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Is that there are two simultaneous stories being written.

The one that you think you're writing and the one that Allah,

subhanna-a-a-a-a-a-ha has written for you.

And there are deletions and directions that are going to happen in the authoring of that story

that you can't anticipate, but you're still commanded to write.

What you're not allowed to do is to sit back and wait for that document to fill itself.

What you're not allowed to do is to fill your scrolls with evil and hope for some miraculous grace to come and to redirect

you towards good. It might happen, but if you intend to sin waiting for Allah,

subhannawatea to suddenly guide you a right, then you're no different than those who said,

if Allah wanted us to be righteous, we would have been righteous. If Allah wanted to guide us, we would have been guided.

Abdicating your own responsibility, abdicating your own sense of accountability,

abdicating your own God-given authorship in the name of belief doesn't make sense.

This is not the way that we approach our Lord.

This is not the way that we approach the ultimate author of our story,

subhanna-wa-cha-a-a-a-a-a-a-a.

So where do we start?

Where am I right now?

Am I three pages in? Am I three pages in?

Am I 30 pages in?

When does the conclusion actually come in?

Because almost everyone in here knows someone that was your age that died an untimely death,

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