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[SPEAKER_00]: When her water ran out, she realized that she needs to find food.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though she trusts Allah, she knows you need to go look for what Allah's gonna give you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There is no such thing in Islam as sitting back and letting divine Mother directly intervene.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, divine Mother will intervene, but only when you bring about the context.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he brothers and sisters, it is the season of Hedge, and Hedge brings forth many reminders, and of the necessary reminders of Hedge.

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[SPEAKER_00]: is the story of the founding of the house in Makkah, the first house of worship that Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala legislated for mankind, or walubate in wal-di'a din nas.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that story which has been mentioned in the Quran and in the traditions of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa-sallam, like all of the Quranic stories has much wisdom for us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So today in ShAllah, we will extract 10 blessings, wisdoms, benefits, morals from the story of Ibrahim and Hajar, from the story of Isma Alayhi Salam, and take those lessons for us to benefit from directly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We all know the outline of the story, where Allah SWT commanded Ibrahim Alayhi Salam to take

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hajar and Sma'in and to leave them in Makkah for a period of time and then come back again later on and be monitoring them and Allah tested Abraham through the sacrificial dream that he saw Sma'in and Allah commanded Abraham to build the Khaba and to call people to hedge.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That story which occurs multiple times in the Quran.

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[SPEAKER_00]: From it, we can derive so much morality and wisdom, ethics and a khlak that will shape how we ourselves view our world.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Of the benefits of that story is the iman that awak kul of our mother Hajar alayhi salam.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Our mother Hajar, who was born in a foreign land, who did not understand the language or the religion of Prophet Ibrahim Alayhi Sala when she was introduced to the household.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She came from another religion, another society, and yet her iman, her belief in Allah reached such exemplary heights that Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala legislated our rituals based upon her own footsteps.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Our mother Hajar, when Ibrahim left Hajar in Isma'il, he was so full of love and compassion, and his eyes were almost crying.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He couldn't verbalize why he was leaving her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he felt she would not understand how would she understand that Allah is telling them to leave him, her and the child in the desert.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ibrahim, alaihi salam, is felt she's not going to understand I have no choice but to simply leave her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so he put them under the tree.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was no cabba, there was no zamsam, and he simply turned around and walked away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Hajar is completely perplexed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Where are you going?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What are you doing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Ibrahim Ali Salam is controlling his own emotions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was a kind tender-hearted man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was heart was full of compassion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He couldn't say anything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Hajar understands something is not normal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is not the Abraham that I have grown to love.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is not the father of my son.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is not the person I recognize.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the only explanation she can understand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She asks, did Allah command you to do this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: She understands my husband would not leave me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She understands if Rahim would not let us go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This must be something that is coming from up I.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that was when a Rahim alaihi salam could utter one word.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, nah, that's all I can tell you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why, I don't understand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what's gonna happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All I know, Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ala told me that I should leave you under the street and that's it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What does Hajar say?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hajar turns back because his mind is alone there and says, if he commanded you, then he shall never abandon us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: that level of Tawakkuel, of Yakin, of trust in the divine plan, coming from a lady that was born and raised on paganism, coming from a person that was not exposed to Tawakkuel from childhood, coming from somebody who has probably been a Muslim less than five years at this point in time, but in her relationship with the Brahim, with the reality of the prophet's household,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Her Eman has reached such heights that she has full submission, calmness, to wakul, that Allah will take care of me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: how I wish I had even a fraction of that amount.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How I wish we could get even a percentage of that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything is happening from a plan of Allah as Allah says in the Quran,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Allah is my protector.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Allah is spoon feeding you this du'a to teach you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't worry.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know what I'm doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That level of ta'waqqul of yakin, we call it an Arabic ritha, you are submitting to the divine plan and whoever trusts in Allah, Allah will be sufficient for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Whoever's heart reaches out to Allah in submission in content, Allah will take care of him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and the story proves this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Of the lessons we learn from this reality is that having to work cool, having Yakin, having Ihlas, having Rida does not impact our own physical reality.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The spiritual realm does not impact our mechanism for trying to bring about Allah's blessings and change.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, even though she knew Allah would take care of them, she didn't just sit under the shade and wait for the skies to pour forth rain.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When her water ran out, when her supplies ran out, she realized she needs to find food.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though she trusts Allah, she knows you need to go look for what Allah is going to give you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Miracles happen, but you have to put in the effort for the miracle to happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There is no such thing in Islam as sitting back and letting Divine Qadr directly intervene.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, Divine Qadr will intervene.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But only when you bring about the context, when you show Allah, you are interested.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are int-you wanting Allah's blessings.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And what this story also shows us as Allah says in the Qur'an.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Usually the help will come from places you least expected.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Where Azukumin hadulayatasev.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's looking in the distance and she sees far away Safa and Marwa.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Safa and Marwa are far away from Ismaid but she has to leave the child there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So she goes and the reason for her climbing is so that she can look for miles beyond.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the miracle is waiting for her right where she left it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The miracle is waiting right where she was sitting under that tree because Allah will give you the miracle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Allah will open the door but you have to continue knocking and perhaps the door that Allah opens is not the door you were knocking but because you were knocking because you were striving because you were searching

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[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wa-Rzukumin, Heithul Ayahtasib, Allah Zeriz, and Nasser will come from places you never expected.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the second lesson we learn is, yes, Allah will help you when you have to what good, but you need to do everything that is reasonable.

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[SPEAKER_00]: everything in your power.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't have a job, write up a resume, send around.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you need to get married, then be open and see who can you marry.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you need to do this, if you need to do that, your job is to do, put in the effort.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you make do-up and put your do-up in a law, sub-hanon with the other.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The third lesson that we can learn from the story of Hajjab.

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[SPEAKER_00]: from the story of Ismail, from the story of the building of the Khaba, is that generally speaking, from the depths of tragedy, the greatest blessings come about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: From the most difficult of situations, the most radical changes occur.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here, she thinks she's going to lose her life maybe potentially, she's not going to be there for Ismail.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yet, from that tragedy, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala blesses that land to become the greatest, wholly as sanctuary in this whole earth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There is no land all year than that land, but before that point in time it was not announced.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It took that act of courage, that act of Tawakkul.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It took the sacrifice of Hajan in Isma'il to then announce to the world, a wallubate in Wadi'adidnasi Lilledi Bipakkatamabarakan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the first house, the grand sanctuary that Allah SWT has made for mankind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That would only have happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The first house built, the well of Zamzam, the city of Makkah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very birth comes from a potential tragedy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Next time you and I are facing some tragedy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Next time there's a difficult situation in your life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: put your tawakkun in a law that from that tragedy, your situation will change so radically that this will be a new beginning, a new birth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Have high hopes of Allah, from the depths of tragedy, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala opens up and changes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is by the way throughout the whole Qur'an, the story of use of adding His Sonam, the story of Radha, Thou and the process and the conquest of Makkah, over and over again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: that we see that in order to get to that high plateau, in order to get to those divine blessings, you need to struggle for a while.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You need to put in the effort, you need to face hardship and it is only after hardship Allah blesses you with a blessing, so great, so magnificent, but you would never have gotten it, had you not gone through that hardship.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So while we don't like hardship, while we don't want it to come, if you and I are facing a hardship, then learn from this story and put your hope in Allah and expect insha'Allah to Allah as Allah says in the Qur'an, ye'aj al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-

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[SPEAKER_00]: They have to inculcate and nurture Eman in their children.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Eman is not hereditary.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Eman, unlike wealth, is not hereditary.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't matter who you are, you have to nurture your child.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You have to train your son and daughter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You have to be with them and treat them the way they need to be treated.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we learn from the Sierra, we learn from the books of Adith that Abraham Ali his salam, multiple times he would visit Macca.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He wouldn't interact with Isma'in and in that famous episode that the Quran mentions, even when Allah SWT commands him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: to the vision that he sees, he takes his smile on a walk, and he explains to him, oh, it's ma'il, let me explain to you, Allah showed me a dream.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think I should do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fondor madatara.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is wanting is ma'il to be willing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is wanting is ma'il to show that iman, and his smile says, ala ya abatif almatu mar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my father, if Allah has commanded you, then you have no choice do, as Allah has chosen you to do, commanded you to do, Sateju duni isha'a l-Alam, and al-Sabi, you're going to find me to be willing and patient.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even the prophets, they need to train their children.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They need to inculcate Eman in their children.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the reality of how building Eman takes place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Of the blessings we learn from the story of Abraham and Hajar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: is that the intention to do a good deed is at times more important than the deed itself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Allah blesses intention, more than he blesses outer form.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Allah blesses inner spirituality, more than he blesses the physical outer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here, the intention of Abraham to implement Allah's command was what saved him from actually implementing Allah's command.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The intention, I shall do it, I will obey Allah, that intention was given so much status that it actually benefited and saved and blessed, Allah Azza wa Jalla values what is inside.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the outer, sometimes we do it good, sometimes we're not able to do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Allah will still bless us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We all know in the Malaam al-Binniyat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We all understand this reality and this incident further proves this point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, everything begins with intention, intent to do good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even if you don't have it, intent to give

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[SPEAKER_00]: so much charity, intent to bring about changes, intent to do every good you can imagine, begin with high aspirations, and guess what, some of them you might fulfill.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Others allow our blessed you to even more, and even those that you don't do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you were truly sincere, Allah will reward you simply for imagining and day-dreaming and wanting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What a beautiful Lord we have.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you intend to do good, even if you don't do it, Allah will bless you with some good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then why are we being stingy?

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[SPEAKER_00]: When we have such a generous Lord, why are we not wanting more from Allah?

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[SPEAKER_00]: When Allah is gonna give us so much without asking, belated his ab.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, everything begins from the inner side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Intend to be a good person.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Intend to benefit people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Intend to bring about change.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Intend global peace.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Intend free-rusted intent.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Make a sincere intention.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And perhaps Allah will open some doors.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In others, Allah is a literal blessed other people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And worst case scenario, even if you actually were not able to do your intention will ensure Allah to make you amongst the righteous.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We learn this from the story of Abraham and his smile.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Of the benefits as well, the six benefits from the story of Abraham and his smile.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We see this throughout the entire story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thinking long-term and being visionaries.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ibrahim Ali Hisselam.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is already thinking about generations ahead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's thinking about calling people to the hedge and there is no hedge, but he's still calling for hedge.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's understanding Makkah when we come a holy land and there is no Makkah at this time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's making dua to Allah O Allah, make my children and all their children after them of those who are righteous and praying.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't even have grandchildren.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's making dua for his great, great, great, great grandchildren.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I ask you by Allah, when was the last time you made du'a for your own grandchild or great grandchild who doesn't even exist?

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[SPEAKER_00]: When was the last time you even thinking about your own progeny?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Much less somebody else's in the future of civilization.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ibrahim Ali Salam is thinking about the future of mankind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's making du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a,

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[SPEAKER_00]: There is no city of Mecca, there is no civilization of Mecca, but his do-ah-ah-ah-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al-al

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[SPEAKER_00]: all that he desired came true.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So why are you only thinking about today in tomorrow?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why are you only concerned with your own short lifespan?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You and I will not be here after a period of time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We all know this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So start day dreaming of the future.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Your own future, your own nestle, your own grandchildren, and great grandchildren, make society a better place, leave them a legacy they can be happy with.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what Abraham himself made it to, ah, which I lately signed a Siddh-Glenn-Fil-Ah-Khineen, O Allah make for me a legacy that others will look up to after I'm gone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's already thinking generations ahead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's already making to, ah, O Allah, women, the reality from my children, I want righteous to come.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, 4,000 years later, the prophet Muhammad, 3,000 years later, the prophet Muhammad ﷺ comes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he says, an adat wa toabi Ibrahim.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am the fulfillment of the dua of my father Ibrahim.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He made that dua.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am that fulfillment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can you understand imagine the greatest human being to ever walk the face of this earth?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he says, that was the vision planted by my father Ibrahim Ali Hesala.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and a doubt what to Abi Abrahim.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Subhanallah, start being visionaries, start thinking, multi-generation, start thinking about how to make change.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And guess what, some of it might happen, even if it doesn't, that is the only way you are going to start thinking about something greater than you, greater than your own finite and mortal existence.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We learn this from the story of Abrahim, alaihi salam.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Of the blessings of the story of Abrahim, the seventh blessing is

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[SPEAKER_00]: the importance of sacrifice for the sake of Allah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, with Ibrahim Ali Hussalam, that sacrifice is unique to him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hamdulillah, we are not asked to sacrifice our children.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hamdulillah, only the prophets are tasked with these types of things, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: But...

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[SPEAKER_00]: the concept of sacrificing for Allah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That is what it means to be a Muslim.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You submit your desires.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You control your own life, your own things that you do and you don't do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There is sacrifice for what you want to do because Allah does not want you to do that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if our father Ibrahim Ali Hussalam could demonstrate that he is willing to sacrifice the purist and the most beloved object to him for the sake of Allah, if he is willing to demonstrate that he is going to choose Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala over anything other than Allah, well then.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How about our Haram lifestyle?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Shouldn't we sacrifice our Haram lifestyles?

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[SPEAKER_00]: How about the Haram, the Haram sustenance, the Haram pleasures?

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[SPEAKER_00]: How about sacrificing our time to pray on time?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sacrificing our wealth to give Sadaka and Zika?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We thank Allah Allah's asking us so little, compared to Abraham Ali Hisselam, but the concept of giving something up

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[SPEAKER_00]: When was the last time, and we're entering the days of Hajj, we're entering when these things happen, we're entering the very symbolism of exactly what we are celebrating in these 10 days of Dhul-Hidjah?

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[SPEAKER_00]: When was the last time you and I?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Genuinely, wanted something, loved something, then realized, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Allah doesn't want that from me, I will give it up for the sake of Allah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because when you do so, Allah as the Wajjah will bless you, like He blessed every on Him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When I brought him showed a law that he's willing to give up everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Faba Sharna, who is Haka, woman wa rahe is Haka y'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we have a generous Lord, a Lord that will reward you when you demonstrate loyalty to Him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So learn from the story of Ibrahim Ali Hussanam, we all have aspects of our lives that need to be cut off and sacrificed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and they are evil.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They are not like the sacrifice if I am at His name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Pure, that was the test from Him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For us, our sacrifices for Allah, we should not have them in our lives.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They are harmful to us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Allah is telling us to sacrifice those out-on things for our own.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yet, we are struggling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So learn from the story of Ibrahim Ali Hisselam and be willing to cut off that which will harm you so that Allah will bless you with that which will benefit you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Of the lessons we learn as well, the eighth point in our ten points that we have time for.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Of the lessons we learn as well is the fundamental theological lesson that is so important for our generation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that is, not every commandment needs to be understood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not every hukum, not every ruling of Allah has to be rationalized by you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are commandments, I don't understand, you don't understand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But we know Allah commanded them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it brought him's entire story, had just entire story, his smile is entire story, demonstrates if Allah commands, I have to obey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If Allah commands, I do not have the option to question, why?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The commandments of Rahim Ali Asana were commanded to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The irrational mind doesn't understand them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, in the end, that wasn't enacted, Allah saved his Marine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there was no chance to question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was no reason to question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's made himself said, if Allah commanded you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Notice, not even a, why?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why would he do that?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's the void?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And of course our generation, they're trained, it's not their fault, they're trained to question everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're trained to push back, that's the society we live in, we get that, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just understand though, if it is an explicit commandment from Allah Subhadid Wata'ala, from Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, if we have Eman.

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[SPEAKER_00]: then there cannot be a questioning to challenge.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There may be a questioning to understand the wisdom, if we understand the fine, if we don't understand, Samirana wa al-Alanah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If we don't understand, if Allah says it, I have to do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this story demonstrates that's reality.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The ninth point in this story of Brahim and Hajj al-Azalam is the fact that the fact that the beauty of a personal struggle

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[SPEAKER_00]: The sacrifice of Hajar, the pain that she felt, and she was all alone, there was nobody witnessing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine how confused she must have been?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though she knows a low will take care, but she doesn't know how.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe she will die and somebody will take the child.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She doesn't know what's going to happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine what she's walking between Safa and Marwa?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she goes into that dip.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the reason why she runs that valley is because she cannot see a smiley face or wolf comes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So she runs in between that valley.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's why there was a valley once upon a time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: where we walk between the green lines that used to be a valley back in the day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Safa and Marwara had two mountains, much larger.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So she walked all the way to the top.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then when she gets down, what she goes into the valley, she jogs so that she can only stay away from a smite for a short period of time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That entire episode, imagine her frame of mind and from that sacrifice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: a loss of Hannah with the other shows to make an entire ritual that not one or two people witnessed, not hundreds followed, not even millions, billions of people, billions of people have taken her footsteps as their footsteps.

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[SPEAKER_00]: have taken her rituals as our rituals.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is as if Allah is demonstrating, no matter what good you do, I shall record it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is as if Allah is giving us comfort and calm that how you're not alone, your iman, your trust,

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[SPEAKER_00]: It has been recorded and it has been legislated for all of mankind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And in that is consolation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, not every person's personal sacrifice will become rituals.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it is as if Allah is indicating, as Allah says in the Qur'an, in the law, al-Alamilin, I'm not going to cause to go to waste the good deeds of the one who does good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't matter if somebody seeing you are not Facebook posts or not, all of the YouTube said, oh, your good deeds Allah is watching.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody was there, but Allah recorded and Allah legislated rituals ilayomil kiyama.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And in this is an indication that every good that you do, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala will be aware and will record it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And one final point that I have, which is not necessarily a theological one, but honestly it is something that is a very, very interesting and important aspect and issue.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that is for me personally, looking at this story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Subhanallah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You see in it, you know, there used to be a claim it's not politically incorrect to say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But when I was growing up, you would be allowed to say that women are the fairer sex, the gentler sex.

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[SPEAKER_00]: These days it's politically incorrect, you cannot say that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's what we were taught back in the 80s.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For centuries, people would say women are the gentler sex.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But so, of Hanallah, when you see the Him, the courage, the resolve, when you see the sheer audacity of women like Hajar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: when you see how they're willing to do everything they can to protect those whom they love.

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[SPEAKER_00]: than will lie, they become role models for all people who called themselves brave men.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I say to you, will lie, the sacrifice of our women, of our pious women, especially those who they are trying to struggle on their own.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have spouses, they are divorced, they're widows, they're raising children on their own.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They resolve, they have, the courage they have, they him, they have, the amount that they sacrifice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Lahey, it is something that it should be worthy of admiration and encouragement for all of us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we see this in our mother Hajjad, Adi Hissalam.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And one final point before I conclude the first hold, but it's a theological point, but it needs to be said.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not quite related to the morals, but it needs to be said.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, in the Christian literature, and in the philosophical literature of Medieval Europe, there was a very important question asked.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How could God command Abraham with an evil command to sacrifice his son?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you have famous philosophers, Kira Kagar, others, they have treatises on this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How can a just God command?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ibrahim, Abraham, to sacrifice an innocent child.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is not justice and it's a big philosophical issue that is raised and some of our own scholars got involved in this and I understand that from my perspective, the solution is very easy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The very easy solution and it is a beautiful solution.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says in the Qur'an,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Did Allah verbalize a command to kill an innocent child like his mind?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Rather, what Allah did is that He showed Abraham a dream of an act, a scene that is going to happen because the prophets' dreams are true.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All prophets have true dreams.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Prophets do not have imagination dream.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What they see will happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Abraham saw himself, carefully lifting up, an axe and a smile lying down on the ground.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ibrahim saw that he did not see the axe coming down, he did not see blood, he did not see a deadist maril.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He saw Ismailing on the ground and his axe raised up, and he interpreted this maril would be killed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, he says to Ismail that Allah commanded me to sacrifice you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He said, Allah commanded sacrifice you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Allah did not command a sacrifice, Allah showed Ibrahim the precursor to the sacrifice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and Abraham understood it to be the sacrifice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So then when his mind is lying down and the axe is raised and the scene is fulfilled.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The exact scene comes to being at that point in time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Allah says to Abraham, enough you have done what I commanded you to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What did Allah command him to do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That scene.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The actual sacrifice was not a command of Allah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was only, would you get this far?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he got that far.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when he got that far, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala substituted, the ram that we are going to be doing all day or four.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the good

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[SPEAKER_00]: point for us is that in our tradition we don't have to worry about this philosophical issue actually Allah did not come at Ibrahim.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In this manner what he showed him was the dream and that dream was in fact fulfilled with this we can summarize the story of Ibrahim and Hajar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The story of the building of the kabba.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It shall forever remain relevant to all of us throughout all time frame.

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[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah SWT make us of those who benefit within through the Qur'an, and may He make us of those who is versus they understand, and applies halan and alam throughout ala ispan, ask Allah SWT for his forgiveness to you as well ask him for his giro for and alahman.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Alhamdulillah al-Wahad al-Ahad al-Ahad al-Samad al-Lad al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-Miyal al-

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[SPEAKER_00]: because these days that are gonna come upon us in just a week, these days are the holiest days of the entire year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So even if you are not going for Hedge, Allah wanted me and you to purify ourselves during these days.

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[SPEAKER_00]: These 10 days, all acts of the religion are legislated.

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[SPEAKER_00]: giving charity, doing vicar, praying extra, giving old heya.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you go for a hedge excellent, if not, then spend those days fasting over here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: These are the most blessed and the holiest days of the year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they are about to come upon us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So even if you are not written amongst the herjudge this year, then be amongst those whose hearts make the journey to Allah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Be amongst those whose

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[SPEAKER_00]: Spirit is purified like the judge are purified and on the day of out of a when others are standing at out of a you should be fasting over here on the day of out of a when people are begging a lot for forgiveness The Sahaba and Tabi Roun who did not go for Hajj they would congregate in their message or in their houses and they would do extra thicker on that day extra to out on that day So even if you are not physically going for Hajj

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[SPEAKER_00]: Still, you may spiritually come close to Allah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You may spiritually cleanse yourself of all of your sins.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You may spiritually return to Allah and come back a change person.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That is the goal of all of us during these 10 days.

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[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala make us of those who benefit from everything blessed Allah has given us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If there is no one else, and if there is no one else, if there is no one else, if there is no one else, if there is no one else, if there is no one else, and if there is no one else, if there is no one else, and if there is no one else, if there is no one else,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will