Abdal Hakim Murad – The Sacred Nature of the Islamic Calendar

Abdal Hakim Murad
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The importance of the Shamanic calendar in shaping one's life and the "immateriality of" gifts and moments is discussed. The calendar is a combination of the natural and spiritual world, and the "immateriality of" richness and time is emphasized. The "ents of Rajab" is identified as the center of the Islamic world, and "immateriality of" gifts and moments is emphasized. The importance of reconnecting with calendars and using the calendar is emphasized.

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			Cambridge Muslim college training
the next generation of Muslim
		
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			thinkers
		
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			Alhamdulillah
		
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			Alhamdulillah
		
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			Alhamdulillah Hilda De Anza Allah
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Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barik
		
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			ala Sayidina Juan Mauldin, our
Habibi anna Muhammad, wa ala alihi
		
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			wa sahbihi wa salam to Sleeman
Kathira
		
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			I'm about to fire a well effort on
let me know on Assalamu aleikum wa
		
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			rahmatullah wa barakato. Call
Allah Who Tabata Kota Allah feel
		
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			por ano Karim Abu bIllahi min ash
shaytani R rajim Bismillahi
		
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			Rahmani Raheem in iData
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			mean her Arbitron. Horam, the
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			totally morphine and fullcycle
sort of Allahu Azim
		
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			Allah Subhana Allah says in the
Quran,
		
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			the number of months according to
Allah is 12 when he created the
		
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			heavens and the earth and of them
for our sacred,
		
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			that is the religion of
uprightness. So do not wrong
		
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			yourselves. There in
		
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			one of the concerns of Allah's
book is the rectification and the
		
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			explication of the calendar.
		
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			And in this noble verse, we're
told or reminded that the calendar
		
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			is not just a convenient way to
divide our days, months and years,
		
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			but it's something sacred.
		
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			Humanities always recognized that
just as there are secret places,
		
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			there are secret times
		
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			Makkah is not Cambridge. Medina is
not Halifax. Muharram is not the
		
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			Okada and rugby or Thani is not
rugby as a world we have this
		
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			landscape just as there is a
spiritual topography of the world
		
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			with highs and places that are not
so high. So also there is a kind
		
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			of topography of time places with
particular qualities
		
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			and here we remember the famous
saying hola in the Lila he a yummy
		
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			diary calm, then have a hat, Allah
for Dolla dolla ha
		
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			truly Allah has in the days of
your time exhalations. So, be open
		
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			to them,
		
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			this idea of the NIF ha this idea
that there is a particular
		
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			sanctity of spirituality in
certain places, literally a divine
		
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			exhalation is something that is
the human experience generally,
		
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			we are osmotic creatures we
reflect that which is around us.
		
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			When we are in a masjid, we are
different from when we are in
		
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			Tescos. Human beings are
influenced by their environment.
		
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			We are not just minds detached
from everything else, the mind is
		
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			linked to the body and the body
reacts very intimately to that
		
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			which is around us.
		
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			This is part of the privilege of
faith. The unbeliever sees the
		
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			whole world as being flat you
might say it unbelievers who think
		
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			that the world is flat, the real
flat earthers because everything
		
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			is equivalently secular, it's just
matter. The physicalist we believe
		
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			that behind that matter, there are
certain places of the
		
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			manifestation of Divine Names,
which even though everything is a
		
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			manifestation of the Divine Names
are more perceived by us than
		
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			other places.
		
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			And this is the universal human
experience. Some places are
		
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			special, but some times also are
special.
		
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			So we find now that we've entered
into one of the special times of
		
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			year,
		
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			the month of Rajab
		
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			which is a kind of intimation of
Ramadan.
		
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			Rajab has a special quality. Again
the good fortune of the believer
		
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			that the months means something.
		
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			If you don't have these months,
you just have January, February,
		
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			March, April and none of them mean
anything at all.
		
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			Right originally they did for a
different Alma. January was named
		
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			after the god of Janus, the gates,
beginning of the new year,
		
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			February was named after the god
of undertakings March named after
		
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			Mars. So the Romans like to fight
wars, and Julius Caesar killed on
		
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			the eyes of Mars, which was
thought to be an auspicious event,
		
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			time for an assassination attempt,
and so on. But that's all my total
		
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			God hello to us. That means
nothing at all. It's just January,
		
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			February, March, April, it means
nothing, it's flat.
		
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			But when you move into a sacred
calendar, the world feels
		
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			different. There are peaks and
there are lows, there is an
		
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			experience of time, which is
richer than the experience of
		
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			time, known by the person who only
looks at the surface of things.
		
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			So we find that Muharram has a
particular atmosphere, which is
		
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			not the atmosphere of Ramadan. And
Ramadan has an atmosphere, which
		
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			is not the atmosphere of show
well, and the Rajab has a battery
		
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			and so on. We believe that is
enriched by this and we need to be
		
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			connected as much as we can to
this calendar because it means
		
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			something.
		
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			And other calendars also where
they are persisted in also means
		
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			something. The Jewish calendar
this weekend is Passover. They
		
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			also have a rich sequence cycles
of events, recalling their past
		
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			ups and downs and travails of
their history, God's providence,
		
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			that also is enriching in the
Semitic traditions, is one of the
		
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			things the world lost when that
was lost, and the Christian
		
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			churches decided to adopt the
pagan Roman calendar.
		
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			We're thinking about why they
should have done that, why not
		
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			have a Christian calendar.
		
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			But the trouble is, once they have
detached themselves from the
		
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			natural movements of the solar
system, they get into all kinds of
		
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			difficulties of calculation. And
perhaps here we can see why Allah
		
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			subhanaw taala is forbidding these
practices that try to rectify
		
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			perceived inconveniences in the
movements of the sun, the moon and
		
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			the planets was Julius Caesar, who
got rid of the old Roman lunar
		
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			calendar, which gave people a real
sense of fixity in something, they
		
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			could see the phases of the moon,
and said for Imperial convenience,
		
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			everybody's going to follow what
became the Julian calendar,
		
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			which was when they invented the
leap year, because it's kind of
		
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			awkward, but the Leap Year isn't
quite enough because there's 365
		
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			and a quarter and a little bit
days in a lunar year, it's
		
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			actually not a very good system.
		
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			Unlike the lunar system, sometimes
we argue about Moon sightings, but
		
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			it's still something fixed and
more reliable. We didn't have to
		
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			bother with leap years. the Julian
calendar continues with these
		
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			months that with Christianity made
meant nothing at all. But still
		
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			they kept the names which is again
a strange thing. Until in the 16th
		
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			century, 17th century, Pope
Gregory the 13th decided it was
		
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			going to be the Gregorian
calendar. And then Europe traded
		
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			up to the Gregorian calendar, but
still the Christians of the
		
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			Eastern churches, they have their
own calendar so they are in a
		
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			state of empty left. In Russia,
Christmas is on the sixth of
		
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			January, and in 124 years time it
will be on the seventh of January.
		
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			It's untidy. Incidentally, there's
one part of England that never
		
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			traded up to this or Scotland, the
Shetland island of Fowler never
		
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			heard about the Canada reform to
this day on the Island of Fowler,
		
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			in case you ever find yourself
there are few people living there.
		
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			Christmas is on the sixth of
January, it's inconvenient.
		
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			Now, Allah subhanaw taala is
saying things about our
		
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			relatedness to the natural world.
		
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			Ancient man perceived certain
elemental realities about himself
		
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			and as deeply conformed, even in
his physiology to those things.
		
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			The rising of the setting of the
sun, the circadian rhythms, ask
		
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			any medic, what effect that has on
the human metabolism, melatonin
		
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			and all of the rest of its
fundamental.
		
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			The movements of the moon also
seem to have an effect, although
		
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			the academics argue about it. But
there is a certain lunar cyclicity
		
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			to the human metabolism, which is
probably something deep, which is
		
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			important. And with Islam, we see
the new moon and something begins
		
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			that probably operates on a very
ancient and timeless and natural
		
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			way that we don't understand that
the perhaps the scientists will
		
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			never understand but if we're torn
away from that, and this is the
		
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			symbolic sin of Western
civilization torn away from that
		
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			and just given January, February,
March that aren't related
		
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			Due to the obvious phases of the
moon, we are missing something and
		
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			losing something and to put in an
extra day every year, what about
		
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			an extra month so that you can
have 12 months but an extra 10 A
		
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			month is something that the Quran
condemns in the men Nessie Osya
		
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			that won't feel Cofer strong
language the intercalate every
		
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			month, the extra month is an
increase in unbelief your bond
		
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			will be hidden leadin a Cafaro by
which those who don't believe are
		
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			led astray you're held on I who am
I well you're hungry Mona who Amma
		
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			the wealthy or the tama Hara Mala
for you your fellow Maha Ramallah
		
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			sometimes when we read these as we
think, Well, why is there so much
		
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			Divine Anger here? Sometimes it's
the same when you see those, those
		
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			curses heaped upon those who take
and give Riba and then when you
		
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			actually see the consequences of
interest based debt, do you see
		
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			the reason for the Divine Anger?
		
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			But what is this anger about
adding an extra month just
		
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			tampering with the calendar? What
is that all about?
		
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			Adding the CEO, Ziad, attune Phil
Cofer, the integrate remote, an
		
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			increase in unbelief by which
those who don't believe are led
		
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			astray, they allow it one year and
the next year they don't, so that
		
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			it can combine or it can
correspond with that which God has
		
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			forbidden. It's not 13 it's 12.
		
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			So that they make forbidden
something that Allah has
		
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			permitted, or they make
permissible something that Allah
		
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			has forbidden.
		
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			In other words, the Quran is here
telling us that we need to be
		
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			rooted in some fundamental natural
things.
		
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			That the moon is not kind of
inconvenient the time but there is
		
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			a deep wisdom about following the
forms of the moon justice, there
		
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			is a deep wisdom about getting up
when it gets light and going to
		
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			sleep when it gets dark and the
metabolism is arranged to coincide
		
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			with that. So these are signs the
solar system is made up of signs
		
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			and the proportion of the planets
the golden mean if you look that
		
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			up and see the proportion of the
distances between the planets and
		
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			the geometrical forms that fit
within them, it's a wonder and
		
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			this is set up so that we can
derive our times and our calendar
		
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			a Shamsul welcome our OB husband
when it is Greek sequence in Surah
		
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			rochman Hashem so welcome our OB
hos ban on Niger MOA shedule.
		
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			Yesterday when things are put
together, the sun and the moon are
		
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			for reckoning or are in reckoned
or calculated precise paths ways
		
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			numbers
		
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			and the stars and the trees
prostrate
		
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			those two things go together knows
this calendar the moons the sun is
		
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			there so that we can divide up the
paradox and miracle of time
		
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			and then this the stars and the
trees prostrate in other words
		
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			everything is low on its own.
Everything's submits to him well
		
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			although other AHA little nm fi
have Akita Turkey Hatton, one
		
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			naclo that will act ma'am will
have both will ask me what Rihanna
		
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			all of these wonderful indicate
intimations of the Divine Presence
		
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			in nature Furby ala Furby, ala
Iraqi coma, to get the ball to get
		
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			the band. So which is it of the
Blessings of your Lord that you're
		
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			going to deny? That's the kind of
punch line. That's the takeaway
		
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			from this sequence of verses,
which begins with this husband.
		
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			And the need for the me Zan for
the balance human beings are to be
		
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			in a state of balance within
themselves within themselves with
		
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			each other with the natural world,
which includes the cosmic world.
		
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			This is all part of the serenity,
which paganism could not deliver.
		
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			And what secularity certainly
cannot deliver, but which religion
		
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			offers in a way that has nothing
to do with shamanism and paganism,
		
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			all of those things that are
supposedly now experiencing a
		
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			revival, but it's to do with the
absolute, uncompromising truth of
		
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			monotheism, which is that part of
your submission to God is to
		
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			recognize that everything is in
submission to God quinolone Koldo
		
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			level on its own, and to be part
of that cosmic symphony.
		
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			And this is why the Muslim life is
determined by the movements of the
		
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			moon, and by the movements of the
sun, the five daily prayers and
		
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			this is something timeless and
gives us a sense of fixity.
		
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			Calendars come and go. The atomic
clock might mean that we need an
		
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			extra day in 300 years time, who
knows it's just human calculation,
		
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			the editon field cover, but the
sun and the moon, they're in their
		
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			fixed paths.
		
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			No amount of human, perverse
reengineering of the perfection of
		
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			God's creation is going to affect
the sun and the moon. That's
		
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			beyond our power. So part of our
submission to God is our
		
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			submission to the devil.
		
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			version of time that is indicated
by the celestial bodies which are
		
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			themselves, praising Him, and in
state of submission to Him. This
		
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			is part of the deep meaning of
Islam. Don't fiddle with that
		
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			don't see the sun should be a
little bit faster and the moon
		
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			should
		
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			accept it. There is a deep wisdom
in this.
		
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			So this is the time of the year
when we experienced the blessings
		
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			of the month of Rajab.
		
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			There are four holy months. And
the Holy Prophet tells us that
		
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			there are three that come together
and one which is on its own. The
		
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			left hand side will shatter on far
the three that go together
		
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			Forcados will hijack Muharram.
		
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			And also Rajab, which is not
surrounded by sacred month, so
		
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			sometimes we call it Roger
Belford, Roger the unique the
		
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			solitary that the lonely or
sometimes the Roger BL Assam, all
		
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			the names have lots of names of
the months have lots of names in
		
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			Arabic, it's part of the beauty of
it, you don't hear adjectives
		
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			given to October, for instance,
there's no richness there. But in
		
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			these months, so much of our
memory, and our recollections and
		
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			it actually means something. So in
the month of Rajab, we know. This
		
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			is when Imam Ali Karim Allahu
Allah is said to have been born.
		
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			In India, you'll notice that all
of us have minored interesting,
		
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			that is right, well, Mirage, and
so forth. There are high points in
		
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			this month, which is itself a high
point. And the believer responds
		
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			to that, and is renewed, because
it is through passing through
		
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			moments of sacred time that we our
enthusiasm, and our spirituality
		
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			are re energized. This is why we
have these recurrent reminders.
		
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			This is why we pray five times a
day, rather than one big prayer on
		
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			Sunday, we need constant recurrent
reminders because we're forgetful.
		
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			So all of this is part of Allah's
mercy. How much would we think
		
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			about the Israa and the Mirage
unless there was a time when we
		
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			were invited to think about it?
		
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			How much would we think about the
little other unless there was a
		
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			particular time or we're not quite
given the time and the month of
		
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			Ramadan? This is all to help us to
remember those great moments in
		
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			sacred history, and so on.
		
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			people crave this and even in the
secular world, usually in some
		
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			newspaper, there's something that
says, On this day, Admiral Lord
		
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			Nelson died or something like
that, you think, well, great,
		
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			whatever the date was, okay? It
doesn't really mean anything. It
		
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			doesn't impact on ourselves. None
of those things on this day
		
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			actually affects us. It just kind
of a fun fact. But all of the
		
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			events in sacred time affect us.
		
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			We do things to commemorate those
times, which because they
		
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			represent divine interventions are
something that impact upon us,
		
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			directly and immediately. Rajab is
a time when amongst its other
		
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			blessings. And most of this is
beneath the tip of the iceberg.
		
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			Anything to do with why a holy
place is holy? Why holy time is
		
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			holy as to do with Allah's
knowledge. What exactly is the
		
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			quality of the holiness of the
haram?
		
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			difficult to put into words, but
we know it's there. There's things
		
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			on the surface, but most of it is
experienced just through a kind of
		
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			tasting or personal experience
very subjective, emotional,
		
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			affective, but real. So it is also
in the times, what is the
		
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			atmosphere of Rajab? What is it
getting us into the zone of
		
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			the lease Ramadan is the atrium of
Ramadan pointing us towards the
		
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			time when our lives will be turned
upside down, more than anything
		
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			else does. And we start to
reconfigure ourselves and concern
		
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			ourselves a little bit less with
dunya. Because hey, what's the
		
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			point, the shops can might as well
be open, but we're going to walk
		
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			past them, if not all things are
closed and the shayateen are
		
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			locked up a real reconfiguration
and a divine gift lifts us up. We
		
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			all know towards the end of the
month that takes us into a new
		
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			space. Or our job is kind of
reminding us that the fun months
		
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			are coming to an end, and now
we're facing that time of
		
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			austerity.
		
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			But it has other qualities as
well.
		
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			Even 100 Last coloni, one of the
great scholars of Islam has a book
		
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			about it.
		
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			We all know Eben hydrolyzed Kalani
maybe the greatest Hadith scholar
		
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			ever, after the early great days,
as Golan is in Palestine, but he
		
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			spent most of his time in Egypt,
teaching at the dawn of Hadith of
		
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			camellia, Hanukkah, Bibles, the
great mega professor of the time,
		
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			the one who was so impressive when
he was
		
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			still an adolescent, but when he
was staying in the city of Mecca,
		
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			the guest of Balkany one of his
great teachers and
		
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			The house all of the houses in
Makkah used to have names. It was
		
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			such a secret place that every
stone and every alleyway and every
		
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			corner had some connection, some
memory to do with the time of the
		
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			Sierra, who were staying in the
beta lineup, which had a view onto
		
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			the hudgell password what that
must have been like and he was
		
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			such a great scholar he led the
tidal wave in Mecca that year at
		
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			the age of 12.
		
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			And when he returned to Egypt,
married a great Hadith scholar and
		
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			his life is definitely an
inspiration.
		
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			And he produces the greatest ever
commentary on hadith of affetto
		
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			Barry shirts are here Buhari which
we all have to know about. The
		
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			greatest commentary ever on a
collection of hadith is enormous
		
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			thing gigantic and the whole
Islamic world was waiting, bated
		
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			breath for the next volume. Just
as nowadays we're waiting for the
		
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			next episode of editorial or
something. Is it on yet? They were
		
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			waiting for the latest volume of
Ibn Hydras fertile berry niche
		
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			volume will be sent by special
courier to rulers around the
		
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			Muslim world and to scholars. It
was a big, big deal in those days.
		
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			So the festival Berry, below one
muram shefa a text or Donald
		
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			Kameena vi en and determina great
history book about people of that
		
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			age immediately before himself an
enormous ocean of productivity,
		
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			but also produced a little book on
Raja
		
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			which he calls tribunal larger
female whare Daffy, formerly Raja
		
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			it's about amazing things to do
with a month of Rajab. And
		
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			actually, as a hadith scholar, he
is concerned honestly to inspect
		
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			some of the traditions which have
grown up around this month. And
		
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			not to say that they're forbidden
or that they're harmful. But just
		
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			to say this isn't actually
warranted, in the Quran, or the
		
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			Hadith. So a lot of people believe
in the ombre of Rajab, a lot of
		
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			people believe in special fasting
and Raja, he goes through all of
		
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			the Hadith. And he says, by all
means, do an ombre in this month,
		
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			by all means fast and this month,
but to single out Rajab specific
		
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			Lee for that, rather than just
because it's a sacred month is not
		
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			actually warranted. So do your
honor, then, fast then, but
		
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			because it's a sacred month, and
he comes up with all kinds of
		
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			other amazing circumstances. And
it's a reminder of how just a
		
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			month would trigger such richness
in the human soul. Nobody nowadays
		
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			would write a book about the
wonders of November. Certainly not
		
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			in Cambridge, maybe May, but not
in November. It's just flat, it's
		
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			secular, it's meaningless. It's
just a word. But with these, this
		
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			richness of our calendar, and we
really need to start getting back
		
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			to this, not just because it gives
us this topography of time, but
		
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			also more profoundly because and
this is the
		
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			raison d'etre of our being here
for these few days helps us to
		
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			reconnect to
		
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			that nowadays, poor, neglected,
unfortunate thing. Mother Nature,
		
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			is the kind of victim of a lot of
domestic violence. Now, I think,
		
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			last week, northern white rhino
died last week, or something is
		
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			really being maltreated by an
ungrateful humanity.
		
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			But the beauty of the Sierra is
that it takes us back to the
		
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			beauty of membership of the world.
		
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			And to what we call the fifth run
this right at the Mirage which
		
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			we're coming to remember, we know
that almost at the culminating
		
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			moment of that unimaginable
vertical journey,
		
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			he has offered the wine and the
milk,
		
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			and he chooses the milk. And the
angel tells him more detail in
		
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			fitrah. You've been guided to
fitrah nature, the primordial
		
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			disposition of human beings.
There's all kinds of symbolism in
		
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			that. And people have written
whole books about what that could
		
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			mean milk, or milk. And kids like
milk.
		
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			But this is said to be because
milk comes from the purity of the
		
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			natural world without mediation.
Whereas wine is from the natural
		
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			world, but it's been fermented. It
has been a process of corruption.
		
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			Human beings think they know best
and try and turn it into something
		
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			better than what it naturally is.
And the consequences of that.
		
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			Of course, any tour of the streets
of Cambridge on a Saturday night
		
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			will explain what it does to the
nobility of human beings and how
		
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			it drags us down. So there's,
there's a wisdom and there's a
		
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			lesson in this. So these times we
should try and reconnect with our
		
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			calendar. It's a shame when all of
this richness passes us by and we
		
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			don't know what happened when we
don't remember the reasons why
		
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			those things happened. Then why
should we abandon such a beautiful
		
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			thing and just stick with January
forever?
		
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			March, April, always the same,
always flat and meaningless. Let's
		
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			try and get back to the operation
of our months even though they
		
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			haven't been official in the
Islamic world. Egypt abandoned in
		
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			the 19th century,
		
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			the Ottomans abandoned the Islamic
calendar and it was during the
		
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			First World War, and it's kind of
just been replaced by this very
		
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			strange, flat, pagan thing. So
let's try and get back to that.
		
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			But as we move through the month
of Rajab, insha Allah, let's try
		
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			and orient ourselves. Once again,
towards the ground of all of this
		
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			richness, the source of all of
these gifts, the one who, whose
		
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			names alone constitute time and
space, and hope that we might
		
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			perhaps be lifted up to a state
where our hearts can perceive
		
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			properly and can see not just
configurations of matter, and
		
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			spinning atoms and interesting
planets and eclipses, but can see
		
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			the divine agency and see not the
effect. But the cause.
		
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			Looking at things the same way,
but not in the same way. And
		
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			through an awareness of the
sanctity of space, and an
		
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			awareness of the sanctity of time
we can start to see things more
		
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			properly, we can start to see
beyond the meaning the surface of
		
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			things and to start to see the
geometry and the depth and the
		
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			ocean of beauty that lies beneath
So may Allah subhanaw taala give
		
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			us a good job and help us to
prepare our hearts and our minds
		
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			for Ramadan. Insha Allah Baraka
law of equal cinema Alikum
		
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			warahmatu
		
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			Hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen
Walia Matata in an Achilles Ali
		
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			mean.
		
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			I shall do Allah Ilaha illa Allah
al Malik Ohakune mobian Muhammad
		
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			Rasulullah saw radical radical I
mean,
		
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			we'll see come when FCB Taqwa
Allah in the Hokkaido Zed
		
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			what year como la casa two or more
for column after that in beta or
		
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			COVID RT and Allah Allah will call
the Allah Allah Infinity War Allah
		
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			Mo and Allah haka, Amara Combi
Amarin Azeem Amara Combi solid us
		
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			salami Allah Ashrafi NBI even more
saline for kala gelatin in Allah
		
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			wa Mala Equateur Julio Soluna ala
Nabi Yeah, you had Latina Amman or
		
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			Salah Ali he was certainly more
Taslima Allahumma Salli. Ala
		
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			Muhammad Anwar other early Mohamed
canalso. Later Allah Ibrahima wa
		
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			ala early Ibrahima indica. Hamid
on Majeed, barbaric Allah Muhammad
		
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			in wa ala early Mohammed came out
about Okta, Allah Ibrahima, or
		
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			other early Ibrahima Phil Island
been in Nikka Homido Majeed
		
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			Allahumma in Ernesto Luca Dhaka
well Jana, when are over become in
		
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			South Africa one na R Ali Massoud
remin let Attica Citra on off you
		
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			know what for Ana? Well cola now
Heath akana Jada Angelelli will
		
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			kromm mutina Adina Islam, Yoda
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			Allah in Islam yeah the Angela LEE
Well the Quran mitzner Allah Deen
		
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			Islam
		
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			or wafak Allahu Allah to Ohmori
Muslimeen il Amelie Nikita Billa
		
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			was so naughty how Tamil and bi
even more saline?
		
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			I bet Allah Rama como la in Allah
yet moral Bill Adly Williamson,
		
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			where Eater is ill quarterback
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Allah come to the Koran oath
		
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			Corolla Halsema Yes corkum Where
the OHo yesterday block home,
		
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			while at equal Allahu Akbar, Allah
Allah Allah mama does not own.
		
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			Joaquim is solid.
		
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			Cambridge Muslim College, training
the next generation of Muslim
		
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			thinkers