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Make the most of the Nights of Qadr (Ft. Ibraheim al-Ansari) · After Maghrib 🌙

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Similar Ahmad Rahim Salaam Alaikum and welcome back to the
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After Madrid podcasts. We have now approached the
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Knights of other the Knights of Destiny as well as commemorating
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the martyrdom of Imam Ali Emir Al Maminen Alayhis Salaam.
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So it's a special evening and a special conversation not just
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for us but for all the lovers of Imam Ali, for every Muslim,
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every Shia Muslim, everyone who falls under the banner.
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And the Walaya of this conversation is some is
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something that we don't want to miss.
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And I'm, I've been looking forward to this the entire year.
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So before we introduce our guest that we have today, he's a
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special guest. He means a lot to us, especially
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to after Madreb, I want to say Salaam alaikum, but where is
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your heart? Where is your heart?
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On a day like this, where is your heart?
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Your heart is in Kufa. Your heart is in Kufa.
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You well everyone. You reflect on on the on the
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magnanimity of these days specifically the the joining the
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fusion of the Quran and the Ahlid bait in in the visible
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form. Of course Quran and the Ahlid
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Bait are always fused together can't be separated.
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But on a day like today's, where we see in a case study in a
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story where the Quran and the Ahlid bait were exemplified in
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one interaction or in one instance.
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And that is of course when Miramot mining was struck whilst
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in Surjud in the Fajr Salah on the 19th night of Ramadan.
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And it's it's a moment I think for all of us around the world.
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We obviously we begin our Masai, we begin our mourning of Miramot
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mining, but also we begin our our Mile of Leal and paddle.
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Now this is a long conversation to have a very interesting
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conversation to have. How do we bring the two
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together? Do we separate them?
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Do we not do how? How do we approach that?
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So we're really honoured to be joined by one of our favourite
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guests, a returning guest, Al Hamdullah, from last Shah
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Ramadan, our dear brother Ibrahim Al Ansari Sam Alaiko.
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Alaiko. So good to have you back.
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It feels like it's. I have said this to you before,
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the pod does not feel like a year.
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Yeah, yes, the years or the days in general, they seem to be
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moving extremely fast. Honestly.
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Yes, Actually, I think it was about two years ago.
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We had the house majors in your house.
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Yeah. And we commemorate with Marvin
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feels like 2 days ago on a. Crazy.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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What is crazy? Yeah, so obviously you, for
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those who don't know, you now live in Najaf.
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What is it like in these days? I know, obviously you're here,
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but what can we imagine it to the scene to be like?
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I've actually experienced the shadow of Emir Al Moamin in
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Najaf in 2017. That was the one and only time
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that I've experienced it genuinely when first of all,
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just to see how the city goes to a standstill in terms of all the
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shops close, all the restaurants close.
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And then on top of that you've got you walk into the shrine and
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you know the shrine is now expanded.
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So you're talking about a massive building that is filled
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with the red lights to commemorate the martyrdom of
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Emir Al Momini. You walk into where the Vari is
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and that has changed to red as well.
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The mosques around the shrine are all put putting up red
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lights as a sign of the Shahad of Emir Al Momini.
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Kufa is filled with the red lights as a sign of the Shahad
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of Emir Momini. What's greater is the Mahrab of
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Emir Al Minin which usually has the green light inside.
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It's whenever you visit the Masjid of Kufa and Masjid of
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Kufa is that Masjid. Personally, I I feel most at
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ease when I go to the Masjid of Kufa is an A a unbelievable
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feeling that you get there, then suddenly you walk into where the
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Mahrab is, ascent. Suddenly you walk to where the
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Mahrab is and you see that red light.
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And just to ponder about the fact that this is where Emir Al
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Mumini felt is something unbelievable.
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The the thing that really gives every person goosebumps, whether
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you are attending it live or whether you watch it on YouTube
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live, is the Evan on the night of the verba of Emir al Mumini.
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The moment, the more Evan says it is as if as if he just
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recited the Messiah of Ashura, everyone just begins to crack.
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All the heart shutters. Yeah, I just I Jeep.
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And you can hear the crowd, the money and the belief is there
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and how they're connecting with the Adan, with the martyrdom of
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Imam Ali. And it just reminds you that,
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you know, hearing that done and the martyrdom.
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Ali Omal Haq. Well, Haq Omar, Ali and he, you
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know, we spoke about the Quran a bit and we're trying to link
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Takhalane and what does it mean that, you know, hold on to the
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Takhali Khatali. And I think it's going to be an
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interesting discussion. And I want, before we delve into
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Insha Allah, learning insights from you, Habibi Shekhar Rahim.
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I want to ask a question. Yeah, I know Ahmed wants to ask
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one as well, but if you allow me, I'll ask them both.
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At one, yeah, yeah, go for. It go for it since we are
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commemorating Imam Ali, Emir Ali, Salaam, what is 1 hadith
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that you would say has an effect on your life and something we
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can all benefit from at the same time?
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What is 1 Ayah from the Quran that we can all benefit from?
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For the hadith, do you mind if I give you 2?
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Go for it. The first one is actually the
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will of Emir Almanin and in fact every time I've read the Majlis
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on the shadow of Emir Almanin I print out multiple pieces of
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paper where I've translated the will of Emir Almanin that will
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that he gave to Imam Hassan Imam Al Hassain which says Allah,
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Allah Allah, Allah and he gives the reasons why.
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Fear Allah in the matter of your prayer because it is the pillar
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of your religion. Fear Allah in the book.
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In his book don't allow anyone to surpass you on being intent
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on it. Fear Allah in regards to the
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orphans, fear Allah of them is and reconcile between your
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differences for in Aslah that Ilbein Afwal men Ahmed Salat or
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in general the worship in general it is better than all
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types of worship. So it's like that it's been
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reconciliation between your differences and usually I'll
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I'll print a piece of multiple pieces of paper and I'll give
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them out after. And I just read the will of Emir
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and Momini and take some lessons from it.
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And a short hadith that I really like from Emir Momin, Alib Nabi,
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Talib Ali of the Rasati was Salaam and all of his hadith are
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beautiful, but one that I don't think we mention much.
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Kunwasi NFC, Kafi Malik, wife al behemoth and youth Alofi him in
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badic. Be your own executor of your
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will in regards to your wealth and do with it what you wish
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someone would do with it after you.
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And I think that is absolutely beautiful.
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Before you write your will and do for example a third of my
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inheritance, I want you to do this with it.
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And this part. Give this to Sadaqa.
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This, open this. It's good after a person's death
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that they've written a third of their will to open schools, to
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build water wells, to help orphans, to do whatever they
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need to do. However, why can you not execute
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that during your life as well? So Kun was the NFC kaffir Malik.
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So that is in terms of the hadith, in terms of the Quran.
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Bismillah Rahman, Rahim kalia ebadhiya lavina esrafu Allah.
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And forsee him La takanatum and Rahmatullah in Allah, in nahu al
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rafur Rahim say, O my servants, all my slaves, all my slaves who
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have done esraf upon themselves. Look at the mercy of Allah.
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The way he's talking to first of all my slaves mean he's
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returning them back to him. You're still mine and he's
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talking about sinners. You're still mine.
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Eladina Esrafu Allah and forsee him.
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You have transgressed against yourself.
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You've gone a bit too much. You've gone a bit too far.
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He didn't say you're a Sinner. You're you deserve Hellfire.
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You've gone a bit too far, too far.
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Against who? Not Allah on yourself.
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Allah and fussy Him. Do not despair from the mercy of
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Allah. Here in itself I have a full
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meaning of the verse. I already know that Allah is all
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merciful. That wasn't enough for him.
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He wanted to show more mercy in Allah.
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Allah forgives sins. Was that enough?
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No. He went on further.
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Jamia all of them. All sins.
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Allah forgives in Nahu al Rafur Rahim.
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Then he would add 2 characteristics of his which are
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the characteristics of mercy in Nahu al Rafur Rahim.
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And the reason that is my favorite verse, it's because the
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more I've been involved with communities, the more I've been
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involved with Shabab and even elders, when they come and they
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say for example, and this happened multiple times, I think
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this happens at least 10 * a year.
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A person would come to me and they would tell me that I feel
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like I have no hope anymore. Why?
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Because there's a sin that I have been doing etcetera, and
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I've done Ester far, but I don't think Allah will forgive me for
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it. I'll present this verse to them
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and I will explain the verse 99.9% of the time the person
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leaves smiling happy and with tears of joy in their eyes.
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Because genuinely, this verse, if a person reads it and ponders
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over it, it is. And you just of the reference
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Quranic reference. The Quranic reference quran.com
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is solid. Well, yeah.
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Abadia Latina, Asrafo, Allah and just.
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For those at home who yeah, of course of course are in benefit
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as. Well, of course.
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Sometimes. Zora to zoomer verse number. 53
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So Zoomer verse 53 Yeah, I sent OK Shallah, you know we can
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continue to connect with all of Quran on these days.
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You know, I think hopefully we're what, 19 days now in we
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should have already started establishing if not have
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established that daily routine with the Holy Quran, whether
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it's Tafasir, whether it's recitation should be a thing.
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Anyway, we're doing on a daily basis.
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But especially on these today and these forthcoming days, the
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next week or so, of course all the Liyal Al Qadar, the Ahmad
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we're going to do, How do we establish a connection with the
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Holy of Quran and the other bits simultaneously in these days?
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Because obviously our focus is on some might think there are
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two different things. Yeah.
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How do you approach that? That's that's that's a good
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question. First of all, in terms of the
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Quran itself, I think just realizing one thing that the
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Quran is a living miracle is enough for us to connect with
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it. And the reason I say that is
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because nothing proves to me the miracles of Nabila Haisa in
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reality. From a logical point of view,
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nothing proves to me the miracles Nabila Haisa and
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nothing proves to me the miracles of Nabila Musa except
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from historical for example, writings or sayings or
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narrations. If you are talking about the
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Masumin or the Quran, the idea is that every prophet came with
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a miracle and that miracle was suitable for their message.
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Nabilah Musa at his time there were there was a group of people
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that were known for for example, magic.
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So he came with the stick that turned into a snake.
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He came with turning the sea into red blood.
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He came with all of these things that defeat them in order to
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show that the true message is with Nabilah Musa Nebula Haisa
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comes at a time where medicine is evolving and he is bringing
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the dead back to life. He is heating the blind
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etcetera, etcetera, Nabi Allah Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi
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wasalam. He comes at a time when the
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people were in their peak of their eloquence, and eloquence
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was something that was truly vital from.
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The language you mean? The language in in the Arabic
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language specifically, if you look for example the poetry of
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the time of Jahiliya, it is one of the most beautiful poetry
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that you would read and it is in fact in in terms of the
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eloquence I'm talking and it is of those meanings that you will
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get from it that are unbelievable anyway.
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So the Quran comes as the most eloquent of books.
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But we said, we said that the miracle needs to shoot the
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message. If the prophet's message was in
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order for it to be for the rest of the people until the end of
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time, then the Quran is also a miracle for all the people until
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the end of time. Which means that what you
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thought was amazing of Nabila Haisa bringing the dead back to
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life, you have a greater miracle between your hands.
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Or unfortunately, many times it's on the shelf collecting
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dust. And that I think if we just
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ponder about that, that in itself should move something
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within us. Could I ask you?
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What, if you don't mind me asking?
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This might be a very personal. Question.
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That's fine. But you're and you're my
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brother, and I've known you a long time.
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We're all family. What do you do on Arman night?
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The other paddle? What do you personally do?
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What? What works for you?
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For me, I actually go through that, Amal.
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I'm I'm not going to say all of them, but for example, Rafael
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Masahef is a must for me Dua Josh and Kabir is a must for me.
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Dua Abu Hamza Tamali is more than a must for me.
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But I leave it last because the Abu Hamza Tamali is one of those
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Amal that if you ponder about its meanings it puts you in a
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state of Estafar that is unbelievable because you start
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with Ilahilah to Adibney Berkowitik from As soon as you
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start you're saying, oh Allah, don't punish me with your
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punishment in a in a certain manner.
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This idea in itself already sets you in a mood.
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If before that I've been asking for my Hajat through the Arab
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and Masahef, If before that I have been asking Allah for
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protection through the Ajash and Kabir.
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If before that I've been asking Allah through other Ajaya,
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including the one of the duas that is taken lightly on the
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Knights of Qadar's Dua of Tata, because we've read it so much
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every day, that's yeah. Yeah, on especially.
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Actually, I'm guilty of this myself.
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I remember a couple of years ago I was doing Amal at home and I
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was like, by the time I prepare for the Amal, I'm going to get
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tired. Let me put Dua of Tata on
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YouTube. So I didn't recite it myself.
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So I put it on YouTube. I listened to it and then I and
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then I did the Amal after it. However, then after pondering
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over it, I realized the eye of the Tahan itself.
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There was a reason why we recite it every single day of the month
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of Ramadan and it gives you a connection to Sahabu Zaman.
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And on the night of Qadar I would want a connection to
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Sahabu Zaman. That's.
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Very true. So this is that aspect, and I
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usually do at least one full day of Qadar prayer.
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Yeah, so these are a must. If I have time, I will do other
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Amal as well. I do the short doors as well
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because they they're quite quick.
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I'll take a break in between. The idea is don't overwhelm
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yourself with the Amal such that you lose connection.
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The idea is that if with the line you can connect and if you
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can connect to a line in that moment, do as much as you can.
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The moment you start to feel like you're losing connection,
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you don't want to do your Amal out of boredom.
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You want to do your Amal out of seeking closeness to Allah has
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origin. So these are the.
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The I'm going to hand over to say, but I just want to make one
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comment because this conversation can go here or
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there. We can go to the Mossiba about
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Amir or we can talk about the Amal and do we overwhelm
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ourselves? What our capacity is, is, you
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know, like the how should we be rigid, Should we be rooted?
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Like that's a whole conversation and I really want to have that
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on camera or off off camera with you because there's a lot to
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learn there. But yeah, obviously you said.
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Yeah, I want to say Ibrahim and I think you're the right person
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to ask because we can all relate with you and I.
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And I think you you've had the same struggles probably we've
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had, you've had the similar upbringing we've had.
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We've had, you know, growing up in the West.
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And I think coming from you is amazing because you are a
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student of Hauser. So this is going to be something
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we can all in Charlotte relate to.
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And it's when it comes to the Knights of Qatar, yeah, you
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know, we always say, you know, Alhamdulillah, we are alive
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during this blessed month of Ramadan.
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But we wait for the Knights of Qatar because we sort of have
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been told that these are the Knights of destiny and they pave
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your future and they they can affect your future.
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What you do now has an effect in a few months down the line.
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In a few years down the line, the amount that you do now or
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the how serious you take other Knights impacts your life.
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Yes. So that's one, that's one thing.
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But the other thing I want to say is how do we approach other
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Knights? Do we approach it just
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spiritually? Do we approach it just from you
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know, knowing that Allah is our creator?
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Like where, how, how do we connect with Allah during that
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other nights If I have just become a Shia, a Muslim today,
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if I can say this because some people if I sorry to interject
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some people for them it's just let me just go pray as much
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Allah as I can do. Some people let me recite as
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much Quran as I can do, but we don't know what we're doing, OK?
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We we know there are certain Ahmads.
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Sorry Ahmed, we know there's certain Ahmads to get through,
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but then it can become as a hassle to us.
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It can become as a burden. I'm tired halfway through.
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Why does God want me to do this? You know, read this and do this
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and I can only, for example say I completed the Knights of Qadar
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fight on all the Sorta Dukhan or Sorta Joshi and Rafael myself.
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But is there another way we can approach Ramadan?
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I think, yeah. Yeah, that's that's a very good
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question actually. Before that I have to say two
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things. Yes, which is number one.
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In terms of the Ahmadi reminder, Sortel and Kabuto Rome Dohan, I
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do them as well by the way that just before someone thinks I'm
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only think that I left the Quran.
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Secondly, because Ahmed asked earlier that do they separate in
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terms of the Imams? No.
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It is through building the connection with the Quran that I
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build the connection with the Imam and through building
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connection with the Imam, I build a connection to the Quran.
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Because if you get close to the Imam and are diverting from the
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Quran, you're not getting close to the Imam.
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And if you get closer to the Quran and you divert away from
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the from the Imam, trust me, you've understood nothing from
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the Quran. So this is the the first thing.
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As for the Knight of Qatar, I will repeat one thing I said
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which is don't do that. I'm all out of boredom.
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This is number 1, #2. Approach it with the verse that
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we actually mentioned earlier. I think this is would would
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would be something nice as well because I've realized a lot of
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people, a lot of believers, when they come to the Knights of Kadr
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they come while hoping Allah will forgive them for their
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sins. You see for the for the Kadr
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night Sometimes we can make the out for stuff in the future, but
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because of how much we feel, because of the baggage we feel
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that we've added and loaded on our backs, we end up going
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backwards. Forgive us for for the sins that
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we have committed. If you do that mention those
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sins, don't say esta ferola rabiwa tubo le what are you
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doing esta far for? What are you doing?
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Esta far for and every esta ferola rabiwa tubo le specified
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for a specific sin. For example I have done.
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I remember doing back biting in this past year.
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Este for that back biting I've done name este for that name
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I've done for example. I've taken the right of someone
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away este for that. So make a specific sin the
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reason for your isterfar and you hold yourself accountable.
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Of course you have to, and the idea is that with isterfar it it
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comes in steps, because the first step is to realise that
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you have sinned and you need to realise who you have sinned
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against. And then you need to come
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forward and in your heart have regret, genuine regret.
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Then through the tongue you perform istakfar.
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And then through your actions you should never go back to
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that, that that specific deed. So I come, for example, on the
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Knights of Qatar, I'm doing 100 istakfar, 1000 istakfar.
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How many istakfar's we're doing? And then at the end of the day,
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I come, the moment Shah Ramadan is finished, I go back.
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That's an issue. The knight of Qadir, in order to
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approach it also needs preparation from the start of
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Shah Ramadan because Shah Ramadan is that time in which it
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allows you to start from a clean slate.
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Is the saying that they say so from a clean slate where you
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come and it gives you a chance for piety.
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Amir Al Mohminin, Salamullah Ali and these are his Knights.
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Emir al Menin asks Rasulullah sallallahu Ali Hu alu Salem at
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the end of his famous sermon in which he welcomed the month of
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Ramadan. He says TE miya rasulullah And
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what is the best deed in this month?
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Look at who is asking the question and look at who is
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answering it. And just realizing this context
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allows you to understand what amazing reply you are about to
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hear, he says. Afval Amal Ayam Shah Ramavan al
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Wara and Muharram and Muharram Allah to have wara to be in a
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state of piety, to be in a state of where you are removing
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yourself from that which Allah has met Haram.
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This is the best deed. By doing so I am preparing my
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heart. Why?
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Because every time every time a person performs a sin, every
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time perform person performs their sin, a sin their wises.
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From Imam Al Baker there is a black dot that appears in their
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hearts, another sin, another sin another sin until the black dots
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cover the heart and every time a person does istakfar a white dot
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appears in their heart and the more istakfar they do until
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their heart becomes clean again. So the idea is we need to
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prepare our hearts to become clean so that we can do this
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istakfar. This is 1 aspect.
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Another way in which we approach the Knights of God is through
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true sincerity in in in the sense that many times our dua is
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for specific worldly things. There's nothing wrong with it.
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There's nothing wrong with that. It's fine.
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However, have a balance, meaning, meaning, and I'm not
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going to use an explicit example here, but we I think both of you
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would understand what I mean when I say this.
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Sometimes a person is attached to a specific thing or a person
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and suddenly on the Knights of Qatar, their main dua would be
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for that specific thing or person that is wrong.
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Who said there is hair in this marriage, for example, marriage
22:56
for example. Marriage let you let you do a
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be, OK marriage is a good example, let you do a be.
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For example, in the in the issue of of marriage, oh Allah grant
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me the most modest of women. Oh Allah grant me the the most
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pious of women. Oh Allah, grant me the best
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caretaker of my children. Why am I going to person X
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method So this is the idea oh Allah you know better you know
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better in terms of what I deserve or what I need.
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So Allah grant me that Nebula Ibrahim that's a very good
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nebula Ibrahim is in the fire Jabra.
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He comes to me, he says Tim what is your.
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He knows my state and and that is a form of the by the way he
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knows my state and through that state that he knows me and give
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me what is best for me. So this is another issue.
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So this is the idea of sincerity and going towards Allah Azza
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Wajal. And to be honest, if we stay on
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this specific question, I think we're going to be talking about.
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So do you want me to continue or is this?
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Feel free, but I I do not also go towards Imam Ali Ali Salaam.
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OK as you can. You can continue speaking.
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I don't want it to end. It's amazing.
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We've only got how long? Because I realized I was going
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on so. We've got 25 minutes left.
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That's that's why I asked if you want me to continue or stop, we
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could we. Could do the.
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Whole. Conversation just on mile
24:22
etiquettes. One law we could do and I I
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would love to do it, yeah. But we can also do the whole
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thing on. And we're halfway through now,
24:29
so let's just carry on. Let's just see what it takes,
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I'll say, I think. We OK, do you know what?
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I'll mention one more point. And then we can move to, if you
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like. And then so because this is the
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night of his, of of the variable of Emir and mummy, the night in
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which he was struck. And I think that in itself is
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also a good balance to have by the way, although this is going
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to divert me a bit. But for example, I remember
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recently there was an Ishkal on commemorating the martyrdom of
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Emir Al Minin and Amal. What comes first?
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They go hand in hand. Habibi.
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Yeah, they don't. They don't separate.
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They don't. They don't separate.
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Someone asked me this. Question.
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They go hand in hand. We have, we have this.
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Someone said, for example, we do Masai and we do lock on, for
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example on the Knights of Qatar. It takes us away from other
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Duas. No it doesn't.
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Because Dua is a Ahmed in which you see closeness to Allah Azza
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Wajid, and through the commemoration of his martyrdom,
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you are also seeking closeness to Allah Azza Wajid.
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However, however, if through those Ahmad you are not seeking
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closeness to Allah Azza Wajid through the Masai and the
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Latomia, there's an issue. But likewise with the Dua, if
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you're not seeking closeness to Allah Azza Wajid, there's also
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an issue. So this is the idea.
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In fact, this reminds me of a story.
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One day there was a man during the time of Sheikh Al Adam Al
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Ansari Sheikh mortal Al Ansari Sheikh Al Adam.
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He lived during the 1800s, his grave.
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When you walk into the shrine of Emir Al Omnin through Babul
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Babul Qibla on the left, his grave is there.
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Someone meets him in the shrine of Emir al Omnin during these
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nights, during the nights of Qatar and he asks him, he says
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to him, oh Sheikh what is the best deed to do on this night.
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Sheikh replied to him. He said to him, Are you a
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student? He said yes, he said then go
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back into your room and study. Or he could have easily said go
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do digestion Kabir or go do do. The Abraham's of the Mali said
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are you a student? He said yes.
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He said go back into your room and study.
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Meaning who? Who are we to decide what the
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best deed is or what comes first?
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No, they go hand in hand and through seeking close, seeking
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closeness to Allah Azza Wajal is the ultimate thing.
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My study is the intention should be to seek closeness to Allah
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Azza wajal. My commemoration of the
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martyrdom of seeking closeness Allah Azza.
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In fact, one of the Amal on the Knights of 19 and 21 is to do
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100 times Allah And these are of the things that bring you closer
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to Allah Azza wajid. Well, I and Bara are of the
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things that truly bring you closer because nabilah Musa
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Salam one day Allah Azza Wajid asks him.
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We have a narration on this, He asks him.
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He says, Oh Musa, what Amel have you done for me?
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He says, Oh my Lord, so later like I prayed for you and I
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fasted for you and I gave sadaqa for you and and and he says, As
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for your Salah, it is for you proof.
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And As for your Siam it is for you heaven.
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And As for your sadaqa it is a shadow for you on the day of
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judgement. But what Amel have you done for
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me? So to be like Musa, start
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thinking hold on a second. I've done, I've said all the
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Amal and it turns out all the Amal are for my own personal
27:39
gain anyway. And that's something for us to
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ponder about as well. And he says Ilahi Duleni Al Al
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Amal Alivi. Who Alek, show me towards the
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Amal that is for you is hello Ali.
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Ali, Ali Adua. Did you associate yourself with
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those that associate themselves with me?
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And did you disassociate yourself from those that
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disassociated themselves from me?
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Meaning, this amel is the only amel that is for Allah, Azza
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Wajal. Anyway, I know we sidetracked
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here, but we remember the Emir Salam Ali.
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But this is the idea. So when I come to the Knights of
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Qatar, let me not come. And this is the point I'm trying
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to get to. Let me not come to the Knights
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of Qatar in the sense where I think there is a checklist.
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And if I do not take this checklist, then I have failed.
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Not at all. I come to the Knights of Qatar
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with a clean heart in which I ask Allah Azza Wajal for certain
28:31
things of them is is the far of them is the hedge of his, his,
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the Hajj. By the way, many people start
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thinking, why am I, why am I making to out for Hajj?
28:44
And the idea is Hajj is a place in which you are invited to.
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Yes. And for those who have been on
28:50
Nussoc platform recently trying to book for Hedge and I've been
28:52
on there as well, I've been failing and it's something
28:55
crazy. Maybe we're not invited this
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year. I don't know.
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May I last Alec, grant us the Hedge if there was and
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unfortunately sometimes is the is the spiritual connection or
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the emotional connection, we might not necessarily have it
29:11
that takes us away from it. However, come with that clean
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heart in which you are making the app for certain things while
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keeping in your mind that these Knights are the Knights in which
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Allah Azza Wajal will write for you.
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Yo Kadar as someone might come to me and they will say, oh we
29:31
have the Knights of Kadar, but Allah Azza Wajal already knows
29:34
what I'm going to do. Yes, what happens to Elohel my
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4th? Elohel my 4th already includes
29:39
everything that I'm going to do. I say true we have two Lords
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though we have low helmah 4th and we have low El Mahweh will
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if but Smullah Rahmana, Rahim, Yamaha Allah will change certain
29:57
things in a person's then you might tell me if he changes
30:00
some. What happens to these are two
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separate low helmah 4th is the Elm of Allah.
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This is the knowledge of Allah. This is his his omniscience if
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you like. Allah is eternal because it's of
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his characteristics and his characteristics are eternal
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because they are part of his essence.
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This is eternal low helmahu will if but a person says OK so
30:22
what's the point of it? The point of it is this.
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The point of it is that you know that there is a law like this
30:28
that will change based on your dua, that will change based on
30:33
your actions. I do so that Raham I increase in
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my lifespan. I cut ties from my Raham I
30:39
decrease in my lifespan as as a simple example.
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This is low hell my well it's bad.
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Low hell my well it's bad. Just for example the low that
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the profits and messengers and imams might have access to in
30:49
order to see low hell my 4th is that for Allah Azar agenda.
30:52
This is also a a a a specific discussion, although we're going
30:55
to move into accord now. However, the idea is low hell my
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4th low hell my well it's bad approach little Cudder while
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knowing that there is a low by the name of a low low helmet
31:07
will if but in which you can truly change your destiny.
31:11
Forget low helmet 4th. Low helmet 4th is because our
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last knowledge is eternal and of that knowledge the reason why
31:17
the conclusion on a low helmet 4th is something different
31:21
towards a low low helmet will if but is today is because he knew
31:25
that you will come on the Knights of Cudder and you will
31:27
make a certain dual that will change your destiny so that is
31:31
completely separate. So this is the general idea in
31:34
which we should approach the. Allah's Allah's knowledge of
31:36
what would to happen would encompass the action of you then
31:39
going and making the effort and doing the of.
31:41
Course. Yeah, because sometimes this I
31:44
was going to, I know we want to go and say minimum mini
31:46
conversation, but I want to maybe add a comment and then
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hand over to you said to ask the next question.
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But sometimes you might be a bit selfish like we we, we, we may
31:57
be skiving through Shahadamavan may be ignorant and we may think
32:02
like, yeah it's fine. I'll do all the religious stuff
32:04
on the Harman that's yeah. I'm not going to do the Ajoshan
32:07
or I'll I'll do my first proper session of the Holy Quran.
32:13
Like there's people who are like that sometimes I might be like
32:15
that others might be like that. And then when it gets to the
32:17
Liaalen Qadar we might feel like I'm going to use these days from
32:22
my advantage. I'm going to.
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I'm just going to wipe my wipe my sins clean, do my stock file,
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do my high jar, and then move on.
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I don't know whether that's selfish, I think.
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That's fine. That's fine, brother.
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Yeah this is what I was going to ask because it like is it self
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self-centered or is it like should these Knights be
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understanding the Quran and worship of Allah?
32:43
And do you know what I? Mean.
32:44
I think these Knights are a messy and the reason they are a
32:48
mercy is because they give you that second chance and and the
32:51
the person who has truly lost is the person who doesn't take the
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chance meaning the chance is their ticket.
32:57
It's better to turn up and make it somewhat.
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I sent, I sent because at the end of the day a person goes and
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they are resurrected and they say the Quran says that's O
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Allah return me maybe I will do something, said Kella Kella.
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It is just something that he is saying, meaning there was
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already so many chances if a person lived 50 years.
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If a person lived 50 years and they had, for example, three
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nights of Qatar in which they they were commemorating every
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year as an example, Yanni, that's 150 nights of Qatar that
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they let to go, go to waste. 15th of Shaban is, by the way,
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the second greatest night after the night of Qatar.
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That is also fifty nights of Shaban that have gone to waste.
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Muharram has gone to waste. Whatever's gone to waste.
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But if you have taken the chance, you've done something.
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Do it, Adi. The month of Ramadan.
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You've been fasting. You've been praying.
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Very good. You haven't been due to Adi.
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It's no problem. Come to the Knights of Qatar.
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This Kaliya Abadi Ladina esrafus panel.
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I didn't. I wasn't actually thinking about
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talking about this verse at all. Kaliya Abadi Ladina Esrafu.
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Allah. And don't despair from the
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Merced in Allah I look at the open arms that Allah is, is, is
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showing his, His, his slaves. So just know that the door of
34:17
mercy is always there. Know that the the the Allah is
34:20
always ready to welcome. You just have that idea in your
34:24
mind and take your chances and maybe and at the end of the day
34:28
so we say maybe that that's selfish.
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I say no because maybe it is that one day that will change
34:33
for them. Maybe it is one specific, not
34:37
dua, one specific line in a dua on that specific night that
34:40
changed them. I'll give you a story.
34:42
Actually, my father was going to a Majlis.
34:48
The Majlis was near Cricklewood. So as he was there, he was going
34:52
to park his car and then he got out of his car and he's wearing
34:58
his turban and he's and he was just putting on his abaya and he
35:03
was just putting on his abaya as he was turning a person on a
35:08
motorcycle held me everything. He stops next to him and he just
35:13
breaks in front, in front of my father.
35:15
Now at this point, my father's thinking he's going to get
35:18
robbed or something. He stops right in front of him
35:20
and he gets so fast like she's going to stop, she's going to
35:23
stop And he said she's going to stop anyway.
35:27
So he takes off his helmet and he begins to weep and cry, weep
35:33
and cry. And then he hugged my father.
35:37
Then I said my father is confused what is going on here?
35:41
The person said to him, I was actually on my way to the casino
35:45
and I have just lost 10s of thousands of pounds and I have
35:51
been involved in so much sin. When I saw your turban, hello.
35:55
When I saw your turban, I had a moment of realization.
35:57
That's why I break like that. Hello.
36:00
Recently this happened, by the way, about three years ago.
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A few months ago, my father was in Asda car Park and that same
36:07
person comes to him. He saw him and he he started
36:11
smiling. He said, Sheikhna, do you
36:12
Remember Me? He said, of course I remember
36:14
you, he said to him, I have changed everything from the from
36:18
that day. So see, sometimes for a person
36:21
all it requires is to see something, to hear something, to
36:24
read something. It changes everything in their
36:26
life. So no, it is not something that
36:29
is selfish. I say go take that chance, use
36:32
the chance while it's there. Love it.
36:34
Beautiful. A gem, a life.
36:39
Bless him and bless you as well, like father, like son, and you
36:43
know, continue to be inspirations to us.
36:45
Everyone else in the community. Amount of words, yeah, that,
36:51
that story said. I'm thinking I've got a bit of
36:52
tears. Why when I'm thinking like Sudo
36:54
Ghani, we need to return to our last panel no matter what stage
36:58
we are in our lives, whatever struggles we have, whatever,
37:00
since we've committed Allah, Hamar Rahimi and these are the
37:03
Knights. And there is no it's not for
37:05
God, it's for us. It's for us to build that
37:07
collection, that connection and that relationship and that bond.
37:11
And what else? What better remedy than
37:13
remembrance of Allah? We always read you mention here
37:15
verses from the Quran. Surely with the remembrance of
37:20
Allah do the hearts find peas? Tranquility ES and I and I think
37:23
the word is sukun sukun the right word to use when it comes
37:27
to this. Yeah, yeah, why not.
37:28
Tranquility. Tranquility, I imagine.
37:31
Nine is reassurance. Yeah, I.
37:33
Sent. So these are the nice.
37:34
We remember our last but you mentioned something before you
37:38
ended the points that you were saying Ibrahim Ullah and
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Sheikhna Habibi. You said the association.
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Yeah. It reminded me of Tawalnan
37:48
Tabarro. Yeah.
37:50
And these are part of our fourteen.
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Yeah. And we are commemorating
37:54
inshallah, the, the tragic martyrdom of Imam Aliya Emir
37:57
Alamin, Ali Salaam Salaam. And we have this, Amal of, you
38:00
know, sending the curse of Allah on those who killed Emir Almanin
38:05
took place in his, that took part in his martyrdom.
38:08
And it makes you wonder and it reminds you of certain events
38:10
throughout Islamic history. Like, these are certain things
38:19
that we're always reminded of. And I, and I think especially
38:22
now when it comes to his martyrdom, we sort of, if we
38:25
have any hate in our heart towards those who attacked Emir
38:30
to those who took away, for example, his rights and
38:33
everything, it's not because there's something wrong with us.
38:36
This is hate and love for Sabil. Allah, of course, of course.
38:39
And this is the one. And tomorrow is what it's all
38:41
about. But there is one thing I want to
38:43
ask. Yeah, yeah.
38:44
I mean, I've heard numerous lectures.
38:47
I've tried to ask different people try to understand it and
38:51
and perhaps maybe it's because of my ignorance, I haven't fully
38:53
understood it and it's something my mola, yo mola, mola and
38:58
inshallah, everyone's Mola. Other has said it's a line that
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we hear every year and it's a line we hear it now during the
39:03
nights of Kather. And it's first two Warabel Kabe.
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I was victorious by the Lord of the Kabe and this is coming from
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the mouth of Imam Ali Emir Ali Salaam.
39:13
I don't know what significance that has what it means was
39:17
Tafseer if I can say relates to to this line but for me I can
39:21
say I can relate to OK he was struck in Ramadan.
39:24
He was struck on Nathan Kadir. You know he was born in the
39:26
Kaaba and you the the strike of urban Mujin was during Sujood.
39:30
Like that's the that's the connection I can make when I say
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when he says first what does it really?
39:37
Mean that there's a greater meaning to it and the reason I
39:40
say there's a greater meaning to it.
39:42
And I'm sure potentially the answers you've gotten before
39:46
this are definitely better than the answer I'm going to give
39:49
you. However, I think certain
39:52
historical issues need to be understood through history as
39:56
well. Because for someone as ignorant
39:58
as me. No, no, but I ask.
39:59
This because how can you be victorious when you've just been
40:03
struck? I'll tell you, this is what I'm.
40:05
Trying to do. I'll tell you how I will.
40:06
Yes, this being struck in that state is is is is victory,
40:12
because Emir al MO Minin was backstabbed, if you like.
40:16
He wasn't, for example, martyred on the battlefield.
40:20
And no one would be able to do such a thing to Emir Al MO Minin
40:24
in a state of sujood when he is in a state where he has
40:26
completely left everything in this world, completely less
40:30
Imam's in Aberdeen, says Imam Bakra says, I saw my father
40:33
Imam's in Aberdeen, read through some pages and he's weeping and
40:37
crying. And he said to him, oh, my
40:38
father. And this is in Aberdeen, the
40:40
dormant of worshippers. So my father, what are you
40:42
crying about? It's that I'm reading about the
40:44
worship of your grandfather, Emir Al Mamini said.
40:45
So why are you crying? So because who would reach the
40:47
worship of Emir al Mamin? So you imagine the state in
40:50
which Emir Al Maminian is in during his prayer and he's
40:52
backstabbed and that's it. So yes, that is a form of
40:54
victory. However, there is something
40:57
greater than that that we understand through history,
41:00
which is this #1. The martyrdom of Emir al Minin
41:05
is something that was already described to him by his beloved
41:09
Prophet Muhammad. Sallallahu alaihi wasallam in
41:12
the sense that he told him you are going to be killed of men
41:16
and he will be more evil, more evil than the evil man that
41:22
slaughtered the camel of the mood.
41:25
And this is. What is described?
41:27
In the Quran, Abdul Rahman bin Mujin is more evil than this
41:31
man. So this is number one.
41:33
Number two, he has certain characteristics he they used to
41:36
call him this when he was young etcetera.
41:39
Because I realized the the time might also be not in our favour.
41:43
I won't mention the full narration.
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However, when Ibn Mojim comes into Kufa, do you know one of
41:48
the first people he meets is Emir Al Momini?
41:51
And do you know that Emir Al Momin gave him a sword?
41:54
And do you know that Emir Al Momin gave him money?
41:57
And upon when he left, when he left, he said, I swear to you,
42:02
by Allah, this is the man that's my beloved brother Rasulullah
42:08
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihiwad wasallam promised that would
42:10
kill me. So his companions rose up.
42:13
They wanted to go kill him, said no, no, no, he hasn't done it
42:16
yet. He hasn't.
42:17
Done it yet? What are you going to do,
42:19
Hassan? Even after striking him he tells
42:22
Imam Al Hassan and Hussein that if I was to die, if I was to die
42:26
then strike him once. For he only struck me once and
42:30
if I was to live then I will deal with him, leave him and
42:32
what during this time Give him food, give him even give even
42:35
milk, even milk which is like a luxury.
42:37
If you like even milk give him. So this is anyway.
42:41
This is Emir al Mumini. So this is from 1 aspect.
42:43
From the other aspect is the Prophet will tell Emir al Mumini
42:47
that not only is this the description of the person that
42:51
will kill you, he says to him this are these are the Knights
42:55
in another narration. These are the Knights in which
42:57
you will be killed. Emir al maminen.
43:02
Asks him an amazing question. Is this the Miarasu Allah ABI
43:07
Salamatin Mendini? Is this going to happen while I
43:11
am on the right path of religion, Emir?
43:14
Look at the question Emir Mami is asking.
43:16
ABI Salamatin Mendini, the Prophet says Bella, yes.
43:22
So now Emir al Minim, potentially on a night like
43:25
this, is in the House of Saida Zainab, and he is realizing that
43:30
there is something weird, weird about this day.
43:33
He is realizing that this day is similar to the day in which the
43:37
Prophet described to him, and he knows that the person who's
43:40
going to kill him is present in Kufa.
43:44
Everything is starting to add up.
43:46
He leaves the house and his his clothing gets stuck to the door.
43:56
After that, he puts a belt. On and he says fasten your belt
44:05
towards death, for surely death is coming to meet you.
44:08
He leaves and there's some Swans.
44:11
That's why the Swans of Imam Al Hussein Al Al Al Saito Al Salam.
44:14
They started to flap their wings and shouting in the face of Emir
44:17
al Mohmineen as if to tell him don't go to the Masjid yet.
44:22
He takes further steps. He goes to the Masjid, he wakes
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up the people of them. He wakes up Abd Al Rahmani Bin
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Waljam. He was sleeping on his stomach.
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He says get up, O slave of Allah for and do not sleep in this
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manner, for this is the sleep of the shaytan.
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And if you wish, I would tell you what you are hiding under
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it. And Emir Al Mominen now has
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basically put the full puzzle together.
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If you like, you know he goes to perform the Edan, then he goes
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to perform his Nafila prayer before the prayer of Fajr.
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While he is in his. Nafila prayer Abdul Rahman bin
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Mulchim would perform that act in which he approaches Emir Al
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Mominen, draws his sword that he had filled with poison for three
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days. And he would shout something.
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He would say Al Hakumul Allah Lisa Ali.
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How come judgement is for Allah? It's not up to you all.
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Ali and he strikes Emerald Momini.
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The narration says that his strike reached the place of
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Sujood of Emerald Momini. He.
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Jibra, Illinois Jibra, Illinois shouts between the heaven and
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the earth. In which he mourns Emir.
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Al Mumini's martyrdom and he would say that the pillars of
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religion have been demolished and the foundations of guidance
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have been demolished. Ali al Mordawa has been killed.
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The cousin of the prophet has been killed.
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The most pious of men has been killed.
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The most evil of men have killed him after that, he said.
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Fostwara Bilkabe. Meaning.
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Number one it was. In relation to Abu.
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Salamatin Mendini that the Prophet said so.
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He knew that in this when all the puzzles, when the puzzle all
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came together, he realized this is exactly what the Prophet
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promised him. He realized this is the state in
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which he will be martyred and that this would be on the right
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path. So this is a foes, this is a
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victory. And #2 he shouted first to
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Warabel Kabe, not upon his strike, but after the cry of
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Gibrali, which was also a sign of victory.
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Maybe this is another? Way to relate with the words of
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Emir Al Momini, so I don't know. If you've taken me to to Kufa,
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to Raja the shrine of Imam Ali and I can I can just think.
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And here you're telling me you know he gave a weapon to Evan
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Muljan many many years ago before the the the strike took
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place and that was out of his Rahman, his character.
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And it reminds you of another time where we have the examples
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of. Imam Ali loosening the.
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The ropes on the hands of Shimmer and and then we're
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related to Karbala, how he treated like even his killers
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and even his enemies. And even the fact like even
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after the strike he gives permission to Imam Hussain to
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give him a cup of water to quench the first of the bin.
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Muljun things like this. What makes Ali Ali?
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I don't understand. I don't understand.
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Yeah. And when I say what does first
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to rubble Kamen mean I sort of do understand.
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And and I really appreciate this response you gave.
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It's very, yeah, I mean very meaningful.
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And I and I take it with heart and every word you said made
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sense to me. But I don't even though we can
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say OK, this is the reason we will never understand Imam Ali
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was truly, honestly, I said yeah.
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I don't know what to say, to be honest.
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I think we're really blessed to have you with us blessing.
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And honour is mine, just like these are, these are blessed.
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Nights. So we ask you especially to pray
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for us, likewise for our families, for the for the growth
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of success of our big TV and after moglib and all for the
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right purpose, for the right reason, right near that we don't
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grow for the sake of fame and name and reputation.
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It's just so we remain humble and we continue to be able to
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serve and especially for the viewers as well.
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Please join me and join us here. Ali in praying for Sheikh
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Abrahim his safe return back to the holy lands and that all of
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his efforts. I mean you know there's
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Alamatamatamati says that had it not been for the shrine of a
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minimum meaning I would not have been able to bear Najaf.
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Because if it's the endure endurance that you need to live
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there to study there, but you're doing that and you know we're so
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honoured to have you as part of our community and representing
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us, that's that's very kind of you.
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And may Allah allow us all to be over those who serve sahab Zaman
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and who serve under His flag at the forefront in Shaallah,
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during His occultation and after His reappearance in Shaallah.
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So hopefully we'll keep this as an annual tradition, but if you
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are back before, hopefully we'll have you again.
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It should be quarterly, yeah. That's.
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Very kind of you. Hope everyone at home.
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Has enjoyed this. And remember, let's make the
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most of these blessed nights. Inshallah we will.
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