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You aren't really thankful to Allah (SWT) ft. Ibraheim al-Ansari · After Maghrib 🌙

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  Smila Rahman, Raheem Assalamu Alaikum and welcome back to
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  another episode here on the aftermath of podcast during the
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  blessed month of Ramadan. If you missed last week's
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  Now saying all of this, it's a brand new week and we're having
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  another brand new spiritual conversation and Shah Allah
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  Ahmed Salam. Ali, how are you having Al?
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  Hamdulillah, how are you? I'm good to say that Hamdullah,
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  we are a week in. I'm doing lies.
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  It's a blessing. It's a baraka.
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  I think it's been a beautiful, beautiful month so far.
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  How are you? How's the blessed month been for
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  you? It's it's been good but
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  different this year. And I think many of us can
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  relate to this is because it's very close to when we finish our
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  daily work. Yeah, you're right.
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  So by the time we get home, it's literally Madre Band.
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  So. How are you changing your daily
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  routine for that? Trying to leave earlier from
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  work. OK, no, I I mean like for
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  example the Ebada and this and that.
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  It's different, yeah. I won't say I've done anything
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  different. I just say it's been more spent
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  with the children. This.
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  Year. Nice.
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  Yeah, Hamdullah, yeah, Hamdullah itself, Hamdullah.
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  But yeah, it's good to have you back grand sisters.
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  We have another fantastic conversation, Hamdullah.
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  Today we have a conversation on Shukar, on Hamd, on mercy and
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  and gratitude towards Allah, span to Allah and many other
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  themes, Themes that we often hear about don't often
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  implement, especially in Shahramadhan.
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  There's no greater time than now to really reflect on these key
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  principles, principles that I believe the school of the Yahud
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  Bait, Al Ahmad Saddam emulate in the best of ways.
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  We have the best of scriptures, the best of examples to follow.
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  And today, inshallah, we are going to get into that with
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  someone who is a returning guest to the podcast, someone who's a
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  dear brother to us, a friend to us, but more than anything, a
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  teacher to us, our dear, respected Sheikh Ibrahim Al
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  Saadi Salah Alaikum Sheikh. Alaikum Salaam Muhammad Allah,
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  except for the teacher part, but then we're here to have a little
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  conversation and I'm amongst my friends, so it's lovely to be
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  alive with my dear brothers in this is.
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  So honored to have you. Hamdullah Ashukar, how are you
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  guys keeping Hamdullah? Hamdullah has been a big
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  blessing. Like I said, Ali said this is a
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  bit of a change. Iftar is very early, but it's in
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  the favour of the kids. And actually just on that
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  question you asked Said Ali as well.
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  In terms of changes that have been made, kids joining into our
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  liftatah and all of these things I think is a very nice thing
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  because I remember when Shahramadhan was in the summer,
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  by 10/10/30, the kids are not going to stay up.
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  Of course, they're sleeping, whatever.
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  So now it's nice to see them joining.
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  You see a lot of more youth in the programs, the Quran programs
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  and all of these. You see young children sitting
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  down reciting Quran. So it's lovely to see.
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  It is, yeah. There's a great opportunity for
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  us, I think, regardless what stage of life we're in, whether
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  we're working professionals, if we're youth or students, if
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  we're parents. And you know, for those who are
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  elders in our community, there's some benefit that comes to this
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  because of course, the the fasts are not too short such that it's
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  not so much of a challenge. There's still somewhat of a
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  challenge. But at the same time, we can use
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  the the rest of the day to to really like invigorate our
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  Ebada, our worship. And I think for me, that's
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  probably been one of the main focuses for myself and channel
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  on today I was speaking to one of my business partners.
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  He helps me with some work and he was saying to me that my
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  biggest challenge this year is how I speak.
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  He was on trying to speak, but he goes, the fasts are not too
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  hard. He does physical labour, this
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  guy. So he's Mashallah, he's like
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  fasting and he's working hard. But he said for me, it's not the
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  food or the water. It's more how I speak and my
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  attitude and my addictions and so on.
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  So inshallah Allah gives us Tofia to complete the month and
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  to complete a successfully Inshallah.
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  Inshallah maybe a month of blessings and spirituality and
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  the proximity to Allah and it's only a start in Charlotte to
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  many more months of proximity of.
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  Course in Charlotte and Charlotte Branchester before we
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  get started the conversation, I want to ask you all to join me
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  in reciting assault Al Fatiha for the respected grandfather of
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  Sheikh Ibrahim Atallah Dr. Sheikh Ahmed Al Bahad Ali who
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  passed away last week if I'm not mistaken, 2 weeks, 2 weeks ago.
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  He was a great man. Sheikh Ibrahim has told us about
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  his life and his not only how he spent his years as a teacher in
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  the House of Najaf and someone who achieves a really high
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  station and rank in terms of the Hauser, but also a family man
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  and someone who spent his time in his last moments remembering
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  the Ahmed Beta Hayeh Salaam. So let's recite together.
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  If you don't mind, before we start, the fact had to also
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  include within this recitation the father of our dear brother
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  Sehd Ali Rutherwi and also. We pray for, for your mom and
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  also your respected grandmother who of course is in need of of
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  our dua and of course in need of shafaar from Allah.
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  Grant her that shafaar quickly. Habib Sheikh said.
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  Where's, where do you reckon? A good place to start is of
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  course such a huge conversation. It is.
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  It is a huge conversation. But before we start, yeah, sure.
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  Do you miss Major? I miss it a lot.
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  Yeah, I miss it a lot. I'll be very honest.
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  I'm not even going to sit here jumbling, as we say in Iraqi.
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  I miss it a lot. Have you?
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  Yeah. Every day that passes, I'm like,
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  I want to go back. Well, the shrine of Emir is
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  there. I mean, you can't beat that,
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  right? You can't be there.
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  You can't beat that daily Ziara of.
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  So not daily. Maybe we'll miss a day or two in
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  the in the week, but a recurring Ziara of being close proximity
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  to Carabella and these are blessings that a person cannot
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  count. Have you managed to spend
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  Ramadan nights in the Jeff? I have before.
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  Okay. But this is years ago.
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  Yeah. Yeah, this is much before I
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  started in this journey, if you like.
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  On one of the travels, I think we went to Iraq and we spent
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  Leah Deshad at Emir Al Mamin up until 8IN Shah Ramadan in Najaf.
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  For Shah Ramadan. It was beautiful.
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  It was beautiful, yeah, but other than that, I haven't.
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  Dropped it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I've heard it's. Beautiful it is.
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  I've had to be honest. Had the opportunity, I was
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  speaking to one of my friends in who lives in Najaf.
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  He's he was in London. So I was speaking on the phone
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  and then he said Ramadan here is boring like in in that tone
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  exactly. It's boring and it's true
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  because the the over here and it's not really in our hands.
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  But at the end of the day, in Najaf, everyone is fasting.
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  Everyone knows the Shah Ramadan. So the days are scheduled around
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  Shah Ramadan. You have the baranis of the
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  Alamar, you have the majalis, you have the families that
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  gather, et cetera. This is doesn't really happen
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  here. Even the families, any
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  atmosphere over here, even families that want to gather,
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  when are they going to gather? Weekend.
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  Well, I shouldn't because during the week we are working and I
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  don't know what. So by that time, so we see that
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  side as well. Yeah.
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  Well Hamdullah that a person is able to to witness the month.
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  Hamdullah. Hamdullah.
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  Shahna being the blessed month of Ramadan, it's the month of
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  mercy, the month of Rahman, I think.
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  Let's begin here with your permission is that you know many
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  of us, we've grown up and always until this very day, we always
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  know Allah by His beautiful names, many names and all these
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  are all attributes of Allah such as Al Rahman, Al Rahim.
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  But what do they really mean? What does it mean for us?
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  Over the 99. Names.
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  We'll go through them 1 by 1. To be honest, the names of Allah
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  azzawajal. One thing we need to remember is
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  they're, they are at the end of the attributes of of Allah
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  Subhanutta Allah. Now the attributes of Allah
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  Subhanutta Allah are always going to go back to his, that to
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  his intrinsic nature, if you like.
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  This is what Allah Azzawajal is. It does not separate from Allah,
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  Subhanutta Allah. So Allah being a Rahman means
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  that he is merciful. Allah Azza Wajal, His mercy
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  encompasses all things. Allah Azza Wajal has a mercy, is
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  so merciful and that is maybe even the secret as to why Allah
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  Azza Wajal knows even the whispers of the human being so
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  that he can be merciful on those occasions.
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  The reason he knows about every single little particle that is
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  under every single rock in the deepest ocean is so that he can
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  be merciful to those, to whatever is required for that
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  specific particle or atom or whatever you want to call it.
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  Or even let's go even further, the quark, what the quark is,
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  is, is in need of. So this is the idea of mercy.
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  That is not to negate the fact that Allah Azzawajal is also
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  overseeing these things for specific things to be written in
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  case there needs to be punishment for those things as
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  well. I don't want to ever separate
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  those two conversations totally. However, this is the idea of
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  mercy and that he is a Rahman Rahim.
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  He is that merciful being whose mercy encompasses all things.
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  Sure. Like if I can ask when we say
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  this, you know Hamdulillah Rabbil al, I mean, and we're
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  talking about Al Rahman, Al Rahim.
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  We're talking about these kind of you mentioned the that or
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  last ones Allah. Am I correct in assuming and,
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  and thinking that there are different types of lot of Allah?
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  Some are perhaps, as you mentioned, intrinsic and
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  permanent and some may be consequential.
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  So for example, Al Razak or Al Shafi, these are consequential.
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  So when someone is in need of risk a lot is Al Razak or Al
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  Shafi is for Shifa and so on. Is that the same with Al Rahman
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  Al Rahim? What is the difference between
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  them? And if I can just add
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  secondarily, sorry to to ask another question, the word rub,
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  which is used in the I of course, in the English language,
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  we tend to translate this to Lord, right?
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  It doesn't really do justice to the term rub.
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  Like for example, when you in in the Arabic language, sometimes
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  you refer to the mother of the home Rubba bet right?
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  If I'm not mistaken, the father, usually the the father, the
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  caretaker of the caretaker more so in the sense of sustenance or
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  sustaining is there when I think of I don't know, of course, the
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  psychology behind this and Allah's reasoning, but the way I
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  see is that Allah is is is indicating to us that the
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  creation of the universe. Allah's not saying Khalaq al
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  Amin or something, but rather something which is permanent,
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  present, reoccurring, ongoing Rabbil al Amin in the sense that
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  Allah's sustenance and his him being the sustainer of the
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  world's is something that's continuous.
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  And how does that play into the fact of of the mercy of Allah's
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  panto Allah? So firstly we need to correct
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  one statement and then we'll move on to the question, which
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  is to say Allah azzawajal has multiple that is a is a big
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  issue. So Allah's that is 1 and all his
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  Sephard, although I didn't think we'll go into an we will anyway.
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  And all his Sephard, all his characteristics go back to his
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  that and everything that is in relation to him is I know that
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  everything goes back to his specific intrinsic nature.
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  Everything is part of his nature.
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  So that's this is in terms of his that his that is also
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  eternal or what we say in Arabic Padim, it, it never came into
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  existence and it will never cease to exist.
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  And likewise, his, his attributes come with that.
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  Why? Because his attributes are part
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  of him. Part of his that.
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  And because that is who he is now, there isn't discussion.
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  There is a discussion on different types of different
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  types of attributes. They are known as a Safati
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  failure. So that those are not to do with
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  that. That is a discussion on the
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  attributes of that which requires action if you like,
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  such as Khalatiya, Razatiya, these things like was he a
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  Thalak before he created or was he not?
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  Was he a Razak before he gave Razak or was he not?
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  This is a discussion. I don't want to delve into it,
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  but the summary of it is even the one.
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  So there is an opinion that that he is.
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  The majority opinion is that the cipher failure comes in after,
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  but it all comes from a cipher that is related to his that
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  which is called the right. Of course.
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  The the power to do something, the ability to do, to do
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  something. So in in the end of the day,
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  everything goes back to his that the moment we put multiple that
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  to Allah Hazawajan, we are going to number Allah Hazawajan.
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  And if we fall into numbering him, we will fall into shirk.
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  So this is the first part. As for Rahman, Allah Azzawajal
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  is a Rahman within his nature. Allah Azzawajal is a Rahman just
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  like he is Shadid Al Aqab within his nature, just like he is Al
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  Malik within his nature. All of these things are part of
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  Allah Azzawajal's that this rhyme, however, it applies to
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  different individuals at different times or applies not
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  just to individuals to everything really at different
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  times. Just for the fact that at this
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  specific moment, at this specific moment I have for
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  example, not felt that Rahman does not take away the fact that
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  Allah is Rahman in this specific moment.
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  Allah Azzawajal is Rahman at all times because Allah does not
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  stop being something specific at a specific time.
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  Allah has always Allah at all times.
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  And if these things are part of his nature or if all of these
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  things are part of his, that then it is what it is, something
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  that applies at all times. Therefore, the Rahman of Allah
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  Azzawajal is applicable at all times.
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  Then then your second question was the fact that you we say Rab
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  Bilal Amin. What is the meaning of this word
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  Rab and the fact that we translate it to Lord?
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  Many Arabic words have multiple meanings.
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  Rab is used in terms of caretaker.
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  This is 1. But it can also come in the in
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  the form of lordship. Now usually, usually or not
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  actually, not usually, sometimes and sometimes not, there will be
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  a relationship between those two meanings and sometimes there
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  will not be a relationship between the two.
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  Knowing Allah has their own jealous nature, we know that
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  there is a relationship between Him being a Lord and between Him
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  being a caretaker. And the reason I say is this,
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  when have you ever seen a master, a master?
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  And you can think of any type of master.
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  Even if you want to think, think of a slave master in the best
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  way that we can think of it, because at the end of the day,
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  we are slaves of Allah Azzawajal.
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  We are not servants. And I'm very adamant on that
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  point. When have you ever seen a slave
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  master be so patient with his slave who is always going
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  against what they have ordered? Usually you'd think a master is
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  a person who there and then would whip that sleeve.
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  Allah has original, He gives us more.
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  He says I'm going to give you a second chance.
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  I'm going this is Rahman, this is Rahman.
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  This is some type of mercy that He is allowing us to feel and
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  this is also him taking care of us.
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  A slave does something bad against their master.
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  He says I will not give you any food today yet, Hamdulillah, I
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  still have a cup of water here right next to me.
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  Although today I have come short with my master.
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  This is the type of care that Allah Azzawajal is showing his
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  slaves at all times. So this is the second part of
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  your question. I feel there's a third part of
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  your question, which is although you didn't point to it, but I
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  think it's worth mentioning the fact that you say al
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  Hamdulillahi, Rabbil Alami, al Rahman, Al Rahim, Maliki, Omid
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  Din, then Eyak and Abbot, but before that you'll keep
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  mentioning other attributes of Allah, azzawajal.
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  And here suddenly we have moved away from a concept of hamt.
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  Although we started with Hamt, we moved away from Hamt without
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  realizing. We moved into what we know as
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  thanat and this is something that is mixed many times between
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  the two is what we started with. The moment I said I, I said al
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  hamdulillah, I have done hamd of Allah Hazel.
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  Yeah, the moment I started adding more attributes of Allah,
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  Hazel, I am now performing Senna.
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  Do we have time to go over the difference between the two?
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  Yeah, Yeah. I feel like it's become.
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  By the way, I have a gut feeling this is going to be a nice long
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  podcast. Yeah, yeah.
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  I hope it's all. Going to be.
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  It's OK with you. Don't mind, we're good to.
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  For the people watching, I think they'll get tired.
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  Just a very quick difference between the two and is when you
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  praise Allah or praise anything for that anyone for that matter.
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  When you praise something that is related to a that is related
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  to an intrinsic attribute attribute to a specific person,
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  you see praise be to that person for the specific value for the
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  specific thing. But that thing should be what
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  something that is a intrinsic attribute to that being whether
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  human or God or whatever it may be.
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  So you can do hand over a specific human being because of
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  a specific value that they have within them.
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  Now Allah azzawajal, I perform hand of him because of certain
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  intrinsic attributes that he has.
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  Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen, the moment I said Rahman Rahim,
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  I've added more things. They they are also intrinsic
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  attributes of Allah Azza wajal, but I've added more things.
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  Thana is repeated praise. So whenever I begin repeating a
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  certain type of hand, that is known as thana, which is why but
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  something very important that thana needs to be accompanied
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  with love. The reason is if it is not
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  accompanied with love, I can say ham to something specific and
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  keep mentioning other attributes.
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  But if it's not accompanied with love, then it can be known what
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  is known in the Arabic language as met met who would translate
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  to what when you speak well of. Praise.
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  Or I don't understand praise. Hang on, hang.
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  On praise, when you speak well, when you praise someone, but in
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  terms of speaking one of them. But sometimes I speak well of a
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  certain individual. It might not always be
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  accompanied with love that I have to that individual, rather
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  just I know unless that individual.
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  Guy. He's a nice guy.
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  He has good luck. That guy is a very good guy.
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  He's got good luck. He's he helps people, he does
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  this, he does that. And I keep mentioning certain
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  things, but I don't really care for that person.
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  That is meant. But when I care for that being,
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  that is finna. So when I turn to Allah
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  Azzawajal in praise and I start by praising him and I say
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  alhamdulillah, I've started my hand.
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  Then I say, Rahman Rahim, let it be within my heart that I am
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  mentioning more attributes and I am extending this phrase out of
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  love. I start my extended praise by
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  praising. Well.
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  Usually I think translations out of org mention glorification and
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  all. Yeah, it does.
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  Leave that to listen. Leave the translation to the
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  side. Just understand it for what it.
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  Is. I start my extended praise by
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  praising you, etcetera, etcetera.
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  You're doing Fena. No, if the is full of Fena, it
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  starts with HAMP. The rest of it's all Fena.
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  Yeah. So I thought this was done but.
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  It it started off often on a good note.
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  That's amazing. I said thank you, thank you for
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  that. You know, it just reminds us of
• 21:15
  if I can just come back to the mercy of our last final, I think
• 21:19
  being the month of mercy. We should always remember that
• 21:22
  when we say Rahman Rahim, firstly, we understand that
• 21:26
  Allah's mercy encompasses everything, but rather his mercy
• 21:30
  is always there. No matter where we are, he's
• 21:33
  always going to be a Rahman Rahim.
• 21:35
  So even if we like, because sometimes about humans, we may
• 21:38
  find ourselves going left and right and we can always come
• 21:42
  back to the to the door of mercy of Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala.
• 21:44
  And there's a hadith by Imaba Sadiq Alayhi Salaam where he
• 21:48
  says the mercy and the love of Allah that he has for us is
• 21:53
  greater than a mother has for her child.
• 21:55
  And I think there's even reports more than that where we have,
• 21:59
  where they say it's greater 70 times than parents have towards
• 22:03
  their children. And and that just shows you the
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  beauty of the rahma of Allah and always the rahma rahma.
• 22:08
  Like you mentioned, we always recite al Hamdallah, Haraballah
• 22:10
  al. I mean, it's these small words
• 22:11
  and you've explained it very eloquently and very beautifully.
• 22:14
  But we forget like the verses, like for example, like these.
• 22:20
  There's always a reminder that wherever we find ourselves, the
• 22:23
  mercy of Allah is always there. Can I add to that as well?
• 22:26
  I think one, one of my personal goals, the Shahram Avan, as I
• 22:29
  think all of ours is, is to reconnect with Kalam Allah, with
• 22:32
  the holy of Quran. And for me, one thing I've
• 22:36
  started doing or trying to start doing is to make notes.
• 22:40
  So I'll read the the holy of Quran and I'll read the
• 22:42
  accompanying translation and the Tafasil as well and I'll write
• 22:46
  how I feel in with each Surah and even key things which stood
• 22:52
  out to me. So for example, there's key
• 22:53
  elements like Al Qaidi elements or stories or things which I
• 22:57
  didn't realise even when you start.
• 23:00
  So we've discussed Sottil Fatah. When you look at Sottil Bhakra
• 23:03
  and the Holy Quran, one key thing that really hit me and
• 23:06
  that's I'm ashamed to say that it's taken me this long in my
• 23:08
  life to really like go deep into the Surah, at least to my humble
• 23:12
  degree, is that there's a complete repetition that Allah
• 23:16
  talks about the covenant, the covenant, the covenant, the
• 23:19
  covenant. He begins the Surah, He talks
• 23:22
  about the covenant between man and God.
• 23:25
  He talks about key al Qaidi principles.
• 23:28
  Then he talks about Nabi Moussa Alayhi Salaam.
• 23:30
  He talks about Bani Aslayil and he talks about when Nabi Moussa
• 23:33
  went to The Cave to the mountain and they will start worshipping
• 23:36
  the calf within 40 days. And then Allah continues to say,
• 23:40
  well, you have the chance to to repent.
• 23:42
  Allah is al Hamad al rahamin al afur al Rahim like he continues
• 23:45
  to go into it. He then talks about the people
• 23:47
  after Nabi ASA alayhi Salaam. He does the same thing.
• 23:50
  He gives them opportunity and opportunity even at that point.
• 23:54
  He then talks about the people the the people around the time
• 23:57
  of the holy Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi and he
• 24:00
  references if I'm not mistaken I can't remember which I probably
• 24:04
  around verse 80 ish. A last one to Allah mentions how
• 24:09
  these people in their previous scriptures, they were
• 24:12
  anticipating the arrival of the final messenger of the complete
• 24:16
  scripture and they were praying for him and awaiting him.
• 24:19
  And when he came, they even recognised him, yet they still
• 24:23
  rejected him. And to me, that kind of struck A
• 24:26
  chord with a Hadith we have in the rabbit and not Omani, which
• 24:30
  we mentioned on the podcast last year with say, Muhammad Bakar
• 24:33
  Koswini, where at the time of the whole of the Imam, those who
• 24:38
  are waiting for the Imam, praying for the Imam will tell
• 24:40
  him, go back on son of Fatima, the recognition of the Imam.
• 24:45
  You're waiting for him, you're praying for his behold.
• 24:47
  And then even when he comes, you'll still send him back.
• 24:49
  But Allah is continually saying that you have the opportunity at
• 24:52
  all times, even when it's in front of you.
• 24:55
  Don't allow yourself to fall into a pit of of of of arrogance
• 24:59
  and non gratitude and all of these key themes which we
• 25:02
  continually read and reflect in in the holy month of
• 25:05
  Shahramabhan. So this is something that I
• 25:06
  wanted to kind of just mentioned based on on what you're saying
• 25:10
  this. Theme in general, I think is a
• 25:11
  very important theme. And the reason I want to
• 25:16
  highlight one thing you said is because Sortel Bakara, many
• 25:19
  times we look at it as though it's a lengthy sura that doesn't
• 25:23
  necessarily have a specific topic like other sura are very
• 25:26
  clear. Surat al Qaeda is very clear.
• 25:27
  The topic of it is very clear. Surat al Insan even it's very
• 25:31
  clear. Surat Al Rahman, the topic of it
• 25:33
  is very clear. Swaratul Bakara Many claim that,
• 25:37
  for example, it doesn't have a clear topic.
• 25:39
  Even some well known mufaserin without mentioning names, claim
• 25:44
  that it doesn't have a specific topic and it just has multiple
• 25:46
  different topics within one sura.
• 25:49
  On the other hand, you have other mufaserin that's
• 25:51
  mentioned. No, it the topic of it is is
• 25:53
  very clear and the topic topic of it is the covenant.
• 25:56
  So the fact that you were able to, I think it's beautiful that
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  you were able to do that. And some of us serene even link
• 26:04
  it to the fact that this is all a introduction to a covenant
• 26:09
  that you should have with the and that it actually ends up
• 26:13
  linking to. So the fact you were able to see
• 26:17
  this from it, I think is is is is is very nice.
• 26:19
  If I can just add as well, sorry.
• 26:21
  Yeah, yeah. No Of.
• 26:22
  Course, there's something in there like like there's so many
• 26:25
  things which stand out. You look at, for example, when
• 26:28
  Allah was talking about Nabi Adim Ali Salam and he's telling
• 26:32
  the angels tell me the names, they're saying what names and he
• 26:34
  tells nobody. Adam tell them the names.
• 26:36
  And then of course, and we haven't heard a Wyatt about the
• 26:38
  names that that be Adam. Alayhi Salaam is talking about
• 26:41
  the names of the Alehem Salaam. There's so many like key themes.
• 26:44
  I find it striking that people like you said, people like there
• 26:49
  are clear themes in my mind. Even for example, hopefully
• 26:53
  we'll do like when we talk about it.
• 26:55
  Well, I don't know verse 145 somewhere around that, you know,
• 26:59
  when nafsim minal Amwal and right when Allah says we will
• 27:04
  test you the. One that can be shared in Kofi
• 27:07
  will draw not one. Yeah, Bashar al Saabrin.
• 27:11
  Bashar al Saabarin, forgive my Arabic, but these are clear
• 27:15
  things which like stand out to us that even in these moments,
• 27:17
  you know. Speaking of if I can say
• 27:19
  something, I heard a story not long ago where a Shaheed
• 27:24
  Ayatullah said Sadak al Kazwini Bahmatullah Ali who was in the
• 27:29
  prisons of Saddam, not Salah Ali and may Allah curse him and
• 27:34
  beyond. He was in the prisons and he was
• 27:37
  praying a Salah to duo. We know Salah al Kafiida and
• 27:41
  Salah Salah to duo. Sheikh can inform us is Mustahab
• 27:46
  Salah of hunger. When you are in extreme hunger,
• 27:50
  you read the Salah and one thing is being grateful when you are,
• 27:55
  when you have things, you know, we have electronics and gadgets
• 27:58
  and we have family and friends and access to knowledge and all
• 28:02
  these butter because we've got but to when you don't have
• 28:04
  something and when you're in the case of hardship and being
• 28:08
  tested, then at that point do Hamden Shukla.
• 28:11
  The last panel to Allah is a completely different macam which
• 28:15
  we have to try and reach. But these are small tricks and
• 28:17
  tips which I've learned from from this.
• 28:19
  Which sometimes, by the way, we turn to these types of themes in
• 28:24
  times of hardship because we think that this is the way that
• 28:28
  we can come out. And I, I want to mention that
• 28:31
  specifically because sometimes in times of difficulty, we feel
• 28:36
  ourself closer to Allah Azzawajal.
• 28:40
  But closer in what sense am I closer to Allah Spahnutt Allah
• 28:44
  because I'm genuinely feeling closer to him, or because he is
• 28:47
  my only hope now? And if he is my only hope, is it
• 28:51
  because I've recognized he's my only hope such that I am going
• 28:54
  to continue only sticking to him and only lending my hand out to
• 28:58
  him? Or is it that no, Get Me Out of
• 29:01
  this and then Allah Karim? We'll see how it goes from
• 29:03
  there. Because this theme is actually
• 29:05
  spoken about in the Quran as well.
• 29:07
  Even in Swarat al Bakara and Swarat Al Nisar, I believe it's
• 29:12
  spoken about. But before I get into that,
• 29:15
  actually because you mentioned Hamd and Shukar as well, I'm
• 29:18
  very specific with my words. I'm sorry.
• 29:21
  Shukar as well is very different to Hamd.
• 29:24
  Hamd, we said is actually, let me test you guys.
• 29:27
  What's Hamd? Praise.
• 29:29
  Praise. That's the translation.
• 29:30
  What does it mean? What am I praising?
• 29:34
  What am I mentioning? You're doing praise of Allah's
• 29:38
  attributes. I sense an intrinsic, an
• 29:40
  intrinsic attribute. I am praising Shukur is not
• 29:44
  necessarily that Shukur is thanking someone or any being or
• 29:50
  Allah azzawajal for something that has already been done.
• 29:54
  I don't thank for something that is going to happen in the
• 29:57
  future, I don't thank. I don't thank you for, for
• 30:01
  example, being tool. That's not something I thank you
• 30:04
  for. I don't thank you for having a
• 30:06
  specific attribute. I can praise an individual for
• 30:09
  having a specific attribute, but thanking needs to be in return
• 30:13
  for something. So when something is done, I
• 30:16
  thank. Which is why in the Quran when
• 30:17
  it talks about Shukur, it either talks about Shukur in in the
• 30:22
  past ten such that something has happened and a person has thanks
• 30:25
  for it, or the fact that I will be of those that will thank in
• 30:29
  the future if you do this for me.
• 30:31
  So which is why when you mention, for example,
• 30:34
  difficulties and all of these things that O Allah, save us
• 30:37
  from this tribulation that we are in in a Kuna Mina Shakari
• 30:41
  and I will be of those that are thankful.
• 30:43
  Thankful for what? Thankful for you taking me out
• 30:46
  of this hardship. Look at those verses many times
• 30:49
  you'll see the verses after it because I said he's becomes our
• 30:52
  only hope, but in what sense is he our only hope?
• 30:55
  Have I recognized it or is it something I just want to use for
• 30:57
  now? The next verses talk about that.
• 31:00
  After that they became of the Musharraq king.
• 31:03
  Even in in one of the verses. I'm I want to try remember it
• 31:08
  now. I'll I'll probably remember it
• 31:09
  in a SEC. But the theme of the verse is
• 31:11
  about parents making dua for Allah azzawajal to give them a
• 31:17
  good son. Then the Quran says when he gave
• 31:23
  them a good son, when he gave them a salahan, this is the
• 31:26
  exact word he uses. When he gave them a salahan,
• 31:29
  they went back on the shirk. So that concept of I see that
• 31:33
  rope of Allah azza wajal, and I see that this rope is the only
• 31:36
  rope that is given out to me right now.
• 31:39
  What am I going to do with it? Once I thank and once I am, I am
• 31:44
  praising Allah azza Wajal because I've recognized that
• 31:47
  this is something worthy of praising Allah Azza Wajal for
• 31:50
  this is worthy of thanking him for.
• 31:52
  And once it's LA, I just say, Get Me Out of this and then
• 31:55
  we'll see how it goes. And the problem is when that
• 31:58
  happens, when I haven't recognized that Allah Azzawajal
• 32:01
  Adinde is my only savior. Allah Azzawajal is my only
• 32:04
  helper. Allah Azzawajal is the only one
• 32:06
  I can seek true aid from. I will fall into that issue
• 32:11
  because then I feel like as though there will be other ways
• 32:13
  that I can receive aid or, you know, which is why the, the, the
• 32:17
  illness of arrogance. How does it come?
• 32:20
  The illness of arrogance is that there is God and there's me.
• 32:24
  This is the the danger of the illness of arrogance is this.
• 32:27
  There's God and there's me. Which is why the most arrogant
• 32:30
  that the Quran speaks about is Farhoun, For example, Anarabuka
• 32:33
  Malala, other than Iblis, of course, Anarabuka Malala,
• 32:36
  there's God and there's me. Did he not recognize there's a
• 32:39
  God when he said Anarabuka Malala?
• 32:41
  I ask, when he said Anarabuka Malala, did he not know that
• 32:44
  there is another God? Hold the the the the evidence
• 32:50
  was made clear to him, the miracles were shown in front of
• 32:53
  him. Moussa and Haron 2 prophets not
• 32:55
  1-2 prophets came to him. Or later when he realized there
• 33:00
  is no hope and there is no rope but the rope of Allah al an Amen
• 33:04
  to Berabi mussa or haron. Too late now.
• 33:09
  He tried to cling on that later and I had to.
• 33:12
  Why? Maybe he'll be of those that are
• 33:13
  thankful after that and maybe what he'll go back to that shirt
• 33:18
  that he was in. These themes in the Quran like
• 33:21
  you mentioned are very important to try and take out and apply to
• 33:25
  our self because we are all going through difficulties.
• 33:29
  We are all going through specific circumstances and I
• 33:31
  say, oh Allah, do this for me and I will do something as well
• 33:34
  in return. What type of deal am I trying to
• 33:37
  strike with God? Yeah, that's so true.
• 33:39
  No, and Charlotte, we're not a transactional and our you know
• 33:42
  and our bother reliance and to work cool and trust and praise
• 33:46
  and thankfulness and gratitude to our last one of that.
• 33:48
  It's nice. It's nice.
• 33:49
  I've never heard it from this way.
• 33:51
  She has now, which I think if I can ask just on this, since
• 33:54
  we're talking about these different themes on Shukur, is
• 33:57
  there a way where it becomes more than just on the tongue?
• 34:00
  It's not just an expression. We just say Hamdallah, shukur
• 34:03
  and Allah. Is there a way where we can
• 34:05
  manifest that into our action? Perhaps maybe they're a little
• 34:08
  bit alayhi musalam. Give us a few methods and tips
• 34:11
  and tricks that we can implement in our lives.
• 34:12
  Once is asking is there a way and once I say there is no way,
• 34:16
  but this way, a law Shukur can't be with the tongue.
• 34:19
  Shukur praise is with the tongue.
• 34:22
  Praise hand. I can't really do much more than
• 34:24
  this. That's it, Praise is finished.
• 34:28
  Shukur can't be in that way. Shukur has stages.
• 34:32
  The Quran refers to stages. The narrations of the Arab bait
• 34:36
  refer to stages. The one, the Quran, not in
• 34:39
  specific wording does it refer to stages, but in terms of the
• 34:42
  meanings of the verses. You can see that, for example,
• 34:45
  in Nahade Nahu Najdin Emma Shah Kiran.
• 34:49
  What Emma Kafura, we have given him and we have guided him to
• 34:55
  the two paths. It's clear in front of you now.
• 34:58
  Either you are going to be Sharker, either you're going to
• 35:01
  be thankful or you're going to be Kafur Taman.
• 35:04
  Kafur here and it's a repeated thing in the Quran.
• 35:07
  Not every time it speaks about a kafir in the Quran.
• 35:10
  Does it mean a kafir? A person who does not believe in
• 35:12
  Allah. Could be concealing.
• 35:14
  Concealing what the meaning of kufur is to conceal something
• 35:17
  after is made apparent, which is why Allah azza wajal inna had E
• 35:20
  Nah, who's sabeel? We have shown him the way.
• 35:24
  I said Najdeen I think earlier and Najde na, who's Sabeel?
• 35:27
  In my shakaranwa in ma kafura, we have shown him the way.
• 35:31
  We have guided him towards the way.
• 35:33
  It's been made very clear to them.
• 35:35
  So here they are concealing something.
• 35:37
  After they were guided, they did kufur.
• 35:40
  This kufur is what we call al kufur banana to conceal
• 35:46
  something that Allah Azzawajal has granted me of blessings.
• 35:50
  The other one is what shakur to be thankful to Allah azzawajal.
• 35:55
  So now we've seen in the Quran already we have shukur, and on
• 35:59
  the other side we have shirk in the example of the one who made
• 36:05
  for Allah, azza wajal to give them a good sum.
• 36:07
  And now we have shukur and in parallel to it you have what?
• 36:12
  Kufur. So now you see that kufur and
• 36:15
  shirk, those two heavy words are used directly against what?
• 36:19
  A concept of shukur. How likely do we take shukur, by
• 36:22
  the way? Very.
• 36:22
  And especially when you read it, recognize it in this way.
• 36:25
  So either you're going to be shakur, you're going to be of
• 36:28
  those who are thankful, or you're going to be of those who
• 36:30
  are careful. Then how can I be Shakur and is
• 36:34
  it possible for Allah Azza Wajal to guide me to the way?
• 36:37
  When a way is shown to me, I can't just stare at you, I need
• 36:39
  to walk in that way, right? So therefore Shakur requires
• 36:43
  action. Shakur without action is not
• 36:46
  possible, which is why many narrations of the Elbeit also
• 36:50
  talk about the concept of Kufur. Banana is when you don't use
• 36:54
  something Allah Azza Wajal gave you in the manner that it was
• 36:58
  supposed to be used. Even verses in the Quran talk
• 37:02
  about how Allah Azza Wajal gave us eyes and gave us hearing so
• 37:06
  that he can see who is shakur. Even in the verse of the one
• 37:16
  when they brought the Irish to Suleiman and then he says haddam
• 37:22
  and fatherly rabbi, he says this is from the favors of my Lord
• 37:26
  upon me. Then what does he say?
• 37:28
  He says for him to see if I am thankful to him, then to see if
• 37:34
  I am thankful to him. Who?
• 37:35
  It can't be just by saying Shokranullah, it requires
• 37:38
  action. Which is why if Allah Azzawajal
• 37:41
  has given me these eyes, if he has given me these ears, if he's
• 37:44
  given me this body, if he's given me this tongue, what am I
• 37:47
  using it for? Allah has guided me to the way.
• 37:50
  Either I am thankful and realize it's a general thing.
• 37:53
  It's not specific to something specific in the head.
• 37:56
  Now who sibil? This sibil is 1.
• 37:58
  The way is one. Either I am thankful or I am
• 38:02
  going to be careful of banana. To be thankful is to use what
• 38:06
  Allah Azza Wajal has given me of of blessings and the manner that
• 38:10
  they are required to be used. To be careful of banana is to
• 38:13
  use it in another way and you can use this example as well
• 38:16
  today if anyone give gives you a gift.
• 38:19
  We were blessed enough to receive a little gift from Ahmed
• 38:22
  just before we started this podcast.
• 38:24
  Now imagine, no genuinely, now imagine he gave us this gift.
• 38:28
  So for the viewers, he gave us a little perfume that smells
• 38:32
  extremely nice. Can they order it on aftermath
• 38:35
  ribbon? No, actually, our Mystic.
• 38:38
  Shout out to our Mystic. Yeah, yeah.
• 38:40
  So he gave. So imagine he gave that to me.
• 38:44
  The first thing that both Sid Ali and I did was what?
• 38:47
  We put it straight away on our wrists and we rubbed it and we
• 38:51
  smelt it and we said Jazakallahu, this is very nice.
• 38:55
  Now imagine I took this and I just put it to the site and I
• 38:59
  said thank you. The difference between those two
• 39:02
  thank you's is very big. One, you feel that I was truly
• 39:06
  thankful and the other maybe he was thankful.
• 39:10
  Now imagine I said thank you for this gift and threw in the bin.
• 39:13
  Yeah. I'm not really thankful there.
• 39:16
  Imagine you give a camera to a specific person as a gift.
• 39:19
  Said much Taba. Said Much Taba.
• 39:21
  We give. We give him a gift, a camera.
• 39:25
  He's praying for 4K cameras. 4K cameras, but that's for the
• 39:28
  viewers. Inshallah they can do it and get
• 39:31
  him a gift. When is his birthday all for it
• 39:34
  maybe yeah yeah for 8. So anyway.
• 39:37
  So imagine you give him a camera.
• 39:38
  Now, once you use that camera for content like this, for
• 39:41
  example, content that's in the remembrance of Allah Azza or
• 39:45
  doesn't have to be, it is for taking good pictures, for taking
• 39:47
  nice pictures, for taking pictures of nature, family
• 39:50
  pictures, whatever. It is something where a person
• 39:53
  can see they have used this camera in a way that it is
• 39:56
  useful. You say they were thankful even
• 39:59
  if they didn't say Shukla. Whereas if a person took that
• 40:03
  camera and started taking pictures of little flow bits or
• 40:07
  whatever it may be or not used it at all, but I want to use the
• 40:10
  example of using it. Taking pictures of floor.
• 40:14
  Taking pictures of for example dots on a wall or whatever.
• 40:17
  Mocking it as. He said Shukran.
• 40:19
  Yeah. Are they thankful or not?
• 40:21
  This is the concept of thankfulness.
• 40:23
  Likewise the human being. So you.
• 40:25
  Want no no for that. No, I'll remember my train.
• 40:27
  Of no, no, please. I'll, I'll go on.
• 40:29
  OK, likewise a human being. The shocker that a human being
• 40:34
  performs comes in in one of two ways.
• 40:38
  Either it is that which is done by the tongue by itself, or it
• 40:41
  is that which is accompanied by action.
• 40:43
  That action usually reflects true thankfulness.
• 40:47
  The example is found within nature.
• 40:50
  Today you have what we call sugar tequini.
• 40:53
  What is sugar tequini? Sugar tequini means I plant a
• 40:57
  seed, the seed that I'm planting, or let's say 2 seeds.
• 41:01
  Even better example, I plant 2 seeds, one next to the other.
• 41:04
  They're both receiving the same amount of water.
• 41:07
  They're both receiving the same amount of sunlight.
• 41:10
  They're both receiving the same amount of care. 1 grows and the
• 41:14
  other it's really struggling to grow.
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  A wind blows, one stays firm, the other starts going sideways.
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  I fix it. It's been a year, it's been a
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  year. I'm still giving them both the
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  exact same type of care. One of them is now continued
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  continuing to grow in a steady form.
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  The other one keeps bending, slowing down, going yellow, and
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  then I want to make it green again and all of that.
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  Which one is thankful? The one that continued to grow
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  is thankful. Allah Azzawajal does what in
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  this case for us, what do we do? We start giving it more care.
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  The more thankful we see it the queen and to be, the more care
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  we start giving it until it grows to become a beautiful
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  tree. Likewise, the apartment, the
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  more the slave of Allah Azza Wajal, the more thankful they
• 42:06
  show themselves to be. Not the more times they say
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  shukran, shukran, Shukran, the more thankful they show
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  themselves to be, the more Allah Azza Wajal gives them.
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  While in Shakarto, let us see them.
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  If you are thankful, I will give you more.
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  How does that give you more happen?
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  By showing him that I am thankful the more I perform
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  things that are in line with what Allah Azza Wajal wants, the
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  more I grow in that steady manner, the more Allah has
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  already gives me. And he says they are ready for
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  more. They are ready for more care.
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  They're ready for more water. They're ready for to to for
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  example, bear these beautiful fruits that I'm about to give my
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  slave. I cut you off twice by.
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  The time that's. You need speaking.
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  Sorry, I mean something you mentioned and you repeated the,
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  the, the concept of a Chakarin and the references in the Holy
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  of Quran. And of course we see throughout
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  the holy of Quran that this term Sharkarin, it's used in
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  reference, of course, to those who are thankful, not the ones
• 43:06
  who give thanks, but those who Allah defines as a noun.
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  He talks about the Sharkarin not as an adjective to people.
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  He says the ones who are thanking or the ones who give
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  thanks, or rather the thankful ones, which of course is again
• 43:19
  not limited by time. These are the thankful ones.
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  The Quran is a book eternally so for example, the the references
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  to Amiramat Manin and the Hoda Quran, One of them is Ashakarin.
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  We've seen after the battle of Ahad our last month, Allah talks
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  about Ashakarin, the ones who did not run away from the
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  battle. Amiramat Manin of course was
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  victorious and he keeps that legacy until this day and
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  forever. I wanted to ask specifically
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  what it is, how to become. Firstly, if it's possible to
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  attain this or if it's reserved for those who are of a Haimakan,
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  those who are Mahsalom and Oliya Allah.
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  And secondly, if it is possible, is it possible to attain it
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  through the action? So for example, showing you know
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  your action, action speak louder the words rather than just doing
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  our hand, but our action of shocker, is that our route to it
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  or is there, for example, higher keys, higher stations which we
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  can achieve? I know you gave a reference as
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  well to Anna and me versus God and the the Neffs and the ego
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  that we have. I find it very interesting that
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  there's and I remembered something when you were
• 44:26
  speaking. There are verses in the Holy
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  Quran. Forgive me for I forget this
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  order where Nabi Ibrahim Aleh Salaam is speaking to our last
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  panel with Allah. And he says, as I paraphrase, he
• 44:42
  asks Allah to to make sure that he does not fall into idol
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  worship, nor he nor his sons. And we see in the holy Quran.
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  Sounds like, you know, a normal verse.
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  And of course, there's been so much discussion on this verse.
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  Some have said that Nabi Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam is trying to
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  remain humble. You know, maybe he doesn't fall
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  into sin, but of course, you know, he's who he is my soul,
• 45:06
  you know, So that's a disputed. Others say no, you know, you
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  have the the lineage of and, and the verses following then talk
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  about those who do not stay true to Allah spa and to Allah.
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  But maybe the lineage of Nabi Ibrahim does not fall into idol
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  worship. But then there is some tafasir.
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  I think Aitullah Mehdi Thabati, if I'm not mistaken, references
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  that the idol worship in this verse refers to the neffs, and
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  that the neffs in itself can be seen as a form of idol, the
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  greatest idol. Like when you're cutting down a
• 45:38
  tree, you start with the branches and then eventually cut
• 45:42
  the root, right? So the branches in these cases
• 45:44
  are what feeds the Neffs, the addictions we have.
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  You know, the, the name, the reputation, what I am.
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  I'm consuming myself as a source of comfort for my soul, for
• 45:55
  myself, such that I then turn to this as my pride and my SO as my
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  God. In many ways, my reputation is
• 46:04
  my God. It gives me a sense of ego and
• 46:06
  pride. My work gives me income.
• 46:08
  My income is my then God, it's my sustainer, my provider, so on
• 46:13
  and so forth. You then look at your addictions
• 46:15
  as a source of comfort. Your return is then your
• 46:18
  substance abuse, your screen time, the lust for the opposite
• 46:22
  gender. All of these things become the
• 46:24
  idols within us, and you can't then return to talk, read in the
• 46:28
  last panel to Allah until we break these idols of our nerves.
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  So I wanted to ask whether that kind of assumption, this
• 46:35
  understanding that I've had is correct both in the sense of a
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  Shah Karin and reaching Allah span to Allah through the
• 46:42
  repetition and the class of the actions we have.
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  And also whether it's it's a correct assumption to understand
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  that we first have to remove the idols from within before finding
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  true shocker and being able to manifest that.
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  It's a deep question. Sorry.
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  No, no, it is. It's it's a deep and good
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  question. So first of all, the concept of
• 47:06
  Shah Karin Kosurat Al Imran talks about this, which you
• 47:11
  mentioned as well. And Allah Azza Wajal mentions in
• 47:15
  the in and and the reason I want to mention this is because I
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  think it's a beautiful sometimes to read the full verse that
• 47:22
  gives us a different understanding of something We've
• 47:25
  all memorized the verse Wama Muhammad and Ilah Rasoolan.
• 47:34
  The end of the verse is wased Zillah Shakuri and Allah will
• 47:39
  grant good reward to those who are thankful and the one.
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  By the way, interestingly, you don't always find verses that
• 47:47
  end with the same word verse after verse, whereas shakurin is
• 47:52
  used again in the verse after it.
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  So I think this is verse 144. Then verse 145 mentions it ends
• 47:59
  with the shakurin again. So it's as though this theme is
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  something very specific that Allah Azzawajal wants to
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  emphasize on, which is those who are thankful.
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  Again, who are those that are thankful, those who have
• 48:10
  accepted Allah Azza Wajal's decree, those who have accepted
• 48:14
  what Allah Azza Wajal wanted from them because the verses,
• 48:17
  those verses are talking about what they're talking about.
• 48:19
  Those, you know, for example, said we want to die in the way
• 48:22
  of Allah Azza Wajal and others then became scared of death.
• 48:25
  Those who saw better Allah Azza Wajal strengthened the army of
• 48:29
  the Muslims and they became victorious.
• 48:31
  They said, do you know what, we're going to gather a lot of
• 48:33
  money. And now as well, because they
• 48:35
  saw the Muslim mean they went out and they were able to gather
• 48:37
  the war bounties and all of that.
• 48:39
  And they lived in poverty for a for a while at least then how it
• 48:44
  comes and how they're like this is a perfect opportunity.
• 48:47
  Let me let me get more such that they forget that their main
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  priority is what protecting Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
• 48:56
  wasallam. Because without Rasulullah
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  sallallahu alaihi wasallam, there is no meaning to you.
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  There is. You are no one without the holy
• 49:04
  messenger, which is why even when they thought they became
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  victorious and the Holy Prophet orders them, stay on the on the
• 49:13
  mountain, don't come down from the mountain.
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  They said the wars ended. Habibi, we've won, we've won,
• 49:19
  we've won, the Muslims have won. Let's go get the war bounties
• 49:22
  Before what? Before the other stake.
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  This is the action of those who are thankful before others take.
• 49:29
  So they come down and because of that, Khalid is able to come and
• 49:33
  run through the back. And then the Muslims were
• 49:36
  defeated in that in that war. Why?
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  Because of a moment of greed. Greed, yeah.
• 49:41
  That greed took them away from thankfulness.
• 49:43
  Then this idea of Muhammad has been hit and all of these
• 49:46
  things. The verse comes Muhammad and
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  Illah Rashoudam, but Khalid man Kabli her Rosso messengers, many
• 49:53
  messengers came before him after in Mata al Khotel.
• 49:56
  If he was to die or in fact he was killed in Kaleptum, Allah
• 50:00
  Kabico, he will turn back over your heels.
• 50:03
  Except for a few, they will not turn back over their heels
• 50:08
  because this is generalizing that all of you are going to
• 50:11
  turn back over your heels. So therefore, we can assume from
• 50:14
  that, that all of those who are there are those who are what
• 50:18
  turn back over their heels. I need to find an exception to
• 50:22
  find if a certain individual did not turn back over their heels
• 50:25
  or not. This is a separate point, but
• 50:27
  it's a very important thing for us to notice from this Quranic
• 50:31
  verse. So anyway, so those who are
• 50:33
  thankful were who those who are able to abide by what the
• 50:37
  Messenger of Allah wanted from them, those who are able to
• 50:40
  stick with the Messenger of Allah, Azzawajal.
• 50:43
  This doesn't just apply to the Shahad to to to the Shahadat of
• 50:46
  Ohad or to those who remained with Rasulullah and Ohad, namely
• 50:49
  Amiran mummy in Salawatullah. This applies to an individual
• 50:53
  and is a lesson to an individual who is able to take Rasulullah
• 50:56
  Salallah Aliwar as that individual that they always want
• 51:00
  to protect. When I say protect, I have a
• 51:03
  role of protecting Rasulullah. I have a role of protecting the
• 51:07
  image of Rasulullah. I have a role of protecting the
• 51:10
  image of the holy household, Kono Zain and Lena Velata, Kono,
• 51:14
  Shane and Elena. This is the role that I have.
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  Be the creation towards the Elobate.
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  Don't be a bad example to us, the Elobate.
• 51:21
  This is one thing I have. I have been blessed to be
• 51:24
  called, to be called at least named a Shia out of Emiram,
• 51:28
  meaning a Shia out of Rasulullah, A Shia out of Fatima
• 51:31
  to Zara. Now over the Imams.
• 51:33
  Am I thankful for it? Because Allah is saying what the
• 51:38
  reward will be granted for him, a Shah Karim, those who are
• 51:42
  thankful. You mentioned for example
• 51:44
  Ibrahim. Ibrahim, when the Quran talks
• 51:46
  about him, what does he say? Allah Azza was just in Ibrahim.
• 51:54
  Do we realize the magnitude of this in Ibrahim Akane Umm?
• 51:59
  He was a nation by himself. This is Ibrahim, He was a nation
• 52:03
  by himself. What were his attributes?
• 52:05
  Continue the verse. This is why I say we sometimes
• 52:07
  we just mention specific verses and we've only memorized parts
• 52:10
  of them. In Ibrahim Akane Umm, he was in
• 52:16
  constant supplication to Allah Hanifan.
• 52:19
  He was on the straight path. He was on the straight path in
• 52:24
  the head of Allah Azzawajal. Well, let me a criminal
• 52:26
  Musharakin and he was not over those who associated partners
• 52:30
  with Allah Azzawajal move to the next verse Shah Karandi and
• 52:34
  Omihi. He was thankful for the bounties
• 52:38
  that we sent up on him. These are the qualities that
• 52:42
  made Ibrahim what EU Ummah EU Ummah Kanitanila in constant
• 52:48
  supplication to Allah Azzawajal Hanifan upon the straight path.
• 52:54
  Let me come in and mushrikin. He was not of those who
• 52:57
  associates partners with Allah Azzawajal Shah, currently Anomi.
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  He was thankful for the Nam that were given to him.
• 53:04
  So likewise an individual when they come and they are in a
• 53:07
  state of thankfulness in their action, they will also be known
• 53:12
  as a slave. Who is what?
• 53:14
  Who is thankful? Allah reminds his Prophet
• 53:17
  sometimes be of those who are thankful.
• 53:19
  When he speaks to Musa and he gives him the message, then he
• 53:22
  says welcome in a Shah Karin and be of those who are thankful.
• 53:26
  I'll give you actually a nice hadith.
• 53:29
  There's a narration from Imam Al Baqar Ali Salam.
• 53:33
  I remember reading this a few months ago when he speaks about
• 53:37
  Noah Alihiwala Nabinawa Ali of the Rasati Wasalam.
• 53:40
  He says no Every time he used to go to sleep at night before he
• 53:45
  sleeps, he used to say I am ending my day by praising Allah
• 53:50
  Azzawajal. I am ending my day by praising
• 53:54
  Allah Azzawajal knowing that everything that I received today
• 53:57
  is from him. So to him I am grateful and him
• 54:01
  I thank a lot. What does the Quran say about
• 54:04
  Nuh In Nuhukana Abdenshakura? He was a thankful slave.
• 54:11
  Everything comes back to Shukar. Everything goes back to shukar,
• 54:15
  enna, hadina, Husabin. I go back to this.
• 54:20
  At the end of the day, a man is not a man if he is not Shakur,
• 54:29
  because you cannot be a movement if you are not thankful because
• 54:32
  Iman Iman is different to Islam. Once I say I am Muslim, well
• 54:39
  done Muslim. A moment is who a moment is.
• 54:43
  The one who applies the two shahada to their life is the
• 54:48
  individual who abides by Allah, Allah.
• 54:50
  Allah abides by Muhammad. Rasulullah the Arab said we
• 54:55
  believed, just hold on one second, you haven't believed yet
• 55:01
  why Iman hasn't yet entered your hearts.
• 55:09
  So what should we say? I can call you Aslam now we say
• 55:12
  what we are Muslim. What was the prerequisite for
• 55:15
  them to be called a men for it to enter their hearts?
• 55:18
  Because supposedly when Iman enters your hearts and when that
• 55:23
  it becomes firm and I believe truly Allah, Allah, I'm not
• 55:27
  going to start missing my prayer.
• 55:29
  When I truly believe la ilaha Illallah and I know it is a sin
• 55:33
  to not wear hijab, I'm not going to take off my hijab.
• 55:36
  When I know la ilaha illallah and I know it is a sin to go to
• 55:39
  drugs and alcohol. I'm not going to touch drugs and
• 55:42
  alcohol when I know la ilaha illallah and I know there is no
• 55:45
  one worthy of worshipping, but Allah has awarded.
• 55:47
  I'm not going to go into these things.
• 55:50
  This is a person who is Shakur and this is a person who is
• 55:52
  kafir. Kafir not.
• 55:55
  Again, I don't want you to be misunderstood.
• 55:57
  Not kafir in the sense that a person who does this is out of
• 56:00
  Islam. No, they are Muslim, but they
• 56:02
  cannot be described as what a mukmen, because a mukmen is the
• 56:07
  one who abides by what Allah. Azzawajal wants a nice
• 56:12
  narration. Zorara comes to Imam Musad Ali
• 56:16
  Sanam, he says have you heard the narration from your
• 56:21
  grandfather Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi wasallam in
• 56:24
  which he said that a muttman realized not a Muslim, a
• 56:29
  muttman. In al Muttman Alayazni, a
• 56:32
  muttman does not fornicate. And this narration is also
• 56:36
  mentioned with other kabar with other major sins.
• 56:40
  But this specific narration I'll mention like this al Muttman
• 56:44
  Lazni, a muttman does not fornicate.
• 56:46
  He says, yes, Alphard, He said to him, why, Why would the men
• 56:50
  not do Xena? Why would they not go to this
• 56:53
  major sin? He said the soul of Iman comes
• 57:00
  out of that individual. So Lara asks him an interesting
• 57:05
  question that I think both of you are thinking about.
• 57:07
  I thought about it as well, he says, and what is royal Iman?
• 57:11
  What is the soul of Iman? That or spirit of Iman, however
• 57:14
  you want to translate it. Imam Musadiq says who has
• 57:17
  Sheikh, it is something and he looks a bit and he says Zorara
• 57:22
  come let me tell you something, I'll bring the idea closer to
• 57:25
  you. Zorara, have you ever gone to a
• 57:28
  sin and as you are about to perform that sin, something
• 57:32
  tells you stop says yes, that's all Iman.
• 57:37
  So Wamutman therefore does not commit major sins according to
• 57:42
  this Quranic verse we recited. According to this narration,
• 57:46
  amotment does not commit major sins.
• 57:48
  Therefore, therefore we need to be sharker to be what amotment.
• 57:53
  So the prerequisite of attaining Allah's true mercy is to be
• 57:58
  thankful. That thankfulness is not me
• 58:00
  saying shukran Linda, that thankfulness is through my
• 58:03
  actions. I am thankful.
• 58:06
  I have can I interrupt? Please.
• 58:09
  I have a philosophical question. I know we're like we're deep in
• 58:12
  and but I want to ask something specifically.
• 58:14
  You want to go deeper. Yeah, I want to go, Yeah,
• 58:17
  especially Rohit Iman. OK, I know for example Mullah
• 58:20
  Savla and I know for example a lot of his theories are debated
• 58:24
  to some degree. Yeah, he talks about Iman as
• 58:27
  kind of like a mirror reflecting mirror.
• 58:29
  And there is different stages, but the the mirror is the
• 58:31
  reflection of in sun and and the Iman right.
• 58:35
  He says that some of these major sins once they're committed,
• 58:40
  Rohan Iman is gone, that there is no point of return ever for
• 58:44
  such Muslim mean. What may mean ever?
• 58:47
  Is that a mainstream belief or what is the mainstream?
• 58:50
  The hadith, The hadith we have from the Elbeit Ali mother's
• 58:54
  house, where Salaam show that there is potential for Rohan
• 58:56
  Iman to come back, especially when a person comes back to
• 59:01
  abiding to that which Allah Azza Wajal wants from them.
• 59:04
  This is something that is in my hands.
• 59:06
  We have a narration from our beloved Prophet Muhammad
• 59:10
  sallallahu alaihi wasallam, when he talks about Iman and then he
• 59:14
  says who I'm in, it is from them.
• 59:16
  They are in control of it, I control it.
• 59:19
  The only issue I might get into is if I constantly don't listen
• 59:23
  to that a voice within my head that that tells me this is
• 59:27
  Haram, don't do this, change this, do that.
• 59:29
  And the fact that I always delay, sometimes even changing
• 59:34
  is another thing. Sometimes I recognize I am doing
• 59:36
  something wrong, but I delay changing based on what am I
• 59:41
  delaying based on what am I delaying.
• 59:44
  And I just wanted to be clear, when I'm speaking, I'm not
• 59:47
  speaking from a, a a point of perfection.
• 59:49
  No, not at all. There's many things that I want
• 59:52
  to change, but we need to what always try to, let me say, run
• 59:58
  towards change, Sarah, O Allah, Mahfirat Allah, run towards the
• 1:00:03
  mercy of Allah, run towards Allah's forgiveness.
• 1:00:06
  Because I didn't do what? What is it within me that tells
• 1:00:09
  me that I have so much time left?
• 1:00:11
  I mean, how many times have we seen within our community alone,
• 1:00:16
  how many people have passed? And there's this narration where
• 1:00:19
  Salman comes to the Holy Prophet.
• 1:00:22
  The Holy Prophet asks Salman. He says, Salman, how far do you
• 1:00:26
  look into this life? He says Semiya Rasulullah, when
• 1:00:31
  I wake up, I don't know if I'll go back to sleep.
• 1:00:33
  And if I sleep I don't know if I'll wake up.
• 1:00:35
  That's how far Salman looked. And we think of this and like,
• 1:00:38
  wow, Salman looked so far into this life.
• 1:00:41
  Rasulullah says you think so far into this life?
• 1:00:47
  He says ya Rasulullah, if this is so far into this life, how
• 1:00:52
  far do you look into this life? Yara Sulla, He says Yenzil and
• 1:00:55
  Nefesfalaya site. I breathe out, I don't breathe
• 1:00:59
  in again. That's how far I look into this
• 1:01:01
  life. So we always need to rush
• 1:01:04
  towards change. We need because there's nothing
• 1:01:06
  that is going to guarantee. So put that to the site.
• 1:01:09
  The fact that Rohal Iman or Rohal Iman can come back by a
• 1:01:12
  person changing what they are doing.
• 1:01:15
  But were the points that I was making is that Shukar is now a
• 1:01:19
  prerequisite of Iman. The fact that Allah Azza Wajal
• 1:01:22
  talks about those who are receiving blessings from Allah
• 1:01:29
  Azza Wajal or who are those who are Shakur.
• 1:01:31
  In fact, actually let's open Sortel Insan together.
• 1:01:35
  So what actually insan because I referenced this verse a few
• 1:01:39
  Times Now, it will be nice to open it.
• 1:01:42
  My Quran app is not opening, so we'll open one of your funds.
• 1:01:46
  Sure. So if you if you just read the
• 1:01:51
  translation, it's fine. So go from verse, I think three.
• 1:01:55
  Yeah, verse three if you read it.
• 1:01:58
  Should I read out the English? Yeah, yeah, sure.
• 1:02:00
  OK, We already showed them the way, whether they choose to be
• 1:02:04
  grateful or ungrateful. So in Mashaqiran, we're in
• 1:02:08
  Makafora. This is the situation we're in
• 1:02:10
  right now, the next vest vestful.
• 1:02:12
  Indeed, we have prepared for the disbelievers, chains, shackles
• 1:02:15
  and a blazing fire this. Is for who?
• 1:02:17
  For the one who is not thankful, so the one who is not thankful,
• 1:02:21
  this is there, This is for example, what they will receive,
• 1:02:24
  then the next of us. Indeed, the virtuous will be
• 1:02:28
  with Asia Chakaron. The virtuous will have a drink
• 1:02:31
  of pure wine flavoured with camphor from a spring where our
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  last servants will drink, flowing at their will.
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  Continue. They are those who fulfill their
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  vows and a fear of the day of sweeping horror, and give food,
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  despite their desire for it, to the poor, the orphan, and the
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  captive Acid. And then it continues and
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  mentions, mentions all of these qualities.
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  So therefore that great Rd. in the hereafter is for who?
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  For Shakur, of course, because Allah said it's one of two
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  things in my Shakuran, in my kaphura.
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  So those even those blessings that you get within the within
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  the heavens of Allah Hazawajal are related to who are related
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  to the one who is thankful. But to realize those who are
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  thankful have qualities. They help people.
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  They are fearful of Allah Hazawajal.
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  They don't just sit there like saying hey, Allah Hazawajal will
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  sort it out. That's me being shocked.
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  No, no, no, they're fearful of Allah, I think it mentioned and
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  are fearful of his chastisement or.
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  Yeah. So this is something that we
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  have to be always aware of. This is true.
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  Thanks to Allah. Yeah, sorry.
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  Sorry, Shekhar, I was going to ask.
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  Sorry. You have to cut me off right
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  away, because if you don't cut me off, I'll keep talking.
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  OK, I want to ask something specifically in regards to the
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  AHL debate, Ahim Salaam. And I think this is probably I,
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  I don't want to stop, but I think this is probably a good
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  area to to kind of bring it back to, to perhaps principles and
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  stories we're more familiar with.
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  We look at for example, say the Fatima Ali Salah to Saddam in in
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  her sermon of Faddek, which I know you have studied in depth
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  and you've got an incredible series.
• 1:04:04
  We've done 3 lectures, 3 part series on on the on Faddek here
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  if I'm not mistaken. I've done A5 part.
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  Five part series on Faddek, which is really.
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  Introduction of the sermon. Yeah, and the beginning, of
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  course, where say the Fatima says Hamdullah and Hamdulillahi
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  Levi Anam and she's talking about the blessings which our
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  last man to Allah gives her. Despite the fact that these are
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  people who try to tarnish her blessed and pure reputation and
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  her distinguished name and those who, for example, took her
• 1:04:32
  rights and try to confiscate what was right for the hers.
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  But she begins with the the the hand of Allah and then she goes
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  into Shakur, if I'm not mistaken.
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  And of course, there's ample to ours in Sahifa Sajadiya where we
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  see Imam Sajad after the battle of Karbala repeatedly thanking
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  Allah span to Allah, praising and thanking Allah span to Allah
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  for all that he's given. And these are two moments in
• 1:04:56
  times of hardship. Before we started the podcast,
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  you were talking to me about how to remember and connect with
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  Allah Spanotallah in moments of distress.
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  And you mentioned to me that the remembrance and the most siba
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  overwhile Hussein Aleh Salaam, it takes you to a place where
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  you, your soul should be. It relieves your soul.
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  And of course, you're doing the dhikr and Musiba Abdi al Beit
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  Ali Musalam. What is some advice you can give
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  to us and to inshallah listeners at home who are currently going
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  through something, health, situations, wealth, family,
• 1:05:32
  whatever it might be, their reputation has been wrongfully
• 1:05:35
  damaged. Whatever it might be, who are
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  feeling distressed at the moment but who need a source of
• 1:05:40
  inspiration from the stories of the Alhabet Alayhi Musalaam or
• 1:05:44
  something that they can take in that into their day-to-day
• 1:05:46
  lives. I'll just make it a point 1st
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  that I didn't forget about your other questions about the Nephs.
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  So I don't know if you want to go back to that later or if you
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  want me. To leave it.
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  Yeah, we can leave. That yeah.
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  So in terms of the Alhabet, peace and blessings be upon
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  them, Fatima to Zahrat Alayhar, namely she comes and she stands
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  in the in front of those individuals and those
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  individuals are the same ones that have oppressed her.
• 1:06:15
  But she's showing a strong case of true hand and true thana of
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  Allah azzawajal and true thankfulness Shukar zeal
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  Hamdulillahi allahu, allahu, shukra.
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  Allahukar al hamdulillahi allahu, allahu, allahu.
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  Shukra allahu allahu Allahu or praise be to Allah Azzawajal
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  upon what He has favored upon me.
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  And all thanks be to him for what He has brought forth to me
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  and extended praise be to him upon that which he has inspired
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  me. Like at the way that Fatima Tu
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  Zara is is talking to those individuals and how she
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  introduces this great sermon of her, the sermon of Fedek.
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  Likewise, you mentioned Imam Zain Al Abedin, He stands in
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  sham and his hot but before he even starts with men, Arafani
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  Faqad Arafani, he starts by praising Allah Azzawajal.
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  There is a constant theme of praise.
• 1:07:12
  Now this theme of praise goes back and and thanks go back to a
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  very important thing that I mentioned which is that
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  thankfulness and praise are all prerequisites of Iman.
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  Without them there is no Iman. They go hand in hand with Iman.
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  Now you might tell me, and what does this have to do with your
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  question in terms of those who are watching at home or even
• 1:07:37
  ourselves, how do we deal with certain times of distress?
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  I say I'm not a person of advice, but Rasulullah is
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  Rasulullah sallallahu alaihiwari wasallam.
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  He says Iman is of two parts. What are those two parts here?
• 1:07:52
  Rasulullah, he says the two parts of Iman is Shukar and
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  Sabr. So the two parts that you rec
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  prerequisites, if you like, of Iman that allow a movement to
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  remain, a movement that allows them to stay steadfast is both
• 1:08:07
  patience and thankfulness. Because to be truly patient, I
• 1:08:12
  need to be thankful upon the calamity that has just come upon
• 1:08:16
  me. And to be thankful upon the
• 1:08:18
  calamity that has just come upon me.
• 1:08:21
  I need to be able to be patient, to be able to be thankful, which
• 1:08:24
  is why you're you're referenced earlier and give glad tidings to
• 1:08:36
  those who are patients about your own, those that when a
• 1:08:45
  calamity comes upon them, they say indeed we are to Allah and
• 1:08:49
  to him we shall return. This word of thinking about
• 1:08:53
  Allah azzawajan, that we are from Allah to him we shall
• 1:08:56
  return, is something that really keeps an individual grounded
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  that Allah azzawajal is with me. Allah is is overseeing Ola ICA
• 1:09:04
  alaihim salawatu memorabic. Imagine by just seeing such a
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  statement in a moment of patience.
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  Allah sends blessings upon you. Can we just comprehend that for
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  a second? Allah Allah Allah Allah ICA
• 1:09:20
  alaihim salawatu memorabic. Allah sends blessings upon those
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  individuals. That is 1 to have that patience.
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  What can help with it is recognizing that Allah azzawajal
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  is always going to be in a state of mercy, going back to what we
• 1:09:37
  first started with. Allah doesn't stop being
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  merciful and sometimes certain things come, certain
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  tribulations come to better me and that's all I know.
• 1:09:46
  That's a whole different discussion.
• 1:09:47
  Maybe one day we can talk about the philosophies of trials and
• 1:09:50
  tribulations, because I think it's a very deep discussion
• 1:09:53
  within itself. But Allah has original might
• 1:09:55
  trial me to better me. Allah has original might trial
• 1:09:57
  me because of an error that's come to me.
• 1:09:59
  Maybe it is because Allah Azzawajal wants to slow
• 1:10:02
  something down because that is better for me.
• 1:10:04
  We are reciting the airlift, maybe that which slowed
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  everything down on me. It's better for me, for you know
• 1:10:16
  the end results of things Philum, Aramol and Kareem.
• 1:10:21
  I have never seen a master who is so Kareem, who is so giving
• 1:10:28
  Asbara Allah, Abdul Leim and Minke Alaya Arab who is more
• 1:10:34
  patient upon a slave who is always transgressing against
• 1:10:39
  their master. In the category only for
• 1:10:41
  Owliank, you call upon me and I run away from you.
• 1:10:47
  This is the relationship I've created with Allah Azzawajal.
• 1:10:50
  Whereas Allah is always in that state of mercy, Allah Azzawajal
• 1:10:55
  is always saying no, no, no, come to me.
• 1:10:57
  Thank me for what I have given you and I will give you more to
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  be in a state of thankfulness. This is something that we just
• 1:11:06
  say that they even apply it. Of course they applied it.
• 1:11:10
  Is there a tragedy that greater than the tragedy of ABBA
• 1:11:13
  Abdullah Imam Hussein Ali Salaam and this is the day of Thursday.
• 1:11:20
  This is Leila Tujumal must help for a person to perform the
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  ziara of Imam Hussein Ali Salaam said one of the best ways to
• 1:11:26
  deal with these things is to remember the tragedies of the
• 1:11:28
  aliabet and the albeit said in Kunta Baki en nisheh febkil Ali
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  Hussain. If you cry for anything, cry for
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  Imam Ali Hussain Ali Salam. This is the remedy that the AL
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  albeit gave when Imam UL Barker who is an individual who was
• 1:11:43
  five years of age at the time of Karbala, witnessed everything
• 1:11:49
  that happened in Karbala from A-Z and then witnessed
• 1:11:54
  everything that happened post Karbala from leaving the bodies
• 1:12:01
  to then coming back to bury them in Aruba and to then going back
• 1:12:04
  to Medina. Performs Ciara of his
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  grandfather Imam and Hussein Ali Salaam and then when he finishes
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  his siara, he goes into sujood and he says al hamdulillahi
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  hamdashah Karina like Allah Musabi, all praise be to you.
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  Allah, the praise of those who are thankful upon their
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  calamity, Al Hamdulillahi, Allah alimi Raziati, all praise be to
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  you for how magnificent this tragedy of mine is.
• 1:12:36
  Therefore, the Imam is now balancing between shukur,
• 1:12:42
  between being thankful to Allah azzawajal, and between what and
• 1:12:46
  between patients. Those two things I'm not saying
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  are easy to to weigh, but they are things we need to reflect
• 1:12:54
  on, especially in these days of Shah Ramadan.
• 1:12:56
  Let me think about all of those things that Allah azzawajal has
• 1:13:00
  done for me. Let me think about all of those
• 1:13:02
  favors that Allah Azzawajal has bestowed upon me.
• 1:13:05
  Am I truly praising him with the true praise that he deserves?
• 1:13:09
  Am I truly thanking him with the true thanks that he deserves?
• 1:13:13
  And I know we're probably coming to the end of the episode.
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  So if I can just send at least a message that at least, at least
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  at least if we want to do one thing, one thing.
• 1:13:23
  If we want to do one thing this Shah Ramadan after watching this
• 1:13:26
  episode, then we want to know more about Shukur.
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  I ask you to go back to two things.
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  Go and read the dua of Shukar of Imam Zain al Abidin, which I
• 1:13:37
  believe is dua 37 and go read Munajati Shah Karin of Imam Zain
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  al Abidin. Those two things.
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  Go and understand what shukar is.
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  I praise Allah Azzujan and you shukar to Allah Azzujan.
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  I think as though I've done him a favor.
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  I've done good the favor by thanking him, whereas it is the
• 1:13:56
  opposite. Allah has has done a favor upon
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  me by allowing me to thank Him, which is why Imam's in Aberdeen
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  says in Munajat Shakarin that O Allah, every time I said Al
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  Hamdulillah, it is an obligation upon me for to to thank you for
• 1:14:15
  that al Hamdulillah. It's a recurring thing.
• 1:14:19
  Me being able to say Al Hamdulillah to you is because
• 1:14:22
  you have granted me the opportunity to say Al
• 1:14:24
  Hamdulillah. If it wasn't for that, would I
• 1:14:27
  be able to say Al Hamdulillah, Mama, kunali, nehtadiya, Lola
• 1:14:31
  and Hadan Allah? Everything that I have been
• 1:14:34
  guided towards is from Allah Azzawajal.
• 1:14:37
  How short have I come with Allah Azzawajal on the other hand and
• 1:14:41
  how merciful is he to me during all those times as well?
• 1:14:46
  What balance am I even talking about?
• 1:14:49
  Allah Azzawajal is constantly coming towards me and I'm
• 1:14:52
  running away from him. And then at the end, I want to
• 1:14:56
  talk to Allah Azzawajal as though I owe him a favour.
• 1:15:00
  And I really, really want us to think about this, this concept
• 1:15:03
  of hand and shooker in the words of the error bit.
• 1:15:06
  Therefore, when a calamity comes upon me, when a tragedy falls
• 1:15:10
  upon me, connect. Let me connect with Allah
• 1:15:13
  Azzawajal, but not connect with him in that manner that we spoke
• 1:15:17
  about, as though he is my only hope.
• 1:15:18
  And then after that, we'll see how it goes.
• 1:15:21
  Let me connect with him and keep my hand in his hand
• 1:15:25
  metaphorically to see how Allah Azzawajal will open up those
• 1:15:29
  doors for me. Let me see how Allah Azzawajal
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  thence will show me how this thankfulness allows me to go to
• 1:15:37
  Greater Makamaten. Greatest steps.
• 1:15:40
  Ibrahim Ali Salah. Ibrahim Ali Salah Tragedy after
• 1:15:44
  tragedy after tribulation after tribulation in Igi Ali Nasir
• 1:15:48
  Imama, How Shah Karan Li Anomi realize a constant theme you
• 1:15:54
  find is shukar. Even at times of most
• 1:15:58
  difficulty. There were of those who are find
• 1:16:01
  me one imam, find me one mushroom who does not start
• 1:16:05
  their day upon hand, who does not end their day upon hand.
• 1:16:09
  And even then I've come short. I can say shukar and Allah,
• 1:16:14
  sorry I keep talking by the way, but just cut me off.
• 1:16:17
  When you're ready. I say shukar and shukar and
• 1:16:19
  shukar and Allah, Shukar and Allah Hamdulillah, Hamdulillah.
• 1:16:21
  Then what Tasbirtezara, I ask you, by Allah, today you guys, a
• 1:16:26
  kid performed tasbirtezara at least after Salat al Maghrib.
• 1:16:30
  You said hamdallah 33 times. I ask you, by Allah, did you
• 1:16:34
  think of anything that you were praising him for?
• 1:16:37
  Oh, you're just doing hamdallah, Hamdallah.
• 1:16:41
  This is the problem that we're falling into.
• 1:16:44
  Yet Allah azawajal doesn't come to me and say, Ibrahim, you
• 1:16:48
  haven't done proper hamd of me or I'm in new proper shukur of
• 1:16:51
  me. Therefore I'm not going to give
• 1:16:52
  you anything anymore. No, I'm still breathing, I'm
• 1:16:55
  still in perfect health. I still have a cup of water next
• 1:16:58
  to me. I'm still in company of good
• 1:17:03
  brothers. Are these not all bounties that
• 1:17:06
  Allah Azzawajal has given me? Now I'm recognizing a specific
• 1:17:11
  bounty. Shukur is now done by saying, Oh
• 1:17:15
  Allah, I am going to stay steadfast on what you have given
• 1:17:18
  me. You've given me the sebid,
• 1:17:19
  you've shown it to me. I'm going to be of those who are
• 1:17:21
  sharker. I'm going to continue performing
• 1:17:23
  this. I'm going to, I'm going to make
• 1:17:24
  a change even in times of tribulations, even in terms of
• 1:17:28
  difficulty. Why does it have to change here?
• 1:17:31
  The shakur should be consistent. Why?
• 1:17:34
  Because when someone is sharker, they are always upon what
• 1:17:38
  thanking Allah azzawajal. So I asked our last friend Allah
• 1:17:41
  to allow us to be amongst those who are truly thankful to him,
• 1:17:45
  to be of those who to be of the foremost of those who are
• 1:17:49
  thankful to him, and to thank him according to how he deserves
• 1:17:52
  to be thanked. Because at the end of the day,
• 1:17:56
  Allah has also made it easy. Musa alayhi Salaam, he says to
• 1:18:04
  Allah azzawajal, the Prophet, he says to Allah azzawajal.
• 1:18:08
  He says, O Allah, how is it that you want me to thank you truly
• 1:18:12
  how you should be thanked? So thank me how I should be
• 1:18:15
  thanked. So how is it that every time I
• 1:18:18
  thank you or every time I praise you, it is from you and I have
• 1:18:22
  to thank you for that praise. He says, now you have truly
• 1:18:25
  thanked me for how I should be thanked.
• 1:18:27
  When you recognize that this is mercy, Allah just requires a
• 1:18:33
  recognition from His. We can never understand the
• 1:18:37
  physics of of Allah's mercy. Honestly.
• 1:18:40
  No, it's incredible. So my last point, allow us to be
• 1:18:44
  amongst those who recognize that Inshallah and amongst those who
• 1:18:47
  are truly thankful to our last point.
• 1:18:49
  I mean, sorry, I'm stopping myself to talk on purpose
• 1:18:53
  because I apologize for. Going you don't say Ali's been
• 1:18:57
  requesting we do this topic and this discussion for probably
• 1:19:02
  close to a year, right? And we've always waited for the
• 1:19:06
  right opportunity and the right guest.
• 1:19:09
  I. Think, I think you.
• 1:19:11
  Could have got I'm going to stop you, bro.
• 1:19:12
  No, no, I'm I'm going to stop you.
• 1:19:14
  I'm going to have done. A much better job on this?
• 1:19:16
  No, not at all. Stop.
• 1:19:18
  It Jack could have done a much. No, no, you are.
• 1:19:20
  You are perfect. You are perfect, Mayor Laura,
• 1:19:22
  would you from your kindness? Not at all, not at all.
• 1:19:24
  Grant you more Tofia and answer your high judge except your
• 1:19:28
  father's blessing nights, these remaining days we have of
• 1:19:31
  Shahramadhan and protect your family and in Shahallah allow us
• 1:19:35
  to learn more from you and for you to continue to inspire
• 1:19:38
  communities around the world for decades and decades to come.
• 1:19:41
  Habibi Shah, thank you so much. Thank you very much.
• 1:19:43
  Thank you for coming on and for enlightening us, said Ali.
• 1:19:48
  Sent some shepherd a lot of food before and a lot to reflect on.
• 1:19:51
  And that's the point I sort like in the last, I can be honest, in
• 1:19:54
  the last, I don't know, 10-15 minutes, I didn't want it to
• 1:19:58
  end. But there was a lot things
• 1:20:00
  affecting me inside. Yeah.
• 1:20:01
  These are reminders for us and the Charlotte reminders for
• 1:20:03
  those listening at home as well. Don't take it for granted now.
• 1:20:08
  Don't just say it, Hamdullah. Don't say.
• 1:20:09
  Like when you were speaking, Chef, there was a lot of things
• 1:20:11
  that came back to me that I could have went institute and
• 1:20:14
  said, Shukran, you're up for this.
• 1:20:16
  Shukran, you're up. But I didn't.
• 1:20:18
  When shall I go today? When I go unless you mentioned
• 1:20:20
  this of the most simple acts that a person can perform truly
• 1:20:24
  truly would we stand on the prayer mat if Allah has Oja
• 1:20:27
  didn't allow us to stand on the prayer mat, but we rush it we
• 1:20:31
  pray and we get Australia. I see.
• 1:20:33
  Even if you're rush your prayer, even if you're rush your prayer
• 1:20:35
  and you prayed it so fast, no problem.
• 1:20:38
  Just take 2 seconds after that to perform.
• 1:20:40
  So you would say Shokan Linda for those simple accent.
• 1:20:44
  Yeah, accent. And there's massive the.
• 1:20:46
  The problem is it's something that he's deserving of and he's
• 1:20:50
  deserving of more. Yet his mercy says that you do
• 1:20:54
  this simple act that he deserves anyway and that I've come short
• 1:20:57
  with anyway. But he rewarded me for it on
• 1:20:59
  top. Of regardless.
• 1:21:00
  Subhanallah. Yeah, we can never understand
• 1:21:03
  it. We can never understand it.
• 1:21:04
  This is why the Shahraman, we have the Quran and there we have
• 1:21:07
  the little bait and we we, it's our goal to try and see them
• 1:21:10
  both hand in hand. And they will never suffer.
• 1:21:12
  They'll never say I wish we could have had a conversation
• 1:21:16
  and Charlotte next time, but about I'm scared about Mamel,
• 1:21:22
  Mehdi and Shahraban and connecting the two.
• 1:21:25
  Yeah, maybe off camera and Charlotte, but this is for us.
• 1:21:27
  We're going to benefit from this is Charlotte.
• 1:21:29
  We love you guys. I just mentioned one narration
• 1:21:32
  that came to me and I'll end it here.
• 1:21:34
  I won't ask anything else. And there was I read that
• 1:21:38
  actually today was today, yeah, a few hours ago.
• 1:21:40
  And it was by Imam Ali, Alayhi Saddam.
• 1:21:42
  He was like, like the best form of gratitude.
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  Shukur, a believer, the state he can be in is to not use the
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  blessings and the bounties of Allah and his disobedience.
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  And when we think about it, this can be our eyes.
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  Do we disobey Allah with it? This can be our ears do disobey
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  Allah with our tongue. He's telling me that's the best
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  form of sugar and the most simplest thing to stay away from
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  Haram. That's it.
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  I'm not saying anything. Else it is going to kill me.
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  But he reminded me of veneration.
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  And of course, these are the at the end of this is the month of
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  Emira Momini. So it's it would be nice to end
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  on this as well. And Nigel Bellaga and Nigel
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  Bellaga, by the way, especially for the views as well.
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  It's got a section that is called Hecam Amira Momini.
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  Very short, nice and simple. The wisdoms of Emir and
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  Mumminin. Of those wisdoms Emir and
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  Mumminin mentions, he says do not push away the atraf.
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  How would you translate atraf in English?
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  Atraf The the end like the end parts, the edges of the edge,
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  the end parts of blessings. With little thanks, sometimes we
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  receive blessings from Allah Azza wajal and it's so close,
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  but I mean morning saying what if you do not thank enough,
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  those blessings start moving away.
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  So he says that thank him and don't perform little thanks.
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  He didn't say by by not thanking him, he says by thanking little.
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  So we should always be in a state of constant thanks.
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  Allah Azzawajal can continue. I'll stop talking.
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  No, no, no, no. That's beautiful and.
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  There's thanks to you, we will continue this.
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  Thanks. Thank you so much.
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  Thank you so much, Shakun Amela, bless you award you guys.
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  I hope you've enjoyed that as much as we have.
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  I think that's eye opening and it's not just a conversation for
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  Shahar Al Malam, but of course, for the whole year.
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  And you know, this is something which we can take forward
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  Charlotte. I'm really looking forward to to
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  the next podcast in the coming podcast.
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  We're going to be doing a lot in Charlotte throughout the rest of
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  the holy month. More than anything, we ask you
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