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How are you? After this long vacation, the Eid, I

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wish you had a nice time celebrating, eating.

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Eating everything, of course, sweet and meat. Yes,

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today I don't want to waste more time. Today we 

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are going to look at Better My Heart closely after 

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what we did last time, if you remember. We gave

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you a general background about mythological poetry

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in the 17th century, and we saw how the 17th

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century was a century of uncertainty. But today, 

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you know, and I remember we talked about the

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metaphysical poets and we saw how those poets were 

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writing difficult poetry, poetry which was

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characterized by its conceits, paradoxes, images, 

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tough rhythm or tough diversification, and like

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the blending between passion and mind. So today we 

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are going to look closely at, you know, the poem, 

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analyze it, see some of these characteristics.

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However, you know, as usual, I'm looking forward

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to hearing, to listening, you know, sorry, to

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listening to your wonderful reports after this 

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long vacation. So let's see who has a creative

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report. 

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Don't tell me you don't have reports. Okay. Yes? 

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Do you have one? Not creative? Okay. Oh my God.

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Let's see. You come here, okay? Take my place.

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Many would consider it a holiday, others consider 

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it as a transitional period. Spending nine days 

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holiday was a mess, that it came during hard times

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of exams and assignments. Wake up early, do many 

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things, that all what we used to not to do during

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last days. Now we are on again, different mornings 

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and different faces, just a word can help us. 

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Okay, thank you very much. It's very laconic,

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whereas, you know, It seems like she was very 

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clever in wasting or at wasting her time. You 

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didn't? Okay, good. So let's see another report.

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Yes. Yeah.

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Of course, we'll see a response as well. No

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problem. Say good morning. How are you? They're 

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waiting for you. Good morning, everybody. How are 

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you? 

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After enjoying Eid and being so interested and

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happy, we come back to the university and began to 

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study. Actually, it was a beautiful Eid, but with 

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a mixture of fright and feeling, because of the 

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beauty of Eid, but we heard of the coming exams

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and such things. Referring to the previous lecture

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of poetry, it was so nice, and we discussed the

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metaphysical poetry, and then the teacher ordered 

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us to prepare the next kind of poetry. Yeah, I

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don't order. I just told you, because order, that 

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means like I'm very authoritative ordering

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everybody. Good. Let's see a response. Yes.

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Response how you found the poem like was it good 

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interesting? like was it like how my daughter felt 

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was very Horrifying poem she even didn't sleep I'm

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sorry. I didn't mean that but this is mythical

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poetry He asked the name of the three-person God

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to batter his heart. For him, God only knocks 

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politely and seeks to mend, while he wants to be 

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torn apart, to rise and stand, to be new. He loves

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God and wants God to love him too, but he 

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considers a mercy aid will not make him chaste.

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nor his lust would fade. So he wants God to knock 

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him down, just as a defeated town. Well, John

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Donne, I'm telling you, if you want to be renewed,

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first, there is only one God, and salvation comes

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through your heart, not by force or in prison for 

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life. If you mean it, then you can have it. Yes,

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thank you, Rawal. This is very creative response.

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And I like it very much because she's responding 

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to the poem from a Muslim perspective, you know? 

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Because, I mean, we have our beliefs and, you

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know, perhaps, you know, she responded that from a 

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Muslim perspective because we believe, you know,

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like Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is only one, you 

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know, and we have differences between, you know,

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Islam and Christianity, other religions. Okay,

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now, any other response? Yes? 

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Hello everybody. Try to forgive me Allah.

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Remorseful I am and I want to begin with a new 

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life without any fright. Please Allah forgive me

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about my telling of lies. I am trying to be a new

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one, but I am sick for your life. I am admit I

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have lots of faults, but I know you are the

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greatest Lord. Regarding my eyes, I will keep it 

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from the ugliness. According to my eyes, I have to

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protect it from the liars. You and me have the

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same and only enemy. By your power, you can burn

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it by your harsh fire.So make me away from his

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evil plans, and try to forgive me because of my

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listening to Satan, your only enemy, and I will 

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revenge from him, and this is my greatest pledge,

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in order to make my life happiness, and allow me 

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to enter your heaven. In short, the most thing I 

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want to be happy from your adorer. Okay, thank you 

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very much. You know, this shows like, you know, 

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even the poem is written like, you know, by a

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Christian who was mainly Catholic. But, you know,

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we have something to share because, you know, her 

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response is full of supplication. You know what

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supplication means? She's imploring. She's 

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imploring. She's praying. you know, and she's

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hoping that God would take her to heaven, to

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eternal paradise. So, you know, the poem is not 

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totally, you know, contrary to our beliefs, but we 

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have something to share. And perhaps, like, I 

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still remember when I was teaching metaphysical 

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poetry, I asked this question, to what extent do

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you think that metaphysical poetry intersects or 

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even deviates from our beliefs as Muslims. Okay,

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now let's see your response orally. What do you

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think, you know? What do you think? What do you

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think of the poem? Yes, please. 

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Yes.

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So this is the idea of Trinity, the Father, the 

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Son, and you know, The Lord. Okay. And so you know

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that was disturbing to you? Sorry? So that was

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disturbing to you. How did you feel about this? I 

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feel his ideology is mistaken. You know, the 

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belief itself, you know? In my mind. Okay.

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Yeah if you like debate with you know a Christian

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they would tell you like there was a debate

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between Ahmed Didat and like you know a Muslim and

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he said we are three but we are one you know it is 

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like He said like a state of water when it is gas,

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when it is liquid, when it is frozen. This is how 

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they argue. And you have to prepare yourself how 

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to argue against also this. Good. What do you 

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think? Yes?

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The language easy and difficult at the same time?

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but the ideas are difficult. Yes, you are right.

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The language, you know, is easy, but the ideas are 

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difficult. I don't know. Do you know why? Do you 

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know why? Who can tell me why? The language, if 

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you look, better my hearty person got. The word

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better might be difficult, but it's easy. Usurp 

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might be difficult. So I think the poet uses

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simple words, but I bet like a lot of you found it

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difficult to understand. Why? Why? Was it

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ambiguous? Yes? Okay, for religious reasons,

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because we don't understand the creed. Because,

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you know, of the argument. Yeah, I think when you 

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have an argument, it is easy to understand. But

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you are not answering the question in my mind, you

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know, you're not reaching the answer in my mind.

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Yes. Yes. What do you mean metaphorical? 

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And I think you are clever in analyzing a 

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metaphor, you know? Okay, what do you think? Yeah, 

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you're right to some extent, but you have to 

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develop this idea. Yes? Maybe because he wrote it 

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to the intellectual people, so they will

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understand it. Yes, but you know, what are the

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features of difficulty in this poem? Why it is

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difficult? Yes? Paradoxes. Excellent. The

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paradoxes. The conceits. You know? When you are 

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using paradoxes and conceits, even though the 

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language is simple, but still you are having

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difficulty in analyzing because you need to employ

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your mind to analyze those paradoxes and conceits.

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And this is what I'm trying to get you to do 

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today. Yes? More? What do you think? Yes, please.

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How did you find the poem? Not easy. Why? What do 

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you mean by not easy? 

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So you want like everything to be without 

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reasoning or what? I think nowadays, you know, we

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this century, we are in the age of technology and

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still we appreciate what is being thought of this

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in this way. I mean, thought of in this way. So we

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still accept, we like intellectual things.Okay,

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there. How did you find the poem? It's an easy

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question. Yes? When I read the poem, I felt 

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horrible because like when I read the lines, I 

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feel that I remember the judgment day and we 

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haven't got anything, our mistakes, our sins and

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since that and despite this poem is for a 

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Christian one and there are many Christian ideas,

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it also invites us to think about ourselves and

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our Muslim and our Islam But our Muslim

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perspectives, since we should think about how to

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renew and how to free ourselves from our sins and

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mistakes. Yeah, how to free our, yes. So we might 

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share the poet the same experience because here we 

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have a poet or a persona who is happy. Now what?

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Sad? Was he sad or happy? Quickly. Sad. Why? Don't 

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tell me because he was happy, he was sad. Because

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this is a paradox. Why was he sad?

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Oh, three people are answering. Why was he sad?

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much. Very good. The idea of original sin is very 

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important, you know, and original sin, like, this

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is like central to Catholic and Protestant, you

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know, and even the Protestants said, like, in 

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Adam's fall, we sinned all, because all, you know,

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the Christian, whether Protestant or Catholic, you 

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know, believe that we, people are born sinners,

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and this is the original sin. You might have an

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idea about the original sin. But the Protestants

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thought that you can free yourself out of this sin

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by good deeds. and by good deeds. However, the 

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Catholics believe that you can free yourself out 

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of the sins by your body. See? By your body.

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Exactly like when Jesus Christ sacrificed his body

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on the cross and then he purified his soul, he 

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redeemed even humankind. Okay? Good. Thank you for

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bringing these ideas because, you know, they will

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help us. And that's why I think everybody should 

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come ready with a response. A final thing before 

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we start? Good. Yes? Did he ask God to forgive 

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him?

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During the poem, he asks for forgiveness for being 

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guilty and dealing with Satan, taking the way of 

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Satan. But like, where is that? I don't think, you 

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know, it is in the poem. He's asking God for, you

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know. You can understand from the whole poem. 

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Yeah. From the whole poem, you know? Because I 

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think, you know, take me to you, imprison me, for

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I accept you, enthrone me, shall never be free,

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and never ever chase except you ravage me, you 

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know? So it is there in the poem, like, he thinks

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that he will not be free, free out of sins,

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unless, you know, he, God, you know, imprisons 

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him, you know, and this is like one of the many

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paradoxes we're having in the poem. Okay, it's

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good, like, before we start, do you think this 

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poem is full of paradoxes? Okay, let's try to list

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them, you know, take two minutes, tell me what are 

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the paradoxes in the poem. Okay, just like how 

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many paradoxes do we have in the poem? Okay, let's 

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see now. Yes, what are the paradoxes in the poem?

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Yes?

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Yes, how can you, can you flatten this? You know 

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what I mean? Flatten it, you know, just like make

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it easy, accessible. Can you flatten it? Also, I 

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don't think that you are going to break a lot of 

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things in your house to make them new. 

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I don't know, like how? Yeah, but, yeah, I mean, 

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do you think this, can you, in your mind, like, 

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think of something which is burned, which is 

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broken, and then it is made anew?

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No? No, sometimes, like when we burn a rod of

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iron, You know, when it is rusty, we burn it, and

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then it becomes shining. You see what I mean? 

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Because the rust. So this makes sense. But I don't 

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know how you break something to make it new.

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For example, a door which is always causing you a 

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problem, and you want to make a new door, you 

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break it, and then it opens easily. 

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Yes? Yes, 

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so you mean when, like when he's burned, when the 

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body is burned, all the sins will fly away, you

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know, and he will be a new person without sins.

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And this is central, as we said, to the Catholic

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beliefs, because they believe that it is the body 

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which is the place of the sin. Once the body is 

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burned, all the sins will go away and you will be

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free again. Wow, good. Yes. Yes? There is another

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one, imprison me. Yeah, imprison me to make me 

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free. Wow. Imprison me to make me free.

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Can you like flatten or explicate this paradox 

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from a daily situation, you know, or a situation 

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from our life? How is in prison or how is prison

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freedom? You know? How sometimes his prison, look 

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at him at Khaled. Khaled is, you know, there in 

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the boot. He's imprisoned, but he's free. He can 

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look at us. He can, you know, smile. He can 

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everything, you know? Yes? Like people who are 

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imprisoned in their own land, they are free of the

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prisons? Yes, look at us. We are in our land. We

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are in a siege. You know, we are imprisoned, but 

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we are happy because this is our land. You know,

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it is better to be imprisoned in a different land. 

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So when we are imprisoned, and this is like 

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perhaps the mistake of our grandparents when of 

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course they were forced to leave, you know, but 

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now they prefer like they felt sorry because they

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left because the Arab leaders told them to leave,

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you know, and in 15 days they will go back. You

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see what I mean? So yes, we are under the siege, 

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but we still, we are happy because this is our

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country. You know, this is our country. Good.

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More,

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yeah, paradoxes, but let me just remind you, I 

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think once Ibn Taymiyyah said like, you know, my 

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prison, you know, is a solitude for me, a 

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solitude. You know what solitude means? It's like

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it's a place where he can worship God easily. And

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look at our prisoners, like those who were freed 

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prisoners, they were released. Most of them were

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knowledgeable. Most of them were scholars. You 

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know, they were educated and they were 

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intellectuals. because they were in prison, they 

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were not wasting their time, they were reading. So

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prison for them freed them from ignorance, from 

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illiteracy.

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Okay, good. So I'm very happy. That's why we think 

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that metaphysical poetry is intellectual, because 

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it needs a skill of analyzing. A skill of 

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analysis, yes. Good. More, more. Like, so far, you

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have burn make me new. This is number one. You

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know, imprison me to make free. Free, where is 

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that? The third. 

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Okay. The bottom, yeah. Imprison me to make me 

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free. And I think, you know, it is the same idea, 

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enthrall me, which is imprison. Okay, what else?

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What about, you know, shine and break, break in

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order to mend? You know? Yeah. Yes. Overthrow me

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to rise again. Like once been overthrown, knock me

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down to rise again. Do we have this in our 

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Religion, like, do we, you know, sometimes pray

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God, like, to do this for us? How? Like, how do 

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we, like, ask God, like, yeah, Allah to do this

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for us? You know, I sometimes I hear some people 

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say, may I, you know, live a poor, and like even

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be accompanied by the poor in the day after like 

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in you know they they they say that and some

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people you know are happy when they are inflicted

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you know what's mean inflicted they are happy you

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know they become patient so we have something

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similar to this like yes

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So mistake is not seen totally as something

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negative. Mistake is something foolish, but if we 

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don't Like sometimes it is seen as something good, 

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because it is a chance for us to learn, to repent. 

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So a mistake is not totally seen as something bad. 

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Yes? When Allah inflicted us by a difficult 

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situation, we go back to Him, we improve. Yes,

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very good, very good. Yes, when we are inflicted, 

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we become close to our Creator. We become close.

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And this is an advantage of inflection. Wow, good. 

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So I think you started to be metaphysical. You 

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started to be intellectual. Good. So more? I know 

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the last line is a little bit difficult. It is 

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very erotic, but this has to do with the queer,

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the strange philosophy of John Donne, which has to 

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do with their beliefs. Okay, I don't want to

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explain this now, but later. Let's see. Better my

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heart, three person God. Better my heart. You can 

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say batter my heart, break. Why not, you know, 

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like batter my heart? The word batter make it into 

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shutter. Batter means batter my heart. So what

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does the word batter, if he says like, you know,

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no, no, no. Not bomb. destroy even though I'm just 

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like looking for a more remove my heart change my 

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heart yeah but why is better my heart is more

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effective and what does it mean better my heart it

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is stronger and when because you know why why is 

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he using stronger words he's angry with himself

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Better my heart. 

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Yeah, very good. Strong sin. You know, because the

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sin is strong, so he needs a power, a force.

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Better my heart. Three-person God. Three-person 

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God. A three-person God, like this is a reference 

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to Trinity. Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the

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Holy Spirit. As yet, but not breathe, shine, and

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seek to mend. Like, if you paraphrase this, it is

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easy. I will never be mended unless, you know, I'm

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broken, unless my heart is shattered and broken to

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pieces. As yet, but not Without looking at me, 

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without breathing, shining, and seek to mend, I 

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cannot be mended. So look here how he perceives 

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himself. He perceives himself as a guilty person 

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who is, let's say, not fixed, not mended. He needs

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some power to mend him. That I may rise and stand, 

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overthrow me. Overthrow me. 

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Overthrow me. Kill me. Bring me down. Overthrow 

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me. Let me fall in order to rise. So how? This is 

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the idea of infliction. We cannot be strong. You 

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know, because when we are inflicted, we become

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closer to God. We become very intransigent,

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intransigent like very powerful. We become more

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perseverant, more patient. Yes, that I may rise 

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and stand, overthrow me, and bend. And bend what?

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Your force to break, blow, burn, look, to break.

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I mean what is interesting here we are moving from

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one conceit still like the conceit of being a

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usurped town, we can understand it. And we

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understand Satan, ah God, Satan is like occupier

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and this town will not be freed

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or let's say liberated until God

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intervenes and then helps in that. Here, reason

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your viceroy. Reason, what's mean viceroy? I

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think, you know, like those who used to smoke,

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they know that there is something called viceroy

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cigarettes, you know, viceroy cigarettes. But

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viceroy, what's mean viceroy? Ah, you have not

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been preparing the poem. You have not been using

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your dictionaries. I'm sorry. Huh? Viceroy means?

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Deputy. Viceroy means representative.

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Yeah. Your reason is your viceroy. And here

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reason, it is more than the mind. It is the soul

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itself. It is the soul, which, you know, is the

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representative of God in man. You know? And I

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think also as a Muslim, we think that we are, we

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are having this divine power. This divine, this

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divine thing in us, which is the soul, is from

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God, from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So, he means,

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reason your viceroy in me should defend, but is

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captive, like this is the conceit, but is captive,

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and proves weak or untrue. How God, how come it is

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captive? What is captive here? The soul, the

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reason. What is captive? What captivates? No, no,

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no, no, no. If you don't answer this, you will

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never understand the second conceit.

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No, you're not warm?

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Yes? Try to use your mind? No? I'm sorry, I won't

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tell you until you answer it.

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Yeah, the question is like, the soul is captive.

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How? Can you elaborate this?

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No, no, no, no. Yes, the body. Thank you very

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much. It is captive by the body. The body for the

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Christian is, you know, the place which, you know,

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captures the soul. And the soul won't be itself

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until it is... So this is the second conceit. You

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see? So we have two conceits here. I think we have

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to stop here because this poem, as you see, is

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very interesting and it is realistic and it

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requires some of our intellectualism, you know,

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like we have to employ our understanding, but it

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is very interesting. So next time we're going to

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spend another class analyzing this poem and

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perhaps like to give you some background or

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revision about the exam. We can talk about this

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either on Monday or Wednesday. Thank you very much

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and continue preparing for this poem.