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Juz 5: Addicted to Good Deeds | Dr. Osman Umarji
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I’ve sinned so much—will Allah really forgive me? What is the reward of avoiding sins in Islam? And how can good deeds become good addictions?
Join Dr. Osman Umarji with hosts Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro, as they reflect on juz 5 of the Qur'an, discussing the importance of avoiding major sins, finding contentment with Allah's blessings, and elevating your rank through worship and good deeds.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.At some point in life we will all ask, will Allah really accept me? Will Allah forgive me despite all these things that I have done? Stop wishing for something that Allah gave to someone else. In your pursuit of more for your shahawat, more to feed yourself, you end up humiliating yourself in fact. So your perception about Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is very very important when it comes to understanding when you may have committed a sin or something happens to you that you don\'t want and you have to shift. As-salaamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh everyone, welcome back to Qur\'an 30 for 30. We want to of course begin by thanking you all for donating to Yaqeen, for being a part of this. We hope that you\'re enjoying this Ramadan bi-idhnillahi ta\'ala. We want to request you all insha\'Allah ta\'ala to invest in the free resources that we have here at Yaqeen. We hope that you\'re seeing us level up and we are grateful to Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala first and then to all of you for being a part of that and everything that we do at Yaqeen of course is free and for the benefit of the public. So jazakumullahu khayran for being a part of that khayr. Make sure that you click on the link insha\'Allah ta\'ala and join us in this mission bi-idhnillahi ta\'ala. We\'re blessed today to have alhamdulillah Dr. Osman Umarji, the Director of Survey Research Evaluation at Yaqeen. Did I get that right? This might be the first time, you know, I\'ve actually got your title right, man. I\'m actually a little proud of myself. Not that I Googled it right before. You\'re giving panelists back for that one. Promote this, man. How\'s it going? Alhamdulillah. Allah is good to us. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Dr. Osman, what\'s a sport you could beat Shaykh Abdullah in? I think the better question is what sport can\'t I beat Shaykh Abdullah in? Ooh. Nice. Nice. That\'s fire. So many shots fired. Yeah. Man, that was early. That was a hit. I thought he was going to hit me. He hit you instead. There\'s a ping-pong table over there. We\'re already done with him. There\'s a ping-pong table. We can unfold it and do what needs to be done. Insha\'Allah ta\'ala. It\'s going to be like that rocky creeping. Shaykh Abdullah wants me to bury the footage of our match, and he\'s going to want to do the same with you. You can only delete so many tapes here. Ooh.
The internet never forgets now. We put it on the cloud. You know what the cloud is? It\'s going to rain. The angels wrote it down. It\'s going to rain. The angels wrote it down. The angels were witness, too. Since you\'re from California, do you play pickleball and some of that other type of sport? Do you do tennis? Golf? No. You don\'t play golf? No. Ah, okay. I thought everyone from California plays golf. No, no. I don\'t play golf. It\'s not level over there. It\'s just mountain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We\'re really happy to have you. Alhamdulillah. Always a joy. SubhanAllah, as we looked at the verses that we\'re going to cover in the lessons, our verses are all very close to each other, and your verse is actually one verse before the verse that I want to cover, insha\'Allah ta\'ala. So we\'re going to ask you to go ahead and start us off. Bismillah. So the title of the verse I\'m going to speak about is a big Qur\'anic principle, which is avoid major sins, and Allah will forgive you and grant you paradise. And what I find so powerful about this is that it is the answer to a question that most people ask in life. At some point in life, we will all ask, will Allah really accept me? Will Allah forgive me despite all these things that I have done? So this verse to me is one of the most beautiful in the Qur\'an because it just lays it out there. It says, SubhanAllah, what Allah says in ayah number 31 in Surah An-Nisa, إِن تَجْتَنِبُوا كَبَائِرَ مَا تُنْهَوْنَ عَنْهُ نُكَفِّرْ عَنكُمْ سَيِّئَاتِكُمْ وَنُدْخِلْكُم مُّدْخَلًا كَرِيمًا that if you are able to avoid and abstain from the major things that you\'ve been prohibited from, then we will forgive you and we will enter you into a noble, honorable entrance. And so when I think about this ayah, I read it all the time and I say it\'s like, what a good deal. What a good deal. But as long as I stay out of some really, really bad stuff, then all these other things that I will inevitably do because I\'m a human being, because I have a nafs, because of peer pressure, because of life, that Allah is willing to overlook some of those things. So it\'s a message, an ayah of hope to me. It\'s an ayah of optimism. And it should hopefully reframe the way we think about Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala.
People often think that how hard is it to please Allah? And you say, look, just really stay out of the big things that really mess you up and mess society up. But that leads to a question. You say, okay, fine. I\'ve got to avoid the big things in life. What counts as a big sin? And this verse, SubhanAllah, I remember in ayatul ahkam, when you\'re studying it in tafsir, you know, there\'s like 10 pages on this ayah where it\'s like, what constitutes a major sin? And there\'s like eight madhahib and there\'s even more than that. And I don\'t want to go into all of them, but people have, scholars have delineated that is it just like the seven major sins, where if you avoid these seven things, some say if it\'s any verse that Allah has as like a threat accompanied with it, or a verse where Allah has some clear prohibition around it. But I actually prefer what many of the scholars have mentioned that the reason why Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, he doesn\'t tell us explicitly that these are the major sins is because he wants us to strive to avoid all sins. And that if you were to say, as one of the scholars mentions, that if Allah said it\'s A, B, C, and D are the major sins, then most people would say, I\'m going to avoid A, B, C, D and do everything else that\'s out there. So Allah wants us to seek ihsan. And so you always want to be on guard that I don\'t know exactly what a major sin is, but we know as the scholars mentioned, there\'s some factors to consider. And what they mentioned, the ulama, al-Izz ibn Abdus-Salam especially, is this beautiful statement. He said that the major sin and the minor sin, they vary from person to person or from context to context, depending on a number of factors like the consequences. And I think about this a lot because all of us make mistakes in life. As the Prophet (ﷺ) said, every son of Adam is a sinner and he makes mistakes. But there\'s a difference between making a sin in a moment of weakness and struggling with something in life, and it\'s a one-off thing, versus, for instance, I do a sin and I\'m proud of it. Well, you say it\'s the exact same sin, so why is it big in this case and small in that case? And this is because of the effect it has on both you as an individual and on society.
And as I was reflecting on this, brothers always ask these things, is it haram to do this or haram to do that? And again, you can say this behavior, like smoking, let\'s take smoking as an example. A young brother who\'s struggling in the middle of peer pressure in a moment of weakness, he takes a puff of something. Yeah, that is sinful, but don\'t equate that, for instance, with a popular, respected person in the community who, let\'s say, is smoking and recording it on social media for everyone to watch. Why? Because that person now could be spreading the fahisha, and so the punishment could be more severe. And this is what Allah says in the Qur\'an. He talks about the wives of the Prophet (ﷺ), that if you were to do a big sin, then the punishment is double. Why? Because of your status. And another example of this today is many sisters are struggling with wearing hijab in society because of the challenges and so on and so forth. So don\'t equate somebody who\'s genuinely struggling with something like this and somebody who\'s maybe boasting or putting out a video celebrating that they\'re disobeying Allah. And so the take-home lesson that I want to have with all of this is that we don\'t know what is a major sin. We want to avoid everything, and we don\'t want to get into this game of looking at how big is that sin. As Allah Almighty mentioned, don\'t look at the size or the magnitude of the transgression. Look at the one you\'re transgressing against. And so we ask Allah to protect us from falling into any sins, but insha\'Allah, with sincerity, that inevitably we will make minor mistakes, but if we can avoid the big ones, then we look forward to the forgiveness and the noble entrance of paradise. It reminds me of this poem or subject. Da\'a al-dhunuba al-sagheera wa kabeera fa\'inhu al-tuqa, wasna\'a kamashin fawqa thati al-shawki yahdharu ma yara, la tahkiranna al-sagheera anna al-jibala min al-hasan. Leave off the sins, the big and the small, and for verily that is tuqa, like taqwa. He says, act as a person that\'s walking over a bed of thorns, that they\'re aware of the
thorns and they\'re pulling at the garment, yahdharu ma yara, whatever he sees, and then he says, do not belittle the little, for verily mountains are made of pebbles. Yes, SubhanAllah, it\'s very, very beautiful. SubhanAllah, actually, you know, it\'s really interesting because Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala makes a connection between sin and humiliation here as well, and forgiveness and honor. And it actually ties in with something we were talking about in the last juz\', right? Like the hikmah of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, allowing someone to reach a position after they have repented. Like why did Allah give that person a chance to repent? And why is this the outcome? That\'s also part of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala\'s knowledge and his wisdom. SubhanAllah, it ties into the next ayah in the lesson that I have, to stop wishing for something that Allah gave to someone else. And it is the very next ayah, which is verse 32, where Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, وَلَا تَتَمَنَّوْا مَا فَضَّلَ اللَّهُ بِهِ بَعْضَكُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ ۚ لِّلرِّجَالِ نَصِيبٌ مِّمَّا اكْتَسَبُوا ۖ وَلِلنِّسَاءِ نَصِيبٌ مِّمَّا اكْتَسَبْنَ ۚ وَاسْأَلُوا اللَّهَ مِن فَضْلِهِ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمًا Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, and do not crave what Allah has given some of you over others. Men will be rewarded according to their deeds, and women according to theirs. Rather ask Allah for his bounty, surely Allah has perfect knowledge of all things. Rather ask Allah for his bounty, surely Allah has perfect knowledge of all things. What\'s the connection here? There is an unrestrained appetite for our shahawat, for our desires, that allows a person to fall into sin. I want more for my desires. And so in the process of pursuing your desires in a way that\'s not dignified, you end up transgressing and in your pursuit of more for your shahawat, more to feed yourself, you end up humiliating yourself in fact. And SubhanAllah when it comes to the worldly pursuits, if a person gets too addicted to pursuing this world, then they\'re going to move beyond simply desiring and taking the easy gains for their nafs, they\'re actually going to become predatory in the process, and really sink into evil.
And many of the major sins actually have to do with other people. You sink into a state of evil because you will pursue those things at all costs. Here Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is saying, don\'t crave what Allah has given some of you over others. Now by the way this verse, we have covered it in previous seasons, and we\'ve talked about the gender aspect of it, men and women, and what Allah azza wa jal has assigned to each one. That\'s not what I want to focus on in this particular context today. Rather it\'s this idea that you could be pursuing of this dunya, what other people have, and in the process of that become sinful, and in the process of becoming sinful, become humiliated. Or you could be pursuing what Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala has of his bounty, of good, and in the process of that pursuit you become honorable even if you don\'t attain everything that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala has opened the door for you in regards to. So basically redirect your pursuit, pursue Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, and you would have mudakhalan kareeman, you would have a grand entrance, a noble entrance, and a noble position. But here in this particular ayah, there is a seerah context to it that Umm Salamah (رضي الله عنها) in one of the narrations she asked the Prophet (ﷺ) that the men go out in ghazwah, they go out in battle, and we don\'t go out in battle, and then the men inherit more than us as well. So the men have both the fadl in terms of the deen, they have a bounty, an extra bounty in terms of the deen, and that they get to go out in battle for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, and they have a fadl, they have a virtue or a bounty in regards to the inheritance proportion being greater for the man than for the woman. So there is a fadl in deen and a fadl in dunya, even though the fadl in deen requires an added sacrifice, right? Like going out in battle, I mean remember the hypocrites found excuses to not go out in battle, Umm Salamah (رضي الله عنها) is saying that some of the women want to go out in battle, right? So they\'re pursuing that fadl in deen as well, that bounty in deen as well. But Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is saying don\'t wish for something that Allah azza wa jal gave to someone else.
And that refers not just to worldly possession, it refers to Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala\'s positioning. Allah put you in a certain position with certain opportunities, remove the men and the women aspect of this, just in general, Allah put every single one of us in a position to succeed, in a position to make the most of our place in this dunya and pursue the greatest share of the akhirah. So don\'t wish for anybody else\'s shoes, don\'t wish for anybody else\'s pulpit, don\'t wish for anybody else\'s position, you are in a perfect place to succeed, seek from Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala that bounty because Allah azza wa jal has assigned it to each person based upon his perfect knowledge. I\'m thinking about this and I\'m like SubhanAllah, you think about Ramadan, right? And I can think of a very practical situation, most people, it\'s extremely painful for an elderly person or someone who is ill and they can\'t fast, like when you first hit that age if you live long enough or you\'ve been fasting for 45, 50 years of your life and then your first Ramadan where you can\'t fast. And that can be a miserable situation and SubhanAllah I only met one person in my life like a real example in my own life who actually could smile at that and say you know what, Alhamdulillah because I can eat and drink now, I have more energy throughout the day in Ramadan to read Qur\'an. I was like first person I ever saw who put a positive spin on it like in my own eyes like SubhanAllah. You know Alhamdulillah I don\'t have that position right now, I can\'t fast and that\'s definitely a reward. Allah knows I would have fasted if I could but now Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala has opened me up to another ibadah, to another act of worship because I used to when I read Qur\'an and we all know this, like when you\'re fasting you start getting headaches as the day goes on, you start getting drained and it\'s not as easy to read the Qur\'an so it\'s like now I have more time to read the Qur\'an throughout the day, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala has redirected me to another ibadah. In some ways just like sins become addictive and we don\'t know when we\'ve crossed a threshold
of minor into major, good deeds also become addictive and we don\'t know when we\'ve crossed the threshold in our positioning with Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, may Allah azza wa jal unlock the gates of ihsan for us and shut off the gates of sin in any capacity. I loved what you said about like the not numbering the major sins because we should treat every saghira as a kabira because every saghira is a kabira bil israr. Every small sin is a major sin if you insist upon it and every kabira, every major sin is a small sin bil istighfar, with seeking Allah\'s forgiveness. So it is beautiful when you get addicted to good deeds and you say oh wait, Allah shut that off for me but Allah just gave me this huge opportunity. I know for our sister SubhanAllah, I can\'t even imagine, I can\'t even imagine not being able to pray on the odd nights of Ramadan. I can\'t imagine that. I\'ve never been in that situation and SubhanAllah a sister could be like I miss laylatul qadr, like everyone is praying all night, I miss laylatul qadr. You have ibadah that are available to you and Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala will write down the reward for you for abiding by his command and at the same time having the niyyah, having the intention that had you not been prohibited from praying for example you would have prayed so that\'s written for you and Allah opened up some other doors for you as well. As other people try to open up the doors of dunya and the doors of sin, we should try to open up the doors of good and if Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala put you in front of this gate and put someone else in front of that gate, focus on getting through the gate that\'s right in front of you. As others are seeking to please themselves, seek to please Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala and Allah might elevate you to a major rank with him and honor you. May Allah azza wa jal honor us all. And that\'s a real beautiful point. I mean I love how you mentioned that. I thought I was the only one that faced that. I never got the chance to talk to other imams and influencers and communities of when the elderly do come to you and they\'re, I\'ll use the word lightly disappointed that they can\'t do what they\'ve done their whole life and you know it\'s commendable from one aspect it\'s like wow they really are upset that they can\'t fast because they\'re used to doing it
but then always knowing how to shift and look at other good deeds because sometimes shaitan can influence us in thinking that Allah has indirectly oppressed us, right? And that\'s really what I want to talk about the title being Allah\'s oppression is impossible and those two things don\'t don\'t connect that Allah would oppress anyone. Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is the one that is just, he\'s al-adl and the verse I want to talk about is in the chapter of An-Nisa verse 40 where Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala sets the foundation for us to remember at times because there will be things that we don\'t anticipate that happen to us and that\'s within his qadr, within his knowledge and his wisdom that he does and it\'s important for us to have good thoughts about Allah because what Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala said, ana inda dhanni abdi bi, that I am as my servant thinks of me. So your perception about Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is very very important when it comes to understanding when you may have committed a sin or when you are you know something happens to you that you don\'t want and you have to shift and change your direction or change your action or stop doing something as you mentioned Shaykh Omar. Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says, أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَظْلِمُ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ ۖ وَإِن تَكُ حَسَنَةً يُضَاعِفْهَا وَيُؤْتِ مِن لَّدُنْهُ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says indeed Allah wrongs none. Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says indeed Allah wrongs none. So this is beautiful, إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَظْلِمُ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ, Allah is setting the foundation here. He\'s showing that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is translated as wrongs none. But in the Arabic مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ, like the weight of a dharra, and a dharra is like some scholars mention the little lint that you see flying in the air, that\'s like a dharra. Some scholars mention that, some scholars say an atom\'s weight. But it\'s to show the most minute of creation, Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala would not even oppress that. So oppression for Allah, when we look at oppression, the word dhulm literally means to put something in its improper place.
We see the dhulm that\'s happening all around the world now, the rights of people are placed somewhere else and it\'s camouflaged as though they are doing good. So when you oppress someone or a group of people, you are taking away their God given right and giving it to someone or something else. So when we say dhulm, it is putting something in a place that it doesn\'t belong. That is impossible for Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. Whatever Allah does, it is from his divine knowledge and wisdom. And for that reason, it is important for the Muslim to always, the human being, to always try their best to remember that God is the one that has given me this for a divine reason. It is not a condition for me to know why. So when Allah says that he doesn\'t oppress even an atom\'s weight or a piece of lint, then Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala says here, as a matter of fact, if you were to do a hasanah, and it\'s interesting how he uses the nakirah here, the indefinite, just one hasanah, one good thing. And the good thing could be, any sin that you voluntarily leave off, like leaving a sin, which Ibn Qayyim says is even more virtuous than initiating a deed, is staying away from a bad deed, which is a good deed. So that is a hasanah. What does Allah do in that regard? يُضَاعِفْهَا And he multiplies it. And that just shows the virtue of the appreciation of the effort. Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala is al-shukur. He is well appreciative of the things that you do. Even the intention, the intention to do it, and you don\'t do it, you still receive reward for that. So Allah is saying, it is impossible for me to be an oppressor. As a matter of fact, the one hasanah you do, يُضَاعِفْهَا, and then on top of that, وَيُؤْتِ مِن لَّدُنْهُ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا, and bestows out of his grace, mighty reward. So from that, he gives you, from him, the أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا, a great reward.
You don\'t know the amount of the reward, which can be contingent upon the intensity of the intention at the time of the action, or the intensity of the intention by itself without the action. You mentioned our elder, may Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala preserve our elders in good deeds, and our children, that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala\'s choice to take them, or take something from them, their health, this verse is important to remember. It\'s important to remember that Allah does not oppress, and there\'s a divine wisdom, and it\'s going to be a struggle to be patient. It\'s going to be a struggle to realize that this is for a reason, but that struggle in and of itself, the tougher the struggle, the more the reward. And I think that\'s such a beautiful foundational principle for us to remember in regards to the predestination of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. Ibn al-Qayyim speaks a lot about this in Madarij al-Salikin, and he gets into this concept. I remember, I struggled with the exact same issue, where it\'s like, we sometimes think that there\'s a particular way of worship that we need to function, and we want to define that. Ya Rabbi, I want to worship you in this way. I want to memorize the Qur\'an, or I want to, whatever, and you lay those things out. And it takes some maturity to realize that you don\'t get to pick how you worship. So Allah will tell you, I\'m taking away this baab, this opportunity, and I\'m going to give you a different one. And it is our job to go from opportunity to opportunity. So Ibn al-Qayyim, he mentions this. He says that when people say, what are the best of deeds? That\'s a question the Prophet (ﷺ) would get. He didn\'t say to every companion the exact same answer. It was always different. Who are you? Ah, Hajj for you. Take care of your parents. All right, go for jihad. It\'s always different because of your circumstances. And I think about this in my own life, as you have kids especially. It\'s harder to do those ritual things you used to do before. I used to remember Ramadan, like getting two, three khatms is a whole lot easier before I had kids than when you have four children, right? And so being able to say, look, no, there\'s a different act of worship. I think even one scholar mentioned, he said, what\'s more virtuous? If you\'re sitting and reading Qur\'an, but then your kid is crying because they need their diaper changed, what should you do? What would please Allah more? Keep reading Qur\'an with your kid, scream and cry?
Or you put the Qur\'an down, right, and you go and you tend to your child, right? Or you have a guest who knocks the door. Well, are you going to do ikram of the daif? Are you going to honor your guest? Or are you going to say, no, I\'m sorry, I got my juz to recite for the day, right? You worship the way Allah, the situation he puts you in, you say, I don\'t have a choice. I wanted to read Qur\'an, I wanted to do sadaqah, but I\'m being asked to do something else. And this is taslim, right? This is submission to Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, right? Yes. SubhanAllah, there\'s something that comes to my mind, and I don\'t know if I\'ll be able to get this thought across, but bear with me. Last juz you talked about be jihad, that when a person commits sin, they commit sin and forgetfulness of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. In your sins, you are privileging yourself over Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. Don\'t make the same mistake with your good deeds, because sometimes our good deeds become more about us than about Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. If you\'re doing your good deeds for Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, then you\'ll be pleased when Allah azza wa jal directs you to a pursuit of good that\'s not as satisfying, right? It\'s not as fulfilling, it\'s not as satisfying, but it is more rewardable. And if you\'re pursuing أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا, you\'re pursuing his reward subhanahu wa ta\'ala, then that\'s what you\'re going to pursue, right? That\'s something that a lot of us forget. It\'s like, I want to do the thing that makes me feel good. And it\'s not about, you know, good deeds inherently make you feel good if you\'re doing them for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala, because you know that you\'re doing something with purpose and happiness is a byproduct of living with purpose, right? So you know there\'s purpose in what you\'re doing, but you can\'t make your good deed about yourself. Your good deed is about Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala. And if Allah has directed you to that good deed, then alhamdulillah, especially for people with elderly parents or people that are taking care of their kids, and you know, we have diminished in our society, in a capitalistic society where it\'s all about the rat race, we have diminished the reward of what we do in our homes. For the son that is dutiful to his parents or that is good to his family, right? Good to his wife, good to his kids. For the house mother who is taking care of her children and is being made to feel like
she\'s blessed, Allah azza wa jal has given you a fadl, has given you a place, a virtue, by that position that he\'s put you in. Don\'t wish for anything else. Alhamdulillah, for this baab, I will take it. It\'s like the famous story of Uwais al-Qarni (رضي الله عنه), Uwais al-Qarni (رضي الله عنه), the man who missed the delegation with the Prophet (ﷺ) from Yemen. He missed being a sahabi because he was taking care of his mom in Yemen. The Prophet (ﷺ) praised him, as a result he told the sahabi there\'s going to be a man who\'s going to come to you, Uwais ibn Amir, when you find him, ask him to make du\'a for you. SubhanAllah. So he\'s a tabi\'i who was praised by the Prophet (ﷺ) to the sahabi. He missed being a sahabi because he was taking care of his mom. That was his door that Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala gave to him. فَفِيهِمَا فَجَاهِدْ فَفِيهِمَا فَجَاهِدْ He\'s striving in their way. He\'s striving in their way. He\'s taking care of your parents. SubhanAllah. Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala bless you. Any final thoughts, Masha\'ikh, or should we take this to the ping pong table now, man? Let\'s go. Let\'s go. Listen, Shaykh. Don\'t wish for what you don\'t have, man. Not everyone was meant to be a good ping pong player. Not everyone was meant to be a supreme athlete, Shaykh. Supreme athlete. SubhanAllah. SubhanAllah. It wasn\'t meant for everyone. You know, Allah gave you other things. You could bench like 600 pounds. I\'m like, I can\'t bench 600. I can bench about 550. I was like. Allah subhanahu wa ta\'ala bless you. Ameen.
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