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that you were lenient with them or upon them. You were kind to them. You were soft

with them. Allah says that is the mercy of Allah. When you are soft with people,

when you kind to them, when you are lenient with them, it's a sign of the

mercy of Allah upon you. And Allah says if you were hard-hearted, if you were

harsh and hard-hearted, they would have dispersed from around you. They wouldn't

have listened to you. You have people who don't want to hear a message of doom.

They want to be told, you know, with a pat on the back. Don't worry, you're doing

well, but you can do better. There's a way of speaking. Don't worry, you're doing

well. Each one of us has a struggle. We are all trying, I said it this morning at

another university and to be honest, I live by it. I know, there are struggles.

Myself included, we are all struggling to earn the pleasure of Allah and to

improve no matter what level I am upon or you are upon. Every one of us knows

we are trying to become better people as the day is past. So much so that if I were

to ask you today, how many of you read five salah a day? I'm sure I would see

most of the hands, I hope. And if I were to ask you how many of us read salah to

Tehedjud, for example, I would see slightly less hands, but in your heart you

know I want to get there someday. And by the mercy of Allah, he sometimes

inflicts you with something that makes you get up for Tehedjud. Do you know why?

He just wants you to taste the sweetness of it. How many of us have had a

difficulty that led us to this late night prayer, early morning prayer in a way

that we tasted its sweetness even after the problem was gone, we still get up

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