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in the moral world you missed a Salah
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you woke up late you didn't pray F and
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now you're praying at late and then that
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day you had a job interview and the job
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interview didn't go well and you're like
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this is because I miss
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Salah now the answer to that is it may
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be and it may not
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be and there's no way you will ever know
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there is no way you or anyone else will
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ever know
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but the thing that will help you
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is the thing that will help me is that
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Allah says I will be as you assume me to
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be if you're assuming Allah took Revenge
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from you and put this on you because you
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missed fudger then that's who Allah is
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to you
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now but the thing here that I wanted to
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highlight is what is the role of our
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Iman the fact that we're Believers that
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we believe in Allah and our ability to
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deal with calamity
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and how are we supposed to respond to
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Calamity as
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Believers I you know for a lot of people
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who's and this actually depends on our
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level of understanding of what it means
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to have a relationship with Allah subhah
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wa
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tala on the one hand the first thing I'd
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like to explain to you that the Quran is
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very wise about is to make a separation
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between two different kinds of bad
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situations there's a bad situation that
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looks like a bad situation that was
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completely out of your control you could
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do nothing about it you got stuck in a
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flood you didn't cause the flood you
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just happened to be living there there
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was no way for you to escape or you
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happen to be traveling you had no idea
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it was coming it wasn't on any reports
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or anything else that's not you that's
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entirely planned by Allah you had
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nothing to do with it there was no way
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you could have gotten out of it this is
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not the same as someone who reads the
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news report and says hey there's a there
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there's a major storm coming please
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Evacuate the city and it's there's
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there's a tsunami heading our way and
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somebody says you know this is a good
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time to check out the
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beach and they head towards the beach
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and then something bad happens to them
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they don't get to say what can I say
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Allah had decided that I was going to
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run into this H you don't get to say
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that and Allah is very clear about that
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he subhah
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says there's there's not a Calamity that
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strikes you and there's any manner of
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calamities that strike you or something
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that hits you is because of what you
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earned with your own hands you brought
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this on
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yourself now that's if you only thought
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of it that way that would also be a
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problem because if you're going down the
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stairs and you slipped and you fell then
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you start thinking to yourself I must
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have done some sin and that's why Allah
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made me fall down the stairs this is a
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sign from Allah that I have committed
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some evil and Allah is teaching me a
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lesson by you know breaking my arm on
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this in the hotel lobby or something you
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know you start reading into things that
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happen to you and you start thinking
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there's some cause and effect and that
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can go into an extreme so the the the
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thing that I'd like to highlight here
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are human beings Believers in Allah can
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go into two
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extremes one extreme is everything
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happened because of Allah I have nothing
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to do with it Whatever happened I can't
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you can't blame me
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this whatever Calamity strikes to you it
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comes to you because of Allah's he said
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that
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in he said it directly it happens by
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Allah's permission this was Allah's plan
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what are you what are you going to do so
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some student can not study for their
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exams and not do any of the assignments
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and get fail and fail and be kicked out
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of the school and then say what do you
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want me to do of Allah they get to blame
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Allah On The Other Extreme there's the
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believer who blames everything on
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himself Allah is doing this to me
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because I'm a terrible person this
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happened to me because I'm a horrible
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human being and then there it doesn't
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help when other ignorant people around
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you and sometimes a lot of ignorance
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comes from your own family
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they come and tell you you know why this
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happened to you because you're a bad
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daughter you know why this happened to
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you because you're a bad son you know
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why this happened to you because you're
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not good to your in-laws or whatever no
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I just got in a car accident cuz a truck
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came and hit me and he crossed a red
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light not because I argued with you know
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my wife or something something it's not
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the reason but other people will come
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and tell you this is happening to you
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Allah is doing this to you because of
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that because of that like they got an
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email from the that told them
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that this is the reason why this
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happened cause and
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effect so there are these two extremes
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that are possible what do the Quran do
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the Quran in everything gives us balance
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in everything we understand in life it
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gives us balance and by the way if you
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don't have this balance you lose a lot
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of Peace in life you know it gives
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another meaning
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to by remembering Allah hearts become
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calm if you the the ultimate remembrance
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of Allah the is actually the book of
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Allah
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you know and the Book of Allah clarifies
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how Allah deals with us in this life so
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I would argue that if you're just saying
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Subhan Allah or alhamdulillah and your
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understanding of what Allah wants you to
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you know how Allah deals with you is
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flawed you still might not find peace
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even though you're inshallah you will if
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you're sincere but the intent here is to
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be clear in how Allah deals with us so
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I'd like to share some things about that
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with you as far as blaming myself is
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concerned and you know where do we draw
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the line between this is from Allah and
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this is my fault where do you draw that
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line you know in the physical world it's
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very easy to understand what do I mean
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by the physical world in the physical
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world if I put instead of putting
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gasoline in my car I put water in my car
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and it didn't work then you don't get
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clearly you don't get to say this was
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Allah's plan that was you so physically
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speaking or if you're eating junk food
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food and you're constantly eating all
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kinds of sugary foods and then you get a
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diagnosis for diabetes at the age of
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45 then you don't get to say Allah this
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m has come to me I don't you know it's a
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test from Allah no it's a test of your
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bad appetite you don't eat cucumbers you
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eat Swiss Rolls or whatever you eat you
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know you you've been Downing junk and
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that's why this happened to you you
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understand so that that in in the
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physical world the the cause and effect
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there's an effect
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it's something that all human beings
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with common sense understand in the
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moral world you missed a Salah you woke
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up late you didn't pray fud and now
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you're praying at late and then that day
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you had a job interview and the job
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interview didn't go well and you're like
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this is because I miss
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Salah now the answer to that is it maybe
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and it may not
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be and there's no way you will ever know
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there is no way you or anyone else will
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ever
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know but the thing that will help you
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is the thing that will help me is that
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Allah says I will be as you assume me to
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be if you're assuming Allah took Revenge
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from you and put this on you because you
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missed fuder then that's who Allah is to
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you now if you assume no this is better
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this this job I tried my best I did a
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good job at the interview but this was
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not a good job for me had been good for
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me Allah would have let it go Allah
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Allah would have given me this job if
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you have that attitude then that is who
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Allah is to you despite all of your
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mistakes despite you missing waking up
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late our job when we make mistakes is to
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make not wait for Allah's
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Revenge please understand that our job
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is not oh I messed up now Allah is going
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to get me somehow it's going to happen
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no no no no no no no that's not what
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Allah does which is why Allah says
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whatever Calamity struck you whatever
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difficulty you find yourselves in a lot
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of it has to do with what you did
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yourselves with your own hands you
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brought this on
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yourself and even in the spiritual sense
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sometimes there are difficulties that
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come on us because of our Deeds if you
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are for example continuously horrible to
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your parents and then bad stuff comes to
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you in your life that probably there is
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some
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connection there is some and then in
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those kinds of cases what does Allah do
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he says he pardons a lot too in the
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physical world if I jump off of a second
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floor building there are going to be
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consequences Allah will not say no this
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time I'll forgive you I won't break your
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leg no no it's it's going to what's
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going to happen is going to happen when
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you put your hand in a fire it is going
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to burn Allah is not going well you
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prayed fud this morning so no not for
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you it won't burn for you that's not
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going to happen but when it comes to
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spiritual consequences he
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says when you do a sin then Allah says
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actually Allah lets a lot of it go he
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doesn't just avenge immediately he
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doesn't just take you know uh immediate
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account and then make you suffer in this
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world because of the mistake you made he
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doesn't do that that's the nature of
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Allah with
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us this is something you have to
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internalize for yourself I would argue
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the reason the reason I brought up this
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particular
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subject is because um one of the
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greatest crimes spiritual crimes that
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occurs every day in the umah is at the
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hands of loved ones to loved
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ones parents spouses husbands we have
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sometimes the most the worst things to
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say to our loved ones and sometimes we
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say those things in the name of Allah
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Allah will punish you for what you just
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did there will be Justice on
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you Allah doesn't Allah will not forgive
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what you you know and mother can say
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that to her child wife can say to
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husband siblings can say to each other
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like invoking like Allah is some angry
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weapon that you can invoke because
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you're upset Allah must be upset and you
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can just use Allah like that that's not
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our place and you know for a lot of
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people they've heard this kind of thing
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so many times over and over and over
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again that they have become far away
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from Allah
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himself they heard from their loved ones
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they heard from their a child heard from
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his father or his his mother all the
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time Allah will punish you if you don't
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pray Allah is going to get you if you
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don't pray Allah going to you know Allah
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is very angry at you cuz you ate that
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cookie like constantly Allah is angry
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Allah is angry Allah is angry when that
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young boy becomes a 16 17 18 years old
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18y old he wants nothing to do with
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Allah and when he hears Allah is
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merciful and Allah is forgiving he has a
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hard time believing it cuz that's not
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what he grew up with he did not grow up
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with a when Allah with an Allah who is
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forgiving or an Allah who's merciful as
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a matter of fact every time he got in
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trouble it's because of Allah he got in
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trouble that's how he got in trouble
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and then those same parents say we
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taught this child about Allah from the
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beginning I don't know why he's running
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away from
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Dean yeah but which Allah did you teach
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him about an angry Allah an Allah that
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seeks to
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punish Allah says what's Allah going to
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get out of punishing you that's what
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Allah says himself what is he why is he
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in just the business of coming after you
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going at you so what happens with people
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they are in a difficult situation and
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what did they do they're constantly
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thinking Allah is getting them Allah is
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hurting them Allah is doing this to them
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you know I was reminded by a colleague
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of mine I was just when I was coming
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here to Malaysia out of nowhere this has
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never happened I developed this crazy
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bacterial infection thing in my in my
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tonsils and it swelled up and my half of
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my neck was completely blocked and I
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felt like I was drowning in one nostril
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and I'm still on the plane and I get
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halfway through to Abu Dhabi on the way
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here I run over to a clinic and say you
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have to you know take these heavy
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medications I come here they the
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recommendation is I should go to surgery
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I like what is going on this is and they
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even told me this never happens like
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this is really crazy this is I've never
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in my entire career of 30 years I've
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seen like one other case of this and I'm
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was lying there in the hospital bed
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waiting for a surgery to take place and
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I'm thinking and I was reminded by a
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colleague this is the best place you
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could have
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been like this there's no better place
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than this hospital bed for you at this
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moment that is Allah's plan for you here
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I am thinking I have to cancel this
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program I can't go over here I can't go
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over there how are we going to manage
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this situation that situation that
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calendar that meeting all this way I
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came all this way and now look I didn't
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get to do this that or the other and
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then all of a sudden just that little
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reminder you're just like yeah this is
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the best place I should be this is this
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there's no better place because this
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wasn't planned by me this was planned by
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Allah this is entirely planned by Allah
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we have to have a closeness to Allah
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that when he plans something for you and
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me even when it's painful he doesn't do
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it for anything except love that Allah
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loves his that he loves what is best for
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them he loves us more than we could ever
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love ourselves he cares more for us than
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we can ever care for ourselves he
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provides us more than we could ever
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provide for ourselves when we forget
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that when we forget that guidance goes
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away
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Allah
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says on the same issue whatever Calamity
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strikes you it comes from Allah it came
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by Allah's permission and whoever can
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have IM in Allah at that time you have
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IM in Allah anyway you believe in one
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God but when you're when you're in a
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difficulty that's when you start
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questioning why is Allah doing this
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right that's the time when Allah puts
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the
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words whoever can truly believe in Allah
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then yeah you always say Allah isman do
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you really feel Allah is right now now
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right now he's
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probably right now he's probably the one
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who takes Revenge right now it's
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probably Jabar notman right now that see
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your IM went away your IM andman went
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away when you were in difficulty Allah
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says if you can have IM Inman at that
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time the best of Allah's names the best
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of what is Allah is to you what he
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described himself to you at that moment
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then what gift will Allah give you and
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this is the conclusion to my what is it
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that Allah will give
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you I want health I want recovery I want
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a job I want money I want a better
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family situation I want Escape some
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people just want Escape I just want this
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other person to stop hurting me I want
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people to stop talking about me whatever
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it is there's something that's bothering
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you and it's eating away at you and if
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you think if that problem went away you
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would have peace what does Allah give
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you when you can trust him he doesn't
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end your problems this life problems
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will not go away if problems were going
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to go away they would have gone away for
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Yam a lot sooner than for you and me if
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the pro if no problems would have come
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because we have IM that should not have
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had
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problems should not have had problems
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you study the people that are closest to
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Allah and all you're studying are
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problems really big ones their entire
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life that's all you're studying you're
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just learning about one problem to the
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next to the next to the next to the next
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that's all you're learning
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yuam a great profound messenger of Allah
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and I mean from childhood there are
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problems from childhood there are
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problems so what I keep asking that
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question what is it that Allah has given
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you what do you get when you completely
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put your trust in Allah in the middle in
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the thick of a difficulty when everybody
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else is telling you Allah is on the one
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hand people are telling you Allah is
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angry at you that's why this is
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happening Allah hates you that's why
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this is happening on the other hand you
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start thinking Allah is punishing me
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that's why this is
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happening at that moment when you can
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have the best impression of Allah and
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maintain your love and Reliance and bond
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with Allah that Allah is has not let you
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go he hasn't what does he give
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you he guides this person's heart he
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gives their heart
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guidance I can guarantee you when your
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problem goes away if it's a money
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problem if money comes in if it's a
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health problem and health comes back if
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it's a family problem the family problem
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goes away none of the good things in
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this life are worth anything compared to
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that one
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