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Opening my Heart to Allah (SWT) (ft. Muhammad Datoo) · After Maghrib 🌙

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This is Mallaha Rahman Nohim Salam alaykum Mallahu Rakata.
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Brother, sister, welcome back to the Aftermarket podcast.
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It's amazing to be back again. If you were here last week,
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you'll know that we have a brand new set, which is still a work
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in progress. This Charlotte.
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We're getting there with your daughters, with your
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suggestions. But bear with us as we put the
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final pieces together before the holy month of Shaharam Aban.
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Brother, sisters, today we are talking about this blessed month
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of Shaaban, one of the most sacred, one of the most holy
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months, a month filled with barakat and honor, as we know
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from the religion of Islam. But of course, it's a month of
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also preparation, where we are watering the seed of
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spirituality ahead of the holy month to come.
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So today Charlotte, we're going to be talking about some of the
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blessings and gems that we find in the month of Shaban, with a
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specific focus on the munajat of Shahabaniya, which of course, as
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we know is munajat. Or do I talk to us by Mira
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Mutmani and I live in a bit, Ali belay Salaam and we have a very,
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very special guest. Before we introduce our guest,
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it gives me great honour to be once again joined by my beloved
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brother, Said Ali. Rather, it's not what Aleppa
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said. Alaikum Salaam.
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How you doing bro? Al Hamdallah can't complain.
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How are you? I'm good, Al Hamdallah.
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I'm still adjusting to the new set.
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Yeah, yeah. And.
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It's. Change isn't.
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It's a bit cold, I can't lie. We still have we still have
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greenery behind us. Which of his dreams are still
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true? And inshallah, all his dreams
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become true. Inshallah.
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We all want him a noble wife. How are you?
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I'll have the love, OK, for I'll have the love.
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These are the months of da so we can special da Yeah, said we've
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got a good friend on. This is a brother who we have
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wanted on a podcast for a long time.
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Someone I've grown up with, someone I look to as not just a
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friend or a brother, but a teacher as well.
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We call him the salt of Stanmore, the voice of Stanmore.
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And that is because he's got one of the most distinctive and
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beautiful recitation voices he does on.
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He does Adea, he does Amal in the Knights of Qatar and around
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the year. And of course he's an amazing
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Casita and Nahara Saita. And that is my dear, beloved
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brother Muhammad. How's it going man?
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That was a too good intro. So say it how?
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Are you? There will be moments today
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where our 30 was MD out of habit, out of.
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That's fine. How you doing bro?
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How's things Good and reaching the climax of the year, which of
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course is Shahraman coming up. But this is such a beautiful
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month that sometimes we forget how beautiful it is.
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Absolutely, absolutely. How has the last few weeks
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especially been for you of we know in Hadith, we know in, in
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in our traditions that the months of Rajab Shahramadhan are
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special and they're also kind of chronological in the build up to
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the end of Shahramadhan ending with, of course, aid.
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How, how have have they been for you specifically, and how are
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you kind of preparing for the Holy Month?
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Yeah, I think you know Rajab we know is a month where it's the
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far is recommended great morning and night and of course even
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sort of class is recommended things like this, which are a
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nice way to start prepping you for the greatest month to come.
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And even in the Doha that we recite of Rajab, how the Imam
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used to hold his beard and say harem sheba Tiharan now, you
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know, make make Haram this beard upon the fire of hell.
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And that's a nice way of us reminding ourselves that we're
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entering into Shahramadhan very soon.
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Just like when you go for Hajj, Say just gave me an idea when
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when you said Hajj just before, you know, you prepare
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beforehand, yes, you can't get there on your own and be like,
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OK, what was the doorway to the site?
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You know, what did I have to think of?
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What was my Hajjad, etcetera, etcetera.
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That needs to happen now and if we do that from now, then we can
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really enjoy Shahramadhan because many of times I felt it
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all the time. Maybe you have as well that we
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get into Shahramadhan and the first two weeks is still so slow
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paced. We're still finding our feet and
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before you know it, Leila, Qatar are there and the next thing you
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know, we were saying that we're done and that's it, it's gone
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and goes too fast. No, we were never present.
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We were never there in the holy month.
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So the only way we can be present is if we start from now.
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Do you know something? So I go and say.
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I was going to say I love the point you brought about Hajj
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because it reminded me when I went home a few months ago, I
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was preparing as well. So I have to go over so much
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things and make sure I'm ready. I get everything right.
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And it's a spiritual moment for all of us, right?
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And we should feel the same. And I know you want to say
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something. Well, if I can ask and Hajj, who
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I think I'm going to learn so much from today.
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I don't need any talking by the way, because Ahmed has said so
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much things about you, like this is Masha'allah.
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I think back in the College in many ways for those sitting
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behind the scenes. But I do want to say we are a
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Shaban Hamdallah. Ramadan is only a few weeks away
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and what spiritual stage should we be in right now?
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What is the right spiritual stage to be?
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Well, I think sometimes we ourselves get baffled at that
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and the only guidance we have at Hamdullah, and praise be to
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Allah who has guided us to this, is the words of the Adelaide.
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Because how else would we know what to be asking for, what
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state to be in, you know, and then you look at, you know, the
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slot of Shaban or Munajat Shabani and you see the way, I
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mean, what we need is talking to Allah and you're like, wow,
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that's the state that I should be in getting ready for this
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holy month, you know, and everyone connects differently.
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So for me, it's still far in the holy month of Shahramadhan is a
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very big thing for me. That's that's what I concentrate
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on every year. So for me to start prepping that
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from now is very important. So thinking about what's
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happened in the year that's just gone from last Ramadan,
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Shahramadhan, what, where did I slip up?
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Right, Let's write those down. Let's get ready in terms of
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actually taking notes down and doing some sort of Mahasava,
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some sort of accounting so that when the month comes, then I'm
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actually ready to say, oh, look, I've actually come prepared.
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My hands are filled with the sins that I have and now I'm
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ready to turn back to. You Beautiful.
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You know, when we look specifically at Munaja Chabania,
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I think for a lot of people it's, I mean, if we've had the
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blessing, like I know we hundred that have had to grow up in a
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community which encourages these supplications, these da, we know
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about Munaja Chabaniya because it's a da which is not as
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communally recited as we would like.
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I think a lot of people may not have grasped the true benefit of
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the da. And we know of course, in the
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beginning of the da, it's beautiful because the Imam Malay
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Salam, like you said, it was taught to us by Miramat Manin.
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And our hadith says that all of the Imams, Ahim Salaam recited
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the dohar. And even we have some traditions
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which stay there. Imam Masada Alayhi Salaam would
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recite the dohar as if he's drowning in sin, which I just
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find, you know, with the Imam Alayhi Salaam with all of his
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purity and perfection is still approaching the dohar in this
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way. But we call it a dohar, but it's
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of course, it's called a manajat.
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And you know, in the beginning of the Manajat, the Imam Ali
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Salaam refers to three types of interaction with Alas Palatala.
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He talks about the DA, the supplication, he talks about
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Nadar, which is a call, like when you're calling towards Alas
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Palatala from afar. And then of course, the najwa,
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the najwa. And we know in, in, in the last
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Pantala, when he refers to the najwa, it's kind of like a
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whispered conversation, a communication that you'd have
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with someone in private, not in a gathering.
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And we understand that the Najwa is something which is not
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recommended to have in front of other people, correct.
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And especially because, and if you think of it logically as
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well, like when you're speaking to someone in in close
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confidence and you've got people around listening, it's not
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recommended in Islam because we we wouldn't want them to assume
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you're bickering about them or, you know, makes sense.
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So in the same way the menaja am I correct in thinking that it
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should be recited. The etiquette of the Menaja
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should be recited in an atmosphere which is somewhat
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private and intimate with our last poems either. 100% I mean,
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there are times in our community even will recite da together.
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Yeah, which is so beautiful because we do it together.
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And of course Allah is very merciful.
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So if there's even one of a few good souls there, he will take
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everyone's daughter there. But there's times when you want
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to just sit and whisper to Allah.
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And that's also beautiful. You know, the famous Sir of
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Musa, when he says to Allah, Karibun and Tamini, you know,
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are you close to me that I should whisper to you and buried
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on Fonadiq or you father, I should call out to you.
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And Allah says, yeah, Musa and Angeli Sumantha Karini, I am
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jalis. Meaning what?
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Sitting, sitting right now. The English language is
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terrible. This is our problem.
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Jalis means a very intimate feeling such that the person
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sitting so close to you, it's as if you and them are one.
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So I'm last saying, that's how intimately closely I'm sitting
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to you when you Remember Me. So if someone is sitting that
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close to you, you want to whisper to them.
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You want to have that intimate feeling with them and at times,
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yes, even just like Salah, there's JAMA Salah and there's
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times when you recite on your own and that has its own beauty.
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And one ajat is just like that. So why?
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So why is it that this specific Dor is considered a monajat?
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What about it in terms of it's like language or its tone?
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Is is is meant to be recited in such an environment compared to,
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for example, Dor Kumain, Dor, any of the other mainstream
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popular Dor that we have? I think it also comes from Amir
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Mouni himself. So the fact that he was most
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likely seen in this state, right, even just on a sidetrack,
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because I mean, when of course he we infatuated with him and we
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can't help talking about him. But when one of his companions
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was meet Mahawi and Mahawi asked tell me about Ali Abu Nabi
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Talib. And first he hesitates and then
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he says, no, tell me about him. And this companion starts and he
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says lakhadra E to hokka in one female rabi.
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You know, I saw him standing in his prenish kaabil Don
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Allahiyati, you know, holding on to his beard.
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Yet a malu Tamil malu Salim. He's he's shaking as if like a
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snake's bit in him, wyev Ki boka al haseen.
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And he's crying such a sorrowful cry where all and then this
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whole conversation starts that he's having.
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And that's the way that munajat should be done.
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And even when you look at Munajat Shabanya, you feel the
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restlessness of Emil Mutmanin that he starts off with.
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You know what's Madora either don't have to, you know, normal,
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normal das. You'll see.
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And even someone I just, you'll see.
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They'll start with the etiquette.
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You start with praise of Allah, right?
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Allah my ini F teti hastena abuhamdek allahman Robin nooril
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aveen Allah my. All of these have these praise
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that you start with, but here you feel the restlessness of
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Imam, that he just wants Allah attention.
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He immediately starts and there's no other dog.
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And people can correct me if I'm wrong, other than maybe ABI
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Hamza, which is another gold mine that we have, which starts
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straight away. Yeah, here straight what's my do
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I either I don't talk what's my neither I either now they took
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just listen to me. If I'm calling out to you, I'm
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doing the art to you except my manajat to you.
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You can feel that he's restless. He just wants a last Mahanu
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Taala and and that's beautiful about seeing how it's done and
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even the wedding. Then after when he says
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Fahadharab to Ileika, I've come fleeing to you.
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We'll walk off to Bainadek. And now, Bainadek, when you read
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in English, you'll say I'm standing at your door or, or, or
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I'm standing beside you, in front of you, but literally it
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means in your hands. Yeah, between your hands.
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Between your hands and a child, when he's fearful he will run to
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his parent and his find solace and he finds peace in his in his
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mother's arms. Yeah, that's beautiful.
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And the same way you see that, I mean, when he's talking like
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this, as if he just wants to run into the hands of Allah.
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And that's something which you whisper to God, you don't call
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out. And that's the beauty.
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That's beautiful. Amazing, amazing.
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So I'm just thinking now you know, I I've read Hamden, I've
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been blessed and I inshallah views at home listeners around
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the world do read the story on Shabbat.
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It's really amazing because when I come across and I read the
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lines and I feel, for example, OK, God is beside me, that's
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one. But you feel a sense of not just
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his beside you, but you feel there's a essence or a presence
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of you and Allah talking and it's just you alone.
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And the beautiful thing from Najah Shabani for me, I think I
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would say as a reflection on this, by the way, is that the
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way Imam Ali has the conversation, Allah as as they
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were jealous that it reminds us that no matter where we are in
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life, you can tell just by the lines that whether you have
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flaws, you can still talk to ourselves.
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Whether you have sinned, you can still speak to Allah and it just
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emphasizes God's mercy is there for you and just knock his door.
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Read this when I jot and don't miss out.
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You know, what can I add to that as well?
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You know, in terms of like you both mentioned this, this notion
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of like vulnerability and urgency and neediness and the
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Imam flocking towards our last panel to Allah.
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You know, when you think about neediness, like in a modern
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sense, neediness in the like the world we live in, yeah, it's
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seen as like an insufficiency or a form of poverty of some sort.
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But Subhan Allah, what we're taught by the Imam in Munaja Cha
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Baniya is that neediness is a form of belief.
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It's a form of, of showing and displaying, showcasing your
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belief in the last Palo to Allah, that you are entirely
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reliant on Allah. You're not self-sufficient
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whatsoever. And you know, even in the at the
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beginning, there's a part that really stuck out to me towards
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the beginning. What Talla morphine Murphy nasi,
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what Haji were for the medi Like you know when you're saying to
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last Montala, you know what is within my inner self and you're
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aware of all of my needs and you know what is inside my
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conscience. And like you said, Muhammad to
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the beginning of the the munajat to open up to alas Ponota Allah
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with such urgency takes courage. And it's something which I think
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we need to get used to doing. When you speak to God, get used
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to speaking to God to in in such a degree where you don't feel
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like you're hiding something or veiling something.
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You know, when we speak to each other in in day-to-day life, we
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kind of have a veil in front of us.
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You can't see within the other person's soul what their
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struggles are, what what their joys are.
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But when you speak to a last palatal and you're telling him,
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you know what's within me, you know what's in my conscience,
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You know what the good I have done and the bad I have done is
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to such a degree where we should become our authentic selves.
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There's nothing to hide from a last palatal.
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And these are the the days and the nights where we need, in my
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opinion, I think we need to develop that confidence of just
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being raw with with God and being our true selves.
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And so it's an intimidating thought when you reflect on
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everything bad that you've done in your life.
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And to approach God with that neediness and that helplessness
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is something which I think takes a lot of courage to get to.
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But this is a good place to stop.
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I think admitting is the first stage, right?
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So it's very easy to just say, oh, I forgive my sins.
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But to admit, yes, you know, I did this and I did this, that's
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when it hurts, because now you realize what a wretched soul you
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are. And that's why it's actually in
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a slum. In Fik wise, it's a sin to open
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up your sins to someone else, right?
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But the only person you do that with is the one who already
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knows, right? He already knows what you've
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done. You know, it's like the mother
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who saw the child do something wrong or break a plate or
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whatever, and then she's waiting for him to come back.
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She knows, but she wants to see his sincerity.
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And this is the best way to show sincerity to God.
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Yeah, Yeah. You know what we talk about the
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method in which we do the DAR especially is there would you
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say like a difference in the way we should do.
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I know of course this specific DAR is meant to be recited in
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this atmosphere, but in terms of like kind of our own growth, the
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growth of the believer is, is there an advantage or a
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disadvantage in doing the art on an individual level or a
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collective level? And for example, if I wanted to
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do, because we have friends who who do Munaj Shahbaniya,
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reflections and gatherings, I think we've got into some of
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these ourselves together. But, you know, is there an
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advantage of reciting it as a group or congregation and what's
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kind of the right way to do it? I think many of times we're not
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used to this. Yeah.
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So because we're not used to it, we don't know where to start.
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Yeah. And even, for example, Daabi
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Hamza, I mean, it takes an hour if not more, right?
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And our souls are not ready to sit for an hour and concentrate
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and talk to our last panel. Unfortunately, we can't do that.
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Imam could do this. And no, I won't be surprised if
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Imam was in such, then recited the whole thing.
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Right. Yeah, it's very possible.
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Well. We can't do that.
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And that's why we're that's where the reflections come in.
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That's where brothers come in and sisters to help you or to
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help them in understanding at least feeling something,
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reciting it together in a small group, that's fine, but the
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important part is to then put effort and to go home and then
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to take that on. So sit for 5 minutes.
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Don't recite the whole thing. Recite the first few lines.
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Just the first few lines will bring tears to your eyes, you
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know? Because sometimes we feel that
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pressure to finish it or where you, especially for me, I'll be
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very honest, yeah. It's like ticking it off.
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Also bro it's like okay for example tonight I want to recite
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when I judge shot 1 here. These are the nights I've never
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done it before. Shot 1 is here.
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What do I do? And you see on YouTube, you see
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it's 27 minutes. OK, cool, cool.
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All right. It's so like, do you know what I
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mean in your mind that, you know, towards minute 1718, your
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mind starts drifting and you start getting distracted.
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Maybe that's not a way we should approach it.
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Maybe there's a way to approach it like you're saying, even if
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it's just the beginning and you reflect on it or maybe even for
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example, taking a portion of it and splitting it over the month.
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So it's just that by the end of the month you are in complete
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submission to a lot like you, you have given it absolute
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thought. And look bro, this is son of the
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every single Imam has recited this Monajat.
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So we know like there's clear cut proof that each Imam has
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recited this Monajat. So this is Sunna, if anything
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for us to do, and not just to do, but to do it with, with
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heart and soul. So I think that's a really nice
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point, yeah. Yeah, I think also reflecting on
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the words will give you a deeper understanding.
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Yeah. So even when we look at the fact
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that Imam Idi Salaam through the whole manager other than the
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Salawat, he refers to Allah as Ilahi, right?
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And that's so beautiful. When you look at the other
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Monajat that we especially as Hoja we recite on 21st night and
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19th night is we call it Mona Imam Ali as if Imam Ali only
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recite one Monaja ever, right? And that is the.
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Guy has actually got a different name.
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Well, I don't know, but as in he's recited so many, can't we
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just? But has he got an official name?
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Do we know? I'm not sure.
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I only know what he's. Called a right, And we know mola
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is a much more authoritative term.
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Yeah. And even when you look at the
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whole munajat, you see that it's that slave and master
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relationship until Molawu and Alhad, until until Rahmanu and
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Al Mahlu, it's all you are this and I'm nothing basically.
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And here it's very different because Ilahi, when you look
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closely, we see it just the I was just looking right now.
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It says My Lord as the translation, but it's not Ilahi.
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It gives when you look deeper into the wedding etymology is
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something I'm very passionate about when it comes to Quranic
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Arabic. And you see that ilahi comes up
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with many different meanings when you look closely at the
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verbs that are derived from it. And one of them is fazar ilahi.
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To run towards someone when you're in fear, who do you run
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towards? Right?
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And that makes sense because what did we just say?
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What does he say? Ali Salaam wakad harab to Ileika
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will walk off to vein aidek. So I fled and what I'm coming
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into whose hands? Into Allah's hands, exactly what
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ilahi is fazar ilahi. When you run towards that old
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person who you love so that you can see comfort again.
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Another thing is a hubba who a hubba who should that'll help
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when you love someone so immensely that even that pain
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that you had goes away because you love them so much.
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So whatever you do, you will still do it for them even if it
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causes you pain because you love them so much.
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And we see that with ABBA Abdullah on Yamala Ashura that
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whatever he did was did was causing pain, but it was for the
21:15
love of Allah. And that's what made it so easy
21:17
for him. So even like for example, when
21:20
when Phiraan says Malakum mean Ilahin Haidi, that something
21:25
along those lines that you know, I have not known another Lord
21:28
for you people other than me. When he said that he didn't mean
21:32
that, you know, people should do throw off of his castle and
21:35
frustrate to him, but he wanted them to love him so much that
21:39
they'll do anything for him, right?
21:41
And that's what sort of grip he wanted on his people.
21:44
And that's what sort of love that we have for Allah, Muhammad
21:47
Allah. When you look at the different
21:49
words for love, one of them in Arabic literature, one of the
21:53
the most highest ones is wallah. And that comes from Allah to
21:58
mean this, that you're so crazily in love that no pain, no
22:03
hunger, no thirst is going to stop that love.
22:06
Instead, it's going to increase that love for that person.
22:09
And that's why you see ilahi, ilahi, ilahi nonstop.
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It's a very loving and merciful munajat.
22:17
You just feel the love flowing and the mercy flowing and Imam
22:20
asking for love and asking for mercy from a lost.
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Family. Yeah, there's, there's a lot of
22:24
like when I'm just getting through the translation, there's
22:26
so many parts here where the Imam talks to Allah in a
22:30
different tone, or at least I find like compared to a lot of
22:33
the other dollars that we read. And it's it's a tone of someone
22:39
who is interacting with someone who he admits is a provider and
22:44
a sustainer, a lover and a creator, but at the same time is
22:48
talking to someone who he knows has he has absolute trust in.
22:52
Like, for example, the Imam and Islam says, my Lord, please look
22:56
upon me in the same way you've looked at the one who you have
22:59
called and he's responded to you and whom you used him in your
23:02
service with your aid. And so he obeys you, O the near
23:06
one who is not far away from those who love him ardently.
23:10
O he who is too magnanimous to deprive one who hopes for his
23:13
reward. Then he says Ilahi and he says,
23:17
my Lord, please grant me your heart whose longing for you will
23:20
draw one close to you. I want to ask specifically, I
23:23
know this is slightly off topic, about Lika Allah and the meeting
23:26
of Allah and that sort of proximity to Allah's panel to
23:30
Allah and developing that nearness to God, especially as
23:33
we approach Shahar al Muqan. Is that something which we could
23:37
say that Imam Ali Salaam aspires for us to gain from the munajat?
23:43
Like is one of the core goals of this?
23:45
Should we enter this and finish the DAR with thinking that I
23:49
have gained proximity and nearness to alas Pono to Allah?
23:52
Is it more of an admission, like you said, of one's, you know,
23:55
errors and one's depravities, or like what's the kind of
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objective or goal, if that's like a right way to put it?
24:03
Of the Imam. Yeah, of of what?
24:05
Yeah. What did he intend for us to,
24:07
to, to gain when we entered this?
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Like, was there like a state of mind we should be in?
24:11
I don't mean in terms of like the intimacy of the DA.
24:14
I mean in terms of like, for example, you know, that they're
24:17
DA which are recommended for Shafa, there's DA which is
24:21
recommended for Tawasul and so on and so forth.
24:24
Is our goal with this munajat that proximity and closeness to
24:28
God? Is it for example, the steffar?
24:31
Like is there something which we are trying to gain specifically?
24:35
If that makes sense. Yeah, I think, I think the
24:37
beauty is that you, you may find in the star that you're
24:42
according to Allah's mercy, more is rahma, whereby I say it might
24:46
find forgiveness, you know, and I might find something
24:49
completely different. And that's the beauty that the
24:52
Imam's words and more importantly the Holy Quran, that
24:56
everyone who picks up that book, blessed book will take something
24:59
different from it. But the true understanding and
25:03
the true way to gain the maximum is that you'll realize even with
25:06
the double and the Holy Quran, the more you do test care, the
25:09
more you purify your soul, the more you start to gain from it.
25:12
And one of our teachers, I remember telling us that do to
25:15
double on this verse and spend some time doing test care.
25:20
So go back for a few weeks, you know, it's the far.
25:22
Whatever is fasting, whatever is, come back and read that
25:25
verse and you'll see it in a very different light because
25:28
your soul is open. Your heart is opening up now
25:30
much more. And that's what you know, for
25:33
the last 11 months or so, these hearts have become rock hard.
25:37
And now with this Munajat, with Sahifa Sajadiya, the hamster,
25:41
Ashar Munajat, again, we're trying to break that mold.
25:45
We're trying to break that, that blackness which is stuck on the
25:48
heart, and make it such that it's open and ready and fertile
25:54
for the seeds of Shahramadhan to then be so.
25:57
Yeah, I love that. You know, as you were saying
25:59
this by the, you know, the point where you said read it now come
26:02
back a few weeks later, read it. It's a has like a completely
26:06
different meaning. And I think the keyword here is,
26:08
is like can I say it's like spiritual maturity that one can
26:12
achieve from these munajat, for example.
26:14
Why I say that is a long time ago.
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If I can go back to my personal teenage years, for example, it's
26:21
I'll call it the days of a Jahila.
26:22
We commit sins, OK. And we always thought, you know,
26:26
God's never going to forgive us or for example, you know, we're
26:29
doomed. Hell fires.
26:31
You know, this is just beyond the horizon.
26:33
And this is the way we used to think, right?
26:35
And we were scared by, you know, God's going to punish you.
26:38
God's going to do this to you. God's going to.
26:41
But then when you come across these, you come across these
26:43
monarchs, the complete opposite. Allah Subhanahu Attallah is
26:47
Arhamara I mean, and you understand it from like Shabani,
26:54
you agree a spiritual maturity, something that we can learn and
26:59
achieve and put into practice during Shaban.
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Prepare us for Amaban and with your point like read it now a
27:07
few weeks later, but now we can read it this year or read it
27:10
next year and we see how we change and understand.
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The thing is, is like, sorry to talk to you.
27:14
No, no, you can. You can read this as well at any
27:17
level of spiritual. Maturity as well.
27:19
Yeah, yeah. So for those who are new Muslims
27:22
or who are beginning their practice of Islam and this is
27:25
their first introduction to a relationship with the last one
27:28
or to Allah like this is a perfect art, perfect manajat.
27:34
And at the same time, for those like the Imams, like we said
27:37
earlier, for the imams of him as Salaam to recite this themselves
27:40
shows that at any stage of your spiritual journey, you can find
27:44
hub Allah and you can find that love of a last one or two
27:47
highlight and you can connect with God.
27:48
I want to ask specifically about love of God and that theme of
27:53
love because look, I'm going to be real.
27:57
A lot of people see a relationship with God to be very
27:59
transactional, very ritualized one, which is I do XYZ and God
28:05
gives me XYZ in return. And this is of course, we hear
28:08
from the Hanitha Middleton about avoiding the transactional
28:11
relationship, which I'm not going to go into, which we know
28:13
of course. And then of course, you have
28:16
another camp which is very focused on mysticism and
28:19
developing a spiritual relationship with Allah, but
28:22
maybe denies focus on on ritual practice.
28:25
And you can argue whether it's good or bad or what not, but
28:29
actually aiming and aspiring towards developing love of
28:34
Allah's panel to Isla comes with knowing oneself.
28:38
And we say and like knowing oneself and their sins and and
28:44
their flaws and errors will allow you to develop that love
28:48
of Allah. But for those who right now feel
28:51
a lack of love of God in their lives, what would you say to
28:54
them? Because I find that, you know,
28:56
when things are positive, you feel Allah loves you.
28:58
And when things are negative, you feel a lot punishing you or
29:02
he's neglecting you. But for those in in their lives
29:05
right now who are struggling to see that love and they don't see
29:08
the light at the end of the tunnel, they're going through
29:11
all sorts of mental health issues, spiritual struggles,
29:13
families, whatever it might be. Why do they need that love of
29:17
Alas Pantala so much? You know, have you heard of
29:21
Leila and Majnoon? Yeah, Yeah.
29:23
So in case anyone doesn't know, Leila was an ordinary girl in
29:28
the city. And Majnoon is genuine.
29:31
He's crazy about this Layla, right?
29:34
He's a handsome guy. He's going after this ordinary
29:36
girl, but he's crazy about her. And everyone's saying what's
29:40
wrong with you, right? And everywhere she goes, he
29:43
follows. And she hates his guts because
29:47
she can't stand him. One day, there's an announcement
29:50
that Layla has made soup for the whole city.
29:53
So bring your own bowls. And and.
29:57
Yeah, and and come and get some. So everyone brings theirs and
30:01
Majnoon comes smiling, 32 teeth grinning with his ball as well.
30:06
Everyone gets a spoon. Everyone gets a spoon.
30:08
And finally it comes to Majnoon's 10.
30:11
Now Majnoon stands in front of her, and as she looks up, she
30:14
sees the face of Majnoon. And Leila sees Majnoon and she
30:19
hates him. So she takes his ball and she
30:21
smashes on the ground. And everyone's like, and he
30:26
turns around with a smile on his face and he starts to walk away.
30:31
And they're looking at him and he's smiling.
30:33
And they say, truly, you're crazy.
30:36
You love her and she hates your guts.
30:38
And she just smashed this your bowl.
30:41
You're not going to get any soup.
30:42
And you think like, why are you smiling?
30:44
What's wrong with you? And he goes, you guys don't
30:46
understand. She loves me more.
30:49
She treated you all equally. She treated me in a different
30:53
way, the same thing when it comes to these sort of Bella,
30:57
right? Allah says well and everyone we
31:00
will most certainly, surely we will test you and then Allah
31:04
says how? But why does he say that home
31:11
life does man think just because he says we believe that we're
31:14
not going to test them, Of course we're going to test them.
31:17
Malakot fatten the ladinam in Kabulim, which is those from
31:20
before. Why Falayalam and Allahu Ladina,
31:22
Sadako, Walayalam and Academy just sift those who are truthful
31:27
and the liars so many a times. And it's hard to say this to
31:31
people who are going through problems because it's easy for
31:34
us to say it, but they're experiencing this, right?
31:37
But the fact that Allah loves you, he hasn't forgotten you,
31:41
that's one way of trying to look at this problem maybe, or this
31:45
Bala which you feel has come upon you.
31:48
And that in itself is Allah's love coming down.
31:52
So we have to take that in such a way and understand it such a
31:55
way that Y'allah, thank you for remembering me.
31:58
Because if you forget me, then then what is that, right?
32:02
And that's why even in the doors you'll see the constant thicker
32:06
of Allah and that He doesn't forget us and that we don't
32:09
forget him. And even the Quran talks about
32:11
how you forget Allah, then he'll make you forget yourselves.
32:15
And you know those who forget Allah, a woman, Yashan thicker
32:18
Rahman, he who forgets the remnants of a Rahman, nokaya
32:21
dahlu shaitaan, Allah will assign for him a shaitaan.
32:24
So this way Allah is reminding us you.
32:28
Know speaking about love, talking about the love of the
32:32
last final matarala, there's something actually very
32:35
interesting with munajat. So I'm seeing this now.
32:38
You know, the 15 the answer high passage idea.
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What is my emotion? You know, apart from love, you
32:46
know, there's when you're scared, there's munajat.
32:49
You know, if you want to make complaints, there's munajat.
32:52
Like you can actually come and complain, conversation with
32:55
Allah, make your complaints, but like you can come to God at any
32:59
stage, whether I think you fully love him or you're still
33:03
confused or don't know if God loves you.
33:05
I generally believe that if we actually read this monarch arts
33:09
and not just read them like parrots as Ahmed used to say it
33:11
back in season 3. Do you remember those phrase you
33:14
used to use? We actually have to see what
33:16
Really. Yeah, he said.
33:17
Don't read that. Pirates.
33:18
That's. True.
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No, that's my point. But if we reflect, we see that
33:23
we can actually have a full understanding of every emotion
33:26
we have within us. And we find this with God said,
33:29
if we're scared, we go to him of where, you know, feel hopeless.
33:34
We find hope and Allah, If we find, you know, we feel like the
33:37
walls abandoned us. No, we find that a lot is
33:40
looking after us. It's I don't, I don't want to
33:42
speak too much. I'm trying to learn more than I
33:45
say. But something I want to ask Hajj
33:49
of Hamid, if I can say I've come at the very beginning of the
33:53
conversation. Ahmed did mention, for example,
33:55
you come from a community that there is emphasis on when I
33:57
judge. Back in the days when I was
34:00
younger, my community didn't really have emphasis on when I
34:02
judge. The only thing I would say we
34:05
had was Quran circles. We had the Amar and things like
34:09
this. And for example, because of the
34:10
I'm in love with Dajjjan, like I can even read it outside of
34:14
Ramadan and still be mesmerized by one reading and have a
34:18
relationship with God. Let's say there's others like me
34:22
back in the day or people as you mentioned are new to Islam.
34:26
Reverts come. What benefit do we have from
34:30
this, from these monarchs? A Shia because every school of
34:35
four has duas here and there. But there's a difference between
34:39
the duas of Ehlid Bates as there's a difference between how
34:42
we communicate with Allah through the Ehlid bait.
34:44
Why is it in the duas of the Ehlid bait we can find in this
34:47
school of thought that other schools don't offer.
34:51
I know it's a deep one. Yeah, it's it's deep because I
34:55
mean the ehlid bait are the peak of elements, yes.
34:59
And many a times I've even looked at some of my Sunni
35:03
brothers, I've looked at some of their doors, especially when
35:06
they go to Umrah or for, for Hajjin, the things that they
35:10
read on Yomal Arafah, it's very nice.
35:14
But then you open the Arafah of Al Hussein and you're just blown
35:17
away. You're blown away because Imam
35:20
talks from his heart firstly, but the detail that he goes into
35:25
and even this Manoj comes to usher these 15 that you just
35:29
mentioned at any stage in your life, like you said, you know,
35:34
the, the Col. fluctuates, right? The heart fluctuates.
35:37
So at times you're on a high and you're feeling close to God and
35:41
you'll read manajat, you know, of the hopeful ones.
35:45
And then all of a sudden, two days later it's rock bottom and
35:49
you'll read Manajat tahibeen, you know, those who want to do
35:52
Tobin. And there's something for
35:53
everyone and it's like for everything.
35:55
And even that new one that that Riva brother who has entered
35:59
into Islam, whatever he's feeling, and they feel more
36:02
pressure than us, right? Because they have no clue what's
36:04
going on. But here also, they open this
36:07
book and they see there's something for everyone.
36:09
And one of our leaders, Mullah Asghar, I'm sure you've heard of
36:12
his name, Rahmatullah Ali. He used to make small cassettes
36:17
of Dahama Karamullah Klak in English.
36:21
And he used to and he used to sell them or used to send them
36:23
around to different Muslim communities.
36:26
And one day he received the letter saying that I live in
36:30
this part of the world, I'm a Hindu.
36:32
But every morning your St. whichever St. of yours recited
36:37
this prayer, I play it in my shop because it's the nobility
36:42
of characters and it shows such amazing characteristics of what
36:47
man should be and their relationship with God.
36:50
And that's not even a non-muslim, that's a non believe
36:54
in God who is being inspired by the words of Atal bait.
36:58
So us who claim to believe in God and his Atal bait, we have
37:03
more responsibility than anyone else to use this.
37:06
Unfortunately, even like for example, the Alamar say this
37:09
Munarat Shahrani recited through the whole year again, we'll
37:13
start picking up, you know, towards the days of Shaban.
37:16
We should be using all the time same same with all of these one
37:20
ajat you know. Can I ask you kind of stepping
37:24
away from the specific one ajat, but into the the coming weeks
37:28
where we have of course 15th Shaaban and the Almads we do on
37:31
the night of 15th of Shaaban. Of course, also the, the, the
37:35
and then of course the days leading up to Shaaban, there is
37:42
like what seems to be a yearly conversation which happens
37:47
about, as we said earlier, the ritual tick box of DAR and Amal
37:54
versus do your thing and follow your heart and do what your
37:59
heart wants to connect with on the night that you're doing that
38:01
Amal. You, of course, like I said at
38:04
the beginning, you are the voice of Amal for many of us, at least
38:07
for our generation in our local community.
38:09
I'm so sorry you have to hear me every.
38:10
Year and Hamdullah, you've elevated us all and you brought
38:14
tears and you've brought reflection to us and on such a
38:18
frequent basement. I love, bless you always for
38:20
that. But what are your views on that?
38:23
Like is there, is there a way which you personally prefer
38:26
doing at a mile, if you don't mind me asking?
38:28
I know of course, congregation is a big thing for us in our
38:31
community. But at the same time, I think
38:33
COVID taught me that doing at a mile in the comfort of our homes
38:37
also has massive benefits. Is there a chronology that we
38:41
should aim to always follow? Of course, each night is
38:44
different and should one try to follow a chronology and tick the
38:47
boxes, you know between Bahadur bin Fajar or how do we kind of
38:51
approach these coming weeks? Very good question and I feel
38:56
sometimes the reason why this tick box happens is because at
39:00
least we in our hearts, we feel satisfied we did armour, you
39:04
know and and that's the problem. I think we have to understand
39:08
what the mosque does Amal or our Husseini has do Amal, you know,
39:12
in a certain way because there is a person there, the layman
39:16
possibly, who knows that, look, I'm going to come to mosque,
39:19
I'll do the Amal here. That's what I need to do.
39:21
I'm going to go to sleep about work tomorrow.
39:22
Right now we're one step ahead. We're trying to better
39:26
ourselves. So now we take the Amal and we
39:29
know maybe there's certain things that we rush.
39:32
One big thing I know in our communities is still far right,
39:35
the 70 of stuff for lower tube and 100 stuff for lower tube and
39:39
Marshall, man, I've never gone through sesame that quickly,
39:42
right anything. What am I doing, man?
39:45
So definitely there's certain things that we need to take a
39:48
step back and say, OK, well I need to do is still far.
39:51
I'm going to do just 70 because that's one of the test B that's
39:55
recommended. But I'm going to think of maybe
39:57
5 sins, right? And in my head, those are the
40:00
sins that I'm going to be thinking of.
40:02
What I'm doing is so far we need to make it meaningful because
40:05
otherwise we're going to Allah. Like I said initially with such
40:08
a general Allah, forgive me for my sins.
40:11
You've sinned specifically against God.
40:14
Now start to remember and feel the pain of those sins.
40:18
Now having said that, obviously there's even other idea that we
40:21
do in this month. That maybe we should look at and
40:25
especially maybe read the meaning, take time out to do
40:27
those things, study the Quran and layer little colour.
40:30
It's so important to seek knowledge on that those nights
40:33
is so important. And recently I feel that there's
40:37
been a more of a, there's been more of a vibe of doing this
40:40
that you know, we won't do the whole Aman.
40:42
Our heart won't be in it. We'll do certain things on the
40:45
opposite side. It's very dangerous as well
40:48
because you can become lazy and you hide behind this, the shadow
40:52
of no, no, my heart's not in it, right?
40:55
It's laziness. Sometimes we have to push the
40:58
soul. We have to make it feel pain
41:01
with is still far. There's no point me saying, OK,
41:04
look, I'm just going to do 5 is still far a soft lower to break
41:07
five times because I have my heart in it and that's better
41:10
than the 70 that you do. Let me give a different analogy.
41:13
Hopefully this will make sense and hit home.
41:18
Say it's probably the more fitter one out of all of us
41:20
here, so say it can easily do. The.
41:23
Press UPS. The jump is just big, that's
41:26
why. I'm 5151.
41:29
So say it can do 50 press UPS easily.
41:32
OK, He does 50 every day, doesn't break a sweat.
41:36
Does that make him stronger? No, no.
41:39
But that 51st press up, when he's going for the 51st and he's
41:42
struggling and he's sweating and he's pushing up and he can feel
41:45
it, That's what makes him stronger.
41:48
It's that 51st press up that makes you stronger.
41:51
But he can't wake up and say, look, I'm just going to do the
41:54
51st one. I'm just going to do that one.
41:57
He has to do that 50 to reach that one, which is going to make
42:01
an impact on him. Similarly, when we're in that
42:04
environment and is the far is going on, we need our hearts
42:08
need to settle. Our hearts need to be in the
42:10
right frame in order to feel that one is the far, just one
42:14
which will hit home and where you're sincerely to Allah, Yala
42:18
man, I messed up, Forgive me. And that's all Allah wants.
42:21
He wants that sincerity in that one.
42:24
But it's not a switch. You can't just switch on and say
42:26
I'm going to do that 51st press. So it doesn't work either.
42:29
So at times we also need to be in that environment with
42:32
everyone doing it so far, even not with everyone at home, but
42:35
being disciplined, saying we're going to do a few, we're going
42:37
to make the heart feel uncomfortable because it's not
42:41
used to talking to Allah for so long.
42:44
Say it went to went to Omar recently.
42:46
Sometimes we go, we have so many, even we go for the hour.
42:48
We have so many dying things that we want to talk about to
42:50
Imam and to Allah. And we said that obviously the
42:53
Kaaba. And after three minutes, all of
42:55
a sudden we've we've run out of things to say to God.
42:57
That's embarrassing. His God, you're at his house and
43:01
now you don't know what to say to him because we're not used to
43:03
having conversations with him. We're not used to talking to
43:06
him. Now all of a sudden we're
43:07
sitting there and we don't know what to say.
43:10
You know, that's embarrassing. So that heart needs to feel also
43:13
the discipline of going through certain Amal as well feeling the
43:17
pain of Istiqfar. Because I told what I said far
43:20
more because Shahramadhan is based on Istiqfar.
43:23
You know those little other are for asking for forgiveness and
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inshallah maybe if we try and do that with discipline in the
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heart then we can move forward. Yeah, sure, inshallah, beautiful
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analogies and examples. Many, many I think I personally
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can learn from and I love how you mentioned the you know, the
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50 press UPS. I'll get there one day.
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But but in reality, I think it's true because I think just like
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how people, for example, you know, they go to the gym, for
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example, they invest heavily at work so that they can reap the
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rewards of other profits and whatnot.
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The same thing is with our spirituality and the same thing
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with the stuff. I think the more we can invest
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spiritually, the more I think level of spiritual dosage we can
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have into our lives. We see things differently and we
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actually get nearness to a lost point.
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I think nearness is the biggest thing I think we need to work
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on, especially myself and Charlotte on the upcoming weeks
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and I'm going to maximize Charlotte.
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Yeah, Yeah, yeah. I fully agree.
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I just wanted to add maybe as as well.
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Firstly guys, if you've got thoughts, please let us know
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your feedback in the comments below because how?
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Much press off can you do? Charlotte, we'll find out.
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We'll find out tonight. Charlotte, whatever I try and do
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I have to top it by 1 tomorrow. But yeah guys, that's all of the
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comments. What you think so far about the
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conversation? What are your methods?
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What what are techniques that have worked for you in terms of
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your spiritual growth? Have you connected with a
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particular that has been our church out by near being
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something that you've done before and how does it make you
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feel? Let us know.
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We want to hear your thoughts. Something which I think is I
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think an apt point to begin wrapping up on is, as we
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mentioned, the relationship we have with the awaited Imam.
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And of course in these days now Shahaban for us is not just
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about the preparation for Shahaban.
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It's equally as all months are, but especially the holy month of
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Shahaban is about the connection with Imab al Mehdi.
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Now for some of us, it's go to the mosque, you know, do a
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couple kasidas and then go home and of course the Amal.
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But there's also a big part of of in my mind, and this is
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something I've been reflecting on recently, is that they can't,
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they can't just be, it can't just be coincidental that the
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birth of the imam is on, on such a holy night and at the same
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time is only two weeks before the holy month.
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Rather, it's something for me I think to reflect on is that the
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the relationship with Holy Imam is not just like right now we
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have this popularized thing of 313 Jim Bros who are like
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preparing for the Imam. She gave me that.
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That's like a fun thing people do on TikTok now and stuff.
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At the same time, you then have like the, you know, that camp
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who just talks about the signs of the Imams, these political
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analysts and all we forget that the Imam is our Imam.
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Do you know what I mean? Like the Imam is our Imam, the
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divinely appointed representative of our last one.
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That's Allah on earth, who we will aspire to pray behind, who
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we will follow. What he's doing is talk about or
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when he's doing any of these things, we are fully like
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focused on the Imam and his methodology of focusing on a
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last pond to Allah is the methodology we aspire to to
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follow and implement and apply to our own selves.
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So spirituality and our belief in the other debate go hand in
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hand. They have to, they must, right?
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And our allegiance to the Holy Imam comes hand in hand with
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that spirituality. Now I want to ask you from your
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perspective, how do we, when we talk about the Holy Imam, how do
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we talk about the level of spirituality that we should
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raise ourselves to? Do we, for example, look at
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previous companions and how they were on a spiritual level when
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they interacted with the Imam? We look at Abu Dhabi and Salman
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and Imad Al Mahdin, for example. Or do we have any examples for
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us that will allow us to see, you know, what stage we need to
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get to if we are to be worthy of being in his presence?
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Big like loaded question. Yeah, firstly, Mila Hasten is
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reappearing. If anything, I think we felt his
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vacuum in these last few months or in the last year, seeing
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what's been going on in the world.
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And there's times where I've just turned to God and been
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like, yo, let's just send him now.
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Like I can't bear watching it. Imagine him.
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Ali Salaam, right? He feels it even more than us.
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Plus, you know, the whole out of sight, out of mind thing.
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So I think many times we actually forget that we have an
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Imam who is living, who is there for us, who prays for us, and we
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kind of need to reciprocate that as well.
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And we need to ask Allah through through his name.
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I think in terms of companions or qualities, when we look in
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the Quran and we see those who were the muttaqeen, those who
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were closest to God, that's our, that's our aim, that's our role.
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Because when we look at that and we see the qualities of those
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muttaheen and those muttminin, etcetera, etcetera, then we know
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that's what we need to aspire towards and that's what Iman
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will pick. It's very nice seeing these
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companions and there's the great role models for us.
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But even better than them are the added bait, right?
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And one Sheikh just recently told me that once he met Amaraja
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who's passed away, I won't name drop.
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I don't know how how there are classes with that, so I just
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leave that blank. But he met someone and he said
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to him, say them I want to be like you.
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And they say I told them aim for Hassan and Hussein and you'll
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reach not just me, you'll reach better than me.
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Don't aim for this right and. Set the bar high.
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Exactly, exactly right. Go for that.
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And then if you drop, OK, fine. But if you, if you, if you aim
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here, then you're going to drop, right?
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So just aim as high as possible. And I think that's the beauty
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and the month coming is the month of the Quran.
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But the beauty is it's not just the month of the Quran that this
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whole Quran that we talk about these these qualities are
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manifested so perfectly in these Holi 14, right?
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And it's, it's just like, it's like if, if, if a poet walks in
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and he's written a poem about a snowy evening in London and how
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the snow has settled on the leaves and how beautiful it
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looks, it's white crystal, etcetera, etcetera.
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And then an artist walks in and an artist sees the, the, the
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poem and he draws a beautiful on a canvas, a beautiful picture of
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what this poem says. It's amazing.
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It's beautiful, but when the poet comes back in and he looks
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at it, he'll see and I say that's beautiful, but in his
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mind, it's not the exact same picture right?
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Now imagine if the poet himself is an artist.
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So exactly what he reads, he depicts the same exact image on
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that canvas. That's the that what you read in
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the Quran is the exact same thing you'll see manifested in
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them, in them walking and talking.
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And that's the beauty that this inelin Muttakina mafaza, these,
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these muttakin who have become successful and victorious, Why
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they successful? What are their qualities?
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The exact same qualities that the Quran talks about is what
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you'll see. And that's the exact same thing.
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The beauty of seeing the Holy Quran coming down in this night
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and then seeing the greatest man after a soul being taken back to
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Allah in this same night as well in this same land.
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And I love sorry if I can just mention this point.
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No, you referenced the Quran and the debates for us.
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You know, we know that they lived by, preached by and died
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by the Quran. And this is something important
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to reflect on Inshallah over the next few weeks leading up to the
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month of the Quran, which is Shah Ramadan and Shah Allah.
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But Ahmed, yeah, I feel like genuinely with you as well and
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with our honourable guest here today that I have got a free
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session of commentary on. So this is for me, this is this
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is like a bonus. And there's so much I'm going to
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take back after this episode and shall implement over the next
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few weeks and leading all the way into Sharma. 100 percent,
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100% no. It's definitely been, I think,
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an amazing start to Season 4, our first guest and we're so
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honoured to have you comment. Thank you for having me.
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You, you, you. We set the ball high.
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Yeah, we set the ball high. Yeah, Yeah, we're really
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honoured. For those who don't know, I
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know, but you have a project which you've run over the last
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few years on Instagram, every shot on the band.
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Can you tell us about it? One of my favorite.
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Do you know every year I like spam your Instagram.
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Have you realized? I have.
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I have. Thank you for supporting I.
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I Al Hamdullah, have been really inspired by the Holy Quran since
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I was young from recitation. But then Al Hamdul moved on to
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more to dub bore and now one of my passions, as I said was
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linguistics and etymology. So Al Hamdullah, the Quran has
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had a great impact on me and has inspired me in a way that I
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can't even fathom. And I I want to try and inspire
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others with the Holy Quran. So we try and do a chronic and
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inspiration on Instagram. I tried it through the year, but
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I get a bit lazy. But in Shah Ramadan, I
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definitely enjoy that every night we do release what short
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video, either a theme or a word in the Holy Quran, what it
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means, etymology and maybe something to take away from it.
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I said. I said I highly, highly
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recommend everyone at home to follow Muhammad Hajj Mohammed
53:21
Datu and support the work he's doing and keep up with his
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journey because. What's the Instagram handle?
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M datu? M datu Yeah.
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Beautiful, beautiful. All right, guys, thank you so
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much. Thank you again, Mohammed, say
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thank you as always. Thank you.
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We will be back next week. Run sisters, as we approach, as
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we are saying, these blessed and holy nights, we're going to
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continue our conversation and our themes, which we talked
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about last week in these coming weeks to talk more about a last
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one to allow the relationship we have with him.
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And of course, many of the other beta name of Salam, which we
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celebrate and commemorate during these blessed months.
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So stay tuned. Let us know what you think.
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Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel.
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Yeah, yeah. And yeah, let us know your
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thoughts. Brothers, sisters, take care of
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Salam Alaikum.