Zia Sheikh – The shortness of the worldly life compared to the Hereafter Day 17 6222016

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The "will" of the human body is measured by weight and deeds, based on mercy. The Day of Judgment is mentioned in multiple verses, and the weight of deeds is measured by the judge's weight. The " Buon La" meaning "the world," is a way to avoid future mistakes, and is a way to avoid future mistakes. People use words like " Yo," to make fun of themselves, and " Buon La" meaning "the world," to avoid future mistakes.

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			Alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillah.
		
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			One of the underlying themes in the Qur
		
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			'an is a reminder to the human being
		
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			that the life that he is in is
		
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			a very short life indeed.
		
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			And the main focus that a person should
		
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			be striving for is the life of the
		
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			hereafter, which is eternal.
		
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			And there are many instances in the Qur
		
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			'an that kind of remind us about the
		
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			shortness of this life.
		
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			Allah SWT, He says in the beginning of
		
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			Surah Al-Mu'minoon, and this is one of
		
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			those examples which show the shortness of the
		
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			life.
		
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			Allah SWT says, Walaqad khalaqna al-insana min
		
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			sulalatim yumteen Indeed, We created the human being
		
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			from the essence of soil.
		
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			Meaning, when Allah created the very first human,
		
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			he was created from soil.
		
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			Or another meaning is that the human, the
		
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			nutrition that the mother and the father get,
		
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			it is derived from the soil.
		
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			So, even when a person eats any animal,
		
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			the nutrition that that animal gets is from
		
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			the soil, and then we eat that animal.
		
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			Or that a person's nutrition comes from the
		
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			soil directly in the form of fruits and
		
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			vegetables, and then that human being reproduces, has
		
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			children, and that is basically how humanity continues.
		
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			Or like I said, the first human was
		
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			created from soil.
		
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			And then Allah says, Thumma ja'allahu nutfatan
		
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			fee qarari makeen We created, we made him
		
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			a nutfah, meaning a drop in a very
		
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			protected environment.
		
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			This is the environment of the womb.
		
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			Allah created and protected the human being in
		
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			that protected environment.
		
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			Thumma khalaqnan nutfata alaqatan Then we made that
		
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			drop, drop of *.
		
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			It was turned into an alaqa.
		
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			Alaqa means something that hangs.
		
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			Something that hangs.
		
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			And what happens is when the egg is
		
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			fertilized, the egg embeds itself into the wall
		
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			of the uterus.
		
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			It basically hangs on the wall of the
		
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			uterus.
		
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			It embeds itself.
		
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			So this is why it's called alaqa.
		
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			Thumma khalaqnan alaqata mudgatan Then this alaqa, this
		
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			hanging thing becomes mudgha, meaning it becomes like
		
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			a chewed, chewed up piece of flesh.
		
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			Thumma khalaqnan mudgha ta'ibana And then, from
		
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			this chewed up piece of flesh, becomes bones.
		
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			Fakasawna al'ibama lahma And the bones become
		
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			clothed with flesh.
		
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			Thumma insha'nahu khalqan akhar So, after all
		
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			of this procedure of approximately nine months in
		
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			the womb, Allah SWT says that this fetus,
		
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			it becomes a new creation.
		
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			It was a drop of sperm which fertilized
		
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			the egg, and then it went through all
		
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			of these stages, and then it becomes a
		
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			new creation, meaning a walking, talking human being
		
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			is created after nine months.
		
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			Fatabarakallahu ahsanul khalifeen How glorified is Allah, how
		
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			blessed is Allah SWT, who is the best
		
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			of creators.
		
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			The thing is that the birth of a
		
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			baby, it's so commonplace.
		
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			Everybody is having babies, everybody has children, new
		
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			babies being born every single minute.
		
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			But it becomes, because it's so commonplace, it's
		
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			an everyday thing and everybody takes it for
		
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			granted.
		
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			The reality is that it's a miracle that
		
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			happens every day in front of our eyes.
		
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			And maybe just for the immediate parents, they
		
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			feel that wonderful nature of a new life
		
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			that has come into their family.
		
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			It's more special.
		
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			But because we see this all the time,
		
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			we just say congratulations to the parents and
		
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			so on, but that's pretty much what we
		
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			think about it.
		
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			But it is a miracle that happens in
		
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			front of our eyes every day.
		
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			So the creator of this miracle, Allah is
		
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			saying, Fatabarakallahu ahsanul khalifeen How glorious and blessed
		
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			is Allah SWT, who is the best of
		
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			creators.
		
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			So, this creation is mentioned, the baby is
		
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			born, it's mentioned, and then the very next
		
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			ayah, Allah SWT says, Thumma innakum ba'da thalika
		
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			la mayyitoon Indeed, after that, you're going to
		
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			die.
		
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			Okay, what happened?
		
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			The baby is born, he grows up, he's
		
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			going to start walking, he's going to start
		
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			talking, then he's going to be big enough
		
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			to go to kindergarten, and then from kindergarten
		
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			he's going to go to grade school, and
		
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			then middle school, then high school, high school
		
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			graduation, then college, and he's going to start
		
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			a job, he's going to get a family,
		
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			he's going to get a wife, he's going
		
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			to get kids, he's going to have all
		
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			this life.
		
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			But Allah SWT skipped all of that, and
		
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			said in the very next ayah, after the
		
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			baby is born, Thumma innakum ba'da thalika la
		
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			mayyitoon After that, you're going to die.
		
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			So, this basically tells us the shortness of
		
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			the life, and the purpose of our life
		
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			is death itself.
		
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			It's not that we focus on this life
		
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			to such a degree that we forget about
		
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			our hereafter.
		
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			We understand that this life is temporary, it's
		
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			fleeting, it's just like a person waiting at
		
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			a station, waiting for his train to take
		
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			him, and the train is basically the angel
		
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			of death.
		
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			So, the shortness of the life is emphasized,
		
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			but Allah SWT is just skipping the whole
		
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			life itself, and telling us that you're going
		
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			to die one day.
		
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			All of the life is irrelevant if you
		
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			haven't prepared for your death.
		
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			Thumma innakum yawm al-qiyamati tuba'athoon And
		
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			then on the Day of Judgment, you're going
		
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			to be resurrected.
		
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			So, this is one example of how Allah
		
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			SWT shows the shortness of the life.
		
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			If you think about how He described the
		
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			procedure in the womb, how it was created,
		
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			it's longer than the actual description of life
		
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			itself, where there is no description of the
		
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			life.
		
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			Towards the end of the Surah, and I'm
		
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			doing Surah al-Mu'minoon here, Allah SWT describes
		
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			the exchange that will take place between the
		
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			people and between Allah SWT on the Day
		
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			of Judgment, and how they're going to be
		
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			punished, and part of the conversation is also
		
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			the shortness of this life.
		
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			Allah SWT says, fa-itha nufiqa fi suri
		
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			fa-laa ansaba baynahum yawma idhi walaya tasa
		
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			'aloon When the sur is blown, when the
		
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			trumpet is blown, then there will be no
		
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			relationship between people, and neither will they ask
		
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			each other.
		
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			On the Day of Judgment, as other verses
		
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			indicate, the father will run away from the
		
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			son, the son from the father, the husband
		
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			from the wife, the wife from the husband.
		
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			All relatives that used to be close to
		
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			each other, they're going to run away from
		
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			each other, because they don't want to help
		
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			each other, because everyone is going to be
		
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			worried about themselves.
		
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			In another verse, al-akhilla'u yawma idhim
		
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			ba'duhum li ba'din a'du illa'l-muttaqeen The
		
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			close friends, al-akhilla', this is the plural
		
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			of khalil, khalil is one who is a
		
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			very close friend.
		
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			On the Day of Judgment, they're going to
		
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			be enemies of each other, except for the
		
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			people of taqwa.
		
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			So, fa-laa ansaba baynahum, there's not going
		
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			to be any relationship between the people, and
		
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			neither will they ask each other, or will
		
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			they be able to ask each other for
		
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			anything.
		
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			The only thing that will matter is the
		
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			person's own a'mal, fa-man thaqulat mawazinuhu fa
		
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			-ulaika hun muflihun The person whose deeds become
		
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			heavy, then those people are going to be
		
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			successful.
		
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			fa-man khaffat mawazinuhu fa-ulaika allatheena khasiroo
		
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			anfusahum fee jahannama khalidoon Those people whose deeds
		
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			become light, those are the ones that were
		
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			at a loss, they are losing out on
		
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			the Day of Judgment, and they're going to
		
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			be in the hellfire forever and ever.
		
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			So, we see this again and again mentioned
		
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			in the Quran, the weight of the deeds
		
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			that are going to be done.
		
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			The good deeds, bad deeds being weighed, and
		
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			this is something that, especially the Christians criticize
		
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			Islam for, that how come you focus so
		
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			much on deeds, and the fact that your
		
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			deeds are being counted, your deeds are being
		
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			multiplied, and you're getting good deeds.
		
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			Why is it?
		
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			Can you not just rely on the mercy
		
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			of God, or the grace of God, as
		
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			the Christians call it?
		
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			The answer to that is that the Prophet,
		
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			in particular he said, that none of you
		
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			will enter Paradise, except through the mercy of
		
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			Allah SWT.
		
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			The Sahaba said, wala anta ya Rasool Allah,
		
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			not even you, O Prophet of Allah.
		
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			The Prophet SAW said, wala ana illa in
		
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			yata thammadani Allah bi rahmatin min, not even
		
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			me, except if Allah SWT, He covers me
		
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			with His mercy.
		
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			So, even the Prophet SAW relied upon the
		
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			mercy.
		
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			So, why then the mention of deeds all
		
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			the time, and the deeds being weighed?
		
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			Because deeds are part and parcel of the
		
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			human existence.
		
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			Good deeds, and doing good deeds to each
		
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			other, doing good deeds with each other, being
		
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			a good practicing human being, is what makes
		
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			the human existence beautiful in this world, and
		
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			the cognizance that all of these deeds are
		
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			being counted, good and bad are being counted,
		
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			and the person will be held accountable for
		
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			them on the Day of Judgment, makes a
		
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			person aware.
		
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			It makes him cautious that my deeds are
		
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			being recorded, there's an angel on the right
		
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			side, there's an angel on the left side,
		
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			and I will have to see what I
		
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			have done with my own eyes on the
		
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			Day of Judgment.
		
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			It's not something that will be swept under
		
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			the rug.
		
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			So, that's why Allah SWT, He makes us
		
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			recognize that we are going to be held
		
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			accountable for our deeds, good or bad, so
		
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			that's why we need to be careful.
		
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			Other than that, if we were to compare
		
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			our deeds with the mercy of Allah SWT,
		
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			and all that He's given us, then our
		
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			deeds are really irrelevant, in the great scheme
		
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			of things, they are irrelevant in comparison to
		
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			the eyes that He gave us, in comparison
		
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			to the ability to walk, the ability to
		
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			talk, the ability to remember things, the ability
		
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			to digest our food, the ability to taste
		
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			our food, and all of the things that
		
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			Allah SWT blessed us with, these are nothing
		
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			in comparison to the deeds, nothing in comparison
		
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			to these blessings that Allah SWT has given
		
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			us.
		
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			So, after that Allah says, The fire will
		
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			be singeing their faces, and they will be
		
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			kalihoon, this has two meanings, kalih, one of
		
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			the meanings is that when you have an
		
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			animal, whose head has been put into the
		
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			fire, and the fire is scorching the skin
		
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			and the flesh off, and only the bones
		
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			are remaining, this is one of the meanings
		
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			of kalih, and another meaning of kalih is,
		
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			absan shadeed, abas means frowning, a person who
		
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			obviously when he is in pain, he is
		
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			going to be grimacing in pain, he is
		
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			going to be frowning, so this is another
		
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			meaning of kalih, so while they are going
		
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			to be punished, this is going to be
		
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			their state, Alam takun ayati tutla alaykum fakuntum
		
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			biha tukadhiboon, Allah SWT is going to ask
		
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			them the question, that weren't our ayat recited
		
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			upon you, and you continue to reject them,
		
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			so the khatibs and the lecturers, they used
		
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			to come and tell you about the verses
		
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			from the Quran, and you used to hear
		
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			them being recited in taraweeh, and you used
		
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			to have translations of the Quran, and yet
		
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			you continued to reject these verses that were
		
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			recited upon you, they will say, Rabbana ghalabat
		
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			alayna shikwatuna wakunna qawman dhaleen, meaning they will
		
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			make an excuse, that our bad luck overtook
		
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			us, this is just our bad luck, the
		
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			reality is they are not going to even
		
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			admit to their mistake, and they are going
		
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			to refer to it as bad luck, and
		
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			they will say that we became misguided, wakunna
		
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			qawman dhaleen, Rabbana akhrijna minha fa inu'udna
		
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			fa inna dhalimoon, fa laqsa'u fiha wa
		
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			la tukadhiboon, they are going to say, Oh
		
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			Allah, take us out from here, and if
		
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			we come back here again, meaning if you
		
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			give us a chance, we go back to
		
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			the world, and then if we end up
		
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			back here again, then really we are going
		
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			to be wrongdoers, that we are going to
		
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			be truly in the wrong, if we make
		
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			the same mistake twice, but really there is
		
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			no opportunity to make that same mistake twice,
		
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			because we only get one chance to get
		
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			it right, Allah SWT is going to say
		
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			to them, ikhsa'u fiha wa la tukadhiboon,
		
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			go back, go back and do not talk
		
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			to me, innahu kana fareequm min ibadi yaqooloon,
		
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			Rabbana aamanna faqfilana warhamna, wa anta khayrun rahimeen,
		
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			fattakhathumuhum sikhriyan, hatta ansawkum dhikri, wakuntum minhum tadhakoon,
		
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			there was a group of people, that used
		
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			to always turn to me, and they used
		
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			to make dua to me, they used to
		
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			be always in submission, and humbleness to me,
		
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			and you people, instead of following their footsteps,
		
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			and taking a lesson from them, you used
		
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			to make fun of them, and you used
		
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			to joke about them, fattakhathumuhum sikhriyan, meaning you
		
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			used to joke about those people, hatta ansawkum
		
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			dhikri, wakuntum minhum tadhakoon, and you spent your
		
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			life in ridiculing them, to such a degree,
		
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			that you even forgot to remember me, in
		
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			the course of making fun of them, so
		
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			death overtook you, while you were joking and
		
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			laughing, about these people, and as for those
		
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			people Allah says, inni jazaytuhumul yawma bima sabaru,
		
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			annahum humul faizoon, those people that you used
		
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			to make fun of, today I'm going to
		
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			reward them, and give them what they deserve,
		
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			and they are successful people, annahum humul faizoon,
		
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			now the exchange takes place, about the shortness
		
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			of the life, Allah SWT is going to
		
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			ask them, kam labithtum fil ardi adada sineen,
		
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			Allah is going to ask them, how long
		
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			did you stay in the earth, maybe a
		
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			few years, adada sineen, the response will be
		
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			from those people, labithna yawman, aw ba'da yawmin,
		
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			fas'alil aadeen, maybe the worldly life was
		
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			just like a day, or part of a
		
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			day, ask the ones that were counting, ask
		
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			the angels, because it seems to us, the
		
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			people, the criminals will say, that the life
		
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			just passed us by, and it seems like
		
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			one day, it was either one day, or
		
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			part of a day, and it's easy to
		
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			basically think about, and talk about, what is
		
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			going to happen on the Day of Judgment,
		
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			but us, who are sitting here, 35 years
		
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			old, 40 years old, 50 years old, if
		
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			we reflect back on our past life, what
		
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			does it feel like?
		
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			It feels like just a day, that went
		
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			by, like a flash, if you were to
		
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			be asked, what's your life story, how long
		
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			is it going to take us, to describe
		
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			that life story, 15 minutes, an hour, 2
		
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			hours, not more than that, so this is
		
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			what our life is like, to understand what
		
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			our future life, is going to be like,
		
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			we need to reflect upon, the life that
		
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			has passed us by, so these people are
		
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			going to say, that we lived in the
		
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			world for, maybe a day, or a part
		
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			of a day, so Allah SWT is going
		
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			to respond, yes, it was a short time,
		
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			you only stayed for a very short while,
		
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			if only you knew, so in comparison to
		
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			the hereafter, when you compare, something finite, meaning
		
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			something that is limited, to something unlimited, there's
		
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			no comparison, so the worldly life, limited, the
		
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			life of the hereafter, unlimited, eternal, never ending,
		
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			so the comparison between them, is nothing, you
		
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			cannot do it, it's impossible to compare, between
		
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			the two, so Allah SWT is saying, that
		
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			yes, it was a very short time, but
		
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			you didn't realize it, you should have taken
		
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			that short life, and made a benefit out
		
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			of it, by worshipping me, and then finally,
		
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			did you think, that you've been created, as
		
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			a wasteful, for a wasteful thing, abath means,
		
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			something you do, for no reason whatsoever, so
		
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			do you think, that you were created for
		
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			no reason, and that you're not going to
		
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			return back to us, so this selection of
		
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			verses, amongst many many others, should impress upon
		
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			us, that this life that Allah SWT has
		
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			given us, short, but very very valuable indeed,
		
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			valuable in the sense, that our success in
		
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			the hereafter, is dependent upon this life, the
		
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			more we are inclined towards, making our hereafter,
		
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			and beautifying our hereafter, it is dependent upon,
		
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			what we do in this worldly life, if
		
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			we waste this life, then our discussion with
		
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			Allah SWT will be, like these people are
		
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			having a discussion, and if not, if we
		
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			benefit from this life, and we take care
		
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			of it, and we cherish it, and we
		
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			regard it as being valuable, and we make
		
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			sure we are obedient to Allah SWT, then
		
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			we will be amongst those people, who are
		
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			faizun, and successful, and these are the ones
		
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			that we should be, looking up towards, and
		
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			following in the footsteps of, I pray that
		
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			Allah SWT gives us, tawfiq to understand and
		
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			practice, what has been said and heard.