PROPHETS MESSAGE TO ENGLAND LOSING PENALTIES
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In this episode, we discuss the England Women's Football team's penalty shootout victory in the World Cup Final, and the reaction of the people around the world to it. We also talk about why no one will ever be happy with them.
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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh brothers and sisters and dear friends.
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Hope you guys are well inshallah the reason we're smiling is because it's our fifth take.
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Hopefully this one will be right. So as you can see we've got new glasses.
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Okay. Mashallah. We've also got some new stuff to tell you guys from the Prophet Muhammad.
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Peace be upon him. Mashallah. Now how does the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
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is giving a direct message to the England team but specifically these three individuals
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who took the penalty, who took the risk and went out there and put their neck on the line.
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Sancho, Rashford, Saka. That's correct. These three individuals came up and they did what
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no one would have wanted to do but it came at a cost. It could have come at a good price
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but it came at a cost as well because who was their coach? Was it Gareth?
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Gareth Southgate. So he at one point in his life missed a penalty as well, right?
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Yeah. In fact, he was the scapegoat that from his time, that's when people started, it started
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becoming a big thing. So he was like the kind of emblem for being blamed for missed penalties.
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There you go. So it must be really like a nightmare for him to see or maybe try to prove a point.
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He did good. He brought them to the finals, etc. However, people are not talking about him
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bringing them to the finals. They're talking about him not winning the cup. And the same
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with these free football players and maybe the England team as a whole. People are not
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pleased with them. Now the question that we need to ask ourselves is the following. Why
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are they not pleased with them? Because if you think about it, like we speak about, sometimes
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we magnify our mistakes or the things that go wrong but we do not magnify our achievements
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and we don't spend enough time celebrating them. Now the prophet, peace be upon him, said
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and this is narrated by Aisha, the message of Allah, peace be upon him, said whoever seeks
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the pleasure of Allah, God, by the displeasure of people, Allah will suffice him against the
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people. Whoever seeks the pleasure of the people by the displeasure of Allah, Allah will
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leave him to the patronage of people. Maybe there's a different word we can use. But basically
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the people will not be pleased with them and Allah will not be pleased with them. Now in
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this very instance, we do not know the connection with God Almighty. We do not know. However,
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the point is very clear because I can kind of resonate to them in the context where in
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Jahiriya, I would have to prove myself to a lot of people. And I felt like an absolute
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slave and these people would never be happy with me. It's like making a wedding. I don't
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know if you can be related to Asian weddings. The aunties and uncles are never going to be
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happy. There's always going to be something too spicy, too sweet, too hot, too cold, too
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bright, too dark. Yeah. So whatever you do, I've realized that no one is ever going to be
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happy with you, Aki. Now with these people, you can see, forget not being happy. Someone
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can say, you know what? Oh man, why does that happen? Forget that, man. This is outright
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racism. It's like, look, don't thank me, but don't spit at me. Like, you know, don't insult
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me at least. You know, I don't want you a fan, but at least don't come and insult me.
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Now, one thing that I want to touch upon, brothers and sisters, very important. Brothers
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and sisters, I've lived a Jahiriya life before I came to Islam and I had times where I wanted
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to please people. Yeah. Okay. I wanted to prove my point to people and always try to please
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them. Now, brothers and sisters, what I've realized is that you are never, ever going
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to make people happy. And the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, and Aisha
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had narrated that he said, if you was to try to please people, if not, if you try to please
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, rather than the people, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will be happy
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with you and the people will be happy with you. If you was to try to please the people
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at the cost of pleasing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, then neither Allah would be happy with
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you and neither the people would be happy with you. Brothers and sisters, the Harif, in
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I'm not sure who says that. And this is a message that we want to send through the Prophet
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Muhammad, peace be upon him, to these free football players. You will never, ever make
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anyone happy. Never, ever. Anyone that loves you is a conditional love. This goes to your
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wife, this goes to your mum, dad, whoever it may be. There's conditional love. Yes, mum
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and dad might be, not necessarily, but even to a certain point in the day of judgment, it's
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peak times. So what we're saying, brothers and sisters, is that everyone loves you conditionally.
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If you speak to someone and be like, oh yeah, like for example, let's say you're married
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and like, you know, my in-law, my mother-in-law, let's say really loves me, not me, I'm talking
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about someone else here, really loves you, yeah? But if you will start upset a daughter,
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that's conditional. Now, or for example, you used to do something, or she's, whatever
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it may be, there's always conditional love. Brothers and sisters, and this is a message
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to every single one of us, don't please others, because wallahi, this is something that Allah
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has placed in us. Like Allah says in the Quran, indeed with my remembrance to heart to find
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peace. What that means is that's a metaphysical law Allah has put in place. When Allah says
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sadaqah doesn't make you poor, that's a metaphysical reality. It's not something you can
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touch. How could giving not make you poor? If you logically think you give, it doesn't
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make you poor. How can not giving not make you poor? This is a metaphysical reality Allah
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is talking about, that's not empirical that you have to believe in. The same goes with
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this. Allah has put in place that no one will ever be pleased with you, period. It's like
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a code. It's like, you know where you put code and be like, the robot has to do this and
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this. Like if you do this in a game, for example, if your player gets hit too many times,
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it dies. It's been programmed like that. That doesn't change. If you get hit, you're
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going to die. It's not going to be like, hit, hit, you're not going to, unless you do cheat
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of course. But the point is this, Allah has set that in place, meaning that no one, whatever
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at the, if it's especially at the cost of Allah, by necessity and it's asal, is that
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they're never going to be happy with you. And now that is actually a blessing. Why? Because
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now when you realize and say, for example, I've done this and this for that person, but
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he threw it back in my face. I went and did this, this and this for this person and
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they let me down. You know, you get some people like, you know what? I'm going to treat everyone
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like crap. And that's the next thing you go to. Why? Because you've had so much bad
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experience. You're like, you know what? Forget this now. I've tried being nice to everybody
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and people are just walking all over me. Bun them, innit? Bun them and bun everyone, yeah?
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Now the point is this, what does, what should that make one realize? That should make one
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realize, hold on a second. There must be someone that I could love that loves me unconditionally.
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And if I please him, that there is nothing but goodness. And that's Allah, period. So
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what Allah's done is via this metaphysical law is telling you, they're never going to
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be happy with you. And the fact that they're going to let you down is to push you. It's
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up to you to push you closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So you can say, you know what,
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man, I've tried, please. And I'll be honest with you, I can try this, that, and I thought,
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you know what? Forget that. Once I freed myself from the people and I said, I don't care.
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Yeah. And that's why, Aki, before, like I said before, I've done pictures. I tell people
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I do Uber. I drive to her to Prius, yeah? Some people might be like, oh, man, come on,
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you're Ali Dawo, you know. And I'm like, no. Because I love that freedom to go and say,
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you know what, bruv, I drive to her to Prius. Or for example, I drive a bike. I drive a bike.
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You know what? I've got shoes and they've got holes in it. Have you seen my trainers?
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Yeah. Not that kind of fooling. Let's not get to someone.
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You was poking them. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I walk, the point is not, I'm not saying go walk around
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with things. The point is this. I don't care what anybody says, Aki. I freed myself from
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the people. And I'm not saying I'm super righteous. What I'm trying to see is the sweetness.
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I am, I don't tell. I'm just trying to be humble here, yeah?
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I don't, I'm not trying to be humble. The point is this, yeah? Is that the sweetness you feel,
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Aki, that you don't give a damn. He thinks that of me. Aki, I don't care. Do you know what
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kind of a freedom that is, Aki? Do you know how liberating that is to know that you can come
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out and you're covered in the hijab or the jibab for the sake of Allah and you don't give a damn
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off. I might look ugly. I need to get my lips filled. I need to get my backside filled.
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I need to get hair filled. And the brothers have to go get this done. Some brothers in
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Germany, they're plucking their eyebrows. No, no, no, sisters, the brothers are plucking
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their eyebrows, yeah? The point is this, you will taste the sweetness of Iman. So with this,
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what, have you had, have you ever had experience like this? And what advice would you give to
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the free football, these free individuals that you mentioned? Because this is a very important
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thing. Because when one attaches their heart, why is it important for one to focus on pleasing
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God Almighty rather than focusing on pleasing people?
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That's a very good point. No, Ali, I've never had that experience for playing for England and
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taking a penalty and missing the penalty. I've never had that experience in my life. But
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the principle remains the same, whatever the situation that we're in. And the principle,
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it reminds me of the father, the son and the donkey.
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There's one thing really bugging me though. There's a giant finger mark on your left, on
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Okay, why are you talking? I'll do that. Let me see.
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My bad breath will kill it straight away. It might break the glasses.
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So there's a father, there's a son, and there's a donkey. First, the father sits on the donkey
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And then people say, look how disrespectful the son is.
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That his father's on the donkey. Then, I'm just going to abridge it quickly.
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Then, then the father is walking and the son is on there.
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Yeah, then the son is on there. Then they're like, look how, look how spoiled the child is.
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That the father's walking and the son's on the donkey.
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Then they're like, look, no one's making the most of this donkey.
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And when they're both on it, they say, oh, they have no mercy on the animal.
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And then he's like, maybe people are going to be happy now.
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He doesn't even know how to make the most of this donkey.
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So you're never going to be able to please people.
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But the thing with, like you said very, very well.
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And the thing is, sometimes as footballers or people that are in a certain career, we get consumed by just building.
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And I'm sure as football players, you guys are no strangers to this.
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But the key message and the takeaway here is racism.
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Of course, his life is absolutely covered with issues in which he cut racism from the root.
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In fact, Muslims enter any masjid, go to any mosque and you will see people standing shoulder to shoulder.
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In any salah, regardless of a king or a pauper, a black man or a white man, you get no priority based upon your race, who you're praying with or who you're being led by.
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Islam doesn't give superiority of races, of money and stuff like this.
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The only superiority that you'll get is your deeds.
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However, if there's a farmer that's doing more deeds than you, then he is better than you in the sight of Allah.
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You're doing all of this, but you're giving in charity.
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So the point is, no matter what situation you're in, don't forget your Lord because your Lord will keep you grounded.
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If your yardstick is England fans, you know, we've seen the England fans.
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They will abandon you if you don't get the penalties.
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Yeah, you guys saw this as well, the way you were tossed aside.
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And this is the thing when you put your reliance on the people.
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Yeah, and sometimes even our families can fall within that as well.
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But the only one that doesn't need anything from us.
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You tell any human, you're a great person, I'm a brother, I'm nothing.
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But when you say this to Allah, oh Allah, you're great.
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Yeah, so that's why when it comes to relationship and putting our hope and our trust and stuff like this,
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no matter where you are, if you're watching and you're a fan, the same message for you.
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If you're watching, you're a footballer, this message is for you as well.
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That all of us, we need Allah, Allah doesn't need us.
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And whichever, if you're a footballer, you have greater facilities.
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Yeah, you have luxury, you have time that you can get and you can read the Quran.
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Make that decision for yourself and you have many players, Leicester City, Hamza Chowdhury, Moussala, Pogba.
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Yeah, you don't have to put everything in the public sphere, but please don't waste your life.
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Yes, if England had won, you guys would be hailed as heroes.
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But racism and people waiting for your next slip would still have been there.
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After that beautiful advice, there's nothing else that needs to be said.