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Welcome to Planet Dawa. 
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Jazakallah. 

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I love you Long. 
There will be hardship, there 

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will be difficulty. 
We have one gift, many gifts, 

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but one number one. 
We have the gift of faith. 

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We believe in the Almighty. 
We know good days will always 

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come after the difficult days, 
the days when we thought we were

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broken and there is no way out. 
Allah Almighty suddenly opens 

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doors and suddenly we see nearly
all of us. 

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Perhaps we may have had days 
when we really felt like there 

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was no way out. 
It was tough. 

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It is so hard. 
I just wish that this earth 

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could open and swallow me. 
And today you're sitting and 

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you're smiling and saying, you 
know what? 

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All those problems were solved 
to solve them. 

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How did they resolve? 
It was a miracle, was it not 

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Allah? 
So that means if you are going 

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through that today, don't worry,
tomorrow a day will come when 

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you will even forget about what 
happened and if you remember it 

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will just be slightly not much. 
Allah will open your doors, 

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Allah will bless you. 
Keep trying, keep praying, keep 

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doing better. 
Because we are weak environment.

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We know how it is, the pressures
of society, community, those who

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are around us. 
The world is changing on a daily

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basis. 
Every moment the world is 

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developing, changing. 
It's not getting any better. 

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Things are getting tougher, but 
your faith keeps you going. 

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I know Allah has a plan. 
Secondly, another gift of Allah 

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is we are in it together. 
How's that? 

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We are in it together. 
When you have another person 

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struggling and the other one 
struggling. 

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Someone was asking me, I heard 
there's going to be a credit 

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crunch and I heard there's going
to be a recession and I heard I 

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said, well, we'll cross the 
bridge when we get there. 

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I don't want to speculate, 
Subhanallah, if you're going to 

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suffer, I'm going to suffer with
you, Subhanallah. 

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And if anything, we're going to 
help each other. 

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That's what it's going to be. 
I'm surviving. 

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You're surviving. 
If I go down, we go down 

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together, Mashallah. 
May Allah subhanahu wattala 

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grantas ease. 
Look at the people struggling in

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Pakistan, look at them 
struggling in Afghanistan and 

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other places right now as we 
speak with the floods and so 

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much more. 
To be honest, the fact that 

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there are so many of them 
together, it makes it a little 

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bit easier for them even before 
the aid comes from afar. 

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May Allah use us to help them, 
may Allah use us to help even in

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a small way, and may Allah make 
it easy for them. 

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But imagine if you're the only 
one and everyone else has gone. 

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That would be tough. 
That would be really, really 

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difficult. 
May Allah protect all of us. 

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So one of the gifts of Allah is 
that we're together. 

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You have someone, you have 
people around you. 

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Sometimes you might have a bad 
relationship with those who are 

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living immediately around you, 
but you can always navigate 

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through that by turning to the 
Almighty. 

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Perhaps, depending on what the 
matter is, what the situation 

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is, if the communication is not 
helping, if you're involving 

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others has not helped, you may 
want to detach a little bit for 

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your sanity, for your sanity. 
Like I say, it depends what the 

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matter is. 
You don't just break your home 

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for a small thing. 
You don't just run away because 

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someone disagreed with one or 
two things about you and your 

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life. 
Not at all, because you might go

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away and there might be 20 
things that will go wrong where 

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you were. 
There were only two things 

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wrong. 
So thank Allah. 

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Don't throw a gift that Allah 
has given you, because if you do

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that, He might not give you 
another one. 

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Who knows to appreciate what you
have, but if it is really 

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difficult, if it is almost 
impossible, if it is really so 

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hard for you to take that it is 
starting to affect you in a huge

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way, remember. 
And if there is no improvement 

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and you're not, you're noticing 
there's nothing. 

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Allah has shown you a way out. 
You can go further. 

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You might want to detach no 
matter what. 

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You might want to go and live on
your own. 

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Perhaps if you can afford it, 
you might want to seek the help 

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of someone further apart. 
That also is a favour of Allah. 

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At the end of the day, He's 
created us such that we have 

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within us an element of care for
one another. 

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If only you recognise your 
Maker.