Abdal Hakim Murad – Jummah Khutbah Retreat 2017

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The importance of witnessing and shaping laws of the universe is emphasized in relation to the "has Hadith" in the Bible. The "has Hadith" is emphasized as a way to act and operate, and it is crucial for understanding the reality of the spiritual world. The "has Hadith" is used to testify to unity of Allah sub UX, and learning sacred knowledge is discussed as a way to act and operate.

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			Cambridge Muslim college training
the next generation of Muslim
		
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			thinkers
		
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			Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah
		
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			Alhamdulillah Hilda De Anza Allah
Allah Almighty Yuki turbo la mujer
		
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			Allah who I would
		
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			call uma leon de Robertson Shalida
Millard on. Well, you bet she rang
		
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			me Nina Ladino Yama, Luna saleha
at another home agilon Hassan
		
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			Macky thena fie EBITDA
		
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			were you on there? Alladhina Paulo
taka de Allahu wala de Mola home
		
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			behemoth I am well, le e him
Khabarovsk Calumet and Tahoe road
		
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			roaming FYE him in your pool owner
Illa caddy, but
		
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			why should I do Allah ilaha
illallah wa off the whole luxury
		
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			color? The whole milk hola hola
Hamed, where la he told her all
		
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			more. What should I do? And I say
you didn't have Mohamed and
		
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			Alberto who was a solo out of
sallahu Allahu taala. Bill happy
		
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			but she didn't win or the euro, or
the yen Illa Allah he beat his
		
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			knee. He was Hirogen monniera For
Hua Rama Tomas, when I met him was
		
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			the was the Raju Monir
		
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			Allahumma Salli wa Sallim. Mubarak
Ali, wa ala early Hill Aadhaar was
		
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			Hobie hill up here. Well, Manitoba
also Netta who was our Alana G EDA
		
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			yummy, Dean.
		
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			I'm about to have a will if it
will not be known As salam o
		
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			aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato.
		
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			Call Allahu terracota Allah feel
good annual Kareem I want to be
		
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			let him initiate on the regime.
Smilla rahmanir rahim. Shaheed
		
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			Allahu Allahu La ilaha illa hope
well, Mala Iike were all I'll meet
		
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			him and Bill test. So the caller
who owns him.
		
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			Allah subhanaw taala says in his
book, Allah himself bears witness
		
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			that there is no deity safe he and
the angels and the people of
		
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			knowledge upright in just balance.
		
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			They also testify
		
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			this is a famous idea
		
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			that in some parts of the OMA is
traditionally written over the MC
		
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			Rob of the masala of a madrasa.
		
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			I've seen it myself many times.
And that is always in the design
		
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			of a masjid, where the Quran is
where the eye rests.
		
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			Because the masjid is the place
where the Quran is there to bind
		
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			us to the world of eternity.
		
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			An important choice. Sometimes
it's the famous first of them as
		
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			Rob, about to say that no Maria.
		
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			But sometimes it's this verse,
particularly in some of the very
		
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			old mosques and very ancient and
other verses of Islam. Way back in
		
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			the time of the best dynasty, they
like to write this in hieratic,
		
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			beautiful formal difficult Karthik
script above the Merab weather
		
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			great Allah Matt. We're going to
be reading Allah's book. Allah
		
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			himself bears witness, that there
is no deity safety. And so do the
		
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			angels and so do the people of
knowledge upright, in just
		
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			balance.
		
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			This verse is very characteristic
of the way in which Allah's book
		
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			puts things in order.
		
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			The most important thing is the
Divine unity. And the most
		
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			disastrous thing is to lose sight
of the Divine unity, shirk the
		
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			only unforgivable sin. Everything
else Allah can just say, a well
		
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			and into paradise the sinner goes
but that not quite. That is where
		
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			the door slams tightly shut.
Everything else Allah in His
		
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			mercy, or hammer Rafi mean,
anything is possible.
		
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			So that's the first thing, the
unity.
		
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			The greatest of all catastrophic
human misunderstandings is to look
		
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			at the many things in the
universe. And the physical laws,
		
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			and the directions of the compass,
and the heat, and the cold, and
		
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			the colors and the smells and the
majesty and the immensity and the
		
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			complexity and the order of it all
dismissed.
		
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			And to say, well, I don't think
that comes from anywhere in
		
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			particular.
		
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			Or to say, I think maybe there's
two people at work here, or maybe
		
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			a whole bunch of them. Like the
ancient Greeks and the Romans with
		
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			all of their gods and goddesses
fighting it out,
		
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			competing for bits of the created
world. That's a fundamental error.
		
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			And to have that at the depths of
your soul as the foundation stone
		
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			of everything else that you do in
your life, the basis for your
		
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			morality, the understanding of
what the world is about where it
		
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			comes from, who guides it, where
it's going after it comes to an
		
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			end. That is the ultimate
calamity. shear is the ultimate
		
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			crack that destroys the
architecture of
		
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			The human creature.
		
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			Allah himself bears witness. He is
Allah cliche in Shaheed he
		
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			witnesses all things, not the way
we witness some things, not the
		
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			way we can log on to some webcams
somewhere and see what's going on.
		
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			Or the way in which GCHQ perhaps
can look at us through our
		
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			smartphones, when we don't know
that's not the shahada, the
		
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			witnessing, which is related to
the Divine witnessing, which is
		
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			beyond any possibility of veiling
these everything, at all times he
		
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			sees us, he sees our past he sees
our present, he sees our future.
		
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			He knows the cancer as it grows
within us. He knows the thoughts
		
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			as they grow within us. He knows
Allah Konishi, in Shaheed
		
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			inconceivable, unimaginable, total
transparency.
		
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			Allah sees this, because he sees
everything in the world, he sees
		
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			the totality of it, he is the
first to bear witness to the fact
		
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			that he is one.
		
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			There isn't a whole bunch of
things competing to make the world
		
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			the place that it is. One, only
one sets the constant that is the
		
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			constant of the law of gravity.
Only one determines what the speed
		
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			of light will be. Only one
determines the mass of the proton.
		
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			There's nothing else that is
determining these things that
		
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			fundamental shaping laws of the
universe, determined by a wide if
		
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			there were others, and it was a
fight. Well, the world as we see
		
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			it, and understand it, and inhabit
it and breathe its air would be
		
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			impossible.
		
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			Only one.
		
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			And the angels also see this
because the angels have a
		
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			particular way of witnessing that
also sees the world transparently.
		
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			They're not capable of sin. They
can't look at things and say,
		
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			well, maybe there's a whole bunch
of things that are the ultimate
		
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			cause of that. They can't disobey
their Lord. And so they also
		
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			witness. That's why they say
subhanallah Alhamdulillah. Always
		
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			what else can they do when they
see only he in the in the
		
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			complexity of creation, they have
no choice. If they have a choice,
		
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			they're not angels. And we know
that what's happened. But the
		
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			angels, the great ones, they only
they witnessed, that's what they
		
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			do, they bear witness to the only
thing that is absolute.
		
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			Everything else contingent
possible. He alone is absolute. He
		
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			alone guarantees what is in the
world. He is the one who is the
		
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			living in himself as a young, self
subsistent, but also the one who
		
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			upholds everything else. And there
is no outside the cosmos, which is
		
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			beyond the limits of his grasp.
subhanaw taala, called low level
		
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			corny tune.
		
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			So the angels bear witness and
then the verse goes on and all
		
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			enlightenment. People have
knowledge. And this is where the
		
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			mind gets to work and thinks
		
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			people have knowledge. Who is
that? Well, you could say some
		
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			scientists have this perception if
they really look deeply, but
		
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			basically scientists only see part
of the picture. They do some
		
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			equations and not the others. They
don't have the complete, divine or
		
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			angelic overview of it all.
They're living in two dimensions
		
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			on the surface and don't see it
from above.
		
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			But all the people have knowledge
that this beautiful verse refers
		
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			to other people have knowledge of
the Divine.
		
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			It's talking about the Alanna.
		
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			So the great Imam, Ibn 100, alas,
Kalani, or in an Al Haramain el
		
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			Duany or Imam Al Ghazali or so
Yachty or Adela the or the great
		
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			Allamah of Islam as they stand in
that myth, Rob, forgetting those
		
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			who are behind them, remembering
only the one who is before them,
		
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			who alone will judge the quality
of their prayer. And above it,
		
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			they see this verse, they remember
the McConnell Khilafah.
		
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			They can actually bear witness
through not just their
		
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			participation in the physical laws
of the universe, their submission
		
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			to that, but in an understanding
of it, a witnessing of it, which
		
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			nothing else in the physicality of
creation can do.
		
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			A rock, my overcoat, the sun and
the moon. Everything that has a
		
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			physical existence that doesn't
have Arkel mind, bears witness to
		
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			actually sanel harlots own
beingness in the world to the
		
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			unity of the Creator. But what it
can't do is to bear witness by
		
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			speaking of this way, Allah and
His angels and the Olomouc can.
		
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			They can't do that. It is mute,
eloquent. They're just they're
		
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			testifying to the divine
qualities, but they can't make us
		
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			hear their testimony. We can only
observe it for ourselves.
		
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			So there's something strange about
Benny Adam, and the strangeness is
		
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			encapsulated in the Quranic vision
by the fact that we can speak a
		
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			limit will based on the fact that
we can have categories
		
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			the fact that we can
		
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			Do ethics, the fact that we can
perceive what is beautiful and
		
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			what is ugly, the fact that we can
do things that aren't in our
		
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			immediate hedonistic interest, the
fact that we can theorize out so
		
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			many things, the fact that we can
have great universities, the fact
		
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			that we can do mathematics, all of
these extraordinary things are
		
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			just for the Benny Adam.
		
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			And that any Adam behind all of
this has to be able to bear
		
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			witness to the unity which
presupposes the existence of the
		
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			Creator of berry, gelato.
		
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			So this is the greatness of the
Alama.
		
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			But this verse is not really
talking about people who just have
		
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			a whole bunch of facts in their
heads. This witnessing is not
		
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			about that. The witnessing is
about using those facts in order
		
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			to perceive the Shahida shahada is
to testify, but also to see
		
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			Shahida yesh had to bear witness,
but also to see something more
		
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			showerhead in the Arabic language
is something you can see. And
		
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			there is the vape. And those the
shahada, the unseen and there is
		
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			the scene,
		
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			the bear witness to this because
they see it. And all of the
		
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			knowledge they have is only
important to them, and only makes
		
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			them all on that got him unbuilt
list, if they can see what it
		
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			means.
		
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			So this is why that that slogan,
that motto, that beautiful iron is
		
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			used so much, and has transformed
the hearts of so many of our great
		
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			ones, because in a sense, it is a
warning to the scholars.
		
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			It is a warning that if all they
are is just like a computer
		
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			harddrive a whole bunch of
memories in there and statistics
		
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			and files, and they can
regurgitate them to give Hotspurs
		
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			and to get jobs or whatever else
it is that those things might be
		
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			useful for. Even if that was we
can help people in various
		
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			religious ways. If that's all they
are just a hard drive with a whole
		
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			bunch of facts, then they're not
really scholars know what Andy's
		
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			saying. It's about bearing witness
testifying to the unity.
		
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			Now the great Allamah of this
ummah have always striven to
		
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			encourage us to see the unity of
all of the parts of religion,
		
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			a man of his alley in his hair
Allama Dean has a section of a
		
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			list of 10 things, which the
student has to be aware of. And
		
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			the first one, as you'd expect, is
self knowledge and self
		
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			purification. Be aware of your
intentions. In America, man will
		
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			be new yet, but one of them is an
awareness of the mutual
		
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			interlinking of the alarm shadow
area.
		
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			You don't just learn a lot of
Tafseer. And you don't really know
		
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			your foot and you don't know the
Hadith and you don't know your
		
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			Kalam and you can't prove the
existence of God. And you don't
		
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			really know that. That's not how
to bear witness. There's not a
		
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			scholar who is Shahida, who is
bearing witness, that's just
		
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			somebody who knows a whole bunch
of stuff, even if it's full of
		
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			light, and luminosity and
blessings. And he can recite the
		
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			prophetic words and the divine
words, it's not the same as
		
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			bearing witness.
		
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			So we have to have this rule in
Watercare, Mila, this
		
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			comprehensive vision, and remember
as early as quite hard on those
		
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			who just hyper specialize
		
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			the problem in the modern
university, just down the road
		
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			there, you've got the Department
of pure mathematics, people who
		
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			spend their lives just working out
certain complex equations. And
		
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			then just down there, you've got
the faculty of English where
		
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			people are writing dissertations
on Macbeth, do they talk to each
		
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			other? Not a whole lot. You got
the Faculty of Medicine, the fact
		
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			of modern scholarship is
fragmentation.
		
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			That fragmentation makes it
difficult for people to see the
		
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			whole story, which is one reason
why it's almost inevitable that
		
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			modern university is quite a
secular space. Because people are
		
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			not really all on that. They don't
really have this renaissance
		
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			vision of knowing a whole load of
things. They're hyper specialized
		
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			idiot servants.
		
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			But the island is not to be that
		
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			the island is to be the one who
has at least a good grasp of all
		
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			of the along. He's likely to
specialize in one or two, but he
		
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			knows the other things as well.
		
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			So again, even 100 Alas, Kalani,
who's amazing commentary on Buhari
		
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			is one of the great monuments of
Islamic literature for Tilbury
		
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			shadow sahih al Bukhari, which
took him years and years to
		
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			complete. And he went into a kind
of retreat in Cairo at the
		
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			Karmakar of salt on Bay bars in
order to write this astounding
		
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			encyclopedic thing, which is in
3040 volumes depending on who's
		
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			printing it, an immense ocean of
knowledge, the wellspring of the
		
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			Almas understandings of what they
can find in the prophetic hadith
		
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			of Bokhari a monument.
		
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			That, even though he's known as a
hadith scholar
		
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			in the commentary, you can see
that he knows the other things as
		
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			well. Not enough just to memorize
		
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			Has Hadith to be al Hadith to be
more Hadith, in order to
		
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			understand and ultimately to bear
witness to the unity of Allah
		
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			Subhana Allah to Allah, Allah had
alcohol, you have to have the
		
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			things that he brings in the
theology,
		
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			the Kalam,
		
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			the science of fantasies of the
Arabic language, logic, Siraj. All
		
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			of these things are necessary to
have a complete Islamic vision and
		
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			the book itself turns into an
amazing testimony for Islam.
		
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			Middle is a wonder you see how
each of the little jewel like
		
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			fragments of the prophetic
diction, conserved lovingly like a
		
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			treasure passed down the
generations you can imagine if
		
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			your family had heirloom, say a
big diamond, it would go down the
		
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			generations and you'd make sure
that the diamond was still there.
		
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			These are the treasures that the
Holy Prophet is bequeathing to his
		
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			successors and to ourselves. And
the Allamah are the ones who hand
		
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			them down to generations. And from
these diamonds, and these rubies
		
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			and emeralds and the sapphires,
they find this luminescence
		
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			sometimes you'll find 30 or 40
different meanings in a single
		
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			Hadith and each one enriches you
as a Muslim. Why? Because he has
		
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			this comprehensive vision.
		
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			And he's been lifted up. He knows
the meaning of Allah Subhan Allah
		
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			to Allah saying, yoga Allahu
Allah, Dena MnO. We're all told
		
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			that ajet all our raises up those
who have Eman and those who have
		
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			knowledge to high degrees.
		
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			The alternative is to be something
potentially very subversive.
		
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			And the Allamah have always
		
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			warned us against that. Remember,
Bukhari right at the beginning of
		
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			the amazing collection of Hadith,
which has hypnotized and in trance
		
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			and delighted the scholars for so
many centuries for 12 centuries,
		
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			begins with the book of the
beginning of Revelation. She table
		
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			bed Ilahi, logical place to start
a collection of prophetic Hadith.
		
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			But right at the beginning of that
he surprises us by giving us a
		
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			hadith that doesn't seem to be
about the beginning of Revelation
		
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			And the angel coming to Hara and
Accra and that great story before
		
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			that. You get the Hadith in the
Muhammad Obinna yet we're in the
		
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			Maliko limited in man our
		
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			actions are only by intentions. In
other words, you only credited for
		
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			what you intended by a thing.
		
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			For men can add heat to who Ilahi
are solely for Hijra to Illallah
		
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			he was solely with his Hijra. This
was the great event in early Islam
		
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			people remembered it and people
knew they had different
		
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			intentions, whether it's hatred or
thoughts for Allah and His
		
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			Messenger, his hedgerows that
Allah and His Messenger in other
		
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			words, he'll be credited with that
great intention for man cannot
		
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			teach it to who the dunya you'll
see boo ha imra Athenian CAHA
		
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			fajita to who Ilana Hydra LA. And
whoever is Hijra was for a dunya
		
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			thing that he wanted something in
Medina that he could get his hands
		
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			on, or a woman who he wanted to
marry then his Hijra was for that?
		
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			Why does he start the book of the
beginning of revelation with a
		
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			hadith it's not about the
beginning of Revelation, he puts
		
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			it there as a warning to himself
is saying, Don't be proud. Be
		
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			proud, buhari, you're writing this
amazing thing that's going to
		
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			change the world and is the core
of the Ummah ever since. But those
		
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			because only Allah knows if your
intention is a good one. In other
		
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			words, you only bearing witness,
you only carrying the shahada, you
		
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			only testify to the unity of your
Creator, which is what religion is
		
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			to help humanity to do,
ultimately, the beginning to the
		
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			end, it's about that
		
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			if your intention is right,
		
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			otherwise, you're just kind of
carrying a whole bunch of Hadith
		
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			to another generation and you're
just like a hard drive, or
		
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			something you could download from
the internet. And it doesn't
		
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			really have any human quality to
it and isn't bearing witness to
		
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			anything at all because it can't
speak the danger of scholarship.
		
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			This is Earth to Ireland. And the
effort of Ireland has a lot to do
		
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			with pride.
		
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			Say the Prophet says In another
Hadith liquidly che in EFA
		
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			whatever tool I'll milho yalla
		
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			there's some beautiful Hadith in
which he says everything has a
		
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			particular weakness and the
weakness of a particular thing is
		
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			such and such a thing. So
		
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			Eartha to Tiara Academy.
		
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			We're thinking about that the
weakness the vice of doing
		
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			business is to tell lies in order
to sell some somebody something
		
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			without really telling them what
it is or to say you're going to
		
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			pay it at a particular date but
without having that intention.
		
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			That's the setting vice of the
person who's in business.
		
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			And he warns us sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam against that and then he
		
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			says we're Erfurt, online, milho
yella
		
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			and the weakness the pitfall. The
Achilles heel of knowledge is
		
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			pride
		
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			Eight vainglory, which is serious
because that's actually worse than
		
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			lying. If you put it in the list
of the seven deadly sins, which
		
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			Islam has a sub onmobile thought,
it's right up there.
		
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			Why is pride such a deadly sin?
Because it's the one that can't
		
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			coexist with the fear of God.
		
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			Because you're kind of putting
yourself into the divine position.
		
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			He alone is a motor carrier of
Jabbar. What are you doing being
		
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			proud? That's a fundamental
misunderstanding, akin to
		
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			idolatry.
		
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			You are Allah's slave. That's it.
		
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			So the danger of the scholar is
this this ego trip
		
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			that he just has a lot of
knowledge, and he gets some kind
		
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			of maybe dunya
		
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			facilities as a result of that
knowledge. And this has been
		
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			something that the Allamah have
always been worried about, and
		
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			warned against and sometimes being
tempted by then as now.
		
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			Methyl Latina home Milan, Tao
Murata, some Milan, Mia beluga.
		
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			Kamata, Lil Hey, Maria Camilo as
Farah
		
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			bit so call me leadin occur, there
will be a Tina, hola, hola, como
		
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			zali mean?
		
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			The likeness of those who were
under the yoke of the Torah,
		
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			burdened with carried given to
carry the Torah, and then didn't
		
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			carry it
		
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			is like a donkey carrying books or
carrying scrolls, was an obvious
		
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			and alarming image, the scholar in
ancient Israel, they were the
		
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			scholars who knew their Torah and
Talmud, but they didn't really
		
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			have an integrative religious
vision, it was just a way to make
		
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			a crust of bread, or to get status
in the eyes of people, whatever
		
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			else they might have used their
knowledge for. That was a
		
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			possibility.
		
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			And then, Allah says, Woe betide
those who deny our signs. Why does
		
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			he say that after telling us about
the donkey in the books, because
		
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			Allah signs everywhere, in the
books, and on the horizons. And if
		
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			you're denying those, even though
you're full of the science, and
		
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			the books are telling you, I told
you how to read the signs, and
		
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			still you're not reading the
science, then you're really in
		
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			trouble. Like somebody who spends
his whole life learning Sanskrit
		
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			for instance, but he just learns
the shape of the letters, and he
		
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			knows the alphabet, and he
memorizes a dictionary, but he
		
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			doesn't actually know the
language. He doesn't communicate,
		
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			he doesn't read texts. Sometimes
scholars can be like that. The
		
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			purpose of aim is to enable us to
read the world, to know what it
		
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			means in its deep reality, to see
it as science so that we can bear
		
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			witness to the being and the unity
of the one who is the author of
		
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			the world. That's what Islamic
scholarship is ultimately about to
		
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			enable us to testify.
		
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			But well, there are some people
who don't quite get around to
		
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			doing that, because
		
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			academics have a lot of other
stuff to do and committees and
		
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			conferences. It's testifying to
the unity
		
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			and Allah does not guide that the
people of darkness the people of
		
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			injustice, and this is adverse,
which according to the many of the
		
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			people of Tafseer, was revealed in
connection with something that
		
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			isn't the is the in the stories of
the ancient Israelites. And it's
		
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			alluded to in the Bible, and
certainly in the Talmud,
		
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			which is a certain Balaam been
better in Hebrew. And according to
		
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			the story, this was a sage, a wise
man, a rabbi, if you like from the
		
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			people of Moses alayhis, salam,
Moses knew he was a scholar and
		
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			sent him to be a messenger to the
king of Midian Madeon, who was not
		
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			a believer, hoping that he would,
because of his knowledge, be able
		
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			to negotiate with that King, and
cut a deal that would be favorable
		
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			to the Israelites who are going to
come across the Red Sea and into
		
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			the land of the Midianites.
		
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			And when he gets there, and the
story is elaborate, and cut it
		
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			short, he because of the immensity
of his knowledge, and according to
		
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			some of the Allamah of Tafseer, so
great was his knowledge that he
		
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			even knew and isn't as on the
greatest name, by which According
		
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			to some accounts, if Allah is
prayed to then he will grant a
		
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			response. And the king of Midian
says, well, here is a treasure.
		
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			Here is a chest of gold, and
jewels, and a chariot of silver.
		
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			Come over onto my side and maybe
I'll listen to your religion we
		
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			can cut a deal we can negotiate.
		
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			You don't have to be it doesn't
have to be then against us. Well,
		
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			maybe paganism has something to be
said for it and let's see where we
		
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			can cut this deal. And he accepted
this bribe, he becomes a kind of
		
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			if you like state
		
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			mufti, I don't know what the
contemporary equivalent would be
		
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			for somebody who is corrupt, evil,
manipulative, not a witness
		
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			bearer.
		
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			And the king of Midian says, I
want you to use his greatest name,
		
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			I want you to use all this
knowledge that you have of the
		
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			Five Books of Moses, in order to
bring seven kilometers upon his
		
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			people to seven kilometers, and
then
		
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			everything will will be sorted
out.
		
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			According to some accounts, he
actually does this, with his
		
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			immense knowledge and his ailment
that then equivalent of Hadith and
		
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			tafsir and natto and sulfur and
Mantap, a great scholar.
		
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			But Allah turns those calamities
to blessings.
		
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			Because he will not according to
this ayah here, those who are
		
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			denying His Signs, He will not
		
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			the prayer of such people, the
Dianna of such people as
		
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			ineffectual. They are not truly
men of religion.
		
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			That the contemporary meaning of
this Well, it's an eternal meaning
		
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			is that you have to be clear about
your class. And your tell heed,
		
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			doesn't matter what manipulations
Dunia might be attempting,
		
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			doesn't matter what agenda might
be creeping in. And you might
		
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			think yourself incredibly
sophisticated, because you're
		
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			taking on board all kinds of
stakeholders. One has to act and
		
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			operate and get by in a complex
world. But unless you have this
		
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			ultimate bearing witness to the
unity of all things, and the
		
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			compassion of the one who is
sustaining all things, and to the
		
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			eventual judgment of all things,
and all souls by allotting
		
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			alcohol, then you're just part of
the scenery. Here as part of the
		
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			the give and take of dunya you're
just another phenomenon in the
		
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			manifest world, and you're not
rising up to the status of bearing
		
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			witness, and that is a calamity.
In an outrage. Many of the Muslims
		
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			are disappointed or confused by
some of the scholars who seem to
		
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			be in state positions, or engaging
in certain agendas of certain
		
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			governments. Sometimes one has to
engage with even setting the Musa
		
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			alayhis salam has to talk to their
own Sedna, Yusuf Ali Salam has a
		
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			job with a pharaoh of his age,
it's, it's not intrinsically
		
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			wrong, but remember the prophetic
priority,
		
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			that it's for testifying, to the
unity of Allah subhanaw taala. And
		
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			anything else that you might be
playing with, that makes you feel
		
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			so cool and sophisticated, is
actually just wrote on that in
		
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			neffs, the turbulences of the ego,
and an evidence of your, your, do
		
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			your dance with the spiritual
death of hypocrisy.
		
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			We need to watch out for that.
		
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			And so the meaning of all of this
is that learning sacred knowledge,
		
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			and at CMC, we constantly try to
inculcate this learning sacred
		
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			knowledge is not an end in itself.
		
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			If you want to you can teach your
computer or the Hadith that have
		
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			ever existed. It can do it quicker
than any human being. But that's
		
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			not the point. We teach human
beings those things because human
		
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			beings, unlike computers, are able
to testify
		
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			in themselves, to be living
representatives of somebody who is
		
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			Halifa of that extraordinary
individual, that unique phenomenon
		
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			in creation to whom the angels
could legitimately bow down
		
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			at astonishing beginning of the
human story, that angels bow down
		
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			to us creative clay, because we
have this rule within ourselves,
		
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			which is the center of everything
that makes us ourselves truly,
		
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			everything that makes us able to
be moral, able to discern good
		
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			from evil, able to tell beauty,
from ugliness, able to act
		
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			altruistically and ultimately,
through all of those things, able
		
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			to see the one on one hit Subhan
Allah to Allah in the many, which
		
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			is the most fundamental testimony
for which human beings were
		
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			created. We didn't have any other
purpose but to worship and to
		
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			testify through our worship, to
the unity of Allah subhanho wa
		
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			taala. And in our final Abrahamic,
restorative reparative monotheism,
		
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			we have that in a very clear form.
		
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			We have this in a very clear form,
whether I call the mind and the
		
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			forehead which is close to it,
which is the symbol of our pride
		
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			gets pressed appropriately into
the dust, and that is where the
		
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			mineral Duany worshipped and
achieved his true greatness. And
		
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			that is where if and Hotjar
worshipped and achieved his true
		
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			greatness and all the great solid
Allamah of this ummah, have
		
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			achieved their real greatness as
scholars on this agenda, not in
		
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			the lecture room, because
ultimately, it all leads into the
		
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			integrative holistic, complete,
single minded McCullers project to
		
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			turn themselves into humanists and
extraordinary and selfless human
		
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			beings. And when the soul is
reconfigured like that it can do
		
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			extraordinary things as a scholar
		
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			How do they memorize hundreds of
1000s of Hadith? How do they have
		
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			these photographic memories? How
did they write hundreds of books?
		
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			It's like a miracle. Allah
subhanaw taala gives them a
		
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			certain orderliness in their minds
because they have only one
		
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			intention. They're single minded.
They're compassionate, they have
		
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			families, they do their Hajj, but
they're single minded and pure in
		
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			the way they think. That the usual
rubbish which wastes our time is
		
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			not there, and they can be
productive and productive not just
		
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			of any old Qalam but of witnessing
to the one which are nature's
		
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			constantly shy away from but which
ultimately our souls crave. So we
		
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			ask Allah subhanaw taala to make
us all a man who act upon their
		
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			knowledge and bear witness to the
unity and the compassion of the
		
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			Creator, and also servants of the
Allamah and to identify the best
		
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			ways in which we can serve the
fundamental purpose of humanity.
		
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			In which alone we can find the
true hearts ease, which is to know
		
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			our Creator and to love and adore
and serve our Creator. Insha Allah
		
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			Akula Kali has a structure Allah
Holly welcome. Well, he said it
		
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			will mostly mean in the horror of
a photo Rahim.
		
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			hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen
		
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			wa Lille Matakana care Rizzoli
mean.
		
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			Eyeshadow Allah Ilaha illa Allah,
El Malecon Hopko mopane Muhammad
		
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			Rasulullah saw the cover I did I
mean
		
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			we'll see Come on. FCB tap Wallah
in the whole Pharaohs said what
		
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			block home while at the crew
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			does not own or Alchemist salah.