Zia Sheikh – Tafseer Of Surah Hadeed Session 3 Ayah 16 onwards

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The speakers discuss the history and importance of Islam, including the Hayid of Islam and the difficulty of hardening hearts. They also touch on the concept of "hasha" and its use in the Day of Judgment, as well as the use of "naive" to describe a person as a partner in a relationship. The segment also touches on the benefits of living in a "flowless life" and the importance of pleasing oneself with one's life.

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			This is the third session of Surah Al
		
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			-Hadeed, and today inshallah we're going to be
		
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			starting from ayah number 16.
		
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			If you remember last time, we finished off
		
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			by talking about the different situations of the
		
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			people in the hereafter.
		
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			On the Day of Judgement, the people of
		
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			Iman, they will have their Noor and their
		
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			light which will guide them all the way
		
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			into Paradise.
		
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			The Munafiqeen, they're not going to have any
		
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			light, and they will try to steal the
		
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			light of the believers or use the light
		
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			of the believers to creep into Paradise, but
		
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			Allah SWT is going to prevent them from
		
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			doing that.
		
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			So today's lesson, Allah SWT, he starts off
		
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			by telling the people of Iman that they
		
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			should not be like those Munafiqeen, that they
		
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			were completely oblivious of their responsibility and they
		
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			neglected the commands of Allah SWT, and because
		
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			of that, they were deprived of the light
		
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			on the Day of Judgement.
		
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			So, he tells us the way to do
		
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			that.
		
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			أَلَمْ يَأْنِنِ الَّذِينَ أَمَنُوا أَن تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ
		
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			اللَّهِ Hasn't the time come for the people
		
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			of Iman that their hearts should submit themselves
		
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			or become humble towards the Zikr and the
		
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			remembrance of Allah SWT?
		
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			So this ayah, according to the Mufassireen, it
		
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			was revealed when the Muslims, they migrated to
		
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			Medina, and after the migration to Medina what
		
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			happened was that people, they started having a
		
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			bit of a comfortable life.
		
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			So, in Mecca, difficulties, hardships, perseverance, persecution, there
		
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			were so many difficulties and trials and tribulations
		
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			that the Muslims had to go through.
		
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			Now in Medina, there's none of that.
		
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			There is a relaxed lifestyle, there is no
		
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			difficulty, and because they are a little bit
		
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			more relaxed, their attention gets diverted from Allah
		
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			SWT a little bit.
		
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			So Allah SWT, He reminds them and tells
		
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			them that this is not how it's supposed
		
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			to be.
		
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			And this is actually the human nature.
		
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			What happens is, when the humans are going
		
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			through difficulty and they face adversity, trials, tribulations,
		
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			they will turn to Allah SWT.
		
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			They will make dua to Him.
		
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			They will ask Him for assistance.
		
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			They will lengthen their Nawafil prayers.
		
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			They will get up in the middle of
		
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			the night and pray Qiyamul Layl.
		
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			But then when ease comes, then the opposite
		
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			happens.
		
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			They may be fulfilling their obligations, but then
		
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			all of these extra things that people do,
		
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			making dua to Allah, praying extra Nawafil, that
		
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			kind of gets neglected.
		
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			So Allah SWT, He reminds the believers that
		
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			yes, some ease has opened up for you,
		
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			but this doesn't mean that you should forget
		
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			Allah SWT and you should not humble yourself,
		
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			continue to humble yourself towards Allah SWT, like
		
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			the time when you used to have difficulty
		
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			in Makkah.
		
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			The Sahaba say that this ayah was revealed
		
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			approximately 4 years after our migration to Medina.
		
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			So 4 years, basically, if you can imagine,
		
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			4 years of ease and no real hardship.
		
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			So because of that Allah SWT reminded them
		
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			of this issue.
		
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			So Allah says, I'll go through the translation
		
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			again.
		
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			Hasn't the time come for the people of
		
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			Iman that their hearts should be humbled towards
		
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			the remembrance of Allah SWT and towards what
		
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			was revealed from the truth?
		
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			Meaning the dhikr of Allah SWT and the
		
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			recitation of the Quran.
		
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			These are the two things that people should
		
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			use to gain that khushu in their hearts.
		
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			This is the thing through which a person
		
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			will get khushu in his or her heart.
		
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			وَلَا يَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلٍ Allah
		
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			SWT throughout the Quran, He tells us that
		
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			look, take a lesson from the Ahlul Kitab
		
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			that came before you.
		
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			The people of the book that came before
		
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			you, they made so many mistakes.
		
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			And one of them was that because there
		
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			was a big length that took place between
		
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			themselves and their Anbiya A.S. And nobody
		
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			came to remind them, their hearts became hardened.
		
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			Their hearts, they became hard.
		
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			What does the heart becoming hard mean?
		
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			It means that somebody reminds you about Allah
		
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			SWT and you pay no attention.
		
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			Somebody talks to you about Jannah and your
		
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			heart is not moved.
		
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			Somebody talks to you about Jahannam and you
		
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			are not afraid.
		
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			Somebody talks to you about death and nothing
		
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			happens to you.
		
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			So this is the hardening of the heart.
		
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			And this is something that we should all
		
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			ask Allah SWT to give us refuge from
		
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			that kind of attitude.
		
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			Because when that happens, then basically the khair,
		
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			no khair enters the heart.
		
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			And nothing affects a person, nothing moves a
		
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			person.
		
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			And a person is not motivated to do
		
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			any good anymore.
		
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			So Allah SWT is warning the believers that
		
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			people should not become like the Ahlul Kitab
		
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			before them.
		
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			That what happened to them, the time became
		
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			long for them.
		
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			Meaning the time between Anbiya A.S. it
		
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			became long for them.
		
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			And their hearts became hard.
		
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			And many of them, they became Fasiqoon.
		
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			People who disobeyed Allah SWT because of their
		
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			hard heartedness.
		
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			So the next ayah, it tells us the
		
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			solution to hard heartedness.
		
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			And also it reminds us of something that
		
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			may soften our hearts.
		
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			And that is the reminder of death.
		
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			So Allah says in the next ayah, اعلموا
		
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			ان الله يحيي الارض بعد موتها Be aware
		
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			that Allah SWT makes the earth alive after
		
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			its death.
		
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			So we see the most seemingly infertile land.
		
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			That through the complete season of dry weather,
		
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			it is completely dry and it doesn't seem
		
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			like any kind of crop or any kind
		
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			of plant is going to grow on it.
		
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			But suddenly the rainy season starts, rain starts
		
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			falling, and that same dry land, that same
		
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			seemingly infertile land, it becomes lush and green
		
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			and things start growing on it.
		
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			So Allah is saying that indeed He is
		
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			the one who makes that dry land become
		
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			lush.
		
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			So similarly, your hard hearts, the hearts that
		
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			have become hardened through the ages because of
		
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			neglect and because of lack of concentration, because
		
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			of lack of devotion, because of lack of
		
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			remembrance of death, there is a way to
		
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			soften them and make them open up to
		
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			the commands of Allah SWT again and to
		
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			have them become lush and green again and
		
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			to have them soft again.
		
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			And what is that?
		
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			It is the remembrance of Allah SWT and
		
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			the recitation of the Quran.
		
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			If a person does these two things, of
		
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			course not just recitation, but recitation with the
		
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			understanding of what Allah SWT is saying, so
		
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			the heart will become soft again.
		
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			Just like Allah SWT makes that seemingly infertile
		
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			land soft and lush, He can make your
		
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			hearts lush and green and productive again.
		
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			So nobody should lose hope.
		
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			We should turn towards Allah SWT at the
		
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			earliest opportunity and focus on making our hearts
		
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			soft again.
		
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			قَدْ بَيَّنَّا لَكُمْ الْآيَاتِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ Indeed we
		
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			have explained for you the signs so that
		
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			you understand.
		
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			And the sign is this, comparisons Allah SWT
		
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			gives again and again throughout the Quran to
		
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			make us understand.
		
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			إِنَّ الْمُصَدِّقِينَ وَالْمُصَدِّقَاتِ وَأَقْرَضُوا اللَّهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًا
		
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			يُضَاعَفُ لَهُمْ وَلَهُمْ أَجْرٌ كَرِيمٌ Another way to
		
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			get our hearts softened and to prepare ourselves
		
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			for the hereafter is to give in charity.
		
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			The Prophet SAW was approached by a person
		
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			who said, Ya Rasool Allah, I don't wish
		
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			to die, I don't want to die.
		
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			Prophet SAW said that a person, he is
		
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			in love with his wealth.
		
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			And wherever his wealth is, he will want
		
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			to go to that place.
		
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			So send your wealth forward, send it and
		
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			spend it in charity, give it in charity.
		
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			You will be inclined towards and interested in
		
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			and invigorated in heading towards the hereafter.
		
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			So this is what this ayah also tells
		
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			us.
		
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			Indeed those people that give in charity, whether
		
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			male or female, مُصَدِّقِينَ وَالْمُصَدِّقَاتِ So what happens
		
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			is the sisters, they expect their husbands to
		
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			give in charity.
		
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			Allah SWT says no.
		
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			The sisters also, the ladies also need to
		
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			make sure that they are giving from their
		
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			portion too.
		
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			They should be inclined towards giving something in
		
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			charity too.
		
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			So that they get a feel of what
		
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			it feels like to give from their own
		
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			wealth.
		
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			And not just rely upon the husband.
		
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			And in fact the obligatory zakat, if a
		
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			woman has jewelry, she is actually responsible for
		
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			her zakat.
		
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			Not her husband.
		
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			But if the husband gives the zakat, you
		
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			know, out of goodwill, so that's his choice.
		
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			But he doesn't need to, he doesn't have
		
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			to.
		
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			But here Allah SWT is telling us both
		
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			the men that give sadaqa and the women
		
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			that give sadaqa.
		
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			And those that give Allah SWT a good
		
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			loan.
		
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			وَأَقْرَضُ اللَّهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًا We talked about qard
		
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			hasan last week.
		
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			The definition of qard hasan really in the
		
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			Quran is something that you give in charity.
		
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			And that's it.
		
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			And you forget about it.
		
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			That's what real qard hasan is.
		
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			And Allah SWT refers to it as qard
		
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			hasan.
		
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			Because Allah will pay you back.
		
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			When you give somebody a qard, it is
		
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			with the intention that you get that loan
		
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			back.
		
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			So that's why Allah says that it's a
		
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			qard, it's a loan.
		
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			Meaning Allah has promised that he'll pay you
		
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			back.
		
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			So in this day and age we use
		
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			the term qard hasan to mean an interest
		
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			free loan.
		
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			But really the terminology of the Quran, it
		
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			says that qard hasan is something that you
		
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			give in charity and you forget about it.
		
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			So those that give qard hasan, Allah says,
		
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			يُضَاعَفُ لَهُمْ وَلَهُمْ أَجْرٌ كَرِيمٌ This qard is
		
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			multiplied for them many times over.
		
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			It's an investment that continues to mushroom and
		
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			grow.
		
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			And Allah will give them on top of
		
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			that, أَجْرٌ كَرِيمٌ A very generous reward.
		
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			So the reward of the charity, it will
		
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			multiply.
		
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			But in addition to that, Allah will give
		
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			them a generous reward which is Jannah and
		
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			Paradise.
		
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			So the Jannah that we get, the reward
		
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			that we get, it's going to be eternal,
		
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			right?
		
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			It's going to be everlasting.
		
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			So that is a price that whatever you
		
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			give for eternal bliss and eternal happiness, you
		
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			cannot pay for it.
		
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			It's not available to buy.
		
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			You cannot have enough money, enough wealth to
		
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			pay for eternal happiness and eternal bliss and
		
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			eternal paradise.
		
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			It's just not buyable, it's priceless.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala promising that
		
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			to you and to me, for the effort
		
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			that we make by giving a little bit
		
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			in charity, a small percentage in charity, a
		
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			few a'mal that we do, praying five times
		
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			daily, trying to just stay away from the
		
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			sins that we commit.
		
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			Really, it's a very good bargain that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving us.
		
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			Even though, according to Hadith, the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam said, Be aware that the
		
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			merchandise of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
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			expensive.
		
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			It's not cheap.
		
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			What is the merchandise of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala?
		
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			It is that Jannah that He has promised
		
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			us.
		
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			So of course it's not cheap.
		
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			Like I've just mentioned, it's not buyable.
		
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			Eternal bliss is not something that you can
		
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			purchase.
		
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			It's not something that you can buy.
		
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			Anything that you buy in this world, to
		
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			get yourself some temporary happiness, if you have
		
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			the money, you can buy it.
		
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			But eternal bliss is something that is not
		
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			buyable.
		
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			The fact is that it is with the
		
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			generosity of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that
		
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			we will get it.
		
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			So this is what is meant by, وَلَهُمْ
		
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			أَجْرٌ كَرِيمٌ Yes, their deeds, their a'mal, their
		
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			charity is going to be multiplied, but on
		
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			top of that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			will give them a generous reward.
		
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			وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرُسُلِهِ أُولَٰئِكَهُمُ السِّدِّيقُونَ Those
		
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			people that have iman in Allah and His
		
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			Prophets, they are truly the Siddiqeen.
		
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			Siddiqeen, you've probably heard of Abu Bakr Siddiq,
		
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			right?
		
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			The word Siddiq, the literal translation means, one
		
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			who is extremely truthful.
		
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			But another meaning is, and this is more
		
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			appropriate to the definition of Abu Bakr Siddiq,
		
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			is the person who, by his actions, proves
		
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			what he claims.
		
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			By his actions, he proves what he claims,
		
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			this is what the definition of Siddiq is.
		
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			And that is, okay, he says that I
		
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			am generous, so he gives in charity to
		
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			prove that he is generous.
		
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			I believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			so he does a'mal that indicates that he
		
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			believes in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			He is afraid of the wrath of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, so he stays away
		
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			from those sins, practically, to show that he
		
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			is afraid of the wrath of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala and the anger of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So the word Siddiq basically means, a person
		
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			who puts into practice whatever he claims.
		
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			Okay, so this is what the definition of
		
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			Siddiq is.
		
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			So Allah says, those people that have iman
		
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			in Allah and His Prophets, they are the
		
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			extremely truthful ones, or those that put into
		
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			practice what they claim.
		
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			وَالشُّهَدَاءُ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ وَالشُّهَدَاءُ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ And they
		
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			are also shuhadaa.
		
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			They are regarded as shuhadaa and martyrs according
		
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			to their Lord.
		
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			There is another verse in the Quran, وَمَنْ
		
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			يُطْعِ اللَّهُ وَالرَّسُولُ فَأُولَٰئِكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ
		
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			عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالسِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاءِ وَالصَّالِحِينَ
		
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			Whoever obeys Allah and His Prophet, then those
		
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			people are going to be resurrected with the
		
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			anbiya, with the saliheen, with the shuhadaa, with
		
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			the pious people.
		
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			So, what is the criteria?
		
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			Ita'a of Allah and ita'a of
		
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			the Prophet, it will land you in the
		
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			status of the most highest of people, those
		
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			people that God matters, those people that are
		
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			known as siddiqeen, like Abu Bakr Siddiq, the
		
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			saliheen.
		
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			وَحَسُنَ أُولَٰئِكَ رَفِيقًا What good companionship this is,
		
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			that a person, wouldn't he want to be
		
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			with such people on the Day of Judgment?
		
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			Of course, we would want to be with
		
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			those people, right?
		
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			So, Allah is telling us here again, that
		
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			those people that give in charity, those people
		
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			that have iman in Allah and His Prophets,
		
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			those people that are generous, they are going
		
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			to be with the siddiqeen and the shuhadaa,
		
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			the martyrs.
		
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			هَيْنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ وَلَهُمْ أَجْرُهُمْ مَنُورُهُمْ They're going to
		
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			get their reward, and they're going to get
		
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			their noor.
		
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			And again, their noor refers to that noor
		
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			that they're going to get on the Day
		
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			of Judgment, through which they're going to guide
		
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			themselves into Paradise, that was mentioned earlier in
		
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			the surah.
		
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			وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَكَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْجَحِيمِ
		
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			Those people that disbelieved and rejected our signs,
		
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			they are the companions of the Hellfire.
		
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			So, the word ashab is used.
		
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			Ashab, sahib, musahaba.
		
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			Musahaba means companionship, right?
		
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			So you have a companion in your wife.
		
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			You have a companion in your brothers, your
		
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			sisters.
		
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			The companionship, the relationship is there.
		
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			That companionship is going to be everlasting.
		
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			So Allah SWT uses the word ashab to
		
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			denote the everlasting punishment that the disbelievers are
		
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			going to get in the Hellfire.
		
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			They are the partners of the Hellfire.
		
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			They are the companions of the Hellfire.
		
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			أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْجَحِيمِ This ashab is used.
		
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			اِعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا لَعِبٌ وَلَهٌ وَزِينَةٌ وَتَفَاخُرٌ
		
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			بَيْنَكُمْ وَتَكَاتُرٌ فِي الْأَمْوَالِ وَالْأَوْلَادِ This is a
		
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			beautiful ayah that basically denotes the limited time
		
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			that we have in this world.
		
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			And it's just summed up, and I've mentioned
		
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			this in khatiras from time to time, that
		
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			you can sum up the sentence in one
		
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			sentence, a person's whole life.
		
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			Allah says, be aware that the worldly life
		
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			is لعب and لهو.
		
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			This is the first stage of a person's
		
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			life, childhood, when he's just playing around.
		
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			All a person wants to do is play.
		
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			You tell the kid to do homework, he
		
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			wants to play.
		
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			You tell him to go to school, he'd
		
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			rather stay home and play.
		
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			So the main thing that is always in
		
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			a child's mind is لعب and لهو.
		
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			And the scholars have basically said that this
		
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			interpretation that is given is a very appropriate
		
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			one, that when a child starts to play,
		
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			he doesn't look at anything.
		
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			He doesn't look at how tired he is,
		
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			how thirsty he is, how dehydrated he is.
		
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			If he's with his friends, or she's with
		
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			her friends, and she wants to play, they
		
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			will play and play and play and play
		
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			until they collapse.
		
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			This is the reality of the playing of
		
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			a child.
		
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			And you see it sometimes on a hot
		
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			summer's day when they're playing outside, they don't
		
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			care about thirst, they don't care about hunger,
		
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			they don't care that they haven't had their
		
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			breakfast, or that the mother is calling them
		
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			in for lunch, or calling them in for
		
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			dinner.
		
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			No, they still want to focus on their
		
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			play.
		
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			And at the end of the day, when
		
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			they've played so much, then their legs are
		
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			hurting, and their whole body is hurting, and
		
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			they're dehydrated, and their head's hurting, then they
		
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			realize that, wow, the parents tell them, I
		
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			told you you shouldn't have been playing outside
		
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			in that hot sun all day, now look
		
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			at you, you're so tired.
		
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			The next day, if it's a school day,
		
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			they complain, oh, I'm too tired, my whole
		
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			body is hurting.
		
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			So the reality is that when we get
		
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			so absorbed with the worldly life, we just
		
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			tire ourselves behind it.
		
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			We just exhaust ourselves behind getting these worldly
		
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			goods, and gathering them, and accumulating them.
		
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			And we don't realize that what we're doing
		
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			to ourselves.
		
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			So this is what happens to us as
		
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			we get older, and we just focus on
		
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			attaining this worldly life, blood pressure, diabetes, obesity,
		
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			and all kinds of illnesses creep up on
		
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			us, heart problems, and we don't even realize.
		
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			But we're just focusing ourselves on the worldly
		
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			life.
		
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			So, laibun wa lahw.
		
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			The first stage of a person's life is
		
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			laib and lahw, and this is what the
		
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			kids do, this is the stage of the
		
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			child.
		
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			And then after that, the next stage is
		
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			zina, beautification.
		
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			This is when the adolescence starts, the teen
		
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			life starts, that the boy, he starts to
		
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			basically want to wear the nicest clothes, designer
		
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			clothes, the clothes that his friends are all
		
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			wearing, and the clothes that are in nowadays,
		
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			even though those same clothes, when they go
		
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			out of fashion, you can get them for
		
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			maybe a quarter of the price that they're
		
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			available today, but because they're in fashion, you
		
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			know, you want them now.
		
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			So, this zina is that thing, and the
		
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			girls, they start becoming interested in make-up
		
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			and dabbling in nicer clothes, so this is
		
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			the stage of zina and beautification that people
		
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			start indulging in, and this is the next
		
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			stage of life.
		
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			The next stage of life after that is
		
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			tafakhurum baynakum.
		
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			This is mutual pride amongst each other, and
		
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			this is the stage when people start earning
		
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			some money, then they will start, basically, they
		
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			want to get the nicest cars, they want
		
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			to get the nicest house, they want to
		
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			get the biggest house, they want to have
		
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			the most beautiful wife, they want to have
		
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			the most beautiful children, they want to have
		
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			the most money.
		
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			So, tafakhurum baynakum, this mutual pride between the
		
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			people, this is the next stage of a
		
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			person's life.
		
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			And then after that, takathurum fil-amwali wal
		
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			-awlaat.
		
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			The next stage is the stage when a
		
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			person, he is now approaching retirement, maybe he
		
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			is in his forties, and approaching the fifties,
		
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			now he thinks, I need to have wealth,
		
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			and I need to have children, so that
		
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			I can support myself in my old age,
		
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			so that I can have a nest egg,
		
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			and I can have children that can look
		
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			after me when I'm old.
		
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			So, this is the next stage.
		
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			And then, funnily enough, Allah SWT doesn't mention
		
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			anything after that.
		
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			It's as if, after this stage, there's no
		
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			life.
		
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			Everything is downhill after that.
		
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			Alright?
		
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			Everything is just, you know, illnesses, and blood
		
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			pressure, diabetes, heart problems, it's basically a life
		
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			where a person is just heading towards his
		
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			grave at that time.
		
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			And then Allah compares it with crops.
		
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			He says, look, when you see these crops,
		
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			they are growing in front of you.
		
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			And there's a stage where you are looking
		
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			at this crop, you are looking at this
		
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			plant, it is growing in front of you,
		
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			and you are proud of the fact that
		
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			you've raised it, and it's grown in front
		
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			of you, and all of a sudden, after
		
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			you've harvested it, or if you don't harvest
		
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			it, it's just going to become completely wasted,
		
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			it's going to dry up and wither and
		
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			die, right in front of your eyes.
		
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			This is a person's life.
		
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			There's another comparison that Allah SWT gives in
		
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			the next portion of the verse.
		
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			Allah says, كَمَثَ لِغَيْثٍ أَعَاجَبَ الْكُفَّارَ نَبَاتًۭا Just
		
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			like the rain when it falls, it makes
		
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			the farmers happy that my crops are growing.
		
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			ثُمَّ يَهِيجُ Then those crops, they basically start
		
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			billowing in the winds.
		
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			يَهِيج, you see them, they basically blow in
		
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			the wind, and if you've ever stood in
		
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			front of a huge field which has corn
		
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			or wheat, you know what happens is, when
		
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			the wind blows in one direction, you see
		
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			all the wheat blowing in one direction.
		
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			And then it blows in the other direction,
		
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			so it changes and it faces the other
		
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			direction.
		
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			So, it looks very majestic and beautiful to
		
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			look at, when you look at it.
		
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			So, ثُمَّ يَهِيجُ It becomes majestic, and it
		
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			blows in the wind.
		
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			فَتَرَاهُ مُصْفَرًا And you see it very golden,
		
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			you see it golden, ready to be harvested,
		
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			ready to be picked.
		
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			This is basically the golden stage of a
		
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			person's life, that he is at his peak,
		
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			at his strength, at his most beautiful.
		
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			You know, if you're older, and you look
		
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			at older pictures of yourself, you think to
		
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			yourself, oh man, I used to be quite
		
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			good looking.
		
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			Alright?
		
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			And when you get older, alright, now you've
		
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			put on a little bit of weight, now
		
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			you've got a bit of grey hair, and
		
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			you look back and you think, you know,
		
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			that was my peak, that was my prime,
		
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			that was when I was the best looking,
		
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			just around the time I got married, after
		
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			I got married, basically, I got stressed out,
		
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			and after that, I started to become old.
		
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			So, the prime is what is mentioned here,
		
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			فَتَرَاهُ مُصْفَرًا So, you see this crop, it
		
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			becomes golden, and you see it, it looks
		
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			very majestic.
		
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			ثُمَّ يَكُونَ حُطَامًا And all of a sudden,
		
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			before you know it, it just becomes dried
		
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			up, dried up, fluff blowing in the wind.
		
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			حطام means something that the wind is basically
		
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			blowing from left to right.
		
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			Meaning after it's been harvested, or after it
		
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			becomes dried and withered, it's just basically scraps
		
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			of grass and hay, which is just blowing
		
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			around in the wind.
		
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			So, this is, these are two examples that
		
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			have been given about the shortness of this
		
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			worldly life.
		
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			So then after that, Allah says, look, there's
		
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			only going to be two things that are
		
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			going to happen to you in the hereafter.
		
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			One of two things.
		
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			And this is the thing that you need
		
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			to keep in mind.
		
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			وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ شَدِيدٌ وَمَغْفِرَةٌ مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَرِضْوَانٍ
		
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			In the hereafter, either you're going to get
		
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			a very severe punishment, or a maghfirah, a
		
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			forgiveness from Allah SWT and a pleasure of
		
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			Allah SWT.
		
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			Which one do you want?
		
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			What is it that you want to strive
		
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			for?
		
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			وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا مَتَعُ الْغُرُورِ The worldly
		
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			life is only the goods of deception.
		
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			It's just deceiving you.
		
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			What we think is that we're going to
		
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			accumulate, we're going to gather, and everything that
		
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			we gather is going to make us happy.
		
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			The reality is, whatever we accumulate, if we
		
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			don't use it in this world, it's going
		
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			to go to our inheritors.
		
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			We're not even going to use it.
		
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			So, this is just a deception that we
		
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			have.
		
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			The real happiness is in pleasing Allah SWT
		
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			and making sure that we are obeying Allah
		
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			SWT and putting His commands into our lives.
		
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			And that is the thing that will benefit
		
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			us.
		
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			There's a saying of a Sahabi about the
		
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			issue of the worldly life.
		
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			That Saeed ibn Jubayr, he says, الدُّنْيَا مَتَعُ
		
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			الْغُرُورِ إِنْ أَلْهَدْكَ عَنْ طَلَبِ الْآخِرَةِ فَأَمَّا إِذَا
		
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			دَعَتْكَ إِلَى طَلَبِ رِضْوَانِ اللَّهِ وَطَلِبِ الْآخِرَةِ فَنِعْمَ
		
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			الْمَتَعُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَسِيلَةِ Saeed ibn Jubayr, he says,
		
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			that the worldly life, it is the goods
		
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			of deception if it keeps you from striving
		
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			for the hereafter.
		
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			The worldly things, if they keep you from
		
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			striving for the hereafter, then they are deceiving
		
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			you.
		
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			But, if they call you towards seeking the
		
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			pleasure of Allah SWT and the seeking of
		
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			the hereafter, then those goods are the best
		
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			goods and the best thing that you could
		
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			wish for.
		
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			That Allah gave you worldly life, He gave
		
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			you wealth, He gave you money, and at
		
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			the same time, you did not forget your
		
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			responsibilities towards Allah SWT.
		
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			You use that in a good way to
		
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			earn your hereafter, then this worldly thing is
		
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			also good for you.
		
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			So, don't think that having money is something
		
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			bad.
		
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			If you use it in the right way,
		
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			then that is also a good thing.
		
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			There is nothing to be worried about.
		
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			I'm just going to finish off with a
		
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			beautiful couplet, which is talking about the rich
		
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			people and their method of arrogance when compared
		
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			to the poor people.
		
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			The poet, he says, أَرَى أَهْلَ الْقُصُورِ إِذَا
		
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			أُمِيتُ I see the dwellers of the castles
		
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			when they are put to death, when they
		
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			die, what happens to them?
		
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			بَنَوْ فَوْقَ الْمَقَابِرِ بِالسُّخُورِ Above their graves, they
		
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			make huge rocks, many huge gravestones and memorials
		
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			and things of that nature to show that
		
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			the person who died here was a very
		
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			rich person.
		
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			The poet goes on to say, أَبَوْ إِلَّا
		
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			مُبَاهَاتًا وَفَخْرًا عَلَى الْفُقْرَاءِ حَتَّى فِي الْقُبُورِ They
		
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			only wanted to indulge in مُبَاهَات مُبَاهَات means
		
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			arrogance and فَخْر also means pride.
		
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			They always wanted to indulge in arrogance and
		
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			pride over the poor people even when they
		
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			got into the graves that didn't stop them
		
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			from doing that.
		
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			سُبْحَانَ الله So this is what happens that
		
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			when a rich person dies then huge memorial,
		
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			everything while a poor person, you know, a
		
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			small hole, put him inside, there's a memorial
		
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			stone or not, a headstone or not, nobody
		
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			knows.
		
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			After a few weeks, everybody forgets about him.
		
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			So the poet, he says, that the فَخْر
		
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			that people have amongst each other, people don't
		
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			leave it even after they pass away.
		
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			They think that I need to have this
		
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			arrogance and this pride even after I die
		
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			above the poor people who don't have any
		
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			money.
		
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			I should show people that I was rich.
		
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			I should show people that I had money
		
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			so that I'm not counted amongst the poor
		
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			people.
		
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			I pray that Allah SWT gives us tawfiq
		
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			to understand what has been said and heard
		
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			and gives us tawfiq to prepare for our
		
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			real abode which is the abode of the
		
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			hereafter.
		
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			أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله لي ولكم ولسائر
		
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			المسلمين فاستغفروه إنه هو الغفور الرحيم