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Sin to Redemption: Maintain a Spiritual High (Ft. Ibraheim al-Ansari) · After Maghrib 🌙

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Salaam alaikum and welcome back to another episode on the
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optimal podcast during this, holy nights of Ramadan.
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Pray that you have been benefiting from our previous
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conversations. However, the month is still
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going and we have a few more days before our spiritual
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uplifting nights where we connect to the last panel which
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Allah either comes to an end or it continues throughout the next
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few months. Now, before I begin this
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conversation, I want to say sure you subscribe to the podcast so
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So that in sha Allah, the community can grow together and
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we all learn from one another. Now, we have a special guest and
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before I mention who the special guest, is he someone very dear
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to us. However, like every episode I
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need to say, Salam my amazing co-host documents, LOL, How are
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you? I can be better.
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Yeah, handle. Oh I'm the liar.
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I'm glad you are Tuning In For the First Time.
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Thank you so much for being here and of course we pray that you
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shall move on. So far, has been successful.
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Has been beneficial, has been fruitful, of course,
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spiritually, mentally emotionally and physically in
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sha, Allah, because there's so many benefits to gain.
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So, as you know, obviously we've been focusing on all sorts of
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things ranging. From Community to spirituality
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giving and charity and so on. But today, shall we wanted to
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kind of summarize a lot of what we've been talking about over
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the last few weeks in sha Allah. And to do that with us joining
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us is our dear brother Ibrahim Al Ansari, salam alaikum, Salam.
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How you Keepin? I'm the not handle it.
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Well, how about you guys on the right?
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Michelle? Good were good and show such a
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pleasure to be with you again. Measure is mine.
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You're coming back. Of course from the eyelids and
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that Jeff Howe How's your time being there so far?
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It's I think, good and great is an understatement.
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Also Handler. I mean, being by the Dome of
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Amir al-mumineen, and being able to wake up to it and being able
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to sleep. Right next to, it is a blessing
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that of the blessings that you cannot count or Shala imams, in
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Ogden alehsalaam actually has a narration that when he actually
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went and moms in, abbudin, the one who's the adornment of
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worshippers when he went to. Holy city of najaf after
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performing this year of a mirror machine, which we recite the
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artemi Nola is actually from the zero g and abetting a DSL.
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So, Upon finishing this year, I cetera during the nineteen, he
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went to sleep. So his companions looked at him.
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He said, oh monster you are known to spend your nights in
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Russia. Yeah but today you chose to go
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to sleep. He said, did you not know that
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sleeping by the grave of Amir al-mumineen is about?
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It is rational and of course, the most
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impactful thing you've learned or heard about The last few
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nights that's something we have every year and that is the
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connection of other nice to Imam.
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Ali, IBN ABI Talib alehissalaam and the importance these to hold
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because they are intertwined. Yeah, something new.
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I can say that I've learned this year is to solve self-learn.
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Maybe you know, not going to the measureless hopefully no one
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finds out. They're weird there's you know
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eating your own research you know finding out what you can
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learn Islam solely from the actual scripture.
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Yourself rather than hearing it from mr.
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X and mr. Y so for me that's been a
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different way. I've learned about building.
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More million other night. Interesting?
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Yeah it's a bill. Hope I'm not
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It's important thing is you came down, you following up.
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I was like like father, like son, bless your father, even for
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those of us who don't like myself, I barely speak any
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Arabic but shock Richard is a pillar and Stan from, of course,
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the London araki community. And of course, his naughty even
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for us who don't speak the language, it touches the heart
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because maybe I'm not sure why he's passed on to yourself as
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well as nothing much. All I can make a rock cry.
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You bet your stuff up? I don't know, he's heard that
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term. Yeah, it makes sense.
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Doesn't have a heart. The the last few weeks there's
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been so many lessons for us to understand.
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Now we've gone through struggling the day and in sha
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Allah struggling the night as well like you're saying and it's
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important for us to take account of what we've learned but not to
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leave it where we've got to and let it then deplete after the
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holy month ends. So we're Should we begin in
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terms of wrapping up the holy month and then beginning to plan
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what's to come there after? Maybe, the first part is
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realizing what you were actually just blessed with, in this
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month. I think this is one thing that
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we fail to do so. Come, is it is a time for gift?
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Giving? It is a time for family,
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get-togethers. It is the time for a nice
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breakfast. It's the time for coffee, maybe?
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Selected. Iadc coffee for you.
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No, I'm not a coffee drinker. So I've never actually It to
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that coffee drink last straight. It's a very very strange
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exposure strange. When I say then you have been
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coffee during the day is like, am I committing a sin?
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Yeah so there's a practice that
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inshallah. I will advise myself first to do
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and then maybe we can all do it as well and hopefully, our
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viewers can do it as well. The hot tub of the Prophet, the
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speech that he gave in welcoming Ramadan.
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Let's read it after Ramadan. Let's understand the blessing
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over and because there was 30 days since we last heard from
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the mamba, or 30 days from we lost Friday at home, or say that
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another object. if we reflect upon this looking at videos, Did
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you know this was nice and you look at all the Selfies, you
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took go back and look at what you did in charge Ramadan.
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Go back and look at that time. We're you invited to the banquet
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of Allah. You weren't invited to your best
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friend's wedding. Know you were invited to the
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banquet of Allah azzawajal rest. Reflect upon that, just try to
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imagine, I was in a time when every time I was sleeping, that
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was worship when every breath I took.
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That's what's that's where I was at a time.
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When I was receiving, most blessings, what did I do during
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the That time and I utilize that time and even if I didn't I
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still know that I got more rude than any other day.
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Hmm. And understanding that and
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reflecting upon that I personally could be a good a
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good first step. Yeah.
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Yeah. Now it's interesting to me I
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think for a lot of us we've been on a journey.
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I know myself, I'm d'lai five-day, many things, I've
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improved on perhaps some things I should be doing better on but
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we all try to learn as much as we can in this month about
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ourselves about the Deen of Allah subhanaw.
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Taala, of course, about the a debate and a Muslim, and a
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wholly apart. And tie everything together, you
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know that we say of course, men out of enough so far cadaver
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Rabe and understanding that if I can understand what my gravest
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sins are, what my biggest insecurity, Zara, where my
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weaknesses and my strengths lie. Then I don't understand that I
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lost pain to others, closer to me, than I thought he was the
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thought he was. And at the same time, when we
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reflect on ourselves doing that mahasabha and doing that
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self-accountability on a daily basis and shattered on move on,
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we find that It becomes easier at least for me in the day.
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When I know that I have to. I'm not fasting.
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Just so I can stay away from food and drink but rather I'm
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fasting. So I can stay away from anything
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that may be bad for my soul. And that's and that handle has
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been able to help me. And the nighttime handle.
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Some of us have been able to do it by diet and we've been able
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to recite the Holy Quran and that is a beautiful Trend, and
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habit. We've may have formed, my
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biggest concern is that as a community of Youth and a
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community of Believers. We may slip, you know, our dear
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The yahoos of listening in the background.
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He mentioned the very, very nice Point said, I did.
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I mean, hands over to because I know this is something you took,
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that's some point and correctly. Go to brother Leon did amazing
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brother first time I meet them by the way and smile, they smile
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ready? Learn T.
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So in this Allah, may Allah bless him.
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The point that he made was very interesting because just for the
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podcast, we will solve discussing, you know, how we
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want to set the theme for today and emotional point where I
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said, you know, as soon as I eat comes everyone just gives up
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their spirituality and they Go back to square one and the
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brother they are very nice people.
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There he goes, if we look at it from a western mentality, they
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put new years as a form some form of like resolution.
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Yeah, you know, on a improve my diet on the go to the gym more.
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Next rise, more on the, eat more healthy on a quick bad habits,
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maybe we should do that. This Ramadan to be honest,
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Johnny if we have, you know, certain bad habits that we have
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improved on during this month. Yeah, we need to continue them
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the way we speak. We are the way we act with our
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family be at the way we No supplicate to Allah subhanahu
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wa'ta'ala because, you know, Ramadan Everyone likes to take
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things slow. So you like to maybe if they're
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doing salad they like to add the melody to the way they were
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reciting. Same thing with the Quran,
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saving the supplication, but why are we stopping?
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Like what makes us? But I have other know, maybe,
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I'm sure you've been with the youth or not, maybe maybe at
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times, it could be setting a standard that is way too high
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for us to reach. See, sometimes we set a standard
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or even with this New Year's resolutions like in the next
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year I'm going to use 50 kg like It's not even it's not a little
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as five is five. Okay, so you're lucky cows of
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Lucky. This is a good example.
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So easy 5, kg and itself could be easy.
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It is something achievable potentially within two months.
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Even? Yeah.
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However, so that if I set a goal, that is way too far
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unrealistic, it's unrealistic, I'm not going to get there.
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I'm going to lose hope. I'm going to, I'm not going to
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steam, so I'm not going to start to see results.
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And if you do not see results, a human being, if you do not see
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results, what you're going to do, you're going to start
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stacking again. Yeah, this is a little table of
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the human being. That's just how we are.
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So setting, something realistic could help, which is why Ameer
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al-mumineen Ali have such was Saddam has a beautiful,
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beautiful, beautiful narration. You'll find the actually
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natural. Baliga he says Kathy your own
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sorry, Ally Lon Khalid. If you perform a deed that is
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little little Leland. The emotionally that you perform
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constantly. Hey, you're on your own this
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button. Kathy, your own member luolan
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member luolan. It is better than performing.
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A lot of Deeds that you do while having melon.
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Why would you occasion? No matter is like you do and you
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can be asked to do it. It's like for example you come
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to recite the abduction Kabir and you've started the first
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part. The second part, the third part,
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your honor and I've seen speaking of the I came across an
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sweet today. I want was like was my first
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time really do I ocean and Kabir or Noah told me how long is this
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is the thing. So what ends up happening is
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saying, performing a small did that you can actually perform
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constantly and your comes with enjoyment in it.
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Yeah not has had to even in terms of that enjoyment, how
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much we enjoy it? Also.
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Go back to a different conversation of what is our work
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for example, connection to Allah azzawajal, how do we feel?
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Well, we are doing it. How do we get to that kosher?
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That is another story and that in itself, by the way, is an
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interesting topic, maybe for you guys to keep in mind as well for
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the future, how to reach that type of level of closeness to
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Allah, as the original basic practical steps.
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Yeah, you guys close to Allah. Anyway, how do you say who shall
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crush or properly? In English kosher sterility
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sincerity humbleness. Oh, I thought of humbleness.
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But I'm like, okay so it's your humbleness. - yeah, I need
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humility humility, humility thing of thought that's like
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kosher and front of Allah azzawajal.
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Anyway, so performing, for example, you do not, he did not
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perform tests we had to Zara before.
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Sure Ramadan. You got used to it during shahru
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Ramadan, this we are to Zara very easy to do after every
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prayer Imam. Sadiq Ali said, I'm says, we
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used to teach our sons. This be how to Sahara in the
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same manner that we used to teach them their daily prayers.
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Well, so this is the importance of this.
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Emphasis on it. So for example this is something
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career something cut in. It's a smooth it that you can
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perform with consistency done but I am sorry to stop you there
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but for someone who's asking now, once we have this Aura just
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be hard to Zara. 34 times Allah Akbar, 33 times and hamdulillah
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33 times subhanallah. It is eight SB had that was
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gifted by the holy prophet Muhammad sallallahu
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alehiwassallaam to follow me to the Sahara which in itself in
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itself you're going to keep opening new subjects from there
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and itself. Cough.
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This is to show you the importance of this SP ha.
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Nothing was more beloved to the profit than his daughter of am.
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Alright where he would say that you were a part of me, what
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would a person I said today, you're you're a father.
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You've got to daughter. I will ask you this when it
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comes to, for example, a special occasion.
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Hmm. How do you go about thinking of
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giving a gift? Something that will keep a
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happy. Best has a connection, a strong
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connection. I always meaningful and it's
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nothing that she can relate to. Is that what you mean veteran?
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And at the same time what you would do is you will make sure
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that it is the best gift that you can give at that specific
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moment of time. Mmm-hmm the prophet gifted her
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to be at Azara. Meaning, there was nothing
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greater to give to Fatima to Zara other than this.
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Yeah. Almost does.
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He understand the importance of this?
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So anyway, so To something small that we can.
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But in the same light shaft that you could also say, for example,
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the concept of doing something small additional and frequently,
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which is beneficial to is something highly recommended at
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something at, which is achievable.
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It is realistic. But at the same time, we may
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also want to stop doing things which you stop doing in this
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month. Yeah.
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So for example, we always talk a lot on this podcast about music.
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Hmm. Okay.
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So those who stopped listening to music and in previous years,
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maybe they wouldn't. Or maybe, for example, they
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listen, after firing before Margaret, which happens a lot by
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the way, but this year, and a lot of stop for 30 days.
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Yeah, and stopping that afterwards.
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Now, let me, let me give you a scenario this time.
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A young boy, I'm in my teenage years.
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I've got everywhere, I go, I hear and I listen to music, my
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friends circle and so on, I now know that after I returned to
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day-to-day life after shuttle Milan, I'm back into that mental
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environment because I may have been in the same physical
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environment, immensely My mind is there in a place where I'm
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surrounded Again by the same Jack Haley, and the same sins
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that I was in before hand. How do I resist?
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How do I find strength in my heart to stop doing the things?
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I want to stop doing? I'll give you an answer.
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Yeah, but you'll have to wait for me to explain it.
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Okay, the answer is thankfulness.
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Thankfulness is the best way for me to do that and I'll tell you
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exactly why. If I want to attain
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thankfulness, if I want to obtain through sugar, you know,
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grateful being Grandma to Allah azzawajal, of course, you know,
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Imam, Zain al-abideen, alehissalaam in Managua Tisha
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Kareem. What does he say?
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He says elahi. How can I reach thankfulness
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when my thanks to you is poor of thankfulness for every time I
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say alhamdulillah, it is an obligation upon me to say
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alhamdulillah for the world on the last side of this makes us
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understand. You know, when Allah says, if
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you were to count the blessings of Allah o to show her went out
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doing now, I'm a lot of so how you will never be able to number
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it, you will not be able to put them.
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It's true. You think about the blessings
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that you receive It is something we'll never be able to number,
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as for this specific example, hair has addressed this
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scenario. Sorry, you.
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Here is the blessing, me. Yeah, and now, all three
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brothers coming together to discuss, important topics that
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potentially we have a narration that if a person guides one
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individual with you, this is better than all prayers and
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fasting. This is this is the idea.
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So coming together, this, yes, it is a blessing and I'm still
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in love with her. So in sha, Allah and Allah has
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granted consists of 52. Always be shown on this and
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personal out of it anyway. So addressing the scenario that
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you that you gave for music. Yeah.
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My hearing is a blessing. Now, when I come to
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thankfulness, it comes in three stages.
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Firstly, to understand my blessing and where it came from.
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So I know I've got hearing. I know it's a blessing.
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Why did it come from? It came from Allah azzawajal.
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Gee, this is the first step. The second step is for me to
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then. So this is within the hot tub on
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the second step is for that to come out of my tongue, which is
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to say, alhamdulillah Ashoka Lila, the third and most vital
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step is to have chakra through your actions, which means I say
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alhamdulillah, but I listened to that, which is haraam, am I
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performing true? Shocker.
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No, I'll give you an example today.
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So follow the Hawker, sea. Sorry.
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I was talking about Christine Is a form of hypocrisy or correct
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but today you give me a fun for example, as a gift.
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The following the way you utilize it, for example, the way
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you imagined I would utilize It Is by watching off the motor
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podcast. I'll work I'll be taking.
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For example, I'll use the cameras, got method and the best
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new camera on the phones. I'll be using in the correct
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manner. All of that.
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Now you imagine you come. And you see my phone?
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Absolutely smashed. I've not taken any care of it.
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You look you like all in You see what kind of pictures you took?
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Let me see your gallery. And you look after taking random
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pictures of floor of a random chair over.
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You'll be like he wasn't grateful, it wasn't grateful
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because true thankfulness is through actions.
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Yeah, which is why, even when I say alhamdulillah, I need to
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show you through my actions. In fact, we have two types of
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sugar. We have a shocker that is, if
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you like, if you would like active and we have a shocker,
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that is kind of passive. Take a tree.
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For example, today, I have a tree that I have planted.
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As it grows, it will go through different types of tribulations,
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That's being the wind too much rain, too little rain too much
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sunlight, no sunlight, whatever it might be.
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It will go through different types of troubles tribulations
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that will affect its growth, right?
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If it manages to go over these tribulations and pulse all of
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these trials what happens, it starts to grow until it is
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amazing, beautiful tasty fruits. If it doesn't pass the
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tribulations and it lacks that Sugar.
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What happens? It dies?
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Yeah. So in order for For me to be
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fruitful, I need to pass through passively understand that Allah
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has the origin is here to give me that anterior guide myself
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through these trials and tribulations.
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In order for me to say, o, Allah, you sent all of these
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tribulations upon me, which, by the way, being in a western
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environment where you're surrounded by music, I keep
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referring back to your example because you gave me that
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scenario being surrounded in a western environments, where all
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you hear is the music. When you're on, for example, in
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the supermarket, there's music. You go to university.
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There's music, you go to your workplace, there's me.
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Wherever you are. There's music and sometimes a
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type of music could attract. The, if you say, do you know
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what? I will pass this trial and I say
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o Allah give me more. What happens here?
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Allah gives you strength to go through.
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More trials, through more tribulations.
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You say I am ready. It is like nebula, Ibrahim
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alayhi wasallam nabina alayhi salatu.
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Wassalam. He reached the stage of
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prophethood, he passed the transfer of relations.
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He reached the stage of being a messenger.
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He passed all of these. He was all asthma.
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He passed all of these. In DJ, I look at it.
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I see. Hey Mama, social state is
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reached through. What thankfulness of Allah has
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Overture thankfulness is the only the first stage, you know.
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You know, when you say these things, firstly, it's all of the
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things I lost one tile has given us our time on this Earth, our
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bodies, this is all an Amana. We have to return it to the last
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Point, our land and a pure and proper State.
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Resulted local, Imam sajjad alayhi salatu, was-salam says
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that the ear, the right of the air is that it isn't direct
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Pathway to the heart. Mmm, and of course, now look
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around Talk about the Pure Heart, the ones with a pure
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heart will be granted Jenna and inshallah.
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We with this specific example, because I know a lot of people
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send us questions about it. And obviously, it's, it's
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transferable to various various other examples.
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But in specific regards to this, it's about finding a substitute
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when it when it's hard for you. And at the same time, taking it
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day by day, after Shadow move on, do not start thinking about
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lecture said, transform your lives going to hausa turning the
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world upside down That no, take it at achievable steps day by
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day and Charlotte can become easier for us.
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These are having, I think you're very right on that point.
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And, you know, once you are talking at, once you measure
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this point, has something in my head and that's we had a
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previous conversation here on off the magnet podcast, but we
22:52
had a sister sister. How about what we spoke about
22:55
bad habits leading up to Ramadan.
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Now that you we are. Humble, are here.
22:59
We are alive during this blessed virtual month of Ramadan.
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We've found some good habits. Yeah.
23:06
Now if we have left out I've had it Society.
23:09
We've implemented good habits, maybe people are doing more must
23:12
have, but let's say I can continue this for a week.
23:16
Two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, five weeks, maybe two,
23:19
three months. There's going to come a point
23:21
where, you know, I'm going to say you know, I'm doing all of
23:26
this because there's a general question here.
23:28
You know I'm doing all of these supplications.
23:29
I am spiritually connected to Allah but I see no change in my
23:33
life coming from God and some of my be saying and it is a very
23:37
Point. There's a point you mentioned
23:38
And it also in a different podcast where you were like, you
23:40
know, bringing the example of three different types of
23:42
characters of worship. One for business, what for
23:44
something? I want something in return for
23:46
watching the law because he is worthy of worship.
23:47
Mmm. If someone comes to a point
23:49
because I know how to handle our many friends, and sometimes I
23:53
have this conversation, I don't know how to respond to it.
23:56
That they say look ugly. I'm praying.
23:58
All time I lie. You know, I'm trying to do Salat
24:00
to literally. I'm doing all of this honor this
24:02
but I've reached a stage where I feel like God's door is closed.
24:06
I feel like he's not, you know, showing me Azmuth is Mercy.
24:09
He's not looking after me. We know a lot of Hannah.
24:11
What's Allah is closer to us. You know the coroner tells us
24:14
and if they if my service ask you, where am I?
24:16
Tell him I am closer to hang clothes, or even know.
24:20
So I've gotta say I'm close to you and I feel like I'm distant
24:23
from God. I coming out now from this
24:26
virtual month of Ramadan where we've been so close to Allah,
24:29
but as the months go past, we feel like this.
24:31
Now at this connection, there's a distance, you know, there's
24:34
the signals that radio signals if we can relate to That between
24:38
us and God like fading away. No, the radar.
24:43
Cause no one can after me, why anywho?
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Okay. This is readjust the question.
24:52
Okay, because God not looking after us is the only the first
24:55
thing I need to do. This is the individual saying it
24:58
feels this way. Okay.
24:59
Yeah. Fair enough, fair enough.
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So one day actually, someone comes to my job for sad, that
25:03
the reminds me, he said to him, almost had all the stories.
25:07
Why is it that when I perform duaa Allah does not answer me.
25:12
He said to him, we hike. How can you say such a thing?
25:15
Allah has origin says it only a steady black, mm.
25:18
And what? Allah make a promise in the
25:20
Quran. He says pray for me and I will
25:22
answer you with Allah. Make a promise in the Quran and
25:25
go against the promise. He said, no, I surely Le he said
25:28
so how can you then come and say, Allah does not answer me
25:30
then he carries on to say he says as for the sinner their
25:34
daughter is murdered until they perform Toba.
25:37
Hmm. So they do is, let's say it's
25:40
been put on hold let me give you this example.
25:42
You've done an Ation. I don't know where you've sent
25:46
out your application. They say do you know what you
25:48
are missing a specific document. Yes they send it back to you.
25:52
Bring that document then come back to me.
25:53
Mmm, that's what Allah said. Go perform your Toba, your
25:56
document is your Toba. Perform tobot come back to me
25:59
and as for the good either, they see the effect of their Dora and
26:04
if they don't it is one of two either.
26:06
They receive the web that they cannot count or Allah has the
26:11
original leaves it for a day one. they need it most so you
26:15
come to a day where for example, you need On the day of judgment.
26:20
This is when we need the Ramallah here.
26:22
Maybe that dog, that I made was not answered in this specific
26:26
instance of a specific thing I asked for Allah has a registers.
26:29
Do you know what? It was insane?
26:31
You, I wasn't able to give it to you.
26:32
I will give it to you on that day when you need it most but we
26:35
say Allah wasn't able to give it to them it's because Allah
26:37
knows, best was for those best. Of course this is out of his
26:39
wisdom which is the idea of their own EST.
26:43
Blackcomb, yes Allah will always answer me actually I mean
26:47
Harmony You might remember this Hadith.
26:49
A Madman has a beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful narration.
26:52
He says they come to him, they say to him ome Ramon in.
26:56
Why is it that Allah azzawajal never accepts out?
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He said to them, it is because you said that you believed in
27:07
Allah but you went against his commands.
27:11
And you believed in his messenger but you went against
27:15
his son and you killed his Sharia well and you read the
27:19
Quran but he went against it and you said that you believe in
27:23
Hell Fire but you walk towards it every single day and you say
27:27
that you want heaven but you walk away from it, through your
27:30
actions and you said that you would take shaitaan as an enemy.
27:34
Did you actually take them as an enemy and you made the are you
27:38
above the people? You made the It's of people nice
27:42
but I, you know, come I'm in front of you.
27:44
It's as if all you look at is the humor of the people.
27:47
What Eric took, what? Eric Tamar, you become, what are
27:50
other horican and you left, all your thoughts behind your backs
27:54
for a UW stage, a black home. So what kind of drugs do you
27:57
want to allow them to answer you?
27:59
So then tomorrow we'll tomorrow of enjoying.
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Good one. How I need one car and forbid
28:04
from Evil was little I Malcolm and make you a man.
28:08
Good. Bring them towards that, which
28:12
is right righteous and what is right?
28:14
And what is correct. And Allah you will see his
28:16
answer. Well, I mean, emotionally
28:19
manipulative and this is of his wisdoms Salam is very far
28:28
because he made a promise. However, sometimes we need a
28:31
moment of Selfridge reflection. Why is it that I did not see
28:35
this? For example, the answer to this,
28:38
dog, this is one or sometimes. Let me have thankfulness again,
28:42
that Allah maybe you didn't give me the specific thing because it
28:45
wasn't good for me. Yeah, so thank you that you gave
28:47
me that, which is better. Yeah, yeah, we've done is we've
28:51
all had moments like it's not yeah, we pray for something and
28:54
sometimes I should we get something even better more than
28:56
we actually asked for. And I think that's, that's a
28:58
mercy from Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala, but sometimes we pray
29:00
for something, I'd only get scenarios, but we pray for
29:02
something, we don't get it, but then I think a year later,
29:05
sometimes, two years later, Like to thank God Allah the Glorious
29:08
Dawn. Yeah, we talked about this
29:10
analogy, a lot as well. The concept of children we take,
29:14
for example, II took my son for a vaccine recently.
29:17
Now the child, a young baby doesn't know the vaccine and
29:21
what it's going to do to all these scissors are sharp object
29:24
entering his body screaming. Crying the pain is hurting and
29:27
hit. Why would my parents do this?
29:29
They said they loved me. They meant to love me.
29:31
Why they putting me in this position.
29:32
They're tormenting me if anything, but the wisdom of the
29:35
parent is such That they know that this is better for you have
29:39
patience, this is going to be good for you, in your present,
29:41
and your future as well. And similarly of course in a
29:44
more Divine Way. Allah subhanaw.
29:46
Taala allows us to understand his wisdom but only if our
29:49
hearts are open to accept it. I sent you know if our hearts if
29:52
we're willing to understand Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala then
29:55
allow plant that knowledge in our hearts, but we know that
29:58
Allah is wisdom is infinite and it comes in different forms.
30:01
How his communication with us is not like worldly communication.
30:04
Yeah, we're born abruptness Society in there.
30:06
Away you ask a question and you get a direct response
30:10
immediately. You are someone?
30:12
How's your day? My day was good.
30:13
Thank you. It's a very direct interaction.
30:15
Very instantaneous and specific to the question, you've asked
30:19
you get their answer, you're looking to expect.
30:21
Do you see what I mean with our last violent?
30:22
I like you don't get an instant answer.
30:24
Sometimes you may not get an answer at all or you may get an
30:26
answer different to what you expected and when we sometimes
30:29
you get the answer. Yes.
30:30
Yeah but you haven't realized that you've got the answer.
30:33
So yeah. Well this is this is the beauty
30:35
of that relationship with Allah azza, widget.
30:37
But when we understand like you said, for example, that parent
30:40
knows better for the what's better for their children.
30:43
If we understand Allah azzawajal, most bit knows what
30:47
is better for us. Maybe our mindset will change
30:50
and it is a difference of mindset by the way.
30:53
So in these last few nights of Shadow move on, of course,
30:55
they're going to be so many people who do the 8:33 our
30:58
model. And of course, they're preparing
30:59
for Aid and all of these things. There are those who want to ask
31:03
their Hajj Arts. All right?
31:05
Yeah, la I have now. Fasted for four weeks.
31:07
I have done my about dark like you requested.
31:10
I tried to do all these things. Like you said, say it's a lot to
31:12
Layla, and I'm trying to improve myself and this in this way,
31:15
y'all Allah, please grant me XYZ, should we rethink this
31:19
question? Should we say all this request?
31:21
Shoot was a yeah, la. You know, what's in my heart and
31:23
Grand for me. What is best for me?
31:25
How do we approach? All I want is the etiquette
31:27
firstly in speaking to a lot because I know we're talking
31:30
about double homicide before the for the podcast began but I was
31:33
telling my wife yesterday that the thing that Blows me away
31:37
about double Hamza. The most is the etiquette
31:40
protozoan lost count on it. The first 20 minutes or so I'll
31:44
drop answer is the the approach towards Allah subhanaw taala,
31:48
which blows my mind. But how do we first they
31:51
approached Allah and then when we have that interaction with
31:53
our with our last month, other how do we then request?
31:56
What we want? So the idea is first of all that
31:59
we are the school of the art. Yeah, I think this is something
32:02
that we have to start with the treasury.
32:04
It's definitely definitely. We are School of the, and this
32:07
is something that's in itself, is a blessing.
32:12
It's we talked about blessings earlier and itself is a
32:15
blessing, which is that through these do ours, we understand how
32:18
to approach Allah azzawajal other than the fact that a lot
32:22
of these do ours at sometimes could be to us that we might be
32:26
in. For example, there are a lot of
32:30
these types of Dewar's, it's like, you go to, for example, to
32:34
the dollhouse of moms in a bin, Salam ala, Ali.
32:36
And you start looking. Okay, let me look at the title
32:38
of this.you know. This might be helping, might
32:41
help me in this specific instance.
32:43
You look at for example, do our homes are thermally and you look
32:45
at the way that Imam Zain or abbudin Salam ala, Ali puts
32:49
himself in front of Allah, azzawajal with that humility.
32:54
And then you look at, for example, the way he is asking,
32:58
Allah has urgent with humility and the way he is lowering
33:02
himself in front of that infinite being likewise a mural,
33:06
I mean you look at do. I'll come early?
33:07
Look at all of these do Allah's. First of all, it is important to
33:11
hold on to them which is why I really don't like this food to
33:15
our WhatsApp messages. Which way did you get them from
33:19
when you? And the thing is within within
33:21
our school of thought, the most beautiful thing is that we have
33:24
a lot of very short does, a lot of very, very short value.
33:28
Which means you can also use them and who knows better as to
33:32
how to get to Allah has origin. Other than the infallible.
33:36
I mean there was set there for guidance and one of the things
33:38
that will guide us towards is how to approach a lot as urgent.
33:41
So let's use that as for if I have a specific need, if I have
33:45
a specific need, then I even have those types of doers from
33:50
the infallible, 's at the end of which now, ask for your haja.
33:54
Why? Because they tell you, if you
33:56
want that specific thing this is how you should ask.
33:59
Allah azzawajal. And then what do you do then?
34:02
You ask for haja, take since we're in the month of Ramadan.
34:05
The Alba. Yeah.
34:06
Allahumma inni slos. Look, Abby.
34:08
I mean, bohica ba, ba, ba, coulibaly, Kirby you carry on?
34:12
At the end of the say now, ask for your haja, these types of
34:16
things, you will understand. They told you, you want your
34:20
haja, recite this duaa. Now, ask for what you want, and
34:23
there's no cause for Hope for expecting a child for good
34:25
health. For getting married for risk for
34:27
illness, of course. We know, do I joseon as well as
34:31
a specific verses and chapters as well, which are specific for
34:35
Recommended for certain needs as well.
34:38
So of course, there's endless opportunities as well as to how
34:40
everything, you know Darfur. Every other brother ones.
34:43
Hopefully, he was going through some sort of anxiety.
34:46
Yeah, I did. I didn't know what to say to
34:48
him. So I literally went to, I think
34:50
was Ella Slumdog, I don't know. The website was when we refer to
34:53
quite a lot and those anti air by the l-bayt specifically about
34:57
anxiety. And then I just saw, I entered
35:00
the world with his to offer everything.
35:01
Okay? Anything you can think of there
35:04
is a way way. Are you can ask Allah subhanahu
35:06
wa'ta'ala to easier for you. Make it easier for you.
35:09
So very true even then we always cool of the even then if you
35:12
want to make it out for yourself there was a narration actually
35:14
just managed to find it. I don't want to quote if I am
35:18
ja'far al-sadiq. I didn't sir, he says if you
35:20
want to know the way of that, someone came to him.
35:23
He said, what is the way of doing?
35:24
What he said to me if you want to know the way of that, it is
35:27
in six steps. He said the first is to thank
35:30
Allah azzawajal. Again, taking us that first
35:34
step, we should about thankfulness.
35:35
Yeah, the second is, to remember your blessings, count your
35:39
blessings. All your that's all Allah, by
35:41
the way, and many times when we asked for do our and the way we
35:44
ask Allah azzawajal, it's as if he's given us nothing.
35:47
That why did you not give this? First of all, there's a roof
35:50
over your head. You just had to know, your
35:53
family is safe these things. By the way, you're not a check
35:57
for granted, we take it for granted.
35:59
No, but I wanted that. Is it work attending Elliot?
36:02
Oh, Will I like, you know and I lifted her you recite what
36:06
Kennelly? A turtle will actually follow
36:08
me. I'm naked.
36:11
It's as if I have this upper hand over you, but even then
36:16
you're right. Mr. Reached me, it's having that
36:18
mindset. So count your blessings and then
36:22
the third is to say alhamdulillah.
36:25
So first you thanked Allah, the second remembered your
36:27
blessings. When you pray, then you start
36:29
praising him again for the blessings that he has.
36:31
Given you then, You perform a salawat law, Absalom Absalom
36:36
Muhammad, and then you remember your sins?
36:39
That's step number five, you remember your sins.
36:42
Step number six is you seek refuge in Allah azzawajal, from
36:46
this sense, in terms of doing so far in terms of staff are and
36:50
saying any, although any other big from whatever it might be,
36:55
it could be from the shaitaan. It could be from a specific
36:57
scene, it could be from shahadat.
36:59
It could be from any you. For example, you would mention
37:02
what Make yourself, it's the other you have.
37:04
So this amount of cytosine is the way of that there was also
37:08
another narration that says, if you want to make a draw, then
37:13
start by remembering Mohammed, Al Mohammed, McHugh duel and end
37:17
with remembering Mohammed. Al Mohammed.
37:18
Whoa. Now, you asked me why I know you
37:22
about see something. Let me just make this very quick
37:24
point. I'm very sorry, I'm not happy
37:25
speaking. A lot of, I don't know.
37:27
He's gonna tell you is we're blessed to have you here.
37:29
So in terms of the salawat, it is the only AA, that anyone can
37:33
make you. Remember we said there is a
37:35
drought of the Senate is more dude.
37:37
But Allah says, Pont Alexandre boxes.
37:39
Make us look for send it back to me.
37:41
Now, answer for you. This one is performing.
37:45
Salah W is the door that is accepted by every single
37:48
individual. Whether they are sinners, and
37:51
whether they are the closest to Allah has urgent accepted by
37:55
every single individual salawats.
37:57
So you perform allahumma Salli, ala Muhammad, Ahmad, Mohammad,
38:00
you make your job and you end it with Allow me.
38:04
What does that mean? The first part of your do, I was
38:07
accepted the third part of you do.
38:09
I was accepted the middle part of your daughter in Allah
38:12
history, it feels as if he feels shy to not answer the middle
38:16
part because you answered the first of the office upon the
38:21
school of the even of how to make Dua we have this etiquettes
38:25
why I'm doing it. Wow.
38:55
This is not an ordinary entity with speaking to and you were
38:59
talking to the Divine Creator, sustainer Supply.
39:02
Allah. The one who's our, our infinite
39:06
and our Timeless salvation is Reliant upon.
39:10
So when we approach Allah subhanaw taala, we have to
39:12
understand that a lot of Montana is it needs?
39:14
Nothing from us. We need everything from him.
39:18
So approaching a line that best man is the best way to do it.
39:20
And the safest place we can be is with Allah run towards Allah
39:24
Spanish. Paella run towards him.
39:26
Find yourself in his comfort. Find yourself in his Embrace
39:30
metaphorically speaking and of course we understand that That
39:33
running towards him is the ultimate Abode is grants us, the
39:37
ultimate safety. So the matter what worldly harm
39:40
approaches us, we feel safe in our last present.
39:44
Finally, I'll just wrap up my point with this.
39:46
When we talk about minimum minion, and he went through all
39:49
of these years of Oppression, he went through all of the years of
39:52
of suffering and torment. And he says it's as if I had a
39:56
thorn in my eye, or bought bone in my throat, like you said, say
39:59
it in our last discussion you had to do the husband of Of
40:02
ultimate desire. Aslan will either, huh?
40:04
He had to witness all the oppression everything that was
40:06
taken from him, and when he was struck, the only a mom that was
40:10
killed by The Sword, and the poison our other, and my name is
40:13
alayhim as-salam were killed either.
40:14
By a swallowing poison. This Imam was killed by both
40:17
when he was struck, what does he say?
40:19
Let's do what I wasn't kind of like up.
40:21
And that is Ultimate submission to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
40:24
You think about it? And he even despite everything
40:27
he knows nothing can harm me in this world.
40:28
I have a lot. I'm complete.
40:31
I'm Victorious. He is That individual, he
40:34
unleashes a lot completely. He reached nipson what, man.
40:36
Yeah, you know, when you are talking about between sins and I
40:40
this was actually the topic on the 19th of Ramadan say that we
40:49
have between the intellect and the Neffs.
40:51
So I explained that there's three different types of nerves.
40:55
You have enough said on the model, you have a loved one and
40:57
you haven't met my enemy Ramon in reached.
40:59
I'll go to my ma he reached that 22 How would I say quality
41:04
Tranquility calmness that Allah has a year to initial movement
41:09
in Italy Gia larabee Kyra Lee jannetty.
41:15
The question is, is this very specific to the imams all to
41:20
Imam Husain, which many times we refer it back to Manhattan?
41:23
Is it specific to him? Can't believe is reach such a
41:27
stage? Yes.
41:29
We have a narration that says, when Mellie could mod comes to a
41:33
Believer. When he sees molecular motor
41:36
edges, are he will start wailing.
41:39
He will start crying, he will say, please just leave me for
41:42
another second. Please please, it's just him not
41:45
a pizza to a Believer, laughter jizya and then the caller would
41:50
call out and then sorry before that my love could Mount would
41:53
say, I am more. Caring for you than your own
41:58
mother. Also this medical mode that we
42:00
always make to be the scariest thing, scared of Angel of Death.
42:03
Angel of Death is more caring to us than our own mother
42:07
inshallah. We are counted of the Believers.
42:10
What does then? The colo-colo from the sky?
42:12
Yeah, yeah to hi Nev Schulman to my in or reassured.
42:16
Soul are G. IL Arabic.
42:18
Eerily attend, Maravilla. Go back to your lord
42:21
well-pleased and having been pleased Federal EV everybody,
42:25
what Holly? Hi jannetty.
42:27
The cola would recite this Ayah but in between what does it say?
42:30
Yeah. Yeah.
42:31
To her Neff soul. Mate.
42:32
My engine Abu Muhammad. Ali Mohammed.
42:56
Also, another idea for one of your maybe more class sections,
43:00
several flying, we need a whole book from you is give it all
43:03
you, all of your much this topic.
43:04
So you got a plan for the next 10 years.
43:06
This is and them away so much. I love you.
43:10
You you dust it. You decipher an issue in such
43:14
perfect analysis on this and you touch our hearts just like, well
43:19
I think is probably nearly time to wrap up.
43:22
I want to ask you of course. Because of course this the last
43:26
Meaning moments, we pray and shallow, we have many, many,
43:28
many, many more, Shadow, more bonds to come, and that we have
43:32
so many more opportunities to thank Allah, spawn, Thailand to
43:35
be amongst our community, and with our family as well, for
43:38
those who have have, maybe spent time with their families and
43:43
spend time with their communities, but maybe who are
43:48
kind of distancing themselves after chakra move on and from
43:51
their community. And from religion, what's one?
43:54
Last piece of advice you would give to someone And to stay
43:57
close to the school of the alpha and beta.
43:59
Lemos Adama to stay close to those with knowledge and the
44:03
Corolla. Remember, Allah just remember
44:08
him. It's easier said than done
44:12
because the Corolla in itself is a big topic.
44:15
But the Corolla, when you look at the Quran, Bismillah
44:17
r-rahman, r-rahim Allah, because Allah Akbar, remembrance of
44:21
Allah is the greatest did a person can do Salah.
44:24
In fact was put for the Corolla, the Quran says Bismillah
44:28
r-rahman, r-rahim establish prayer for my remembrance.
44:32
This is the Corolla Imam Husain Alice.
44:35
Which many of the youth I know actually connect to.
44:38
What does he say? I me Italian En La Terraza.
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Alejandro Teva. May I be blinded which type of
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eye, the eye. That does not see.
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Overseeing it Imam Hussain Al Islam.
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He says, in his daughter. So the Corolla remember, Allah,
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if you have that, God Consciousness just understand
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that Allah has always overlooking, Allah is always
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there and understand that Allah is on your side, I'm sorry to
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use that terminology but this is the reality of the Situation
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understand that Allah is on your side, so have that victrola have
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that remembrance of Allah and try to build that relationship
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yourself with Allah azzawajal. Yeah you are.
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The one that needs to go crawling to him.
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Allah azzawajal is not in need of us.
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We are in need of him. This is a mindset.
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We need to change which is why I'm Jeffrey Saad.
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IBN Salam says in and the last men.
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Zilla there is a status that you can reach by Allah and Allah
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men, Zilla lat Atonal 11 Masala that he cannot reach except
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through us his name. Yeah, so we need to constantly
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knock on the door of Allah has original whether in Chara, more
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than after shahru Ramadan. But to be God, conscious of
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Allah azzawajal. As a whole would help us be
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closer with help us stay within the community will help us stay
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around those who can help us towards the Corolla.
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The reason I say that is because let me end with this point is
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Prophet, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
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Said they asked him, what is the Corolla He said the Corolla is
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not to say subhanallah. Well, hamdulillah.
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Illa Allah w'allahu Akbar, although it is part of it.
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The Corolla is to remember Allah and what he has made a loud and
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to remember Allah and what he has made for a bit.
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That's true because if we want to prevent or refrain from
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certain things because you know, it's Haram we are remembering
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that God makes her accent and so nice.
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So that's his the Corolla. Let's keep that in mind in sha
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Allah and we will ask three First we will try to practice it
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in sha Allah and inshallah out their views as well.
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Inshallah to be continued and shallow and Chef Rob Bromley
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joins us again in London just circle and hopefully will be
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will be will be blessed having again on the podcast just acted
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like he'd been on enjoyed it would be an honor.
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Thank you so much. And I apologize for anything
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that I said that my talk. I apologize that we are.
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And at the same time, tell us if there's anything else you want
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When we resume back to our normal schedule, we've obviously
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from the bottom of our hearts. For all of the patients you've
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grateful to you for all of the courage and the strength that
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you give us. And ultimately to a lost man,
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Tyler for the dolphy look. Save daddy.
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Any last words last few sentences?
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If I may, is that, you know, you spoke about do our prayers and
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you spoke about, you know, being thankful, you know, humility,
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all of this. And while you two are talking, I
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just things happening in my head is like chemistry happening and
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I realized, you know sometimes we may be selfish and drop.
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Yeah or we may be disrespectful to Allah and Allah does selfish
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by means I pray just for myself or being disrespectful.
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For example, God, I want this, I want that now.
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If I want example, if I can I had to I mean, by that, someone
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wants to have children, for example, the fact you bring up
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children earlier on, you say o Allah, give me, give me children
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Allah, why not giving my children a lot, please, we want
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children rather than saying a lot more circulatory, Assad.
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The certain different ways where you can ask Allah, insha, Allah
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will grant you. So, that's why I leave it there.
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Shuttle senses are clocked him. Thank you very much.
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Thank you. We pray for your continued
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success for the success financially, in sha, Allah may
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Allah, Subhan Allah bless your family or your mother.
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For me and in sha Allah that you continue on this path of Allah
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Muhammad and inshallah. We continue to benefit from you
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just say yes to my question. I look forward to seeing you on
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the pulpit.