Pertinent Advice for Muslims : "Understanding your Condition" by Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick.

As-salaa-mu 'alaykum waraHmatullaah,
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Although I have posted this in my other blog : "Be with those who are true" sometime back, I note that it (that blog) was not much visited as compared to this blog.

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Therefore I am posting this important message: "Understanding your Condition" and "The blessings of being Muslims" here on this blog -

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From the 2008 talk by Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick, presented at Lakemba Mosque, Sydney, Australia.

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ذَٲلِكَ بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَمۡ يَكُ مُغَيِّرً۬ا نِّعۡمَةً أَنۡعَمَهَا عَلَىٰ قَوۡمٍ

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حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُواْ مَا بِأَنفُسِہِمۡ‌ۙ

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وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ۬

“This, because Allah would never change the blessings with which He has graced a people unless they change their inner selves: and [know] that Allah is all-Hearing, all-Seeing.”

(Qur’an: Al- Anfal : 8:53)

إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوۡمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُواْ مَا بِأَنفُسِہِمۡ‌ۗ

“Verily, Allah does not change men’s condition unless they change their inner selves;”

(Qur’an: Ra’ad : 13:11)

وَمَن يَبۡتَغِ غَيۡرَ ٱلۡإِسۡلَـٰمِ دِينً۬ا فَلَن يُقۡبَلَ مِنۡهُ

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وَهُوَ فِى ٱلۡأَخِرَةِ مِنَ ٱلۡخَـٰسِرِينَ

“For, if one goes in search of a religion other than “al-Islam” (self-surrender to Allah), it will never be accepted from him, and in the life to come he shall be among the lost.”

(Qur’an: Aali- ‘Imran : 3:85)

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