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Suffering, Sin, and Spiritual Burnout (ft. Ridha Jichi) · After Maghrib 🌙

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  So now my look and welcome back to After Maghrib.
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  It's amazing to be back after what's been a few weeks for me
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  on a personal level, and it's lovely to be back with you
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  again, brothers and sisters. I've been seeing the amazing
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  conversations that have been taking place on the podcast over
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  the last few weeks. But today we have a conversation
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  which I'm very, very excited for.
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  And if I'm going to be frank, this is a conversation which
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  will be vulnerable, which will be frank in some ways, maybe a
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  reality check for you and I. That is because we're going to
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  be talking about mending broken relationships with Allah.
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  For many of us, we may not even know if our relationship with
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  God needs to be mended in the 1st place.
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  I would argue that maybe half the people listening don't even
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  know if their relationship with Allah is in a position which may
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  be called broken or needing to be mended.
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  So that's why I think this is a great conversation to have and I
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  would really, really encourage anyone who's listening to please
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  make sure you listen to the end. This is going to be one of those
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  vibes podcasts and as you get into it, you're going to enjoy
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  it more and more as we get deeper into the conversation.
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  But it would only be right for me to come back to after
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  Mukharab. Or let me rephrase that, it
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  wouldn't be right for me to come back to after Mukharab if I
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  wasn't sitting next to my dear brother and none other then said
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  Ali Rabu Salaam Aliqab. Alaikum Salaam Mahmatullah.
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  Habibi said MO Lai, how are you? I'm better now honestly.
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  Come on bro. Honestly, I missed you.
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  I miss you too man. I missed your firstly Arabic of
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  screen, missed your your voice, your smile, the quality you
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  bring to the conversation so. That's very kind of yeah.
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  And thank you to everyone in the comments and online and people
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  have been sending lovely wishes and I've been hearing all sorts
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  of stories from skiing and the Swiss Alps to all sorts.
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  But no, I've just been taking some time off with my family and
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  I have a lot going on outside of the podcast, to be honest.
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  So I won't be back weekly from here on, but I will be kind of
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  resuming slowly and hopefully in Charlotte some point soon we'll
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  be back full time. So I'm looking forward to that,
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  inshallah. Say it, we're going to introduce
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  our guest. Yes, I'm actually very excited
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  to introduce this guest. It's someone who has been doing
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  some incredible work in the community in Milton Keynes,
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  which is close to London. He is the resident island of
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  that community. He's also housed a part time
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  student and also working Marshall our family man as well
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  Sheikh Rabba Jishi Salaam. Alaikum.
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  Thank you so much for being. Here, thank you very much for
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  having me. It's a pleasure and honour, my
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  love. Bless you.
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  Thank you so much for. Me.
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  Thank you so much. How are you keeping Chef I'll?
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  Handle that, Yes, all is good. All is good.
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  I was very kind. I'll handle.
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  It a Hamdullah chef. Obviously this is a big
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  conversation before we get into it.
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  I have a challenge. I've been given a challenge and
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  I'm going to pass it on to you with respect, if you don't mind.
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  So my beloved wife, credit to her, called me just before I
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  came here. She says I have a challenge for
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  you. I said, OK, what's up?
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  She goes, I've given, I'm going to give you 3 words.
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  She said to me 3 words, which you have to drop in the
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  conversation across the whole, the whole course of the video.
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  So I said, all right, fine, she goes.
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  But the trick is you have to do it organically and I can't just
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  randomly shout the word, if that makes sense.
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  I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you 3 words.
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  I've been given 3 words, but I'm not going to kind of say what it
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  is. If you know in the comments, if
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  you have the feeling what the word is, drop in the comment.
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  But me and say that Ali are going to give you 3 random words
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  and over the next hour you have to try and bring them in
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  organically. OK.
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  Does that make sense? In Charlotte.
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  Let's see if I remember the words yes in Charlotte.
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  OK, cool. So the first word I'm gonna give
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  you is motorway. Motorway, motorway.
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  OK. All right, say it.
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  You got a word? Caraballa.
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  Come on bro. No, I'm serious.
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  No, let's make it a non conventional word.
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  Bro. Shit, a podcast you're gonna
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  mention? Revolves around this whole.
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  Oh my day. That works.
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  OK, we'll make it 4 words. Can you give me?
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  After Maghrib. Come on.
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  Bro make it random, not going to come back like Picasso or or
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  like I don't know, come on no passo on bro.
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  OK, you give. You a third one, I think.
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  All right, my third. My passo amending relationship
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  with God. I'm curious how this will this
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  will come up. Curating, Curating and paint.
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  Yeah. All right, so we've got.
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  I'm not, I'm. I'm going to take out after
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  Magalib. OK, Kabbalah, we can keep in.
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  So you've got motorway and Karbala.
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  I'm going to give you Margarita. Oh my God.
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  OK. OK.
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  And one more from you said. Chai Karak.
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  Chai Karak. What's the first word again?
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  Yeah, Motorway. Motorway.
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  I'm going to text you these in case.
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  Yeah. Thank you.
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  Thanks very much. The notepad I don't do we write
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  the pen wall? Yeah, so motorway.
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  Motorway. Karbala.
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  Karbala Margarita and Chai. Karak Chai or karak Chai?
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  Have you had Karakash? No, Yeah, I'm, yeah, I've had
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  yes. That's not correct.
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  Haven't got it today? No.
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  Yeah, yeah, My wife makes really.
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  Really. Good.
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  Yeah, actually, yeah, I've had some.
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  I think it's a good conversation to have said.
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  I know this is something we've touched on in in in recent
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  months. What what, What kind of comes to
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  your mind when we talk about this?
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  And if I can be real, we've actually been speaking about
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  this conversation over the last few days, me and Ahmed.
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  And just today we, I think we both left work at the same time.
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  We're both driving and we go on the phone.
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  And I told Ahmed the conversation today, I feel like
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  no matter what level of spiritual or religious, you
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  know, setting you find yourself in or level you find yourself
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  in, you're going to relate to it.
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  Because I don't think we take time out of our day to reflect
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  what's our relationship with God.
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  So when I when I think of it, and when Ahmed told me, for
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  example, we want to talk about mending relationships with God,
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  The first thing I thought about personally, because our hearts
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  might be broken. You know, normally we find
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  people, you know, they fall in love.
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  You know what destroys the relationship?
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  Love fades away. So maybe we we feel perhaps
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  there could be a distance between US and Allah and maybe
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  that's related to our, you know, calibers central to us and
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  everything we say Allah, we remember.
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  For example, when it comes to the hearts, he says in one of
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  the verse that neither our wolf nor our children will will aid
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  us on that day except the one who comes with caliber Salim,
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  right? So I think for me, the way I see
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  it, I think the heart is heavily involved in today's conversation
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  and I want to see where this takes our heart.
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  Yeah, sounds a beautiful interest.
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  Sense of sense of just kind of to kind of to kind of zoom out
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  and focus on where we are maybe as a community.
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  There's obviously distance when we talk about a broken
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  relationship with our last panel to Isla, we we many times are
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  talking about a distance that one feels from our mind.
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  And obviously we now live in a world which is fatigued, shaped
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  with trauma, all sorts of tyranny and what not.
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  And at times we do feel distance.
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  Is there a way to kind of distinguish and understand why
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  that might be, whether that's either being engulfed in one
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  sin, the distance that means that we've caused that on
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  ourselves, or perhaps maybe kind of a pedagogical like maturing
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  process which Allah is taking us through, a learning process
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  where Allah is straightening us out or some, you know, showing
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  the Lahama through his distance. Is there a way to understand and
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  distinguish which is which? Very beautiful accent.
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  Smila Rahman Rahim, you know, first I'd say that we all, every
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  one of us, right? We we're all on a journey to a
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  loss of Bhanawat Island, right? Everyone, everyone, right?
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  Whether? You're.
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  A and that's usually recited in Karbala right I'll handle last
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  memory test for me. We're like yeah, yeah, my memory
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  is terrible to go on this one and handler, thank you very much
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  for suggesting this one. So we're all we're all
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  travelling to God, right. I lost planet Alice is in the
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  Quran. Oh man, you are, you know,
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  labouring tirelessly towards your God and you shall meet him.
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  We all are going to meet Allah Subhanahu Atahara.
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  So this is inevitable and we can't control that, right?
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  What we can control is how we meet Allah, right?
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  Do we meet him on good terms with him?
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  Do we meet him on bad terms with him?
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  Do we meet him with his name Al Ghafoor, the Forgiving, the
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  Merciful? Or do we meet him with the name
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  Al Muntakhim, the Avenger, for example, Right.
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  And this is what we mean when we say distance, right?
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  How far are we from God? When we're in good terms with
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  Allah, it means we're close to Allah.
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  When we're not, we're far from Allah.
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  Obviously, when we say closeness and distance and so on, what,
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  what, what Ahmed mentioned, we don't mean physical distance.
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  When we talk about last Pano Tal, right now you're close to
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  me, it means I'm close to you. That's how physical distance
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  works. Spiritual distance is not.
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  Connection. Ascent, sometimes, for example,
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  you could be speaking to me, right?
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  Well, I'm, I'm looking at you, but I'm actually somewhere else,
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  right? And that's, you know, just at
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  the psychological or emotional or just consciousness level,
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  right? Not yet spiritual.
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  So you could be attentive to me, but I am not attentive to you.
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  Even worse, you could be speaking to me lovingly, but I'm
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  actually looking at you. But I'm planning how I'm going
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  to hurt you tomorrow, how I'm going to betray you, right.
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  So you are close to me, but I'm far from you.
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  Yeah, the fact is that Allah, Allah tells us in the Quran many
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  times, he does not withhold closeness.
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  The distance is never from Allah.
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  Allah tells us wherever you are, he's with you.
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  Wherever you are, We created man and we know what he whispers to
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  his own self and we are closer to him than his.
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  OK. And Allah tells us also, when my
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  servants ask you about me, what does the verse says?
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  What does the verse say for any Khalid?
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  Some translations, I've read some translations of this verse
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  which says as follows. And if my servants ask you about
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  me or Prophet say that I am near, I answer the calls or
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  whoever calls upon me. But that's wrong.
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  That's not a correct translation.
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  The correct translation is if my servants ask you about me, I am
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  near, not say I am near. Allah is answering directly
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  those people. He's not saying to the Prophet
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  as a mediator. It's like you can speak to me
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  directly. When they're looking for me, I
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  am near. I'm answering you directly,
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  right? It's not like, oh, Prophet tell
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  them I am near. No, Allah is that so?
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  The business is never from a lost panel.
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  Allah is present, right? For example, I have this phone
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  next to me. Yeah, I have this phone next to
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  me, but I'm not attentive to it. I'm not attentive to it, right?
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  For me, it's far from. I might go and, you know, try to
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  look for it. I lost my phone.
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  Where is it? Well, it's actually, it's close
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  to me, but I'm not attentive to it.
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  This way we might be able to understand the distance.
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  What do we mean by I'm distant from Allah?
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  What? What makes us far from God?
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  It's really our inattention to God.
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  God is there. God is everywhere.
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  Wherever you turn, wherever you turn, the faces of Allah is
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  there. Wherever you turn, you see the
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  trace of all, wherever, wherever.
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  Remember when he would say I haven't looked at anything
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  except that what I've seen God in it before it after it.
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  She's God in everything literally right.
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  So Allah is never distant from us.
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  What makes us distant from Allah Subhanahu Utah Allah and this is
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  it's a kind of a one way St. the distance is our inattention to
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  Allah is our unawareness of God is our heedlessness of God is
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  our Raffla right. That's what makes us far from
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  Allah Subhanahu Utah Allah. So you know, sometimes for
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  example, some people try to understand like what does it
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  mean Rafa, right? So what, what, what do you mean
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  by that? And usually scholars, they
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  explain it to us and even the hadith of Adebate and the
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  Prophet Sabu Bahadi, what he was said and they tell us, you know,
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  when you're at inattentive to God, you're attentive to
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  something else and that is your ego.
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  The Anna. The Anna noticed actually when
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  Allah Subhanaw Ta'ala expelled Chaitan from Jannah, Allah tells
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  us about the conversation and it's beautiful to have a lost
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  panel look. I mean, I don't know of any
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  democracy that actually, you know, gives records the
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  conversation with an enemy in a book that will be recited till
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  the day of judgement. Allah did it.
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  Allah did it. So because the lost panel
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  doesn't have a problem in actually, you know, quoting this
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  conversation because there's a. Lesson.
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  Son, there's a lesson in it, right?
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  So see. Well, when you know.
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  Alas, Pantala commanded the angels commanded Iblis as well
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  to prostate to Adam. Iblis rejected when Iblis
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  refused. It wasn't that time that he was
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  expelled. When was he expelled?
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  When he said what? Anna Hirominho, I am better than
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  him. Made me of fire, made him of
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  clay. You want me to prostate to him?
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  So me. Once that happened, then the
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  explosion was right. So this attention to the ego,
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  actually it, it takes us away from a lost panel.
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  Sinning is a further level. It's like you're not just not
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  attentive to a last panel to Allah, you're actually attentive
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  to disobeying God. And this is the example that I
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  mentioned. You know, sometimes you're
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  speaking to me, but I'm just not thinking, not focusing on what
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  you're saying. Sometimes I'm actually hurting,
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  not hurting. You can't hurt God, but I'm
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  disobeying you, I'm betraying you.
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  And this takes you further on the spectrum of distance, right?
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  So the distance starts when we are hateful or heedless from a
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  last panel to Allah. Allah tells us in the Quran,
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  kella bilrana Allah kulu behem makanui ex sibun.
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  What makes us heedless from Allah's panel to Allah?
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  These layers of dust on our hearts, Allah tells us, You know
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  lataam al absar, it's not the division that gets blind, it is
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  the hearts that get blind. Why?
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  Because they're covered. What covers them with layers of
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  dust, layers of rust even that require a lot of scrubbing.
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  What does that? Our deeds Makanui exhibun what
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  we do takes us away from Allah. Otherwise the imams tell us in
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  the dwar, when, O God, were you absent so that we would need
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  something to point to you? You're there everywhere.
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  You. Never conceal yourself from your
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  creation, but it is their deeds that conceal their own selves
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  from you. So this is what how I think you
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  know. It is good to understand what
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  distance from a loss of Hana, what to Hana means.
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  Actually, you know Sheikh, and you mentioned this this point on
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  the heart specifically, and it brought me to to something I
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  read and made a note of from Milamot Menino and Nacho Balaga
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  Salmon 179 where he says eyes can never see God's eyes can
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  never see God, but hearts with proper belief can recognize him.
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  A loss upon to Allah is close to everything but not attached two
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  things is away from everything but is no stranger to them.
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  And it's similar to what you mentioned about yourself with
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  your phone. You can be close but not
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  attached and so on and so forth. And it it goes back to to the
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  concept that a last point or to Allah is is offering a divine
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  withholding sometimes. So even the distance that we
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  feel from Allah, we can't point towards a last point to Allah
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  and see that as, as you know, a punishment of some sense that
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  why is God not present in my life right now when I'm sinning
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  constantly? You know, why am I leading
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  myself to this? Why is Allah allowing me to fall
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  into such sin? And this is something which
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  comes up continuously that there is this notion that Allah's
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  panel to Allah is meant to be placing everything in your life
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  in such a way where you can't fall into sin or trap.
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  No, it's going to happen. This is what happens, right?
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  And as creations, we, we lose sight of that sometimes.
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  I mean, it's kind of like the notion of a teacher who steps
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  out of the room during an exam. He's watchful of you.
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  He's seeing how you fail if you succeed.
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  And he's observing, but he's not interfering directly or like a
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  parent. And you know, we all have young
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  children. May Allah protect them, But you
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  know, when you see your son or your daughter walk for the first
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  time and you kind of observe a safe distance, a precautionary
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  distance, you're there to catch them.
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  You've got them, you'll protect them.
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  The son or the daughter, the, the child's thinking, why, why,
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  why are they letting me fall? You know, it's a maturing
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  process. It's a growth process.
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  And I think for for us, when we feel that distance from Awaspon
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  to Allah, one of the main things we have to do is find a way to
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  turn back. One of them is is told by and I
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  know we're going to talk a bit more about that.
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  So that's a very beautiful example you give, especially the
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  one with the, you know, when you want your children to walk.
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  Yeah, yeah. It's not like you're not holding
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  them because you don't love them.
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  No, you want them to do on their own, right.
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  Yes, it's very nice and shaken of the points you mentioned, you
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  know, for example, the hustler being heedless, the ego.
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  And that's just the point on sinning.
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  You reference sinning. And I think when it comes to
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  sinning, it's I think one of the, the key, the key factors
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  that there is a distance between US and a lot because like when
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  it comes to sinning, it's we are actively the Sabane God and
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  being a sin, we know it goes against what Allah wants from
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  us. The other things like ruffler
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  and these things, I don't want to say they're an excuse where
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  God, you know, let it go. But I think we will be held
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  accounts more on our sins rather than the other examples that you
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  gave, because we're aware that sins are horror.
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  We're aware that Allah says. Is is a chef?
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  Maybe you can correct me. Is Ruffler heedlessness in the
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  sense of ignorance or as I'm I'm I'm I'm knowingly disobeying.
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  The ruffler is just My mind is heedless and I'm distracted and
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  I'm my mind's not. There amazing question actually
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  reminded me of this debate or discussion about the difference
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  between no, the difference between helm and Marifa, the
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  difference between knowledge and recognition, right, because
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  Maharifa, which is emphasized a lot and the first sermon in Ajal
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  Ballaha, it's mentioned the most important step in faith and
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  religiosity is what recognizing God.
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  He doesn't say just because I'm knowing God, he doesn't say
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  knowing God. Why?
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  Because his assumption is that we all know God.
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  Every single creation on earth, every single human being born on
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  earth, Muslim, non-muslim, they know God.
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  This is what is said to be the fitrah, Fitrah, talah.
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  Allah created us humans in such a way.
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  There is an initial disposition that actually longs for what you
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  said, the growth, development, right?
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  You know, becoming bigger, becoming more growing, growing,
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  developing. There is a need.
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  Every single human wants that, right?
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  We want to know more, we want to own more, we want to, you know,
• 19:02
  influence more. We want to grow.
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  So if you know, if I give you, I don't know if you get some
• 19:08
  money, right, you'd want more money.
• 19:10
  If you have some fame, you'd want more fame.
• 19:12
  If you have so much wealth, you'd want more, right?
• 19:14
  We'd never satisfied. There's no level that you say,
• 19:16
  well, you know, we're content. Like now, for example, you you
• 19:20
  have, I don't know, 6 figure salary, right?
• 19:22
  Are you content? That's yeah, so but you won't be
• 19:30
  content. You'd be looking after the 7th
• 19:32
  figure, right? This this is the way we're made.
• 19:35
  That's how a lost plant. Those greeds play to this.
• 19:39
  Say again, I I I referencing greed here.
• 19:42
  Not necessarily, no. So basically when you misuse
• 19:45
  these things that a lost planter has planted in US, right?
• 19:48
  In a way, when you allow greed to go in, then it would divert
• 19:51
  you. What I'm trying to say is that
• 19:53
  these this this disposition that like created in US, it has a
• 19:57
  purpose and that is to seek the ultimate perfection.
• 20:02
  So, you know, we think our perfection is in the Ferrari
• 20:05
  that we get or the mansion that we have or the fame that we gain
• 20:08
  or the wealth that we collect. Well, for some reason, we're
• 20:12
  never satisfied. We don't reach a stage where we
• 20:13
  say, OK, look, I'm I'm good, I'm done.
• 20:15
  Never. That doesn't happen because
• 20:18
  there's something else that gives us this ET MET Nan the.
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  Serenity, peace, tranquility, there's something else.
• 20:23
  We want to reach that, but we're not finding it.
• 20:26
  And that is and that is Allah, Allah, Vidikar Allah saying
• 20:31
  indeed, it is exclusively in the remembrance of God that the
• 20:35
  hearts find tranquility. Not in these things that you
• 20:37
  think they are your perfection, you think they are the target,
• 20:41
  the goal. Back to the marathon knowledge.
• 20:44
  We all know God or we're heedless of that because of
• 20:48
  these layers of the dust layers of the heart, right?
• 20:50
  We're born with this initial tendency to long for Allah
• 20:53
  Subhanahu Ta'ala, but we're born in certain environments, right,
• 20:56
  for the right reasons, wrong reasons.
• 20:57
  Whatever we have these layers that divert us from actually
• 21:00
  God, we make, you know, become people who are heedless of
• 21:02
  Allah. While there are some other
• 21:04
  people who would say, you know, I mean, look at at the duas from
• 21:09
  the imams. When I said, for example, when
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  were you absent so that you need something to point to you right.
• 21:18
  So there's there's no, there's no.
• 21:19
  So these people recognised God. Imam Ali Ali Saram, for example,
• 21:23
  recognised a loss of Hanawatah. So recognition is sorry,
• 21:28
  there's, there's he, he knows a loss of Hanawatah.
• 21:30
  That's why our imams are called the they're not called, for
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  example, Arafat, they know a loss of Hana Watahallah people,
• 21:36
  you and I like you and I, we say, OK, we are hateful now of
• 21:38
  God. We remembered God, right?
• 21:41
  So I forgot what your question was, by the way, because.
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  No, no, this is how it was. Yeah.
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  Yeah. It was off the back of what I
• 21:47
  said because obviously you, you referenced Ruffla and I, I, I
• 21:51
  was, I wanted to understand if it's knowing, if it's, if you're
• 21:54
  consciously disobeying God or if it's heedlessness in the sense
• 21:57
  of ignorance. So.
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  Yeah. So this, you know, this, this,
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  this Ruffla from a loss of Hana Witala.
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  Let me just mention something here.
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  This you know when, when you, when you are recognising a loss
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  of Hanover, when you recognise God.
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  Once you have that, you realise that a lot is the source of any
• 22:20
  perfection that you thought that it was a perfection for you.
• 22:24
  You realise actually, no, the source of the ultimate love is
• 22:26
  Allah. The source of the ultimate power
• 22:28
  and strength is Allah. Knowledge, right?
• 22:30
  We're never satisfied. We don't want to learn more.
• 22:32
  The source is a lot. The ultimate perfection is a
• 22:34
  loss of Hanover. When you realise that you love
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  Allah. This is where love comes.
• 22:41
  Because when you don't know, when you don't recognize Allah,
• 22:46
  right, you don't feel that, you don't feel the distance.
• 22:51
  The distance is there, right? We all know, no just mentioned,
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  right? We are a distance from Allah.
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  But why is it not moving us? Why is it not changing anything
• 22:59
  in us because we actually didn't recognize Allah in the first
• 23:03
  place. I'm saying we say Allah, but in
• 23:05
  fact, in our hearts and our, you know, consciousness, we don't
• 23:08
  really recognize what a loss of Hano Taala is.
• 23:10
  Because once we do, once we do, we can't settle.
• 23:13
  To be honest, we can't settle. Listen to me.
• 23:15
  And what Menin in the Akumein, What does he say?
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  Fahebni fahabni. Sorry, fahabni saberto Ala
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  Arabic fahefa hospital Ala fahrachic.
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  Oh God, assume, suppose, suppose I was able to handle your
• 23:29
  torture. How can I handle separation from
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  you, Allah, when you know a Las panada, when you recognise a Las
• 23:39
  panada, you long, it becomes distance, becomes fire, distance
• 23:43
  becomes torture. So this is where distance, it
• 23:47
  can be said the pedagogical kind of element of it.
• 23:50
  Some people it's they're just heedless of it.
• 23:52
  They don't care. They're far from Allah, but they
• 23:53
  don't really. They can't care less.
• 23:55
  To be honest, they couldn't care less.
• 23:57
  Some others, when they realise this distance, it becomes
• 24:00
  torture. To the extent that you know,
• 24:03
  when the time for prayer comes, he would say to Bilal, what
• 24:08
  Bilal, relieve us. O Bilal, beside the Adhan, we
• 24:10
  want to meet with Allah. You know, the people like people
• 24:13
  like these, they count the minutes to Salat.
• 24:18
  Not like people like myself, for example, Salat times here.
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  Oh, God's sake, I've worked so much to do.
• 24:23
  You're waiting, literally waiting for the Salat time.
• 24:25
  Why? Because this is the time that
• 24:27
  this distance. Yeah.
• 24:28
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and that's what Salat, you
• 24:31
  know, is the immortal way. Allah is the mortal way to
• 24:37
  Allah. That's what Salat is.
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  So and we see that, you know, that recognition has to come
• 24:44
  first and that is we need to wake up basically.
• 24:46
  We need to learn about Allah, you know, recognise Allah.
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  Love then comes, and when you love, you become devoted.
• 24:56
  When you love, you become mockless.
• 24:59
  You know I love you, right? When I do you a favour, I don't
• 25:03
  do it because I'm expecting something in return.
• 25:06
  I love my children. If I go and play with my
• 25:09
  daughter, I don't do it because, well, I want her in 20 years
• 25:11
  from today to help me with this. Of course I literally don't do
• 25:14
  it. True love is is with no
• 25:15
  expectation. Of his return.
• 25:16
  Absolutely no expectations, right?
• 25:18
  And this is what Eklas, this is where Eklas comes, you know,
• 25:25
  we're commanded to actually devote ourselves to.
• 25:27
  The right translation? Sincerity.
• 25:29
  Sincerity. Yes, sincerity.
• 25:31
  Hassan Hassan. Sincerity.
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  This is where it comes from, love.
• 25:35
  So what I find interesting is like when you talk about this
• 25:40
  growth mindset, and obviously we, we do this in a lot of
• 25:42
  cases, we apply Western principles, which we learn in
• 25:46
  our, in our jobs and we hear Ted talks and we hear motivational
• 25:49
  speakers of, of growth and of pushing yourself outside of the
• 25:52
  comfort zone and being the best you can be.
• 25:55
  And we compare that to an Islamic psychological
• 25:59
  perspective. The psychology of Islam is, in
• 26:02
  my humble opinion, slightly different to a Western mentality
• 26:04
  in the sense that we are, we are, we're conscious and
• 26:08
  there's, we're cognitive of where we've come from, but at
• 26:12
  times we're looking to, to change our form.
• 26:15
  Do you see what I mean? So in the sense of we're not,
• 26:18
  it's not linear in the sense of we're starting at point A and
• 26:22
  we're arriving at point B and you've got a diagonal line.
• 26:24
  But rather we know that there are ups and downs and it's very
• 26:27
  much a roller coaster process. And that's why we engage in
• 26:29
  things like Toba and Toba in its sense, we have this mentality
• 26:33
  and of course in the back of on the back of Shahara Malvan.
• 26:37
  Obviously, I know it's been a few weeks now, but a key thing
• 26:40
  we do across the year and particularly in Shaharamaban is
• 26:44
  we say reset button. Have you seen what's it called?
• 26:48
  Men in Black or Will Smith? The pens?
• 26:51
  We think, yeah, time to wipe the slate clean or you go Hajj or
• 26:55
  you go Mayne or whatever it is and you think it's time for me
• 26:58
  to wipe the slate clean, start from scratch.
• 27:00
  I'm a free man. And we think of it like that.
• 27:02
  And I have done for many years in my life until perhaps maybe
• 27:05
  recently where I assume that TOBA is a RE rewind to return to
• 27:11
  back to. Where you are, where are for the
• 27:13
  tolba. But it's not that Tolba is not
• 27:15
  that it's transformative. You know, there's there's a
• 27:19
  whole transfiguration that you go through as a soul.
• 27:22
  You're reconstructing your soul. You're you're redefining who you
• 27:25
  are. You're rekindling yourself with
• 27:27
  alas panel to Allah in a way which is different to just going
• 27:31
  back to the days where you didn't sin, for example.
• 27:36
  But I wanted to ask you, Sheikh and said maybe before Sheikh, if
• 27:39
  you've got anything to add specifically?
• 27:41
  Not much, but I would say when I used to think of Toba, what's
• 27:44
  more like in my younger years, I should think of for example, OK,
• 27:47
  I've done something wrong. I say sorry God that I move on.
• 27:51
  There wasn't much like reflection on to becoming better
• 27:54
  than I was yesterday. And when I look like in the
• 27:57
  world where people accept Islam, reverse converse, they come
• 28:00
  towards towards Islam, you know, they accept like Ilah, al Allah,
• 28:04
  Muhammad Rasul, Allah, God wipes them a clean slate, but it's an
• 28:10
  opportunity for them to become better than when they were not
• 28:13
  Muslims, right. So Islam is reformative.
• 28:17
  You're supposed to transform you and make you a better person.
• 28:19
  And we don't think about this when it comes to Taobao.
• 28:21
  Like Hamad said, you know, we can go Umrah, we can go hired ZR
• 28:25
  and these things and Ramadan comes and we ask Allah for as as
• 28:28
  Mahara and as Rahamad's forgiveness, but I don't
• 28:31
  there's. No consciousness.
• 28:32
  What is? The mentality, the right mental.
• 28:36
  Can I add a comment to this as well?
• 28:37
  Sure. Just kind of to, to what my
• 28:40
  interest in this and I'm very curious to know your, your
• 28:43
  perspective on this is the meant, like you said, the
• 28:45
  mentality we have, but the metamorphosis, the transmutation
• 28:50
  that you go through as a soul, right?
• 28:52
  You're fully like, this is the way I thought.
• 28:53
  You're ripping apart who you are and you're moving towards.
• 28:56
  There's a vessel and you're called.
• 28:57
  An open heart surgery. Yeah, quite literally bro, this
• 29:00
  is one of my our favorite iOS verse #70 is sort of Allah says
• 29:05
  As for those who repent, believe and do good deeds, they are the
• 29:09
  ones whose evil deeds Allah will change into good sin.
• 29:12
  And what I've realized is that every time or if I'm not
• 29:15
  mistaken most times the hunger called Anwar Allah references
• 29:18
  TOBA. It's always in the context of
• 29:21
  deeds and Aman and that belief and TOBA are go hand in hand.
• 29:25
  So one of the conditions of TOBA is to be a believer.
• 29:28
  So to do TOBA in the 1st place, you have to be a believer.
• 29:30
  And then when you do TOBA, the last, as you gain belief, so
• 29:33
  cyclical, so you're a believer who's asking for forgiveness.
• 29:36
  Allah gives you more belief, and then when it happens again, he's
• 29:38
  giving you even more belief. And it's just very interesting
• 29:41
  for me to understand this because this is something I've
• 29:43
  relearned myself. Like step source is Marafa in
• 29:46
  many ways. Yeah, yeah.
• 29:48
  So, yeah, I mean, is this the right way to think of it?
• 29:51
  How can you you? Said something that is key and
• 29:53
  that is, you know, faith and Iman is levels Yeah, right.
• 29:56
  Many of us forget this think that you know, Iman is either
• 29:59
  there or not there. But in fact it's a it's a
• 30:01
  massive spectrum when it is not there, there's levels, right of
• 30:06
  like Kufur or non Iman. And when there is Iman, there's
• 30:08
  levels. It starts with the Shahad of the
• 30:10
  Ilahala and then it, you know, there's there's multiple levels
• 30:13
  in that and there's narrations from the Ilal Bay that tell us
• 30:15
  this ayat in the Quran also, you know, tell us this.
• 30:20
  For example, if Takulahata to Kate, you know, have Takua
• 30:23
  towards God and the way that you know, most is most befitting to
• 30:26
  him. So it's levels we try, you know,
• 30:28
  we try our best. There's another verse that says,
• 30:34
  yeah, you have Lavina Amanu Aminu or you who believed
• 30:37
  believe, you know, or you have faith, have faith in odd last
• 30:41
  pan Otan and demos and so on, which tells us that OK, there is
• 30:43
  a certain level of faith that the last pan Otan Ali is
• 30:45
  addressing us by. But there's more, there's
• 30:48
  requirement. So when we, you know, there's
• 30:51
  narrations that tell us from Imam Sadiq Salam Alayhi that
• 30:54
  actually Iman, some of his companions comes to the Imam and
• 30:59
  he says, oh, Imam, tell me about faith about Iman.
• 31:01
  Is it a saying without action or is it saying an action?
• 31:06
  Imam says actually Iman is all action, It's all actually
• 31:11
  effort, it's all action. He says, what do you mean?
• 31:13
  The Imam explains that actually the action of your lips, the
• 31:18
  action of your tongue is to obey Allah.
• 31:20
  That's the level of Iman of the tongue, right?
• 31:23
  The ears, the spiritual heart as well.
• 31:25
  And that's the boss of everything because that's where
• 31:28
  the Shaitaan actually tries to, you know, to enter first,
• 31:31
  because if he controls the heart and removes the Imam from the
• 31:34
  heart, it controls everything else.
• 31:36
  So the Imam continues explaining that every part of your being
• 31:41
  Iman displays itself in a certain way.
• 31:44
  Yeah, So your ears, how does Iman display your itself?
• 31:47
  You know, in your ears or hearing, Let me say, the faculty
• 31:50
  of hearing by what? By listening to the, you know,
• 31:52
  to the halal, to what got permitted and by avoiding what
• 31:54
  God prohibited. Same thing with your eyes,
• 31:57
  right? The level of Iman, of your eyes
• 31:59
  is to use them in the way that Allah has commanded and avoid
• 32:02
  using them in the way that God prohibited.
• 32:04
  The same thing with, you know, your limbs, your legs, your
• 32:06
  hands, whatever, and the same thing with the heart and the
• 32:09
  heart is the master of them all. So when the shaitaan controls
• 32:14
  the heart, then that you know gets, you know, it becomes
• 32:16
  easier to control everything else.
• 32:18
  So Iman is actually all action. It's not just saying, the saying
• 32:21
  is 1 action of the tongue, right?
• 32:24
  This means that if you are someone who is obeying Allah in
• 32:28
  the eyes with division and I'm someone who looks at the Haram
• 32:31
  and then permissible, right, you have Iman, a high level Iman in
• 32:35
  that dimension than myself, right?
• 32:38
  So kind of multiply that by all the dimensions of your being.
• 32:41
  So this is where Iman is levels. And when Iman goes up and down,
• 32:45
  like when we sin, basically Iman goes up and down.
• 32:48
  And this is something key that you said, you know, it's it's
• 32:51
  it's levels we sin effectively, we've slipped, we slipped.
• 32:55
  When you sin, you slipped, right?
• 32:57
  You fell, you're falling down. But you can decide actually
• 32:59
  whether you fall down on your face and you continue falling
• 33:02
  down on your face, or actually turn that fall into a sedator.
• 33:07
  Allah. Allah gives you that
• 33:10
  opportunity, you know. Never thought of that.
• 33:11
  And when you when do you do that?
• 33:13
  When you do that, when you turn to Allah with a broken heart,
• 33:16
  and this is what Allah wants, you have the opportunity to be
• 33:20
  not like you were before the sin, but much and much and much
• 33:23
  better. Allah says we're exactly the
• 33:28
  point that you mentioned that Allah always talks about the
• 33:30
  duality between, you know, Iman and action and toba.
• 33:34
  Yeah, and I shall forgive the one who returns to me, who
• 33:38
  returns tab and has faith, does good and then guided and then is
• 33:44
  guided. So Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala is
• 33:47
  there waiting for us. There are narrations that tell
• 33:51
  us about the mercy of Allah, how fast this mercy is, narrations
• 33:54
  and verses of the Quran. Obviously Allah says Nabi, Ebadi
• 33:58
  and the another for Rahim. Tell my servants, inform them
• 34:01
  that I am the Merciful, the Forgiving, I am thee.
• 34:05
  You know, if there's a source of mercy and forgiveness, it is me.
• 34:07
  Yeah, Allah is saying, tell them that another narration.
• 34:11
  Allah would say, I think a revelation to thou would Prophet
• 34:14
  thou would who would say yeah, thou would.
• 34:16
  If people know, if people who turn their backs to me know I am
• 34:21
  how I am waiting for them, they would die out of longing for me.
• 34:28
  Narrations tell us that on the Day of Judgement, Allah
• 34:30
  Subhanahu Ta'ala forgives and forgives and forgives until
• 34:33
  Iblis Shaitan himself extends his neck thinking I'm next.
• 34:39
  That's the level of mercy of Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala, right?
• 34:42
  So with this sinning, basically al UL bait, tell us also about
• 34:48
  what our attitude towards sinning is.
• 34:51
  Obviously it's bad. I'm not encouraging anyone to
• 34:53
  sin. Please don't, OK?
• 34:54
  Don't disobey a loss of Hannah or to Hannah, right?
• 34:56
  Try your best. Because we shouldn't, we
• 34:58
  shouldn't disobey Allah. But how will they tell us?
• 35:01
  Like a motivate towards God. Yeah, so, so basically exactly,
• 35:04
  you can, you can actually you can, you can use that sin to be
• 35:07
  a motivate towards God. If it happened.
• 35:09
  I'm not encouraging it happens. But how will they tell us that?
• 35:13
  Look, if Allah didn't know that sinning can be good, for a
• 35:19
  believer to turn him back to Allah, Las Panatala wouldn't
• 35:23
  have created the possibility of sin.
• 35:27
  So even that is that of his. Even that is a mercy on Los Pano
• 35:31
  Atta even that. We still do that a lot in DA as
• 35:33
  well. Do Abu Hamza.
• 35:35
  How often do we see that, that notion?
• 35:39
  Yeah. And it's always linked to love
• 35:40
  as well. Yeah, I sent.
• 35:42
  Do Abu Hamza 21 times. It's referencing hope of
• 35:46
  something. Is it?
• 35:46
  Yeah. Amazing.
• 35:47
  Yeah, it's and every time it's in in the the context of sin
• 35:51
  some Hannah. Yeah, yeah.
• 35:52
  Because, because actually when you know, when I said that when
• 35:55
  you recognize God, you start loving God, you start feeling
• 35:58
  that, you know, this distance is very, very it's a torture.
• 36:01
  Yeah. You want to, you want to gain
• 36:03
  and it should motivate you basically to gain proximity to a
• 36:07
  loss of Hannah Wata Ala. It's like the distance that
• 36:09
  we're suffering today from Imam Zaman Salam Alaynam Madhi,
• 36:11
  right? This distance, if we're really,
• 36:14
  if we're really conscious and heedless of Imam Mehdi, right?
• 36:18
  See, do I'm not, by the way, do I'm not by every Friday, we're
• 36:20
  literally crying and lamenting and weeping.
• 36:22
  Out of what? Out of separation.
• 36:24
  That separation is the one that should motivate us to, you know,
• 36:27
  to be sincere, to translate to action.
• 36:30
  This sincerity needs to translate to action, to
• 36:32
  transform us. And therefore distance becomes a
• 36:35
  pedagogical kind of tool once we are hateful.
• 36:39
  OK. So yes, when you love Allah,
• 36:42
  subhanahu tahala and you realise basically the value of Allah,
• 36:46
  that no matter what you do, no matter what you do, you can't
• 36:50
  thank a lot enough. You can never thank a lot
• 36:52
  enough. You see this in the duas.
• 36:54
  Some people you know, ask like how are the imams saying you
• 36:57
  know my sins and my, you know, shortcomings and so on.
• 37:00
  So bro, it's Allah, it's Allah. Sometimes someone does you a
• 37:04
  favour, I don't know, helps you with a maybe a, a life event.
• 37:09
  And you say, look, no matter what I do, I can't repay them.
• 37:12
  It won't be enough. Why?
• 37:13
  Because this person stood next to me in a time of need and I
• 37:16
  can't repay them. How about a lot of Hana Utah
• 37:19
  Allah? I mean, Allah has given us
• 37:20
  things that without even, you know, us asking and without even
• 37:23
  deserving. Since when do we, since when did
• 37:26
  Allah owe us anything? Since when did a lot of Hana
• 37:29
  Utah Allah? You know, sometimes because we
• 37:31
  do things and we oblige God, it's like, yeah, I prayed to a
• 37:33
  lot later yesterday, you know, I hope God you do, You know, you
• 37:36
  can give me stuff, right? And I expect from Allah, Jenna
• 37:39
  so. We make it transactional.
• 37:40
  Yeah, exactly, exactly. And they realize this.
• 37:43
  They realize actually they're insignificant value before a
• 37:46
  loss of Hannah with Allen. Therefore they see no matter
• 37:49
  what I do, no matter what I do, I'm sinful.
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  Not the sense that I did. So they a loss of Hannah with
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  Allen No, but at their level that's a different level man.
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  For the level of someone like myself, the wajib is what the
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  Salah, the Salaam, the normal, you know, conventional wajib's
• 38:04
  obligations. Haram is to avoid these things
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  for someone like the prophets of Allah, Ali Ali Wasalam.
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  They have full Maratha. They son, they know.
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  Yeah. And that makes them what?
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  Kummil Leila Allah, Khalil Allah commands the Prophet in the
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  Quran. Stand up in night in prayer,
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  most of the night in prayer. One of his wives does the
• 38:24
  Prophet like. I see you tiring yourself so
• 38:25
  much with worship. You're the prophet of God.
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  Did Allah say, you know, not say to you like Allah, you know,
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  like Allah and so on. Allah's you know, anything that
• 38:36
  you might have, you know, you might be having Allah for gave
• 38:38
  you and so on. And you're the prophet of God,
• 38:40
  best of creation. But he said I felt like Akuna
• 38:43
  Abdul Shakura, should I not be thankful?
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  Should I not be thankful? Sometimes we do, you know, we do
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  a little thing and we feel we want to oblige Allah.
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  It's like, yeah, I'm doing you a favour.
• 38:52
  And it's like, man, we, we're an absolute.
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  We're absolutely owned by a lost panel.
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  Tada. We have, you know, there is
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  nothing that he owes us except because of his mercy, what he
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  promised us. That's the only thing that we
• 39:03
  have with God. There's nothing else.
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  And he can change his mind. He reserved the right to change
• 39:08
  his mind because I mean, if you, if you own something, right, you
• 39:12
  own a cat. You say I own this cat.
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  OK. Are you an absolute owner of it?
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  Like, can you, I don't know, Can you harm it?
• 39:19
  Are you allowed to harm it? You're not allowed to harm it.
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  You have a responsibility towards it.
• 39:23
  You should take care of it, feed it, you know, shelter and so on.
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  But there are things that you can't.
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  Allah did not give you the permission to do things.
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  There's limits. Who owns you?
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  And I and the cat absolutely sent Maliki Omidin or Maliki
• 39:38
  Omidin Allah. Allah is the absolute owner of
• 39:41
  everything. And so when he brought us to
• 39:44
  this world, we didn't have a right upon him to say, well, oh
• 39:48
  God, I have a right upon you like the cat has a right upon
• 39:51
  me, right? So I can't say that you can't
• 39:53
  say that, but fortunately, well, life fortunately for us, but a
• 39:56
  lot out of his grace, he actually said, look, there's
• 39:59
  some rights I give you upon myself, I promise, and a lot
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  like. That's crazy when you think of
• 40:06
  it like that. There's rights that we, Allah
• 40:08
  has given us to have over him. Is that what you mean?
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  Yeah. Exactly.
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  Exactly. Isn't that beautiful?
• 40:13
  Isn't that hopeful? US rights to have over.
• 40:15
  Him and it is a right upon us to give victory and support to the
• 40:21
  believers. A lot promised and he never
• 40:24
  breaks, never breaks His promise.
• 40:27
  A lot of promises that look, if you sin, if you slip, if you
• 40:31
  turn back to me, I can convert your bad records to good
• 40:36
  records. Even better, I can multiply the
• 40:41
  good records, I can multiply them for you.
• 40:44
  How beautiful is that? Should we not like take
• 40:46
  advantage of this? Honestly, that's what Law
• 40:49
  Subhanahu Ta'ala promised us. And this is where you understand
• 40:51
  in the dohas of Alu Bait how they actually always would say
• 40:57
  we're always between hope and fear.
• 41:01
  We're always between hope and fear.
• 41:03
  Is that what Tuckle is right to be like having, you know, having
• 41:08
  fear of Allah but not fear of his punishment, rather than just
• 41:12
  like being in between right? Yeah, so, so, so taqwa is
• 41:16
  defined by Ahul Bait. Actually, as I think Imam Sadiq
• 41:19
  says, you know taqwa is. So it's more than just God
• 41:21
  consciousness. There is an element of fear.
• 41:23
  There is there exactly. So it's basically it is this.
• 41:26
  So there's a difference in defining it.
• 41:28
  One is the consciousness itself, which Shields you from
• 41:31
  disobeying God and which pushes you to obeying God.
• 41:33
  OK, another interpretation of it says that, well no, it is
• 41:36
  actually the fact that God finds you where he where you should be
• 41:40
  and misses you where you shouldn't be.
• 41:42
  That's Takwa. Essentially.
• 41:45
  Obey Allah, do the wajib, avoid the Haram.
• 41:48
  Literally that. That's what he is.
• 41:49
  Takwa is right if you want to be a Muttaki, if you want to
• 41:52
  achieve the qualities and the rewards of what Allah says in
• 41:55
  the Quran, this is for Muttakin. If you want to be like Imam Amir
• 41:59
  Muttakin, the scribes of Muttakin, the pious people, do
• 42:04
  the wajib, do the obligation avoid them permissible.
• 42:07
  I remember something very interesting.
• 42:09
  I I think it is attributed to Sheikh Bahjatullah.
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  Bless him that someone came to him and he said, you know, can
• 42:16
  you please give me a vicar or something that I can do some
• 42:19
  Hamel something, you know, I don't know the remembrance, a
• 42:21
  certain series of actions that I can do so that I can meet him
• 42:24
  Ahmed Mehdi, so I can meet him Ahmed Salman.
• 42:27
  And and the answer was, do the Wajib avoid the Haram, Do the
• 42:32
  obligations, avoid the prohibitions of Allah?
• 42:36
  Not that you will meet Imam, Imam will come to meet you.
• 42:39
  Imam will come to meet you. Because sometimes we think, you
• 42:42
  know, we disregard what Allah has commanded us and we focus so
• 42:46
  much on the extra things and then we feel, we oblige God, we
• 42:50
  feel we've done a favour to God that we deserve something in
• 42:52
  return. But we're missing, you know, the
• 42:54
  most important part, which is just obey a loss of Hanoi Uttala
• 42:57
  man. And the loss of Hano Uttala
• 42:58
  actually promises you if you're on Mutaki, if you have Takwa,
• 43:02
  Allah in the Quran says beautiful things, right?
• 43:05
  The beginning of your talk, I remember Ahmed, you mentioned
• 43:07
  something about, you know, there's trauma, there's
• 43:09
  difficulties in life, right? There's, there's sometimes
• 43:12
  darkness in life. Allah tells us the way out is
• 43:17
  when you're Muttaki, when there's someone who obeys Allah,
• 43:20
  Subhanahu, Maharaja, whoever has piety, whoever has this level,
• 43:27
  Allah will create for her, for him, and exit.
• 43:30
  What is the problem that you're facing?
• 43:32
  Allah will create an exit for you.
• 43:33
  Not necessarily the problem will be solved, right?
• 43:36
  But there will be an exit for you, Allah says, and He will
• 43:40
  what? And He will actually give you
• 43:44
  sustenance, Not from things that you've calculated, from things
• 43:47
  that will actually surprise you. Allah saying I can surprise you
• 43:51
  if you have what? Takwa, I think a lot.
• 43:55
  Of the time, the the psychology we have about Allah is, is, is
• 43:59
  very much it's we think of God in a very chronological way as
• 44:03
  well. So we think of everything
• 44:05
  quantitatively in the sense of I've done X many sins, Allah has
• 44:08
  forgiven me X many times. Perhaps it's given me X many
• 44:11
  blessings. How many times do I need to sin
• 44:14
  before and ask forgiveness? Before Allah stops his mercy and
• 44:17
  starts his wrath, the rahma ends and you know, the wrath begins,
• 44:21
  the punishment begins that Allah begins.
• 44:23
  You know, we don't really see it like that from an Islamic lens
• 44:27
  as well. We have this problem a lot.
• 44:29
  A lot of the time. It's a shameful feeling as well.
• 44:33
  I'm not worthy of my relationship with Allah or the
• 44:36
  rahma upon me is not I'm not worthy for it.
• 44:40
  The forgiveness. I'm not worthy of the
• 44:41
  forgiveness. And these things are obviously
• 44:43
  founded perhaps in multiplicity of reasons.
• 44:46
  It could be your culture. It could be just disillusionment
• 44:50
  with Allah. Your faults are guided and
• 44:51
  misunderstanding what God is and the part and the part of Allah
• 44:54
  and all of these things. But the point being is that we
• 44:57
  have have I think the root of it, like you said, comes from
• 45:01
  malafa understanding God and to understand God and understanding
• 45:06
  a smart out of nussel for Alpha Robert.
• 45:09
  When you understand yourself, then you understand a lot what
• 45:11
  is within me and what have I done for myself?
• 45:14
  What am I doing to myself and my day-to-day actions?
• 45:17
  Are they God centric in the way I'm living my life?
• 45:20
  Once you like you said, that's beautiful story about the
• 45:23
  Wajibat and Shah Bachat 1 and staying away from the Haramad.
• 45:28
  The things that we do on a day-to-day basis, if they are
• 45:31
  God centric and if there's effort, then naturally we will
• 45:36
  get closer to our last pantal. Then our goal is to climb up the
• 45:39
  ladder. If we don't see a ladder in our
• 45:41
  lives at the moment, that's OK. I mean for many of us, we're
• 45:44
  stagnant. We're static in our relationship
• 45:46
  with a lot I. Wouldn't, I wouldn't say, look,
• 45:47
  to be honest with you, every moment that you're not sinning,
• 45:51
  Allah will cherish it. Every moment that you're
• 45:54
  probably thinking about right now, we're talking, right?
• 45:56
  If Allah is in the background, he should be in the foreground
• 45:59
  to be honest. But if Allah is in the
• 46:00
  background of our conversation of our life, you might be
• 46:03
  playing with your children, you might be, you might be doing
• 46:05
  anything. What if Allah is on your mind,
• 46:08
  right? That's you being hateful,
• 46:10
  hateful last month. That's you getting closer to
• 46:12
  Allah every moment. You're doing something and you
• 46:14
  understand that. The ultimate goal?
• 46:15
  Is something for some reason we have this perception that you
• 46:17
  don't have to be on the prayer mat to be closer to Allah.
• 46:19
  Subhana Otada says who says who Hanabe didn't say that the
• 46:23
  Prophet didn't teach us teach us that the Prophet.
• 46:25
  In fact, some people actually, they went and secluded
• 46:27
  themselves in caves or whatever at his time, thinking that you
• 46:31
  know, when Allah revealed, for example, the verse and in the
• 46:35
  heavens is your sustenance and what you're promised.
• 46:37
  Some people misunderstood this verse and they actually
• 46:39
  disconnected from their lives. They left their wives, they left
• 46:41
  their families and they went and secluded themselves thinking
• 46:43
  well, Allah will bring us the sustenance.
• 46:45
  I don't need to work. Prophet rebuked them.
• 46:48
  What is this? He said.
• 46:49
  I am a human like you. I marry like you, I walk in the
• 46:53
  market like you, I eat like you. I don't fast all days like what
• 46:57
  you're claiming to be doing. What is this that you're
• 46:59
  bringing? That's not my religion.
• 47:01
  Why are we thinking like this these days?
• 47:03
  Right. And this is probably what is
• 47:05
  making many people, maybe the youth also disconnecting from
• 47:07
  Dean, thinking that Dean has to be right.
• 47:10
  You have to be on the prayer mat and it's in the mosque.
• 47:12
  It's not outside the mosque, right?
• 47:14
  And that's completely wrong. That's one of not one of the
• 47:16
  prophets of the lottery. You know, Schefner, sometimes
• 47:18
  like this, these examples just gave it's it's amazing because I
• 47:21
  know we want to ask you a question regarding for example,
• 47:23
  sometimes we find ourselves in certain environments where we're
• 47:27
  sort of like conditioned to think this way, which is not
• 47:30
  right, of course. And then I think it plays a big
• 47:32
  role at home by as parents and how we instill the love of Allah
• 47:36
  and our children. But I just want to come back to
• 47:38
  toba for a second chef and I just I just like from what I've
• 47:42
  understood, like Toba's, of course it's it's it's their
• 47:45
  fault for us to transform as individuals build Marafa with
• 47:48
  God, Inshallah, increase our my calm, the eyes of Allah between
• 47:53
  him and us. But for someone listening or
• 47:56
  watching to this podcast now, TOBA may mean nothing to them.
• 47:59
  Like what was what am I going to get?
• 48:01
  What's my benefit? Am I going to gain anything?
• 48:04
  Yeah, I need someone has non-stop.
• 48:07
  If someone has non-stop, you know, it's not a big deal to me.
• 48:11
  I send left, right and center, you know, and I cheat people.
• 48:15
  I I, I speak behind people like I create my own people.
• 48:19
  Yeah. What's how's Toba gonna have
• 48:21
  been? And why, why do people need to
• 48:23
  actively sit and do TOBA? Yeah, why can't I just feel
• 48:26
  like, you know what? I shouldn't do that again.
• 48:27
  Because some have this mentality.
• 48:29
  OK, I'll I'll be 80. I'll repent.
• 48:32
  Not even that, not even that. Like for example, let's say I
• 48:35
  like you said, you choke, you cheated someone or whatever, you
• 48:38
  stole something. You might just feel bad and be
• 48:41
  like, you know what, that wasn't great.
• 48:43
  I shouldn't do that again. And you just move on with your
• 48:45
  life. Like even, you know, that was a
• 48:47
  bit deep. I spoke about that guy in front
• 48:49
  of his behind his back or whatever.
• 48:50
  You know, I swore to this guy, I feel bad.
• 48:52
  You just carry on. That's not Tolba.
• 48:54
  You feel regret and remorse. But but is that Tolba as well?
• 48:59
  Like is do you see what I mean? Do you get what I mean?
• 49:01
  Sorry, if I can add, that's where Tolba, not Soha comes in,
• 49:03
  right? It's like talking to first of
• 49:05
  all. So it's a name?
• 49:07
  Yeah, yeah, it's. Sincerity in, in seeking
• 49:10
  repentance or seeking returning to Allah.
• 49:12
  That's a very good question, to be honest with you.
• 49:14
  One, I mean, I can't think of another answer to this then or
• 49:17
  maybe thought then saying that for anyone who is sinning, look,
• 49:23
  there are people who are sinners and they know it's a sin, OK?
• 49:28
  They know it's a sin and they recognize I'm disobeying Allah.
• 49:33
  That's much better. Not justifying it.
• 49:35
  Please don't sin. That's much better than those
• 49:38
  who sin and they want to justify it and say well no, it's
• 49:43
  actually not a sin and they bring their own.
• 49:44
  It's like a lot is saying but I am saying.
• 49:47
  Right. That's very dangerous.
• 49:49
  Only God can judge me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 49:51
  It's like God can judge me as a It's far better to acknowledge
• 49:54
  that you've done a mistake. You've disobeyed a loss of Hana
• 49:57
  Wattaga. It's much better than being on
• 49:59
  the other side of saying Allah says and I say it's like Iblis
• 50:03
  Saitan, the enemy of God. That's why he's challenging the
• 50:06
  command of God, right? You think that Allah judges, but
• 50:08
  you think you're a better judge. That puts you in a very bad
• 50:11
  position. Don't be in that position.
• 50:13
  It's far better to be sinful, but thinking that it's a sin.
• 50:17
  It's I'm disobeying, recognizing as I'm recognizing I'm
• 50:21
  disobeying Allah. Look, there's a a narration.
• 50:23
  I'm sorry, I'm probably I'm diverging from the conversation,
• 50:26
  but look, someone, a companion rum started Abu Basir.
• 50:31
  Actually Al Basir, he had a neighbor who was a who was a
• 50:34
  sinful person and he was probably friends with
• 50:36
  authorities and he had some money and and then he started
• 50:39
  kind of engaging in the Haram and having gatherings in his, in
• 50:42
  his house, impermissible stuff and drinking and all that.
• 50:46
  Abu Basir, he kind of, he was bothered and irritated and he
• 50:51
  was hurt also noise maybe. And you know what this person is
• 50:54
  doing like that's come on, it's Haram.
• 50:57
  And Abu Wasir would remind this neighbor, he wouldn't listen.
• 51:00
  Remind again, he wouldn't listen.
• 51:01
  One day Abu Wasir said to this person like, man, come on,
• 51:03
  that's, you know, please, that's, that's very bad.
• 51:06
  That man said to Abu Wasir and he knows that Abu Wasir is
• 51:09
  friends of Imam Sadaq, is a companion of Imam Sadaq.
• 51:11
  He said, look, I'm a troubled man.
• 51:14
  You're fine. You're not troubled, right?
• 51:15
  Maybe ask your companion Imam Sadaq to pray for me.
• 51:19
  He acknowledged, by the way, that guy acknowledged that.
• 51:21
  Look, I know it's wrong. I'm troubled.
• 51:24
  He's given an excuse. Obviously there's no excuse for
• 51:26
  sinning, right? I'm troubled.
• 51:29
  Ask the Imam, maybe he can pray for me.
• 51:32
  Maybe something happens to me. So this guy acknowledged he is
• 51:35
  actually he was wrong, right? He knows it.
• 51:37
  And he also acknowledged that the Imam actually.
• 51:39
  So he loves the Imam. He has a connection with the
• 51:42
  Imam with the value of Allah on earth.
• 51:45
  Abu Basir, when he went to the Imam Assad in in Medina.
• 51:49
  So Abu Basir was in Kufa when he travelled Imamsaru in Medina.
• 51:52
  He told the imam, this is the story of my neighbor.
• 51:54
  And he said, you know, maybe you pray for him and so on.
• 51:57
  And the Imam said, OK, when you go back, give my salams to this
• 52:01
  guy, give my salams. See, see how we should treat the
• 52:05
  sinners sometimes. I mean the way that we treat
• 52:08
  people who sin so judge mental. Don't cut them off as.
• 52:12
  Basically it cost them off the way we judge them, the way my
• 52:16
  mum started the narration says you know, if if people know how
• 52:19
  Allah created people, no one would blame anyone.
• 52:22
  Not saying justify the sin I'm saying, but you'd be able to
• 52:25
  understand the weaknesses that people.
• 52:26
  Have the fragility of. Sin and you need to address that
• 52:30
  not to be judge mental, right? Let's say a sister is not
• 52:33
  wearing her hijab, for example. How do you how do you approach
• 52:35
  that, right? Have you been in her
• 52:37
  environment? Have you seen the challenges
• 52:39
  that she's faced? Have you addressed those?
• 52:41
  Have you seen how she'd be judged, for example, from
• 52:43
  people? And maybe she was weak in terms
• 52:44
  of, you know, I can't put it on because of ABC.
• 52:47
  I'm not saying the arguments are correct, but understand that
• 52:49
  there's a misunderstanding there.
• 52:50
  And so that's not the person, right?
• 52:53
  Don't you know, attack the person or judge the person?
• 52:56
  So the Imam says give my Salam to that.
• 52:57
  Imagine Imam Mahdi now tells you, for example, you know, give
• 52:59
  my salams to this person. You're sinning, maybe Imam
• 53:02
  saying my salams to you. Oh, how beautiful that is.
• 53:06
  Well, that is very, very hopeful.
• 53:07
  You know, I teared up when I when I read that and tell him
• 53:11
  that if he stops the Haram, if he stops what he is doing, I
• 53:14
  promise him Jannah. I promise him he will be in
• 53:16
  paradise. What did the Imam actually
• 53:19
  advise? He advised what Thakur right?
• 53:22
  Do the what? Avoid the Haram.
• 53:23
  He didn't give him. You know this kind of Amal and
• 53:26
  you know this Rose as a straightforward man, it's very
• 53:29
  clear. Stop what you are doing.
• 53:32
  I guarantee you, Jannah Abu Basir, when he travelled back
• 53:35
  home, he spoke to his neighbor. He he's never visited him.
• 53:37
  And Wasir said, look, I spoke to him and he tells you this, he
• 53:41
  sends you Salaam and he tells you if you stop this Haram that
• 53:45
  you're doing, I'll guarantee you a Jannah.
• 53:48
  That man said seriously, Imam told you to tell me this, He
• 53:54
  sent Salaam to me and he's telling me this, said yes.
• 53:58
  So that is it. That is enough for me.
• 54:01
  And the man transformed everything he had.
• 54:04
  He let go of it to the extent they had no clothes.
• 54:08
  One day he would call Abu Basir, he would call his neighbor and
• 54:10
  say I have no clothes, I want to go out, I have nothing.
• 54:12
  I gave everything that I had from the Haram.
• 54:16
  Why? Because there was 1 moment of
• 54:17
  love that was shown to him. One moment of love.
• 54:21
  That's what we sometimes need, you know, we need.
• 54:23
  Sometimes some people would just stand by us and tell us, look
• 54:26
  what you're doing is wrong, Allah loves you.
• 54:29
  You're missing out on something very deep in your journey.
• 54:32
  It's very sad that you spend these 80 years.
• 54:34
  How honestly, how long are we going to live in this world,
• 54:37
  right? 30-40 years, 80 years, that's
• 54:39
  very short. Ask people who are now 80 years
• 54:41
  old, tell them how do you feel your life went?
• 54:44
  They tell you very quick, very quick.
• 54:47
  How do you want to spend your life?
• 54:50
  There's something so big and so deep that so many people spoke
• 54:52
  about and they experienced a Las Pano Taala.
• 54:55
  Do you really want to miss out on that because of a pleasure
• 54:58
  that actually you will enjoy for a few moments, but the
• 55:03
  repercussions of it will last for long?
• 55:04
  Of course it will last for long. This is what the imams say in
• 55:07
  the do Ah, you know, oh God, I sinned and I disobeyed you
• 55:10
  because of a certain, for example, pleasure that I know
• 55:13
  that the joy of it was moments, but the torture of it will last.
• 55:17
  Yeah. Material torture.
• 55:18
  I'm not talking about afterlife and so on.
• 55:20
  The material, kind of. The Sheikh, we see that, we see
• 55:23
  that narrative a lot in here. And I mean, we went, we
• 55:27
  mentioned Da Abu Hamza earlier, but my mum, mum, Sajad le
• 55:30
  Salaam, there's there's one line in da Abu Hamza where he said,
• 55:33
  had anyone else been watching me sin except you, then maybe I
• 55:37
  wouldn't have sinned had a lot like if I had, if I was sinning
• 55:41
  and said he was watching me, then I wouldn't have sinned.
• 55:43
  But but Allah was watching and I still sinned.
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  And Monster Judd then says, along the lines I'm paraphrasing
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  from my memory, along the lines of something like, had I known
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  the immediateness and the reality of the punishment to
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  come, I wouldn't have sinned. And a lot of that comes back to
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  the knowledge that we have of our last part of that, the
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  understanding we have and, and the humility we have in
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  approaching Allah. You know, when we talk about
• 56:08
  Dhakmael and Milamot Manin never doubts the love of Allah and the
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  rahma of Allah and the forgiveness of Allah.
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  But he can't consistently talks about his own flaws and
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  shortcomings. Not that he has, but he talks
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  about the shortcomings and the flaws of the believer.
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  He talks about the need for forgiveness from sin, but he
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  never once doubts the love and the acceptance that Allah will
• 56:30
  give him. Even in the point, as you say,
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  in the point of in in Hellfire and rejections, Min turns back
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  to the last pond island and says, I'll still call to you.
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  So I think it's crazy. It's a mentality thing.
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  We need to, we need to see ourselves as it's just gonna
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  sound so cliche and I'm gonna say it's going to laughing, but
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  kind of like we're kind of like birds on a journey, bro.
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  And it keeps us, it keeps us moving.
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  And we're going to lie that bro, it keeps on going.
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  Bro, it's amazing. I'll say that.
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  It was just tearing up, acting. I was laughing.
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  Well, that's amazing. You know, it's just it.
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  Keeps the age of emotion. Laughing our wings.
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  Yeah. These are beautiful examples
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  like. Black.
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  Butterfly that hate me, man Yeah, maybe.
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  I think I've been in that stage in my.
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  Life. Yeah, of course.
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  Many of us face that situation. So sometimes where we find
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  ourselves far away from our last, we want to come back.
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  Perhaps we just need that encouragement.
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  And just that point when I mentioned earlier, before I
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  spoke about TOBA, was like, sometimes when when in certain
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  environments, either as communities we go to or the way
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  we're raised in certain in certain families is that we're
• 57:44
  conditioned to fair God of his punishment.
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  But what did Imam Jaffar Assad say?
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  He then mentioned Hellfire. Yeah, he mentioned only
• 57:51
  journalists. And yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah. And they they had different they
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  had different ways of doing, you know that that story Bishop Al
• 57:57
  Hafi, I think I mentioned yes, what a story.
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  And for those correct me if I'm wrong Jackman, but if I'm not
• 58:03
  mistaken is Imam with Calvin I'd Islam with companion all.
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  Yes, Imam Ali Salaam was walking down a road and he he passed the
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  house with music playing and he saw a lady outside sweeping the
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  floor. And he said to her as the owner
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  of this house is the owner of a free man or a slave.
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  And she said, no, he's a free man, his heart OK.
• 58:22
  She says why this is because if he was a slave then he would
• 58:24
  know who is his master. Yeah, he was fear his master.
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  And then he walked away. The lady went in.
• 58:29
  She told Bishop Halfi at the time and then Bishop, so do you
• 58:31
  know this guy, random guy walked past.
• 58:33
  And so I had this interaction with me.
• 58:35
  He says, what was he way or what do you look like?
• 58:37
  He's Allah. So he ran out barefoot al Halfi
• 58:42
  and he chased the imam down the road and he asked for
• 58:44
  forgiveness and he repented. But the the the Imalem Saddam
• 58:48
  had that they had a like an eloquence and it's like a really
• 58:53
  unique and persuasive way. Yeah, they they had a way of.
• 58:57
  Lives the way you perceive life. They had Balaka bro, they had a
• 59:00
  way of way with words to to bring people towards Allah.
• 59:04
  Imam could have easily said no, you're going to hell Yeah, it's.
• 59:08
  Actually teaches us a beautiful lesson in dawa, right.
• 59:10
  We see I mean, we see. We see sometimes there's this
• 59:12
  movement in the Muslim world towards dawa that it's like when
• 59:16
  you're cornering people to join the faith.
• 59:19
  How could that work? You know, where is the love?
• 59:22
  Where is the kuno duat and Len and bureiri?
• 59:24
  I've seen that to invite to our path without having to talk,
• 59:26
  without having to speak, right. This is Yeah, this is probably
• 59:29
  what the imams your. Words, Your words, Imam Sajan,
• 59:32
  Islam and Satan Hakouk says that your ears are the gateway to
• 59:36
  your heart. And, and the way we talk to
• 59:38
  people, the words we use, the tone of our voice, the language
• 59:41
  we can communicate in. These are the things, the
• 59:43
  people, the things people hear from us should be a gateway into
• 59:46
  their heart. Regardless, You know, the Salam
• 59:50
  says, show people our our words and then we'll do the rest.
• 59:54
  Our actions will do the. Rest If people know the beauty
• 1:00:00
  of our words, they would follow us automatically so that.
• 1:00:03
  Responsibility falls on us, Yeah, because they've got.
• 1:00:06
  By the way, we represent some. Ways.
• 1:00:09
  Yeah, yeah. And we learn from your own Jafar
• 1:00:13
  Assad that, he says not being a doorman for us, that teaches us
• 1:00:17
  lessons. And this was the method of the
• 1:00:19
  Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi was said, look, our imams, they
• 1:00:21
  didn't bring anything of their own.
• 1:00:23
  Even the people who are, you know, of followers of other
• 1:00:26
  paths in Islam, they used to take to say all the schools of
• 1:00:29
  Islam, Hassan, they used to say, you know, when Baker or Sadiq
• 1:00:32
  they speak, they wouldn't say anything except saying a loss of
• 1:00:35
  Hanover Allah said or the messenger of God said.
• 1:00:38
  This is the part of the Rasool Allah.
• 1:00:39
  And this is where we actually also kind of, you know, we
• 1:00:42
  invite all our brothers in Islam that actually this is the part
• 1:00:45
  of Rasul. That's why we follow Amir al
• 1:00:46
  Mamim, because he's the teacher of the true part of Rasulullah,
• 1:00:49
  right? Not for anything special other
• 1:00:51
  than that, actually. I mean, when you say man al
• 1:00:54
  Abdul and Abidi Muhammad, I'm only a slave of the slaves of
• 1:00:56
  Muhammad, right? And the prophet actually told us
• 1:00:59
  that this is the person to follow after me because he knows
• 1:01:03
  how to invite people to the way of the last mano time.
• 1:01:05
  And this is the knowledge that our imams inherited.
• 1:01:08
  That's really the reasoning behind us being Shia, right?
• 1:01:10
  Followers of this path, we're followers of Muhammad,
• 1:01:13
  sallallahu alayhi, we're Muslim, right?
• 1:01:15
  Shia means actually this understanding or this
• 1:01:18
  understanding of the Prophet's Sunnah through Ali Amir.
• 1:01:20
  What we need. This is the right way of
• 1:01:22
  understanding, right? Let me go back just because,
• 1:01:25
  because Mashallah, you've said like very, very interesting
• 1:01:27
  points. And every time you say a little
• 1:01:29
  word or a phrase, I feel like, Oh my God, I can talk so much
• 1:01:31
  about. This inspiring us?
• 1:01:32
  No, I'm sorry. You know a lot I get inspired by
• 1:01:36
  you, but honestly, because fear and hope, because this this is
• 1:01:39
  very important. Yeah.
• 1:01:40
  Remember when I said that we are completely owned by Allah?
• 1:01:44
  He owes us nothing, right? He owes us nothing.
• 1:01:48
  That takes us to the position of what?
• 1:01:49
  Fear meaning that you can't take Allah for granted.
• 1:01:53
  I mentioned the verse that said Naberdi and the analog of Rahim
• 1:01:56
  informed my servants that I am the merciful forgiving the
• 1:01:59
  merciful or the all forgiving, the all merciful.
• 1:02:02
  I didn't mention the next verse, Qabi, qabi.
• 1:02:10
  And my punishment and penalty is the most severe.
• 1:02:13
  Don't take me for granted. Don't take my mercy for granted.
• 1:02:17
  So when I said it's far better, for example, to be acknowledging
• 1:02:20
  that you're sinful than to, you know, put yourself as a God in
• 1:02:23
  front of God doesn't mean that you take a lost panel to Allah
• 1:02:26
  for for granted. Yeah, Imam in Doha ABI Ham's
• 1:02:30
  actually the one you just quoted next.
• 1:02:31
  Some some parts it said when I disobeyed you, I wasn't actually
• 1:02:39
  denying your lordship over me. Who am I to actually do that?
• 1:02:42
  No, but it was just a slip. It was a slip.
• 1:02:45
  I was weak. He acknowledged I was weak and
• 1:02:48
  it was a slip. And you know, I was defeated by
• 1:02:51
  my own desires, by my own inclination.
• 1:02:53
  So he admitted, right. So fear meaning that it's not
• 1:02:58
  like you fear, it's like you fear a beast, right?
• 1:02:59
  It's like, you know, when we bring the element of love, it's
• 1:03:02
  like you're fearing this, like displeasing your beloved.
• 1:03:05
  Imagine you love someone so much that you you fear that they
• 1:03:09
  would. You know you.
• 1:03:10
  Don't want to disappoint them you.
• 1:03:11
  Don't want to disappoint them because those feelings very,
• 1:03:13
  very. Can relate with our parents when
• 1:03:15
  it. Comes, of course, yeah.
• 1:03:16
  It's a like you said, the parents is is the closest thing
• 1:03:19
  we have to understand that notion.
• 1:03:20
  The the the consciousness of the authority and and the the
• 1:03:24
  leadership, the status, the. Way the mother treats the.
• 1:03:27
  Newborn unlike unconditional Isn't it unconditional the.
• 1:03:33
  Vulnerability of a human, the fragility of a human and the
• 1:03:36
  fact that a newborn is completely at the mercy and
• 1:03:38
  disposal of the mother. In that case, the mother can
• 1:03:40
  neglect or the mother can care, caress and embrace that.
• 1:03:43
  Child and we're all creation. Well, we're all talking about
• 1:03:46
  the like at the creation level, right?
• 1:03:47
  Well, we talk about a lot, bro. That's a different game.
• 1:03:49
  That's that's a different thing. You know, like even if you said
• 1:03:52
  drop in an that's wrong because Allah is far more infinite than
• 1:03:56
  an ocean. So that's just us at our level.
• 1:03:59
  And Allah shows us his signs. Allah says in the Quran,
• 1:04:01
  Senorihim ayatina philanthropy, and we will show them our signs
• 1:04:05
  of things that point us to him in what in the horizons and
• 1:04:08
  their own selves. When you said, how do we get to
• 1:04:12
  know God, how to recognize God right by introspecting, by
• 1:04:15
  looking around us and so on. There are signs that point us to
• 1:04:17
  God and this is, you know, the mother love and so on.
• 1:04:19
  These are signs from which we learn how Allah could be from
• 1:04:24
  the words that he actually himself said.
• 1:04:26
  So we have this fear fearing, you know, displeasing Allah,
• 1:04:30
  fearing disappointing Allah, Subhanahu, what Allah when the
• 1:04:32
  love is there? And I said there are things
• 1:04:35
  Allah promises us and these should have give us what hope
• 1:04:39
  should give us hope. So this is where Allah bait
• 1:04:42
  always told us there has to be a balance between fear and hope in
• 1:04:45
  your relationship with Allah. If you go too much to fear, you
• 1:04:49
  might despair, you might despair, you might feel like, so
• 1:04:52
  what's the point? I'm going to be in the Hellfire.
• 1:04:54
  I'm going to be punished. I'm going.
• 1:04:56
  So what might see God that's not loving?
• 1:04:58
  Accent, it's like, So what? What's the point?
• 1:05:00
  Let me just I'm in the Hellfire anyway.
• 1:05:01
  Let me just enjoy. Let me just enjoy.
• 1:05:04
  So what? So that's wrong.
• 1:05:05
  That's where you shouldn't go to that extreme of what despair and
• 1:05:08
  what tells us in the Quran, say all my servants who have
• 1:05:15
  exceeded the limits against themselves.
• 1:05:17
  Do not despair of the mercy of God in the Allah forgives all
• 1:05:22
  sins. How big is your sin?
• 1:05:25
  How big is it? Sometimes some people think
• 1:05:27
  like, man, I've done I've done bad stuff.
• 1:05:29
  It's like, OK, how bad, right? How bad do you think like is
• 1:05:32
  that your thought about Allah? Is Allah this much to you?
• 1:05:35
  Who do you think Allah is? Who do you think Allah is?
• 1:05:39
  Allah is the, you know, the merciful, My mercy enveloped
• 1:05:46
  everything, whatever is a thing, Allah mercy enveloped.
• 1:05:50
  So who are you to say you know, my sin is much bigger.
• 1:05:52
  Some people came to the prophet at sometimes saying all prophet
• 1:05:54
  I've done terrible things. You know God will no way will he
• 1:05:58
  could forgive me. It's like, no.
• 1:06:00
  Have you heard that thing? She has like I tell my sin, I
• 1:06:03
  tell my Lord, I have a great sin and they say, tell me I said,
• 1:06:06
  you have a great Lord. I mean, it's, it's, it's a
• 1:06:09
  really pleasing. I remember I saw a long time
• 1:06:11
  ago. It's beautiful, but I, I
• 1:06:13
  absolutely love that as well. I really do.
• 1:06:15
  And and it reminds me of the Hadith formula.
• 1:06:16
  Not many anyway. He talks about the three types
• 1:06:18
  of believers, the one who out of fear, they worship Allah fear
• 1:06:21
  and one out of love, they worship Allah and, and hope for
• 1:06:24
  a transactional reward. And then the third type of
• 1:06:26
  believer who worships Allah because he sees a lot whether
• 1:06:29
  you're. Not worthy of worship.
• 1:06:30
  You know, and, and, and, and that is obviously where we
• 1:06:32
  aspire to be. The fact that a believer, you
• 1:06:35
  mentioned earlier on in in the discussion right towards the
• 1:06:37
  beginning about having no hope of return or even no expectation
• 1:06:41
  rather of, of any sort of return when you do something.
• 1:06:44
  And I think, and I mentioned this as well, to say it over the
• 1:06:47
  years, like the the the, the, the the perfect abode and the
• 1:06:52
  reward for a true believer, a Muttman in the afterlife would
• 1:06:56
  be to be able to worship our last one to Allah completely at
• 1:06:59
  peace with nothing. If Allah gave you absolutely
• 1:07:03
  nothing but time and space and and comfort to worship him in
• 1:07:07
  that should be sufficient. Mammoth Kalamala's son when he
• 1:07:10
  was put in the prisons, he said Hamdallah Shukla Hamdallah
• 1:07:13
  because I've been given a space where I can worship Allah and
• 1:07:15
  disturbed. I mean, if if I'm not at the
• 1:07:17
  level where I know I can feel happy in that environment, then
• 1:07:21
  I'm not where I need to be. If someone said to you have a
• 1:07:24
  day locked in a room with no phone, no social media, you're
• 1:07:27
  just a prayer mat, am I happy? I might think, you know, I need
• 1:07:30
  this in my life right now. Or I might think, God, I'm bored
• 1:07:33
  and you're look, you're playing with the threads on the on the
• 1:07:35
  prayer mat and you're thinking of anything to do except pray.
• 1:07:38
  So I think that is a good litmus test for us to understand where
• 1:07:40
  do I stand spiritually? Where do I need to be and where
• 1:07:43
  have I come from? Yeah, and fortunate that lost
• 1:07:46
  panel tile has actually, you know, kind of commanded us to
• 1:07:48
  pray five times a day, right? There's a reason behind this.
• 1:07:51
  Yeah, there's a reason behind it seems.
• 1:07:53
  On track. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:07:54
  That's exactly what it is. Right, it keeps consistency.
• 1:07:56
  Yeah, it keeps you on the mortar way correctly.
• 1:07:58
  Yeah, yeah, maybe. Distract I.
• 1:08:01
  Stand there's. Like any Margarita pieces.
• 1:08:04
  Or to be honest, I really was thinking like how can I use the
• 1:08:07
  word Margarita and it's just not working.
• 1:08:10
  I have, I have. Sorry, I'm just going to say so
• 1:08:12
  I got given 3 words. I've used two of them, the last
• 1:08:16
  one I didn't have to use. I got given Chai which I've at
• 1:08:18
  some point. Well if I haven't it, my chives
• 1:08:19
  got cold now. So that's the words that your
• 1:08:21
  wife gave you said. Butterfly, which I said it did,
• 1:08:23
  you hear me say, but. No, you said a bird, you said I
• 1:08:26
  said. A bird?
• 1:08:26
  Did I say a butterfly? A bird.
• 1:08:27
  Bro. OK, I meant you lose a bird and
• 1:08:30
  then I got given a third word which shall I say it or shall I
• 1:08:34
  let you guys guess. It was it a bad word or?
• 1:08:36
  I had today for lunch. I had a tuna and cucumber
• 1:08:39
  sandwich. Cucumber.
• 1:08:44
  Yeah. I don't know.
• 1:08:45
  How could I bring in cucumber? I'm talking about God.
• 1:08:47
  Yeah, I know, I know. To be honest, it's.
• 1:08:49
  It's your words. You had Moto E Margarita.
• 1:08:51
  Moto E Margarita and Thai and no Karachai.
• 1:08:55
  Yeah, I think I'll, I'll use the Karachai some, you know, some of
• 1:08:58
  them. I'm talking about Jenna or
• 1:08:59
  something. Yeah, all the Karachai.
• 1:09:01
  And then you can. You mentioned that, no?
• 1:09:02
  Yeah, so I'm good. Take the I'm good.
• 1:09:04
  Very difficult, to be honest. These things I'm very bad at.
• 1:09:06
  I'm bad as well. I'm.
• 1:09:09
  You know what they're saying from this conversation has been
• 1:09:11
  so far. If I can share Charlotte, I know
• 1:09:16
  you have the best character Charlotte, but you know like
• 1:09:20
  repentance. It's it's like if we if we feel
• 1:09:23
  like we have an opportunity to repent.
• 1:09:27
  That's Tophi from Allah as the widget and he still loves you.
• 1:09:31
  It's an opportunity and he if we, like you said, at least we
• 1:09:34
  acknowledge like we're sinning. This is that.
• 1:09:36
  Me, in fact, is a blessing assent.
• 1:09:38
  Yeah, so, so we should also be grateful for that, that we can
• 1:09:41
  acknowledge what we're doing is wrong and the path to come back
• 1:09:43
  to Allah is through and Charlotte over and we take that
• 1:09:46
  path. But sometimes I feel like I I'm,
• 1:09:50
  I'm, I don't know, I may be guilty asking this question.
• 1:09:52
  Perhaps it's right to ask it now.
• 1:09:54
  Maybe we can lean towards Karbala.
• 1:09:57
  Is it enough to repent to Allah at times just to him directly or
• 1:10:04
  can we take another puff? And I say this why?
• 1:10:07
  Like for example, we mentioned Allah we read and you mentioned
• 1:10:13
  that was like it's referenced. Every soon I.
• 1:10:21
  Started with. And he put.
• 1:10:25
  It somewhere. Else 214 we say, you know, he's
• 1:10:30
  the mercy sent to mankind. But then we, we hear this on our
• 1:10:34
  every single year, every every Muharram, every year after year,
• 1:10:40
  Muharram after Muharram. And who is that?
• 1:10:47
  How can we use Hussein to come back to Allah?
• 1:10:51
  That's the final question from me.
• 1:10:52
  That's a nice question. And I think this is how bringing
• 1:10:55
  Karbala into Royal Hassan cast today.
• 1:10:58
  I need to think a bit about this actually.
• 1:10:59
  Look, you know how? How does it say that again?
• 1:11:01
  How can how can Hussein bring us towards?
• 1:11:03
  Yeah, because we we like if we're talking about broken
• 1:11:07
  hearts, our hearts break for about some year after year.
• 1:11:10
  We remember like he's. Yeah, we say you're Ahmetullah
• 1:11:13
  Halwasa. Well, yeah.
• 1:11:14
  Baba Najaatullah. Imam Hussein broke the hearts
• 1:11:16
  of, you know, the all the prophets.
• 1:11:17
  Yeah. Big.
• 1:11:17
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, you know, the, the the one
• 1:11:21
  iconic thing about Imam Hussein out of all the imams.
• 1:11:24
  I mean, all the imams have been treated unjustly.
• 1:11:26
  They've all been shahadah. They've all suffered, right.
• 1:11:30
  There is emphasis from all our imams, all of them about Imam
• 1:11:33
  Hussein, starting from the prophets of the Imam of the
• 1:11:36
  Imams. Yeah, emphasizing on actually
• 1:11:39
  showing the brokenness of your heart over Imam Hussein.
• 1:11:42
  Because that tear, it's a sign of sincerity.
• 1:11:45
  Remember the last I talked about?
• 1:11:47
  Remember when I said, for example, that you know when you
• 1:11:50
  fall down and you slip and you can turn that slip into a sedja
• 1:11:55
  when you actually can go to the mosque with a broken heart?
• 1:11:58
  There are narrations that tell us that, you know, a sin is much
• 1:12:02
  better for the believer than self admiration, that a believer
• 1:12:07
  is far better. I'm not saying sin is fine.
• 1:12:10
  They're not saying sin is fine. They're saying that if your
• 1:12:13
  obedience to Allah, subhanahu tada makes you admire yourself,
• 1:12:16
  makes you enter the mosque thinking that I deserve
• 1:12:18
  something from Allah, I'm praying on time and you should,
• 1:12:22
  I am reciting Quran and we should, I am doing this.
• 1:12:25
  You come to God with expectations.
• 1:12:27
  Oh God, I'm doing this for you. You do something for me, right?
• 1:12:30
  Whereas the sinful, when he comes to the mosque, he
• 1:12:33
  acknowledges, oh God, I don't deserve anything from you.
• 1:12:38
  I've done a terrible thing, no matter how small the sin is, but
• 1:12:41
  I've disobeyed you. It's not about how big or small
• 1:12:43
  the sin is. It's about how big or great.
• 1:12:46
  A lot is the one I disobeyed. When someone comes to the mosque
• 1:12:50
  in this way, there's a narration from Mama Ali Salaam Alaimira
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  Mamunini would say an example of two people, 1 is a fast, a
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  corrupt person, 1 is a muttman. They both enter the mosque.
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  They come out of the mosque. The muttman, the believer is a
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  corrupt person. The corrupt person is a
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  believer. How so?
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  He would say that the believer would enter the mosque obliging
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  God, thinking that oh God, I deserve something from you,
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  liking what he is doing. But the fastest, the corrupt
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  would go to the mosque and would actually have his heart broken
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  before Allah. Subhanahu attallah.
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  Same thing for those who attend the majalis of Abu Abdullah.
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  Someone like myself who thinks, you know, I haven't sinned,
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  right, But I have been attending the majalis for so long.
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  I obey Allah, I talk about Allah, I recite the Quran, I
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  pray on time and I do all that. I don't sin, blah, blah, and I
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  admire myself and I feel like, yeah, I'm coming to the
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  medalist. I deserve the first row.
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  Whereas someone else who might be sinful coming and sitting,
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  you know, in the far dark corner, shedding tears for ABA
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  Abdullah with a broken heart, acknowledging that I'm in a
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  place where actually I probably don't deserve to be.
• 1:13:56
  What a lost Pano Tada gave me the blessing to walk here and
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  I'm shedding a tear for the one who reminds me of God or the one
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  who actually on the day, on the last day, on his last day, final
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  moments, you will express words of love.
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  I mean, how it makes you understand that look, life can
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  get really hard, really difficult, traumatic.
• 1:14:21
  A man is seeing his children being massacred in front of him.
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  A man who knows that his family and his women will be left
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  without men. Do you know how that feels
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  right? A man who is actually seeing
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  other people about to kill the only hood of Allah on earth, the
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  only grandson of the holy Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi.
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  And he would remind them and he would ask him to shed tears for
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  them for them. What kind of love is this that
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  reminds you of the mercy of Allah Subhanahu ta'ala?
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  Where in this hadith he would say to thou would oh thou would
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  of those who are turning their backs against me, know how I'm
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  waiting for them, opening my gates for them, waiting for them
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  to come and knock my door. They would die out of longing
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  for me to see how much I love them.
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  Imam Hussain would shed tears and tell his people, what are
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  you about to do? Stop that.
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  That reminds you of the mercy of Allah.
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  Subhanawatah, right? That reminds you of actually how
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  some people in the final hour of their lives, they had a sincere
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  moment with God. He had a sincere moment with
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  Allah. If you see the trajectory he was
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  taking, I mean, now Allah never put us in that position where we
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  stand, you know, against the Imam blocking the way of the
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  Imam. That's that's very bad.
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  But still that turned her from someone who would have been with
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  Omar bin Saad in the bottom layers of hell to someone who's
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  a companion of Hussein that for hundreds and hundreds of years,
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  millions and millions of followers and lovers of albeit
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  Alam Salam, they go and visit him, they bow to him and they
• 1:15:54
  tell him be Abbey and tower Umi. May I my parents, everything I
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  have be sacrificed for you. One moment of returning to Allah
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  Subhanawatara. That's TOBA.
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  That's what TOBA does. That's where Mohammed Hussein
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  Salaam Alayhi reminds us, Mohammed Hussein, actually,
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  look, when I was saying fear and hope and you said a beautiful
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  word about I worship Allah because he deserves Allah tells
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  us in the Quran so much about love, love.
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  He says for Sophiet Allahu be Coleman, you hib boom, where you
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  hib buna Allah saying, you know, if you don't obey the command of
• 1:16:29
  God, Allah will bring the people who will, who love him and whom
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  he loves. Allah will bring the people whom
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  he loves and who love him. Love, love, love.
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  Well, Larina amanu ashadduhab bandela and those who are
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  believers, they love Allah more intensely.
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  Love. There's so much emphasis on
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  love. That's that's the message that
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  we need to focus on, right? And Allah says very clearly in
• 1:16:53
  kuntum tahibun Allah fatabioni you Habib kumallah say or
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  prophet, if you were lovers of Allah, if you loved Allah,
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  follow me and Allah will love you.
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  Remember when I said you know attention to God, recognizing
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  God will bring sincerity, will bring love.
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  That love will bring this sincerity.
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  This sincerity will make Allah subhanahu watahala love you.
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  When Allah loves you, Allah selects you.
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  This is where you move from Mukhlis to Mukhlas.
• 1:17:25
  A devoted person to a selected person talks a lot about the
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  selected people, about Yousuf. This is where we actually
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  deflect from him evil and indecency, because in the home,
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  in Abadin and Mukhlasin, he was one of our chosen people.
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  This is our belief of Alabama. When they were like that, when
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  they were people who are sincere.
• 1:17:52
  I can tell you now, look Amir al Mummini in Salam Alayhi, he did
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  this strike in Khyber, in Hazab, sorry, right, He did that
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  strike. But so many companions of the
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  province of Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali al Salam also struck in battles.
• 1:18:06
  Also special about Ali. That level of devotion, that
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  level of devotion to Allah, sincerity to Allah, that level
• 1:18:15
  of recognition of Allah made that strike of Ali be.
• 1:18:19
  What better than all the acts of worship of all creation?
• 1:18:26
  How many loaves of bread did Ahlubait give as charity on that
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  on these nights? Few loaves of bread?
• 1:18:33
  How many people in the world have given charity millions of
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  pounds? What made the Ahlubait so
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  special? Devotion.
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  That they would be recorded and mentioned, sent, they would be
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  mentioned in a Quran that will be recited till the Day of
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  Judgement. What did they do in Namano
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  Taimoku? We do it for the sake of Allah.
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  We're not looking for anything in return.
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  We're not looking for anything out of, you know, thanks or
• 1:18:57
  anything. We're doing it because Allah
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  deserves even much more. We're doing it for Allah,
• 1:19:02
  Subhanahu Atahallah, right? And Ulbeit.
• 1:19:04
  This is how they take us to Allah and Ulbeit teach us
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  devotion, right? Abdul Bay Salam Alayhi, Imam
• 1:19:11
  Hussein Salam Alayhi is teaching us that look, if you want to
• 1:19:14
  love, if you love Allah, if you claim you love Allah and we all
• 1:19:17
  claim we do. We all claim we do.
• 1:19:20
  He's saying, well, if you want Allah to love you back, Allah
• 1:19:23
  obviously loves us. You know, there's a certain
• 1:19:24
  level that loves us all. We're all his creation and we
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  should love the creation of Allah because these are traces
• 1:19:29
  to him. These remind us of him.
• 1:19:31
  Remember, I've looked at anything, you know, I haven't
• 1:19:33
  looked at anything except seeing Allah, except recognizing a lot
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  everywhere, right? Everything it will be take us
• 1:19:39
  there. If you love Allah, follow me
• 1:19:43
  loving Allah. If you want Allah to love you,
• 1:19:45
  you need to what follow the path of the Prophet and this is
• 1:19:48
  another evidence to tell you if you want to reach Allah's love,
• 1:19:51
  you don't have to worry about, you know, doing so much and you
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  know reciting you know that many records or thousands of records
• 1:19:57
  and so on. Do that obviously, but secure
• 1:20:00
  the first thing first. Follow the message of Rasul
• 1:20:03
  Allah. Imam Al Hussein, when he stood
• 1:20:05
  up, he was saying. I haven't, you know, haven't
• 1:20:09
  risen or risen except for one purpose, to reform in the Ummah
• 1:20:14
  of my hassant or my grandfather, right?
• 1:20:18
  If you love the Prophet, if you love Allah, follow me.
• 1:20:21
  Those who followed Hussein, they gained the love of Allah because
• 1:20:25
  they followed the Rasool Allah essentially, or believers or
• 1:20:31
  people listen to the Messenger of God when he invites you to
• 1:20:37
  that which revives you, that which brings you back to life.
• 1:20:40
  That's what Imam Hussein is doing.
• 1:20:42
  There's an extension of the Prophet in his mission as an
• 1:20:44
  Imam. He was inviting us to that which
• 1:20:47
  revives us. When Imam comes to some people
• 1:20:50
  telling them, you know, support me on the way, one person he
• 1:20:54
  would say, look Imam, I'm not ready, I'm not ready for death,
• 1:20:57
  but you can have my horse, you can have my sword, take them, I
• 1:21:01
  can give them to you. What did Imam say?
• 1:21:05
  I'm not in need of your horse and sword.
• 1:21:07
  I'm here to revive you. I'm here to bring you to life.
• 1:21:12
  I'm here to offer you an opportunity to live the true
• 1:21:15
  life of honour, of honour of Hezza.
• 1:21:20
  What do I need your horse for? What I need your sword for?
• 1:21:23
  I need you. I need you to be revived.
• 1:21:25
  That was the mission of Mammoth Hussein's to revive people, that
• 1:21:29
  he's reviving us actually till the Day of Judgement.
• 1:21:32
  And this was the role of Hussein, central role in the
• 1:21:35
  trajectory of the message of Rasulullah until Imam Zaman
• 1:21:37
  appears. This was a central role that he
• 1:21:40
  actually keeps people in lane right with the engagement of the
• 1:21:45
  heart, because you need that engagement for sustainability of
• 1:21:48
  the message. Very.
• 1:21:52
  Beautiful I. Was saying a very beautiful.
• 1:22:00
  They took me, I think, to the seven heavens.
• 1:22:02
  Honestly, I felt like in many ways, you know, we sort of done
• 1:22:06
  it like a majlis. We had like a lecture.
• 1:22:08
  Yeah, we laughed. We cried.
• 1:22:10
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:22:11
  We Allah protected. You I needed that I needed.
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  That I see. Me too.
• 1:22:15
  I think and just the guys at home, just to prove the
• 1:22:19
  eloquence of our beloved chef. We didn't even tell him.
• 1:22:22
  I didn't even know, Said Ali brought up about Abdullah and
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  and this thing out of the blue and chef delivered words of
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  wisdom. I hope.
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  Oh my God. Thank you.
• 1:22:33
  I. Had a lot.
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  It's a had a lot. I spent a lot.
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  And yeah, sense of shock. And I think I feel like we could
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  keep going. There's still so many more
• 1:22:42
  questions. I don't want to I can see the
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  timer. Yeah, I'm waiting for the
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  Margarita to come up to nice way.
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  I'm sorry, I couldn't. There wasn't any way like there
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  wasn't. That was a very difficult
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  challenge, you know, No, no smashing, chef.
• 1:22:54
  And listen, I think we're very honoured and lucky to have you
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  and Hamdallah, you're local to us.
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  And I encourage everyone online to support the the work of our
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  beloved chef on online and on social media as well.
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  Is there any last message for for for anyone at home which you
• 1:23:09
  think is OH? God bless you.
• 1:23:10
  What I would say is, you know, don't ever give up, especially
• 1:23:14
  for the youth, right? Don't ever give up.
• 1:23:17
  You know, there might be challenges you're facing.
• 1:23:20
  Definitely everyone is facing difficulties in their lives.
• 1:23:22
  There's challenges that you're facing in your relationships, in
• 1:23:26
  your life. I don't know, financial life or
• 1:23:28
  different areas, different areas, right?
• 1:23:29
  You're not alone in the suffering.
• 1:23:31
  Everyone in the world like so many people are suffering.
• 1:23:34
  And Allah tells us this is really what the world is about,
• 1:23:36
  right? But it's not about the
• 1:23:37
  sufferings kind of being resolved.
• 1:23:39
  They're probably some many of them will they will not be kind
• 1:23:41
  of completely resolved, but it's about your attitude.
• 1:23:44
  It's about it's about how you right.
• 1:23:46
  The misery is not in the problems themselves.
• 1:23:49
  The misery is how your attitude towards these problems are the
• 1:23:52
  response. See hasn't see how we were
• 1:23:54
  taught to have this attitude of patience of suburb doesn't mean
• 1:23:57
  you just wait for the problem to go.
• 1:23:58
  No, within the challenge, within the pain.
• 1:24:01
  You keep your resolution. You keep your resolve right.
• 1:24:06
  You keep you stay adamant on just staying on the right path.
• 1:24:08
  Do what you have to do. Don't care about the result,
• 1:24:10
  man. Don't never care about the
• 1:24:12
  result. Care about what you have to do
• 1:24:14
  at the moment. Allah will bring the result,
• 1:24:16
  whether tomorrow or in 100 years.
• 1:24:18
  Your children will probably see the result, right?
• 1:24:20
  Don't worry about that. Do what you have to do because
• 1:24:23
  it's the right thing to do, right?
• 1:24:25
  And Allah will find you a way. Allah will never leave you.
• 1:24:31
  Allah will give you help and support if you stand for Him.
• 1:24:35
  I said keep that in mind. Keep the you know the rebel in
• 1:24:38
  the Los Pano Tala's will, right? Be content with what Los Pano
• 1:24:43
  Tala has given you in the things that you can't control, things
• 1:24:46
  that you control. Do something about it, right?
• 1:24:49
  Do something about it. You return to Allah every day.
• 1:24:52
  Even if you don't sin right, you return to Allah.
• 1:24:54
  You acknowledge that you have shortcomings with Allas Pano
• 1:24:57
  Tala. You ask him to support you.
• 1:24:59
  You ask him to support you. If you're sinful, use the sin.
• 1:25:02
  Be smart, be spiritually smart, right?
• 1:25:05
  Be obviously adamant on removing and stopping that sin.
• 1:25:08
  Be adamant. Do do what you have to do so
• 1:25:11
  that you make sure I don't do it tomorrow.
• 1:25:13
  That's a sign of sincerity, right?
• 1:25:15
  I'm going to say a new lecture now.
• 1:25:16
  Sorry, but but like you know, be sincere about it says there are
• 1:25:21
  6 steps for us still far right. I won't say the whole 6 right?
• 1:25:24
  But the first is to be really regretful about it.
• 1:25:26
  The second is to promise you will not do it again, right?
• 1:25:29
  The third is actually to return the rights of the people or, you
• 1:25:32
  know, in case you've done any mistakes to people, it's right,
• 1:25:35
  it's OK, acknowledge it, right? And give them their, you know,
• 1:25:38
  whatever you owe them. And there's other levels which
• 1:25:42
  are a bit, you know, more probably more difficult, but you
• 1:25:44
  can, you can have a look at it. So just keep that relationship,
• 1:25:48
  never give up. It's all ups and downs.
• 1:25:50
  That's how life is. And we need to accept that this
• 1:25:52
  is how life is. But we need always, always,
• 1:25:55
  always right to say I can get better, Never say, well, it's
• 1:26:00
  too late for me, it's not for me and so on is actually for you.
• 1:26:04
  If Allah didn't want us, if Allah didn't want to forgive us,
• 1:26:07
  he wouldn't have opened the door of Toba.
• 1:26:09
  He wouldn't have opened the door of the still far right.
• 1:26:11
  The door is there for a reason. Stay in touch with the loss of
• 1:26:14
  Hannah Wattala. Every moment, every moment less
• 1:26:17
  useful. I pray that Allah helps me as
• 1:26:19
  well. You implement.
• 1:26:20
  Of course, my last Contana reward you absolutely
• 1:26:24
  abundantly. Inshallah your family protects
• 1:26:26
  your community and I hope inshallah we see you again soon.
• 1:26:30
  Thank you Charlotte back we'd be honoured and Salah my love,
• 1:26:32
  bless you and support is really beautiful what you have honestly
• 1:26:36
  I really thank you. For your germs, your advice, the
• 1:26:38
  words of wisdom. And I think you gave us a lot to
• 1:26:40
  reflect on that for sure. And This is why.
• 1:26:42
  You've given me. Many reasons we have these
• 1:26:44
  conversations. Thank you so much.
• 1:26:45
  You smashed given me too. Thank you guys, hope you have
• 1:26:49
  enjoyed the conversation as much as we have and I know, I know
• 1:26:54
  for a fact if you've made it this far then then you'll know
• 1:26:56
  it's been worthwhile. So inshallah we will be back
• 1:27:00
  next week with another smashing conversation.
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  We have some really, really good podcasts lined up for you guys.
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  But yeah, make sure you keep supporting, support Sheikh Rabba
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  and his work, and we will be back next week.
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  Take care. So I'm Alec, home up to live,
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  Ricardo.