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Now what is Waleem Rashid and again? Someone protective over you and someone who

course corrects you. Now interestingly the first Waleem Rashid every one of us

has in our life is our parents. They're protective over us and they set us to

the right course. If you're misbehaving they correct your misbehavior. If you're

making a mess they ask you to clean up your mess. If you're missing your

prayers they tell you to make your prayer. If you're not if you didn't make

Waleem, they ask you to fix your Waleem, make it properly. There you're Waleem and

they're your Murshid. They're your first ones, right? And in their case of

course in a Shabul Qaf's case you know they don't have parental guidance. They

have parental misguidance, right? Their parents aren't guided. So Allah says and

whoever Allah decides to guide, then they're the ones who commit to guidance

themselves. And if Allah allows somebody to be misguided it doesn't matter if

their parents are good or not. It doesn't matter if they have Waleem Murshid any

any other Waleem Murshid. They could be in the best environment. But Allah

decides that these people don't want to commit to guidance so they don't

deserve it. You know what this is telling us? It's a profound philosophical

reality. Guidance is not the result of your environment. Guidance is the

result of your commitment. It's not the result of your environment. Ibrahim

Ali Saddam could be in a hostile environment and he's guided. A Shabul Qaf

in an extremely hostile environment and they're not prophets and they're

guided. And the Israelites were in the company of prophets every single

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