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Satisfying your soul & Connecting to Allah (SWT) ft Dr Sh Mohammed Ali Shomali · After Maghrib 🌙

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Smila Rahman, Raheem Assalamu Alaikum and welcome back to
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another episode here on the Aftermath of podcast.
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If you missed us last week, well that's because we had an event,
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Rising Dawn at Beck Theatre London and we want to thank each
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and every single one of you who attended the event.
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A special shout out to all our 50 plus volunteers and to all
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our guests, our speakers, our scholars and our reciters who
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joined us and participated on the day.
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Another thing I want to reference is that if you haven't
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seen the news recently, last Friday during Juma prayers in a
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mosque in Pakistan, there was a violent, violent attack on
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worshippers while they were performing Salah.
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This is something very tragic and something we see repeating
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many times over the years. Many call it this is genocide.
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We believe this is Shiite genocide and it is targeted when
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we say people are praying to Allah, Spano at Allah.
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You can't detonate a bomb whilst they are worshipping Allah.
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Subhanahu wata Allah, you are an enemy of Allah.
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We ask Allah subhanahu wata Allah to elevate the ranks of
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the martyrs and to grant them a lofty station and Shah Allah
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besides the holy ehlim bait Ali hum as Salaam.
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Having said all this, it's a brand new week and that means
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we're having a brand new conversation.
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The month of Shaban, we're almost bidding farewell to it
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and in about a week or so we will be welcoming Shahar
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Ramadan. Now with Ramadan fast
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approaching, that means myself, Ahmed and the entire aftermath
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of team. We're trying to build our
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spirituality and that means we need to kick start different
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conversations where we can understand how to worship Allah,
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Subhanawata Allah better leading up to the holy month.
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Now we have an amazing guest and before I introduce the respected
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chef, I can't have these conversations alone.
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Ahmed Gokul. Salaam Alaikum.
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Salaam, What'sallah, have you? Have you said how are you?
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I know you're slightly under the weather today.
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I am slightly controlled by the voice, right?
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Yeah. So you recover soon.
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Thank you. You know these are the It's
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better to to have this now, before the holy month of.
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Course, of course, I wouldn't say I'm ill.
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It's just handled. We've had so much events,
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back-to-back voices, so the vocals need a bit of rest.
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Of course, there's no rest of the.
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Market no Al Hamdallah, it's always going and you know, I
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wanted to echo your words said and of course offer our
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condolences to the friends and the family of the mutt mini in
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the shahada who lost their lives in the say the Khadij Al Qabalah
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mosque in Islamabad. 35 martyrs and over 100 people injured.
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May Allah elevate their ranks. Grant them a lofty station and
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Inshallah to allow them to be beside the other debate Salaam
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and Shah Allah. We as a community will be able
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to raise awareness and raise our voices to this oppression.
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Bruns sisters. As Said Ali mentioned, this is
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such a critical episode because it's one thing learning about
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spirituality in Ebada and the principles of worship when we
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enter Shah al Maban, but a lot of the time that information
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comes too late. We need to know these things
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before we enter the holy month. And if anything, we should
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already be in the mode and in in the the, the kind of mentality
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of spirituality and worship from now because we're already in the
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days of worship and they're already in the days of holiness.
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So with that said, I'd like to introduce our guest, Samahat the
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Sheikh Muhammad Ali Shamali Aliqam Sheikh, how are you?
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Thank you so much for being here.
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I don't think the Sheikh needs an introduction.
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I've referenced probably 1520 times on the podcast about how
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Shomali has changed my life. I look at him as a father
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figure, as a teacher, someone who has had a transformational
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effect on me. In 2013 was when I first met the
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respected chef on a trip to Hamburg, the Imam Ali Centre in
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Germany. And I was in a low point in my
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spirituality. I had no real meaningful
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connection with our religion, our communities and even our
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olamar, if I'm honest, until I met Sheikh Somali and I think he
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entered my life at the right time.
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And Hamdullah, he's benefited thousands, hundreds of
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thousands. I I could argue and I would say
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Meneen around the world. I would just like to share one
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message Sheikh, a brother sent us today.
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He said, we told him, we said we're recording with Sheikh
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tonight. He said please tell the
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respected Sheikh he does not know me but I owe 100 hundreds
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of hours of my learning to him and I pray he sees every second
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of it on the scales of Yomal Kayama.
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He says there are others who are charging hundreds of pounds for
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different courses, but Shomali's uploading several classes online
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for free. Masha Allah.
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So we ask Allah to always give you more Tofikshire and to allow
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you to continue in the path of knowledge and teaching Insha
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Allah. And I just wanted to ask before
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we begin, firstly, how are you? I know you've had a lot
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happening in the last few years. May Allah reward you in keeping
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you preserved for us. And how are you also feeling now
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in these these days of spirituality?
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Thank you very much Bismillah Rahman and Rahim, I'm very
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delighted to be with you and although I am here in London for
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just few days, I thought I should not miss this opportunity
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of spending time with you and inshallah with our viewers.
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Alhamdulillah, I am somehow facing some limitations because
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of my son's illness. I have to be with him, but Al
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Hamdallah, wherever I am, I try to, you know, do something.
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So Al Hamdallah, the work is continuing and I have resumed
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making my necessary travels for interfaith.
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And also every now and then I come to London for a few days,
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you know. But Al Hamdallah, the work is
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continuing and we try to build relations and bridges with
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people of, you know, faith from different backgrounds and also
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to help our own community. I need your doors.
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We need yours, Sheikh. Inshallah, Thank you so much.
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We very much look forward to witnessing Inshallah, months of
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Ramadan and Leila Turkadni Shala.
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Inshallah, Inshallah bless you and we ask Allah to grant you
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far. I always remember him.
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Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
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Thank you always. Chaplin, with your permission,
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if we can begin the discussion, if not Allah, Shaka.
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Many of us, we grow up, I think from a young age, even till
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adulthood, even for many who become fathers, we see like our
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Ibadi, our relationship with the last panel of Taala is somewhat
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transactional. There's nothing transformative
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within us and for us it's like ticking check boxes, offering
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our obligatory Salah, fasting during the month of Ramadan and
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that's pretty much it. If anyone goes beyond that, it's
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probably just supposed to habad jawah praise here and there as
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we sort of I don't think we understand what I bother is what
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is worship to Allah and if I can just mention this verse Allah
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Azzawajali says indeed I did not create mankind or jinn except
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that they worshipped me. Now, when Allah says this in the
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Quran, Subhan Allah, does that mean there's something
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transactional there? Or is it something that's
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transformative and we're lacking an understanding of it?
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Yeah. Thank you very much.
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It. Begins with doing certain
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actions. So worship for us is first a
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matter of performing certain actions and this is just to make
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a habit of doing, you know, these devotional acts.
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But we should not stop with this.
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What is important is to build through these actions close
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connection with a loss upon with Allah.
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OK, so it's like you make a railway but if you are not
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moving. Then you will not get anywhere.
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So we make this railway, but we have to move forward.
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And for human beings there can be no movement except through
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Marafa. If our actions are void and, you
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know, empty without Marafa. I'm not saying they are useless,
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but they don't help us much. Would you say that the bare
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minimum? Yeah, yes.
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So the minimum is that we should have understanding of what we
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are doing and why we are doing. OK.
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So if I do something just as a habit, as a robot, it's not that
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much helpful. I'm not saying it's useless, but
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it's not much helpful. It cannot transform us.
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We need to have attention and intention and increase our
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Maratha. Even people who have attention
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and intention, depending on how much Maratha they have, they can
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benefit differently. For example, Toorak Ocelot of
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Alim and Turaqa is a lot of jail in our hadees.
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You know, you find that there's big difference.
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It can be 10s of times better if the same turaqa is done by
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Arlem. Of course, Arlem, who is not
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just someone who has information in mind, means someone who is
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enlightened with knowledge with Marafa.
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And therefore we have hadees commenting on the ayah, Martha
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Lactal General, says Ailea Arifun.
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So Ebada means to have Maratha. Of a lost Pantal and Maratha has
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no limit it goes you know, higher and higher and higher.
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Plus what is also very important and recently I am you know very
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much emphasizing on it. I have given some lectures is.
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Show. So it's very important that you
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do your abada with longing, with desire, yeah, because if you
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really know Allah Subhanutallah, you cannot be, you know, just
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feeling, you know, for example, you know, normal.
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You should. Be very excited.
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Yeah, if in my Salat I am not excited.
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If I don't feel thirsty for Salat means I have no matter.
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Of Allah subhantala. Yeah.
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Like, for example, if we are in front of a very beautiful
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scenery and someone doesn't feel anything, say maybe he's not
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able to see. Yeah, or maybe, you know, he is,
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you know, soapy, occupied with something else that he cannot,
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you know, understand what is happening.
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Or if someone doesn't enjoy very delicious food, maybe he has
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lost appetite he cannot taste. So if we have Maratha,
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definitely when we are standing before a loss of Hunter, we
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should feel very. Excited like Rasoolallah
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sallallahu alayhi wasallah and you know that, Rasoolallah said.
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With respect to salad, I am like you.
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When you are hungry and thirsty, Yeah, yeah.
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But there is a difference. When you are hungry and you eat,
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your hunger is over. When you are thirsty and you
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drink, your thirst is over. But when even I say salad is not
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over yeah because intellectual you know desires would not be
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stopped by getting what you want.
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It becomes even a stronger like you have your thirsty for
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knowledge. The more knowledge you have the
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more thirsty you become. Yes yeah.
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But if it is desire of body even if it is very strong then after
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satisfaction goes away till sometime comes back.
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But intellectual desire is not like this.
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This is why if friendship is really based on intellectual
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reasons, it becomes stronger and stronger.
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But friendship is for, you know, worldly things.
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It goes down. So Ebada should be with Maratha
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and with longing, if we managed to do even, you know.
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Toorak as a lot with this condition we can, you know,
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really rise as a lot to marathon movement.
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But if we don't have marifa, if we don't have love, if our heart
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is not into it, OK, we have, you know, fulfilled our wasp, but
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there is no spiritual benefit. Even sometimes we need to ask
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our love for forgiveness. Please forgive our Salat because
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the way, you know, we do, our Salat really is very, you know,
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impolite, very disrespectful. It's very true.
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Yeah, so. We should not underestimate acts
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of worship, but we should not be satisfied with just bringing the
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actions, the physics of the actions.
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We should put our soul into it because we are human beings.
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We are not robots, we are not machines, and human beings are
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to grow through their marathon. Through their desires, so would
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you. Say as as human beings, we
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should build on that emotional attachments.
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Is that what you're caring to? Yes, but emotions which are
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rooted in Maratha not, you know, one day I'm Moody, One day I'm
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in a good mood or bad mood. No, it's Maratha is
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intellectual. Yeah.
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Because sometimes people, for example, you know, maybe they
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had, you know, good news and they say, OK, now I enjoyed my a
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bar that or my salad. You know, it should not be like
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that. It should be coming from Marafa
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around good reasons. And even if, for example, one
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day I don't feel very much energetic, but because I have
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good reason, I don't stop, I continue.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I know you want to say something, but something just
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struck me now I know there's a few people who are watching this
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episode and they do pray and sometimes they do find it more
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like a routine and they're just trying to take that.
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They've done the five day prayers.
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Just between them being on the Prem and the Maratha, is there
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like 1 tip that you can share with us how we can elevate that
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Maratha? If we're just on the stage of
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routine Salah, how do we just take it up 1 notch So.
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We always need to increase our marathon of Allah, Subhanutallah
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and our marathon of the secrets of prayer, because you should
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know that whom you are talking and what you are doing.
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Both of them are very much needed.
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So we should always be involved in studying a quite especially
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knowledge of Allah, Subhanutallah and Salat.
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Because Salat is a very especial design of Allah.
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Salat is designed by the best designer.
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He knows what gives us the best results.
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When it comes. To every dimension of human
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being. It's not that, for example, a
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scholar or a Mystic has said, you know, do.
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This Rabbul Al Amin said do Salat and he has given us the
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best form of Salat. Salat has always been there, but
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Alhamdulillah, we have been given the blessing of performing
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Salat with all the requirements, you know, wazoo, tahara,
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Hebullah, all these Asghar, Quran, Roku, sujood.
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It's a beautiful design of Allah, Sophala.
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There's so many things in Salah that you know, even if you study
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for years, you cannot say I understood everything about
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Salah. So.
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If we manage to increase our matter of Allah and Salah, then
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inshallah we will be more. Inclined towards performing
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Salah and this is of course a school.
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Salat is not something that you can master in one session or you
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know, one week. It's a school.
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For life. And I.
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Believe. That like, you know, blood test.
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Yeah, if. If you have good medical team,
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they can understand many, many things from your blood test.
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Yeah, many, many things. I had one recently, Yeah, Yeah.
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So I think those who have a spiritual vision by looking at
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your Salat, but not just the physics of Salat, if they have
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this, you know, mystical vision by scanning you while you are
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saying Salat, they can understand many things about
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you. They can.
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Look at your Salat and say where you are in your journey.
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Beautiful. Because.
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This is. Khairol Amal.
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Khairol Amal. It has many, many different
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meanings. One is that.
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Salat is the best action which is designed by Allah. 1 is also
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that Salat is your best action. So in your best performance, we
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can judge you. You cannot say I was.
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Not ready I was a sleepy I will so this is the best performance
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you have. So you are showing yourself in
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your Salat. If your Salat is good, then we
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can have hope in the rest of your life and ovilat ovila ma
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sewaha. But when wrote that wrote the ma
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sewaha. If Salat is accepted, everything
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is will be accepted. If it is rejected, God forbid
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everything else. Because if the best action is
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rejected, then what about the other actions?
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So Salat is very, very amazing. Chef.
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I wanted to ask about a trend I think we see a lot of now,
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especially nowadays. The world we live in is designed
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to be rigorous and kind of performative with a routine.
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So for example, when it comes to your nine to five job, it comes
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to your, you know, your education, everything is a
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plethora of day-to-day actions, which you then mesh your weeks
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into your months into your years into.
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I saw something yesterday and it was a scientific study and it's
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said that those who have the same day-to-day routines feel
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like life has moved faster. So when they're older, they say
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life has gone so quick compared to children.
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Every day they have a different day.
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They feel I'm taking forever to grow up.
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My kids are always telling me, Baba, when will I be a grown up?
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Because every day feels like a long day for them compared to
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for us. You know, we have the same
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process when we zoom out and we understand this process.
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In Islamic tradition, we see process and routine as a means
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to of course, attain spirituality and of course,
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likewise in the workplace and so on and so forth.
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But we now talk now sometimes see that those who are Muslim,
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you know, even within the Islamic tradition, look for
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things outside of the routine, abada to gain spiritual
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transformation. You know, some sort of vicar or
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Irfan which allows them to reach a spiritual high.
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Or even outside of the Islamic tradition, you look at the
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Western secular society, people invest time, money, energy into
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yoga and meditation and consciousness and mindfulness
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and all of these concepts which are so commercialized now on
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podcasts and audio books and YouTube, people are doing
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anything possible to gain that transformation.
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My question is, if a bada is meant to be that vehicle for us
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to gain this transformation, why does this trend still exist?
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Is it because we are not? Is it because like you said,
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we're not taking real grasp of the weight of the abadada, the
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routine? Or is it maybe that that we
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should be doing the routine and something else must have?
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Or what is it that kind of allows us to reach the next
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stage? First of all.
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It. Seems very clear that people of
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our age feel the great need for a spirituality.
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Yeah. Because now they realise that I.
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Don't know. Money.
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Or you know. Technology is not satisfying
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them and actually. The people who are more
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prosperous. They look.
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For more spirituality, for meaning, for life.
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And you see, there are many people who suffer, you know,
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mental problems, psychological problems, because they don't
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find reason for their life, they don't find meaning in their
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life. So they try to find kind of
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spirituality that can satisfy them sometimes.
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They go by. You know.
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What is available or by what is fashionable or by something
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which has no, you know, requirement, you know, because
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people don't want, you know, many times, you know.
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If I'm people. Of this age, they don't want
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commitment. They want to.
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Enjoy without commitment. Even when it.
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Comes to marriage some people don't want to commit yeah so
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they just want to have their options always open and this is
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a problem so they go for a Spiritualities which lack
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Sharia, which lack commitment but.
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Al Hamdallah, in divine religions, and in particular we
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are talking about Islam, we have very.
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Comprehensive package for life that can, you know, meet all our
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needs. I am not against, for example,
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people taking courses on meditation or etcetera, as long
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as they are. Not in conflict with our Akita
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because sometimes these kinds. Of practices are rooted in.
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Non. Islamic philosophies or even,
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you know, theologies. But if they are not.
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In conflict, if they are just neutral it's OK, but sometimes
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they are in conflict. What I'm saying we don't need if
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we do our. About that.
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Our as car properly, we have everything just we need to do
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them with Maratha and with attention and with, you know,
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carefulness. If you.
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Really managed to make you know your about art.
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In the way. That Al Beit Alay Musala were
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doing not like them in the level, but I mean following
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their models, you would see that you know, you don't like
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anything to you know. Borrow from others.
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Yeah, yeah. For every day we have Doha, For
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every even hour we have Doha, we have as a car.
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We have, you know, different kinds of prayers.
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Plus, we can turn our entire life into Abada.
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Yeah. We can now.
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Be talking to each other. Just.
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As a normal conversation or this can be our abada.
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We can, you know, watch to this watch this program, for example,
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as ABADA. Yeah, we can even eat with our
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family or friends or community in community and.
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Our eating. Can be a bother, yeah.
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So when you have ability to turn all your life into a bother,
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what do you like? Yeah.
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Yeah. Just we need to spend time on
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learning these things because the problem is that we think
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Salat is what we have learnt, for example in madrasa or at
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home and that's enough and we don't see anything coming from
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it. But we should know that it's a
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school. And there are, you know, many.
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Different levels and you need to learn, you need teachers, you
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need to be trained. But if we, Allah gives us
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ability to, you know, even say to like a prayer.
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You know. With presence of heart and feel
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that you are really talking to Allah.
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Subhanallah, you would never want that Salat you know to stop
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to finish. And.
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So. We need.
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To work on our performance, not necessarily by increasing the.
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Quantity, although it's helpful to have in an avoir field
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etcetera, but. By more investment on the
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quality. Quality is very.
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Important. If quality is good, then
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increase of quantity helps, but if there's no quality and you
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know, you have you know. You know, master, you know, I
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mean mass production. It's not going to help that much
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if I can just. Ask have you said if you don't
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mind? You know, there's Chef, there's
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people who I know who have either lost touch completely or
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numb. They've stopped praying for
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Salah entirely and they don't feel guilty anymore.
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And they're not mean or Muslim mean.
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And they, you know, they, they're yearning, they want to
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or they struggle. And there are also those who
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pray regularly and who unfortunately, perhaps off the
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prayer mat, they don't do good things.
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Maybe they're doing Reba or maybe they're cheating someone
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on, doing some hypocrisy. When we see in our hadith, Imam
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Salih Khalifa Salam was asked about how to understand the
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worth, the value of someone's fasting, and he referenced the
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verse which he referenced earlier about keeping you away
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from Fahashahu al Munkar. And with this context, does this
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mean that the moral force of the Salah is only as effective as
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the one who performs that Abada wants it to be?
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Because for example, if I know that Salah rigorously cleanses
28:41
me from immorality and and evilness, then why did the why
28:45
then is am I not seeing a transformational effect?
28:48
The same with Psalm and fasting. If I'm fasting every day, every
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month, every year for example, why am I not then seeing a
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change? Is it something?
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Do I need to make that near that intention before I begin?
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Is it something that I do after? Is it the to double?
29:04
After I finished my Salah, I think about what did I do.
29:07
You see what I mean? At what stage do I see then in
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moral change in an from a Khlaqe perspective in my day-to-day?
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First of all, you know, I request from everyone, even
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those who don't feel, you know, attachment to Salat, you know,
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please don't stop Salat. Even if you don't have any
29:32
feeling any desire, because this is at least a threat.
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Of, you know, connection with religion.
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With Allah subhan Allah because mantaraka salata muta ahmedan
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fakat kafara. If someone intentionally you
29:51
know doesn't say Salah, sometimes you miss prayer
29:53
because you fall. Asleep.
29:55
Or etcetera, but if the ability. Doesn't say Salat.
29:58
It's like cough, OK, it's a practical cough, so.
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No one should in any circumstances as a Salatullah to
30:06
track behalf in any circumstances should not stop
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Salat. So my request is that even if
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you don't feel. Anything.
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If you are, you're not busy. Please don't.
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Stop Salat, because stopping Salat, it's like a declaring war
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against, you know, your master, against your Lord.
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But then we can always work on our performance.
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First of all, this is not a good.
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Logic that for example I say I don't say salad because there
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are people who say salad and are not good.
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OK. You say salad and try to be
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good. Yeah.
30:46
If people. You.
30:46
Know, for example, if there are doctors who learn medicine and
30:51
they are not kind, then you say we don't need medicine.
30:54
OK, you go and learn. Medicine and be a kind.
30:56
Doctor, we have kind doctors also.
30:58
You don't see them. And why you?
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Don't try to be very kind and give everyone has a good lesson.
31:05
Yeah. Maybe you say there's a lot
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didn't help them. Of course.
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If. Salad is performed without
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understanding, without marifa, without devotion is not going to
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help. It's not.
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The problem of salad is like anything else.
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Yeah, yeah. If you have family without love,
31:23
then it can become like a prison.
31:25
Everyone feels, you know, I am prisoner in this family because
31:27
there's no love. Is it problem with family?
31:30
No, it's problem that family has become void of.
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Love. Yeah.
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So if something is. Not.
31:41
Helping we should see, is the problem in the thing itself or
31:45
in the way we do it? If we do.
31:48
Salah properly Allah who has designed it says.
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Yeah, so he said. This is what?
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I have designed. If you use it properly, you must
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get to this result. If you don't get to.
32:08
Admit you are not using it properly.
32:10
Yeah. For example, you know, I buy a
32:12
heater says you know for this size of the room it can make it
32:16
warm. I buy it and.
32:20
See, it's cold, so I realized that.
32:23
I am not. Using it properly, I have to
32:25
read the manuals, you know. Because a.
32:28
Lost Factory doesn't have, you know, faulty productions, so.
32:32
If he says. This is and for me this has not
32:36
worked. Is not problem in production,
32:39
problem is in my performance. I'm not aware of how to do it,
32:43
how to use it. Read the manuals.
32:46
Yeah, so they say salad should be with presence of hearts.
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So Al Hamdullah. We see.
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In the course. Of history and I think everyone
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in their life, they must have seen.
32:59
Manin. Who have good ahlah you know
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they're very kind, very you know helpful look after everyone and
33:07
they are saying Salat this is the root and if there are people
33:12
who. Say Salat.
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They are the people who have not experienced.
33:15
The spirit of Salat Quran itself says Fawailan Lil Mussali.
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The Quran is aware. That.
33:26
There are. Musalin that need warning.
33:31
Why? Because.
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They are heedless about their Salat.
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They are. Heedless about their duties
33:39
towards Allah and towards each other.
33:42
So we know. That Salat is not enough as an
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action, but if it is done as a devotional.
33:53
Act with marathon, with understanding, with love, with
33:56
commitment can change our life. So it's a.
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Way of approaching to Salat and performing Salat that can
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determine. From.
34:09
Something that can be even harmful.
34:13
Even sometimes. Salat can be harmful.
34:16
If someone is. For example, saying Salat to
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show off. Yeah, yeah.
34:20
It's harmful. Or, you know, to.
34:23
Develop urge and self admiration.
34:26
It's very harmful. So it's harmful.
34:29
It can be useless. And it can be.
34:32
Very, very beneficial. Depends on the way you do it.
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This is, I think, very logical and I hope everyone tries hard
34:48
to. Inshallah.
34:50
Experience the beauty of Salat and one of the things that can
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help is to witness, you know, Salat of some of you know, very
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pious scholars or Olama or sometime, you know, maybe people
35:06
in, you know, community. Because to.
35:08
Witness these powerful Salats, you know can also give us,
35:12
inshallah, some inspiration. Yes, exactly.
35:15
I'm sure Allah this. Is very beautiful.
35:17
I love the perspective. You're speaking about Salah and
35:20
I think right now the whole convo is very focused on Salah.
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And it's so important because we do say Salah is from our pillars
35:26
of faith, Amu Dazeem. And it reminds me of a report I
35:31
once read. A man came to Imam Jaffar Assad
35:34
Alayhi Salaam, and he told him, I'm paraphrasing.
35:37
I'm a good guy, you know, I, I don't pray, but I'm kind.
35:42
I've got good luck. I look after the poor and things
35:46
like this. And then he told them, but I
35:48
don't pray, is it OK? And then the Imam would reply to
35:51
him and tell him of sort of Adam.
35:55
The Salah is the barometer between belief and this belief,
36:00
Iman and Kaphor, which is something I think we take
36:03
lightly. For those who don't take their
36:05
praise seriously. It's especially like a Shia.
36:09
I would always say this and I've always said even for those who
36:13
do pray and sometimes they see themselves, for example, when we
36:16
come back to the verse and the Salah al fashi and Monkar, they
36:20
they still do wrong. I always go back to Karbala and
36:23
when we see Mohammed Hussein Ali is Salaam, when he established
36:27
Salah, the camp of Omar bin Saad, they also established
36:31
Salah. So they were both praying, but
36:33
one was on Haqq and one was on falsehood.
36:36
Now, the reason I mentioned this is that if we also come back to
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this verse again, that Salah prevents you from doing wrong,
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it should prevent you from doing wrong.
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How do we are Shia and sure we are always on the path of Haqq
36:50
when it comes to differentiating between falsehoods because we
36:53
can pray and we can see we can live our daily life, oppress
36:58
people unknowingly maybe, or for example, take away from people's
37:03
rights unknowingly or we're praying every day.
37:06
So how do we ensure that our Salah keeps us away from certain
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things? So if.
37:15
Salat is performed with Understanding with
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Consciousness. First of all, it stops us doing
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scenes. Anything ugly but?
37:28
Also, it builds in US humility. And someone who?
37:34
Is humble, would never dare doing zoom or injustice to
37:41
others. Yeah.
37:44
Someone who is humble feels that I cannot even answer to Allah
37:49
about the blessings that I have been given.
37:52
Yeah, how? Can I answer?
37:54
To Allah and, you know, be grateful enough for the blessing
37:57
that Allah has given me. Yeah, yeah.
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I cannot, you know, really have answer.
38:04
Let alone then. I want to take from others, you
38:06
know. With solemn.
38:10
And injustice. Never a humble person does Zulu.
38:14
Yeah. Never a humble person even
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raises his voice over others you know to, you know, hurt them.
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So. Allah Subhanut Allah says that
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those who are servants of Allah yamsuna Allah out of the hauna,
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the way even they work is with humanity.
38:38
Yeah. They don't want to annoy anyone,
38:41
they don't want even, you know, to pressurize too much the
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carpet or to ruin, for example, the grass.
38:50
So Salat makes you a person that would never, you know, wish any
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bad for others, even for, you know, environment, etcetera.
39:00
And it's. A big transformation.
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It's impossible that someone is a servant of Allah and then do
39:13
back to others. The problem is.
39:16
That people don't do Salah properly and then they can even
39:22
get opposite results. So instead of becoming.
39:26
More humble, they become more arrogant.
39:29
Look at Kawarej. They were saying so much.
39:31
Salah, they were, you know, even marks on their forehead.
39:36
Yeah, but they did. Very.
39:41
Terrible crimes even in a killing.
39:43
For example, pregnant. You know, ladies.
39:47
Yeah. Why their Salah didn't help
39:50
them? Because.
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They brought the physics of Salah, but they never understood
39:57
that Salat is to learn how to be servant of Allah.
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So there's a journey from worship to servitude, from Ebada
40:07
to Orbudiya. If.
40:10
After years of worship, I don't become Abd.
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There's a problem. That's a problem because this is
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the way to make sure that you have benefited from Ebada.
40:21
You become Abd Ebada is limited to certain times.
40:29
Yeah. How many minutes per day?
40:32
We spend on about maybe 20 minutes, Half an hour, one hour
40:35
maximum. But Obudiya is not part time.
40:40
It's a lifetime. So from few minutes of salad,
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from fasting, from other acts of worship, we need to develop
40:50
permanent servitude. And.
40:55
This is only through understanding what we are doing,
40:58
like fasting. This is very.
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Similar to but there are people who fast but they are.
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Not. Yeah.
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Save us from that because they just, they're, you know, benefit
41:24
from fasting is just thirst and hunger.
41:26
They don't benefit anything more.
41:29
Even. Sometimes, God forbid, you know,
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we fast and even we become very rude or you know, you know, we
41:37
have, you know, bad temper, angry.
41:39
You know people you know. Say, you know, don't approach
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this person now because he's fasting.
41:45
This is very bad. Wait too often after he had his
41:49
samosas and relaxed when. We are fasting.
41:53
We have to be more kind, more humble.
41:56
And if you really practice it, you can do this.
42:00
But if you allow yourself, because you are fasting, you
42:03
know, to speak as you like to your children or you know people
42:06
who are under you, this is a problem.
42:09
So it means that we are not approaching these acts of
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worship properly. This kind of analogy, he says.
42:21
There were some farmers. That.
42:25
Used to harvest. There was a season of harvesting
42:30
and put it in the barn. OK.
42:35
So that there is no rain or anything.
42:37
So every day they. Were working hard till sunsets
42:41
and putting things in the barn. The next day they were opening
42:46
the barn. It was empty.
42:49
And they were surprised. Because the door was not opened,
42:52
the, you know, locks were not, you know, broken.
42:57
So one night they decided that one of them sleeps in the barn.
43:04
And he? Realized that in the middle of
43:06
the night lots of rats come from, you know, underneath and
43:13
they take all these, you know, weeds, etcetera.
43:18
And then he. Says this is our example.
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We make lots. Of Ebada, lots of Salat and
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fasting like, you know, putting these weeds in the barn.
43:31
But we have holes in our hearts that doesn't let the light of
43:36
this Ebada remain. Our bad.
43:39
Clock, bad temper or moral, you know, deficiencies don't let us
43:46
to accumulate the light of Ebada.
43:49
Otherwise, you know, years of Salat.
43:52
Yeah. Must make each person, you know,
43:55
full of light to change us. Yeah, yeah.
43:58
Transformers. You do Salat.
44:01
You do Haz, you do Ziara, you do umbra.
44:03
So where is the light if we do it properly?
44:08
Every moment. Should be full of light, but
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unfortunately we gain and we lose.
44:14
We gain and we lose, or we don't gain at all.
44:17
But even if we. Gain.
44:18
We'll lose. There's a beautiful.
44:20
Hadees that when someone goes to Hajj has a light because every
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about has its own light. Light of Salat is different from
44:30
light of Hajj. Light of Hajj is different from
44:32
light of fasting, so all the lights are different.
44:36
So when someone goes for a haz has light.
44:40
When? People come back from Haj, the
44:43
hadith says. Go and visit them.
44:46
Before. They commit a sin and the light
44:49
goes away as soon as possible. Yeah, but once I was joking Haz
44:55
during Haz, I said didn't. But nowadays people even before
44:57
reaching home, they may lose them.
45:02
So salad has a light. Even Wazoo has a light.
45:13
There's a story that one of the, you know, the students of one of
45:18
the Orafa if I am not. Mistaken, I think was a student
45:21
of Ayatollah and Sati Hamadani, so once had the mystical
45:27
experience and so light, not a physical light, a special light
45:32
and was so amazing. That he asked.
45:36
Him I had this experience. Was this the light of Allah?
45:42
I said no, this was light of your wazoo.
45:47
Light of. Allah is different.
45:50
But for. Someone who is used to worthy
45:53
light. This light was so amazing.
45:57
That is also light of Allah. What light of Allah we cannot,
45:59
you know, cope with. Like can you look at the song?
46:02
You cannot look. So al wuzu all neuron.
46:07
Al wuzu. Al Wuzu.
46:09
Neuron. Even Wuzu.
46:13
Is known imagines a lot. They say that the.
46:16
Snoor also lights up our graves, yeah.
46:19
Sure, sure. For me, kind of a final
46:23
question. See, we talked about, and I just
46:28
want to understand this kind of like from a more philosophical
46:33
perspective because we talk about, as you mentioned, you
46:38
don't speak to the guy while he's fasting, he's grumpy.
46:40
And so there's an element, you know, when we speak to our
46:43
colleagues in the office and so on, and we say things like.
46:48
When we were. Young, we used to say things
46:50
like there's so many people in the world who don't have food,
46:53
so we want to see how they feel. Empathy, you know, when we're
46:55
young, then you become a bit older, you start saying no, no,
46:58
no. It's about habits, you know, to
47:01
train ourselves, self-control and discipline and restraint of
47:05
desire. But in the Quran, alaspinata,
47:07
Allah talks about dakwa as the goal.
47:10
What I want to understand is how do we channel that desire?
47:14
And also what's the role of pedagogy and Allahs like divine
47:18
justice or his, maybe his he's putting us through an endurance
47:23
test, challenging us, kind of like cleansing us through
47:28
difficulty and hardship of the starvation of the body, but in a
47:32
way to then teach us, you know, and that pedagogical element,
47:37
what role does it play in Shaharamavan and how do we weigh
47:40
up how to prioritize things? Is it my priority in
47:44
Shaharamavan is to suppress, you know, unlawful desire or is it
47:51
to develop levels of discipline in my Eibada?
47:55
Or for example, is it something else to develop Maratha and
47:58
Taqwa? Yeah, it's all that.
48:02
So it's true. That part of the benefit of
48:07
fasting is to develop, you know, empathy for people who are poor.
48:14
Definitely this is part of it. Or for example to reduce
48:21
consumption. Even for.
48:25
Health is good SU mutasahu or for example we have in a sermon
48:31
of Shabbani of the prophet Ozkuru baju arkhamva attashekom
48:37
jiwaiyo Mariyama attasha. Whenever you become.
48:41
Hungry and thirsty. Remember the thirst and hunger
48:44
on the Day of judgement. So.
48:48
Fasting makes you mindful. Of.
48:52
The day of judgement. OK.
48:55
And the only way to feel good at that time is you work hard.
48:59
Now. Also, one important aspect is
49:06
that through fasting you gain. Control.
49:10
Over your desires and temptations and develop
49:13
determination asm. Because.
49:17
Our main problem is not that we don't want to become good.
49:23
Everyone wants to be good, yeah, But to be able to resist against
49:29
desires and temptations and laziness, that's the issue.
49:33
We need ASM. Yeah, I always say this, that
49:38
among all human beings, yeah, we have 124,000 prophets.
49:47
Among. All the prophets.
49:48
We have 313 Rasul messengers. Among 313 Rasul, we have 5 most
49:56
outstanding messengers. What are they called?
50:01
All your eyes, not all realm. Not.
50:05
Even olu taqwa olu AZM, because AZM is the key.
50:15
Without. Determination.
50:17
You cannot reach very high level of perfection, Imam Zainul
50:23
Abedin Alayhi Salam says. I live.
50:27
To Anna Abdulazar, the Raahi alike, I know that the best
50:38
provision. For a way.
50:40
Favour towards you is to have determination by which he
50:45
chooses you over anything else. Nothing like.
50:49
Fasting can give us determination because Salah
50:54
doesn't need that much determination.
50:55
Yeah, it takes few minutes. Nothing I think is like fasting
51:02
because fasting, you know, from early hour especially sometimes
51:07
becomes like in London for example, you know, 18 hours.
51:11
And you know. Sometimes very hot.
51:15
And it's not just. One day it's one month.
51:18
So it's really exercises your willpower and makes it stronger.
51:23
After months of Ramadan, you'll feel I can do everything.
51:26
Yeah, yeah, yeah. People you know I'm very, you
51:30
know you, you don't. Want to have breakfast?
51:32
Yeah, I really. You know, like, you know,
51:35
helpless, you know, but months of Ramadan, you know, I have
51:39
seen that, you know, sometimes non-Muslims who fast and how
51:45
much they enjoy, they love it. They very much.
51:48
Love. It yeah, because it it gives
51:51
you, you know, strength. It gives you power.
51:54
You believe yourself again? Yeah, it's sorry.
51:56
To interrupt you, it shows them, it shows them what they can do.
52:01
I have a colleague in in in our office every year he says,
52:05
Ahmed, I'm going to fast with you today.
52:07
Excellent. Once 234 days of Shahraman,
52:10
he'll fast. I said why?
52:11
He says to prove to myself I don't need to vape or I don't
52:15
need to smoke or I don't need to This beautiful Yeah
52:18
self-control. He says I want to tell prove to
52:21
myself I can. If I want to, I can.
52:23
Yeah, that's. Beautiful.
52:25
And. You know, I always think that,
52:30
especially in this age. We very.
52:35
Much need to safeguard our determination because everything
52:41
is unfortunately to make you more dependent.
52:47
And. Lazy.
52:50
Yeah, you don't, you know. Need to even walk.
52:54
You don't need even, you know, to do anything.
52:57
Everything is with machine technology.
53:00
Technology. Yeah.
53:04
Everything you buy, you know. Ready.
53:09
And. My idea is that the real battle
53:17
of humanity is the battle of determination.
53:22
Whoever has. Determination will win is no
53:25
longer money or weapon. Even it's not.
53:28
Technology because if you are determined you get that
53:30
everything. Who would have?
53:33
Determination. So.
53:37
Salat. Helps with.
53:40
Determination because something throughout the year, you know,
53:43
five times a day, early morning. But also.
53:46
Fasting and these two together. Yeah, you know Estai.
53:52
You know, sabra was Salat some, Hadi says.
53:55
Sabra means fasting. OK.
53:59
At least. Is a great example.
54:03
So with Salat, with fasting, you can gain power.
54:08
And. We have now golden opportunity,
54:11
Inshallah, if Allah gives us trophy to witness another months
54:14
of Ramadan to work on our Salat because very spiritual
54:20
environment, atmosphere and our fasting.
54:26
And just one suggestion for myself and our viewers.
54:32
And this is what you know, the late Alam and Narati says in
54:38
John O Sadat about fasting. He says if you want to benefit
54:43
from fasting. Make.
54:46
Sure, that. You reduce.
54:50
Your eating. So you are supposed.
54:54
To have at least one less meal, Yeah.
54:59
Not that in the night you not only, you know, compensate for
55:04
lunch, but even, you know, 2-3 time.
55:07
It says if you want to benefit from a spirituality of fasting,
55:11
you must eat less than other months.
55:13
Yeah. Because it's the whole.
55:15
Point, yeah. It's true, yeah.
55:18
You. Have your sahur and iftar.
55:21
But like breakfast and dinner in other months, yeah.
55:27
But. If you want, you know, to
55:29
compensate for the all the snacks that you missed, all the
55:32
lunch and all the drinks and coffee in the night and even
55:36
it's more, you know, some people maybe even, you know, put on
55:39
weight in the months of Ramadan, you won't be.
55:41
Able to wash up Allah from so we are missing.
55:45
The point this is this what this great Alam says in JAMA O
55:49
Saadat, it says if you want to benefit and if you want to get,
55:54
you know, spirituality of fasting.
55:57
You must. Not eat like other months.
56:02
You must not, you know, eat more in the night.
56:05
It's very important. Beautiful, beautiful advice.
56:09
You've been a very amazing. Chef, I know we're at the end of
56:12
the episode. I have a small question from me,
56:17
Sha Allah. As a final question from myself,
56:20
it's nice. We're speaking about Salah
56:22
spirituality. There are people who in sha
56:25
Allah will. Build on them.
56:28
During this holy month, and the Charlotte doesn't stop after, it
56:31
continues throughout the year until we go 6 feet down the
56:34
grave beyond Allah. But there are people, Schechner,
56:38
who would love to reach that stage, but they're far away from
56:42
God. And they feel like, for example,
56:45
sometimes we get questions that come in.
56:47
We feel like God's not on our side.
56:49
We've seen so much. And I don't think Allah Azzawa
56:52
Jail is going to forgive me. But how do we address those
56:55
people? For someone who's listening now
56:57
that he feels like God's not going to welcome him with his
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Rahman, how can we change their perspective on how they see
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this? Yeah.
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You know, one thing that we are 100% sure is that Allah Subhanaw
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Taal is always welcoming. It's impossible that he would
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reject someone who wants to go back to him.
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Allah sopantar says Olia ebadi al ladina astrafu Allah and even
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those who have done excessive bat to themselves, they should
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not be dispersed in Allah truly. And nice for Takif.
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For emphasis Allah forgives as Zulu.
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In Arabic we say jam with alif. Alam shows generality plus it
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says Jamiyan. So he.
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Forgives all the sins. So if I have wronged someone,
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OK, then maybe they ask me, OK, what have you done so that I
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know you know what to forgive, you know, etcetera.
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Or maybe I can only forgive this much, not this much.
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Or I. Forgive you but you have to do
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something you know. But Allah says he forgives
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everything. He would not even stop you and
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say you know it takes time. Even our ulama say that.
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For example, imagine if I have not fulfilled some of my watch
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about. OK, for.
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Example, I owe homes I have not given for years.
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Yeah, or I owe people. Now.
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Someone has stolen or I don't know has not given rights of
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people for any reason but if they do too bad Allah forgives
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them right away but says go and sort it out.
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Not that he. Says OK, sort it out and then I
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will forgive you. Go and say your Salat Kazan, I
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will forgive you. He forgives right away, but now
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you do your. Now you do it.
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And if someone asks for forgiveness and dies before he
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has time to do this, he's forgiven.
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Of course with. You know, from his inheritance
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or etcetera, but he's forgiven if he has no time to fix it or
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no means to fix it. So it's very important that.
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We go as. Soon as possible back to a loss
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of Hunter. Do not let Shaytan players
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because Ayatollah Bahari Hamadani, he says Shaytan has a,
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you know, very strange policies, a double policy before
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committing sins says to people, don't worry, commit sins, allies
1:00:02
forgive you. Yeah, he's very.
1:00:05
Generous. He's very forgiving.
1:00:07
When you commit sins, then you want to go to Toba says it's too
1:00:11
late, just come with more sins because he's not going to
1:00:15
forgive. So it's the, you know,
1:00:18
parliament. We should do the opposite.
1:00:20
Before committing scene, you must say who is sure that he can
1:00:24
do it over. Yeah, I shouldn't say, you know,
1:00:29
allies forgiving. So let me do the scene.
1:00:31
I might die. Yeah.
1:00:32
Yeah. Because this can lead to, you
1:00:34
know, position that will not be forgiven if you insist and you
1:00:37
are. But if you commit scene and you
1:00:40
regret. Yeah, don't be desperate.
1:00:43
And. Especially whatever is Allah,
1:00:49
Allah is more easily, you know, forgiving.
1:00:53
So everyone should have hope. Especially in the month of
1:00:57
Shaban is very good time for Toba because this is the monster
1:01:04
Hafafte Huber Rahmatiwa. Rezwan is surrounded with mercy
1:01:09
and with pleasure. So it's very easy to please
1:01:11
Allah all the time because he's Sari or Reza.
1:01:15
But especially in certain times like Shaban, because this is
1:01:19
months of forgiveness, this months of a strakfar.
1:01:22
And we should. Inshallah, make sure that we are
1:01:24
forgiven Shaban and then we enter months of Ramadan while we
1:01:30
are forgiven. Inshallah Bismillah.
1:01:34
Thank you so much. My pleasure.
1:01:39
I don't want it to. Stop.
1:01:41
I don't want you to go shit. It's.
1:01:43
Alhamdulillah, you know, we've done over 150 episodes and I
1:01:49
think we've had some incredible conversations.
1:01:51
But as always, Sheikh, you what, what?
1:01:54
As you said before we started the podcast from the heart to
1:01:56
the heart, I feel like you've you've spoken to our hearts
1:02:00
today. I don't know if that was
1:02:01
recorded, but the Sheikh said that just before we began and
1:02:06
beyond that and shot Allah, we can take the lessons and the
1:02:10
wisdom you've imparted to us and be able to apply for all of us
1:02:13
work on our huddle and work on our presence and our
1:02:17
consciousness, our tough one and and giving more attention to
1:02:21
Alvada and shot Allah, said Ali. I just.
1:02:25
Want to thank you, my pleasure, all the gems that you shared
1:02:28
with us on this episode in this hour.
1:02:30
And I just want to add something, you know, over the
1:02:31
last almost four years now, we've really been waiting for a
1:02:36
day to have you on the aftermath of podcast.
1:02:37
Ahmed No, as you mentioned, every other month, we need to
1:02:40
have Sheikh Shamali. We need to have Sheikh Hamala,
1:02:43
the stars. Finally, the airline can stop
1:02:45
you from Allah. Hamdallah, Sharla.
1:02:46
It's not the last. Time.
1:02:47
But sisters, if I can ask everyone at home just to
1:02:50
remember, as Said Ali mentioned, the respected Sheikh's family
1:02:54
and also the respected Sheikh's mother who is currently
1:02:58
undergoing intensive treatment in Iran.
1:03:01
And we pray for her Shafa. And we pray for her a long life,
1:03:05
Inshallah. And she has raised mashallah
1:03:08
generations of servants to the adul Beit aim of Salaam.
1:03:13
Yeah, Allah, we pray for shafa and Sheikh, we pray to see you
1:03:16
again, inshallah. Please don't forget us in your
1:03:18
daughters, inshallah. And.
1:03:20
Yeah. Thank you so much.
1:03:22
Again, thank you. Thank.
1:03:23
You very much and also I request all our viewers to pray
1:03:27
inshallah for Farage of Imam Zaman Shah and I hope that
1:03:32
inshallah soon our generation would be able to inshallah
1:03:38
welcome Imam Mahdi, if we work hard inshallah.
1:03:41
That's not, you know, unlikely of.
1:03:45
Sheikh, where can. People, I know you've recently
1:03:47
released a small publication on Imam al Mahdi, and I know you're
1:03:51
working on other things as well, especially dedicated to the only
1:03:55
Imam. Where can people find more of
1:03:57
your work and engage, especially for those who are new, new
1:04:01
reverts and those who are developing their journey into
1:04:04
research? So for books they can find on
1:04:12
Jawad and Zahra or Hojat bookshop for lectures on
1:04:15
YouTube. Yeah, and also on my site, many
1:04:18
of the books are just available free.
1:04:20
They can read free, you know, whatever suits them better.
1:04:24
And what's the website? shomali.net. shomali.net.
1:04:28
That's such a cool name. Beautiful.
1:04:30
I love. It awesome thank you so much and
1:04:32
a lovely bless our. Viewers and we pray that
1:04:36
inshallah they will have very special months of Ramadan isn't
1:04:40
something that they have never experienced.
1:04:43
Shala shala. Thank you so much, brothers,
1:04:46
sisters, Stay tuned for next week as we begin Shaharam Mulan
1:04:51
together. We have an incredible month
1:04:52
ahead of us. We're going to be doing
1:04:54
conversations every week. Allah knows whether we'll have
1:04:57
the chance to do more than one a week, but our near is there to
1:05:00
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