Zia Sheikh – Tafseer Of Surah AlWaqi`ah Session 5

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The Day of Judgment is about creating a life after death and rebuilding a person from death. The "slacky life" is created from the creator's desire to create a human after death, and is created from the creation of parents and grandchildren. The "slacky life" is created from the creation of the creator's parents and grandchildren, and is created from the creation of children and grandchildren. The "slacky life" is created from the creation of the creator's parents and grandchildren, and is created from the creation of children and grandchildren. The "slacky life" is created from the creation of the creator's parents and grandchildren, and is created from the creation of children and grandchildren. The "slacky life" is created from the creation of the creator's parents and grandchildren, and is created from the creation of children and grandchildren. The "slacky life" is created from the creation of the creator

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			Today, inshallah, we're starting from ayah number 58
		
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			of Surah Al-Waqi'ah.
		
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			And in the previous lessons, we discussed that
		
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			Al-Waqi'ah talks about the event of
		
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			the Day of Judgment.
		
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			And after that, it talks about three main
		
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			groups that will be created on the Day
		
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			of Judgment.
		
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			One of them is going to be As
		
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			-Sabiqoon, the other one is Ashab ul-Yameen,
		
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			and the third one is Ashab ul-Shimal.
		
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			Asabiqoon refers to those people who are going
		
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			to be at the forefront, and they're going
		
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			to be the ones who are going to
		
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			get the most reward from Allah SWT for
		
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			the most sacrifices they made.
		
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			And Ashab ul-Yameen, they're also going to
		
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			be the people who are the recipients of
		
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			reward, but they're going to be a little
		
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			bit of a lower level than Asabiqoon.
		
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			And Ashab ul-Shimal refers to those people
		
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			that are going to get the punishment of
		
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			Allah SWT, those people that disbelieved or disobeyed
		
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			Allah SWT in this world.
		
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			So after mentioning Ashab ul-Shimal and the
		
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			punishment they're going to get, Allah SWT then,
		
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			in these ayahs that I'm going to be
		
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			explaining today, Allah addresses those Ashab ul-Shimal,
		
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			that why is it that you didn't pay
		
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			attention to Allah SWT?
		
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			Why didn't you obey His commands?
		
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			Why didn't you worship Him?
		
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			And to emphasize the power of Allah SWT
		
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			and to make people aware of His power,
		
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			Allah mentions certain things, everyday things that are
		
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			around us all the time, but we tend
		
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			to take for granted.
		
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			And the first thing that He mentions is
		
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			the creation of the baby.
		
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			So Allah says, أَفَرَأَيْتُمْ مَا تُمْنُونَ Do you
		
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			not see or do you see what you
		
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			are dripping?
		
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			So تُمْنُونَ أَنْ مَا يُنْمِي It means to
		
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			drop, and here it refers to dropping drops
		
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			of sperm into the womb, into the foetus,
		
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			into the uterus, so that it becomes a
		
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			baby.
		
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			So do you see this?
		
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			What you did was, you took this drop
		
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			and you put it in its correct place,
		
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			and then you hoped from Allah SWT that
		
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			you would be given a baby.
		
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			So who actually created that baby?
		
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			There are so many people in this world
		
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			that try for years and years and years,
		
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			but Allah SWT doesn't give them any children.
		
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			So Allah is the one who gives children.
		
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			Allah is the one who prevents children from
		
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			happening.
		
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			He doesn't give children, so that is from
		
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			Allah SWT.
		
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			And in addition to that, this thing that
		
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			we see, this creation of a baby within
		
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			the womb, it is a miracle, but because
		
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			again we see it on an everyday basis,
		
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			we tend to take it for granted.
		
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			Okay, it's another baby got born.
		
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			Okay, even parents, the first baby, it's all
		
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			miraculous and everything, and everybody's overjoyed, and by
		
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			the second or the third baby, it's an
		
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			everyday thing also for them.
		
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			So we have to appreciate the fact that
		
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			a life has been created.
		
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			A life has been created.
		
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			Arms, legs, eyes, nose, a head, the feet,
		
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			the toes, fingers, all created in perfect formation,
		
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			equality, and everything in the right proportion and
		
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			in the right place.
		
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			And this is for 99.9% of
		
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			all births that happen, and on the odd
		
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			occasion that there is a deficiency, deformity, that
		
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			is only for us to appreciate the fact
		
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			that Allah SWT, if He wants, He can
		
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			do that also.
		
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			So this day-to-day miracle, Allah SWT
		
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			is telling us about.
		
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			And the relevant thing in this also is
		
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			that when you, when we put this *
		
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			inside the uterus with the hope of having
		
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			a baby, do we see anything?
		
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			All we see is a liquid.
		
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			Unless we use a microscope and we basically
		
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			put it under the microscope, we can see
		
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			the little sperm cells running around and swimming
		
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			around in the liquid, but that is something
		
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			that is completely invisible to our eyes.
		
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			From that invisible thing, Allah SWT creates a
		
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			human being.
		
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			So the relevance within the previous ayat is
		
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			that Allah SWT, He created from an invisible
		
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			thing, He created a huge life.
		
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			He created a life, a walking, talking human,
		
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			that human that is going to become walking
		
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			and talking, and a person who is going
		
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			to go from place to place, who is
		
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			going to have eyes and ears and everything.
		
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			So that same creator who created this life
		
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			from nothing, He is the one who can
		
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			recreate the human after death also.
		
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			So this is the purpose of these verses.
		
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			Allah says, Do you create it or do
		
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			we create it?
		
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			Or are we the ones who are the
		
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			creators?
		
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			So the question is this very clearly.
		
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			Who is the one who does that?
		
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			We don't go into the womb and basically
		
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			determine what kind of a baby we are
		
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			going to want and all these kinds of
		
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			things.
		
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			This is something that is only from Allah
		
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			SWT.
		
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			So Allah is the one who makes that
		
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			creation happen.
		
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			Allah says that we have put the death
		
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			between you.
		
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			We have made it between you.
		
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			We have written it between you.
		
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			That all of you are going to die.
		
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			And you will be recreated again.
		
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			This is what it means that the death
		
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			is going to come and the next step
		
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			after death, it will be recreation.
		
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			So Allah has written death for us and
		
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			the death basically is written but we don't
		
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			know when it is going to take place.
		
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			In most occasions, the parents pass away before
		
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			the children and then the children pass away,
		
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			then the grandchildren pass away, then the great
		
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			-grandchildren.
		
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			But Allah SWT sometimes has it written opposite
		
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			to that.
		
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			Sometimes the parent has to bury his own
		
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			child.
		
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			It is a very difficult thing to do.
		
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			So Allah says, نحن قدرنا بينكم الموت We
		
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			have written this death between you.
		
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			And also, وما نحن مسبوقين We are not
		
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			going to be beaten.
		
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			We can do something else.
		
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			على أن نبدل أمثالكم Firstly, we can replace
		
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			you with something else.
		
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			We can replace you with another creation.
		
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			We can replace you with another race.
		
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			We can replace you with other people who
		
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			will do the bidding of Allah SWT as
		
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			He has done.
		
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			History tells us that sometimes, you know, for
		
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			many years, it was the Arabs who took
		
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			the banner of Islam and spread it far
		
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			and wide.
		
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			Then Farsi-speaking people.
		
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			They took the banner of Islam and spread
		
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			it far and wide.
		
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			Then Turkish-speaking people.
		
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			Then people from the Indian subcontinent.
		
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			So, this responsibility changed hands many, many times.
		
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			إِن تَتَوَلَّوا يَسْتَبْدِي الْقَوْمٍ غَيْرَكُمْ If you turn
		
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			your backs away, Allah SWT can change people
		
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			who are other than you.
		
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			So, على أن نبدل أمثالكم Allah can replace
		
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			you with people similar to you.
		
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			And also, وَنُنشِئَكُمْ فِي مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ And
		
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			recreate you in a way that you didn't
		
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			even know.
		
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			So, what's going to happen in the hereafter?
		
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			Now, we only have tongues that speak.
		
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			Our mouths speak.
		
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			Our vocal cords speak.
		
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			So, Allah is telling us that in the
		
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			hereafter, what's going to happen?
		
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			Our body parts are also going to speak.
		
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			Which is something that, you know, shouldn't be
		
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			too much of a surprise to us.
		
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			We've made so many things speak, right?
		
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			We've made videotapes speak.
		
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			We've made TV speak.
		
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			Radio speak.
		
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			Internet speak.
		
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			And telephone speak.
		
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			So, all of these sounds, they're being recreated.
		
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			So, the same Allah SWT who gave us
		
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			the intelligence to do those things, He can
		
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			make our body parts also talk.
		
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			So, Allah will create us in a way
		
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			that will be different to the way that
		
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			we were created first time.
		
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			In the way that our body parts will
		
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			be allowed to talk.
		
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			And also, bear witness for us or against
		
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			us.
		
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			So, And recreate you in a way that
		
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			you did not even know.
		
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			You've known the first creation, so, why is
		
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			it you don't take heed?
		
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			So, it actually means to create something from
		
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			nothing.
		
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			So, you've seen, our human beings, that Allah
		
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			created you from nothing.
		
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			Created your children from nothing.
		
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			Created your brothers and sisters and all humans
		
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			from nothing that you can see apparently with
		
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			your eyes.
		
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			You've seen that.
		
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			Then, why is it that you don't believe
		
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			that Allah can recreate you and give you
		
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			another life in the hereafter?
		
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			What's so difficult about that for Allah?
		
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			Why is it that you don't take a
		
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			lesson from this?
		
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			Why is it that you don't pay attention?
		
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			Do you see what you are harvesting?
		
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			Or you are farming?
		
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			Do you grow it?
		
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			Or do we grow it?
		
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			So, what does the farmer do?
		
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			All he has to do is throw the
		
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			seeds out.
		
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			Prepare the land and put the seed in
		
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			its place.
		
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			Is it up to the farmer now to
		
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			make it grow?
		
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			It's just in the hands of Allah SWT
		
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			now.
		
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			He does what he does and then the
		
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			rest is up to Allah SWT.
		
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			Allah is asking us this question.
		
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			Do you make it grow or do we
		
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			make it grow?
		
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			Undoubtedly, it is only in the hands of
		
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			Allah SWT.
		
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			And Allah, in His infinite power, He makes
		
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			these plants grow and through making those plants
		
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			grow, He shows us His power.
		
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			Allah says, ثُمَّ شَقَقَنَا الْأَرْضَ شَقَّ We make
		
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			the earth split up.
		
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			So, if you see the first buds of
		
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			a plant that come out, and if you
		
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			were to basically just touch it with your
		
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			fingertip, it would become squashed.
		
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			Alright?
		
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			But that same bud is the one that
		
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			pushed itself out through the ground.
		
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			How did that happen?
		
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			How does that small soft bud push itself
		
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			through sometimes a very hard, sometimes a very
		
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			rocky ground?
		
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			It does that.
		
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			Because Allah tells us that it's not the
		
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			plant that splits the earth and allows that
		
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			bud to come out.
		
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			It is only Allah SWT.
		
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			ثُمَّ شَقَقَنَا الْأَرْضَ شَقَّ We are the ones
		
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			who split the earth to allow this bud
		
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			to emerge from underneath.
		
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			So, يَا أَنتُم تَزْرَعُونَهُ أَمْ نَحْنُ الزَّارِونَ Allah
		
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			asks us this question.
		
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			Do you make it grow?
		
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			Or are we the ones who make it
		
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			grow?
		
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			لَوْ نَشَاءُ لَجَعَلْنَاهُ حُطَامًا فَظَلْتُمْ تَفَكَّهُونَ If we
		
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			wanted, we could turn it into a dry
		
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			waste product.
		
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			حُطَام It refers to the chaff of the
		
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			wheat, basically, which is the peeling of the
		
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			wheat, which is dry, unusable.
		
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			And also, in Arabic, حُطَامُ الْبَيْط refers to
		
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			the egg shells.
		
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			Egg shells, very dry, unusable, basically, not edible.
		
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			So, Allah says, that if you wanted, we
		
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			could turn these plants of yours into the
		
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			lush, green, and growing plants that you are
		
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			seeing in front of you that you are
		
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			using and utilizing and eating and selling and
		
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			buying.
		
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			If we wanted, we could just turn it
		
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			into a dry waste type of crop.
		
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			فَظَلْتُمْ تَفَكَّونَ And you'd be astonished.
		
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			You'd be shocked.
		
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			You'd be in a state of shock at
		
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			what's happening.
		
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			Just imagine, one year of drought.
		
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			One year of poor crops that emerge from
		
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			the land and how difficult it becomes for
		
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			the society with this drought and this poor
		
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			yield of crops.
		
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			It becomes very difficult.
		
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			فَظَلْتُمْ تَفَكَّهُونَ So, فَظَلْتُمْ تَفَكَّهُونَ You're going to
		
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			be in a state of shock when that
		
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			happens.
		
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			إِنَّا لَمُغْرَمُونَ Indeed, we're at a loss.
		
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			What does غَرْم mean?
		
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			مُغْرَمُونَ مُغْرَم It refers to a person who
		
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			loses his money and doesn't get anything in
		
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			return.
		
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			That's مُغْرَمُونَ A person who basically loses it
		
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			all.
		
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			So, they all say, إِنَّا لَمُغْرَمُونَ All our
		
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			time, our effort, our seed, our water, our
		
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			land, all of the energy that we utilized,
		
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			we put it into this land, yet, what
		
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			happened?
		
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			We got nothing back in return.
		
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			So, our investment came out useless.
		
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			إِنَّا لَمُغْرَمُونَ بَلْ نَحْنُ مَحْرُمُونَ And then the
		
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			next step is that not only are we
		
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			losing out, we are, not only are we
		
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			basically losing everything, we are also being deprived
		
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			of using anything that we could have used
		
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			ourselves.
		
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			So, مُغْرَمُونَ The money that we lost, the
		
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			energy that we lost, we lost it, and
		
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			on top of that, we are also being
		
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			deprived of using this crop because it was
		
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			useless.
		
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			After that, Allah SWT then says, أَفَرَأَيْتُمُن مَا
		
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			الَّذِي تَشْرَبُونَ Do you see the water that
		
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			you drink?
		
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			The blessing of water.
		
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			Something about which people are saying that in
		
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			a few years, just like people are fighting
		
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			over oil, the next treasure that people are
		
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			going to fight over is water.
		
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			About which the Prophet SAW, he said, to
		
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			a person who is making wudu at the
		
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			edge of a river, you should not waste
		
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			the water.
		
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			You should not use more than is necessary.
		
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			So, the person, individual who is thinking that,
		
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			you know, what difference does it make if
		
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			I use a little bit more?
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Just one person, of course, it doesn't make
		
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			much difference.
		
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			But if every single person thinks the same
		
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			thing, what difference does it make if I
		
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			use a little bit more?
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Then, collectively, it's a lot of people thinking
		
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			the same thing, a lot of people wasting
		
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			resources and wasting energy, wasting water, resulting in
		
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			this lack of water and being deprived of
		
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			it.
		
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			So, wastefulness is something that we need to
		
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			avoid.
		
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			So, Allah SWT reminds us about that.
		
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			أَفَرَأَيْتُمُ الْمَاءَ الَّذِي تَشْرَبُونَ Do you see the
		
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			water that you are drinking?
		
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			أَأَنتُمْ أَنزَلْتُمُهُمْ مِنَ الْمُزْنِ أَمْ نَحْنُ الْمُنْزِلُونَ Are
		
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			you the ones who make it descend from
		
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			the sky?
		
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			Or are we the ones who do that?
		
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			Allah is the one who sends down the
		
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			rain.
		
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			Nobody can do anything.
		
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			Their hands are tied.
		
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			So many countries go through droughts for year
		
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			upon year upon year and nobody can do
		
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			anything about the droughts.
		
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			Only it is from Allah SWT.
		
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			So, أَأَنتُمْ أَنزَلْتُمُهُمْ مِنَ الْمُزْنِ أَمْ نَحْنُ الْمُنْزِلُونَ
		
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			لَوْنَ شَاءُ جِعَلْنَاهُ أُجَاجًا فَلَوْ لَا تَشْكُرُونَ If
		
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			we wanted, we could have turned this water
		
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			into salt water.
		
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			So, why is it you are not grateful?
		
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			So, if Allah had turned that water that
		
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			comes down in the rain into salt water,
		
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			then it would not be able to be
		
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			utilized.
		
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			Why you cannot drink the ocean water?
		
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			You cannot drink it because it is full
		
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			of salt.
		
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			And if you do try to drink it
		
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			and you overdo the drinking, what happens is
		
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			you actually go crazy.
		
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			You cannot drink that water.
		
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			And if you go to the Middle East
		
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			now actually, they have what's called desalination plants.
		
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			So, the majority of water that you get
		
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			in the Middle East plumbing system, the city
		
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			provides that water, it is actually desalinized water.
		
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			That water which is taken from the ocean,
		
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			put through these plants that remove the salt
		
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			and then make the water usable to a
		
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			certain degree.
		
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			But that water is still not drinkable.
		
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			Even after having all this salt removed, you
		
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			cannot drink that water.
		
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			It is actually bad for you.
		
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			It will make you sick.
		
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			And if you ever get the chance to
		
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			go to Saudi Arabia, wash a cup and
		
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			basically what people tend to do, you wash
		
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			the cup and as it is still wet,
		
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			you put it on the countertop to let
		
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			it dry.
		
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			When you remove that after it's dried, you
		
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			will see actually a circle of salt where
		
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			you left that cup to dry.
		
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			So, there is still salt content inside it.
		
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			You cannot remove it completely.
		
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			So, they've done it to a degree that
		
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			it's usable but still not drinkable.
		
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			So, the fact that Allah SWT gives us
		
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			water from the sky, which is drinkable, which
		
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			doesn't have salt in it, it is a
		
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			great blessing of Allah SWT.
		
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			There is a dua related about the Prophet
		
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			SAW.
		
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			He used to drink the water and he
		
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			used to say, الحمد لله الذي سقان عذباً
		
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			فراطاً برحمته It is all praise due to
		
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			Allah SWT who made us drink this beautiful
		
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			sweet water with His رحمة ولم يجعله ملحاً
		
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			أجاجاً بذنوبنا and He didn't make it into
		
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			salt water because of our sins.
		
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			So, the fact that Allah has given us
		
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			this water to drink and He did not
		
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			turn it into salt, this is a great
		
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			blessing.
		
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			لَوْ نَشَاءُ جَعَلْنَاهُ أُجَاجًا فَلَوْ لَا تَشْكُرُونَ If
		
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			we wanted, we could turn it into salt.
		
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			Why is it that you're not grateful?
		
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			And then he asked another question.
		
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			Something that we all take for granted.
		
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			أَفَرَأَيْتُمُ النَّارَ الَّتِي تُرُونَ Do you see the
		
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			fire that you light?
		
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			The fire that you light.
		
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			The fact that you are using fire for
		
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			cooking purposes.
		
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			For heating purposes.
		
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			And nowadays for energy.
		
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			You are using that, so Allah says أَأَنْتُمْ
		
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			أَنْشَأْتُمْ شَجَرَتَهَا أَمْ نَحْنُ الْمُنْشِئُونَ Did you make
		
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			its tree grow or were we the ones
		
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			who made it grow?
		
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			So, this goes back to the days when
		
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			people, what they used to do, they used
		
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			to take branches, they used to rub them
		
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			against each other.
		
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			Anybody who's been in Boy Scouts will know
		
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			how to light a fire by rubbing sticks
		
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			together.
		
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			You make a hole in a small stick,
		
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			you take another stick, you put it inside,
		
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			you rub it until it starts smoking and
		
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			then you put it inside some tinder, blow,
		
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			and it makes a fire.
		
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			So, the Arabs, they used to have two
		
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			specific types of tree.
		
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			They had a special name.
		
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			There was one called Marakh and the other
		
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			was called Ufar.
		
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			Marakh and Ufar.
		
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			And I'm sure people who are familiar with
		
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			this lighting of fires with trees, they know
		
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			that from specific branches you can do it,
		
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			not all branches.
		
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			For example, pine trees, they're very, very moist.
		
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			And if you try to light it, it's
		
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			not going to work.
		
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			So, it has to be dry branches, dry
		
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			trees, and only from those branches you will
		
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			be allowed to make the fire.
		
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			So, Allah SWT says, Who made the tree
		
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			through which you guys make fire?
		
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			Only Allah SWT did that.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So, أَأَنْتُمْ إِنْشَأْتُمْ شَجَرَتَهَا أَمْ نَحْمُ الْمُنْشِئُونَ نَحْنُ
		
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			جَعَلْنَاهَا تَذْكِرَةً وَمَتَاعَ لِلْمُقْوِينَ We made it as
		
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			a reminder.
		
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			We made this fire as a reminder.
		
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			وَمَتَاعَ, a benefit لِلْمُقْوِينَ for the travelers.
		
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			مُقْوِي refers to a person who travels, and
		
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			there are different interpretations.
		
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			One, it means that a person who is
		
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			either a person who travels far off distances
		
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			and particularly in barren lands.
		
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			That is what المُقْوِي refers to.
		
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			So, it becomes a benefit for المُقْوِين.
		
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			So, how does it benefit?
		
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			It benefits by, number one, providing heat.
		
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			Number two, it provides comfort.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And number three, it scares off wild animals.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			The fire, it scares off wild animals.
		
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			So, a person, he can be relaxed next
		
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			to this fire.
		
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			So, it is a benefit for the traveler.
		
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			That Allah SWT has enabled us to do
		
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			that.
		
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			So, then Allah tells us, فَسَبِّحْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ
		
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			الْعَظِيمِ After hearing all of these things that
		
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			have been mentioned to you, the creation of
		
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			a baby, the crops that you eat, the
		
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			fruit that you eat, the plants that you
		
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			eat, the water that you drink, the fire
		
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			that you light, all of these things you
		
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			are taking for granted, and you see them
		
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			happening in front of your eyes, then how
		
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			is it that you still disbelieve in Allah
		
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			SWT?
		
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			After hearing all of this, you should do
		
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			nothing but praise Allah SWT.
		
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			فَسَبِّحْ تَسْبِيحْ Glorify, purify Allah SWT from all
		
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			false, who is your great and exalted Lord.
		
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			Praise Him, glorify Him, meaning, have faith in
		
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			Him, believe that He exists, believe that He
		
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			has the power to do all of these
		
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			things, and believe that He will resurrect you
		
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			in the hereafter, after your deaths, and this
		
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			is the purpose of all of these verses
		
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			that have been mentioned, to make us understand
		
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			the greatness of Allah SWT, by pondering into
		
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			His creation.
		
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			With that, inshallah, we finish, and we will
		
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			continue with the lesson next week.
		
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			I pray that Allah SWT gives us tawfiq
		
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			to understand and practice what has been said
		
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			and heard.