Zakariyya Harnekar – Hadith on Ramadaan

Zakariyya Harnekar
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The speakers discuss the importance of avoiding major sins and not doing things that cause it. They stress the need to avoid major sins and find a reward in SunGeneration. The speakers emphasize the importance of finding a reward and training on healthy eating and drink before fasting. The importance of not seeking perfection and not using words of disgust is emphasized. The segment ends with a call to action and promise to achieve a goal.

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			Okay.
		
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			Again, how's it going?
		
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			So good.
		
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			Okay. So asked me to read, this 40
		
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			a hadith on on,
		
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			Ramadan
		
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			compilation
		
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			by
		
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			my brother, Amina
		
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			Abu Abu Amina Elias.
		
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			Is that but temporary guy is still alive.
		
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			And I think also, but I don't know
		
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			him personally.
		
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			He compiled his Hadith in Ramadan, and I
		
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			think started leading them with you.
		
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			Did he with both classes?
		
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			That you do with me? Yes.
		
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			And, the first hit loss?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			You did? About 20.
		
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			About 20.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Forgive me, sir, you wouldn't roll down.
		
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			You
		
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			did that one? You were still there.
		
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			Okay. So I think what we do is
		
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			then.
		
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			I mean, it's
		
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			a there's no order to it.
		
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			So
		
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			we'll start to this one
		
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			and, if we have benefit to everyone.
		
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			With the I was actually doing with the
		
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			with the second
		
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			class.
		
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			I was doing a a different compilation of
		
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			a Hadith in the Ramadan.
		
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			Also, a compilation of Hadith in the Ramadan.
		
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			That one was compiled by
		
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			by, my teacher,
		
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			but I did it for some different purposes.
		
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			In that compilation,
		
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			compiled a a hadith from.
		
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			Each hadith comes from a different
		
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			primary
		
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			compilation of hadith,
		
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			and it has the chain of narration from
		
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			himself.
		
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			But we're not gonna finish all of that
		
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			now.
		
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			So, I think we maybe just do the
		
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			rest of this 20,
		
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			and,
		
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			maybe we'll do one hadith with the senate
		
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			from the HR.
		
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			Right.
		
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			So hadith and forgiveness and the reward in
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			Narrated by
		
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			the
		
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			messenger of Allah
		
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			said according to
		
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			that the 5 prayers
		
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			and from 1 Jummah to the next
		
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			and from 1 one Ramadan to the next
		
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			Ramadan,
		
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			they are causes for the expiration
		
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			of what is between them,
		
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			as long as
		
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			major sins are
		
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			avoided.
		
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			That is a means
		
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			to
		
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			avoid. As long as major sins are avoided.
		
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			Point of this hadith here is that
		
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			it's not that, okay, I'm so I go
		
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			sin between the salah before I get to
		
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			the next one because gonna wipe away my
		
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			sins. The point of the hadith is that
		
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			we must look forward
		
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			to these moments or these,
		
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			Jumuah and Jumuah. You can consider Jumuah as
		
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			a as a period of time. You can
		
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			also consider it as an act.
		
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			Similarly, Ramadan
		
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			consider this the period of time,
		
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			or,
		
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			you can consider
		
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			Ramadan an account of the actions that could
		
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			that take place in it. But the word
		
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			Ramadan
		
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			also has a meaning. You know what?
		
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			What
		
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			does
		
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			Ramadan
		
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			mean?
		
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			We
		
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			thought of Ramadan.
		
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			Ramadan actually means to to
		
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			burn something.
		
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			To burn something.
		
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			So
		
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			the meaning of Ramadan
		
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			is it mean literally means something that burns.
		
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			So we understand? So it is the thing
		
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			that burns away your
		
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			your sins.
		
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			That period of time in which your sins
		
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			are burned away
		
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			through doing these acts of devotion and fasting,
		
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			etcetera.
		
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			If there's a condition, you must
		
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			avoid
		
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			major sins.
		
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			The understanding with major sins is this,
		
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			if I have minor sins,
		
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			then by me doing something good alone will
		
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			wipe away the minor sins. But if I
		
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			do major sins,
		
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			then I must make specific for
		
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			them. Right? That's not to say I can
		
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			do small sins and then forget about them.
		
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			That's not
		
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			what is made at all.
		
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			But,
		
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			it just means that
		
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			those
		
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			small or those minor sins,
		
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			they don't necessarily require a specific,
		
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			rather, they can be made up by other
		
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			good deeds.
		
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			Right? That's,
		
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			it's important to understand,
		
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			that we do have the this this distinction
		
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			between major sins and
		
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			and minor sins. And, usually,
		
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			the distinction between major sins and minor sins,
		
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			some of them are mentioned in a hadith.
		
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			Some, sometimes Allah
		
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			refers to things in the Quran as,
		
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			as well.
		
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			But, like, I was in
		
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			so that comes in the Quran as well.
		
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			But
		
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			this smaller
		
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			or or not as a smaller, but minuses
		
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			that
		
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			almost,
		
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			we're almost
		
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			like we inevitably fall in demon account of
		
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			our nature.
		
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			Like, maybe you just thought you are somebody.
		
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			You didn't fester the
		
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			the the wrong thought and
		
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			and allow it to manifest in terms of
		
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			you harming the person in any way. But
		
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			the mere evil thought of the person is
		
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			a is a bad deed to solve. Right?
		
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			Reported the message of Allah, sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam,
		
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			encouraged standing for the night prayer in the
		
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			month of Ramadan without imposing it upon. Prophet
		
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			would
		
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			say,
		
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			Whoever stands
		
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			for Ramadan,
		
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			There's something
		
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			but understood. You can't stand the whole Ramadan.
		
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			And, also, it doesn't mean standing.
		
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			Right? Whoever stands in prayer in the month
		
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			of Ramadan,
		
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			on account of their faith,
		
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			Right?
		
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			And on account of seeking
		
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			the reward from Allah. For those in the
		
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			speaking to, what what do you think that
		
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			is the iman and what this happened?
		
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			What high is
		
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			it
		
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			in?
		
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			And
		
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			that the the the fat had been, but
		
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			why?
		
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			Not.
		
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			Well, you could actually consider you could potentially
		
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			consider it. You could also consider it not
		
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			only.
		
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			I know that might over the the the
		
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			age of the questions, but just to
		
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			make sure that they're still giving it.
		
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			Stands in the month of Ramadan in prayer,
		
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			an an account of his faith and seeking,
		
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			a reward from Allah
		
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			He will be forgiven
		
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			or it will be forgiven for him. What
		
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			will be forgiven?
		
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			What had,
		
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			passed of his sins, in his prior sins.
		
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			Again, that refers to the minor sins.
		
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			Major sins require a specific.
		
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			It's hadith from Abu
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			Means to fast.
		
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			So whoever fasts. What does he fast? Ramadan,
		
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			in that period of Ramadan.
		
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			Ramadan. And he recognizes its and he acknowledges
		
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			its limits.
		
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			What are the parameters that you are to
		
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			follow in the month of Ramadan?
		
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			You must not eat from a certain time
		
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			to another time. You mustn't engage in certain
		
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			types of, conduct. You must all of those
		
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			things.
		
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			Father, and he calls himself.
		
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			That is the the first form of the
		
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			verb.
		
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			What
		
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			the from that which it,
		
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			it behooves him,
		
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			or
		
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			it is suitable for him
		
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			to to guard against.
		
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			So he guards himself against
		
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			all of those things that are appropriate for
		
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			him to guard against.
		
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			In the month of Ramadan,
		
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			then Ramadan
		
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			expiates, wipes away
		
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			what was before it.
		
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			And Abdul Rahman
		
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			Abdul Rahman ibn Haf, one of the 10
		
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			companions that would promise
		
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			in his lifetime,
		
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			He reported that the messenger of Allah sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam said, in
		
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			Ramadan, Indeed, Ramadan is a month. If tarot
		
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			Allahu Azzawajal
		
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			siamahu,
		
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			Allah made fasting it obligatory.
		
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			And Allah made fasting compulsory, and I made
		
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			praying its nights,
		
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			superrogatory.
		
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			What does that mean? Like,
		
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			I've instituted that praying in the nights of
		
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			Ramadan
		
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			is something that they should follow away. Sunnah
		
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			is a path.
		
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			Right? Literally, Sunnah means a path.
		
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			So Rasulullah plays the trail
		
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			as an example for the believers to pray
		
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			in the nights of of Ramadan.
		
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			In fact, that's why
		
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			Rasulullah didn't go out for tarot every night.
		
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			Because if he had gone every night,
		
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			then people may have thought it compulsory.
		
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			It is,
		
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			but it's a great. You know, when we
		
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			say something, sometimes we say, okay. I'm not
		
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			gonna do it because it's.
		
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			You should say I'm going to do it
		
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			because it's sooner.
		
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			That's just so we've, like,
		
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			messed up the usage of of the word
		
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			sooner. Saying something sooner means, okay. All this
		
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			canary work me for this. I'm not gonna
		
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			do it.
		
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			That doesn't make any sense.
		
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			So
		
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			we I mean, obviously, I know what you
		
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			mean you mean by that when we use
		
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			it as an excuse that it it's not
		
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			a fardot.
		
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			But,
		
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			it's not it's nonsensical. Rasulullah
		
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			teach us in hadith that he
		
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			instituted in the world that's used is,
		
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			from the word sunnah.
		
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			I've instituted for for them the praying of
		
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			the the night.
		
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			So he says
		
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			from. Whoever fast the month
		
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			with, sound faith and not to on account
		
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			of his faith, seek a reward from Allah.
		
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			He will
		
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			He will exit from his sins like the
		
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			day that his mother gave birth to him.
		
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			Meaning, you, all his sense will be expanded.
		
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			Comes from Atif.
		
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			It means
		
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			like a free neck.
		
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			So
		
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			Allah's,
		
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			like, set our next free.
		
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			That's,
		
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			it's almost liberating the image of being a
		
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			shackled slave.
		
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			Allah
		
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			is setting you setting you free from the.
		
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			And that is, in fact, the state of
		
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			the people of
		
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			the. What does at the beginning?
		
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			Says, you know, the people, the alpha, you
		
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			will place, like,
		
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			yokes on their necks,
		
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			chains and and and colors on their necks
		
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			that that shackled them.
		
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			So that's the the state of the people
		
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			of the alfa. So they do either 2
		
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			make his, oh, Allah, free our necks.
		
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			And,
		
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			and so Allah, Rasulullah says that Rasulullah
		
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			I mean, Abu Saeed says that
		
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			Rasulullah said
		
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			that indeed Allah has necks,
		
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			that he frees
		
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			every day and every night.
		
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			Ramadan,
		
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			applying in the month of Ramadan.
		
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			And every
		
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			servant amongst those people whose whose necks have
		
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			been freed,
		
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			they will have
		
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			a, a readily accepted prayer.
		
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			So there's 2 things we're being encouraged from
		
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			encouraged towards.
		
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			Number 1, seeking that Allah
		
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			write us of those who are freed
		
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			and make us deserving of that. And secondly,
		
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			there is an encouragement towards du'a.
		
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			An
		
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			encouragement towards du'a. Because who knows when if
		
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			your neck is one of those next set
		
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			of leads on our side.
		
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			The Hadid says all of those people's neck
		
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			suffering, they will, in addition to that, have
		
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			a an answered prayer.
		
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			So
		
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			we'll make to every night and hope that
		
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			that it is our prayer that will be
		
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			answered.
		
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			Reported the mission of
		
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			Allah
		
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			said, indeed,
		
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			whoever stands with the imam. Yeah.
		
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			And if you're Ramadan, speaking about the the
		
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			nights of Ramadan,
		
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			Ramadan, until the imam turns away, until the
		
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			imam leaves.
		
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			Latin,
		
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			it will be recorded for him as an
		
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			entire night of prayer.
		
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			So that should be a motivation to remain
		
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			performing salah with the
		
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			from the beginning till the end.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			I don't wanna say, now if you feel
		
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			lazy, then I'll go find a mosque.
		
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			But the ease of Fadhillah too,
		
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			just to pray the entire.
		
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			The hadith doesn't say specifically.
		
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			And and and I and I don't say
		
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			this to encourage laziness.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But just for the sake of,
		
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			you know, intellectual
		
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			completeness.
		
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			When we perform,
		
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			generally, there's a change of email
		
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			after every few.
		
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			So we hope that,
		
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			you know, even if you pray
		
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			with the email and that one leaves,
		
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			then you will still get the reward.
		
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			The the hadith doesn't say exactly. Right? But
		
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			I'm but I'm not, I'm what I'm saying,
		
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			I'm not saying this to encourage laziness.
		
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			I'm just saying Ramadan is a time of
		
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			Ramadan is a time of
		
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			becoming desirous of Allah's reward.
		
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			And
		
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			sometimes,
		
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			we formalize Ramadan
		
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			to such an extent
		
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			that we actually lose out on the benefit
		
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			of Ramadan.
		
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			Like, for example, people see to themselves, if
		
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			I didn't go to the Masjid for for,
		
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			then I missed.
		
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			Why can't I?
		
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			In fact, personally, this year,
		
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			probably started because of COVID,
		
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			I don't slack on it. I've
		
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			I mean, I it recited
		
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			good amount.
		
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			But for me,
		
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			it's
		
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			I get to engage more with the Quran.
		
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			And, also, because I have 2 small kids,
		
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			it's either
		
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			my wife's gonna sit at home,
		
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			Though she knows the Quran, like, a 100
		
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			times better than me,
		
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			she's probably gonna fall asleep with the kids.
		
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			She has to put them to sleep and
		
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			then not get.
		
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			Or I go to the machine. I perform
		
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			my. I
		
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			come home,
		
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			put the kids to sleep, and then we
		
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			make that over here. Sometimes
		
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			you put in the kids to sleep before
		
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			they sleep also.
		
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			But then, you know, you wake up in
		
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			the night,
		
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			and then it start our hand.
		
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			So,
		
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			you know, for me, that was one of
		
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			the lessons or one of the things that
		
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			positives of COVID.
		
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			It broke a little bit of the formality
		
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			of
		
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			of doing things.
		
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			So, yes,
		
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			strive to go to Masjid. Because in going
		
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			to the Masjid, you can have the niyaf
		
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			for,
		
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			following the imam there, there's expert recitals there,
		
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			all of those things. But we should never
		
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			that idea of the formalized things that we
		
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			do in Ramadan should never become so entrenched
		
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			in our mind that if we fall short
		
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			of that, we feel we we've lost
		
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			out. Right?
		
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			We can perform on our own.
		
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			We can perform
		
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			8,
		
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			20,
		
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			10, even what you want to, 36
		
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			whatever.
		
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			Do what you can. You can recite in
		
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			it. How how much you can? You can
		
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			stand with the most half.
		
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			You can read out of your head.
		
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			Doesn't matter. Right? The idea is to be
		
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			striving for Allah's,
		
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			for Allah's
		
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			for
		
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			Allah's good favor. That's very important because,
		
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			you know,
		
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			in the
		
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			in the in the, you know, roller coaster,
		
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			when they express train of especially now with
		
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			our day is very short.
		
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			Get up in the morning. You'll make us
		
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			a whole. Go to work. We I'm nervous
		
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			first call, pray for your side, all of
		
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			those things. Go to work. Come after work.
		
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			It's nearly time to break your fast. Break
		
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			your fast. Eat.
		
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			You smashed in the night. Sleep. Repeat.
		
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			We can lose the essence of of Ramadan,
		
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			of humbling ourselves,
		
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			of training our nafs, of engaging with the
		
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			Quran, of understanding the Quran. So
		
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			I like to encourage you that, you know,
		
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			have a plan for Ramadan, not just for
		
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			the things you want to do, but for
		
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			the things you want to attain as well.
		
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			So, for example,
		
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			I'm gonna read
		
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			half a page of the Quran that I'm
		
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			gonna ponder about,
		
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			and I'm gonna dedicate half an hour to
		
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			that.
		
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			So what would have been my lunch break,
		
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			I'm gonna do some of that.
		
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			And then, also, there's the express train of
		
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			I must just finish khatam upon khatam also.
		
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			Or even if for some people, it's just
		
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			I must finish my khatam for the month.
		
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			But
		
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			you can read a khatam and,
		
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			like, say the words of the Quran,
		
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			which is rewarding.
		
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			But you lose something of the objective of
		
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			Allah revealing the Quran in the first place
		
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			unless he die.
		
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			You know, the fact that the Quran is
		
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			supposed to transform you. So I don't say
		
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			do one over the other.
		
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			Do it at both. We must have
		
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			we must be disciplined enough to have a
		
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			for ourselves.
		
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			So I want to read my one juice
		
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			for the day
		
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			or how you know, that differs according to
		
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			people. Right? And their proficiency with the Quran
		
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			and the time that they have, etcetera, the
		
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			time they can make for the Quran. So
		
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			say I want to recite, so I'm gonna
		
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			recite my juice for the day, but I'm
		
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			also going to recite another
		
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			three lines of the plan. I'm gonna recite
		
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			2 verses of the plan, and I'm going
		
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			to
		
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			reflect on it. I'm gonna read its meaning.
		
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			I'm gonna reflect on it, and I'm going
		
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			to see how we can implement this in
		
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			in
		
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			how I can implement it in my life.
		
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			And, in fact, that's a good activity to
		
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			do as a family.
		
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			Very good activity to do as to do
		
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			as a family. You know?
		
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			Yeah. The benefits of it. I don't even
		
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			wanna get into that because it's so much.
		
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			Like, in my experience in dealing with youth,
		
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			like, children never talk about serious stuff to
		
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			their parents. So, you know, engaging
		
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			engaging with each other around versus of the
		
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			Quran creates a different
		
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			intimate relationship with, you know, within a family.
		
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			But, obviously,
		
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			it's not like you're just using the Quran
		
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			to scale the kid up.
		
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			That you you're actually allowing them to engage
		
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			with.
		
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			So,
		
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			you know, in the formality
		
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			of Ramadan, you mustn't lose its essence as
		
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			well.
		
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			And that's why I just shared that idea
		
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			of that in Suraf ul imam, when the
		
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			imam turns away that perhaps inshallah, you still
		
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			get to you.
		
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			Because that's.
		
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			You must be desirous of the
		
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			world. Like, sometimes you know you're doing something,
		
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			like, as a copper,
		
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			but you you mustn't lose the fact that
		
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			you must be desirous of the world. Like,
		
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			for example, this hadith that speak about if
		
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			you perform the,
		
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			and
		
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			the
		
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			then it says if you pray
		
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			the. Now
		
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			sometimes you do that because
		
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			you're lazy to stand up in the night.
		
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			Right? But you think to yourself, okay. Look.
		
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			At least I want to get in and
		
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			that's the word of prayer. So you still
		
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			make it to be in the.
		
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			That idea of being desirous of rewards from
		
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			Allah is in itself a form of.
		
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			Even though you know it's because I fell
		
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			short.
		
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			Allah knows we fall short. That is still
		
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			a form of.
		
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			But it's it it should never be that,
		
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			you know, that becomes our norm. We just
		
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			desire us of reward, but we do nothing.
		
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			That's all. Everything in this place. Yeah. And
		
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			I've
		
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			been the cousin of Rasulullah
		
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			said,
		
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			in the month of Ramadan
		
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			is a Hajj.
		
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			Doesn't mean you don't have to do Hajj
		
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			anymore, but it's as if you get the
		
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			reward of a Hajj.
		
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			And there are narrations, in fact, that says
		
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			a reward, a
		
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			Hajj. No. No. No. That's something else.
		
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			That's an election to Ishrak.
		
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			If you if you
		
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			stay after Fajr in your place of prayer,
		
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			remembering
		
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			Allah until the time of
		
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			and then you perform then
		
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			it's as if you get the reward of
		
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			performing Hajj with
		
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			SAWANNAH.
		
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			He was the
		
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			most generous of people.
		
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			And the period of time in which he
		
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			was most generous was the month of
		
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			Ramadan. Jibril, when Jibril, alayhis salam, would come
		
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			to meet
		
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			him.
		
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			In Ramadan, and Jibril would meet
		
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			in every night of Ramadan.
		
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			Quran.
		
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			And then they would
		
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			mutually
		
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			learn the Quran.
		
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			Right? How would that be?
		
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			From our understanding is that the Rasulullah
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would,
		
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			recite the Quran to Jibril Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			And in the year before Rasulullah
		
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			passed away,
		
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			he completed the Quran twice. And that's actually
		
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			where the the motivation comes from reciting the
		
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			entire Quran in the
		
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			or reciting the in the month of Ramadan
		
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			because it was the practice of Rasulullah
		
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			who
		
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			recite the,
		
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			Quran
		
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			in in the month of Ramadan.
		
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			He says, most certainly, the messenger of Allah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			and was
		
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			more generous with his wealth.
		
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			He was more generous with his wealth. Khayr
		
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			can can refer to just goodness. It can
		
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			also refer to wealth.
		
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			He was more generous with his wealth or
		
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			more generous with any type of goodness
		
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			than a
		
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			a saint wind.
		
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			And this
		
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			can you can also understand it as the
		
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			translators as as a nourishing wind, but what
		
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			it means is
		
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			a wind that brings rain clouds.
		
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			Yeah. That brings you water to drink. That
		
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			waters your crops.
		
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			It gives you food. All of those things.
		
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			Was
		
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			more generous
		
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			than a,
		
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			nourishing wind.
		
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			And that speaks to something important as well.
		
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			You see, when we when we
		
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			the Hadith is mentioned here for the idea
		
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			of reciting the Quran. But when we think
		
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			of Ramadan, we think of 2 things,
		
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			fasting,
		
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			praying in the night.
		
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			But fasting has a number of benefits to
		
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			it. 1 is the attainment of.
		
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			But
		
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			there's another element to it and that is
		
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			that it teaches you empathy.
		
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			Right? And
		
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			it it's actually
		
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			made followed upon us
		
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			to engage with that
		
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			quality of empathy in that your fast is
		
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			hinged upon your pain
		
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			Right? You must the acceptance of your
		
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			Yes. You can have full fulfill your responsibility,
		
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			fulfill the form,
		
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			but there's fulfilling the physical duty, and then
		
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			there's also the reward attached to something. So
		
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			we must never forget that amongst the actions
		
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			of Ramadan,
		
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			it's not just
		
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			fasting and standing in prayer,
		
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			coupled with reciting the Quran, because that's what
		
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			you do in prayer. But, also, acts of
		
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			charity
		
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			of utmost importance in the month of Ramadan
		
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			and outside the month of Ramadan.
		
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			But
		
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			especially so in the month of Ramadan,
		
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			becomes compulsory. Actually, that's in the first
		
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			after the last night of Ramadan.
		
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			But, giving charity throughout the month,
		
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			is is strongly encouraged.
		
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			And we should seek out ways to do
		
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			that. I like the
		
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			you know, it shouldn't become burdensome, but I
		
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			very much like the
		
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			the the
		
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			the culture of sharing your food at the
		
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			time of the stall with neighbors.
		
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			They're taking a a plate to neighbors and
		
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			stuff like that. Because
		
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			and make sure that every day, you're sharing.
		
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			And the the the nature of our nafs
		
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			is that it doesn't like to share.
		
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			That's what we tell my, tell my wife.
		
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			The kid, you know, when he's 2 years
		
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			old, everything is either
		
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			a. If
		
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			you give him chocolate,
		
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			he'll be missing.
		
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			Just because,
		
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			you know, he doesn't wanna share the thing.
		
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			So,
		
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			even I tell him, you you'll have to
		
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			share. He tells me, I don't love to
		
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			share.
		
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			But
		
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			it's a it's just a real, unfiltered expression
		
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			of enough because that's what kids are. They
		
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			don't have that
		
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			adult developed enough to restrain them from those
		
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			things. We we nurture them and train them.
		
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			But
		
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			the unfold today, the nurses are in the
		
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			industry.
		
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			So that's part of of our nurse. We
		
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			don't like to share.
		
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			But sharing,
		
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			in giving,
		
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			we're training on us even more.
		
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			So we're training on us by refraining from
		
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			food
		
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			and drink, but we also train on us
		
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			by giving
		
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			to others to eat food and drink, etcetera.
		
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			And,
		
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			yeah.
		
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			So so it's something good. It shouldn't become
		
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			a burdensome thing or that. You know? Competing
		
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			with the neighbors is usually what? But just
		
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			the idea of,
		
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			of sharing his, his food. And then you
		
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			get the reward back if they, you know,
		
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			eat your your your food at the time
		
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			of breaking the fast, and you share in
		
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			the reward of of the 4 fast as
		
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			well.
		
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			Every year, the Quran will be presented to
		
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			the messenger of Allah
		
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			We would review the Quran,
		
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			every year in the month of Ramadan once.
		
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			But in the year that Rasulullah
		
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			passed away, the Quran was presented to him
		
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			twice.
		
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			Every year Rasulullah
		
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			would make you careful
		
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			10 days,
		
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			10 nights. It's also something we should strive
		
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			to to do. In the, I might have
		
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			there's no difference between
		
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			a
		
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			and a. It's just you enter the machine.
		
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			You're making tension. You can be entering the
		
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			masjid to make salah also.
		
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			You enter the masjid. You're making tension for
		
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			your tikaf. For the period that you stay
		
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			in you remain in the mosque, that is
		
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			considered
		
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			the tikaf.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So
		
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			even if you know I'm not able to
		
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			spend my entire 10 days or 10 nights
		
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			in the month, you know, at the,
		
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			at the end of Ramadan in the machine,
		
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			then don't deprive yourself of spending some time
		
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			in the Masjid.
		
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			Even if it be that, you know, I'm
		
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			going to the Masjid for Dur Surah and
		
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			then I'm gonna settle Assur Surah.
		
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			That's also.
		
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			So so so do that.
		
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			Sheikh Ismail was was mentioning something,
		
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			about how busy we are. And that's the
		
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			reality.
		
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			The fact that we have our phones with
		
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			us, you never actually
		
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			need to have a a free moment with
		
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			your mind and your thoughts.
		
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			Like, at every moment, you just walk out
		
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			your phone, you read something, and and, like,
		
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			I always say, you think it's beneficial. It's
		
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			giving information about something, but really in the
		
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			grand scheme of things, it's, like,
		
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			not beneficial. And it actually deprives you of
		
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			being alone with yourself,
		
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			which is an important thing. And,
		
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			gives us that opportunity to to,
		
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			you know, to do that. And
		
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			for both males and females.
		
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			Both males and females,
		
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			in the machine.
		
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			So try and make some time for them.
		
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			And in the year that Rasulullah
		
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			passed away, he remained in the masjid for
		
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			20
		
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			days. And
		
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			the wife of Rasulullah
		
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			she said,
		
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			I did not know I did not know
		
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			of the messenger
		
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			that he would
		
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			recite the entire Quran in one night nor
		
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			spend the whole night in prayer until the
		
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			morning,
		
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			nor
		
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			fast an entire month except during the month
		
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			of of Ramadan.
		
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			And probably on account of this hadith,
		
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			some of the people that are very proficient
		
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			in the in the recitation of the Quran,
		
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			they actually do that.
		
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			Recite the whole Quran in in a net.
		
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			We're lucky we have long nights and so
		
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			on and so on.
		
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			But,
		
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			if you recite the Quran
		
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			with corrected read,
		
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			you know, pulling all your mudu correctly as
		
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			you should, but with a harder pace, the
		
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			faster pace of reciting, it is possible to
		
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			recite the Quran in about 10 hours.
		
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			I actually know somebody that has
		
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			But,
		
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			the idea is that in Ramadan,
		
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			there's an encouragement to a greater degree of
		
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			exertion.
		
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			It's not you should feel bad if you
		
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			call
		
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			him. No. If you are able if you're
		
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			usually able to
		
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			stand
		
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			for 15 minutes in salah, but now you
		
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			can do it for 20 minutes,
		
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			that's a great dedication
		
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			Allah sees that we strive for. We must
		
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			exert ourselves in Ramadan, but we must also
		
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			strive for a, you know, consistency
		
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			at a slightly higher level than we were
		
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			before.
		
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			Rather, so have you worthy
		
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			that
		
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			even
		
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			reporting that the mission of Allah
		
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			The scrolls of Ibrahim alaihi salam, the revelation
		
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			that he received was it revealed to him
		
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			on the 1st night of
		
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			Ramadan. And
		
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			the Torah was revealed to Musa alaihi salam
		
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			after 6 days that passed of Ramadan.
		
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			Well,
		
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			The Injeel, the gospel was revealed to Isa
		
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			Alaihi Salam after 13
		
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			days at past of Ramadan.
		
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			And
		
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			the Quran was revealed
		
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			after 24
		
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			days had passed through the month
		
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			of Ramadan.
		
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			So according to this narration, there's difference of
		
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			opinion on this. Right? Because we know the
		
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			Quran was revealed on which night.
		
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			But there's different stages to the revelation of
		
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			the Quran. One stage of the revelation of
		
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			the Quran is there it goes. So
		
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			there was different stages to the revelation of
		
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			the of the Quran. The Quran was revealed
		
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			from Allah
		
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			to the lower from
		
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			the lower from the lowest heaven, from the
		
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			lowest heaven to the dunya.
		
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			So three phases of that was on the
		
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			night of of,
		
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			I think some differ in regarding those stages.
		
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			But the revelation from Allah to to
		
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			the,
		
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			you know, to to the heavens, the lowest
		
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			heaven, that took place in the month of
		
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			Ramadan. And the beginning of revelation from the
		
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			lowest heaven to Rasulullah
		
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			also took place,
		
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			on the night of Badr. But then we
		
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			know the Quran was revealed piecemeal after that,
		
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			over the the remainder of Rasulullah
		
00:37:02 --> 00:37:03
			five.
		
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			But we don't know exactly when
		
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			that is.
		
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			So
		
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			this narration here mentions,
		
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			going after 24 days have passed
		
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			or 24 nights have passed.
		
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			So it could be on the 25th night.
		
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			Right.
		
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			And then, regarding safeguarding the fast and the
		
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			he said that the mission of Allah
		
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			said
		
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			eat something in the morning
		
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			because in Sahoor, there is blessings.
		
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			So this speaks about something I think maybe
		
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			we'll end with this because,
		
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			I don't Yeah. Because the time is up.
		
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			But there was a quote of Al Imam
		
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			al Bayudawi
		
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			when he speaks about the fast and the
		
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			idea that in another hadith,
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
		
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			or Rasulullah Sallallahu
		
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			Wa Salam says that,
		
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			Whoever does not leave
		
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			speaking false things and acting on it.
		
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			Allah has no need for him to,
		
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			Allah has no need for his hunger and
		
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			thirst
		
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			or for him to leave his food and
		
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			his drink.
		
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			So
		
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			Rasulullah
		
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			actually encourages us. Eat before you fast. You
		
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			must haste. You must, you know, delay your
		
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			suhoor to as late as possible.
		
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			But not eat into the walk the fazr,
		
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			but delay your suhoor.
		
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			And break your fast as soon as possible.
		
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			That and the other hadith that I mentioned,
		
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			it indicates
		
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			that
		
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			the objective of fasting
		
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			is not the attainment of hunger and thirst
		
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			or not the experience of hunger and thirst.
		
00:39:05 --> 00:39:08
			Right? Because that's the most superficial effect of
		
00:39:08 --> 00:39:10
			refraining from food and drink. You become hungry,
		
00:39:10 --> 00:39:13
			you become thirsty. This is that it's it's
		
00:39:13 --> 00:39:15
			not Allah did not legislate fast
		
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			so that you can experience hunger and thirst.
		
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			Rather, what is intended or the the the
		
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			objective behind Allah legislating fasting
		
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			is that
		
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			you
		
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			abase your nafs,
		
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			you you train your nafs, and you subject
		
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			your
		
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			nafs from the state of
		
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			constantly commanding you with wrong.
		
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			And that's right. That you're not you're the
		
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			state of your is that your your,
		
00:39:51 --> 00:39:54
			you know, encourages you to do wrong things
		
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			all the time. You know, go beyond the
		
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			limit.
		
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			You know, eat more than you should, speak
		
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			more than you should do this, or or
		
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			do too little, or whatever the case may
		
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			be. That's one of the states of the
		
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			that you should subject
		
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			that
		
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			side of your
		
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			that side of your that is
		
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			that is
		
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			content.
		
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			What is it content with? Content with the
		
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			decree of Allah, the law of Allah, content
		
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			with Allah, and the deed of Allah in
		
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			its entirety.
		
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			So that is what is,
		
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			intended by
		
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			Allah legislating fasting. And he continues to say
		
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			that, you know, if that is not obtained
		
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			through fasting,
		
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			then Allah does not look at the fast
		
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			of of the person that does not attain
		
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			that with a gaze of acceptance.
		
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			That's what that's what is meant by Allah
		
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			not having any need for the first. Allah
		
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			doesn't have any need whatsoever.
		
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			So what does it mean in the hadith?
		
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			It means that Allah will not look at
		
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			that action with an action of
		
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			with an eye of acceptance.
		
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			So the idea is we must constantly be
		
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			engaging our fasting on
		
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			various levels. Ensure, yes, we are refraining from
		
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			food and drink.
		
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			But, also,
		
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			am I, know, giving up something?
		
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			Am I ensuring that I'm bettering myself? Am
		
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			I
		
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			am I really training my nerves?
		
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			And so, you know,
		
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			seeing that we we're entering into the losses,
		
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			we're not gonna have crossing the remainder of
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			Maybe just a Ramadan hack.
		
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			You know, when we when we strive to
		
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			get the night of,
		
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			and we do a lot of things. We
		
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			make in the night. We decide Quran, whatever.
		
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			We might even try to give our charity
		
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			on on on those nights, etcetera.
		
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			But
		
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			one habit that I try to implement, I
		
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			don't do it all the time,
		
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			fall short often. But I try to tell
		
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			myself every night, you know, I'm gonna pick
		
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			one flaw that I have with myself
		
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			within myself. Just one flaw, and I'm gonna
		
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			try and better that.
		
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			And that forces something. It forces you to
		
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			actually think about your flaws.
		
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			And
		
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			and then to just and I don't necessarily
		
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			pick a lot of big stuff.
		
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			Maybe one big thing
		
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			and some other not so big thing so
		
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			that I can maintain it with consistency.
		
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			Or if it's not
		
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			eradicating a flow from your life, then inculcating
		
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			something good in life. Like, telling yourself, you
		
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			know, I'm gonna decide. Even in the to
		
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			see if I'm gonna decide the 3 rules,
		
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			for example. It's just it's not a major
		
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			thing.
		
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			Start small. You can maintain consistency upon.
		
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			Or
		
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			yeah. Like I said, also eradicating a
		
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			something wrong in your life. Like, maybe it
		
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			is that you use vulgar language
		
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			or, you know, sway for the. So you
		
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			tell yourself, look. I am, you know, making
		
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			a commitment to myself and to Allah. I'm
		
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			not gonna sway any longer than to that.
		
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			And then
		
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			you try with you you know, to to
		
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			your greatest
		
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			ability to actually maintain that.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			will reward you greatly for that as if,
		
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			you know,
		
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			you get the reward of fulfilling that act
		
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			throughout your entire life.
		
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			So I have those intention. The intentions are
		
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			powerful.
		
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			But, yeah,
		
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			I think that brings us to the end
		
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			of our last class for this month of
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			We are heading into the period of so
		
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			make the most of it. Keep us in
		
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			your duas. All of us. Let us keep
		
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			each other in our duas.
		
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			We never know whose duas accepted.
		
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			And, you know, perhaps we can all benefit
		
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			from that.
		
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			And, also, have a good aid.
		
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			Always aid. Don't deprive yourself and your children
		
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			of
		
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			celebration.
		
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			Like, make an effort to make eel liquor.
		
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			Yeah. It's part of human nature to to
		
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			to look forward to celebration.
		
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			And when we become dry people and eat
		
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			is like just about literally going to mosque
		
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			and then it's finished and we chill out
		
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			at home and relax.
		
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			Children don't look forward to it. And then
		
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			you find nowadays,
		
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			kids want to have Halloween parties and Christmas
		
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			parties and all this stuff.
		
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			Whereas, you know, we have our own moments
		
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			of joy. Make it like it.
		
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			Whichever way you can.
		
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			So.
		
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			Hi.
		
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			Thank you.