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When you look in the mirror, you might see a living human being.

But on the other side, are you actually just a corpse?

Are you truly living, or are you just waiting for your body to catch up to your dead soul? You may have fed your body to keep it alive, but have you been starving your soul to death?

How many times have you killed your own spiritual heart?

And how many times can you bring it back to life?

The Imamman bin Al-Qayyam, Rahima, Allah narrates that Allah revealed to Mousa,

Al-Aleu'sa,

Ya Mousa, inna,

O Mousa, the first one to actually die from my creation was Iblis,

because he disobeyed me, and I count the one who disobeys me amongst the dead.

Omar, Radiall on the other hand is described as a dead man brought back to life.

Oman cana meyten, for a he hajiannahu, and we said that he was dead, and then we gave him life and a light by which he walks amongst the people.

I want you to imagine seeing Omar, Radi'u'anhu, in his previous life.

If you saw him drinking heavily and hurting those people around him, even getting to the point of plotting to kill the Prophet,

Sallallu. And then you saw Omar, Radiah anhu as the chalifa. That's not the same human being. And in Sura al-Hadid, when Allah says,

Al-Mya-Ni'n to cheshahuluboom to the vikrilla, isn't it time for those who believe

to humble their hearts to the remembrance of Allah and to the truth that he has revealed?

He immediately follows it up by saying,

E'lema, an Allah you he'll he'll arda by death after mautieha.

Know that Allah gives life even to dead, barren land.

And that's a sign that no matter how dead your heart or soul is,

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