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  • Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 8

    Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 8
    Sep 16 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon you all and upon you all. My brothers and sisters, we are on the last of the Hikaiyat and advice of Hatim al-Assam, may Allah have mercy on him. The eighth point, where he said, I have seen people that they place their trust in their own abilities and in things which have been created by Allah like themselves. So they trust their own abilities or they trust maqlouq. And he said, but I have read in the Quran where Allah said, And whosoever, which means whosoever has taqwa of Allah, He will extract him from his difficulties, will make a way out for him. And will provide him from sources that they could not imagine. And whoever puts their trust in Allah, then he will become sufficient for him. And so he said, Hatim al-Assam, may Allah have mercy on him. Hatim al-Assam, may Allah have mercy on him. So I have placed my trust in Allah alone. I remind myself and you that we live in this world for a short time. And then we go before Allah. And therefore it is essential for us to make sure that we do not do anything which displeases Allah . Now, if you see the advice of Hatim al-Assam, may Allah have mercy on him. And that is reason why we go before Allah. christ, and gunning into what mapping us into. And let us stop with this for a moment. and world we talk about the self-made man. I am the master of my own destiny. You must have heard these statements. These statements are kufr. Because Allah is the master of destiny, not me. But Allah has given me some abilities and therefore I must have confidence and nothing wrong with that. Now the finest example of this, and that is why I keep on saying all the time over and over again that the seerah of Rasul is the tafsir of the Quran. The seerah is the tafsir, explanation of the Quran. The point that Hatim al-Aswami is making which is that you may have confidence in yourself but ultimate confidence and trust is with Allah. This is illustrated in the story of Rasul Al-Aswami. This is illustrated in the story of Rasulul Ahmadi. This is illustrated in the story of Rasulul Ahmadi. Because Rasulullah have made his two devotions. One is he sent his safety missions, he 허� vielleicht sampai ke overcoming all the obstacles with his company and he gave his Person ofôle ahhiy DID to тем who feel, for example, thatthird ofbe puttheirrumin their series of battle, whereas his troops lose, but all the people on the course of the first journey reached to the battle of Badr. O Allah, if these people perish, then there will be no one to worship you on the face of the earth. And he said, O Allah, help me. O Allah, help me. O Allah, help me. Until Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, radiyallahu anhu, he couldn't see Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in such a state of concern. He said to him, Basti ya Rasulullah, your Rabb will not abandon you. So does it mean he had no confidence in himself? No. He had confidence in himself. He had confidence in whatever material resources he had. But the ultimate confidence is in Allah. The issue of taqwa is to be concerned about the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone. And to have a single-minded focus to say that everything I say or do, every decision I make, everything I choose to do. Whatever I decide to do or not to do will be done only with one focus, which is does it please Allah? And that is why I see the beauty of what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says. Think about this. Allah is saying, Wa ma yattakhi illa hai aja allahu makharaja. The One who has taqwa, I will extract him from his difficulties. I will help him. I will help him. Allah is saying, I will take him out of his difficulties. Allah is not saying I will give him the power to get out.
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  • Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 7 – The journey of my pizza

    Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 7 – The journey of my pizza
    Sep 16 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon him, and upon him, and upon him. From now on, we are looking at the story of Hatim al-Assam, peace and blessings be upon him, and the advice that he gave to people. And this is the seventh of them, seventh out of eight. He said, I have seen that people are struggling to earn their money. I've seen that people are struggling to earn their money so much that they disgrace and they demean themselves before others and even use haram means to earn their livelihood. What I have read in the Quran that Allah has said, وَمَا مِنْ دَابَّةٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا عَلَى اللَّهِ رِزْقُهَا وَيَعْلَمُ مُسْتَقَرَّهَا وَمُسْتَوْضَعَهَا كُلٌّ فِي كِتَابٍ مُّبِينٍ And this is the first of the seven verses. And the second verse is the first verse. And the third verse is the first verse. And the fourth verse is the first verse. And the fifth verse is the first verse. And the sixth verse is the first verse. And the seventh verse is the sixth verse. And the seventh verse is the sixth verse. And the seventh verse is the fifth verse. And the fourth verse is the sixth verse. Then Allah says in Ayatul 추َسَّطَ passieren Weは انعم الْحَٰرين الذين بالحق القدم escola There is no moving creature on the earth whose provision, whose rizq is not guaranteed by Allah. And only He who knows where it lives and where it is laid to rest. And all of them is written in the perfect record. حادث الالميل الم记ع الأمر őlحاطم الأسم says I know that I am also one of those creatures selling some goods at the market. He knows that and He knows that I am also one of those people. sustenance depends on Allah and Allah has guaranteed that to me. So I engage myself in the Ibadah of Allah for which He created me and I have left the responsibility of my provisions to Him. I engage myself in the Ibadah of Allah and responsibility of the provisions I have left it to Allah. I remind myself and you, think about one thing. Most of you would have had your dinner I suppose by now, right? If you didn't have dinner, you had lunch anyway. Think about what you ate for lunch, whatever it was. Supposing you ate for lunch a roti, you know, a kufus. You ate a pizza. You ate a pizza. You ate a pizza. Now take that bread you ate and trace it back. Before becoming a bread, what was this thing? It was dough. And this dough went into an oven and somebody cooked it, right? Before the dough, what was it? Flour. And this flour, was it born as a flour? No. Before that, what was it? It was a plant. It was a seed, right? So somebody sowed a seed somewhere, we don't know where. That plant grew. It produced seeds, which is rice or wheat or corn or whatever. And then somebody harvested that and someone transported that to some place. It was stored. And then someone bought that and they took it and they ground it and they made flour. And somebody bought this flour and they took it into the bakery and they kneaded the dough and they baked the bread. And then this bread went into the pizza place and somebody made the pizza. Okay? And all you did was, you went and paid five bucks and you bought the pizza and you ate the pizza. You don't know and you don't remember and you don't acknowledge and you don't think of all the people and all the things that I only started at the plant. There's a story beyond that also. All of that, which was decreed by Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Jalla Jalaluhu so that you could eat your pizza. How many people? In how many people? In how many? God knows how many countries because today our plates are international. The beef on your plate comes from Argentina. The mutton on your plate comes from New Zealand or Australia. The chicken on your plate comes from God knows where...
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  • Rights of Rasoolullahﷺ – #2 Ita’at

    Rights of Rasoolullahﷺ – #2 Ita’at
    Sep 15 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. We praise Him, we ask for His help, we ask for His forgiveness, we believe in Him, we trust in Him, and we seek refuge in Allah from the evils of our souls and from the evil deeds of our deeds. Whomsoever Allah guides, no one is misguided from Him, and whosoever He guides, no one is guided from Him. And after that, my brothers and sisters, help us. We are looking at the rights of the Messenger of Allah on his Ummah, meaning on us. And as I mentioned before, the issue with rights is that if somebody has a right on you, and you do not fulfill that right, then you are culpable, you are punishable if Allah wants to punish. We ask Allah to save us from that, because of all the rights, the rights of the people, the rights of creation, the number one first right is the right of Rasulullah . We spoke about the first right, the first right of Allah. The first of them, adab ul-ihtiram, the respect and honour that is due to Him . Today we will speak about the second of them, which is itaat, to obey Him without question. Allah said that He sent His Anbiya to be obeyed. This is not blind following, but obedience with the knowledge of who we are obeying and why. And this is not a new system, you need to follow it completely, not partially, not selectively. That change is to move from living by our desires to living by the command of Allah . Allah said, وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ رَسُولٍ إِلَّا لِيُتَاعَ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ Allah said, we have sent no Messenger but to be obeyed by the command and leave of Allah. That is why Abu Hurayrah reported, that Rasulullah said in a Hadith, Sahih Hadith which is recorded in Bukhari, Everyone from my nation will enter Jannah except those who refuse. Everyone from my nation, from the Ummah will enter Jannah except those who refuse. So they asked him, Ya Rasulullah, who will refuse? He said, whoever obeys me enters Jannah. Whoever disobeys has refused. May Allah grant us the Tawfiq not to refuse to enter Jannah. I remind myself and you that the most common reason we refuse to obey Rasulullah is because of our slavery to our desires, to our Nufus, to our Nafs. The question is to ask yourself this question and say, is whatever we want to do that is against the command of Rasulullah and can result in our being listed as a Nafs? In our being listed among those who refuse to enter Jannah, is it worth that price? Is it worth that price? Allah made it a condition of Iman, of faith itself, that not only should we accept every judgement of Rasulullah without question, but we must not even feel any resistance in our hearts or we risk being out of Islam. Now this is a condition that is unique to the judgment of Rasulullah. Which indicates his position and the importance of obeying him totally. Because in the Sharia, it's only what you say and what you do which becomes possibly culpable, which you are accountable for, not what is in your heart, not what you feel and not what you think. Except when it comes to the judgments of Rasulullah . In the case of anything which the Nabi ruled, even thinking and feeling against it is, an issue of great importance and great problem as far as Allah is concerned. I am talking about blind obedience versus obedience with knowledge. The most common, the most simple, the easiest way to understand is the standpoint from which you obey a physician without question. Not because you are doing blind obedience, but because you trust him. Because you know his training, you know who he is, and you know that he has the knowledge. He has your best intentions of heart. And so he tells you to do something, you do that. You follow his advice. You don't argue with that. Now Rasulullah in the same way, with the greater magnitude that as far as the physician is concerned, is something which cures an ailment, maybe it's a life-saving thing. Life is saved by Allah ,
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  • Importance of the Seerah

    Importance of the Seerah
    Sep 14 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. And we praise Allah, the Lord of the worlds. We praise Him and we greet His noble Messenger. And what is next? Allah said, Allah and His angels greet the Prophet. O you who believe, greet him and greet him with a greeting. O Allah, greet our Master Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you greeted Ibrahim and the family of Ibrahim. You are the Most Glorious. O Allah, greet our Master Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you greeted Ibrahim and the family of Ibrahim. You are the Most Glorious. My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders, and that one of the malaika was standing there trying to put a musalla. MashaAllah, may Allah bless you and keep you always, raise your darajat and keep you always in special protection, inshaAllah. We are gathered here today, Alhamdulillah, to do what is perhaps the most important activity that a Muslim can do in his life or her life, other than the fara'id which Allah has made for them. And that is to learn about the blessed life of Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and the blessed life of his family and companions. It is the haqq of Rasulullah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, that every time his name is mentioned, every time you say Rasulullah, or every time you say Muhammad, that at least we say, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and if you say more, Alhamdulillah, but at least this much. This is his right and therefore, you must do it, you don't need to do it loudly, but for yourself. And remember that when we do this, it is not that we are doing a favor to the Rasul , we are doing a favor to ourselves. Because when a person, as we know from the hadith, Rasul said that when a person sends salam on me, sends dhruud on me, Allah sends salam on that person ten times. Ten times for every single time that we send salam on him, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and upon him and upon his family and companions. And this is the most important thing. And the most important thing is that we are not doing a favor to the Prophet , but to the Prophet . The reason I say that this is the most important activity is because just now we heard the Tilawat of the Quran. Alhamdulillah. May Allah bless the Shaykh. May Allah illuminate his life with the Quran. May Allah illuminate his Qalb with the Quran. May Allah keep the Quran firm in his heart and may he be the means by which the Quran and the love of the Quran is spread across the world to everybody who comes into contact with him in every way. If Allah had wished, Allah could have sent Jibreel to come and stand on top of the Kaaba and recite the Quran to the people. Jibreel could have come in his true form or he could have come in the form of a human being or he could have come in any form that Allah pleased and he could have recited the Quran to the people of Makkah. This was perfectly possible for Allah to do. It was perfectly possible for Allah for example to send the Quran al-Kareem in the form of a book one for each of the residents of Makkah. And don't tell me they didn't have paper in those days and printing press. That doesn't matter. Allah is Allah. So Allah could have done this. Or Allah could have sent His Kalam to this world in any way or form that He pleased. But Allah did not do any of that. Allah said Allah said Allah said He sent Al-Furqan, which is the Quran to His slave. Abdeehee. So the Kalam of Allah came to Muhammad Rasulullah . We say and we should say that Allah sent the Kitab to us and He sent the Kitab Qudal-e-Nas for the Hidayah to everyone. But the person who received the Kitab of Allah is Muhammad Mustafa . And this is the great Hikmah of Allah . The Hikmah of Allah is that He did not send the Quran to an Angel. He did not send the Quran in the voice of an Angel. He did not send the Quran to a Malik to walk in the streets and recite to the people. Because Allah sent the Quran for two reasons.
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  • Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 6

    Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 6
    Sep 12 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon him and upon his family. Faham Abadu. My brothers and sisters, we are looking at the hikayat and the advice of Hatim al-Assam. Arhatul Ali. And there are totally eight of them. We finished five. Today is the sixth. He said, I have seen that in this world, everyone has at least one enemy. I have seen that in this world, everyone has at least one enemy. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran, إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ فَاتَّخِذُوهُ عَدُوَّةً إِنَّمَا يَدْعُو هِزْبَهُ لِيَكُونُ مِّنْ أَسْحَابِ السَّعِيرِ Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, which means, surely, shaitan is an enemy to you. So take him as an enemy. Treat him as an enemy. Shaitan is your enemy. So treat him as an enemy. He only invites his followers to become inmates of hellfire, of the blaze. So Hatim al-Assam, rahmatullah, he says, So I have taken shaitan to be my enemy. And I always try to keep away from him. Therefore, I have no enemy besides or other than shaitan. I remember myself when you, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, told us about shaitan. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ فِي السِّلْمِ كَافَّةً وَلَا تَطْبِعُواْ خُطْوَاتِ الشَّيْطَانِ إِنَّهُ لَكُمْ عَدُومٌ بِينٌ Allah said, Do you believe? Enter into Islam fully, completely, not partially, not selectively, fully and completely. And do not follow the footsteps of shaitan. Verily, he is an open enemy. When we look at this ayat, first of all, the ayat which I recited before, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is warning us and telling us clearly, your enemy is shaitan. So what must you do with the enemy? Treat him like an enemy. Don't treat him like a friend. Don't treat him like, he's okay, I will ignore. No. What do you do with the enemy? You fight the enemy. So Allah is saying, actively fight the shaitan. Actively fight the shaitan. And the other ayat of Surah al-Baqarah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, don't follow the footsteps of shaitan. Which means shaitan is not there. He's not catching you and dragging you. He went away. Only the mark of his passing is there. Allah says, don't follow this mark. Right? If you remember the ayat that Sheikh recited in the first rakat, which refers to the ayat concerning the Battle of Badr, where first shaitan tells the Quraysh, don't worry, he says, I am your neighbor, I am your friend. And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, then when he saw the forces that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent, when he saw the malaika, he says, he said, I am free from you. I am gone. So the friendship of shaitan is a very dicey thing. First of all, it leads you only into, one place which is the hellfire. And that is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, the shaitan will say on the day of judgment, that Allah told you to do something and I told you to do something. You chose to follow me. You made the choice to follow me. He says, don't send lanat on me, send lanat on yourself. Don't curse me, curse yourself. Because you chose the path. I was gone, only my footsteps were there. You made the choice. You knew these are the footsteps of shaitan. You know it is haram. Still you do it. So you can't blame shaitan. You can't say, oh shaitan made me. No, shaitan did not make you. Shaitan did not make you do it. Shaitan did what shaitan does. He was tempting. And this is what shaitan will tell us. That's the reason why we must read the Quran, understand the Quran, study the Quran and read. Because shaitan, Allah swt told us everything that shaitan will tell us. We have two forces to fight. One is shaitan, one is our nafs. Our own desires. Now there is a way of distinguishing, differentiating between what comes from the nafs
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  • Attitude influences action

    Attitude influences action
    Sep 11 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, attitudes influence behavior and behavior influences results. Attitudes drives behavior and behavior drives results. I heard an announcement being made about a Sira lecture conference. And the person making the announcement, obviously with good intention, was telling the people, if you are free, please attend it. If you are free, please attend the Sira lecture. Now, my question to myself and you is, supposing instead of the Sira lecture, you are announcing, say there is an open enrollment happening for Microsoft or for Tesla. Open enrollment. Meaning? Just go with your CV, get a job. Will you tell people, if you are free, go there? Supposing you are giving people health advice. Will you say, if you are free, go for a walk? If you are free, go to the gym for a little while. If you are free, eat dinner. Most of us, if we do not eat food for one full week, nothing will happen to us. You won't even feel hungry. Forget about weakness. Right? Is this wise? The other day, some of the neurotransmitters. What are they? Only things is different. Nothing will make you happy. And it is true that unspoken words do require deeper thought. When you talk about convenient things, we think of everything is윤 we believe everybody has Consort. We listen to the personality of God. Nobody has Yoshi's. Somebody has Srio. Someone does apaquatini of opium. Nobody has Dexam ответ. Imam don't do that. Forschees say that sometimes bonuses are the only thing responsible for their problems. Three days fast, fourth day, I wasn't even hungry, I just thought to myself, I am supposed to spend 72 hours, now it's more than that. On the fourth day, I just realized that I had not eaten. I was drinking only water. So if somebody says, if you are free, have dinner, what would you say? But when it comes to the seerah of Rasulullah , we say, if you are free, attend it. Think about this, what is the life of Muhammad worth to us? What is the value of that? I'm not talking about singing an acheed and so on, and saying, oh, mashaAllah, mashaAllah. No, no, no, serious, get serious. Really, what is the value of the life of Rasulullah and his family? Why should it have value? Because Allah sent us into this world, and Allah said, if you live in this world, in a way that makes me happy, that we get the rida of Allah, Allah will give us Jannah forever. We live in this world for a few years, that few years will get us Jannah forever. Condition that life must be in a way which pleases Allah. That's the first thing. And Allah did not leave this random to say, okay, you know, guess, figure out your, no, Allah sent us a model. Allah sent us a living model. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala caused this living model and all the details of that to be preserved. Allah created a whole generation of people who preserved everything. How Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, what he ate, what he drank, what he liked, what he did not like, what he, how he spoke, what he spoke, including, for example, I always give this example. I said, you know, think about whoever you love the most, right, in this life, whoever you love the most. And then I will ask you, describe for me the sole of the feet, this bottom of the feet, of this person you love the most. I can guarantee you. You love the most. I can guarantee you. You do not, you do not know. But for Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, we know. If I ask you, this person you love so much, how do they clip their nails? Which finger first? Which next? Now, if they are doing it according to the sunnah, you will know. But other than that, you will not know. With Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, we know. So, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala caused his life to be. Preserved in such minute detail. Why? Because this is an example for us to follow. Now, how will you learn that? By going to a seerah lecture, if you are free? Okay. So, you go if you are free. So, let me tell you now. You don't go because you are not free. So,
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  • [Urdu] توکل کیا ہے

    [Urdu] توکل کیا ہے
    Sep 10 2025
    Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and his family. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. Peace be upon you all. So, Allah said that when a person is sincere, we make his problems easy. We make the problems of his life easy. We open the gap in his life. We remove all his problems. We fight his enemies. We protect his enemies. Allah says that it is our responsibility. We do it. Allah does it. Allah removes him from his problems. Allah makes his life easy. And then Allah said, وَيَرْزُقُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ And He provides us with everything that is in human needs and desires. Everything. Whether it is food or food. Whether it is knowledge. Whether it is health in sickness. Whether it is his family or his family problems and problems. Whether it is his relationships with people. Whether it is his success in the world. All these things that are in human's control and he wants to be in human control. Allah says that all these things are included in risk. Now see how beautiful this verse is. Allah says that we will not only give this, but we will give it from such a place that he cannot even expect. Now see how much love this is. And how much glory Allah has. If a person, for example, if you have the wealth or fame to come from a place, or whatever you want, health or whatever, if you get it from such a place, if you get it from such a place, where he had expected that, okay, this is my brother, my brother will help me. And your brother helped you. Your brother helped you. He helped you. So, brother's work was done by brother. So, brother, Alhamdulillah. So, this is not such a place that you did not expect. So, if you get help from such a way, and all our needs are fulfilled, all our desires are fulfilled, then also, human can be fulfilled. No one will object to it. No, Allah says, Allah, no, Allah's intention is that not only we fulfill your desires, but because you want us, we show you our nature too. Right? You think, what is this? What is this? Because for 24 hours, you keep looking at our glory. And you remember us by looking at our glory. So, look at more. Look at more. Right? What is before you, you remember us by looking at it. Now, we will show you such a thing that you did not even expect. The closed door will open. Where you saw the wall, the door will open there. The enemy will come to your shelter The enemy will come to your shelter. The enemy will come to your shelter. Unexpected. Where there was no expectation at all, from there we will show you. The need will be fulfilled. Not only your desire will be fulfilled, but we will fulfill it in such a way that you will see our glory more. Now, if this is not the case, then what is it? Tell me. So, Allah says this is the thing. And then Allah says, Umayyat wa qar Allahi fa'afazmoo Now, when a person opens up to this, then Allah says, yes, it is enough for him. Now, think, there is no need for any world. This is Allah's saying, we are enough. What is this world? What is this world's daily bread? What is this world's great children? What is this world's great thing? In this world, you want to be famous. This is a foolish way, but I say, if a person wants, then this is nothing. In fact, in the end, Allah says, we are enough for him. Allah did not say, enough in the world. What is enough? That is enough. Enough for the world. Enough for the end. Enough for the end. Now, think, that a person who comes to this stage,
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