I'M JEALOUS OF MOHAMMED HIJAB - OVERCOME ENVY
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Jealousy is a disease that affects all of us in our relationships with our brothers and sisters. This disease is something that has been around for a very long time, and it s been affecting many of our brothers for a long time too.
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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh brothers and sisters and dear friends welcome to this video
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now obviously you guys are thinking okay the title is clickbait you can kind of say that
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but there's a greater message behind it now why have i named this i am jealous of muhammad hijab
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now the question is jealousy is something that affects everybody ibn taymiyyah may allah have
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said that everybody suffers from jealousy but for those who try to control it is someone that's
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dignified somebody who is a dignified person who's someone that he tries to control it and somebody
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who cannot control it is referred to as somebody that has no integrity now jealousy is something
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that's affected adam's children one had one overcame the other and killed uh his own brother his own
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blood brother and we know from banu israel as well that yaqub's children were envious of yusuf
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and that brought them to the level of wanting to kill their own brother now when i first met
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muhammad hijab may allah bless him inshaallah i didn't know him all i see him is a brother who comes
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to the park and in the dawah scene jealousy exists now not only in the dawah scene when i was speaking
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to my teacher they said that this is actually more on a greater scale with the people of knowledge
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so the ulema and be it people who are studying abroad this is actually more you're on a peak
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on their level now the reason i'm sharing this reminder with you guys is because
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muhammad hijab is just an example that i'm giving is because it's someone that's working with me
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closely you know now i could have easily said to myself you know what i'm ali dawah i've got this
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many subscribers this brother has just come into the scene and there's this phenomenon that goes about
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i want you to be good and i want you to be better but not better than me so this is a disease that
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we have in the heart where we think to ourselves you know what i want good for this person as long
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as he's never going to be better than me this is the disease that we carry inside us and a lot of
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people who study and seeking knowledge abroad they are doing it with the intentions studying this
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knowledge why so they can be better than this person or they're in competition with this person or if
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they see another student of knowledge doing better than them they don't like it and this is a disease
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that covers our umma and sadly it affects our umma why is it that we cannot want the best for another
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muslim another believer why now coming back to brother muhammad hijab again and with this inshallah
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is very important that if anybody praises you to your face abu bakir said that make this dua
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the following dua is that when somebody comes and praises you to your face you say may allah forgive
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me for what you do not know about me because you're only praising me for the mercy of allah that you do
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not know my sins and may allah make me better than what you think of me this is a dua that you should
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always keep in mind so i could have come and said you know what no i don't want to promote him i don't
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want to do this no you know he's more knowledgeable than me or in these aspects etc and he has his shortcomings
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and i'm his brother i know i spend time with him i have shortcomings he has the shortcomings that we advise
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but he has the strong points and his weak points now the reason i'm mentioning this is because to me
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if my goal is i'm ali dawa and i have to be the person in the in the uh the light you know like i have
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to be out there if the dawa is about me then i would have a problem with anyone coming into the scene
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i would have a problem with this guy coming in and this person coming and talking about this
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but if the dawa is not from is not about me and it's about allah's religion and making his kalam
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the highest and defending his religion against his enemies then i should have zero problem with another
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believer a brother or a sister whoever it may be coming into the scene and helping my cause now
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when i see brother muhammad hijab will be others like sheikh uthman i would teach sheikh muhammad whoever it
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may be when they come to the dawa i rejoice i should rejoice and i should be happy why because
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you're helping the cause you are helping my cause i personally without yanis sounding like i'm doing
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something special because this is the get-go this is how every single one of us should be but because
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of the times we live in you might see this as something praiseworthy it's not i was happy i was
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like hamdulillah allah has sent a brother who can help me who can help the religion who can maybe help
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himself by getting involved in dawa because when you're involved in dawa hamdulillah it protects
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you from certain sins etc you have to be happy i should be happy when i see another believer
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defending the kalam of allah now if i have a problem with that i have to question my heart
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why do i not like this brother what's the reason what is the reason i need to ask this question to
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myself and this is very important muhammad ibn salim at tabi may allah have mercy said i do not envy
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anyone for some woody thing for if he is going to be amongst the people of paradise then how can i
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envy him for something of the woody life whilst he is destined for paradise and if he is going to be
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amongst the people of the hellfire then how can i envy him for something of the woody life while he
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is destined for the hellfire now this issue here is not just okay you know it's it's a problem in
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the heart no this is this involves tawhid this involves you denying allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
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decree qadr you're you're basically your problem when you have a jealous when you have jealousy with
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anybody your problem is actually not with that person your problem was is is with your lord
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because you're saying the following i have a problem and i am jealous and i do not like the fact
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that this brother is more knowledgeable than me i do not like the fact that this brother has more
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money than me i don't like the fact that this brother is more good looking than me or sister
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it might be sister as well i do not like the fact that this brother's got this listen who is the one
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that's bestowing that to him the old sustainer allah subhanahu wa ta'ala yeah so now your beef
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yeah in raw terms i'll tell you is not with that person your problem with is with allah is with allah
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subhanahu wa ta'ala you're saying allah i have a problem with you giving this person this
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so it's a matter of tawhid you need to understand that that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the provider
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and he can bestow whatever whatever he likes on whomever he likes and the fact that you're
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questioning that is a very very big problem now ibn qayyim raheem allah may allah have mercy on him
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has said the following that envy is broken up to three sections the first type is the following
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the type is very little the type is this type is very little and does not leave the envier to harm
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others either by way of hatred in his heart speech of the tongue or deeds of the hand rather the person
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has some envy in his heart but he only deals with his muslim brother through what allah loves this is
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something that is not harmful so me personally my way of dealing with this is the following if any time
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now i'm not going to try everybody has some kind of jealousy now like ibn taymiya raheem allah said yeah
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you're going to have some kind of jealousy it's how you control it so for example if any time i feel
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some kind of thing in my heart towards any kind of brother or sister i do three things yeah
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number one i seek refuge in allah from the curse shaitan shaitan that's number one number two i make
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dua for that person and say oh allah increase this brother or increase his sister
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higher than myself and give him the best in this life and the hereafter
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and the third thing that i do is the following when i'm in a gathering i will praise him
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and if i'm in a gathering this goes with anyone not just with anyone this is the my personal this is
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me personally to me yeah my way of dealing with the shaitan whispers uh whispering these kind of
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jealousy thoughts to me do you get what i'm trying to say this is handle that praiseworthy thing why
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because you're what you're doing is that you're controlling you're acknowledging and saying this
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is a disease in the heart how do i deal with it this is a good trait rather than you saying how can
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i ignite this further and try to cause some kind of physical harm or you know some people go to the
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levels of doing magic they go to yeah and they get involved that's how much you know they they hate
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the person now the second type uh ibn qayyim talks about ibn qayyim talks about is the envious desires
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that the blessing bestowed on the one he envies should seize should stop he hates that allah should
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give blessings to his slaves rather he desires that the envied person should remain in that state
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of deprivation yeah this is obviously something that is haram yeah you should not do this third type
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is it says when a person wishes to be like another person without desiring that the blessings
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possessed by that person should seize the person who has this type of envy is not blamed rather this
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is very similar to praiseworthy competition to excel in another another in good deeds umar ibn qatab
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ibn abu bakr r.a beautiful example yeah they competed with each other in what righteousness good deeds
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yeah this is what they did this is not blameworthy sheikh ibn ufaymin has said the 13 things that come
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the uh the effects of jealousy the harmful effects of jealousy okay so the first is it is from the
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major sins which is not expiated by uh the way of salah fasting charity or any other deed rather it
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requires the individual to make tawbah you have to make specific tawbah for this so it's not something
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that you know we say you know allah says in the quran that if you do righteous deed you know it
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would um um uh like allah says in the quran we will get rid of your minor sins yeah this is something
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that's a major sin that requires for you to personally repent and the condition of repent is
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that you hate the sin you stop the sin and you try not to go back to the sin but if it involves
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wronging another person you have to ask their forgiveness so that's the first thing the second
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thing is there is a severe punishment it has been narrated from the prophet peace be upon him
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beware of envy because envy confirms destroys virtues such as the fire consumes firewood yeah
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the third is that it is from the mannerisms of certain jewish people that and it may be the
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the traits that banu israel had yeah i'll refer as banu israel and who likes to be described with an
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attribute from the attributes of certain uh banu israel that certain uh bad jews yeah we have bad and
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good in every faith just to put that in context fourth it negates the brotherhood of faith because
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the envy wishes for the blessings of allah to cease and the believer loves for his brother what he loves
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for himself as we know the prophet said love for your brother what you love for yourself the fact
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that you're jealous is you're you're negating you don't want that to happen fifthly negation of being
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pleased with qadar the divine um execution and qadr divine will of allah if he was pleased with qadar and
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qadar he would have said that this is from allah and it is good yeah that's the sixth point the seventh
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point is the envy follows the footsteps of shaytan yeah what did the shaytan do when adam was created
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i am better than him yes so much so the one who you know when he acknowledged allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
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um that exists allah's asking him to do something he rejected based on why you favored him more than me
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and allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in surah verse 21 all you who believe follow not the footsteps of shaytan
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eighth point jealousy inherits it inherits enemies and hatreds between the people yeah you cause fitna yeah
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ninth jealousy leads to injustice oppression adam's son assaulted and killed his brother because of
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jealousy the tenth point the envy has disdain for the blessings of allah so he doesn't recognize any
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blessings of allah upon him for this you find those virtuous individuals whom allah bestowed upon
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blessings do not have this sickness because they recognize the blessings jealousy is only found
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in one who doesn't see any of allah's blessings upon himself what this means is that you're so
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indulged and thinking oh you know why does this person have this why is it you're so busy with
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that subhanallah that you don't see the blessings allah's bestowed upon you you're so you're too busy
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with other people why has he got this why has he got that why has he got that why do i have this
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you're and you're what's going to happen you're not going to recognize and see you know the things
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that allah has blessed you with point 11 it decreases iman it decreases your faith alhamdulillah
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how could you not decrease your faith when you're forgetting the remembrance of allah you're forgetting
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and you're too busy concentrating he's got this he's got that why do i have it 12 point his heart
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is busy subhanallah it connects 12 11 and 12 his heart is busy from the remembrance of allah and his
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heart becomes hard because of this subhanallah what great of a punishment else there can be that you are
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too busy not remembering allah but you're too jealous of what allah's bestowed on another person
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point 13 lastly he consumes the blessings of allah and covers up good qualities of others
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you find one of them when someone they envy is mentioned with something good they say this is
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correct this is good mashallah he is beneficial to people but then after that he mentions some
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faults to keep him down and we have dua to protect us from that yeah so we have um surah al-falak
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and from the evil of an envier when he envies yeah so allah has even given us given us a verse of
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revelation and the evils of those who envy yeah and you know the prophet before we'd go to sleep
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narrated by aisha that you recite surah ikhlas surah nasa surah falak blow in his hand and wipe it over
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his body and um i've asked my teachers and they said that you can do that you know in different
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times as well it's not just for before you go bed so in a nutshell brothers and sisters i just want
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to wrap up inshallah i hope you guys have benefited from this and understood and i highly recommend
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for you guys to actually send this to people that might benefit those who are studying abroad
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whoever it may be yeah because this is a disease that covers our ummah and sadly it covers it so bad
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that there's people out there that are looking for the faults and the downfall of other believers
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just so they can feed their ego and say oh i see this i knew it you know that wallah it's a disease
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in the heart yeah and we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to bring more people into the dawah scene
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that would help the kalam of allah defend it against his enemies and we ask allah to protect us from
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jealousy and envy towards those people and we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to increase them
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in their goodness and hamdulillah how could a believer not be happy towards another believer that is doing
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the works of uh islam and hamdulillah promoting islam allah's religion further hope you guys have
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benefited inshallah brothers and sisters may allah bless you guys inshallah and um inshallah i ask you
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guys to make dua that allah keeps us humble because over praise like the prophet said that if someone
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praises you throw dust in their face because you're actually breaking their back and you're literally
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and i've seen this with my i'll be honest with you brothers and sisters i've seen people that i've worked
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with before being praised to a level where i can when i when i heard this hadith i said well why i
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can see that happening in front of me you're breaking the guys back you're you're you're giving
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this and we are all people in the public scene we are in danger of this when we overly praise we start
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thinking we are something special and how many people have we seen that's going to stray because
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of this so we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us inshallah and all praise is glory and
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gratitude belongs to him until next time assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh