say? We
said,
		
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			Yeah, in the coming decades. We've made you from a single set of parents with john Nash, kung fu
Ruben Raka. Back in early to our food, and we made you into nations and tribes that you know one
another, for there's a lot of time to say. Women a Yeti and minneriya T and Haleakala COMM And
Fujifilm as well as the test qu la wa Jalla beno como word that hawara in the fee that he can get in
the
		
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			room, he's made you from a single pair he's made from the the human alien Haleakala he's made from
you, your spouse, to live together with them, and peace and tranquility. And he's made between you
love and mercy surely in this science for people who reflect that's what a lot of time and all those
who follow the messengers of Allah, desire for humanity, the man and woman as the foundation of
human society to come together in love and mercy, what the shaytaan one
		
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			failure
		
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			lamona min homenaje euforia una de Bella and mark it was oj he wants to split up with hatred
		
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			where you are in the medad como se upon
		
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			the Satan
		
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			What is he do Will you hire you okay oh Ben Kuma Adele with a World Bank dare he places hatred and
enmity between you that's a time
		
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			that's a lot.
		
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			Which camp are we in?
		
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			Who do we follow?
		
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			Cooley Latham called the hemiola boom say a law Cooley.
		
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			Cooley left. Some of
		
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			y'all abandoned them, leave them in there empty
		
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			distractions. I really playing. They're playing games with humanity. They're playing games with us.
		
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			This is the Quranic message and look at the people claiming Islam murdering each other,
		
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			calling each other to murder each other.
		
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			denigrating each other dismissing each other's the power of law and the law. This law says those are
Muslims just murder them those say those are Muslim, just murder them but they all go to Hajj
		
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			they all face the same Qibla
		
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			they chose with the Bihar isn't that the definition of the Muslim whoever faces our killer and these
are the Bihar and makes our hearts and fast the same Ramadan there is no Sunni Ramadan and she
Ramadan.
		
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			There is no Ramadan and sheffey Ramadan and Yemen there's no Xavi Ramadan and the chef is Sunni
Ramadan. Ramadan, there is no Sunni and the Shia Hajj, there's Hajj.
		
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			There's no Sunni La ilaha illAllah Muhammad Rasulullah. And as she left him alone, Mohammed
Rasulullah
		
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			Mohammed Rasulullah and our Prophet said the power of the men, Allah La ilaha illAllah Helen Jana,
whoever says Well, hello will go to heaven. No, we want to consign them to *.
		
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			and limit the mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala. If there were Olympic Games for stupidity, there be
a lot of Muslim gold medalist.
		
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			No brothers and sisters, follow the code and
		
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			follow the Quran. Never forget the fact. So mainly he told john Time is up the end of the verse from
a la hitori. JOHN, then unto him, you're all returned. Never forget that. This world isn't the end
of our fair.
		
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			We talked about injustice. If the world was the end of our fair we could we could talk about
injustice. Why were people killed by the tsunami?
		
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			Why are those people being killed in Iraq or Syria to Crete?
		
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			Why was ISIS slaughtering people and now why the Shia militia slaughtering people?
		
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			It's not right. Those babies deserve to live. Those mothers deserve to live. Why people manipulating
this kid this later Rama beautiful name.
		
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			Ramazan Nova, from from Dagestan to blow herself up in Istanbul.
		
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			Why? Why did someone manipulate her into thinking she's going to advance the glorious cause of jihad
by killing a Turkish policeman and this bamboo who's a Muslim She doesn't even know and murdering
herself and her fetus in her pregnant belly. It's not right. It's so prestigious wrong.
		
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			Well, if this were the end of it, we can have those debates. But it's not the end. Because the one
who's killed on just the is a modern that have eternal life and gender. And when you look at the 20
years that had in this world, or 30, or 40, or 50, or 60, or 70 or 80 or 90 for some are 100. There
was a lady she was 100 live to be 104 years old. And they asked her What's the best thing about
being 104 years old? You know what she said? There's no peer pressure.
		
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			You can explain that to the person sitting next to you.
		
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			But what what is 100 years in this dunya compared to eternity,
		
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			you couldn't even measure it from the beginning of time.
		
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			from Adam from the creation of the earth, until eternity, Holly Deena fee habitat
		
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			fee and I
		
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			was sad to idea, eternal bliss, for 100 years look like on that continuum.
		
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			You wouldn't even be there's no no measure to even detect it.
		
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			So a little suffering in this world, what does it mean compared to eternal bliss?
		
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			That's the justice of a lot Tyler. And for those oppressors, and those tyrants and those usurpers
and exploiters, and murderers. What is the little power they got in this world that they enjoyed?
		
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			before maybe they are taken out by a bomb or a drone or their own body guard
		
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			compared to eternity, suffering and tormented in *?
		
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			That's the justice of Allah subhana wa Tada. Former la hitori john. So we have to prepare for the
return to Allah subhanho wa Taala.
		
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			By being aware that indeed we will be returned, do you think we're not this for no reason? Do you
think we're not like the monkeys? Some of you think you're like the monkeys.
		
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			The singing group monkeys.
		
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			I love you. Yeah, those monkeys, some of you think you like
		
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			monkeys.
		
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			But the monkeys can make an iPad, the monkeys can make a device that can send an invisible signal.
Like some of your filming right now.
		
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			As soon as everything's over, you're gonna upload it to YouTube.
		
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			With an invisible signal bouncing off a satellite in geocentric Earth orbit, being received by a
receiver, processing it, and then
		
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			putting it on millions of screens all over the world, and monkeys are still trying to figure out how
to get meat out of a nut with sticks. Well, I have Corona Danny Adam, Allah is in novoed us with his
intellect for purpose. He's given us the spiritual, deep ability to know Him for purpose. And part
of that purpose is to understand we're going to return to Him so May he lay he through May Elena
towards your own, and then on to ask you what all return and how do we prepare for that? By having a
healthy fear of the time we will return and stand before our Lord? Because if we have a healthy fear
of that reality, it affects how we live in this world. Where mm and hoffa mahkamah Robbie, he won a
		
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			national hardware fair in Elgin netta. He'll NetWare for one who fears what amendment hoffa Nakamura
be fears the time they will stand before their Lord for melena to determine when they have enough
sand and where and denies their soul the things it longs for. So shaytaan wants to split up and
divide shed Tom wants to create warring factions, and shaitan also wants us to surrender to our
desires.
		
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			Surrender to your desires. Don't forget about standing before law, forget about accountability
before law. Forget about the meeting with your Lord. Just seek to assuage your carnal appetites here
and now and forget about tomorrow. That's what shaytan wants. If it feels good, do it. Surrender to
your desires is your thing. Do what you want to do. I can't tell you who the socket to
		
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			this is your thing.
		
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			Muslim, they don't want you to have fun.
		
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			Right now. Well,
		
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			since I took Shahada, I had so much fun.
		
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			People think I'm trippin half the time.
		
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			I didn't inhale
		
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			before I was Muslim
		
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			At least Obama's honest right I unhealed
		
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			I in * forget Bill Clinton. He's lying
		
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			home *
		
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			I don't know about Hillary I don't want to mess her prospects up. I'm not even gonna ask her Hillary
Did you inhale?
		
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			Obama was honest. He got elected. Come on hillary tell us
		
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			I inhaled but I wasn't Muslim.
		
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			I was pre Shahada inhalation
		
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			ha tongue Just do your thing now at doing your signal movement with agenda told Kathy
		
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			and we mentioned the other day when you're in prison, you don't do your thing. You do the wardens
thing. This is a laws world. He's the warden. He tells us what to do, when to do it, how to do it.
And he says, if we're a good prisoner, we will get out. And we'll never come back. ever good
prisoner will never be thrown into the hole.
		
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			But in the world we're talking about the whole is hot.
		
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			And attico or singsing San Quentin Folsom
		
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			Auburn. arroway or Lauren. We're in Virginia after
		
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			the hole is used the cold. There's no heat down there. You're in segregation, solitary confinement.
		
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			In the hole, a lot of Tyler throws people into his hot
		
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			and you have a lot of company.
		
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			And despite all of that company, * is greedy and ask a lot Tyler Hellman moseyed.
		
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			Last Helen terlet are you filled up? insatiable appetite?
		
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			Helman moseyed. Are there any more brothers and sisters save yourself? Turn to the end. Remember
your Lord, think of the time you will die. This world wants us to forget our death.
		
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			Now a lot of Tyler wants us to remember through melena total jerilyn kulu neffs in the equitable
note, coolness in that equitable note, the inescapable inevitable reality and prepare for that,
prepare for that by living the dignified life of a believer.
		
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			Prepare for that by giving yourself to a loss of Hannah wattana prepare for that by being an
obedient servant of Allah subhanho wa Taala. And you will have bliss in this world because and we'll
stop here on 15 minutes over the time.
		
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			And Dr. Xena was before me so I can ask her to yield time. And I don't know speaking next so I can
ask them to your time.
		
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			But brothers and sisters, prepare for your death. Remember, the time will be dead. Remember the time
we will go into the grave? reflect on the time the dirt will be thrown on us the next time you go to
a funeral. Imagine yourself in that coffin. Imagine the dirt being thrown on you. Imagine the people
walking away from your grave site. Imagine the angels questioning you imagining one day which hand
is the record of your deeds of our deeds will fly into. Will it be in the right will it be in the
left?
		
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			Imagine even more hospital with him. He wrote a book imagine think about reflect on the reality of
death and reflect on the fact the fact the reality that we will be returned to our Lord Thelma Elena
torrejon Mela Bless you. Solomonic