Shadowing Practice: You Can Have Everything… and Still Be Miserable (Quran Warning) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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you might stay wealthy but you you are suffering you will become more
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and more lonely you become more and more paranoid you become more
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and more you know sick
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and you get you get a kind of sick there's no
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where did the wealth go then where did the money
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if there was a documentary about him on youtube lifestyles of the rich and famous today we have waleed magira
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right here are his business empires you're like whoa yes pretty
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amazing he started off poor did he wow this is his
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family my god this guy's got everything family wealth fame he's
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got everything everybody respects him then they start interviewing Abu Lahab yeah he's great why
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yeah Abu Jahl is in the in the documentary you know
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Abu Sufyan's in the documentary they're all like yeah he's smart
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guy man smart guy I'm not sure about who his dad is but smart guy
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you'd be this would be the documentary of a successful like They got the life.
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They got everything you want in life.
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But, you know, like I said, when you become that famous and that powerful, you will always have enemies
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and you will always have somebody who's trying to take you out
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or hurt your business in some way or take your place.
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That's life.
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That's going to happen.
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Allah says, وَمَهَدْتُ لَهُ تَمْهِيدًا And I understand the word مَهَد.
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مَهَد means to make something, when you make the land low and soft, then the land is actually مُهْدًا من الْأَرْضِ مَنْ خَفَضًا فِي سُهُولَةٍ وَاسْتِوَائٍ
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when a mother holds the baby she holds him soft you don't hold the baby tight
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like Khamzat did to Whitaker you don't do
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that you hold the baby softly and that's called mahad
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so you create a comfort for the child when you're holding them so it's got luyuna, rikka gentleness, softness
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this is the word that's actually used for land
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there's no rocks there's no obstacles is super soft it's ready
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for you to farm on it Allah says وَمَهَدْتُ لَهُ تَمْهِدًا it could be
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that you've got a big business but when you have a big business don't you get big problems too?
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somebody didn't send in the payment some employee quit their job
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somebody was stealing from you somebody you know some storm came
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and destroyed one of the farms etc etc
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when you have a big business you're always solving problems Allah
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is saying مَهَدْتُ لَهُ تَمْهِدًا every one of his businesses is running smooth
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no problems anywhere And Allah keeps making things easier And easier
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and easier for him Management is not a problem Finances are not a problem Security is not a problem Transportation,
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logistics Everything's taken care of
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If you know people that are trying to run a business You know
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that they don't have any time off Like even if they're sitting at a dinner table Hey what happened?
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Where's the payment?
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What happened?
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Where's the delivery man?
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Where's my money?
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They're constantly Even at work when they're sleeping They can't help it.
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But he gets to make all this money and also Allah has facilitated everything for him.
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There's no obstacles in his path.
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And the other thing also is there's no competition.
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Because when you describe an open field in front of you that's smooth and laid out, there's no rock in front of you, there's no mountain in front of you, there's no obstacle in front of you.
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It's as if even though in this situation usually you would have enemies, you would have competition, somebody you gotta watch out for, he's got nobody to worry about,
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Allah has made all the possible obstacles smooth for him.
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وَمَهَّتُوا لَهُ تَمْهِيدًا This is the description of the best possible life you could have from a material perspective in this world.
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You can't have better than this.
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You got no competition.
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You got your whole family beside you.
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Your sons are beside you.
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They're your strength.
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You got your security taken care of.
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Everybody respects you and speaks highly of you even though you came from lowly origins
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and you're proud of that elevation you had
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and the money keeps on coming in and coming in and coming in and no problems in sight.
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Now when you have that, and you're on top of the mountain, you could say, I could relax now.
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I could relax now.
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I could sit back.
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It's amazing what he does, what Allah describes about him.
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Allah says, ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُوا أَنْ أَزِيدُ And now he wishes that I should give him more?
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He wants more?
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Actually, Allah is describing that he has everything.
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If any human being today was described with these things, they would say, I have everything.
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What can I want?
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There's nothing I want.
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Everything I want is there.
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And Allah says, ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُوا أَنْ أَزِيدُ And after all of that, ثُمَّ is for Ta 'ajub here.
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After all of that, he has hopes that I will give him more?
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He has hopes that I'm just going to...
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You know, I have a friend who's in business.
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His father launched a very, very successful business.
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made an insane amount of money.
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Insane amounts of money.
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You know, properties, businesses, all across Europe, all across the different parts of Africa, all across America.
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Mashallah, very successful.
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And the father's like, you know, he's 75 years old now.
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And the sons have taken one side of the business, one son, the other, another son, the other.
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And the father can just relax now and just, you know, do his thing.
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He can just chill on a beach.
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and the sons tell me man he's not leaving us alone
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he keeps he keeps coming in every meeting what are you
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guys doing how are the sales going that's not how we used to do it and he keeps
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coming in because he can't he doesn't know how to retire he doesn't know how to stop
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there's a mentality right you you got to where you got to because you could never stop
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you could never stop and i know
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that the time for your break is coming up and i want to stick to the time of the break, I want you to understand something about that mentality.
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People that were very poor and they made it
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that way in business or people that were very small and they made it in politics, for example, they're not normal people, not just in terms of intelligence.
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They're tougher than most people.
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They're tough.
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They don't give up.
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People tell them, you're going to be a millionaire.
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Nobody believes them.
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Their parents don't believe them.
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Their brothers and sisters don't believe them.
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Their friends don't believe them everybody thinks they're stupid right imagine some some football player
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that used to be in some village somewhere playing football with
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like a you know rolled up aluminum foil right he's like i'm gonna win the world cup yeah
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and what happens 15 years later he's the mvp at the world cup
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does that happen in the world now those those kinds of people yes allah opens doors for them
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but do they have a certain kind of toughness in them
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that no matter what people say they can just block it out block it out keep going, keep going, keep going nothing demotivates them
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they're almost insane with their commitment they're insane in their belief
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that they're going to pull this off they have
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that in them they have that grit in them when you develop that what do you program yourself to do?
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I don't care what anybody says I know what I'm going to do
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so who's the ultimate source of your truth? when you have that kind of mentality?
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Yourself.
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Belief in yourself.
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Belief in your intelligence.
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Belief in your decision -making.
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Belief in your strategy.
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You're going to tell me strategy?
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You know what?
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I got here because of my strategy.
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You think you're going to tell me strategy?
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You're going to give me financial advice?
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I got, well, how much money do you make?
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How much money?
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You're going to give me financial advice?
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They developed this mentality that they didn't get here by listening to people.
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They got here by not listening to people.
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So I don't have to listen to anybody.
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I'm going to do my own thing.
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And the other part of this is, they would never get to where they got to if they took a break.
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I can't stop.
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When I got my 10 ,000, I can't stop.
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I got to get to 100.
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When I got to 100, I'm just as thirsty to get the million.
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When I got to the million, I'm just as thirsty to get the 10 million.
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And now he's got everything.
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There's no competition left.
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Nobody left to impress on top of the world and yet the programming is what?
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I can't stop.
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I have to keep going.
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The wheel's got to keep turning.
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And so he says, Allah says, and he wants that.
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I should give him more?
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He wants more wealth?
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More status?
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More fame?
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More security?
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He's not satisfied?
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You find the wealthiest people in the world have so much wealth that if they lived 50, 60, 70, 100 lifetimes, they wouldn't run out of that money.
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But what do you find those people doing?
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Those people are creating the major facade in the world, the corruption on the earth today.
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Whether it's pollution or wars or government corruption, you name the kind of corruption, behind it is some mega trillion,
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billion trillion dollar corporation and the executives that have more money than anybody's ever imagined, but they're not done.
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They're not done.
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ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُ and أَزِيد Now, one last observation about these ayats so far.
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Look back.
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ذَرْنِي Leave me.
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وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ And the one I created.
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I وَجَعَلْتُ And I made him.
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I furnished for him extensive wealth.
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وَبَنِينَ شُهُودًا Part of the I made and I furnished for him children that he can witness.
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وَمَهَّدْتُ
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And I facilitated, I made the ground smooth I got rid of the competition I got rid of all of his problems مَهَدْتُ
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ثُمَّ يُطْمَعُ أَنْ أَزِيد And then he wishes
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that I should give him even more The word I this
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many times is unusual in the Quran You don't find it You don't find it, not like this kind of takrar You find huwa for Allah,
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he You find we for Allah I for Allah in this frequency is very very unusual
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And Allah does that for a number of reasons here One is his anger, special anger towards a person Because he blessed him more than other people
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He blessed him more than other people Now did Allah, is Allah against wealth?
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No
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And by the way if you have dunya
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If Allah gave you a lot of wealth What should you do with that wealth?
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Should you not want to make more wealth?
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Yeah, actually you should Allah gave ذُلْقَرْنَيْنَ all kinds of resources We gave him all kinds of resources.
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What did he do with those resources?
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What did Allah do in the next ayah?
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Then he pursued even more resources.
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We gave him stability in the government.
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So Dhul Qarnayn has stability in the government.
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Is he staying home or is he going to new places?
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He's going to Mata 'a al -shams, Maghrib al -shams,
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He's going to places he's never been before He's going to places perhaps nobody else has ever been before Isn't he?
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Why is he expanding the empire?
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Why is he doing that?
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Are these ayat The way, Allah's way of cursing the billionaire?
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No Allah is saying Allah is not saying Wealth is bad
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Power is bad Expanding the empire is bad Allah is saying Expanding the empire for the wrong reasons is bad.
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Creating the larger business for the wrong reason is bad.
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Look, a giant corrupt corporation,
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a giant corrupt corporation can only be fixed by replacing it with a giant ethical corporation.
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Huge pharmaceutical companies that are killing humanity can only be, the problem can only be solved when there are other huge pharmaceutical companies that are helping humanity.
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Corrupt medical systems, ethical medical systems.
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Corrupt farming, ethical farming.
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You understand?
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We can't sit here and say, oh, these mega corporations and these businesses, look at what they're doing.
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Look at, you know, all the restaurants that are serving alcohol.
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You're like, Astaghfirullah, Astaghfirullah.
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When is that going to change?
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When you have more successful restaurants that are not serving alcohol.
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You can't just sit there and say they're serving alcohol, Astaghfirullah.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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and Allah doesn't even Allah is not even against him wanting more as we will see
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but he wants more for the wrong reasons
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he wants more for the wrong reasons subhanallah that's the takeaway
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I want you to not confuse what's happening here with what
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Allah Azzawajal wants our message is not a message of don't pursue the resources
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and power and building empire in this dunya actually it is a message of
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that but build it for the right reasons
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so we were talking about ayah number 14 وَمَهَّدْتُ لَهُ تَمْهِيدًا
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That he laid the groundwork out for him ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُوا أَنَزِيد Then he wants that I should give him more.
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وَمِنَ الْمُفَسِّرِينَ مَنْ جَعَلَ هَذَا التَّمْهِيدَ الْبَسْطَةَ فِي الْعَيْشِ وَطُولُ الْعُمَرُ
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Some mufassir thought that مَهَّدْتُ لَهُ تَمْهِيدًا also means Allah made life extremely comfortable for him
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and also gave him a long life.
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Gave him a long life.
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وَكَانُ الْوَلِيدِ بِنْ أَكَابِ الْقُرَيْشِ ثُمَّ هُنَا لِلْإِنْكَارِ وَالتَّعُجِ And then after that he wants more.
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I left you with the example of Dhul Qarnayn in the last session.
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And I told you that he's also pursuing more.
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So what's the difference between Dhul Qarnayn pursuing more and Walid ibn Mughira pursuing more?
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What's the difference between him pursuing more and Suleiman alayhi salam pursuing more
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when he says رَبِّهَبْ لِمُلْكٍ لَا يَنْبَغِي لِأَحَدٍ مِّنْ بَعْدِي Ya Rabb, give me more kingdom than is not suitable for anybody else after me.
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Give me more.
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Basically, he's saying more also, right?
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So then what's the difference between them?
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That's the difference to understand how we are different,
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in this case, from the Christian account of the worldly life and the Jewish account of worldly life.
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So I'm going to give you a kind of a synopsis of the Jewish view, the Christian view.
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Then we can properly understand the Quran view.
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the reason i do that is because a lot of times we Start thinking about the Qur 'an's view,
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not realizing that we're actually being influenced by more of a Christian view or more of a Jewish view.
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So what's the Jewish view?
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You are entitled to the world.
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Pursue it.
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Enjoy it.
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Live in it.
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It's basically Jannah already for you.
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You don't owe an explanation.
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Just live your life.
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Whatever you want, it's yours.
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It's promised to you.
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That's it.
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Good enough.
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So basically, if you're Walid ibn Mughira, that's what you should be.
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that's one side of the problem the other side of the problem is the Christian view and the Christian view is
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not all Christians because there's a new narrative of Christianity evangelical Christianity that celebrates this world
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but like for example Catholicism this world is bad Adam disobeyed God
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and he was cursed and because of him the entire planet Earth was cursed
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so this world is a curse this dunya is nothing this dunya is garbage This dunya is trash.
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Akhirah is everything.
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So don't pursue this dunya.
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Because if you pursue this dunya, you'll become a materialist person.
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If you really want to love Allah, then you only pursue the afterlife.
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You don't pursue this life.
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And this life is so bad that Jesus died here.
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Etc, etc. So life is bad.
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This worldly life is bad.
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The Quran comes along and restores the original balanced message.
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Allah made this world beautiful for human beings.
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Allah put blessings here for human beings Allah put the opportunity for you to build more
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and more wealth For human beings
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But Allah is not against wealth Wealthy people are not worse than You know poor people
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Or poor people are better Wealthy people are worse Abu Bakr
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al -Siddiq was one of the wealthiest people in Mecca
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And he is extremely pivotal In the seerah of the Prophet
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Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam The migration from Mecca to Medina Could not happen without the financing Abu Bakr al -Siddiq
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so you have in the Quran
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and on multiple occasions even in the text the stories of the Quran the power
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and the importance of wealth in fact when people travel to make an income
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when they travel to get a job or pursue a degree
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or whatever sometimes people say oh you're leaving to go get dunya astaghfirullah
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right and Allah says وَآيَةٌ لَهُمْ أَنَّا حَمَلْنَا ذُرِّيَتَهُمْ فِي الْفُلْكِ الْمَشْحُونَ It's a sign from Allah
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That we allow them to board onto ships Why did people board onto ships?
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Back in the day To do trade To start a new life That's something Allah has blessed in the Quran
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But when is it blessed?
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When you follow ethical principles The Quran has You know sometimes The more I think about these ayat
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Because I've been grappling with early Meccan surahs for some time now
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And it's building a picture in my mind
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And I want to share a little bit of
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that picture with you Especially when it comes to the pursuit of wealth
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and the pursuit of more and this sort of thing.
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So allow me to take a minute to share that picture with you.
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The Qur 'an is a comprehensive worldview.
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The way I want you to think about it is it has all the pieces of a puzzle.
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It has all the pieces of a puzzle.
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And some hadith and some ayat and some stories, they are a piece of that puzzle.
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But if you don't understand the entire board, you're going to miss out on what picture is being painted
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here right what is the what is the picture the quran
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is actually painting it's not against wealth it's against greed
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that is unchecked it's not against you having better
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and better things it's you having better
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and better things at the expense of your employees at the
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expense of those who need help at the expense of the society you know
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that you if you want to make more money go ahead make more money no problem
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but give more to give back more to create more opportunity create more good
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it shouldn't just rest with you and your family
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and how did how did it happen before islam
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when people became wealthy right
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and of course some of the wealthiest people became closer to politics
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because the wealthier you are the closer to power you get right
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and of course the ultimate king back back in the early systems of government in the world wealth
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and power came together so the king the king is the wealthiest one
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and is the most powerful one so all together
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so what did those kings used to do they want to make sure
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that the wealth stays with them and if it if
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when they're going to die they want to make sure the
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wealth stays within the family isn't it to protect their wealth what did they do they killed their brother
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because the wealth should go the kingdom should go to the son
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and the my brother might want the kingdom
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so they'll kill their own brother they'll kill their own sister they'll kill their this one
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or that one and if they have multiple children then one child might kill the other child
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because they want to everybody wants to who's going to be king next
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right then things got even more disgusting they would even marry brother and sister together
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or the the son would marry his his former mother why because they want to keep the bloodline pure
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they want to keep the royal bloodline they don't want the money
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and the power to go anywhere else they want to keep it inside quran comes along and allah says for example
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you know as as madina came allah talked about inheritance law inheritance is not distributed by poor people.
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If you left behind one date, it's not going to get sliced into six pieces.
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It's the people who had a property.
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They had a garden.
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They had a well.
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They had a house.
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They had animals.
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That's what's being distributed.
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So the ayat of inheritance are about people that have some kind of economic ability.
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When Allah says, اقيم الصلاة و...
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What?
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اقيم الصلاة و...
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Who's going to give zakah?
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People who need charity or people who give charity?
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People who give charity.
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Allah is talking to people who make money.
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Allah is talking to people who make money.
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And what is the inheritance law?
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Inheritance law is the son will get this much, the daughter will get this much, the mother will get this much, the brother will get this much, the father will get this much, the mother will get this much.
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Everybody's getting a piece, right?
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So the empire is being broken.
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You get it?
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The empire got broken.
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And then each one of those people that received the inheritance, they have their own wife or husband, they have their own children, they have their own family.
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And when they die, what happens again?
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it gets broken again.
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So one family doesn't get to keep all the money.
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One group doesn't get to keep all the wealth.
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Inheritance law itself keeps breaking empires.
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You see?
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And so you never end up with the Koch brothers and you never end up with the Rockefellers,
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or the Adelsons or whoever other powerful families that control all of the wealth.
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And they've controlled it for generations and generations and generations.
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That's just not how it works.
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Why is it always a huge controversy If the royal prince Marries someone outside the royal family
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Why is that such a huge controversy Why because they want to keep
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That bloodline within You understand Quran came and just made everybody equal What bloodline,
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what royal You know All of you are children of Adam All of you make mistakes
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All of you are equal You know The only one great is Allah وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّر And nobody's Kabir Nobody has Kibriya
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We'll all become equal This is a revolution In not just
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how humans treat each other It's also a revolution in economics
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It's a revolution in economics And Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam encouraged Tijara
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When he moved to Medina He started a marketplace He started economic activity
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So what I was saying before
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This person wants more They want more But that's the thing They just want more for themselves
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Allah didn't say ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُوا أَزْزِيَادَةَ
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They want more
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They want me to give that Allah attributed that to himself They forget
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that I'm the one giving them And attributing
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that to himself Waleed doesn't acknowledge Allah But Allah brought himself into the conversation anyway Why?
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As if to say Waleed you may acknowledge it or not
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But it's Allah who's giving it to you And
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when you realize Allah is the one giving to you Then you owe Allah something back
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The description of the best believers in the Qur 'an Allah says they concentrate in their prayer
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And they're humbled in their prayer They're powerless in their prayer
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Zakat got mentioned, purification Then giving to the poor and those who need got mentioned
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as if at the core of our belief is giving, giving, giving
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one of the blessings of having more is you get to do an act of ibadah
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that other people can't do which is what? giving more
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why is Dhul Qarnayn let's go back to Dhul Qarnayn why is he traveling to all these different places?
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because he knows people need help out there I'm gonna find out what's going on and who I can help
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so he goes and brings justice to these people
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these people have resources but they don't have the knowledge of engineering let me teach them how to build a wall
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and then sometimes he even finds people he can't help
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so he says I want nothing from you
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and I'm not in a position to help you I'm just
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going to leave you as you are كَذَٰلِكَ وَقَدَ حَطْرًا بِمَا لَدَيْهِ خُبْرًا he leave them alone
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but he has a mentality to build something to go further
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so this is actually the concept behind ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُوا أَنْ أَزِيد now the word طَمْعَ طَلَبُ الشَّيْءِ الْعَظِيمِ طَمْع means
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when you want something great you have high aspirations and these people I told you They have a mindset.
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They just want to build more and more and more.
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They don't know when to stop.
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كَلَّا إِنَّهُ كَانَ لِآيَاتِنَا عَنِيدًا No, no, no. Not at all.
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Meaning, he wants more.
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That's not how things are going to happen.
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He's wrong about that.
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As if Allah has rejected his desire that he wants more and Allah has said, nope, no more for you.
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No more for you.
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And we'll learn in history that from the revelation of this ayah on, Waleed for the first time in his life started suffering losses in business,
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losses in property, losses in sons.
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His son becomes Muslim down the road.
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And little by little, he died.
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We don't know how he died, but one thing we do know is he died poor.
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He did die poor One word from Allah Kalla That's it That's the end
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وَهُوَ رَدْعٌ لَهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ الطَّمْعِ الْفَاسِدِ قَالَ الْمُفَسِّرُونَ لَمْ يَزْلِ الْوَلِيدْ فِي نُقْصَانٍ بَعْدَ قَوْلِهِ Kalla The Mufassirun say
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that Walid kept on suffering losses after Allah said حَتَّ افْتَقَرَ وَمَاتَ فَقِيرًا Until he became bankrupt
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and died poor لِأَنَّهُمْ لَا يَحْسَبُونَ حَيَاةً بَعْدَ هَذِهِ كَمَا حَكَ
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اللَّهُ مِنْ قَوْلِ مُوسَىٰ رَبَّنَا إِنَّكَ آتَيْتَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَأَهُ زِينَةً وَأَمْوَالًا
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فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا رَبَّنَا لِيُضِلُّ عَنْ سَبِيلِكَ رَبَّ نَطْمِسْ عَلَىٰ أَمْوَالِهِمْ
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وَاشْدُدْ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ فَلَا يُؤْمِنُوا حَتَّى يَرَوْا الْعَذَابَ الْأَلِيمِ This is Allah saying, no, you become so materialist, that is your religion.
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Just like Musa a .s when he was crossing the water and the pharaoh was behind him, ready to kill every man, woman, and child.
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Musa a .s turned to Allah and said this, O our master, you are the one who gave Fir 'aun and his generals beautiful things and lots of wealth in this worldly life.
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and our master, they ended up using that money and that beautiful life to misguide others from your path.
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Our master crush their wealth, smudge their wealth, wipe out their wealth.
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وَاشْدُدْ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ and tie up their hearts.
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فَلَا يُؤْمِنُوا حَتَّى يَرَوْا الْعَذَابِ الْأَلِيمِ And they shouldn't accept the faith until they see the punishment.
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Ya Allah, take their dunya away and don't even give them the blessing of deen anymore.
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Allah is now saying This is a very important comment
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And this ayah teaches us That
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when you become ungrateful For what Allah has given you And ungrateful doesn't just mean you say Alhamdulillah and remain greedy
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Oh Allah has given so much I'm so grateful to Allah I said Alhamdulillah Now I want more Give me,
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give me, give me there's this difference between feeling grateful feeling grateful being grateful and also doing grateful
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do gratitude not just be grateful do grateful what does it mean to do gratitude it means to do with
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that money what Allah wants you to do
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do with it what Allah wants you to do
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and it's amazing in our religion Allah didn't tell us take 90 % of your wealth
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if you're a billionaire take 90 % of your wealth
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and give it to somebody else you don't need that much money
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Allah gave us give what you can give what you can give what you can
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give as much as possible
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but he didn't put a number on it he didn't put a percentage on it there's a minimum zakat percentage fine
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but that's so minimum that's so minimum that you can't even feel it right but other than that
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لِيُنْفِقْذُ سَعَةٍ مِّنْ سَعَةِهِ Allah says the one who has more can give more based on their more capacity.
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That's it.
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Give what you can.
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قُلِ الْعَفُ Whatever you can handle.
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So it's such a beautiful religion that some people will be able to give more.
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Some people will be able to give less.
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But they won't be condemned for it.
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But at least you're giving.
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At least you're giving.
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And you're giving and giving.
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Okay?
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So, but rejecting the favor of Allah, meaning not being grateful with the wealth Allah has given you, is guaranteeing that it will stop coming.
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لَإِن شَكَرْتُمْ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ If you remain grateful, I will give you more and more.
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وَلَا إِنْ كَفَرْتُمْ إِنَّ عَذَابِي لَشَدِيدٌ If you become ungrateful, then my punishment is extremely severe.
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وَلِهَذَا قَالَ شَيْخِ بْنُ عَتَاءِ اللَّهِ That's why Shaykh ibn عَتَاءِ اللَّهِ said, مَنْ لَمْ يَشْكُلِ النِّعَمْ فَقَدْ تَعَرَّدَ لِزَوَالِهَا Whoever isn't grateful for
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the favors Allah has done for them has guaranteed themselves that their wealth is going to decline.
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وَمَنْ شَكَرَهَا And whoever is grateful for the blessings they have, فَقَدْ قَيَّدَهَا بِعِقَالِهَا It's like they tied them up with a robe.
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Like they're not going to escape.
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Like an animal won't escape if you tie it.
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You tied up your blessings by being grateful to Allah for your blessings.
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Of course, that's actually also not a principle in the Quran necessarily.
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You can be very grateful and suffer great losses still, isn't it?
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Right?
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But generally speaking, in gratitude, blessings will go away.
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And blessings go away in two ways.
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It doesn't just mean you're wealthy and you'll become poor.
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Actually, you might die wealthy but miserable.
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You might stay wealthy, but you are suffering.
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You will become more and more lonely.
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You become more and more paranoid.
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You become more and more sick.
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And you get a kind of sickness.
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No doctors are able to help.
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No physicians are able to help.
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Nobody's able to help, you know.
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Where did the wealth go then?
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Where did the money and the power go then?
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When you're suffering from internal pain.
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Hey guys, you just watched a small clip of me explaining the Qur 'an in depth as part of the Deeper Look series studies.
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Studying the Quran in depth can seem like a really intimidating thing that's only meant for scholars.
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Our job at Bayina is to make deeper study of the Quran accessible and easy for all of you.
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So take us up on that challenge.
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Join us for this study, the deeper look of the Quran, for this surah and many other surahs on bayinatv .com under the deeper look section.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “You Can Have Everything… and Still Be Miserable”. This video has 474 sentences and 5095 words to shadow. The speech runs for 30:58. The speaker talks at a natural 165 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| ayah noun | /ˈaɪ.(j)ɑː/ | A verse in the Quran. |
| blessing noun | /ˈblɛs.ɪŋ/ | Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward. |
| inheritance noun | /ɪnˈhɛɹɪtəns/ | The passing of title to an estate upon death. |
| mentality noun | /mɛnˈtæləti/ | A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs. |
| astaghfirullah | /ˌæs.tæɡ.fɪ.ɹəˈlɑː/ | A short prayer of redemption; I seek forgiveness from Allah; God forgive me. |
| bloodline noun | /ˈblʌdˌlaɪn/ | The abstract link between a person and their ancestors. |
| worldly adjective | /ˈwɜː(ɹ)ldli/ | Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual. |
| obstacle noun | /ˈɑbstəkəl/ | Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress, either physically or figuratively |
| ethical adjective | /ˈɛθɪkəl/ | Of or relating to the study of ethics. |
| curse noun | /kɝs/ | A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane. |
| ungrateful adjective | /ʌnˈɡɹeɪtfəl/ | Not grateful; not expressing gratitude. |
| gratitude noun | /ˈɡɹæ.tɪ.tud/ | The state of being grateful. |
| puzzle noun | /ˈpʌzəl/ | The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often in… |
| furnish verb | /ˈfɝnɪʃ/ | To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment. |
| materialist noun | /məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst/ | Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come along verb | To accompany. | |
| tie up verb | To secure with rope, string, etc. | |
| come together verb | /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/ | To assemble; to congregate; to combine. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| give back verb | To return, restore (a thing to its original owner or location etc.). | |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- You're going to tell me strategy?
- You think you're going to tell me strategy?
- You're going to give me financial advice?
- I got, well, how much money do you make?
- I should give him more?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you pursue this dunya, you'll become · If you remain grateful, I will give |
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to do · used to be |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have waleed · has facilitated · has made |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being released · was described · be fixed |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 127 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: ethical /ˈɛθɪkəl/, thirsty /ˈθɝs.ti/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: furnish /ˈfɝnɪʃ/, sham /ˈʃæm/, aspiration /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/, elevation /ˌɛlɪˈveɪʃn̩/, revelation /ˌɹɛv.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: inheritance /ɪnˈhɛɹɪtəns/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/, astaghfirullah /ˌæs.tæɡ.fɪ.ɹəˈlɑː/, materialist /məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst/, pharmaceutical /ˌfɑː.məˈs(j)uː.tɪ.kl̩/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like ayah, blessing, inheritance.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.