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we're not acknowledging the r that Allah
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blew inside us that the Angels made s
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that to the angels made s that to it man
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or because of it and here we are
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thinking we're helpless I can't make a
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decision I don't know what to do you're
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not helpless you're incredibly powerful
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Salam alikum um you mentioned how Allah
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is in absolute control over everything
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in our life and he has given us some
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control in it um the uh there's a
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renowned um philosopher Islamic
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philosopher and poet he says Inu
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um um basically the idea of being the
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writer of your own book and a lot of his
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work revolves around the concept of
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hoodi um and that does sounds reasonable
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in a way like you know because after the
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Advent of Islam like you know the
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Muslims uh there was a golden age all
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over and um that because Islam I think
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really gave them a sense of recognition
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a purpose and identity and we this time
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in this era we've certainly lost some of
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that control that was actually in our
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control but assuming that it's not in
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our control um maybe as a matter of we
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think as you can say so my question to
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you sad is how we can bring that balance
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back um considering what's in our
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control and what's not in our control in
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the light of Quran I'm I'm really glad
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you brought up uh Dr Muhammad ibal yes
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because he's one of my biggest
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influences um and I do believe that his
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uh his poetry his philosophy even his
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English work those of you that are
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interested in his English work he wrote
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a paper called the Reconstruction of
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religious thought in Islam uh might be
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of interest to you those of you that are
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philosophically inclined and are okay
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with heavy reading that would be quite a
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read the Reconstruction of religious
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thought and Islam but anyway um one of
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the most important points he makes is
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that uh what Allah has given the human
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being in the Quran is an
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elevated self sense of self which is
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different from arrogance uh so his
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concept ofi of the self is actually
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honoring
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yourself and how much Allah has honored
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the soul and how everything that
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emanates from our efforts in this world
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comes from that the amount of power
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Allah gave the human soul right now you
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really I think hit the nail on the head
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Muslims have accepted a an attitude of
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helplessness around the world we've just
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accepted oh you know what are we what
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can we do we can only make Dua what can
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we do we can we can't do anything we're
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disunited we're this we're this we're
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this we're this with this we're just
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looking at ourselves as this helpless
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lost
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you know once once Glorious Days used to
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be there now they're all gone and we're
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not going to be able to get it back Etc
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and his argument is actually very Quran
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inspired it is to First realize who you
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actually are and what you're capable of
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like that first your own
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self-actualization and realization and
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how Allah is giving you that empowerment
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through his word that is the first step
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to any Revival of Any Nation right and
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we're we are at that stage now where we
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we need to restore our sense of self you
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know the my favorite Ayah of the Quran
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on this note is actually
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in right don't become like those who
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forgot Allah Allah made them forget
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themselves what does that mean they
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forgot themselves they forgot the
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amazing truth that lies even within them
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so if you couldn't value Allah it
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necessarily ended in you not being able
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to Value yourself and so those both of
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those things actually go hand in hand
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now what's happened in broken Muslim
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cultures is you value Allah and you know
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what that means you're worthless you're
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useless you're a loser you're you're a
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fak you're a you're a MK you're a sinner
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you're a blah blah blah blah blah and
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that's because you love Allah so much
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and there's this like false humility I
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believe in humility but I don't believe
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in false humility I don't believe in
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deprecating yourself and constantly
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putting yourself down as your prayers
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aren't good enough your duas aren't good
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enough your sins are too many you know
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make but Allah doesn't want to have
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people live in shame make and move on
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make and he wanted you to build in this
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world he wanted you to develop you know
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so that level of confidence does need to
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be restored and I do believe like uh to
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to me when I think about my own
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relationship with Allah subhana T my own
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relationship with Islam itself the
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pillar in it has been the Quran like
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studying the Quran kept me grounded with
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the changes that were happening in the
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world and I often ask myself when people
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come and ask me questions about what's
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going on in the world or what they're
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feeling and you know even a young man
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I'm not trying to diss you but I love
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you I'm going tell you anyway people
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come up to me and ask me just give me
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some
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advice give me some advice and I told
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the young man I'm offended by that
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question and there's a number of reasons
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I'm offended by that question how
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are if I don't know you and you're
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coming to me and asking me give me some
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advice that is about as empty as it can
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be and I know I would never in at any
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age of my life whether I knew much or
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didn't know much that at no age of my
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life would I randomly go to somebody
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that I looked up to a scholar a a
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teacher whoever and just go to them and
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say hey I just need you to what give me
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some advice I I wouldn't do it I
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wouldn't do it for a number of reasons
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one I would know that they don't know me
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so how can they give me advice and why
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is it that the work that they're
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actually doing which I'm benefiting from
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isn't itself the
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advice why do I need something P
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personally catered to
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me customized for my feel-good
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experience because all this other that's
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that's for everybody else though I want
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something special for me right and this
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is this kind of uh not not to insult the
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idea but this is very common this
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actually very common nowadays I you know
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and it's not even about me you could be
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like St studying something so
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magnanimous the word of Allah and at the
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end of it you're like but yeah but what
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about me though I want something special
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just for me you know what that is that's
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kind of an
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exceptionalism right as if Allah's word
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doesn't have that
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power right and I just want to break
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that mentality the other side of that is
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my own side
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my own side is why would I give somebody
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advice that I know nothing about that
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would be really self-righteous and
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pompous and arrogant of me let me tell
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you young man do this and
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what I you know when I but when somebody
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comes and says hey I need your advice on
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studying Quran systematically I need
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your advice on I'm I'm trying to pick up
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Arabic what should I do I need your
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advice on some issues in time management
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not how to manage my time I don't know
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what to do but no these are the two
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things I'm working on how can I divide
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my time effectively between these two
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things do you have any advice on that
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the more targeted your advice is you
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know what that tells me the more
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purposeful you
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are when you're asking for targeted
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advice that means you already have a
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sense of purpose you have Clarity you're
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pushing for something and now you need
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that little bit of extra you know but
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not please motivate
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me no
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no that's that needs to go that that is
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the
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that is the ultimate evidence of our
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self not being actualized we're not
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we're not seeing who we are we're not
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acknowledging the r that Allah blew
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inside us that the Angels made SJ that
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to the angels made SJ that to it man or
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because of it and here we are thinking
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we're helpless I can't make a decision I
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don't know what to do you're not
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helpless you're incredibly powerful be
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humble to Allah but be confident with
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what Allah has given you we can walk
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with both we can walk walk with conf and
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humility at the same time you know I
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gave this D in with yam one of the most
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humble Personalities in the Quran and
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yet very confident make me Minister of
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Finance why is he saying make there's
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people with 30 years of experience in
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politics and finance and governance and
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he what's his 30-y year experience a
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jail
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cell and he's standing there saying I'm
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the one who can do this job give me this
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job that's what you call confidence
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right and we never take take away
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humility from
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prophets that's Allah's favor on us it's
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not my own it's Allah's favor both of
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those things need to go hand in hand the
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humility needs to come back and the the
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confidence needs to come back and the
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fake humility to me fake humility is
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nothing but arrogance that's all it is
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the the the Cry of I'm helpless I'm
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helpless I'm helpless is negative
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narcissism it's just please give me
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attention please help me cuz I'm special
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I need special help no you're you're so
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special Allah revealed the Quran for you
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you're that special you're so special
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Allah put a r inside you super special
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you're so special Allah is watching
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every single thing you're doing you are
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that
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important so you don't need any more
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specialness that's good enough for
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