Zakariyya Harnekar – Pearls of Wisdom #5

Zakariyya Harnekar
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The speakers discuss the importance of finding a good state of heart and staying in the present moment to spend the night making shots. They stress the importance of not delaying the timing of gifts and not losing hope for Allah's response. The speakers also emphasize the importance of practicing lowliness and finding oneself in front of Allah's eyes. Finally, they emphasize the importance of achieving a position of lowliness before Islam.

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			How's everyone today?
		
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			Good.
		
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			I hope you guys
		
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			are always good.
		
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			If you're making the ad, then hopefully it's
		
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			getting better.
		
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			Now,
		
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			I hope everybody's
		
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			okay. Well, there were many opportunities for Leila
		
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			Dulkadir,
		
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			but,
		
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			you know, some of the say that
		
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			the 27th night is it.
		
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			We'll never know with definitiveness,
		
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			But perhaps one sign
		
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			that it is that night is the fact
		
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			that Allah makes people come out in their
		
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			throes and their scores,
		
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			and they ask of him, and Allah loves
		
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			to give.
		
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			So perhaps he chooses the night when most
		
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			people ask.
		
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			We don't put all our eggs in one
		
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			basket, but, you know, we we hope in
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			So, why I'm saying that is I hope
		
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			that you guys are pumped up
		
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			for tonight.
		
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			We're gonna have
		
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			coffee
		
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			inshallah. Alright. So over the past few days,
		
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			we've
		
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			been speaking about the number of the hikam
		
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			of.
		
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			And a lot of those hikam dealt with
		
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			the subtleties
		
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			of our relationship with the dunya and our
		
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			relationship with Allah and how to manage the
		
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			2. Right?
		
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			Both physically as well as internally,
		
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			how we should manage our
		
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			expectations of this world, how we should manage
		
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			our aspirations of the year after, all of
		
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			those things you spoke about. And if I
		
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			could summarize it into a nutshell, and in
		
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			fact, all of the hikam leave it on
		
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			the hikam of.
		
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			If I can summarize,
		
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			like all of Deen,
		
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			it's that your gaze must be firmly fixed
		
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			on Allah.
		
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			Your heart must be the work of your
		
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			heart
		
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			is
		
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			knowing Allah.
		
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			The work of your heart is loving Allah.
		
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			The work of your heart is being in
		
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			awe of Allah.
		
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			The work of your heart is hoping from
		
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			Allah.
		
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			The work of your heart is
		
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			is Allah, Allah, Allah. There's no other purpose
		
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			for your spiritual heart.
		
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			Right? And the work of your limbs may
		
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			be different to that
		
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			but there should never be a contradiction between
		
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			the 2.
		
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			Right? So
		
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			the very next hikmah, I'm not gonna dwell
		
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			on that one too much because it speaks
		
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			about a similar topic.
		
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			And that is, though there's again a subtle
		
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			a subtlety in
		
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			the hikmah
		
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			as there was in each of the previous
		
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			ones that made it different from the one
		
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			before it.
		
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			And sometimes, in fact, they seemed slightly contradictory,
		
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			but we, alhamdulillah, discussed what seemed contradictory and
		
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			hopefully found a lesson in that.
		
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			But in this 5th one that we are
		
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			at
		
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			for today,
		
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			which is supposed to start with today,
		
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			he says,
		
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			your exerting effort
		
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			regarding that which has been guaranteed for you,
		
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			meaning your rizq.
		
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			You're exerting effort regarding that which has been
		
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			guaranteed for you
		
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			whilst at the same time,
		
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			whilst you are falling short
		
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			in relation to what has been requested from
		
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			you. Allah promised you He's gonna see to
		
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			you, and He asked you to make his
		
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			ibada.
		
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			Right? And falling short
		
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			regarding that which has been sought from you
		
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			or requested
		
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			from you, is a sign
		
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			that your intellect
		
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			or your insight
		
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			is waning.
		
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			It is,
		
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			blurring.
		
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			It's not working correctly.
		
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			Right.
		
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			So if that continues to happen, then it's
		
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			a sign that Allah
		
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			has taken away your ability to see things
		
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			correctly.
		
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			Your ability to weigh things up as they
		
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			should be weighed up.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And so I think all that I'll say
		
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			on that one is
		
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			all that I will say on that one
		
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			is because we discussed a lot of things
		
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			that pertain to the same topic,
		
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			is
		
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			that don't let it ever be,
		
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			don't let it ever be that your pursuit
		
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			of this dunya and we came to discuss
		
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			that pursuing the dunya in circumstances
		
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			is sometimes wise,
		
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			and generally it's permissible as long as you're
		
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			paying your Zakah.
		
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			But
		
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			let that pursuit of the dunya,
		
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			you know,
		
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			at bare minimum, let
		
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			it never be at the expense
		
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			of you fulfilling what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			has sought from you.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			I have not created mankind
		
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			nor jinnkind except to worship Me, except for
		
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			My
		
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			And this concept
		
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			of here,
		
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			it's a broad concept of
		
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			It includes all of those actions that we
		
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			have to do in life,
		
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			like going to the bathroom, going to work,
		
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			all of those things.
		
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			But it's only a form of Ibadah if
		
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			it's done with the correct intention.
		
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			If it is done to please Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala, and you can never do something
		
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			to please Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala when it
		
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			is something that He has told you He
		
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			dislikes,
		
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			or when it is something that He has
		
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			told you that He has prohibited.
		
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			Right? So as long as it's not disliked
		
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			by Allah, as long as it's not prohibited
		
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			by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you can do
		
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			it.
		
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			But if you want to
		
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			step up your game, if you want that
		
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			to be a means of gaining closeness to
		
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			Allah, even if it's something mundane like going
		
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			to toilet or brushing your teeth,
		
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			then it must just be done with a
		
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			good state of heart. It must be done
		
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			with a good intention, with consciousness.
		
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			Right? And our they say
		
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			that Aniyah
		
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			an intention,
		
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			presence of heart
		
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			and focusing your heart on Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala when doing something, it has the power
		
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			of changing a mundane act.
		
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			Something that you usually do without thinking about
		
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			anything from changing that mundane act, a habitual
		
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			act, to an act of of worship.
		
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			So let us thrive in all of our
		
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			actions of the world
		
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			or worldly actions, whether it be earning a
		
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			riz or
		
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			brushing your teeth or going to the bathroom
		
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			or eating, whatever the case may be
		
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			of doing those acts, as well as our
		
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			acts of 'ibaydah,
		
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			for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			We're doing it to please Allah, and every
		
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			actor has a potential for that. When you
		
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			brush your teeth, what's a good intention for
		
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			brushing your teeth?
		
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			You don't make another person suffer from your
		
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			bad breath. That's one.
		
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			Right? Before that, directly focus on Allah. Allah
		
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			loves beauty.
		
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			So in brushing my teeth, I'm beautifying my
		
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			breath.
		
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			Hopefully, you're not using some crazy toothpaste.
		
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			But there's always a good intention that you
		
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			can have. I'm going to the toilet. What
		
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			good intention can I have? Allah gave me
		
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			a body that I'm supposed to look after.
		
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			So in going to the toilet, I'm relieving
		
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			myself, and I'm looking after that body.
		
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			There's a good intention that you can have
		
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			for every action that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			has made permissible for you. I'm eating food.
		
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			Why am I eating this food? I want
		
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			to maintain the body that Allah gave me.
		
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			What if the food is nice? I want
		
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			to appreciate the favor that Allah gave me.
		
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			There's always a good state of art that
		
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			you can have with Allah
		
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			as long as it's not something that Allah
		
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			has made prohibited.
		
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			Right.
		
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			Well, that's it. We'll move into the next
		
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			one,
		
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			the next Hikma.
		
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			And this next Hikma is very beautiful and
		
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			pertinent
		
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			because it has to do with our relationship
		
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			with Duaa.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And finding ourselves on the potentially the precipice
		
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			of Laylatul Qadr,
		
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			it may have been, but that Allah
		
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			let let us not have fallen short in
		
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			finding it. So we hope, we hope that
		
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			it's either tonight or one of the remaining
		
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			nights.
		
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			But
		
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			when we find ourselves in this moment, what
		
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			is important is that we're gonna spend the
		
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			night making Dua to Allah
		
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			That we're gonna ask Allah
		
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			for many things.
		
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			But what's our relationship with dua? How should
		
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			we be viewing it?
		
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			So even he
		
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			tells us,
		
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			Let not
		
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			a delay in
		
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			the timing of the gift.
		
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			Let not a delay in Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala giving you a gift.
		
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			Whilst you are persisting in dua.
		
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			You're making dua every single day. You're asking
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for this thing every
		
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			single night.
		
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			He says,
		
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			Let not
		
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			Allah delay in giving you what you are
		
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			asking for.
		
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			But he doesn't actually say, Allah give you
		
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			what you're asking for. He says, let not
		
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			a delay
		
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			in the timing of the gift
		
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			because it's important. It's a gift.
		
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			Whilst you are being persistent in making your
		
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			dua, and you should be persistent in making
		
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			your dua.
		
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			That's how the slave, that's how the bigger
		
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			is, is persistent.
		
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			Let it not be mujib and lyeksik.
		
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			Let it not lead to you despairing.
		
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			Let it not lead to you losing hope
		
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			that Allah
		
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			will give you.
		
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			Let it never ever lead to that
		
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			state.
		
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			But then, what does he say further than
		
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			that?
		
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			Because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			He has guaranteed for you.
		
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			He has guaranteed for you a response.
		
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			He has guaranteed
		
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			that He will respond to you, but what?
		
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			He will respond to you with regards to
		
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			what He has chosen for you.
		
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			Not in relation to what you have chosen
		
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			for yourself.
		
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			Listen to this.
		
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			He says, don't let a delay in the
		
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			timing of the gift
		
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			whilst you are being persistent in your dua'am
		
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			make you lose hope in Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			Why? Because He has guaranteed you that He
		
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			will respond. He has guaranteed you the response.
		
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			However, He has guaranteed you the response
		
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			regarding that which He has chosen for you.
		
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			Not regarding that which you have chosen for
		
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			yourself.
		
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			You read,
		
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			and He has guaranteed you the response
		
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			at the time in which He
		
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			wants to respond to you.
		
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			To read, not in the time that you
		
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			want him to respond to you.
		
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			Right.
		
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			Oftentimes,
		
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			we make dua to Allah
		
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			and we say, you know, I've been making
		
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			dua, but my dua hasn't been answered.
		
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			Or if we don't say it, then we
		
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			think that I'm making a dua every night.
		
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			But it's just not coming
		
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			right.
		
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			So the first part He tells you, look
		
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			man, don't ever do that. Don't ever do
		
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			that.
		
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			Despite your persistent asking of Allah
		
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			and Allah delaying in giving,
		
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			Don't ever lose hope.
		
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			The first thing you must know is
		
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			that the
		
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			the thing that Allah gives you,
		
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			it's a gift.
		
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			It's
		
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			You know, in Arabic we use the word
		
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			It means to give something, but there's many
		
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			words in the Arabic language that mean to
		
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			give.
		
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			Some of those who study some Arabic might
		
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			know them.
		
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			Means to give as well.
		
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			Also means to give.
		
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			There's a number of words that mean to
		
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			give,
		
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			and also means to give.
		
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			Many words.
		
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			So what's the specificity?
		
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			What's hidden in the meaning of this word
		
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			Allah
		
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			uses it in the Quran.
		
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			When Allah says to Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam, certainly I have gifted you Al Qadr.
		
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			The connotation of this word ata
		
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			is when somebody gives you something not expecting
		
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			anything in return.
		
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			They don't have to give it to you
		
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			in the 1st place, and they give it
		
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			to you not expecting anything in return.
		
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			So like a present almost.
		
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			Right. But it doesn't have to come at
		
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			a specific time or anything like that.
		
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			So the first thing you have to get
		
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			right is
		
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			that whatever Allah gives me, even if it
		
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			comes as a result of me making dua,
		
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			it's Allah's gift.
		
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			I didn't deserve it in and of myself.
		
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			It's Allah
		
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			gift.
		
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			And then the second
		
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			thing that I want to speak about is,
		
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			what is dua?
		
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			What is dua?
		
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			The first component of dua is a talab,
		
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			is that there is a request.
		
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			When you're making dua to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala, you are asking Allah of something for
		
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			something.
		
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			If you're not asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			something or you are not seeking something from
		
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			Him,
		
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			then saying his name, etc.
		
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			Is simply zikr. Zikrullah.
		
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			And when I say simply zikrullah, I'm not
		
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			saying one is better than the other.
		
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			Right. I'm not saying one is better than
		
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			the other. I'm just identifying for you the
		
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			difference between the two.
		
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			So the first component of dua is that
		
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			there is a request. You're seeking something from
		
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			Allah.
		
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			But the second component of dua
		
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			is that you're seeking from Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala
		
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			is that you're asking Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			with a humble heart.
		
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			That you are seeking Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			from Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			with the highest degree of humility.
		
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			With recognition that, O Allah! I'm only your
		
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			slave, O Allah! And I'm only a beggar.
		
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			You don't have to give me anything.
		
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			So you're asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			but you're not only asking Him, you're asking
		
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			Him with the highest degree of humility, of
		
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			submission,
		
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			of self effacement.
		
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			You're not asking him like a warty person.
		
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			Dua is not,
		
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			dua is not
		
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			simply remembering a few words
		
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			and then letting it roll off your tongue.
		
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			Is
		
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			that
		
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			with humility and submission?
		
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			Does it fulfill that condition?
		
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			There is a dua.
		
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			You must have presence of heart. In fact,
		
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			dua, what Rasulullah
		
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			teaches is it's
		
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			In other narrations he says,
		
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			dua is Ibadah.
		
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			Dua is the essence of Ibadah.
		
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			There is no Ibadah that you undertake
		
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			except that it has the main component of
		
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			dua in it.
		
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			Right. Even if at times, even if you're
		
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			making zikrullah or you're reading Quran,
		
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			there is an element of dua in it,
		
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			in that you are saying that, oh Allah,
		
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			your halal, your state, your actions are showing
		
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			that, oh Allah,
		
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			I'm making them feel or I'm making empty
		
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			salah of what you have required of me.
		
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			I'm
		
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			doing what you have asked of me.
		
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			And generally when you do it, you do
		
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			it and you do it seeking a reward
		
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			from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So maybe it
		
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			hasn't been verbalized, but there is a nonverbal
		
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			talab. You are seeking something from Allah in
		
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			doing that.
		
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			But why is it
		
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			Why is dua the essence of worship?
		
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			Why is dua worship itself?
		
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			Because in making dua, you recognize that, oh
		
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			Allah, I have no ability to attain
		
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			for myself whatever I desire.
		
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			Oh Allah, you are the one who gives.
		
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			Oh, Allah. I am incapable. Oh, Allah. You
		
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			are capable.
		
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			Oh, Allah. I am poor, poverty stricken.
		
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			Oh, Allah. I am in
		
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			dire need.
		
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			I am in desperation, oh Allah. Oh Allah,
		
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			You are Firhina. Oh Allah, You are rich.
		
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			Oh Allah, You are self sufficient. Oh Allah,
		
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			I am dependent. Oh Allah, You are independent.
		
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			All of those things, all of those sentiments,
		
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			they are the essence of the nature of
		
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			slavehood.
		
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			They are the essence of the nature of
		
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			slavehood.
		
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			And self sufficiency,
		
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			independence,
		
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			not needing anyone or anything. That is the
		
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			essence of the
		
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			essence of divinity,
		
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			the essence of kingship, the essence of grandeur,
		
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			and that is what Allah
		
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			has.
		
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			So in du'a, we are recognizing to for
		
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			ourselves, Oh Allah, you are great. Oh Allah,
		
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			you are big. Oh Allah, you are all
		
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			of those things.
		
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			And we are saying with the tongue of
		
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			our state,
		
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			we are saying, Oh Allah, I am nothing.
		
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			But that doesn't happen. That doesn't manifest
		
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			if you are simply rolling off your tongue
		
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			certain words that you have memorized.
		
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			So you must ask of Allah
		
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			with firstly a present heart
		
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			and then a humble heart.
		
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			A present heart and a humble heart. Imagine
		
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			if I go to somebody, I go to
		
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			my let's just say my dad
		
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			and I'm asking for something.
		
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			And then
		
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			let's say he's sitting over here in front
		
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			of me. Right? Now I come to him,
		
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			and then I start, you know, looking at
		
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			my laptop.
		
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			I'm doing whatever I want to things that
		
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			I really want to be doing. I say,
		
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			Abi, give me this and that.
		
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			Does he really think that this guy is
		
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			like, he really needs what he's asking for,
		
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			so I must give it to him. Will
		
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			you feel sorry for me and give it
		
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			to me?
		
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			Or I'm busy playing a game, and then
		
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			I
		
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			and then I ask my boss, you know
		
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			what? You know what? I need a raise
		
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			or something like that.
		
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			You think your boss is gonna take you
		
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			seriously?
		
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			You think you're messing with him? You come
		
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			in to ask him for a raise. You're
		
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			asking to ask him for something, but you're
		
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			busy with something else. So that thing doesn't
		
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			even require your attention. It doesn't mean so
		
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			much to you.
		
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			That's when we're dealing with people.
		
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			That's when we're dealing with other people like
		
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			us.
		
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			They won't take you seriously at all. What's
		
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			still when you're speaking to Allah
		
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			Why do you expect Allah to take us
		
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			to take us seriously?
		
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			Here we find ourselves making dua to Allah.
		
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			We're asking Allah
		
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			for things, and whilst we're asking Allah for
		
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			things, we're not even thinking about what we're
		
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			asking Him.
		
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			We're not even our heart isn't even present
		
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			in our request from Allah
		
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			But then when it doesn't come,
		
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			then we say, you know what? We were
		
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			asking Allah so persistently,
		
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			and it hasn't even come yet.
		
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			And we start losing hope in our dua.
		
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			How can it be?
		
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			How can it be? You hardly even made
		
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			duas that can even be called dua at
		
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			all because it didn't have that humility
		
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			and that,
		
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			and that presence of heart.
		
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			It can't even be called dua, but you
		
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			want to say, you know, it doesn't even
		
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			come as if you are deserving.
		
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			As if your dua is actually you saying
		
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			doing magic, you know,
		
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			waving your wand and then it's supposed to
		
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			come. Allah is not your genie in a
		
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			lamp.
		
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			Allah is not our genie in a lamp.
		
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			Right? Neither are you Aladdin.
		
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			So
		
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			that's the first thing we must get right.
		
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			Before we can even
		
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			think about
		
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			the outcome of our dua,
		
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			we must keep dua right.
		
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			We must ask of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			with presence of heart
		
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			and we must ask of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala with the highest degree of humility.
		
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			Right? With the highest degree of brokenness and
		
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			humility, we must ask Allah
		
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			Then we can say we've made dua.
		
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			Then we can say we have made dua.
		
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			The second thing you must know is as
		
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			I mentioned before already,
		
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			you ask Allah only with the if you
		
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			have done it like that, can you say
		
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			you have made dua'am?
		
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			But then you must also know that you
		
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			have requested something from Allah. You have asked
		
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			something of Allah and you must know that
		
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			if Allah gives it,
		
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			He doesn't give it because He had to
		
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			give it because you made duaan.
		
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			It's still a gift from Him.
		
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			It's still
		
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			a gift from him.
		
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			The second thing that you must have in
		
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			your dua is,
		
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			when you come to Allah
		
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			you must remove the barriers between you and
		
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			Him.
		
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			Now what are the barriers between yourself and
		
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			Him?
		
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			The barriers between ourselves and Allah
		
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			are the sins that we commit.
		
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			The barriers between ourselves and Allah are the
		
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			sins that we commit.
		
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			Am I saying that you must stop all
		
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			sinning? You cannot have committed a sin or
		
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			you must
		
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			really not have done any sin before you
		
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			can make dua to Allah?
		
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			No. I'm not saying that.
		
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			I'm not saying that.
		
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			But what I am saying is
		
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			you must make an attempt at removing that
		
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			barrier.
		
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			So when you come to Allah
		
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			you must come to Allah with Tawba.
		
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			Before you go in to ask him what
		
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			you want, you must come to Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala with
		
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			Tawba.
		
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			Oh, Allah. I'm coming before
		
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			you. But I have done everything that shows
		
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			I have done everything that shows that I
		
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			don't deserve to be standing in front of
		
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			you.
		
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			Oh Allah, overlook all of that.
		
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			I was running towards sun, You Allah. I
		
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			was running towards dunya unfitter, You Allah. I
		
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			was running towards my pleasures. I was running
		
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			towards all that displeases You Allah. But I've
		
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			turned away, O Allah.
		
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			I've turned away from all of those things
		
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			and I've turned to you.
		
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			O Allah, you also turn to me. Tawbah
		
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			means to turn.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says about those 3
		
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			companions
		
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			that it was almost thought that they were
		
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			going to be excommunicated.
		
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			That they were going to be cut off
		
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			from the Muslim community. That's a story for
		
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			another time.
		
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			But Allah says about him,
		
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			Allah turned to them so that they could
		
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			turn to him.
		
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			Allah turned to him so that they could
		
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			turn to him. Allah made tawba of them
		
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			so that they could make tawba to him.
		
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			Right? So the first thing we must recognize
		
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			is I'm not saying you must never have
		
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			committed a sin. You can only come to
		
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			Allah if you're an angel. No.
		
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			Our scholars tell us
		
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			that
		
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			what?
		
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			All the the meaning is this,
		
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			come to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala limping and
		
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			broken.
		
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			Come to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala limping and
		
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			broken.
		
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			And don't wait for a time that you
		
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			are perfect.
		
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			Because waiting for a time that you are
		
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			perfect is futile.
		
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			Come, come limping and come broken.
		
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			Come with all your sins.
		
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			Come with all your sins, but at least
		
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			when you're coming to Allah
		
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			turn away from those sins and say O
		
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			Allah.
		
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			O Allah, I'm turning away from those sins
		
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			and O Allah, I'm turning to you. O
		
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			Allah, you also turn to me. I'm turning
		
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			to you in repentance O Allah, you turn
		
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			to me in forgiveness.
		
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			So that you can at least have attempted
		
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			to remove those barriers between yourself and Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And then you ask,
		
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			then you ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			with that broken heart,
		
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			with that recognition of deficiency
		
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			and imperfection
		
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			and need and poverty,
		
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			and with that recognition of Allah's
		
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			grandeur,
		
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			his richness,
		
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			his ability to give, in fact with his
		
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			recognizing his love for giving.
		
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			Then we ask Allah
		
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			And when we ask Allah, we ask like
		
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			beggars.
		
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			Now, why is all of this important?
		
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			You see, sometimes
		
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			we get our knickers in a twist
		
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			About our dua not being answered.
		
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			And sometimes we also get our understanding of
		
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			dua twisted.
		
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			Dua is not a means.
		
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			What did Rasulullah
		
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			tell us in
		
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			this
		
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			hadith?
		
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			Dua
		
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			is
		
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			the essence of
		
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			but sometimes we think about Dua as a
		
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			means.
		
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			We don't think of dua as the end.
		
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			We think that dua is a means to
		
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			getting whatever we want.
		
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			I'm asking Allah and I'm looking at that
		
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			dua as a means to get whatever I
		
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			want.
		
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			But in Rasulullah
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam telling us
		
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			that dua is Ibadan. He's telling us that
		
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			dua is the end. It's not the means.
		
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			Dua is the end. Dua is not the
		
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			means.
		
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			Why? Allah tells us in the Quran, I
		
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			have not created you. I have not created
		
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			you except that you worship Me. And Rasulullah
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is telling you that Dua
		
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			is worship.
		
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			Dua is worship. It is the essence of
		
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			worship.
		
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			So all that I'm responsible for is what
		
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			I can do.
		
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			So when I find myself making dua, I
		
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			am fulfilling the purpose of my existence.
		
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			Dua is the end. Dua is not the
		
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			means.
		
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			When Allah gives you something after you may
		
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			have made that dua.
		
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			That's Allah's business.
		
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			That's Allah's business.
		
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			If Allah had told you, you must make
		
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			dua for me and when you make dua
		
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			for me, I'm gonna give you nothing.
		
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			You should still make dua to Allah.
		
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			The only reason we can hope in that
		
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			outcome of the dua is because Allah is
		
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			guaranteed for us and Allah has told us
		
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			For making dua to Allah is not simply
		
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			a means of fulfilling all of my desires
		
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			and my wants or even my needs.
		
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			Dua
		
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			is simply responding to the command that Allah
		
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			made of us.
		
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			Ask me.
		
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			And then Allah says,
		
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			I will respond to you.
		
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			Does anybody have a lawyer
		
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			that they could take Allah to court to
		
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			and say, O Allah,
		
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			I asked of you and I asked of
		
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			you and you didn't give me. Does anybody
		
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			have that lawyer?
		
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			Does such a lawyer exist?
		
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			No.
		
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			If you asked Allah and He didn't give
		
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			you, you can do nothing about it.
		
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			Because you have no right over Allah.
		
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			You have no intrinsic
		
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			right over Allah. There is no such lawyer.
		
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			If you think there is somebody you can
		
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			run to that will take Allah to task.
		
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			Because you asked of
		
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			him, then you're sorely mistaken.
		
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			There is no such other being that can
		
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			do that.
		
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			Allah giving you is simply because He wants
		
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			to give you, not because you have a
		
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			right to be given.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So dua is the end.
		
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			Esat means.
		
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			Dua is the end Esat means.
		
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			So when you find that Allah
		
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			has brought you in front of Him, asking
		
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			of Him and begging of Him with a
		
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			broken heart,
		
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			then be happy.
		
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			Be happy not because you expect the outcome,
		
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			but be happy because you're fulfilling
		
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			what your Master has asked of you.
		
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			Not because he's going to fulfill what you
		
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			have asked of him.
		
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			Be happy because you are doing what Allah
		
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			has asked of you, not because you expect
		
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			him to do what you have asked of
		
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			him.
		
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			Dua is the end my brothers. Dua is
		
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			not the means.
		
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			And then after we have made the dua.
		
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			What then?
		
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			He says,
		
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			so on account of it don't ever despair.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Because Allah has guaranteed you a response.
		
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			He has guaranteed you a response
		
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			regarding that which He has chosen for you.
		
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			Not regarding
		
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			what you have chosen for yourself.
		
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			Now you may think, hey, does it mean
		
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			that I'm gonna go, I'm gonna do what
		
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			Allah has told me to do? I'm gonna
		
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			make dua to Him, and then He's gonna
		
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			give me something else.
		
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			So I'm not actually gonna get what I
		
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			want.
		
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			The first thing you must know is, Allah
		
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			won't give you a lesser than you've ever
		
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			asked of Him.
		
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			If Allah gives you something in place of
		
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			what you have asked of Him,
		
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			then you must know that what He has
		
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			given you is pitiful you than what He
		
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			has given to you, what you have asked
		
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			of Him.
		
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			You must know that what He has given
		
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			you
		
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			is better than what you have asked of
		
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			Him. If you have asked Allah, Oh Allah
		
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			give me wealth and Allah gives you poverty.
		
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			Then you must know Allah gifting you that
		
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			poverty is better for you than Allah giving
		
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			you wealth.
		
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			Perhaps it's on the account of that poverty
		
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			that you continue to ask Him.
		
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			And asking Him is fulfilling the purpose of
		
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			your existence.
		
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			And perhaps it may be that He gives
		
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			you wealth and then you stop asking.
		
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			And then you cease to fulfill the purpose
		
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			of your existence.
		
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			Remember,
		
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			Dua is the end, it's not the means.
		
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			So He has guaranteed for you a response,
		
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			but regarding that which He has chosen for
		
00:34:03 --> 00:34:04
			you.
		
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			Not regarding that which you have chosen for
		
00:34:06 --> 00:34:07
			Him.
		
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			And at the time that He wants for
		
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			you, not at the time that you want
		
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			for yourself.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because Allah knows that's better for you.
		
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			All that you as the slave must be
		
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			worshiped must be must be focused on is,
		
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			am I being a good slave?
		
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			You see?
		
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			All that we as a slave must be
		
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			focused on is, am I being a good
		
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			slave?
		
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			The slave must be focused on his slavehood.
		
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			The master will focus on being a generous
		
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			master.
		
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			The slave must focus on his
		
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			need.
		
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			Right? And his need is to worship Allah
		
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			and the master will see to the needs
		
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			of his slave.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Sharia of
		
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			Islam, Allah didn't outright prohibit slavery.
		
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			From the companions who were those who had
		
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			slaves, in fact, rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			also had servants.
		
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			But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, in this
		
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			human relationship,
		
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			both of you are human beings and in
		
00:35:16 --> 00:35:18
			front of Allah you are equal.
		
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			Just because one person is a slave in
		
00:35:20 --> 00:35:23
			this slave owner relationship that exists in the
		
00:35:23 --> 00:35:23
			world,
		
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			In reality in your core both of you
		
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			are God of Allah and you are equal
		
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			in this in the sight of Allah.
		
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			And that's why in our Islamic legacy you
		
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			may have had people who were slaves,
		
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			but then became the best mufasir in the
		
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			authorities in tafsir.
		
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			All of the you know, who was the
		
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			master mufasir?
		
00:35:47 --> 00:35:49
			The greatest mufasir was considered to be Ibn
		
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			Abbas radiAllahu anhu because Rasulullah
		
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			made dua for him. Ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhu
		
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			were slaves.
		
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			But they were slaves not to do work,
		
00:36:00 --> 00:36:02
			not to let go, plow fields for him
		
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			and stuff. They were slaves. All they had
		
00:36:05 --> 00:36:06
			to do was to learn tafsir from him.
		
00:36:09 --> 00:36:11
			Right? They had to learn tafsir from him
		
00:36:11 --> 00:36:12
			to the extent that they became the biggest
		
00:36:12 --> 00:36:13
			scholars of tafsir.
		
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			And then they imparted that tafsir.
		
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			They may have been slaves. They may have
		
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			become freed slaves. But you and I, when
		
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			we want to look for commentaries on the
		
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			Quran, we must go to them.
		
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			We must look to the the freed slave
		
00:36:27 --> 00:36:28
			of Ibn Abbas
		
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			When we want to look for fatwa, you
		
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			know, in the time of the Sahaba, shortly
		
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			after the passing of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, the Mufti of Makkah was Ataibunu Abi
		
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			Rabah.
		
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			In the descriptions of him, they say he
		
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			was a black man with cornrow hair.
		
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			It was like,
		
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			you know,
		
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			describing the hair that we might know
		
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			of black people.
		
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			And he was a slave, a freed slave
		
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			that was put into the position of Mufti.
		
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			Such that the companions, the great companions would
		
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			say nobody gives fatwa in Makkah if Ata
		
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			is there.
		
00:37:06 --> 00:37:07
			So in
		
00:37:07 --> 00:37:09
			the court of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
00:37:10 --> 00:37:11
			they're equal.
		
00:37:13 --> 00:37:14
			But in a human relationship, the one may
		
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			be a slave and the other may be
		
00:37:16 --> 00:37:17
			a slave owner.
		
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			But Allah
		
00:37:19 --> 00:37:21
			has regulated that relationship.
		
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			If a person has a slave, then he
		
00:37:24 --> 00:37:27
			has responsibilities towards that slave.
		
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			You cannot own that slave and not see
		
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			to the needs of the slave. You must
		
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			see to the needs of the slave. You
		
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			must feed them. You must clothe them.
		
00:37:35 --> 00:37:36
			And all of those things,
		
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			you must shelter them.
		
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			So imagine if Allah made it
		
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			a wallmark of the
		
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			owners or the the masters of this world
		
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			that they must see to their slaves,
		
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			will Allah not see to his slaves?
		
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			Will Allah not see to his slaves?
		
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			And if there existed even a master
		
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			like ibn Abbas, who would have his slaves
		
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			there just dedicated to learning tafsir from him.
		
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			You know, many people now would want to
		
00:38:09 --> 00:38:10
			give up the whole world so that they
		
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			can walk that path. It's such a wonderful
		
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			path.
		
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			Then is Allah not more generous?
		
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			So the slave must be focused on being
		
00:38:23 --> 00:38:24
			a slave.
		
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			He must focus on finding himself in front
		
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			of the door of Allah. He must find
		
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			himself asking of Allah. He must find himself
		
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			expressing his nature as being a slave and
		
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			leave Allah's business to Allah.
		
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			Leave Allah's business to Allah.
		
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			And I guarantee
		
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			you, oftentimes
		
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			it is the delay in the response of
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			that increases your expression of your nature of
		
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			being a slave when you ask of Him.
		
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			When you've been asking Allah, and you've been
		
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			asking Allah, and you've been asking Allah, and
		
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			Allah doesn't give you.
		
00:39:00 --> 00:39:02
			And you cannot find
		
00:39:03 --> 00:39:04
			refuge in anyone else,
		
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			and you cannot find anybody else to fulfill
		
00:39:07 --> 00:39:08
			your need,
		
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			that's the moment in which you were really
		
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			experienced.
		
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			That's the moment in which you will radiance
		
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			that I'm nothing.
		
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			That's when you really
		
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			experience
		
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			that I can do nothing without Allah.
		
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			Just ask the cancer patients.
		
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			Just ask the people who have
		
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			some
		
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			problem that nobody else can find a solution
		
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			for them. Find those people who have
		
00:39:37 --> 00:39:39
			those sicknesses that when they go to the
		
00:39:39 --> 00:39:41
			doctor, the doctor can't find anything wrong with
		
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			him. Ask them how they call on Allah.
		
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			Ask them how they hope in Allah.
		
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			So oftentimes,
		
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			it's that delay in response from Allah.
		
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			That's actually the gift from Allah.
		
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			Is that delay in response from Allah? That
		
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			is actually the the gift from Allah.
		
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			So, let us never belittle that gift.
		
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			Let us never belittle that gift and think
		
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			to ourselves, you know what?
		
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			I've been asking enough now.
		
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			It's time for a response. No.
		
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			No. No.
		
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			Just
		
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			keep
		
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			knocking.
		
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			Just keep knocking.
		
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			Allah
		
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			tells us that Allah
		
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			has guaranteed the response to the slave.
		
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			He has guaranteed the response to the slave
		
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			as long as the slave does not become
		
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			hasty.
		
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			As long as the slave does not become
		
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			hasty.
		
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			So may Allah
		
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			grant us that,
		
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			That understanding.
		
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			What is it?
		
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			What is it?
		
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			That understanding is
		
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			that understanding is that I am a slave
		
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			and all that I must be focused on
		
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			is slave stuff.
		
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			And Allah is Allah
		
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			and Allah will be focused on Allah's stuff.
		
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			But I mustn't try to be focused on
		
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			Allah business.
		
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			Because I have no ability to be there.
		
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			I have no
		
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			right to even think I can be doing
		
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			anything there. And in fact,
		
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			the moment I try to enter that realm
		
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			of of focusing on Allah Business,
		
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			then that is a sign that I've forgotten
		
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			to show my own slave hood.
		
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			I've forgotten my own reality.
		
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			So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guide us.
		
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			And and I think if there's something else
		
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			that I need to mention on this wisdom
		
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			is that is what?
		
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			Oftentimes
		
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			or
		
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			there are 2
		
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			ways
		
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			to realize that
		
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			There are 2 ways
		
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			to realize that,
		
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			to realize that nature as your slave. Because
		
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			it's easy for me to say, you must
		
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			ask Allah like you're a slave and all
		
00:42:13 --> 00:42:14
			of those things.
		
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			But we have this nafsina that's always telling
		
00:42:17 --> 00:42:19
			us, no. No. You're good, and you're a
		
00:42:19 --> 00:42:21
			master, and you are you're wealthy, and you
		
00:42:21 --> 00:42:23
			have so much stuff. And that nafs is
		
00:42:23 --> 00:42:25
			always there. Shaitan is always whispering to you.
		
00:42:26 --> 00:42:27
			So it's easy to say you must ask
		
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			Allah like your slave.
		
00:42:30 --> 00:42:31
			But
		
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			perhaps some
		
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			recognition of how it is that we come
		
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			to realize that slave, that slavehood,
		
00:42:40 --> 00:42:41
			that we come to actually
		
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			know and be certain within ourselves
		
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			that we are slaves and start acting like
		
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			slaves.
		
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			The first is
		
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			constantly
		
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			constantly
		
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			placing yourself
		
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			in a lowly position,
		
00:43:05 --> 00:43:09
			Constantly reminding yourself of your own lowliness.
		
00:43:10 --> 00:43:12
			So when you see somebody,
		
00:43:13 --> 00:43:16
			maybe somebody that became a Muslim
		
00:43:18 --> 00:43:18
			shortly.
		
00:43:19 --> 00:43:21
			Instead of telling yourself, yo, he has no
		
00:43:21 --> 00:43:22
			good deeds.
		
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			You tell yourself, SubhanAllah, he has no bad
		
00:43:25 --> 00:43:25
			deeds.
		
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			I have so many bad deeds.
		
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			Or when you see yourself in front of
		
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			a child,
		
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			then you don't think to yourself this child
		
00:43:35 --> 00:43:35
			is so
		
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			can't do anything for himself.
		
00:43:38 --> 00:43:39
			You think to yourself, subhanAllah,
		
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			how pure this child is. Allah didn't even
		
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			make him responsible for his own actions.
		
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			If he dies, he won't go to jahannam.
		
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			Rather than thinking of yourself, you know, I'm
		
00:43:51 --> 00:43:52
			an adult. I'm mature.
		
00:43:54 --> 00:43:55
			When you see a
		
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			a person that's done a lot of sins,
		
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			then you think to yourself, subhanAllah,
		
00:44:01 --> 00:44:03
			maybe he's done all of these sins, but
		
00:44:03 --> 00:44:04
			he makes a lot of tawbah.
		
00:44:07 --> 00:44:08
			Or
		
00:44:08 --> 00:44:10
			even better than that, you think to yourself,
		
00:44:10 --> 00:44:12
			what I'm looking at from this person is
		
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			it looks like sins, but perhaps in relation
		
00:44:14 --> 00:44:15
			to him it's not a sin.
		
00:44:18 --> 00:44:21
			Maybe I find somebody, they're eating or they're
		
00:44:21 --> 00:44:23
			engaged in a Ribawi contract. Yes. On the
		
00:44:23 --> 00:44:25
			surface of it, Riba is haram. If you
		
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			know the person and you're in a position,
		
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			you must tell them, look, don't be engaged
		
00:44:28 --> 00:44:30
			in haram. But I'm talking about something else
		
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			now.
		
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			I'm not talking about Amr Bil Ma'ruf telling
		
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			people to do what's right and and causing
		
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			them to refrain from bad. I'm just telling
		
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			you, look, when you see the person sinning,
		
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			think to yourself that perhaps in relation to
		
00:44:42 --> 00:44:43
			them, what they are doing is
		
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			Allah has created a need for them. Maybe
		
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			they don't have any money. So for them
		
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			it's permissible to be eating from the Haram.
		
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			But I know I've committed many sins.
		
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			When I look at them, I look at
		
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			them and I see, you know, this looks
		
00:44:59 --> 00:45:01
			like a sin. Maybe it's even something that's
		
00:45:01 --> 00:45:04
			permissible for them. But, you know, I doubt
		
00:45:04 --> 00:45:06
			I have doubt in whether their sin is
		
00:45:06 --> 00:45:08
			a sin, but I have certainty that my
		
00:45:08 --> 00:45:09
			sins are sins.
		
00:45:11 --> 00:45:13
			I have doubted their sins are sins, but
		
00:45:13 --> 00:45:15
			I have certainty that my sins are sins.
		
00:45:15 --> 00:45:17
			So in every moment that you find yourselves,
		
00:45:17 --> 00:45:19
			you are you are looking
		
00:45:19 --> 00:45:22
			for an opportunity to occupy the position of
		
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			lowliness.
		
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			And when you practice that all the time,
		
00:45:28 --> 00:45:29
			when you practice that all the time,
		
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			then you will be able to realize it
		
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			when you stand before Allah.
		
00:45:37 --> 00:45:37
			Right?
		
00:45:38 --> 00:45:39
			So
		
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			may Allah
		
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			allow us to practice that. Never think ourselves
		
00:45:44 --> 00:45:45
			better than the next person.
		
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			Whoever it is, there's a way
		
00:45:48 --> 00:45:51
			to think that that person is better than
		
00:45:51 --> 00:45:51
			you.
		
00:45:54 --> 00:45:54
			Here's
		
00:45:55 --> 00:45:56
			a a big
		
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			He has nothing.
		
00:46:00 --> 00:46:02
			He asks people all the time. He's not
		
00:46:02 --> 00:46:04
			supposed to be asking people. It's haram too
		
00:46:04 --> 00:46:06
			big. Why doesn't he go to work?
		
00:46:07 --> 00:46:08
			Why doesn't he do all of those things?
		
00:46:10 --> 00:46:11
			Perhaps in the night,
		
00:46:13 --> 00:46:14
			when he's lying under the cold,
		
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			when he's talking to Allah whilst I'm playing
		
00:46:17 --> 00:46:18
			on my phone.
		
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			So the first way is to practice that.
		
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			To practice reminding yourself all the time that
		
00:48:38 --> 00:48:39
			I I actually am
		
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			not better than anybody else I see.
		
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			No matter who it is, whether it's a
		
00:48:48 --> 00:48:48
			drunken,
		
00:48:50 --> 00:48:51
			whether it doesn't matter.
		
00:48:51 --> 00:48:52
			Like I said,
		
00:48:53 --> 00:48:55
			you may be lying down there when he
		
00:48:55 --> 00:48:56
			comes down from that
		
00:48:56 --> 00:48:58
			Baba Lass, or whatever it may be.
		
00:48:59 --> 00:49:01
			When he's lying there in his state of
		
00:49:01 --> 00:49:01
			brokenness,
		
00:49:03 --> 00:49:05
			with nobody to speak to, maybe he talks
		
00:49:05 --> 00:49:06
			to Allah.
		
00:49:08 --> 00:49:10
			And maybe it's us
		
00:49:10 --> 00:49:12
			that in our facade of
		
00:49:12 --> 00:49:13
			obedience,
		
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			we think that we are okay.
		
00:49:18 --> 00:49:20
			And we don't we don't ask of Allah
		
00:49:20 --> 00:49:20
			with that sincerity.
		
00:49:27 --> 00:49:28
			And the second way that
		
00:49:31 --> 00:49:32
			knowing that
		
00:49:32 --> 00:49:35
			or attaining that position of brokenness and loneliness
		
00:49:35 --> 00:49:35
			before Allah
		
00:49:39 --> 00:49:41
			is when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives us
		
00:49:41 --> 00:49:42
			a calamity.
		
00:49:43 --> 00:49:44
			Right?
		
00:49:45 --> 00:49:47
			When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives us a
		
00:49:47 --> 00:49:47
			calamity.
		
00:49:48 --> 00:49:50
			So never look upon them with scorn. Oftentimes,
		
00:49:50 --> 00:49:52
			it's when people are in the doldrums.
		
00:49:52 --> 00:49:54
			I was just talking to one of the
		
00:49:54 --> 00:49:54
			brothers yesterday.
		
00:49:56 --> 00:49:58
			On on more than one occasion, on a
		
00:49:58 --> 00:50:00
			few occasions, I've spoken to brothers who left
		
00:50:00 --> 00:50:01
			Islam,
		
00:50:02 --> 00:50:03
			who became Murtad.
		
00:50:06 --> 00:50:07
			And
		
00:50:07 --> 00:50:08
			most of the time,
		
00:50:09 --> 00:50:11
			actually in all the cases that I've dealt
		
00:50:11 --> 00:50:11
			with,
		
00:50:12 --> 00:50:14
			it's only been from wealthy guys.
		
00:50:17 --> 00:50:18
			Some of them
		
00:50:19 --> 00:50:21
			some of them before, they were doing lots
		
00:50:21 --> 00:50:21
			of.
		
00:50:24 --> 00:50:25
			I mean, one of them I know to
		
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			be a person who, in his young days,
		
00:50:27 --> 00:50:29
			would go to the masjid for fajr every
		
00:50:30 --> 00:50:30
			day.
		
00:50:30 --> 00:50:31
			He was a Hafiz.
		
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			He would lead tarawih, we read 1 Jews,
		
00:50:34 --> 00:50:36
			and then it's long. They would read 2
		
00:50:36 --> 00:50:37
			and a half Jews,
		
00:50:39 --> 00:50:40
			And then they became Mufted.
		
00:50:45 --> 00:50:48
			And one of them that one actually told
		
00:50:48 --> 00:50:48
			me once.
		
00:50:58 --> 00:50:58
			And I make dua'at that Allah turns his
		
00:50:58 --> 00:50:59
			on. And if it is, I see no
		
00:50:59 --> 00:51:01
			deen. Those are deen of our children.
		
00:51:06 --> 00:51:08
			But once he told me that, you know,
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:12
			if I didn't have the affluence that I
		
00:51:12 --> 00:51:14
			have, then my then my atheism would cripple
		
00:51:14 --> 00:51:15
			me.
		
00:51:19 --> 00:51:19
			So,
		
00:51:20 --> 00:51:22
			the other way to attain that that
		
00:51:23 --> 00:51:24
			brokenness
		
00:51:24 --> 00:51:26
			that standing in front of Allah like a
		
00:51:26 --> 00:51:27
			slave,
		
00:51:28 --> 00:51:29
			is when Allah gives you a calamity.
		
00:51:31 --> 00:51:33
			And we don't wish the calamity upon anyone
		
00:51:34 --> 00:51:37
			but sometimes that calamity that comes from Allah
		
00:51:37 --> 00:51:38
			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
00:51:39 --> 00:51:40
			That is Allah's gift to you.
		
00:51:46 --> 00:51:46
			Corruption
		
00:51:49 --> 00:51:51
			has become apparent
		
00:51:52 --> 00:51:53
			on the land and in the seas.
		
00:51:56 --> 00:51:58
			On account of what man's own hands have
		
00:51:58 --> 00:51:59
			earned.
		
00:52:02 --> 00:52:04
			To give them a taste of what they
		
00:52:04 --> 00:52:05
			have earned.
		
00:52:06 --> 00:52:08
			But Allah doesn't just do it like that.
		
00:52:08 --> 00:52:09
			Allah said, it's not a tit for tat.
		
00:52:10 --> 00:52:12
			You've done wrong. Now I'm giving you something
		
00:52:12 --> 00:52:13
			to taste your own meats. No.
		
00:52:14 --> 00:52:15
			Allah
		
00:52:17 --> 00:52:17
			says,
		
00:52:19 --> 00:52:21
			Allah allows all of that to happen
		
00:52:21 --> 00:52:23
			so that perhaps they can come back.
		
00:52:25 --> 00:52:27
			So that perhaps they can
		
00:52:27 --> 00:52:28
			come back.
		
00:52:31 --> 00:52:32
			So may Allah
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:34
			make us those who always come back to
		
00:52:34 --> 00:52:35
			him. You know,
		
00:52:37 --> 00:52:38
			I want to do it in a while
		
00:52:38 --> 00:52:39
			ago already, but
		
00:52:41 --> 00:52:41
			there's just one
		
00:52:42 --> 00:52:44
			Whilst I was reading Quran one of the
		
00:52:44 --> 00:52:47
			days something just came to my mind and
		
00:52:47 --> 00:52:49
			I think it embodies both of these things
		
00:52:49 --> 00:52:50
			that I spoke about.
		
00:52:52 --> 00:52:53
			In Surah,
		
00:52:54 --> 00:52:54
			Surah Hud.
		
00:52:57 --> 00:52:59
			Allah speaks Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about
		
00:52:59 --> 00:53:00
			many of the prophets
		
00:53:01 --> 00:53:03
			and how the people transgressed against the prophets.
		
00:53:04 --> 00:53:07
			And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks about
		
00:53:07 --> 00:53:08
			Ibrahim alaihis salam.
		
00:53:10 --> 00:53:11
			And there's a dialogue
		
00:53:13 --> 00:53:15
			between the wife of Ibrahim alaihis salam
		
00:53:17 --> 00:53:17
			and
		
00:53:18 --> 00:53:20
			the angels that came to visit him on
		
00:53:20 --> 00:53:22
			their way to destroy the people of Lut
		
00:53:22 --> 00:53:23
			alaihis salam.
		
00:53:25 --> 00:53:25
			Right?
		
00:53:26 --> 00:53:29
			And Allah destroyed the people of Lut alaihis
		
00:53:29 --> 00:53:29
			salam like
		
00:53:30 --> 00:53:30
			with
		
00:53:31 --> 00:53:32
			insane punishments.
		
00:53:33 --> 00:53:35
			Allah caused the earth to be raised and
		
00:53:35 --> 00:53:37
			then crashed down upon them.
		
00:53:38 --> 00:53:39
			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala caused it to rain
		
00:53:39 --> 00:53:40
			stones upon them.
		
00:53:41 --> 00:53:43
			Allah destroyed them thoroughly.
		
00:53:46 --> 00:53:50
			But the dialogue begins with Ibrahim alaihis salam
		
00:53:50 --> 00:53:51
			almost becoming
		
00:53:52 --> 00:53:55
			shocked and afraid at the visitation of these
		
00:53:55 --> 00:53:55
			angels.
		
00:53:56 --> 00:53:58
			But his wife is not shocked. She talks
		
00:53:58 --> 00:53:59
			to the angels.
		
00:54:01 --> 00:54:03
			And then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
		
00:54:10 --> 00:54:12
			When the fear left Ibrahim alaihis salam and
		
00:54:12 --> 00:54:14
			he received the good news because in that
		
00:54:14 --> 00:54:17
			time that Ibrahim alaihis salam was shocked.
		
00:54:17 --> 00:54:20
			The angels were telling the wife of Ibrahim
		
00:54:20 --> 00:54:21
			alaihis salam that Allah blessed her
		
00:54:22 --> 00:54:22
			with a child
		
00:54:23 --> 00:54:25
			and she was already very old and barren.
		
00:54:26 --> 00:54:27
			So Allah says,
		
00:54:35 --> 00:54:37
			He started arguing with us
		
00:54:38 --> 00:54:39
			about the people of Lut Allah
		
00:54:41 --> 00:54:45
			says that Ibrahim alaihis salam started arguing with
		
00:54:45 --> 00:54:45
			us
		
00:54:45 --> 00:54:47
			about the people of Lut. Why?
		
00:54:48 --> 00:54:50
			You know, elsewhere in the Quran Allah says,
		
00:54:50 --> 00:54:51
			you are saying
		
00:54:52 --> 00:54:55
			No, don't destroy them. Lut is with them.
		
00:54:56 --> 00:54:58
			Allah says, we know better who's there.
		
00:54:58 --> 00:55:00
			But look at this. It's a sinful people.
		
00:55:01 --> 00:55:01
			They are committing
		
00:55:02 --> 00:55:04
			Like even if you read Surah Hud, Allah
		
00:55:04 --> 00:55:05
			speaks about all of the sins that the
		
00:55:05 --> 00:55:06
			people committed.
		
00:55:07 --> 00:55:09
			But when Allah comes to that sin,
		
00:55:09 --> 00:55:11
			the tone is even more severe than all
		
00:55:11 --> 00:55:12
			of the other sins.
		
00:55:13 --> 00:55:14
			But here's Ibrahim
		
00:55:17 --> 00:55:19
			He sees the angels coming on their way
		
00:55:19 --> 00:55:21
			to destroy those people sent by Allah. Angels
		
00:55:21 --> 00:55:23
			don't do except what Allah has sent him
		
00:55:23 --> 00:55:24
			to do. But Ibrahim
		
00:55:26 --> 00:55:27
			he argues on their behalf.
		
00:55:28 --> 00:55:31
			You know, these people, you know, making excuse
		
00:55:31 --> 00:55:31
			for them.
		
00:55:33 --> 00:55:34
			And then Allah praises him,
		
00:55:36 --> 00:55:37
			and Allah says,
		
00:55:44 --> 00:55:45
			He's doing something.
		
00:55:47 --> 00:55:50
			Allah has commanded something and then Ibrahim alaihis
		
00:55:50 --> 00:55:51
			salam argues against that.
		
00:55:52 --> 00:55:54
			Then Allah praises him for arguing against that
		
00:55:54 --> 00:55:55
			and Allah says about him,
		
00:55:57 --> 00:55:58
			indeed Ibrahim
		
00:55:59 --> 00:56:00
			had a soft heart.
		
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			Ibrahim was forbearance,
		
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			very extremely forbearance.
		
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			Awa!
		
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			You know,
		
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			he he often expressed regret over the wrongs
		
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			and he turned back and Munib is also
		
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			like that. He constantly turned back to Allah.
		
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			And then in the next verse Allah says,
		
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			You
		
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			Ibrahim Then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells him
		
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			after that.
		
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			How does it go You Ibrahim
		
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			Allah tells him, oh Ibrahim,
		
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			turn away from the stopness.
		
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			So, he's doing something that Allah doesn't want
		
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			him to do.
		
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			But before saying that he must stop doing
		
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			it, Allah says Allah praises him for the
		
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			softness of his heart.
		
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			And that comes about on account of occupying
		
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			the position of
		
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			of,
		
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			you know of of of humility.
		
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			And it comes from oft turning back to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Allah praises him for being one who constantly
		
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			came back. Now, he never turned away from
		
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			Allah at all.
		
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			He was a prophet of the highest order.
		
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			He didn't turn away from Allah, but Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala said he was constantly turning
		
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			to Allah meaning he was he was like
		
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			constantly coming to a closest state with Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Sometimes it comes on account of occupying that
		
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			position of Tadal Noon. Sometimes
		
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			it comes on practicing Tadal Noon. Sometimes it
		
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			comes via Allah sending us our calamity and
		
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			that calamity makes us turn back to it.
		
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			And that calamity shows us our deficiency.
		
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			So may Allah
		
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			let us come to him through the easy
		
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			of the 2 doors.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			come to him through the door of recognizing
		
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			our only reality.
		
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			May
		
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			Allah not test us with calamity.
		
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			But may Allah
		
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			make it such that when we stand before
		
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			him tonight and every other time,
		
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			that we stand before him recognizing that we
		
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			are slaves
		
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			and recognizing that He is the Master.
		
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			And may He open our hearts
		
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			to ask of Him,
		
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			not expecting of Him.
		
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			May we ask of Him may He open
		
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			our hearts to ask of Him because asking
		
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			of Him is what He has told us
		
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			to do.
		
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			Not because we see it a means to
		
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			fulfill our own desires.
		
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			This I end. What is happening in Quran?
		
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			Are
		
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			there any questions?
		
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			If not, we'll end there for today and
		
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			we'll continue tomorrow with
		
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			the same