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You need to hear this before Ramadhan! · After Maghrib 🌙

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Ahmed Without a word of a lie, this has been one of my most
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favorite cups of Chai wine. Looks good, it smells good, and
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believe me, it tastes. Good.
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That's right, brothers, sisters, this Shahramovan for all the tea
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and scrumptious. Yeah, Allah Smila Rahman, Raheem
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Assalamu, Alaikum Rahmatullahi Barakatu.
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And welcome back to another episode on the Aftermath Rib
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podcast. We are brothers and sisters only
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a few days away from the blessed month, Shah, Ramadan and
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Mubarak, and I really hope you've been maximizing on our
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conversations. We've had three back-to-back
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phenomenal episodes and please, please, please check them out.
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And inshallah, moving forward, we also have some fantastic
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conversations that will give us spiritual nourishment or
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nourishment throughout the holy month of Ramadan.
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Being the holy month of Ramadan just a few days away, I think
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myself and I know the team here after Maghrib and many friends
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and family around the world asking themselves a question.
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How do we approach this month? And should we approach it from
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the door of the Rahmatullah, the mercy of God?
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There's so much to discuss and unpack in today's episode and
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it's just me and my Co host and I really miss having him and me
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in a very intimate deep conversation insha'allah.
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And before we begin today's conversation, I'm going to sip
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my amazing pink Afghan tea and shake hands with the one and
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only brother from another mother, Ahmed Gokul Assalam Ali.
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Salaam said. Salaam, how you doing bro?
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To you, to everyone at home, to. Your family to all the
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beautiful, beautiful viewers. The best, best vibes that
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happens in the Islamic year, in the Islamic calendars during
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these days, these weeks, a lot Shahramaban, the funnest time,
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the most beautiful time. We hear so much in of course in
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the in the sermon of Salaam Hamad Salallahu Salem in the
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last Friday of Shaban, he says this is the banquet of Allah.
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Allah. Allah is inviting us to his
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banquet. And what better time to prepare,
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you know, than these days now in the last few days before Shaban
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is here to prepare ourselves for this banquet.
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Get ready to meet our host, you know, be prepared for all the
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blessings, the bounties of, of, of the banquet itself.
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And, you know, this is a beautiful time of year saying,
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I'm so excited to see what we've got coming up in the coming,
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coming weeks, All for the viewers to see what's coming up.
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We've been working hard to plan Shaharamavan this year and I'm
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Thank you to whoever put the tree there.
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Can you guys see it? You can see it.
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This is a beautiful vintage TV, matches the matches the
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animation and the intro. So listen, Sid, I want to talk.
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Well, actually you brought up the topic of today's
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conversation, but I know you wanted to talk about Toba and
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the repentance and forgiveness. I think in these days prior to
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Shahramaban, we narrowed it down to this topic, I believe because
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there's a host of emotions people are feeling right now.
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Some people are ready, some people are not.
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Some people know they're not ready.
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Some people know if they haven't completed their fasts from last
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year. Some people know if they've not
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even completed their Salah from the previous day, but they're
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entering the month, they may feel unready.
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Some others may feel prepared, spiritually prepared, you know,
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physically prepared as well. But why are we talking about
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Tolba today of all things prior to Shahramovar?
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I think because repentance Ahmed something that we can all relate
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to, I think it's I think TOBA is something we've all tried to
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understand, implement in our lives.
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See forgiveness from our last partner with Tahala.
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But when it comes to the month of Ramadan being Ramadan being
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this blessed Shah of Ramadan Shah Rahman right, the the month
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of mercy the the gates and the doors of Allah Subhanawatah are
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open no matter what stage you find yourself and they're open.
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Our last man was Allah will welcome you and embrace you.
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You walk towards him and you'll say come next to me.
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This is the God we have and I don't think people appreciate
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how merciful Allah is being the month of Ramadan.
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This is where we express gratitude.
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Thankfulness not for the little things, not for the big things,
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but all that I am that God has protected us from.
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You know, we say Allah Sattar al Ayub, you know, our flaws, He
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hides them from other people, our sins, He hides them from
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other people. But I think it's the time where
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now we acknowledge that, thank him for that and seek repentance
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because many times, Ahmed, maybe I I fall trapped to this as
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well. Sometimes we forget we have
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this. You mentioned it a few times,
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right, Where you find yourself in the state of ruffler.
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It's like you're walking, but you're asleep.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Spiritually, you're not awake.
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You know God is there. You know, this is Haram.
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You know, this is Hala. This is lawful, this unlawful.
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God tells you stay far away from this.
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God tells you come walk towards this.
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And. But we, we forget this Hasab and
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Kitab and I think this is the month where we say, you know
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what, we want to change our lives.
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We want to change our spiritual lifestyle and we want to have
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spiritual growth. And for that to start with the
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blessings, blessings of Allah. I think it starts with
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repentance because it's like Salah, you know, when you just
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pray and pray and pray, but you don't know what you're saying.
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There's, I don't, there is of course, Salah is watching by the
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end of the day, but is there really any benefit from us, from
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the Salah we're doing similar to our sins and repentance.
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We're just going to walk, commit sins and say stuff for Allah,
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stuff Allah, stuff for Allah, but not really knowing what
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repentance is, how to approach TOBA correctly.
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I think we're missing out and being in Ramadan, I think that's
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where we begin. Good time.
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It's a good time to start. 100% you know the whole thing is is a
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last panel to Allah has made this month for our hearts to
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soften right and for the hardened hearts to be able to
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connect with its Lord, yes, creator, yes, you know when we
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say yeah, I'm Kalibal Kalub, we're talking about the the one
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who is the owner of our hearts. The Kalubala.
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Aladdin and this is something that is so important.
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OK, now think about this. For as long as we have a soul in
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our body, you know, we have our you know what in the in the holy
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God and Allah talks all the time about the sudur, what lies
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within the chests of people. And specifically speaking, we
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will always have two forces at play.
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OK, within our Nas we have nasal Amara or we have nasal mokma in
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and of course in the middle you have Nasala wama.
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And these forces are always battling like a game, unless
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it's not Quran as well. He says that what is life?
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What is hayat except a game? These two forces are always
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competing for one another, and the hardening of the hearts is
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one of the things which causes that grafla, that hideousness,
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and in such a way where the hardening of the hearts, the
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hard hearts are the hearts which become disobedient of the last
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panel to Isla. Think of it logically speaking,
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OK, let's say you've done a sin again and again and again and
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again and again. You become desensitized to it.
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Yes, right. So when they say like it's I
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hear in lectures, the first step is to recognize what you're
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doing is bad to feel bad for it. Bro, you cannot force someone to
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feel bad for something they've done for 10/20/30 years.
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And you know, because it's normal, it's normal.
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It's it's day-to-day for them. You know, I listen to music on
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the way to work, for example. Or for example, I look at a girl
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when I see her walking on the street, do I feel guilt if I'm
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someone who's done that for decades in my life?
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I'm not saying me. I'm saying someone who may have
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done this right. So recognizing it is important.
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But ultimately one of the beautiful things about the
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softening of the hearts. And I want to talk about this
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over the next few minutes inshallah, as in we'll, we'll
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have a conversation about it. One of the ways in which we can
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soften our hearts is through Istakfar.
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Allah has made that as a mode for us to soften our hearts.
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In the Holy Quran, Allah talks about it on, on several
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occasions. OK, one, one example that this
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is sort of an arm chapter 6 verse #43 Allah talks about the
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chastisement of people who have been punished.
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OK, He talks specifically about those who he has punished.
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And Allah says, and I'm paraphrasing, he says, I took
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them right to the point where I knew they could have repented.
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I took them there. All they had to do was ask for
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forgiveness and I would have saved them.
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He says in this verse, why did they not humble themselves when
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we made them suffer? Instead their hearts were
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hardened and Shaitaan made their misdeeds appealing to them.
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Allah talks about insura bakala, Allah talks about banal sahil
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and He talks about how their hearts are harder than rock.
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And he says that even rocks break and water can come out of
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it and even rocks can fall down in awe of Allah.
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And I think one of the key things is going into this month,
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you know, like doing research on this podcast before we actually
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recorded this, I realized that my goal for this month has to
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be, has to be to soften my heart towards Allah Spontala.
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Purely, truly, completely, holistically, wholeheartedly
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soften myself towards Allah Spontala.
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Only then will I be able to make meaningful, impactful long term
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change. May Allah protect your heart.
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Habibi and bless you. Yeah, guilty.
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I. Keep it pumping and the love of
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Allah Habibi. No, you speak facts, man.
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And and if I think that's definitely something a goal that
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I can implement. I just I didn't think of from
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that way in terms of softening the heart.
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And I think that's very important when it comes to like
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forgiveness and repentance and so.
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Bro sorry to interrupt but if you think about it in Islam
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everything comes down to the heart.
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Everything you know what you do if you're good bad, if you're
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merciful, if you're unjust, if you're if you're harsher with
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people, you're lenient. Everything comes down to the
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heart and if your heart is soft everything is great.
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All our the way out which talk about the heart.
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So many of them link back to estafa.
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Toba talk about if you want to soften your heart, you do estafa
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if you want to to if you hold a grudge if you hold a grudge
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against someone, it's like holding charcoal and throwing it
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at someone. What's the thing with holding
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charcoal bro? Before you can throw it your
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hands get burnt Holding a grudge with someone is as damaging to
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yourself as it is to anyone else, and alas sees that within
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you. He sees that think about anyone
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anyone. I thought of someone earlier
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today when when I thought about this, someone who I had a grudge
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against, someone who I was annoyed about, You know, when I,
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when his name crosses my mind, I roll my eyes.
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No. And I, you know, what's the
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point? You know, why hold a grudge?
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Ultimately, what's that going to do?
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This hardens the hawk. There's no point.
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You're right. I need, you know, holding
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grudges, I I think becomes an obstacle for your heart to open
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and for you to even seek repentance from Allah.
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I need you know, in our previous episode, we were speaking about
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Mustafa and he was mentioning, you know, we we expect our last
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panel to figure us for the millions of sins we do through
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our lifetime. But we can't forgive the
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servants of Allah, you know. So if we remove our grudges, we
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open our heart and we seek inshallah, sincere, sincere,
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sincere towe because people can say towe, but do they mean it?
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Do they mean it? Do people understand what
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there's a stuff for Allah or people to be like means, you
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know, speaking about you mentioned some narrations and
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you know, Subhan Allah, the other day I was listening to a
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lecture. This was by say Mustafa Tasmini
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actually, and in the lecture he mentioned something about
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Astafar. Imam Ali was walking one day and
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he came across a man who just committed the sin and said the
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Safar Allah. I went on straight after that
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Astafar to go and commit another sin and say Safar Allah.
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The Imam went to him. He approached him.
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He said to him, may your mother lose you.
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Do you know the weights of what a stuff for Allah means?
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And he went on and on to say, I mean, Islam is not a game.
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It's the far is not a game. You can't expect a lot to fully
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forgive you if you're just going to say with no meaning.
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I said at the beginning, we can be praying for 50 years.
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We don't even know what Samuel Allah, Heman Hamid that means
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how we want our praise to be accepted.
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And look with with this the far there are steps to it.
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There are approaches 1 needs to take.
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I know Islamically there are I think 4 criterias 1 needs to
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meet. And I know Imam Ali Al Hissanami
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even mentions in Nejil Belaga that in fact you recommend 66
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ways of having. Not.
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Just etiquettes. I think it's called Toba
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Nasohaya. Like the most sincere of TOBA.
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If you really want our last part of it to add 100% to forgive
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you, you have to do these 6 steps.
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One of them, you know, starts with the tongue.
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One of them starts with the I'll get them out in a few in a few
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minutes. I'll bring it on my phone
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because I think it's relevant to mention and very important a
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Shia that we listen to what our Imam says when it comes to TOBA
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and how we seek repentance from God.
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But it it, it's all about, I think, acknowledging that what
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we did was wrong. Many of us make sins left, right
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and centre. It's like a swimming corporal,
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like our sins. Imagine it's like a filled up
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Wembley Stadium filled up with fans.
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But those fans are what? Are.
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Are are bad deeds, right? And to us, this is normal.
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We see it as fans and we celebrate it.
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Ah, they're cheering for me. Broken Badger.
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They're like, and we acknowledge that what we did was Haram, was
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wrong. And the worst thing about sins
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is when it comes to toba, if we want a loss of panel wattala to
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figure us, if we want a loss of panel wattala to wipe us a clean
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slate, as the saying goes, if we have wronged someone, there's no
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forgiveness. Yeah, if we have taken someone's
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rights, there's no forgiveness. And by the way, people's rights,
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it can be for example, property, land, cheating someone
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financially at work. Like even as far as Salah bro, I
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read like from from, from Imam Ali, Ali Salaam.
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Even as far as Salah, bro, if you if you don't have the
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intention to make up your Qatar Salah, how do you want God to
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forgive you? Because part of the what's that
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word I would say, like mandatory requirements for Allah's final
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Mata Ana to forgive you is that you do the basics for him, which
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are the wodger, but the Salah, the Saab.
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If all of these are not happening, there's no guarantee
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God will fully forgive you. But the other thing is God knows
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that you can send and go back. You can make us the far and go
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back. People lapse.
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People are quite human at the end of the day.
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We're not flawless. We're not so mean.
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We're not infallible. We're bound to sin.
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Shaitaan can confuse us, play with our mind, change our
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hearts. But it's down to us, Ahmed.
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At the end of the day, we can make that decision and
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acknowledge God exists. God says stay far away from
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this. Don't chase it.
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Don't go after it. Don't let it deceive you.
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Don't let this dunya deceive you.
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Shaitaans whispers deceive you because one was not worth it.
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You know why it's not worth it, Ahmed?
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We're now what? Approaching the month of
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Ramadan? Yeah, well, approaching the
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blessed month of Ramadan, how many people do you know?
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Do I know? And people watching and
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listening that were hair loss Ramadan and I'm not here for
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this month. It's too late.
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You know, people they delayed over, they say I'll grow old,
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I'll change. Be it hijab, be it Salah, be it
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I don't know fornication. I don't know what people do
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nowadays, like since it becomes so normal.
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These things, we'll hardly mention them.
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Back in the day when I was no these things.
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Bro, when you delay your October, there's no guarantee
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you're living tomorrow. Well, there's no guarantee we're
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here tomorrow. Me and you, Ahmed, we can, God
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forbid, die on the way home in a car accident.
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Who knows, right? Imam Ali says what to us.
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People are asleep and when they die, they are awake.
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Don't lose the opportunity. What?
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Laugh. Don't lose the opportunity.
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Make that's over today. Make that's over today.
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Me and you, Ahmed. We need to make sincere Talbar.
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Yeah, I fully agree, bro. Bro, you sound like a good 30
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points. So I think there's a lot of
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points. You mentioned one thing you
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mentioned about lip service of Talbar and you mentioned the
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story of the Middlemont Manin. There's a hadith of Allah
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Salaam, Salaam Allah, where he says the same thing.
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He says seeking forgiveness with your lips but not within your
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heart. You have surely fooled yourself,
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your mum says Saddam. So I think that's just to double
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up on it like it's pointless or we.
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Think we can fool a lot? Of course, the things and we do
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think that let's be real, I think the majority of people,
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you know, it's very easy lay a little Qatar, you do your armal,
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you do your stuff, far stuff. All of these things become lip
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service. You know, I think it's it's
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better in some ways to think about a sin, acknowledge it.
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Look, look, I'm going to be real, OK?
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Sinning, sinning itself is completely normal.
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Sinning is inevitable, everyone. Will sin.
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Sinning is inevitable. Yeah, of course everyone's going
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to sin, OK? Don't beat yourself up if you've
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sinned. You can't.
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Don't, don't sit on the frame mat and think Allah's not going
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to, you know, respect me or how am I going to face Allah?
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How am I going to look at Allah's panel to Allah in the
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Holy Quran? But at the same time, you have
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to strike a balance, right? So you have to acknowledge the
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gravity of what you're doing and recognize that the sin is
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forbidden for a certain reason. If I listen to music, as I
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mentioned earlier on the way home from work or school, I need
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to understand that this is anti Tahrir.
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That is morally and socially and mentally compromising me.
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And because of that, I'm going against Allah's will.
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Ultimately, we cannot make any definitive changes in ourselves
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during Shahramulan if we don't recognize what we're doing and
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why it's going on. Why is it Haram?
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If you know the root of a sin is Haram, then you'll understand
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it's wrong. When you understand it's wrong,
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then you have guilt. When you have guilt, you
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approach Allah. Then Allah sees you approaching
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him with humility, sincerity. It's common sense.
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Allah knows what's in your heart.
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Allah sees that this is someone who's recognized what he's done
22:50
is wrong. He's not doing a stock far from
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for for himself out of guilt because you know, he's been told
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by his teachers at the mosque or he's been told by his parents,
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This is why GP you have to do this.
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Or he's not doing it because he's fearing Hellfire or he's
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not doing it because he's got hopes of, of the transactional
23:09
reward I will give him. No, rather Allah realises that
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within your heart is humility. You've approached Allah, you say
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I recognise what I've done is Haram.
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I recognise what I have done has gone against your command.
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A lot about okata. Allah is, is approachable like
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that. Allah is, is.
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So you know, Hamad raha mean, you know what I mean?
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And and if if we can't approach a lie in such a way where we are
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humble in that form, then you know when else we're going to
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do. If there's a time, we mentioned
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earlier that this blessed month is the banquet of a last month
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to Allah in a banquet. What do you do?
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Think about iffire invitations. Yeah.
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You make the best of the yeah, having guests, right?
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If you're having if you're having guests, yeah, you prepare
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your, your, your, your home is beautiful.
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You want people to come into your environment.
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You want them to feel welcomed as a host.
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You want them to send them away with as much as possible.
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You want them to come in, feel fulfilled, feel happy, feel like
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they're getting blessings and leave and send them away with
24:09
more. You know, as a guest, you come.
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You want to look your best. You want to smile.
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You want to thank your host for hosting you.
24:15
You know, you want to engage and interact with people around you,
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befriend and socialize people you know around you, and
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ultimately you want it to be an environment full of love and
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blessing That is Shahadah Mulvan.
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It is how far, how often? Every year we get five nights
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into it. I always say this to my family,
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as well as five nights into Shahadah Mulvan.
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We think, wow, days are long, fast, so hard.
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I'm slowly getting into it. Day 10 and one third already.
24:45
Wow, the month is going fast. Before you know it comes 19th to
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23rd. You're doing your shahada
24:52
nights, you're doing your nights.
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By the 23rd night, you're on the 24th day.
24:57
Where's the month gone? Where's the month gone?
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You've got five days left and you're filled with remorse.
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What have I done this month? Why haven't I recited more
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Quran? Why haven't I done more at Amal?
25:08
Why have I not picked up the Quran, looked at one verse and
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deeply reflected it? There's so many.
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You know, I'm just, if I, if you don't mind, I'm going to talk a
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bit about the Quran for a minute because I think this is a must.
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Yeah, 100%. Allah says in the Quran time and
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time and time and time again that the Swahili mentions that
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if I'm not mistaken, that this Quran is Shafa and Noor and
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hedaya for the minion. And Allah mentions that the ones
25:39
who are lost are the oppressors with the Quran.
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Now this is a strange concept. This will be confusing for.
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Some this is this is strange, right?
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Ajeeb, How can the Quran for some people be Hedaya and Noor
25:53
and Shafa? And for some people the Quran is
25:56
harmful to them. OK, it's because our hearts are
26:02
like containers. OK?
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The Quran is the content. You what you put in a container
26:09
doesn't change the the the faculties of the content.
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The container will affect it. Let me give you an example.
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Rainwater is pure OK. If you take a bucket outside,
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but the bucket is rusted, the water becomes contaminated.
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A septic rusted container will contaminate purified rainwater.
26:33
That does not mean the rain water in its core is impure, but
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it's been made impure. If you take a rose, you put it
26:39
in that water, it will ruin the Rose is not impure.
26:43
But if you take the same rose and you spray it with, you know,
26:46
flower food or whatever, you know, pure, proper water, spring
26:50
water, then that rose will have a sweet fragrance. the Rose
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itself changes based on the environment you're putting it
27:00
in, right? The water which is falling
27:03
changes based on the environment you're putting in the container.
27:06
In the same way Allah gives us the Holy Quran.
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We can corrupt ourselves with the Quran.
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If we don't know how to use it, we don't know how to read it.
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We use it for our own manipulation and our own benefit
27:17
or that we can use it for that hedaya, for that shafa.
27:20
You know, Allah gives us this book for healing in this month.
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Healing, healing, healing. Every one of us has religious
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trauma, psychological, childhood trauma to some degrees.
27:32
Spiritual trauma is rampant in today's day and age.
27:35
Everyone has trauma, traumatized by religion in some way or the
27:38
other. Use the Quran, go back to the
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word of Allah, look at it deeply and think how is Allah
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communicating with me directly? You know us, Allah is in.
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This month will get us close to God.
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But if we want communication from Allah, we get that from
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the. Right, and it all goes back to
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God. 100. Percent all roads lead to Allah
27:59
and you're right, you know this Quran and coming back to God and
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opening up to God and look, God tells us in the Quran, Allah
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with thicker a lot of unknown a loop a loop.
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You know for sure. Yeah, he is certainly certainly
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your hearts will feel content at ease with what that Allah.
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The thing is with we're not used to the vicar and it's a huge
28:21
problem and even if we do the car, sometimes we don't know
28:24
what we're doing the car for. Well, let me ask you, what is
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the car in your? Dhikr is remembering God in
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every moment of your life, like in every stage, whether it's
28:32
saying al hamdulillah, whether saying Subhan Allah when you see
28:36
something amazing, beautiful. Is that godly?
28:41
I know you're. Thinking God created this, Allah
28:45
Azojel, He created this. So what I'm saying is this
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culture of dhikr is just. No, some people look.
28:53
Some 100 times. Then why 100 times?
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And ZA 100. Times sure sometimes you'll find
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people that hold the test beer and they're swinging it around
29:03
every 5 seconds they'll say a lot like what's going on like I
29:09
really don't they're very cultural.
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Or are you just going for the vibes Yeah like it's
29:13
aesthetically you look Muslim. Yeah it's a look at the end of
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the day, there's no real vicar. I'm not saying there's no vicar
29:19
been going on there, but is it the vicar that God wants from
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you? I don't know.
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I'm I'm not here to judge Allah the best of judges right, but
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they care on the tongue constantly They care on the
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heart constantly. The problem is we forget God.
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Imam Ali. What made him Imam Ali?
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What made the Ali Ali honestly off He saw God before during and
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after everything. Yeah and he didn't go to sin.
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He didn't even want to sin. Why?
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Because God was revolving around him.
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Muhammad, people pull him as four anyway.
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That's a different discussion, but in reality one in reality.
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In reality, what made Ali, Ali was this.
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He had God with him. He was God centric, no?
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One loves Ali like Allah, Muhammad.
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You know what I'm saying? And no one loves Allah like Ali
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and Muhammad. I mean, because of that we know
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that if you want to emulate the the the vicar of Allah, sponsor
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Allah in the perfect way. You look at the Ali bait I.
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Understand, I said, no, you're very right.
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And you know, just speaking about looking at the aliabates,
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that was there's a narration, a man comes to imam and Baker
30:20
alayhi Salaam, and he tells them, you know what, Imam, why
30:25
are you doing this thafar? Like I've never seen you do
30:27
wrong. Like I've never seen you do
30:29
Haram. And he was like my grandfather
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Rasoolallah sallallahu alaihi wasallam also done the thafar.
30:36
In fact, he done this thafar with every meeting he had with
30:39
people. He done this thafar.
30:41
Every time he'd wake up, he'd do a thafar before he'd go to
30:44
sleep. Thafar was constant.
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Why? Because there is reward for it.
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Yeah, I mean, I I don't I don't remember the exact tafsir of
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that narration, but from what I recall was like a believer true
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movement has to live between the fair of Allah and hope in his
31:04
Rahman his mercy. Like, even if you're not doing
31:07
wrong, you can't be arrogant and say I'm going gender that just
31:11
that thought that I'm the best of the best doesn't guarantee
31:15
you generally. Just because you haven't been
31:17
sinning doesn't mean you're going to enter God's paradise.
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That, you know, Shaytan was arrogant.
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Yeah. Like there's certain things we
31:24
may be too comfortable with. And bro, not just that, also to
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think about the fact that we may have been in.
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Sorry to interrupt you. No, no, no.
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Like we are raised in such an environment.
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Yeah. But we think, oh, it's OK, and
31:36
I'll do so much good. And the last week I've been
31:39
mosque 8 times, I've been former jalis.
31:41
I've met 400 Muslims today. How many times have I said
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Salaam alaikum today? How many times I said I pray,
31:48
pray someone's parent. Do you know what I'm saying?
31:49
We have this thing because we're culturally Islamic.
31:52
Sometimes we think it cancels out or for example, we overlook.
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That's not a griber. I'm not a griber.
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For example. I don't see so far.
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Now. I was thinking about this today.
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Yeah. I was like, toba is everything
32:04
bro. Like this situations let me
32:07
challenge people at home. OK, Think of a time, think of an
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environment in your life where you don't have to you've never
32:14
had to do told but about or you think doesn't work.
32:17
So for me, I I tried this on myself.
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Yeah. Is there a time or like an
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environment or circumstance in my life where I think I've done
32:25
nothing wrong? Right.
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So for example, I'm with a certain person or I'm in a
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certain place. So let me give you an example.
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Yeah, I thought, yeah. With my son, my daughter.
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I love them. And then I thought about Nah,
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there's been times I've been harsh on my kids, right?
32:40
Then I thought, no. And beta Salah, my mosque in
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the, you know, in this Salah area, my mosque.
32:46
I don't know, bro. There's been times I've sat in
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that place and I've not said Salaam to the guy next to me and
32:52
I know him, for example, you know, there's times and there's
32:55
places where I'm challenging myself, thinking I think my
32:59
mind, I'm arrogant. I'm like I know I've done
33:02
nothing wrong. I have a fair on law.
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Yeah, I've done a law. This is the thing.
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No, no, wait. Right.
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You think about it, right? Even you're seeing idly you're
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doing nothing. Yeah, you're on the tube to work
33:13
or you're on the train or whatever it is doing nothing.
33:17
Think about if you've done anything wrong in that situation
33:19
in that place or if not, thank a lot and then pray that you never
33:23
do something fall into sin. And if you there are times where
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you're bored, you're doing nothing.
33:27
How many times we driving or or we're we're waiting, you know,
33:31
we're we're in the dentist and we're waiting for our name to
33:33
get called. Doing nothing.
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Think in your mind, think about what have I done today?
33:37
Like you mentioned that Mahasuba, you do that self
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accountability. Yeah, yeah, yeah, very
33:40
important. That's you know that self
33:42
accountability is, is is well it to us, to our faith, to our to
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every Muslim life, to every human that takes our last part
33:52
of it. Allah as is Lord and we say we
33:54
are the slaves of Allah Nashallah, we are genuinely
33:56
truly about the last. We aim for this right self
34:00
accountability, especially for our Shia.
34:03
We look up to the headed baits, we hold on to them, we never let
34:07
go of them and we will die loving them and learning from
34:11
them and taking life lessons of them.
34:13
Right. What does Imam Al Khadam say?
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He says the one who doesn't have self accountability is not from
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us. What does it tell you bro?
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Say that. Again.
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The one who doesn't have self accountability is not from us.
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What does it mean you are not from us?
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We go to bed, Do you forget all the sins we've done on the day?
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It's not worth it. That's making me laugh.
34:48
I'm not the way, Drake. I came from the heart, man.
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But in reality, like, I'm being real.
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Like if we don't have Mahasaba, we'd rather be accountable to
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ourselves than in this life. Then wait for the day we will
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truly be. Held.
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I agree. I agree.
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The Quran verse says well performing homeless alone, you
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know, stop them I bet stop I'm. Not doing anything.
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I'm just waiting for you to finish your point.
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I'm not doing anything bro I'm watching.
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Listen, listen, the Quran says stop.
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What's wrong with that? It's not from us.
35:42
Stop them. Come on, bro.
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Sorry. Sorry.
35:45
Stop a lot. Sorry, it's a small room so it
35:47
gets loud, I know, but what I'm trying to say is let me have a
35:52
sip and I'll get to you. Shopla.
35:55
I wish. I hope you're not keeping this
35:57
in. Let's not waste this month, OK?
36:02
Let's think about ways in which we can be lenient on ourselves
36:06
as well as the people around us. So look at yourself and think
36:09
about what changes you can make to yourself.
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Be lenient to the point where you know it's OK if you have
36:18
sinned up until now and in Shaharam Milan, you want to make
36:20
that change. Make the change and pray to our
36:23
last partner, to Allah, that you have the solidity within you to
36:28
keep that momentum. Don't guilt yourself.
36:31
Look at people around you and think, are there ways in which I
36:33
can help them? That may be through forgiveness
36:36
of them for their flaws, for their sins, times where they've
36:39
hurt you, times where they've neglected you.
36:42
Don't be harsh on them. And then I guarantee forget me,
36:46
forget me the Quran and the hadith of the Yahoo beta name of
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Salaam guarantee that when you turn to Allah, spoiler to Allah
36:52
in such a state where you have understood Allah Rahman and
36:55
yourself, the rahma that you give to people around you, Allah
36:59
look at you with forgiveness and he'll give you that forgiveness
37:05
and shot Allah. And then look at the Barakat of
37:08
Toba in itself is is plentiful. We have a little way out from
37:11
Salah Islam, where he says that doing TOBA increases your
37:15
sustenance, increases your wealth.
37:17
Of course there's real Wyatt about.
37:20
Amiramatmani says that the best of things a man can do is TOBA.
37:22
You know, there's so many row Wyatt about TOBA in itself, but
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yeah man, let's do it. No, you're speaking.
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Sorry. And there's something I think we
37:33
should all be reflecting on. And reflection is key,
37:38
especially Ramadan, especially as Muslims, especially as those
37:41
who love Rasul Allah, the best creation to walk on this earth,
37:44
Rasul Allah Muhammad, al Allah, Muhammad, he says.
37:51
What an hour of reflection. An hour of worship is better.
37:56
Than 70 years, an hour of reflection.
37:59
Reflection. What did I say?
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An hour of reflection is better than 70 years of worship.
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No, no, no. An hour of reflection is equal
38:06
to 70 years of everybody, 70 years of worship.
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And what I'm trying to say to you is use the hour of
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reflection, if not every day, every week, not every week,
38:19
every month, at least once a year, But at least now with
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Ramadan approaching, the message Shah of Ramadan reflects on how
38:27
to change your life to prepare yourself for the Archer.
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I said early on, bro, we will die not knowing when.
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Some people are lucky, they would know when they die, be it
38:40
some illness, be it they know they're closer to death.
38:43
But the majority of the people, they die without knowing when,
38:45
bro. And that regret don't, don't,
38:49
don't, don't reach that stage. You know, even Rasul Allahallah
38:53
Alayhi Alayhi wasalam says even if you were to repent, do toba
38:58
to Allah an hour before your death, Allah will accept it.
39:04
Yeah, I mean, because people may think, for example, you know
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what? I've sinned my entire life.
39:09
I've harmed people my entire life.
39:11
I've done Haram left right and center my entire life.
39:14
Never too late. Since they're beloved until
39:16
maybe they're 80 years old, how much times do we find people old
39:19
age? Yeah, come back to Allah.
39:21
It's never too late. It's never too.
39:23
Late we mentioned earlier that story in the Quran where Allah
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says that there are the communities of people who Allah
39:28
was ready to punish, the communities of people that Allah
39:32
wanted to punish in in masses. And he said that had they just
39:38
sort of forgiveness even at the last moment, I would have
39:42
forgiven them. And this is Allah.
39:45
Allah tells us that the Quran is a book of stories and learning,
39:49
reflection and and understanding.
39:51
Take that information in and that may sound generic and
39:57
ambiguous and quite obscure. An unknown group of people in an
40:01
unknown place and time were given a warning and they didn't
40:04
take the warning, so Allah punished them.
40:06
No, no, think about the the bigger message.
40:08
The principal Allah gave them, you're saying, ample
40:12
opportunities. Ample opportunities.
40:14
He gave them the Tofiq to have the opportunity to repent, and
40:17
they chose not to because they delayed repentance.
40:20
Yeah. How many of us delayed
40:21
repentance every day? Every.
40:24
Day, that's the thing, yeah. Like there, there comes a point
40:27
where you're when you're where you become so naive that you
40:32
don't even feel it within you the desire to repent.
40:36
That's dangerous. While you, while you still have
40:38
a desire to repent, while you still think, yeah, you know
40:41
what? I need to stop doing this.
40:43
You know what I need? I need to end that sin or I need
40:45
to start doing this properly while you still have that in
40:48
you. Thank Allah because that is a
40:50
good thing. It's acknowledgement that you
40:53
need to improve when you get to that pitiful lowly state where
40:57
you think, no, I don't care. I don't need to change.
41:01
And I promise you, we are all, all of us.
41:04
At least I speak for myself. But I know that there are many
41:06
of us knowingly or unknowingly are doing something wrong or
41:11
haven't started doing something right, and that we are all going
41:15
deeper and deeper. Find that now.
41:16
Find out what that thing is that's stopping you from turning
41:20
back to Allah, whether it's something you're doing or
41:22
something you're not doing, and deal with it now.
41:25
You know you cannot turn to Allah if you don't know what's
41:29
within your heart, within your nerves.
41:31
Once you know what's within your nerves, turning to Allah will be
41:34
easy. It'll become, it'll become
41:36
frequent, easy, comfortable, approachable.
41:39
The conversation with Allahs months Allah will be something
41:41
beloved to you you. You won't be able to go without
41:45
communication with Allah for a day.
41:47
Toba won't even become a conscious thought of yours.
41:50
You won't need to to think about what's the right way to do toba.
41:54
How do I seek, forget. No, it will become part and
41:57
parcel of your nature. It will become manifested in
42:00
every fibre, every every cell in your body will be directed as a
42:06
qibla, as a compass towards Allah.
42:09
That you will subconsciously in every breath, every waking
42:14
moment of your life, you'll be looking at how can I please
42:17
Allah? How can I get closer to him that
42:20
that small edge, that centimetre or that minute extra of Ebada
42:27
and and and turning towards Allah will be Rahama and will be
42:31
a salvation for us on a day where we need it most.
42:34
And that day is coming soon, whether we know it well, whether
42:36
we like it or not. Sense No, you're absolutely
42:39
right. And I think just to add to your
42:41
point here is that when it comes to delaying tobler, yeah,
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sometimes it's not because we're enjoying the sin, it's because
42:49
we may have despair in God's rahma.
42:53
And how much science do we find people that say, you know, I've
42:56
seen so much, there is no way God's going to forgive me.
43:00
You know, I've, I've done so much Haram, so much wrong.
43:04
I've oppressed people, I've stolen from people, I've cheated
43:07
people, I've wronged people. And they say there's no way
43:11
God's going to forgive me. And you know, just to have that
43:13
thought is a sin in itself. Ma'am Sajad says that you know
43:16
the story, right? No, the killer of one of one of
43:19
those in in the army of Omar Mazad and Kabbalah years after
43:23
the battle comes to Ma'am Sajad by the Kaaba.
43:26
He's crying. He's this, he's that.
43:28
He's like, I was one of those. Who participated?
43:31
Participated because but I know you won't forgive me, but I
43:34
killed the grandson of us, Allah.
43:36
I know I'm doomed for this Hellfire.
43:39
And mum Sajjad says to him, he goes you, Allah will, you'll get
43:43
the necessary punishment for what you did.
43:45
But the the the thing which Allah will not forgive you about
43:48
is thinking that he cannot forgive you for anything else.
43:50
This is a Mama Sajad saying that about his father.
43:52
This is the Rahm Allah. Honestly.
43:56
God says I will forgive everything, everything, Ahmed,
43:59
except for shirk, like that's the only thing there's no
44:03
forgiveness for. But every other sin you can
44:05
imagine you have done or think about doing, God will wipe that
44:11
clean slate. And he tells, you know, he says
44:13
it's very beautiful. He tells Rasool Allah, you know,
44:18
tell the people, tell the community, tell the Muslims.
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Well, yeah, by the Ladinas, Rafa Allah and Fasukum not taken out
44:24
to more Ahmed Allah, don't have despair in God's mercy.
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Tell my servants, don't have despair in my mercy.
44:32
My door is open. It's always open.
44:35
And we forget this. God's door's always open.
44:37
We're the ones using the fire exit, right?
44:40
Like where we're the ones shutting that door or not even
44:42
taking the initiative or the intention of opening the door
44:45
open to enter God's mercy. And you go send you come to me.
44:48
I'll sort you out. Yeah, and also The thing is, a
44:52
lot of people don't turn to Allah because they feel that
44:55
what they're doing is more enjoyable for them than the last
44:57
mercy and. People reach that stage.
44:59
Of course, of course of think about gambling.
45:02
The hype, the adrenaline, the the, the height of joy you reach
45:07
when you put your money. You put £20 into a pot betting
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on football matches and you come out and you win 200 lbs.
45:13
Wow, think about, imagine this. Yeah, buying a new pair of
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trainers. We think, wow, I know my
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football, I've made money. A height, a height that you
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reach which you, you can't be matched in your thoughts.
45:28
You think, wow, what can be better than this?
45:31
You know, for those who have smoked weed or for those who
45:34
have done drugs or for those who get drunk, they may think that
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I'm enjoying myself, I'm in company.
45:39
Or they may think, what will people think of me if I don't
45:41
partake in this? For people who engage with the
45:43
opposite gender, whatever you're doing and, and any, you know,
45:46
sense of it, whether you're at home in, in the privacy of your
45:49
house or whether you're meeting, you know, the opposite agenda
45:51
frequently on a physical basis, that that pleasure that you
45:55
think you're feeling, think about how you feel afterwards.
45:58
Do you know what's? Scary.
45:59
Go on. You know, you mentioned all of
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these things. Yeah.
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Many of them are major sins. OK, imagine dying in that state.
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Imagine dying while you're on the table.
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What? For example, alcohol is being
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served. Or you're in a state of Geneva.
46:14
Or for example, you're in a state of, of wearing something
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which is, is bought from stolen money or money which is Haram,
46:23
or you've eaten food which is Haram or whatever it is that
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there's so many ways in which we can indulge in pleasures which
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we think are pleasures or actually are, you know,
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deviance. And lead to our downfall in the
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next life. Yeah.
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The problem is we're not thinking of Akhara.
46:37
We're not thinking. Of the next 100%, I fully agree.
46:39
And I think we need to make that into a habit that, for example,
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you know, how we say the krilla, the krilla, the krilla is a
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habit. Once you make a habit and
46:47
knowing the liquor that you're uttering, but also knowing that
46:51
the next life is the permanent one.
46:53
This is here because the only guarantee in this life is not
46:56
comfort. The only guarantee in this life
46:58
is not, you know, eating the best of foods or drinking the
47:01
best of drinks or going to the best of holidays and swimming in
47:05
the, I don't know, white sand beaches.
47:08
And no, no, no, no. The only guarantee is death.
47:11
Ahmed Sadigny the only guarantee is that Kulu nefsundai cartoon
47:17
mote God promises bro, he's telling you every soul and last
47:21
final without says every soul will taste death.
47:23
And we've had many conversations about this on the aftermath of
47:27
podcast, and I think people should check them out because I
47:30
think it's a reality check. Shout out to Saint Ali.
47:33
Dunya is temporary and even we have the nice convo with, say,
47:36
Abdullah Nabi regarding death. What a guy.
47:40
Amazing guy. Subscribe to After Walking.
47:43
Up and I said in the beginning of the conversation that I'm
47:45
going to bring up the the six points of Amir Al Mukmanin and I
47:49
brought them up so let me mention them.
47:51
Imam Ali Ali Salaam, he says repentance is made-up of six
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elements, remorse of the hearts, seeking forgiveness with the
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tongue, making amends with limbs, firm intention not to
48:07
return to the sin, fasting the body and performing acts of
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obedience. Wow, so I would have thought it
48:16
ended at #4 where you make an intention not to return, but
48:19
then the fasting of the body is the purification of the physical
48:23
element. And then what was the last one
48:25
you said? Acts of obedience and
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performing. Acts of obedience.
48:27
It's a Panama. So you you make a knee, you then
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do physical purification and spiritual purification.
48:34
So Panama, I never thought of that.
48:36
Johnny, it's beautiful. The keys to paradise are are
48:40
available. Yeah, this is from Nashville.
48:42
This is found in Najibullah by the peak of Eloquence himself.
48:49
And there's one thing I want to also mention, and I think it's
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the last point from me, is that sometimes we find ourselves, for
48:56
example, speaking about sins and everything.
48:58
We find ourselves where we say, for example, a loss of hana
49:03
wata, Allah has not given me success, A loss of Hana wata,
49:08
Allah has not given me a path of Tofiq.
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There's no, we don't find the barrack or the blessings of
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Allah in our life. And many times it links back to
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our sins, Ahmed, our sins once we understand we're sinning and
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we do this that far God can open you so much doors you can't
49:27
imagine. We read and do our command.
49:30
Allah Mahfredekul addendum add Neptune, Allah Mahfrede and
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nobility. You know, we pray to Allah every
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day. Sometimes I know people.
49:40
So you know, Ali, I've been praying hard.
49:43
I pray for this. I pray for that, but it's not
49:45
coming my way. It's not coming to my favor.
49:47
Last final to Allah is not answering my heart yards is not
49:52
granting me my wishes and a love is linked to that sense.
49:56
And I think if we understand that sometimes our sins like if
50:00
you reflect on the alchemy, we're sending a lost man out to
50:03
Allah to forgive us those sins that prevent my dua from
50:07
reaching you. That means it's not God's mom
50:12
Wolfbeck. It's all down to us, down to
50:15
you, to ourselves. Does that make sense?
50:18
Yeah, 100%. It reminds me of that container
50:20
thing. Basically, you know, you know,
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people say why is Allah's mercy not reaching me, bro?
50:26
It's not Allah's mercy. Mercy is not dependent on
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Allah's mercy is not different for this guy and that guy.
50:33
Allah's mercy is is is independent of of Himself.
50:38
I don't impress. My my my.
50:40
Subject bro. Like Allah's mercy does not
50:42
differ from person A to B OK, he may shower different styles type
50:48
formats of mercy on different people, but why?
50:55
Did you say a lot? I think you said a lot.
50:58
May shower in different styles. You're supposed to say may
51:02
shower you. No, I was about to say, Allah
51:06
may shout different types of mercy on people, no?
51:08
It came out differently. Oh, really?
51:11
Like, OK, let me rephrase that. Allah may shout people with
51:14
different types of mercy, OK, but the mercy Allah gives is
51:17
Allah's mercy, OK? It's perfect in every sense of
51:20
itself. So but of course it's, it's the
51:23
way in which it's received that, you know, it could we can judge
51:26
it off. You know, I said like the I
51:29
can't remember. What was the point you mentioned
51:31
about the container thing that reminded me of the container
51:34
thing? We're talking about, for
51:35
example. It's down to us.
51:37
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're doing things that
51:38
are causing a barrier, yes, or a veil between US and Allah.
51:41
And things which we think are causing a barrier maybe in
51:44
itself a rahma from Allah. Do you know what I mean?
51:46
People who think, oh, you know, like for example, the swamavan,
51:51
I haven't had time to spend to reflect.
51:53
I've wanted to be alone. I'm stuck with my family.
51:56
And my parents are telling me, go here, go there.
51:58
For example, bro, that's rahma you're spending with your
52:01
family. Think of that as a mercy from
52:02
Allah. So what you need at this time of
52:03
place, people are thinking I'm injured, this Lomovan, You know,
52:07
there are ladies for example who think I can't fast this Lomovan.
52:10
Mothers who are breastfeeding, ladies who are pregnant, There
52:13
may be conditions where ladies are not in the position to fast.
52:16
They may think this is a bird. I wanted to fast, I wanted to
52:19
partake. You know, ladies, I know this is
52:21
kind of getting into a bit and it's not really our topic.
52:23
Ladies, when they reach a certain age, fasting becomes
52:27
dangerous for them like or even men.
52:29
But when you become to an age of seniority, an elderly age, it
52:32
becomes difficult to fast. My grandmother, for example,
52:35
male protector, she's, she's at an elderly age.
52:38
She says to me every year she says to me, Ahmed, I wish I
52:41
could fast more. I try and push myself.
52:44
This I say to a baby, why do you stress think of this as Allah's
52:47
mercy. In my opinion, Allah is giving
52:49
you more strength in the day. So you could do more by that in
52:52
different ways, right. Like you fasted however many
52:54
years, 80 years of your life, for example, now you can't fast
52:57
30 days in a row or however many you know, do your best and this
53:01
is what she says do your best leave to God the rest So so hey,
53:04
so this is what she tells me and and you know, I think that's a
53:07
beautiful reminder for us all. Do your best this month.
53:09
Leave to a lot of the rest. This is it has to be our motto
53:13
and that the level of best. I think the points all you've
53:16
mentioned are amazing, but I think ultimately what you're
53:19
telling people do is just try your best, try your best.
53:22
You you can't fall on your face in in front of alas Pantala when
53:27
you're trying, you know, minimal effort is recognised by Allah,
53:31
the bare minimum. He will recognise that you put
53:33
in some effort any effort. Read the Qurans, even if you set
53:37
a timer on your iPhone 5 minutes a day.
53:39
Read the Quran, you know, pray before you eat, for example.
53:43
These are things you may have seen I've put out on the
53:44
aftermarket channel, but these are small things, implementable
53:48
things that we can do. Drink Shahramadhan, small
53:51
implementable things. Make sure you pray your Fajr
53:55
every night on the dot, for example.
53:57
I know most of us do that during Shahramadhan.
54:00
Some people for example, they'll eat at midnight, they'll say I'm
54:03
tired, I'm going to go to sleep, I'm not waking up for.
54:05
So hoard going to sleep all night for example.
54:08
Think about things which you can do to improve start doing salata
54:12
lail before fudge of we have this habit of like yeah, and we
54:18
have this habit of stuffing ourselves and the last 20
54:20
minutes before salata fudge of Yeah last minute fag, last
54:25
minute cigarette cup of water. Do you know what I mean?
54:28
People are doing everything they can honestly, bro, anything they
54:32
can hydration, tobacco, nicotine, all of that cram it in
54:35
before the fast starts, am I right?
54:37
Yeah. Think about think about how you
54:39
can do it by the for Salat al Fajr, that's the best time in
54:42
the night. So Wyatt says again and again
54:44
and again and again that that that few those few minutes
54:48
before Salat al Fajr are the most blessed times of the day.
54:53
So I think there's there's look, there's a lot you can do lot we
54:56
can all do find something, take it, enjoy it, subscribe and just
55:02
try your best our. Sense and just like you said,
55:05
make sure you pray fajr on time. Make sure you pray Maghrib but
55:09
not after Maghrib. But who's going to pray?
55:12
You have to pray after maghrib in it.
55:14
No, bro. By a minute, maybe by a minute,
55:16
yeah. Boys have to pray after market.
55:17
You can't pray before marketing. But trying to bring the brand in
55:19
somehow, yeah. The game bro.
55:21
How was your Afghan Chinese? I love it.
55:24
I think I've. I've got.
55:25
No, I've finished it. Yeah, I love that.
55:26
I'm not even going to lie. Guys, you can see on the table,
55:31
we have a concentrate there. Looks like pomegranate juice,
55:35
but I promise you it's not It's needs a bite.
55:39
It's basically no, no, please, bro, I want to talk about I want
55:41
to talk about the concentrate. It's it's basically it's a cold
55:46
liquid that you put hot tea in hot water, hot hot milk in.
55:49
Sorry, hot, hot milk lasts you up to a month.
55:53
Amazing stuff and another exciting announcement and
55:56
inshallah you guys will see next week during our first episode in
56:02
the holy month. We have an absolutely amazing
56:06
partner for Shahramadhan, a partner who we have wanted to
56:11
work for specifically at Hamdallah.
56:13
We've, we've had the opportunity to work with different
56:15
organisations this month, but we selected to work with this
56:19
organization, which we'll talk about next week for the reason
56:22
that we think that this is an organization which brings a lot
56:26
of benefit to the community during Shahramadhan and even
56:29
outside, of course, around the world and different times of the
56:32
year. So keep an eye out on our
56:35
Instagram page. We're going to be talking about
56:38
this organization we're going to be working with.
56:40
We're very, very excited to be working with them, very honoured
56:43
to be supporting some of their campaigns and all we ask for you
56:46
to do is to support the campaigns as well.
56:50
Incredible work, very, very exciting stuff.
56:54
Sense and I think that wraps up today.
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I love your shirt, I love the colour of your shirt, I love the
56:59
colour of your eyes. I love you.
57:03
Habibi Haba lama and Haba, I say no, you love.
57:08
Everything is Kabala if you love.
57:10
I do love it, Mama. If you love ABBA Abdullah, not
57:12
just I love you, Allah loves you sounds.
57:15
Mashallah you have a talent Habibi.
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Everything you talk about, you know gourmet burgers.
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Find a way to link it. It's a Seamus went to Boa.
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And to Seamus. Went to NEFS winter.
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I know each of the words say it again, start again please.
57:34
Intel shamus. Hey, Wintel Boa.
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OK, you are the sun and you are the light.
57:40
Accent. Hey, Wintel Nephus.
57:42
Hey, Wintel, Howa. And you are the breath, and you
57:44
are the wind, the air, am I right?
57:47
Yeah, bro. Got it right.
57:49
I know you're Iraqi or you're Arabic, if I can say from
57:53
episode 1. Yes, improved the.
57:55
Episode. Was this 123 bro?
58:02
I think that. Brings us to the end of the.
58:10
Episode Mubarak to you? Mubarak to you and the family,
58:14
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