Zia Sheikh – FullTafseer Of SURAH ALHadeedSession 4Ayah 21 onwards

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The speaker discusses the pursuit of happiness, peace, and satisfaction, which is centered around forgiveness from the Lord, money and capitalism, and returning to the natural rhythm of life. They describe the "immature" aspect of life as something that makes people feel comfortable and happy, and describe the "immature" aspect of life as something that makes people feel comfort and happy. The speaker also discusses the natural tendencies of people experiencing hardship or pride, including negative emotions and behavior, and the legal consequence of a deceased person. The speaker emphasizes the importance of not losing hope and becoming disconsolate in life, and how learning is not a means for achieving success, but rather a result of one's smartness. The natural progression of life is that a person realizes their desired state, and that they become a success driver and a success driver.

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			The pursuit of happiness, pursuit of peace, pursuit
		
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			of satisfaction, pursuit of, you know, riches, pursuit
		
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			of money.
		
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			So, this pursuit is basically, if we think
		
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			about it, that's what everybody is rushing towards.
		
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			So, this imagery is something we need to
		
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			keep in mind, what Allah is telling us.
		
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			What He's telling us is that you're rushing
		
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			towards one thing.
		
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			You're rushing towards the thing that all humans
		
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			are rushing towards.
		
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			The rat race, okay?
		
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			Money and capitalism, houses, cars, everything that you
		
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			assume that it will give you happiness and
		
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			peace in your life.
		
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			The reality is that what you should be
		
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			rushing towards is forgiveness from your Lord.
		
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			Because that's the thing that is going to
		
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			benefit you eternally.
		
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			The thing that you're rushing towards now, it
		
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			is going to benefit you temporarily.
		
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			And you're going to leave it all behind.
		
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			So, this is what is meant here.
		
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			Rush, race towards maghfirah from your Lord.
		
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			And towards a Jannah whose width is like
		
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			the width of the heavens and the earth.
		
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			So, you know, whenever you have a rectangular
		
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			shape, right?
		
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			You have the length and you have the
		
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			width, okay?
		
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			And the width usually, when you measure or
		
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			when you look at a rectangle, the width
		
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			is regarded as the shorter side of the
		
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			rectangle.
		
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			So here, Allah is saying that rush towards
		
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			a Jannah whose width is like the width
		
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			of the skies and the earth.
		
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			So this, according to Mufassireen, Allah is very
		
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			purposefully using the word width to indicate that
		
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			what Allah is talking about, the length or
		
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			the width of the heavens and the earth
		
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			is the width of a Jannah.
		
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			So what do you think about the length
		
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			of Jannah?
		
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			How long is it going to be?
		
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			So the length is usually bigger than the
		
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			width, okay?
		
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			So that's why Allah uses the word width
		
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			here.
		
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			And rush towards the Jannah, the paradise, whose
		
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			width is just like the width of the
		
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			sky and the earth.
		
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			And who has it been prepared for?
		
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			It is not just for anybody.
		
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			As is mentioned in the hadith of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, The merchandise of Allah is expensive.
		
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			It's not something cheap.
		
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			It's not something that comes easily.
		
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			What is the merchandise of Allah?
		
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			The merchandise of Allah is paradise.
		
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			But who has it been prepared for?
		
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			Allah describes in the verse, It has been
		
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			prepared for those people that have Iman in
		
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			Allah and all of His Prophets.
		
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			Iman and all of His Prophets.
		
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			This is Iman in Allah and all of
		
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			His Prophets, which also means, obviously, when a
		
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			person has true Iman, then he follows it
		
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			up with good deeds.
		
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			So this Jannah has been prepared for such
		
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			people.
		
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			This is the Fadl of Allah ﷻ.
		
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			He gives it to whom He wants.
		
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			He has the greatest Fadl, the greatest bounty,
		
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			the greatest blessing.
		
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			As we mentioned before earlier in the surah,
		
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			That our deeds in comparison to the mercy
		
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			of Allah ﷻ and the bounties of Allah
		
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			ﷻ, that Allah ﷻ has prepared for us,
		
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			our deeds are nothing.
		
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			Our deeds, they are nothing in comparison to
		
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			the bounties Allah ﷻ has prepared for us.
		
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			So indeed, when Allah ﷻ blesses us with
		
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			a Jannah, which is so huge, that it's
		
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			mentioned in a hadith that the last person
		
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			that is going to come out of paradise,
		
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			out of Jahannam, and he's going to be
		
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			put into paradise, his Jannah will be ten
		
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			times bigger than this world.
		
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			So just imagine what the Fadl, the blessing
		
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			of Allah ﷻ is, the grace of Allah
		
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			ﷻ is, the generosity of Allah ﷻ is.
		
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			For what?
		
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			For what we do.
		
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			Just pray five times a day for ten
		
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			minutes.
		
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			Try our best to just stay away from
		
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			these sins.
		
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			Do our best to be good Muslims.
		
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			And in return for that, Allah ﷻ wants
		
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			to give us so much.
		
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			So indeed, this is the Fadl of Allah
		
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			ﷻ.
		
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			This is the generosity of Allah ﷻ that
		
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			is being displayed here.
		
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			So this is what is meant by This
		
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			is the Fadl, the blessing, the generosity of
		
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			Allah ﷻ.
		
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			He gives it to whom He wishes.
		
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			Allah ﷻ, He is the one who has
		
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			the greatest Fadl and the greatest bounty.
		
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			Then after that, Allah ﷻ then goes into
		
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			describing an aspect of the human's life.
		
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			When a person is going through this life
		
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			and he is trying his best to please
		
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			Allah ﷻ, then generally speaking, there are going
		
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			to be hardships that come about.
		
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			And especially when a person converts from a
		
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			different religion to Islam.
		
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			And this was actually revealed about those people
		
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			that converted from paganism and idol worship to
		
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			Islam.
		
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			And they had to make so many sacrifices.
		
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			So obviously they made sacrifices.
		
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			And during those sacrifices, a person can feel
		
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			that, you know, why is it that I
		
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			am going through so many difficulties?
		
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			Why is it that I am going through
		
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			so many hardships?
		
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			On the flip side, sometimes a person goes
		
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			through good times.
		
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			And he has a good job, a stable
		
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			job, could become a nice house, a very
		
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			nice wife, a medium wife, obedient children and
		
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			everything.
		
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			This is basically the ups and downs of
		
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			life.
		
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			Hard, easy.
		
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			And comfortable and sometimes uncomfortable.
		
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			And hardships followed by ease.
		
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			Ease followed by hardships.
		
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			This is basically the rotation that we all
		
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			go through.
		
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			So Allah ﷻ is describing in this verse
		
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			something that will make us very comfortable and
		
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			make us very happy to understand it.
		
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			If only we understood what Allah ﷻ is
		
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			telling us in this verse.
		
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			If we understood this, then really whatever happens
		
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			to a person, his situation and his connection
		
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			with Allah ﷻ and his relationship with Allah
		
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			ﷻ will never change.
		
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			He will always have that same relationship and
		
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			he will always keep in touch with Allah
		
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			ﷻ and he will always maintain a very
		
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			stable life.
		
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			So Allah ﷻ says, مَا أَصَابَ مِن مُصِيبَةٍ
		
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			فِي الْعُرْضِ وَلَا فِي أَنفُسِكُمْ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ
		
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			مِن قَبْلِ النَّبْرَةِ Whenever any hardship or difficulty
		
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			or trial or tribulation, مصيبة means some trial
		
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			or tribulation or hardship.
		
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			If it comes on the earth, on the
		
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			earth meaning in the form of earthquakes, in
		
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			the form of hurricanes, in the form of
		
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			tornadoes, in the form of hailstones.
		
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			Anything that is regarded as somewhat of a
		
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			disaster, this is a tribulation that comes on
		
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			the earth.
		
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			وَلَا فِي أَنفُسِكُمْ And also in yourselves, meaning
		
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			a person becomes sick, a person he has
		
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			a bereavement in his family, somebody passes away.
		
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			A person basically has personal problems that he
		
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			has, a divorce that he goes through sometimes.
		
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			So Allah is saying that whatever happens to
		
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			you, whether it's in the earth generally or
		
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			specifically that happens to you, إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ
		
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			مِن قَبْلِ النَّبْرَةِ Everything was written before the
		
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			earth was created.
		
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			Allah SWT, He wrote everything and everything was
		
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			destined to happen before Allah SWT created the
		
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			earth.
		
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			That's why it's mentioned in a hadith, إِنَّ
		
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			اللَّهَ كَتَبَ مَقَادِيرَ الْأَشْيَاءَ قَبْلَ إِنْ يَفْلُحَ السَّمَاوَاتِ
		
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			وَالْأَرْضِ لِخَمْسِينَ أَلْفَسَنَةٍ وَعَرْشُكُمُ عَلَى الْمُرَامِ Indeed Allah
		
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			SWT, He wrote down the destinies of everything,
		
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			of all the things before He created the
		
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			heavens and the earth, before 50,000 years
		
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			before He created everything.
		
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			So everything was written prior to that.
		
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			So now, what happens is, that when a
		
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			mu'min, when a believer is faced with this
		
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			difficulty, he turns to Allah SWT and he
		
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			says, قَدَّلَ اللَّهُ مُمَّا يَشَاءَ فَعَلَ Allah SWT
		
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			had destined this to happen and whatever He
		
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			wanted, it happened.
		
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			Now this doesn't mean that a person should
		
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			not be grieved, he shouldn't be upset, he
		
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			shouldn't be worried.
		
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			Of course if a person is sick, he
		
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			loses somebody in his family, he loses his
		
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			job, there is a natural tendency to be
		
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			upset.
		
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			So this natural tendency should not boil over
		
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			into complaining about Allah SWT and complaining about
		
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			what Allah SWT has written for him.
		
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			And complaining to Allah, Oh Allah why did
		
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			you make this happen to me?
		
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			Even at the death of a person, it
		
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			was very common in the old days and
		
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			still in many cultures, that when somebody dies,
		
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			the women at the burial or at the
		
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			place in the house where the person died,
		
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			the women are wailing and complaining, if the
		
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			husband dies for example, the wife is complaining,
		
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			why did you leave us alone, why did
		
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			you leave us without any person to look
		
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			after us, why did you leave your children
		
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			orphaned, why did you leave your wife widowed
		
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			and so on and so forth, complaining.
		
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			So this is something that is forbidden in
		
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			Sharia.
		
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			Yes, normal grief as mentioned at the time
		
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			of the death of the Prophet's son, the
		
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			Prophet, the Sahaba saw tears rolling down his
		
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			eyes.
		
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			So the Sahaba said, Ya Rasulullah, why are
		
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			you crying?
		
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			Basically they thought that this was against the
		
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			concept of acceptance from Allah SWT.
		
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			So the Prophet SAW replied, this is a
		
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			natural grief that every human has.
		
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			And there is nothing wrong with expressing that
		
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			natural grief.
		
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			But then overdoing it to the point that
		
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			you are complaining about Allah SWT and complaining
		
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			very very vocally, this is prohibited in Sharia,
		
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			which is known as Naumah.
		
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			So we say that whatever Allah SWT ordained,
		
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			whatever He has written and whatever He wanted
		
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			to happen, that happened.
		
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			And then on top of that Allah says,
		
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			Indeed that is very difficult, that is easy
		
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			for Allah SWT.
		
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			For Allah SWT to write something and destined
		
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			something and to write something to have it
		
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			happen before 50,000 years, that is easy
		
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			for Allah SWT.
		
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			And then he goes into tackling the mentality
		
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			that people have.
		
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			Now there are two situations that happen to
		
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			humans.
		
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			The natural human instinct.
		
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			When a person is going through good times,
		
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			he has a lot of money, he becomes
		
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			rebellious and he becomes arrogant.
		
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			And he becomes a person who is not
		
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			very nice.
		
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			And you see that with these stars all
		
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			the time, right?
		
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			These film stars or pop stars, they make
		
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			a little bit of money and when they
		
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			make this money, they basically think that they
		
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			are just on top of the world and
		
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			everybody else should basically follow them around and
		
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			just almost worship them.
		
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			And without naming any names, you hear about
		
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			this all the time in the news, that
		
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			the arrogant nature of the things that they
		
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			tend to do.
		
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			They think that they are above the law,
		
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			they think they are above human etiquette, they
		
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			think they are not obligated to be polite
		
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			to anybody anymore.
		
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			So this comes with that territory of having
		
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			ease in one's life and having the money
		
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			and the riches and all the rest, the
		
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			adulation and the fame and all the rest
		
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			of the things that basically when mixed together
		
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			and a person is not controlling it, it
		
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			becomes a means for a person's implosion.
		
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			So this is one aspect of the human
		
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			nature.
		
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			Then on the other hand what happens is
		
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			that a person when he is going through
		
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			difficulty, then he is at a loss and
		
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			he is grieving and he becomes hopeless.
		
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			So both of these things Allah SWT addresses.
		
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			So in the previous ayah He said Allah
		
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			SWT wrote everything, everything was destined to happen,
		
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			everything was written by Allah SWT and now
		
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			He says why did that happen?
		
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			He says, Firstly, whatever you lost out on,
		
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			you should not be upset at that.
		
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			You should not lose hope and become disconsolate
		
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			at what you lost or whatever passed you
		
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			by.
		
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			And this is mentioned in a hadith that
		
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			really whatever is going to come to you,
		
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			it is not going to pass you by.
		
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			Whatever Allah SWT has written for you to
		
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			happen, it's not going to pass you by.
		
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			And whatever that wasn't going to come to
		
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			you, it would not have come to you
		
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			anyway.
		
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			Allah SWT has written everything.
		
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			The pens have been raised and the paper
		
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			has become dry.
		
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			Meaning Allah SWT wrote everything and the ink
		
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			of that writing has become dry.
		
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			And in another hadith the Prophet SAW said
		
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			that the word When you say the word
		
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			if, then this opens up the doors of
		
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			shaitan.
		
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			So you go to a job interview and
		
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			you do whatever you can to try to
		
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			pass the interview and to get that job.
		
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			And ultimately you don't get the job.
		
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			So now you're thinking, you're sitting at home
		
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			depressed and wondering what it was that went
		
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			wrong during the interview.
		
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			And then you think to yourself, if only
		
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			I had given my answer this way rather
		
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			than that way, then maybe I would have
		
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			landed that job.
		
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			If I had worn a suit rather than
		
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			dressed casually, maybe I would have landed that
		
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			job.
		
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			If I had smiled a little bit more
		
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			at the manager, maybe I would have landed
		
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			that job.
		
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			So this word if, this word if about
		
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			the past tense, the Prophet SAW said don't
		
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			dwell on it.
		
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			And there's such a great wisdom in this.
		
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			That if a person thinks about this, that
		
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			a person should not be dwelling about these
		
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			things, it actually saves him from a lot
		
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			of problems.
		
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			It saves him from depression, it saves him
		
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			from being miserable, it makes him satisfied with
		
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			what Allah SWT has decreed for him.
		
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			And this is basically a lesson, a huge
		
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			lesson we learn from this ayah.
		
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			لِكَيْ لَا تَأْسَوْا عَلَىٰ مَا فَاتَكُمْ Should never
		
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			be upset and become disconsolate or hopeless about
		
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			something that passed you by and something that
		
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			you lost out on.
		
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			لِكَيْ لَا تَأْسَوْا عَلَىٰ مَا فَاتَكُمْ And the
		
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			other end, وَلَا تَفْرَحُوا بِمَا آتَكُمْ And also
		
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			that you do not become too happy with
		
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			what Allah SWT gave you.
		
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			So when a person realizes that what I
		
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			have, what I am earning, what I have
		
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			accumulated, the money that I have, the house
		
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			that I have, the family that I have,
		
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			it is something that Allah SWT gave to
		
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			me.
		
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			It is not something that is because of
		
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			me, it is not something because I earned
		
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			it or I was so smart.
		
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			There are so many people, Allah SWT gives
		
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			us so many lessons.
		
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			Most of these multi-millionaires and billionaires, they
		
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			were mostly high school dropouts.
		
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			Bill Gates, dropped out of high school.
		
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			Steve Jobs, dropped out of high school.
		
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			Michael Dell, Dell Computers, dropped out of high
		
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			school.
		
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			Virgin, the guy Richard Branson, Virgin Atlantic, billionaire,
		
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			owns so many things, dropped out of high
		
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			school and he is dyslexic.
		
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			So Allah SWT shows you through these examples
		
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			that you have this image and this thinking
		
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			that I have to get a degree.
		
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			Once I get a degree, then after getting
		
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			my bachelors, I'll get a masters.
		
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			Once I get my masters, I'll get a
		
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			doctor.
		
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			And the more I learn, the more I
		
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			have a chance of finding a good job.
		
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			But this is not always the case, that
		
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			happens.
		
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			So ultimately, yes you do your bit, you
		
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			do your best and you try your hardest.
		
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			But it's never written in stone that whatever
		
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			you are aiming for and whatever you are
		
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			trying to achieve, you will get.
		
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			And on the other hand, many people who
		
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			don't have the ability, who don't have the
		
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			education, but yet Allah SWT gives them so
		
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			much.
		
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			So, should not become arrogant with what Allah
		
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			SWT gave you.
		
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			Because Allah SWT had ordained that for you
		
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			anyway.
		
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			He had written that for you anyway.
		
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			It's not your smartness, it's not your intelligence,
		
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			it's not your education that made that happen
		
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			for you.
		
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			And then Allah says, Allah SWT doesn't like
		
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			those people who are mukhtal.
		
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			Mukhtal means those people that think that it's
		
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			something of themselves.
		
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			And kahur, arrogant people, Allah SWT doesn't like
		
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			them.
		
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			So especially in our society, where Alhamdulillah Allah
		
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			blesses us with somewhat of a comfortable lifestyle,
		
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			we should never get arrogant and we should
		
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			just be grateful for what Allah SWT has
		
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			given us.
		
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			And then the next thing that happens to
		
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			such people is, they develop inside them qualities
		
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			which are contrary to what Allah SWT wants.
		
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			They become arrogant first and foremost.
		
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			And they say that whatever I've learned, it
		
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			is because of my own efforts, because of
		
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			my own smartness.
		
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			And then when it comes to the time
		
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			for spending and giving in charity, they become
		
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			stingy.
		
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			They say, well, why don't you do the
		
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			same thing?
		
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			Why don't you become smart?
		
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			Why don't you open your own business?
		
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			Why don't you do this X, Y and
		
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			Z?
		
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			And you could become rich too.
		
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			Why are you looking at my money?
		
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			So a natural progression of understanding or thinking
		
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			that what I've learned is because of my
		
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			own effort, the natural progression is that a
		
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			person becomes stingy.
		
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			If a person realizes that what I have
		
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			is given to me by Allah SWT, then
		
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			he will give in charity.
		
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			Because he knows that whatever he is giving,
		
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			Allah can replace it for him.
		
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			Allah will replace it for him.
		
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			So that's why Allah says in the next
		
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			verse that Allah does not like muqtal and
		
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			fakhur.
		
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			He doesn't like those people that think that
		
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			they are something of themselves.
		
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			He doesn't like the people that are fakhur,
		
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			that are arrogant.
		
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			And what are they?
		
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			الَّذِينَ يَبْخَرُونَ وَيَأْرُونَ النَّاسَ بِالْبُخْرِ They are the
		
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			ones that are stingy and they also order
		
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			other people to be stingy too.
		
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			This happens a lot in poorer countries.
		
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			A person, he takes our money to give
		
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			to the poor person.
		
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			Other people stop him.
		
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			They all don't give it to these people.
		
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			These people have made it a profession to
		
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			go around begging.
		
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			Which is true in many circumstances.
		
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			But still, if a person wants to give
		
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			in charity, he will be rewarded according to
		
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			his intention.
		
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			There is no point in trying to stop
		
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			him.
		
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			So they also order people to be fakhir
		
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			and to be stingy.
		
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			الَّذِينَ يَبْخَرُونَ وَيَأْرُونَ النَّاسَ بِالْبُخْرِ وَمَن يَتَوَلَّ فَإِنَّ
		
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			اللَّهُ رَبَّنِي الْحَبِيدُ Whoever turns away from Allah
		
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			SWT, then indeed Allah SWT is Al-Ghani.
		
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			He is the one who doesn't need anything
		
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			and he is the one that's praiseworthy.
		
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			So basically what it means is that what
		
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			Allah gave you, you should give in charity.
		
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			And whoever turns away from giving in charity,
		
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			Allah has no need for the charity in
		
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			the first place.
		
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			Whatever a person gives is for his own
		
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			account, is for his own investment, is for
		
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			his own good, is for his own benefit
		
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			in the hereafter.
		
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			Now I would just like to finish off
		
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			by mentioning a saying of Umar about difficulties
		
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			that happen to a person and how he
		
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			used to deal with it.
		
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			Umar says that ما أصابت بمصيبة إلا وجدت
		
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			فيها ثلاث نعم Whenever I was afflicted with
		
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			any type of problem, I found in it
		
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			three blessings.
		
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			There are three blessings that I found in
		
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			each and every problem that I came across.
		
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			What were they?
		
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			أَلْأُولَىٰ أَنَّهَا لَمْ تَكُنْ فِي دِينِ The first
		
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			blessing was that that affliction didn't take place
		
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			in my religion.
		
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			So what he's saying is that okay, if
		
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			I lose something worldly, that's fine.
		
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			If I lose a camel, or a horse,
		
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			or a house, or I lose a relative
		
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			even, at least I didn't find any kind
		
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			of deficiency in my deen.
		
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			So yes, I don't want any kind of
		
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			difficulty or any kind of deficiency to come
		
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			in my religion.
		
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			So that's the first blessing he says.
		
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			The second thing, أَلْأُولَىٰ أَنَّهَا لَمْ تَكُنْ أَعْضَبْ
		
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			مِمَّا كَانْتُ That I thank Allah SWT that
		
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			that difficulty or that problem wasn't greater than
		
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			it was.
		
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			So I got sick, well, you know, I
		
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			got sick but with a flu, or you
		
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			know, I was bedridden for a week, or
		
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			what about the person who is bedridden for
		
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			the rest of his life?
		
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			What about the person who has cancer?
		
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			What about the person who is in a
		
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			vegetative state, in a coma?
		
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			My flu is nothing in comparison to those
		
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			people.
		
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			So I should be grateful that the difficulty
		
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			that I went through, it wasn't greater than
		
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			it actually was.
		
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			And the third thing, أَلْثَالِحَةٌ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يُعْفِي
		
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			عَلَيْهَا الثَّوَابِ الْعَظِيمِ وَالْأَجْرَ الْكَبِيرِ The third blessing
		
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			when I come across any kind of difficulty,
		
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			I believe sincerely, and Allah SWT has promised
		
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			that if I am patient, that He will
		
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			give me a huge reward for it, a
		
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			huge reward for being patient.
		
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			As Allah says in the Quran, وَبَشِّرِ الصَّابِرِينَ
		
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			Give glad tidings to the people who have
		
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			suffered, who persevere, who are patient.
		
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			هُوَ بَيْنَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا أَصَابَتُوا مُّصِيبًا قَالُوا إِنَّا
		
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			لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيهِ رَاجِعُونَ That whenever any affliction
		
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			comes to them, any kind of problem comes
		
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			to them, they say that, إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا
		
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			إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ We belong to Allah SWT, and
		
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			to Him we return.
		
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			Allah says, أُولَٰئِكَ عَلَيْهُمْ صَلَوَاتٌ لِلرَّبِّهِ وَرَحْمَةٌ وَأُولَٰئِكَ
		
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			مُمْتَدُونَ These people get salutations and blessings from
		
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			Allah SWT, and mercy from Allah SWT, and
		
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			these are the ones that are guided.
		
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			So this is basically reflecting upon the promise
		
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			of Allah SWT, that if you are patient
		
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			in adversity, Allah SWT is going to reward
		
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			you for that.
		
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			So Umar ibn Abdullah said, These are the
		
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			three blessings that I come across each time
		
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			I'm afflicted with any kind of problem or
		
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			any kind of hardship.
		
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			So that's the kind of attitude that we
		
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			should have when we come across difficulties and
		
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			hardships, and when we have that, we will
		
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			realize actually that our life will become much
		
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			easier.
		
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			We'll never become depressed.
		
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			We'll never lose sleep at night.
		
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			Leave it all to Allah SWT.
		
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			It is known as, To be pleased with
		
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			what Allah SWT has ordained for you.
		
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			This is what is meant by this.
		
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			So this is the summary of the few
		
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			ayahs that we read today.
		
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			I pray that Allah SWT gives us salty
		
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			from Islam, and practice what has been said.
		
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			Al
		
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			Fatiha.