Zia Sheikh – Ramadan Khatira Day 29 Brief explanation of Surah Dhuha 742016

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The speaker discusses the importance of the Prophet Muhammad's use of the word "theorows" to describe his experiences and the difficulty of life after his death. They also mention the importance of guidance and the importance of not rejecting one's struggles and remorse for their partner. The speaker advises everyone to be patient and focus on their partner's name, the Prophet A.S.A. and the importance of not rejecting their struggles.

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			Okay, so as you know, alhamdulillah wa salatu
		
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			wa salamu ala rasulillah, as you know, we
		
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			completed the Quran last night and the completion
		
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			of the Quran happens when we do the
		
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			30th Juz.
		
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			I'd like to just focus on a couple
		
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			of surahs that are really beautiful and they
		
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			were addressing the Prophet ﷺ when he was
		
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			going through some very very difficult times and
		
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			really if a person is going through some
		
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			difficulty in his life, some challenges, maybe he's
		
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			upset and he's despondent about situations that are
		
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			happening in his life.
		
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			These two surahs are surahs that a person
		
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			can focus on and look at the translation
		
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			and the tafsir of and really can get
		
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			a lot of hope from them.
		
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			So firstly, it's surah Adh-Dhuha.
		
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			Surah Adh-Dhuha and secondly after that, if
		
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			we have time inshallah, surah Alam Nashrah.
		
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			I will do them both inshallah.
		
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			So when was Adh-Dhuha revealed?
		
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			Both of these surahs were actually revealed approximately
		
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			around the same time at the beginning of
		
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			Prophethood and they were revealed at a time
		
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			when the Prophet ﷺ was going through a
		
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			lot of difficulty.
		
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			Surah Adh-Dhuha was revealed at the time
		
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			when the Wahi stopped coming to him for
		
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			a few days.
		
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			There are different opinions of the Mufassireen as
		
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			to how many days it was.
		
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			Some say it was 10 days, some say
		
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			it was 12 days, some say as much
		
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			as 40 days that the Wahi stopped coming
		
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			to the Prophet ﷺ and because of that
		
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			he became very upset thinking that Allah ﷻ
		
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			was displeased with him or something happened and
		
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			because of that the Wahi has stopped coming
		
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			and in addition to that, because the Wahi
		
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			was not coming, the Kuffar of Quraish, the
		
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			disbelievers, they started taunting him.
		
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			For example, Umm Jameel, who was the wife
		
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			of Abu Lahab, she started saying, na'udhu
		
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			billah, that it looks like your shaitan, your
		
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			jinn that was afflicting you, he left you
		
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			and that's why you're not getting the Wahi
		
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			anymore.
		
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			You're not getting these messages anymore and things
		
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			like that.
		
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			These were the messages that the Kuffar, the
		
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			Mushrikeen started giving to the Prophet ﷺ when
		
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			he was going through that time.
		
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			So after this period, when the Wahi started
		
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			again, Allah ﷻ revealed Surah Al-Duha and
		
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			he takes an oath by two things.
		
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			He says, first of all, wal-duha, I
		
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			swear by the morning light and the scholars
		
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			say that it's not just the morning light
		
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			that is meant here, it basically refers to
		
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			the whole daylight.
		
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			I swear by the daylight.
		
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			wal-layli itha saja, and I swear by
		
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			the night when it falls or when it
		
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			becomes tranquil and peaceful.
		
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			So the oath is taken for two things.
		
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			What is the purpose of taking the oath
		
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			by the night and the day?
		
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			A person, when he sees the transformation of
		
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			the night and day taking place in front
		
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			of him, he looks at the day and
		
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			then suddenly the night comes.
		
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			He was busy in whatever he was doing
		
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			and he feels that maybe the darkness is
		
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			a distraction for me.
		
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			It is not appropriate for me.
		
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			I wanted to continue with what I was
		
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			doing.
		
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			But the reality is that night coming is
		
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			actually a blessing for him.
		
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			The darkness is a blessing for him.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because it gives him an opportunity for him
		
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			to go to sleep and rest and you
		
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			know, be ready for a new day the
		
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			next day.
		
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			So this is truly a blessing and there
		
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			are we know we've probably discussed the fact
		
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			that it's summer nowadays.
		
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			There are many countries in the world that
		
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			especially during the summer months, there is no
		
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			nightfall and because of that many people in
		
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			those countries in the extreme north of the
		
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			earth, they don't live a normal lifestyle.
		
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			They have to artificially create nightfall by blacking
		
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			out the windows and making sure that no
		
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			light is coming in through the through the
		
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			window and they create this artificial darkness.
		
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			Why?
		
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			So that they can get some rest, some
		
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			the actual rest that a person gets during
		
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			the night.
		
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			And again scientists will tell you that if
		
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			you want to get a really deep and
		
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			a refreshing sleep, then you should be in
		
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			an environment where there's no light whatsoever.
		
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			So this darkness is a blessing.
		
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			So a person who feels that you know,
		
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			the darkness came and it distracted me, it
		
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			stopped me from what I was doing and
		
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			I was busy building a house or I
		
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			was busy doing what I was doing and
		
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			I was traveling maybe and because of that
		
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			the darkness, I cannot travel anymore.
		
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			He is actually wrong to assume that.
		
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			So the message to the Prophet ﷺ was
		
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			that the Wahi comes sometimes and it will
		
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			stop sometimes.
		
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			Okay, so you should not feel O Prophet
		
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			that the coming and and the stopping these
		
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			are you know bad for you.
		
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			The coming is good for you and the
		
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			stopping is bad for you.
		
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			Allah ﷻ has his wisdom in stopping the
		
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			Wahi when he wants and he has his
		
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			wisdom of sending the Wahi when he wants.
		
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			The other meaning that the scholars have given
		
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			of Allah ﷻ taking the oath of these
		
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			two things is that as a human, the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, he was taking the Wahi which
		
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			is a heavenly inspiration from Allah ﷻ through
		
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			the angel Jibreel and after all the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ is a human.
		
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			He is a human being.
		
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			He is not divine.
		
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			He is not equal to Allah ﷻ even
		
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			though Allah ﷻ did give him a certain
		
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			amount of strength, which was more than regular
		
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			humans, but he was still a human being.
		
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			So this divine inspiration coming to him all
		
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			the time would have been very difficult for
		
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			him.
		
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			There are many Riwayat that suggest that sometimes
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ when he was getting Wahi
		
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			and he was sitting on a camel for
		
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			example, the weight of the Wahi was such
		
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			that the camel would sit down.
		
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			The camel would be forced to sit down
		
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			because the camel could not take the force
		
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			of the Wahi and there are other Riwayat
		
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			that suggest that the Prophet ﷺ when he
		
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			used to get the Wahi, he used to
		
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			start sweating.
		
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			So the Wahi coming to the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			was very cumbersome and very difficult for him
		
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			as a human.
		
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			So the constant coming of Wahi would have
		
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			been harmful for him.
		
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			That's why Allah ﷻ, he allowed him to
		
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			take a break so that his body could
		
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			take a rest, just like the night and
		
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			day, the night, the daytime, it is for
		
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			working and the night is for resting.
		
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			So that's why Allah ﷻ took an oath
		
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			by the daytime, the daylight and the night.
		
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			I swear by the daylight and I swear
		
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			by the night when it becomes tranquil.
		
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			Your Lord did not leave you and He
		
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			was not displeased with you.
		
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			So the consolation is that was the Qasam
		
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			and this is what's called the Jawabul Qasam.
		
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			When you say I swear by Allah, this
		
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			is the Qasam.
		
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			I did this or I did not do
		
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			this.
		
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			This is called Jawabul Qasam.
		
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			So what Dhuha wa Laila Itha Saja is
		
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			the Qasam and Ma Wada'aka Rabbuka wa
		
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			Ma Qala, it is the Jawabul Qasam.
		
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			The emphasis that Allah ﷻ did not leave
		
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			you and He's not displeased with you.
		
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			So the oath is taken to also reassure
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ that what is being said
		
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			is actual, it's a fact, it is true
		
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			and there is a lot of emphasis that
		
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			Allah ﷻ is not displeased with you.
		
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			Wala al-akhiratu khayrun laka mina al-oola
		
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			And the Akhira is better for you than
		
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			the Oola, meaning Oola refers to something that
		
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			is close to you.
		
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			Akhira of course the hereafter, Oola it means
		
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			the closeness which is the worldly life.
		
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			So this means that there will always be
		
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			ups and downs in a person's life.
		
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			There will always be ups and downs in
		
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			a person's life.
		
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			And this is what I meant by saying
		
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			that this Surah is a beautiful Surah to
		
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			refer to and turn to when a person
		
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			is going through difficulties.
		
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			That ultimately a person needs to realize that
		
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			I am heading towards the hereafter.
		
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			That is my abode, that is the thing
		
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			that I should be striving for.
		
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			And any difficulty that I'm getting in this
		
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			worldly life, it is a temporary difficulty.
		
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			It's mentioned in a Hadith that the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ said that a person who was the
		
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			richest person in the world, he never saw
		
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			any difficulty in his whole life.
		
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			He will be exposed to Jahannam for a
		
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			millisecond in the hereafter.
		
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			And then he'll be asked that did you
		
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			see any bliss and any peace in your
		
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			life?
		
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			He will say that I never saw any
		
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			peace in my life.
		
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			I never saw any happiness in my life.
		
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			That one millisecond of exposure to Jahannam will
		
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			be enough for him to make him forget
		
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			everything.
		
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			And then on the other hand, a person
		
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			who had the most difficult of lives, he
		
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			didn't know where his next meal was coming
		
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			from.
		
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			And he was maybe homeless, he didn't have
		
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			a roof over his head.
		
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			He didn't have new clothes to wear every
		
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			week.
		
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			And maybe he didn't have shoes to wear.
		
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			This person will be exposed to Jahannam for
		
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			a millisecond and he'll be asked did you
		
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			see any difficulty in your life?
		
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			And that one millisecond exposure to Jahannam will
		
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			be enough for him to make him forget
		
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			all the difficulties and the trials and tribulations
		
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			that he faced in the worldly life.
		
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			So وَلَلْآخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنَ الْأُولَىٰ Indeed the
		
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			hereafter is better for you than the worldly
		
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			life.
		
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			So this is what we should be striving
		
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			for.
		
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			And again a person when he's going through
		
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			difficulties, he can console himself by saying that
		
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			really this worldly life is temporary.
		
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			The difficulties of this life are temporary.
		
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			I need to focus on working on my
		
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			hereafter.
		
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			وَلَسَوْفَ يُعْطِيكَ رَبُّكَ فَتَرْضَىٰ And it's very close
		
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			that your Lord is going to give you
		
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			and you're going to be pleased.
		
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			The word Sufa, it's used for a future
		
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			which is a little bit distant, not very
		
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			close.
		
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			So remember that this surah was revealed at
		
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			the beginning of the prophethood of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			When he had a handful of Muslims who
		
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			had accepted Shahada and the people around him
		
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			were oppressing him and giving him a hard
		
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			time and rejecting his message and calling him
		
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			Majnoon.
		
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			And here Allah SWT is saying that it's
		
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			going to be, there's going to be a
		
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			time when Allah is going to give you.
		
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			You will get from his treasures in the
		
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			worldly life also.
		
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			فَتَرْضَىٰ And you're going to be pleased.
		
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			And ultimately towards the end of his prophethood,
		
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			what did happen?
		
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			Conquest over the Roman Empire and the Persian
		
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			Empire and treasures coming from everywhere, this actually
		
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			did happen.
		
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			So Allah SWT says وَلَسَوْفَ يُعْطِيكَ رَبُّكَ فَتَرْضَىٰ
		
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			You will be given, Allah SWT will give
		
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			you and you will be pleased with what
		
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			he gives you.
		
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			And then Allah reminds him of the things
		
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			that happened in the past.
		
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			And this is again a very important lesson
		
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			for us to learn that sometimes a person
		
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			when he is facing difficulties and hardships, he
		
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			tends to forget the difficulties that he faced
		
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			in the past.
		
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			And Allah SWT took him out of those
		
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			difficulties and then he forgot completely about that
		
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			difficulty that he was in before.
		
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			This, if we reflect, we probably have had
		
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			many difficulties in our lives.
		
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			Sometimes maybe we lost a dear one, a
		
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			dear relative, maybe a child, maybe our parents.
		
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			Or we went through financial difficulties or we
		
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			went through a lengthy spell of illness.
		
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			But Allah SWT takes us out of that
		
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			difficulty and we then, it is kind of
		
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			human psychology that a person tends to forget
		
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			about the difficulty that he went through.
		
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			So here the Prophet SAW is being reminded
		
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			that this is not the first time that
		
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			you've been through some hardships.
		
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			You've had a lot of hardships before and
		
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			Allah SWT pulled you out of those hardships
		
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			too.
		
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			The first one was that you were born
		
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			an orphan.
		
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			You were born an orphan, Allah SWT took
		
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			care of you all these years.
		
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			Because your father was not over you, your
		
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			grandfather took care of you initially.
		
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			And then when the grandfather passed away, the
		
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			uncle, Abu Talib, took care of you.
		
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			So you never had a feeling, O Prophet
		
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			of Allah, that you were an orphan.
		
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			أَلَمْ يَجِدْكَ يَتِيمًا فَآوَى Didn't Allah SWT find
		
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			you in the state of being an orphan
		
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			and He gave you refuge?
		
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			So Allah SWT protected him while he was
		
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			an orphan.
		
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			And He took him through his years of
		
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			being an orphan and he was protected all
		
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			through those years.
		
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			وَوَجَدْكَ ضَالًا فَهَدًا And He found you, the
		
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			word ضال, it means, the literal meaning is
		
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			misguided, but also it can mean a desolate
		
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			tree in the middle of the desert.
		
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			You have a desert, no vegetation around it
		
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			and one tree in the middle that is
		
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			lush and green and can give fruit.
		
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			So this is one of the literal meanings
		
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			of ضال.
		
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			And another meaning is that you were not
		
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			aware.
		
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			Allah SWT found you unaware and He guided
		
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			you.
		
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			So from the perspective of the tree in
		
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			the middle of the desert, he was the
		
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			lone person that Allah SWT had given guidance
		
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			to in a desert of misguidance.
		
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			Everyone around him misguided, worshipping idols and strayed
		
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			away from the path of Allah SWT.
		
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			And he is the only one in the
		
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			middle of that desert of misguidance.
		
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			He is standing up and proclaiming the message
		
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			of Tawheed.
		
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			So Allah SWT found you ضال, He found
		
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			you like this tree in the middle of
		
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			the desert, and He continued to guide you,
		
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			that's one meaning.
		
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			And He also found you unaware, unaware of
		
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			what the reality of Tawheed, the reality of
		
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			Allah SWT was.
		
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			Because the Prophet ﷺ, he never worshipped idols
		
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			in his life.
		
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			Before he got prophethood, he never worshipped idols
		
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			in his life.
		
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			And he always thought that worshipping the idols
		
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			is misguidance.
		
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			And he used to worship according to the
		
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			teachings of Ibrahim ﷺ that had been handed
		
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			down across the generations.
		
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			He used to worship according to his knowledge.
		
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			But obviously there was a gap there between
		
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			Ibrahim ﷺ and himself.
		
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			So there was this level of not being
		
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			aware of what he is supposed to actually
		
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			do, and Allah SWT guided him through that.
		
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			So you are a prophet of Allah, you
		
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			are unaware, and Allah SWT guided you in
		
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			the past.
		
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			وَوَجَدَكَ عَائِلًا فَأَغْنَا And He found you in
		
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			the state of poverty, and He gave you
		
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			riches.
		
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			What happened, again, as he was growing up,
		
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			being an orphan, not too rich, and just
		
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			getting by maybe, Allah SWT blessed him to
		
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			meet Khadija, who was a rich and successful
		
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			businesswoman.
		
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			She initially employed him, and then ultimately went
		
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			on to marry him.
		
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			So because of marrying her, and because of
		
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			his own hard work in the business that
		
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			Khadija made him responsible for, he also started
		
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			making money, and Allah SWT blessed him with
		
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			this sustenance and made him rich.
		
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			So then Allah SWT then reminds him, فَأَمَّا
		
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			الْيَتِيمَ فَلَا تَقْهَرْ وَأَمَّا السَّائِلَ فَلَا تَنْهَرْ This
		
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			is, again, a human tendency, that when a
		
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			person goes through difficulty and he comes out
		
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			of it, he tends to forget where he
		
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			was and where he is now.
		
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			And this, again, probably, the majority of us,
		
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			we came back from, you know, India and
		
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			Pakistan and different countries, and we probably had
		
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			a very simple lifestyle.
		
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			You know, we maybe made a few rupees
		
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			from a simple job, and we got those
		
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			rupees and lived with our parents, and we
		
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			got by with the little money that we
		
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			had, and then Allah SWT blessed us and
		
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			enabled us to come to this country where
		
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			we maybe came for an education.
		
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			From the education we got jobs, and from
		
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			those jobs we started making a lot more
		
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			money than we could have ever imagined a
		
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			few years ago while we were back home
		
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			in our countries.
		
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			And the problem is, with a human being,
		
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			that he forgets the reality of where he
		
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			was and where he is now.
		
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			So, Allah is saying here to the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ and indirectly to us, that never forget
		
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			your origins, never forget where you were.
		
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			When you don't forget where you were, you
		
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			will appreciate where you are right now, and
		
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			the people that you find in the same
		
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			predicament that you were before, you will feel
		
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			merciful towards them.
		
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			Allah SWT says to the Prophet ﷺ and
		
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			to us indirectly, that as for the orphan,
		
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			do not harass him or do not scold
		
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			him.
		
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			When the yateem comes to you, do not
		
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			be abusive to him, but be kind and
		
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			gentle to the yateem.
		
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			And by yateem, because he was a yateem
		
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			himself, the Prophet ﷺ, the correlation is there.
		
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			Allah SWT is reminding him that just like
		
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			you are a yateem, you are an orphan,
		
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			you should also have mercy towards the orphan,
		
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			because you know how it was like being
		
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			a yateem by yourself.
		
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			And we can take that same example for
		
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			our difficulties in our life, that when we
		
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			go through a difficulty, whatever difficulty it is,
		
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			we should feel that same person who has
		
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			that same difficulty, we should feel it, and
		
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			we should feel sorry for the person and
		
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			not forget where we were before.
		
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			فَأَمَّ الْيَتِيمَ فَلَا تَقْهَرْ وَأَمَّ السَّائِلَ فَلَا تَنْهَرْ
		
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			And if you, again, the ayat, first of
		
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			all talked about the Prophet ﷺ being yateem,
		
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			and then talked about him being not so
		
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			well off, and then reminding him that the
		
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			yateem take care of him and do not
		
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			scold him, do not be abusive to him,
		
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			and the sa'il, sa'il means the
		
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			person who asks you, فَلَا تَنْهَرْ Do not
		
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			rebuke him also.
		
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			When the sa'il comes, do not rebuke
		
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			him, do not scold him, but try to
		
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			give him something, and if you don't have
		
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			anything, at least give him a dua, rather
		
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			than scolding him and being angry at him.
		
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			So, وَأَمَّ السَّائِلَ فَلَا تَنْهَرْ And according to
		
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			some scholars, sa'il can also mean a
		
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			person who comes to you in the quest
		
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			of knowledge and asks you a religious question,
		
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			and asks you things about your religion.
		
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			Do not reject him, but teach him there
		
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			and then.
		
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			وَأَمَّا بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ فَحَدِّثْ And ask for the
		
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			ni'mah of your Lord, then proclaim it.
		
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			The ni'mah of your Lord, in the case
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ, was all of these
		
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			things that Allah ﷻ gave him.
		
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			And the biggest blessing was the fact that
		
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			Allah ﷻ gave him Prophethood, gave him the
		
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			revelation, and He gave him the means to
		
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			guide other people, so this was the biggest
		
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			blessing.
		
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			In addition to all of the other blessings
		
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			that have been mentioned in this surah already,
		
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			but the biggest blessing was the blessing of
		
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			guidance, the blessing of Prophethood, and this is
		
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			what the Prophet ﷺ was instructed to proclaim.
		
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			Going on to the next surah, which like
		
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			I said, the theme is very very similar.
		
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			To the extent that some scholars say that
		
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			it may have been revealed at exactly the
		
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			same time as Dhuha.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ, again going through difficulty,
		
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			hardship, and very upset, Allah ﷻ says to
		
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			him, أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ Didn't we open
		
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			up your heart for you?
		
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			What that means is that Allah ﷻ, He
		
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			opened up your heart and your chest for
		
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			guidance.
		
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			He guided you.
		
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			وَمَنْ يُرِذِ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَهْدِيَهُ يَشْرَحْ صَدْرَهُ لِلْإِسْلَامِ
		
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			According to one ayat of the Qur'an.
		
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			Whoever Allah ﷻ wishes to guide, He opens
		
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			up his chest for Islam.
		
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			أَفَمَنْ شَرَحَ اللَّهُ صَدْرَهُ لِلْإِسْلَامِ فَهُوَ عَلَىٰ نُورٍ
		
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			مِنْ رَبِّهِ As for the person who Allah
		
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			ﷻ opens his heart for Islam, he is
		
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			on a nur of guidance from his Lord.
		
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			So Allah ﷻ saying to the Prophet ﷺ,
		
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			أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ Didn't we guide you?
		
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			So again, guidance not in the sense that
		
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			he was misguided, but he was unaware of
		
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			what the reality is of Allah ﷻ.
		
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			And Allah ﷻ guided him and gave him
		
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			the prophethood and made him aware of who
		
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			he actually was.
		
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			So أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ means, Didn't we,
		
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			O Prophet of Allah, open your heart up
		
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			to guidance?
		
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			وَوَضَعْنَا عِنْكَ وِذْرَكَ أَلَّذِي أَنْقَضُوا طَهْرَكَ And we
		
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			removed from you the weight which was breaking
		
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			your back.
		
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			What was that weight that was breaking his
		
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			back?
		
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			The confusion that he was in, that he
		
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			sees the people around him engaged in idolatry,
		
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			worshipping idols, in shirk, and rejecting Allah ﷻ,
		
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			and doing things around the Ka'bah, making
		
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			tawaf around the Ka'bah naked, and the
		
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			other things related to jahala, burying their daughters
		
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			alive, drinking alcohol, engaging in warfare, these things
		
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			were making the Prophet ﷺ upset.
		
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			So he wanted a way out of these
		
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			things and wanted guidance as to what to
		
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			do about these things.
		
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			So the fact that Allah ﷻ guided him
		
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			and made him a prophet, this removed that
		
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			weight that was on his shoulders and was
		
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			breaking his back, because now he had a
		
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			way out of those things, and a means
		
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			to guide those people that were in that
		
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			deep misguidance.
		
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			وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ And we elevated for you
		
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			your remembrance.
		
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			And remember this is the time in which
		
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			there was only a handful of people that
		
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			were listening to the Prophet ﷺ and believing
		
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			in him.
		
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			And yet Allah ﷻ is telling him that
		
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			we have elevated your remembrance for you.
		
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			Again, it doesn't make sense.
		
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			In the way that the Prophet ﷺ was
		
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			given this message, at the time that he
		
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			was given this message, what does it mean?
		
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			There were only a few people believing in
		
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			him.
		
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			Most of the people were against him.
		
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			Most of the people were calling him majnoon
		
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			and sahir and all of the rest of
		
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			the things.
		
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			So what does it mean when Allah is
		
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			telling him that we have elevated your remembrance
		
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			for you?
		
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			It means up until the Day of Judgment,
		
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			you will be remembered, and you will be
		
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			respected, and you will be dignified and honoured.
		
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			وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ And we elevated for you
		
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			your remembrance.
		
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			So whenever we make a dhaan, أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ
		
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			مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ is right there with أَشْهَدُ
		
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			أَنَّ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَى اللَّهِ with the name
		
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			of Allah is the name of our beloved
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Whenever we hear his name, we say ﷺ.
		
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			And this is being done every time there
		
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			is a dhaan, we hear the name of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ being elevated.
		
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			Whenever we are in salat, we mention his
		
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			name.
		
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			أَتَّحْيَاكُ لِلَّهِ وَالصَّلَوَاتُ وَالطَّيِّبَاتُ السَّلَامُ وَعَلَيْكَ
		
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			أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ Sending salam upon
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And then when we send salawat, اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّي
		
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			عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ Every single time
		
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			when we are praying.
		
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			And then one of the unique things, the
		
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			boxer Muhammad Ali died recently, right?
		
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			And you probably, all of those emails that
		
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			were floating around about the walk of fame
		
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			in Hollywood and how when he was offered
		
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			this star on this walk of fame, he
		
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			refused it saying that I don't want the
		
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			name of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ to be on
		
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			the floor and people trampling on it.
		
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			So his is the only star that was
		
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			put on a wall because of the request
		
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			made by Muhammad Ali or his refusal to
		
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			accept the star, the name of the Prophet
		
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			Muhammad ﷺ was put on a wall.
		
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			That is what is being mentioned here right
		
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			now.
		
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			We elevated for you your remembrance.
		
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			Nobody was allowed to disrespect you.
		
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			So even though there are many people trying
		
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			to malign the character of the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			and trying to say bad things about him
		
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			and trying to dig up and use character
		
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			assassination of the Prophet ﷺ to make people
		
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			run away from our beloved Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			But for the most part there is even
		
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			non-Muslims have praised the Prophet ﷺ and
		
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			said good things about him.
		
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			Michael Hart wrote a book about the 100
		
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			most influential people in the world and right
		
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			at the top, number one was the Prophet
		
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			Muhammad ﷺ.
		
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			And then many many orientalists, many many non
		
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			-Muslims have said good things about the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ and praised him even though they were
		
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			not even Muslim.
		
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			So, وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ We have elevated for
		
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			you your remembrance.
		
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			So this is real comfort for the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ when he's going through this difficulty and
		
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			he's in a minority and people are against
		
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			him.
		
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			The fact that Allah ﷻ is telling him
		
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			that your remembrance is going to be elevated,
		
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			this could be a huge source of hope
		
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			for him.
		
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			وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ And then after that Allah
		
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			ﷻ says one of the most beautiful verses
		
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			for a person who's going through difficulty فَإِنَّ
		
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			مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا فَإِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا Indeed
		
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			with every difficulty there is ease.
		
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			Repeat it two times for emphasis.
		
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			Why two times?
		
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			Why was it mentioned two times?
		
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			Just to emphasize the point that when you're
		
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			going through a difficulty in your life just
		
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			be patient and Allah ﷻ will bring ease
		
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			for you.
		
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			No need for you to get upset and
		
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			lose hope and become despondent.
		
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			With that difficulty ease will come for sure.
		
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			And there's again some grammatical kind of stuff
		
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			if you're familiar with Arabic.
		
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			The word الْعُسْر is mentioned twice but الْعُسْر
		
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			with alif-laam the scholars say that whenever
		
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			something is mentioned with alif-laam that same
		
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			thing applies in both situations.
		
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			So الْعُسْر is mentioned twice in two sentences
		
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			but it's the same difficulty.
		
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			الْعُسْر means difficulty.
		
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			So because it's with alif-laam it's the
		
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			same difficulty but يُسْر is mentioned without alif
		
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			-laam.
		
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			So that those are two different eases.
		
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			So from that we can derive that with
		
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			every one difficulty there are two eases that
		
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			happen to a person.
		
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			So again if a person reflects upon his
		
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			life and what happened in his past he
		
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			will think about maybe some difficulty that he
		
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			went through, maybe a job loss and he
		
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			was thinking to himself you know I had
		
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			such a great job, I lost this job,
		
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			what's going to happen to me?
		
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			But then within a matter of weeks Allah
		
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			SWT blesses him with a much better job
		
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			and maybe better pay, better hours, ease for
		
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			him to come to the masjid, maybe closer
		
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			to home.
		
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			So with that one difficulty that took place
		
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			of losing the job Allah SWT made a
		
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			whole lot of other things easier for him
		
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			and this is what is meant by إِنَّ
		
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			مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا So these are verses that
		
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			we should always remind ourselves of when we're
		
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			going through hard times in our life.
		
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			فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَانصَبْرْ وَإِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَرُغَبْ The Prophet
		
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			A.S.A. is being addressed and we
		
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			indirectly are being addressed also.
		
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			That once you have freed yourself and to
		
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			the Prophet A.S. when he was freed
		
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			from giving dawah to people, inviting to people
		
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			and for us it means that when you're
		
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			free from your worldly you know busy schedules
		
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			and your workload then فَانصَبْرْ فَانصَبْرْ the word
		
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			نصَبْرْ it means you take a stick and
		
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			you basically pound it into the ground so
		
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			that it becomes firm.
		
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			So what it means is that once you're
		
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			free then become firm and solid in the
		
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			worship of Allah A.S. Become like this
		
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			peg that cannot be moved.
		
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			So this is how we're supposed to be.
		
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			Irrespective of the things that we're going through
		
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			in our lives our focus in the obedience
		
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			of Allah A.S. should be the same.
		
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			We should be like this peg that cannot
		
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			move.
		
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			Unfortunately what happens to a lot of people
		
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			that are weak of Iman is that when
		
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			they go through some difficulty they will turn
		
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			to Allah make more dua to Him and
		
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			this is fine.
		
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			But then the problem is that when they
		
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			come back into you know ease and that
		
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			difficulty is removed from them they tend to
		
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			forget about Allah A.S. They even will
		
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			forget about the obligation of Salat.
		
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			They may even fall back into disobedience of
		
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			Allah A.S. But Allah A.S. says
		
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			become like this stick that cannot be moved
		
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			and be obedient to Him in all situations.
		
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			Good or bad situations always be obedient to
		
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			Allah A.S. and only to your Lord
		
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			pay attention.
		
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			Meaning that in all of these situations our
		
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			attention and our focus should be in first
		
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			and foremost pleasing Allah A.S. then the
		
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			rest of our worldly life comes second after
		
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			that.
		
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			So like I said these two surahs very
		
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			beautiful surahs revealed to the Prophet S.A
		
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			.W. when he was going through hard times
		
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			and again when a person is going through
		
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			difficulty he should ponder over these surahs over
		
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			these ayat and inshallah it will make things
		
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			very very easy for him and give him
		
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			some kind of solace and some kind of
		
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			comfort in the difficulty that he is going
		
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			through.
		
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			I pray that Allah A.S. gives us
		
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			tawfiq to understand and practice what has been
		
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			said and heard.