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'In a journey to everywhere'

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'Between cities and nations'

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'In the presence of the Wise Remembrance'

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'The Lord of all hearts Has unified us... Has unified us all.'

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'And for the sake of memorizing the book'

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'We have knocked every door'

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'We shall continue this right path, before things come to an end'

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So many of you like to read the Whole Qur'an more than once

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especially in Ramadan, people race to finish it once, twice

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and three times, throughout Ramadan, which is great.

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However, when we read the Qur'an, we must stop every now and then to

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reflect upon the beautiful meanings we pass by

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Useful messages

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We shouldnt focus on when we are through with the hizb or juzz of the day

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Let's care more to finish where the message is complete

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So that when starting again next day or after an Hour,

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we are starting a new idea from the Qur'an

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Let me give you an example,

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In surat Ali'Imran

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" Our Lord, indeed whoever You admit to the Fire - "

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" You have disgraced him, and for the wrongdoers there are no helpers."

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" Our Lord, indeed we have heard a caller calling to faith,"

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The believers are calling and praying to Allah SWT

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And they ask him, SWT

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And finally they say;

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" Our Lord, and grant us what You promised us through Your messengers"

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" and do not disgrace us on the Day of Resurrection."

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" Indeed, You do not fail in [Your] promise.""

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Suppose you closed the Mushaf at this verse

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And next day you continued;" And their Lord responded to them,"

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But as you see the sequence was interrupted

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When you read, finish at the end of the message

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This, my beloved, would support your contemplation

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Get this advice from me and you will realize how great contemplation is

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Another thing I noticed

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Some people read fast, and stop anywhere in the middle of the verse

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They don't realize that the meaning of the verse changes a lot

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These improper stops are called by scholars "Ugly stops"

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How bad the description, Ugly, is!

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Because the meaning of the verse might change completely

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Or distort a beautiful meaning unknowingly

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For example, in Surat Al-Ma'un, Allah SWT said:

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" So woe to those who pray"

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Imagine stopping here! How comes those who pray?!!

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Those are much rewarded for their prayer!

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Then, how come He says: "woe to those who pray"?

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If you want to understand the meaning properly, you must stop properly! Read:

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" So woe to those who pray [But] who are heedless of their prayer -"

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Those who heedless of their prayer and without concentration

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" I will surely increase you [in favor];"

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" but if you deny, indeed, My punishment is severe.' "

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"If you are grateful, I will surely increase you and [even] if you deny,"

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and he stops, the meaning now changed!

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the believer and the disbeliever!

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This kind of stop is called the ugly stop; Waqf Qabeh

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But the proper stop helps proper understanding

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and reflection upon the meanings

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For example, Allah SWT says;

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" Be not deceived by the [uninhibited] movement of the disbelievers throughout the
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and potentiated the message

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And any one praying behind you will be amazed on the new understanding

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Believe me and I am honest with you,

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This is very helpful in reflection

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We will continue in the future to mention other helping points

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'In a journey to everywhere'

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'Between cities and nations'

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'In the presence of the Wise Remembrance'

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'The Lord of all hearts Has unified us... Has unified us all.'

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'And for the sake of memorizing the book'

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'We have knocked every door'

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'We shall continue this right path,'

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'before things come to an end'

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I have reached the city of Tang Rang, Indonesia

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Our plan was to visit a Qur'anic Centre or an Institute

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To our surprise, it was not as we expected

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It was a very beautiful resort!

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which is very exceptional

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the owner of this Qur'anic resort was

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a lovable personality, well-mannered, and humble.

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You would never feel bored talking to him

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- My dear Sheikh Yusuf Mansur

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- First I would like to thank you,

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- I know you are very busy person and

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- Your schedule is tight with all the Qur'anic activities you do

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- and serving the Book of Allah Swt

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- I ask Allah SWT to preserve you

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- I am very happy to be here
- Glory to Allah

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- This Institute is a blessing from Allah

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- May Allah bless you sheikh

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- How everything here?
- Praise to Allah, everything is good

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- Sheikh Yusuf, I was told so much about you

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- But I want to hear it from you

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- How was the beginning with the Book of Allah SWT?

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- From the start!

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- I started memorization of the Qur'an at the prison

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- You were in jail!
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- At 1999 to be exact 1998

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- I spent there 4 months

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- Praise to Allah, I memorized 4 juzzs there

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- Every month one juzz!

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- He said, " Very good, take him back to jail!"

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- Back in jail to complete your memorization!
- Yes, it turned out good!

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- How did you start serving the Qur'an as we see?

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- How did you devote yourself to serving the Qur'an?

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- My only explanation to what happened is that, it is a miracle.

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- This is what happened here!

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- When I started with the Qur'an,

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- Allah SWT, made everything easy!

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- Our teacher, Yusuf Mansur always encourages students and teachers

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- He motivates them by

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- strengthening their believe and confidence with Allah SWT

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- And that the Qur'an is the way for our happiness,

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- honor and success in dunya and thereafter

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- The tighter your bond with the Qur'an, the greater the rewards

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- This was his personal experience in the first place

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- He wasn't a professional teacher or an instructor

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- He used to go to the nearby institutes

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- and asks the teachers there to give him a chance to teach

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- to substitute them even for one day in the class

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- Sometimes he offered them money to accept

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- Instead of taking money from them

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- He offered money to the teachers for even one hour in their classes

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- To teach the Book of Allah SWT

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- He enjoys teaching the Book of Allah SWT

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- The prophet SAW said, "The best of you who learn the Qur'an.."

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- "..and teaches it."

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- So he always motivate to love learning the Qur'an

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- From the scene around us, viewers might think that we are in

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- a tourists' resort, in Indonesia

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- Or a national park

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- This place is actually a Qur'anic institute

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- And a real Qur'anic resort

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- Mr. Yusuf and his colleagues established this institute

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- Called Dar Al-Qur'an for memorization of the Noble Qur'an

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- At first, they had 8 orphans

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He started teaching the Qur'an to 8 persons

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And gradually increased the number up to three thousand hafidh

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Blessings from the Merciful

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This is the real blessing of the Qur'an

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- How could you establish this place in such a short period?

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- In 5 years!

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- This is the blessing of the Qur'an

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- How ?

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- The institute is mind blowing!

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- Extraordinary beautiful, ma'sha'Allah.

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- Praise to Allah,

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- I know some of the privileges of sending blessings to our prophet

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- Of saying, peace and blessings upon our prophet
- Peace and blessings upon him

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- My mother, father, and all elders in my family

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- They advised me; if you wish anything, start by blessing our prophet SAW

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- Then, by the will of Allah, your wish is going to be fulfilled

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- This institute is private

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- It was built by Mr. Yusuf Mansur and Dar Al-Qur'an group

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- They collaborated and built the place from donations

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- This place is not the property of Mr. Mansur or Ahmed Jameel only

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- It is for All the Muslims of Indonesia and the world!

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- Sheikh, how could you fund for this project

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- I have my own commercial businesses

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- And I have a TV show

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- At first year I did some contacting

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- My contract with the TV was for 9 Billion rupees
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- 9 Billion rupees from TV
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- I donated all of that to this project, a gift to the Qur'an

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- Praise to Allah, my business became very profitable, Blessings

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- From Allah. Hotels, transportations

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- So you are a businessman
- Yes, praise to Allah

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- Ma'sha'Allah
- Praise to Allah

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- So you funded for all these buildings

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- Or do you have other donors

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- Of course, there are others

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- Participants from all over the country, from Indonesia

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- Ma'sha'Allah, so you have an endowment fund

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- exactly, endowment
- So the endowment completely funds this project

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- And the profits of the endowment projects are spent on these schools
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- I met so many sheikhs everywhere, Arabs and non-Arabs

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- But I never met anyone like Mr. Yusuf Mansur

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- He is very humble and active, ma'sha'Allah

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- Praise to Allah, we have other sites

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- We have three thousand memorization houses
- Glory to Allah

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- In each house we have one hundred students
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- A total of three hundred thousand students
- Ma'sha'Allah

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By Allah, sheikh Yusuf astonished me!

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The idea is great and brilliant!

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Imagine what he does!

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He has contacts, youth and businessmen in Indonesia

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They agree to use their houses

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as sites for students to memorize the Qur'an

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100 students in each house

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Now, sheikh Yusuf is supervising three thousands houses

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In different places in Indonesia

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Now, due to his intelligence and ambitions

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To spread memorization of the Qur'an in his country Indonesia,

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He is supervising, only by himself, on three hundred thousand

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..students memorizing the Qur'an

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Glad tidings, Sheikh Yusuf!

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- And all these centers are the same Dar Al-Qur'an Institute

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- No, they are independent schools

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- For example, If Yusuf wants to start a school to memorize the Qur'an

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- It is registered under his name!

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- The name of the owner?
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- 'Yusuf school for memorization of the Qur'an'

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- Under supervision of Dar Al-Qur'an

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Sheikh Yusuf is a famous celebrity in Indonesia

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He has a daily show to help people memorize the Qur'an

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Under the principle of, few and lasting,

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is better than much but inconstant

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The name of his show is "Memorize one verse a day"

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- Praise to Allah, at 2005

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- I made a movie film
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- Yes, Cinema movie for the theater

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- It was called "Be, and it is"
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- To teach people one verse in surat Ya-Sin

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- Glory to Allah, So you are the one who produced it!

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" His command is only when He intends a thing"

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" that He says to it, "Be," and it is."

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" So exalted is He in whose hand is the realm of all things,"

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" and to Him you will be returned."

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- Glory to Allah!
- Then, at the TV, they suggested me to do such a thing

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- in a daily show for the television

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- It was Ok with me

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- We started from the small surahs

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- From the 30th juzz, An-Naba
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- Praise to Allah
- On TV

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- Me and Mr. Yusuf had so many incidents together

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- One of the nicest is that

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- We were in a very big party, in the masjid

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- And Mr. Mansur was teaching

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- He always admits that he is not a proficient teacher

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- And he is still learning the Qur'an, and

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- He never has a sheikh as an instructor

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- All what he learned was by his own efforts

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- His voice is very beautiful

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- Once he was teaching a huge congregation

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- He recites and they repeat after him

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- He was reading the last verse in surst An-Naba

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" Indeed, We have warned you of a near "

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" punishment on the Day when a man will observe..."

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- Instead of that he said; Yuma Yanzuru

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- He pronounced the letter TH wrongly as za

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- And the whole people repeated after him the same wrong way

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- I was there witnessing that

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- My brother, Sheikh Ali Jaber was next to me

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- So I asked him, what should we do sheikh?

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- We are surrounded by cameras

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- And it is all live streaming, we can't say this is wrong now

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- So we waited for him to finish

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- when he sat next to me, I said to him, 'Ustadh, I always tell you..'

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- '.. to bring out the tip of your tongue between your teeth..'

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- '..when you pronounce this letter'

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- I wanted to mention it to him to improve himself in the future

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- He jumped off his seat immediately

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- I realized that he is going to say what I told him to the audience

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- I stopped him, 'What are you going to do?'

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- He said, 'to explain what you just said'

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- I said, 'no, it is too late to do this now'

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- 'It's not nice that people say Mr Yusuf, the great teacher made a mistake'

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- He got very angry at me for saying that

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- He looked at me and said, 'This is the speech of Allah'

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- 'No one is greater than the speech of Allah SWT'

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- Then he immediately interrupted the show and took the mic.

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-Then he said, 'What I taught you earlier was wrong'

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- The pronunciation of that letter was wrong

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- Then he looked at me and called me, 'Sheikh Muhammad'

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- 'Come here!'

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- And he asked me to show them the

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- correct pronunciation of the letter

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- And to say the verse correctly again so they would repeat after

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- I believe that the Qur'an is for everyone

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- I invited all the residents of the nearby village
- Yes

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- Not to memorize the Qur'an

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- I invited them to eat

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- Come every one, we have food here

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- For food
- Food!

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- But before eating I said to them;

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- Peace be upon you, before we eat, listen to this

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" Ya-Sin...Ya-Sin...Ya-Sin"

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- Read after me, read

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- Then everybody said, " Ya-Sin...Ya-Sin...Ya-Sin"

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- I said, "Did you memorized it?"

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- "Yes, teacher, we memorized it, one verse"

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- Good, one verse, now let's eat!

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" And those who do not expect the meeting with Us say,"

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" "Why were not angels sent down to us,"

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" or [why] do we [not] see our Lord?""

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" They have certainly become arrogant within themselves"

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" and [become] insolent with great insolence."

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" The day they see the angels - no good tidings"

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" will there be that day for the criminals, "

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" and [the angels] will say, "Prevented and inaccessible.""

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- Ma'sha'Allah, praise to the Entirely Merciful, sheikh

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- May Allah bless you

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- The Sheikh is having...
- Wait, listen, I'll do better this time!

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- The Sheikh is having a flu!

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- In spite of that, praise to the Entirely Merciful,

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- His voice is very beautiful
- May Allah bless you

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- Qur'an is for all, not for students only

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- Everyone can memorize Qur'an

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- You are right sheikh, some people say, 'I am an Engineer'

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- 'It is not necessary for me to memorize Qur'an,'

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- Or I am a Doctor; I don't have to memorize Qur'an

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- Or a house wife, and so on..
- Exactly

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- Everyone can memorize Qur'an

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- Once I was on the street and the traffic light went red

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- The driver next to me

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- He recognized me

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- So he opened the window of his car and called over me

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- Mr. Yusuf, I memorized surst Al-Waqi'ah, praise to Allah

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- I was on the street!, It happens everywhere in train and airport

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- Once at the airport, I cried that time..Ma'sha'Allah

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- May peace and blessings be upon him

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- May Allah make us from the servants of the Qur'an
- Ameen

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- I was on the airplane

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- The pilot came out of his cabin

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- While the plain was on air

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- He said, I learned that Mr. Yusuf Mansur is on board

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- So he heard you were on board!
- Yes

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- And he came to me and said;

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- Mr. Yusuf, Please I want to recite for you

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- I said, 'Wow, the pilot!?'
- The pilot!

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- 'What do you want to recite?'

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- he said, "Praise to Allah, By the will of Allah I memorized the 30th juzz"

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- I said, 'ok, go on'

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- 'I seek refuge in Allah from the cursed Shaytan'

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" About what are they asking one another?"

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- He is not a student or a teacher

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- He is a pilot
- Sure

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- And he is memorizing the Qur'an

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- May peace and blessings be upon him

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- This is really a valuable message, Sheikh

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- We must Cherish and value

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- Don't say, I am a house-wife, I can't memorize!

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- I am a soccer player, I can't memorize!

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- I am still young, I can't memorize!

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- House maid..
- Only sheikhs should do

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- A driver
- Yes

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- Even cameraman

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- The directors and cameramen, all should memorize the Qur'an

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- After all what we are saying in our show

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- All of them should memorize the Qur'an

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' Indeed the giant mountains over the horizon'

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' They tremble by hearing of the Qur'an recitation'

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' So preserve the book of Allah and it will always preserve you'

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' How happy are the hufadh with the Qur'an, at all times'

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' How happy are the hufadh...'

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' How happy are the hufadh...'

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' How happy are the hufadh with the Qur'an, at all times'

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'When I breathe the essence of my soul'

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'And the door of goodness opens for me'

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'That's when the soul flows with its scent'

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'The perfume of love throughout the gardens'

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'We travel in the journey of Qur'an'

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'Along the roads of goodness and to home lands '

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'With the noble target of life'

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'It's to win the acceptance of Allah'

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'In the company of the Qur'an, the journey is sweet'

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'Through the lights with reflections'

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'With souls by impression'

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'It has all the good and evidence'

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'From the Qur'an to mankind'

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'In all horizons and universes'

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'We are in its journey at all times'

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'Our only wish is acceptance of Allah'