Abdelrahman Badawy – The 3 Rule – King Talut

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The speakers emphasize the importance of progress and unity in society, as well as the need for a majority of society to contribute to making change. They stress the importance of testing and fitna, showing faith, and connecting with as many people as possible to achieve the vision of um rights. The speakers also emphasize the importance of integrity, strength, and foundation in building um authorization, and encourage people to study the story of Talut. They express hope for um authorization and encourage people to study the story of Talut.

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			Everybody.
		
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			I'm honored to be back here with you.
		
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			I appreciate you guys trusting me with your
		
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			time, and I pray that Allah makes it
		
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			worth your while.
		
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			Let's all take a moment, InshaAllah, to renew
		
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			our intention. We are here in the house
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			between two prayers,
		
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			and we hope that Allah counts us as
		
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			Al Murabitun.
		
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			The prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, intidarus
		
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			salaab adus salaafada salaafadaalikumur rebalt fadaalikumur rebalt.
		
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			Awaiting one prayer after finishing another. So staying
		
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			in the mosque from one prayer to the
		
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			other
		
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			is a form of
		
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			rebat. Rebat is a form of jihad. It's
		
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			a very high it's like guarding the frontier,
		
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			guarding the borders of the Muslim Ummah. So
		
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			the prophet of SAW Hassan said this you
		
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			for somebody who stays in the Masjid between
		
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			one prayer and the next,
		
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			they will receive a a form of that
		
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			ajr, that reward.
		
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			And and it's a humongous reward, but also
		
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			makes you reflect
		
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			on rebat. Rebat is to protect the the
		
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			Muslim borders from the enemy and those who
		
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			remain in the Masjid and do their adkar
		
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			and recite Quran. Like, when you be when
		
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			you await in the Quran in the Masjid
		
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			from one salah to the next, what are
		
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			you doing? You're not just sitting, right? You're
		
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			doing Quran. You're doing dikr. You're doing salah.
		
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			You're doing tawba. You're seeking knowledge.
		
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			This is a form of protecting the Ummah
		
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			also. Right?
		
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			Those who seek knowledge, InshaAllah Ta'ala, are the
		
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			ones who preserve the the preserve our Deen
		
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			for one more generation. And that is a
		
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			form of rabat jazakumuqin, barakalafiq.
		
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			Alright. So I pray that Allah includes us
		
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			amongst that honorable group.
		
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			So of course I begin in the name
		
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			of our creator, Bismillah Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Alright. So
		
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			what is the title of our talk today?
		
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			Do you remember?
		
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			It was a strange title. I
		
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			so the the yes. The the main title,
		
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			which is the Khutba, was luxuries don't last
		
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			forever, which is a quote from Umar bin
		
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			Khattab Radilah.
		
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			Today, the the the second, the lower title
		
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			at the bottom of the flyer said,
		
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			the 3% rule. Do you remember reading that?
		
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			The 3% rule?
		
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			I figured it's it's a, it's just, you
		
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			know, it's a strange title. You don't usually
		
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			see that as a as a as a
		
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			title for an Islamic lecture. But I I
		
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			promise you, they're all it's all connected. And
		
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			in parenthesis, it says, king, king Talut.
		
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			In English, they call Talut what?
		
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			Did I hear?
		
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			Saul. Yes. King Saul. King Saul, s a
		
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			u l. So that's the English version of
		
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			King Talut. Of course, we believe in him.
		
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			He was not a prophet. He was a
		
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			righteous man and a king appointed by Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And we'll talk a little bit about him.
		
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			The Muslims, the Christians, and the Jews believe
		
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			in a person named Talut,
		
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			or King Saul. And he was a king,
		
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			not a prophet. However, he was, marched alongside
		
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			prophets and with the,
		
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			appointed he was appointed by God himself Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala. Okay.
		
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			So
		
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			before I get into a little bit of
		
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			the story of King Saul, of course, we're
		
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			not gonna cover every aspect of it. I'm
		
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			covering it in respect to the title,
		
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			which is the 3% rule.
		
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			Now, if we wanna be more specific, it's
		
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			actually 3.5%.
		
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			Where did I get this number from?
		
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			So do you recall in Jumah, we mentioned
		
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			the concept of very briefly, I said I'll
		
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			continue tonight.
		
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			How much well, let me ask you this
		
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			question first.
		
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			When society needs to change,
		
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			when there needs to be fundamental change in
		
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			society, it's too corrupt. There's too much evil
		
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			spreading. And the people who do good
		
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			keep finding themselves every time we we we
		
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			we make one step forward, we get slapped
		
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			down, and we get 3 steps back, and
		
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			then we start again. Every time there's a
		
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			lot of hope on the horizon,
		
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			the tyrants regain their strength, and they cut
		
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			everything down. They chop off some heads. They
		
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			throw people in prison by the 1,000, and
		
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			then it dies down for another decade. Is
		
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			this something we've been observing for the past
		
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			100 years?
		
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			So when does this
		
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			what's your understanding of this setup? Like, of
		
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			course, we all felt we all feel this
		
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			way. Every time there's something on the horizon,
		
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			like like what's happening now in Bangladesh,
		
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			you know, may Allah free them from the
		
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			shackles of oppression.
		
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			We don't know how to feel because we've
		
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			seen it before where this just landed in
		
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			worse. Right? They they ended up with a
		
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			worse tyrant,
		
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			the next generation. This happened in many, you
		
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			know, Arab Spring and many other things. Correct?
		
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			Right? Many the longer you live, the longer
		
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			you see this stuff,
		
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			I guess you can say, in a in
		
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			a on level it failed.
		
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			Although, other people can have a different perspective.
		
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			So you don't know how to feel. You
		
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			don't know if you feel hopeful. You don't
		
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			know if you feel like you're being duped.
		
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			You don't know if there's outside agendas and
		
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			and and, and, you know, malicious people trying
		
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			to,
		
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			cause this kind of stuff. So
		
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			what are your thoughts? Anybody have any thought
		
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			on this?
		
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			When will this cycle end that every time
		
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			we take one step forward, take 3 steps
		
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			back, and we're another decade goes by? Have
		
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			you ever thought about this?
		
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			Full for Fudge.
		
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			When we're full for Fudge. I'll so I
		
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			like that analogy. Of course, a lot of
		
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			people have strong opinions about it. The the
		
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			very famous expression that when the masjid is
		
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			as full for Fajr as it is for
		
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			Jumayd, then inshallah, the Ummah will have victory.
		
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			I like it. Of course, there's exact it's
		
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			exaggerated on on the level. The masjid is
		
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			never
		
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			I don't believe it will ever be as
		
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			full for Fajr as it is for Jum'am
		
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			just by the nature of things. However, there
		
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			there's truth there. There's wisdom there.
		
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			The Fajr prayer is, as the prophet Muhammad
		
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			an indication of,
		
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			true iman because the the hypocrites, may Allah
		
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			protect us from being amongst them. They the
		
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			hardest prayer on them is fajr and isha,
		
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			where you're not as seen and there's not
		
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			as much, prestige or dunya dunya
		
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			benefits.
		
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			And it's obviously hard for them because they're
		
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			they're fighting their nefs, the most. Okay. That
		
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			that's one thing. What's another thought you've had
		
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			on this? I'm sure we've all felt that.
		
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			Every time it looks like, oh, the is
		
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			getting some progress, we get hope, and then
		
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			it gets crushed, and then we're
		
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			the cycle resets.
		
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			You ever wondered when does this cycle finish?
		
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			So it's something to think about because we're
		
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			all living the same life. Right? And you're
		
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			all like, man, SubhanAllah, it seems like I
		
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			was really hopeful. Well, we talked a little
		
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			bit in Jum'ah. Prophet
		
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			Muhammad gave us some ingredients.
		
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			When do you how do you stop
		
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			the people picking you apart like a buffet?
		
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			Because that's the imagery that the prophet gave
		
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			us. Right?
		
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			Soon, the nations,
		
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			the jama'at, the plural of umma is umma.
		
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			Nations, other ummas are gonna sit around you
		
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			the same way they sit around the dinner
		
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			plates, and they will pick apart pick you
		
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			apart. So they pick apart our umma. I'll
		
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			take this. No. You take that. No. No.
		
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			Please, please. You take this piece. Take their
		
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			resources here. You take this country. Oh, no.
		
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			You this one's colonized by you. And that's
		
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			exactly what they did to us. So first
		
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			off, like, your iman increases despite the negative
		
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			the negative reality because the prophet
		
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			gave the perfect imagery of it. That is
		
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			exactly what they did with our resources.
		
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			That's exactly how they drew up our lines.
		
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			I the lines that make our countries today.
		
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			I remember reading I don't know if this
		
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			is true, but I read it online where
		
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			it said I didn't, like, do my homework
		
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			to verify, where they said that the Sykes
		
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			Pico agreement where they drew up the Muslim
		
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			lands, it took it was a meeting that
		
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			lasted half an hour.
		
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			They they divided the Muslim lands in half
		
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			an hour and said, alright. Let's go for
		
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			lunch.
		
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			I I don't know if it's true. I'm
		
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			I'm curious to look it up and and
		
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			confirm it first, but it it sounds accurate.
		
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			In fact, if they spent more time, it
		
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			would only be to divide us further. It
		
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			would only be if they would spend more
		
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			time to figure out where to draw the
		
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			lines to create the most havoc. Because that
		
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			is they are known to do that. Divide
		
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			and conquer. Divide and conquer. Right? Anyhow,
		
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			so this concept of every time we take
		
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			one step forward, it seems like we take
		
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			3 steps back. Right?
		
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			So I want you guys to never lose
		
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			hope and never lose faith because progress never
		
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			occurs in one shot,
		
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			ever in human history. And it never occurs
		
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			in one line either.
		
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			So those are 2 separate things. One shot
		
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			means one day we're at 100% corruption, Masha'Allah,
		
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			next day we're at 100% success. It never
		
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			happened. Not even in the time of the
		
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			prophets.
		
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			Prophet Nuh
		
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			Yes. Allah sent a flood and wiped out
		
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			all the kuffar. But after how long?
		
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			950 years.
		
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			So it wasn't like Allah told them, okay.
		
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			Preach for a few weeks or a few
		
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			years and then or even 5 years or
		
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			10 or 20, and then I'll send the
		
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			flood. No. Allah says, do all your work
		
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			until until I decide, subhanahu wa ta'ala. And
		
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			then I will decide. And then here's here's
		
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			a lesson you have to keep in your
		
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			head.
		
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			When the victory comes,
		
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			it always seems like it was all of
		
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			a sudden
		
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			to the uninitiated, to the people who weren't
		
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			putting in the work. They say, SubhanAllah, it
		
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			all came all at once.
		
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			And only Allah knows the 100 of or
		
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			millions of people who've put in work, who've
		
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			planted seeds, who died before they saw the
		
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			victory and InshaAllah, they get all the hasanat
		
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			of it. SubhanAllah. Nothing ever happens overnight, but
		
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			to the to those who are unaware or
		
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			un or not putting in the work, it
		
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			always will appear that way. Right? Fat Mecca,
		
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			the conquering of Mecca, the conquest of Mecca.
		
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			It did not happen overnight. 23 years or
		
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			20 20 years or so.
		
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			But it was a long it was a
		
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			long time coming. Towards the end,
		
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			the dominoes start to fall a lot quicker.
		
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			Always throughout history. Towards the end, things happen
		
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			much more quickly and it seems like they're
		
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			all of a sudden. But no, this is
		
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			foundation building for decades decades decades. Okay. So
		
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			the 3.5 Percent Rule. I know I said
		
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			3% rule on the on the title, but,
		
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			you know, I just made it simpler. 3.5%.
		
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			Where's this number?
		
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			This is a theory about social change
		
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			that
		
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			man, I forgot. I wanted to do a
		
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			let me try this anyway. What percentage of
		
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			society
		
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			it's too late now, but what percentage of
		
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			society
		
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			needs
		
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			to be involved in making change for it
		
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			to happen?
		
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			He got it. Hey. How do you get
		
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			that number? It's very specific. Masha'Allah.
		
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			Yes. 3.5.
		
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			So okay. I I always I completely forgot.
		
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			But initially, I wanted to just ask you
		
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			well, I guess it was in the title.
		
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			I wanted to ask you guys. I love
		
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			asking this question. What percentage of society needs
		
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			to change? Because what's the what's the typical
		
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			number that might come to your head?
		
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			10%. What else?
		
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			20?
		
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			Come on. There's a number that I'm looking
		
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			for here. 50%.
		
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			51%,
		
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			majority.
		
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			5050 is still even. 51 is like you
		
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			officially have majority. You have, controlling
		
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			interest. Right? Just like elections. If you have
		
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			50.1 percent, Kalash, you're officially the majority, you
		
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			win. You know, if if we believe in
		
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			elections to begin with. If we believe that
		
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			they're honest.
		
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			Yes. If you're if you're 51%, officially, you
		
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			have won. You're the majority.
		
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			So the natural number that comes to people
		
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			is, well, for change to happen, you need
		
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			to have a majority at least. Right? That's
		
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			a natural number that comes. You think that's
		
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			what needed.
		
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			But that is could not be further from
		
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			the truth. I have not done my homework
		
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			on this to I'm not a sociologist, like,
		
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			but I've read what people who've researched this
		
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			have. And by the way, if you look
		
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			that up, that number, the 3.5% rule, you'll
		
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			find some of their research. There's some people
		
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			who've done research and reached this number.
		
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			They've basically said that never in history,
		
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			never,
		
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			whether the change was good or bad, by
		
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			the way, never in history
		
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			have you ever needed a majority to make
		
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			change.
		
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			Isn't that interesting?
		
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			Never. On a societal level. Maybe on, like,
		
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			a smaller level with a masjid board or
		
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			a group. Yeah. You need the majority so,
		
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			you know, just 10 people. You need to
		
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			out outweigh the others. Yeah. That that's much
		
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			more logical. On a societal change, when it
		
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			comes to millions of people across 1,000 of
		
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			miles of land, it has never needed the
		
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			majority.
		
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			Not and and here's here's the kicker. Not
		
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			even close, and we we reach a number.
		
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			The number they all differ, by the way.
		
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			There's different theories. Some of them say it's
		
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			anywhere from 3 to 10%.
		
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			That's what I've come across. You know, I'm
		
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			still researching it further. Anywhere from 3 to
		
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			10%, but it's usually the 3.5%
		
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			is the title of this article that well,
		
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			it's a paper that I was reading. And
		
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			they have they've they've cited a lot of,
		
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			historical evidences and whatnot. 3.5%
		
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			rule.
		
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			And they said that if 3.5%
		
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			of a society
		
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			are actively involved in making a specific a
		
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			particular change,
		
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			that is the turning point once it reaches
		
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			3.5%.
		
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			And it really made me think.
		
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			When you think about the protests in the
		
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			Arab world or in Bangladesh
		
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			or the the attempted changes that have occurred
		
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			in in our societies
		
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			over the past 100 years since our ummah
		
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			lost
		
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			or completely lost its unity.
		
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			Of course, that that was a long time
		
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			coming also. Right? But eventually, it was the
		
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			last straw, and we've been trying to regain
		
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			our unity ever since.
		
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			You always
		
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			you when you reflect on the attempted changes,
		
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			in my observation, it has always been under
		
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			that number. It's always been under 3% so
		
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			far. So when you have a 1000000 people
		
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			protesting in a country, that's still typically like
		
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			Egypt, for example, 110,000,000 people, that's still less
		
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			than 1%.
		
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			So if you do the math, also, we'll
		
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			talk about now,
		
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			within the 3% itself, you need to have
		
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			some level of cohesion and unity, and we'll
		
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			talk about that and and sincerity.
		
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			So let's get to the story. That's where
		
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			the number comes from. Where and I to
		
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			me, this inspires hope. Because it's like, wait.
		
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			I don't even need a huge number.
		
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			I just need to be sincere,
		
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			and I don't I need to be building,
		
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			planting seeds and building foundations.
		
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			And
		
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			if the science says or the the data
		
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			says
		
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			such a small number,
		
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			and Allah's and Allah in fact, Allah said
		
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			it first, and the science supports Allah's,
		
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			sort of, statement
		
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			or the sunnah of Allah.
		
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			This is straight from the Quran. Allah says,
		
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			how many small groups have defeated a major
		
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			group or a large group by the will
		
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			of Allah? And Allah is with those who
		
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			are patient.
		
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			Right? And this story comes up in the
		
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			story of Talut
		
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			as well. Alright.
		
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			Their prophet told them,
		
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			Allah has chosen for you or has sent
		
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			for you Talut as your king.
		
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			They said,
		
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			why should he have kingship over us
		
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			even though we have more of a right
		
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			to be kings than him?
		
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			And and they said, on top of that,
		
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			he's not wealthy either.
		
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			Their prophet told them, Allah is the one
		
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			who chose him over you, and he gave
		
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			him
		
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			blessings in in his body. He was a
		
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			strong man, as well as his knowledge. And
		
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			Allah gives
		
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			kingship to whomever he wills, and Allah is,
		
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			vast and Allah is all knowing. Allah knows
		
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			where he sends his kingship Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			So this is the introduction of Talut.
		
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			We can say, I suppose, alayhi salam, he's
		
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			not a prophet. I just want to reiterate
		
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			that. He was a he was a righteous
		
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			man that was appointed by Allah. However,
		
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			he was a righteous man appointed by God
		
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			in God's service,
		
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			with the direction of the prophet of his
		
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			time.
		
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			But I actually want to backtrack, and I
		
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			I wanna start because today I wanna talk
		
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			about we're we're directing it in the direction
		
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			of the filter, of of the 3%.
		
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			Right? 3.5%.
		
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			And the my alternative title for this topic
		
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			was
		
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			the series of filters,
		
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			the series of filters. If you have some
		
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			dirty water, it's completely filthy.
		
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			You put it through a filter
		
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			to cleanse it. Right? If the filter is
		
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			not,
		
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			let's say you get some net net netting
		
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			or something. Right? And you filter out, that's
		
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			gonna take out all the big particles, the
		
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			rocks and the dirt, but the water will
		
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			still appear brown. Right?
		
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			Right? Because it didn't get all the tiny
		
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			stuff. So you put through a second filter
		
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			that's much more fine,
		
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			and then you the water gets a little
		
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			bit cleaner. And you put it through a
		
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			3rd if that didn't get everything, you put
		
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			it through a 3rd filter that's more fine
		
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			and more harsh.
		
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			And then finally, you have clean and pure
		
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			drinking water.
		
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			The question is,
		
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			when you do that,
		
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			when you finally have your clean water at
		
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			the end, is it gonna be the same
		
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			amount as when you started?
		
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			It's possible. Right?
		
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			You you might have how much more you
		
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			have left?
		
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			Small amount. I mean, depends really. Right? But
		
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			depending how much filth was there. But you'll
		
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			never have the same amount.
		
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			Right? I wanna make sure that this is
		
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			clear. When Allah
		
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			sends our ummah through filtration processes,
		
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			you we will never have the same amount
		
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			at the end,
		
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			but you will have pure
		
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			at the end.
		
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			Allah says in the Quran, Suratul Anfal, to
		
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			purify the believers. Allah sends tests to purify.
		
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			And along the way, don't think that everybody
		
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			who gets,
		
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			everybody who is lost along the way, excuse
		
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			me, got filtered out. That's not the case.
		
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			Allah says, along the path, Allah will take
		
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			shuhada from amongst you. So don't think that
		
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			everybody who, passed away is because they were
		
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			filtered out. No. Some of them actually made
		
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			it. They succeeded. They went to the highest
		
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			level.
		
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			And now it's you guys are,
		
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			tasked with getting to the next level in
		
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			dunya, but they they have succeeded. Right? Anyhow,
		
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			this story is found over and over in
		
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			the Quran and in society and history. And
		
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			I'm gonna give the example from the story
		
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			of Talut.
		
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			So before,
		
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			before Talut
		
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			we're gonna get into a story in just
		
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			one sec. I just wanna give you guys
		
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			the background that led to Talut. Do you
		
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			guys remember
		
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			when
		
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			Musa alayhis salam with his brother Harun alayhis
		
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			salam,
		
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			they
		
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			Allah granted them victory over Firaun,
		
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			and then they were now in the desert,
		
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			right, with the people of Bani Israel.
		
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			And then immediately, they started to say to
		
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			complain about their situation. Said, oh, we need
		
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			some good food. We need this. We need
		
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			that. Like, life is tough now. And and,
		
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			Musa alaihi salam said, but Allah just gave
		
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			us victory over the biggest enemy of our
		
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			life that we've been praying for for so
		
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			long.
		
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			Now, of course, we're going to endure hardship
		
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			to rebuild. And so we still have tasks
		
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			that Allah gave us. What was the task
		
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			that Allah gave them after Fir'aun?
		
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			They had one more thing left to do.
		
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			To go to the holy land. Palestine. Modern
		
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			day you know, Palestine. Right? The the Al
		
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			Quds,
		
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			their job was to get to the holy
		
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			land.
		
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			And
		
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			they said they when when when Musa alaihi
		
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			salam told them that, they said, woah. Woah.
		
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			Woah. Woah.
		
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			But there are people there. There's in fact
		
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			a very tyrannical
		
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			strong army there, and they were evil evil
		
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			people.
		
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			So they said, wait. We didn't sign up
		
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			for this.
		
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			We thought God was gonna take care of
		
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			our enemies the same way he took care
		
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			of Firaun. Musa alaihis salam told them, no.
		
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			That was stage 1. Allah promised you to
		
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			take care of Firaun despite all the odds
		
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			being against you, and he did.
		
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			And now Allah said, go and now you
		
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			have to take up arms and fight for
		
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			your rights.
		
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			And then Allah promised them the same way
		
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			he promised them about Firaun. If you do
		
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			it,
		
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			you will succeed.
		
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			If you do it with sincerity, you will
		
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			succeed. Even if you have fewer numbers, even
		
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			if you have
		
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			less arms, even if you do not have
		
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			the same training, and then so on and
		
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			so forth. If you step forward, you will
		
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			take it. You will receive that success. What
		
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			did they say?
		
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			What was their response?
		
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			They said,
		
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			They had reached level of cowardice
		
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			and arrogance
		
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			and entitlement
		
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			and patheticness,
		
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			basically, where they said,
		
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			And they said, listen. Let's we're gonna give
		
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			it to you straight.
		
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			We will never enter that city as long
		
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			as those tyrants are there and they outnumber
		
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			us and they out and they're they outrank
		
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			us and they have so much more power
		
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			and weapons and so on. We
		
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			will not set foot there as long as
		
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			they are there. So God better send a
		
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			miracle. Otherwise,
		
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			they're acting like they're doing God a favor
		
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			by getting their victory and their success.
		
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			So then they said,
		
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			peak arrogance. They said,
		
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			You and your Lord, go fight.
		
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			We're gonna sit right here.
		
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			So of course, what did Allah say? Now
		
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			they received a punishment from God.
		
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			As of that moment, Allah punished them, and
		
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			Allah says, It is haram now because I
		
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			told them all you have to do is
		
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			set foot there and try for Allah's sake,
		
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			and I will give you the victory, and
		
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			I will show you that. But because you
		
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			were so lazy and cowardly
		
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			and arrogant and entitled,
		
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			now it is haram upon you for 40
		
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			years.
		
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			On top of that, you will be left
		
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			to wander in the land for 40 years.
		
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			And Allah says, do not feel sorry for
		
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			a
		
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			defiantly disobedient people.
		
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			They deserved what they got.
		
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			So this is what you hear about the,
		
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			the Jews mentioned that their ancestors were wandering
		
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			in the desert.
		
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			So that is correct. It's in the Quran.
		
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			They were wandered, but the punishment that Allah
		
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			set was for 40 years. So it wasn't
		
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			forever, like, until today. It was for 40
		
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			years.
		
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			So okay. This is immediately,
		
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			after Musa. So Musa alaihi salaam and Harun,
		
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			despite it being their
		
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			their dream to to enter the holy land,
		
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			Because it was their people at the time,
		
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			they did not
		
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			get to,
		
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			they did not get to achieve that goal.
		
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			They achieved many of their other goals, but
		
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			this was not granted to them. And Musa
		
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			alaihis salam famously made a dua and said,
		
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			oh, Allah, you have decreed not to give
		
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			us the holy land in my lifetime,
		
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			but I ask you to
		
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			bring me as close as possible to it
		
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			before I die, and allow me to die
		
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			within literally a stone's throw away from it.
		
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			And Allah accepted that dua and he passed
		
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			away within a stone's throw of it. And
		
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			there's a lot in the tafsir about this.
		
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			So,
		
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			there's a lot of tafsir about how did
		
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			they remain wandering the desert and,
		
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			whether it was something, it was something supernatural
		
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			where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala simply did not
		
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			allow them to find their way. But there
		
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			was also other factors when you think about
		
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			it.
		
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			They were just not ready mentally.
		
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			They were not ready spiritually.
		
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			They were not worthy, I think is the
		
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			word. That's why Allah said, 40 years
		
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			you will be punished.
		
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			So let me ask you guys this, what
		
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			is
		
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			a wisdom you can extract from 40 years?
		
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			Why 40 years particularly?
		
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			One more time, who said?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			And the tafsir mentions,
		
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			Allah kept this Allah designated 40 years for
		
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			every single person who was alive during and
		
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			was obligated at the time they were old
		
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			enough to step forward and fight for all
		
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			of them to die in in that punishment,
		
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			except for those who were not 20 years
		
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			old yet, obviously, by that time. Now the
		
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			next gen it's 40 years. By the way,
		
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			a generation is about 25 to 40 years.
		
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			It's when people tell you 1 generation, 2
		
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			generations, they typically
		
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			measure it by either 25 years at a
		
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			time or anywhere up to 40 years. That's
		
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			typically what's considered 1 generation.
		
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			Okay? So this is Allah saying, this generation
		
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			is punished. They will not receive it.
		
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			When they die,
		
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			then the next generation will get an opportunity
		
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			again.
		
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			And if they fail, they get pushed it
		
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			gets pushed again. And the next generation did
		
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			not fail, in their case. Right? Okay.
		
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			So the next generation was Talut alaihis salam.
		
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			And there's different narrations. Of course, we don't
		
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			have the exact timelines because this is 1000
		
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			of years ago. Some of them say Talut
		
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			was actually a few generations after,
		
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			some tafsirs mentioned because these are all extracting,
		
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			data from the,
		
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			the Israeliat from Jews and Christians. So,
		
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			the train of of, it doesn't make a
		
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			difference, like, if it was 1 or 2
		
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			generations or a handful. The point is the
		
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			logical transition towards victory,
		
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			happened. A second benefit,
		
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			beside the first benefit is the 1st generation
		
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			of people who were punished for their, ignorance
		
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			and cowardliness and arrogance, they don't get to
		
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			taste the victory. The second benefit is that
		
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			the next generation
		
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			was born and raised in the desert.
		
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			That life is extremely tough.
		
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			All they knew was hardship.
		
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			And now you have a whole generation of
		
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			people who were born and raised in hardship.
		
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			When they are commanded, hey, fight for your
		
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			rights, they can say, yes. Like I they're
		
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			they're warriors.
		
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			And subhanAllah. So sometimes,
		
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			Perhaps you may hate something, but Allah puts
		
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			a lot of good in it. It doesn't
		
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			mean that it's gonna be fun or easy.
		
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			It just means that good will come out
		
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			of it. When you want to plant a
		
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			seed, you dig deep. Right? And then you
		
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			you bury it, and it's not a lot
		
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			of fun.
		
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			But eventually, the the roots grow strong and
		
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			firm, and it the foundation is built from
		
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			there. So these are just some wisdoms wisdoms
		
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			of that,
		
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			situation.
		
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			So I mentioned this situation. This is before
		
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			Talut.
		
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			Afterwards, let's say one generation for the flow
		
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			of the story. One generation after,
		
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			or in that generation, Talut is born himself.
		
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			And then he becomes the king once he
		
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			became of age.
		
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			So
		
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			I said one of the titles I wanted
		
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			for this lecture was the series of filters.
		
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			The very first filter was that.
		
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			So Allah filtered out the people who were
		
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			not worthy of the victory
		
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			by delaying it for 40 years. That was
		
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			one of the ways that Allah filtered
		
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			them out. Next generation was born. It's the
		
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			children of those people. They're born in hardship.
		
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			They
		
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			their faith was growing. Allah sent prophets amongst
		
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			them. And amongst them, the heroes remember we
		
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			talked a few weeks ago about You Aisha
		
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			lahal jahabi, that the heroes
		
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			are already alive. Those heroes were born in
		
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			fiti, in in in the when they were
		
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			wandering in the desert. One of whom was
		
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			Talut.
		
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			So that's filter number 1. We said when
		
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			you have a bunch of garbage, you use
		
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			your first filter and it still looks dirty.
		
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			You need
		
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			a cleaner or
		
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			a finer filter to get out the smaller
		
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			filthy particles. Because the thing is, you can't
		
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			drink that water.
		
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			Correct? It's gonna hurt you. It's gonna hurt
		
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			you more than it helps. Even no matter
		
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			how thirsty you are, if you have filthy
		
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			water in front of you, completely dirty, you
		
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			can't afford to drink it, you're better off
		
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			drinking nothing.
		
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			Right? It's not going to help.
		
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			La yusminu wa la yukhniminjuah.
		
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			It's not going to actually make you better.
		
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			It's gonna make you worse. So you're better
		
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			off not drinking than drinking filth. Right? Same
		
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			concept with our ummah, and same concept with
		
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			victory and success.
		
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			Let's say, theoretically, you have a revolution,
		
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			but nothing got filtered. The ummah is still
		
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			in the state. People are still way far
		
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			away from the deen, and they're still fight
		
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			in fighting amongst each other, and it just
		
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			happened to happen through external circumstances or,
		
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			the tyrant died or fell or whatever or
		
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			got overthrown.
		
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			What happens immediately after?
		
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			The Ummah fights in fight in fighting and
		
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			problems and this and that, and then a
		
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			bigger tyrant gets the power.
		
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			And that's that. We're worse off than we
		
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			started.
		
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			By the way, I'm not my goal here
		
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			is not share my political opinions and this
		
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			and that. Allahu alam. I'm not a politician.
		
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			I know that there's
		
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			pros and cons, good and bad, and I
		
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			pray for the success of our ummah, and
		
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			I pray for the downfall of every single
		
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			tyrant. And I pray that Allah gives victory
		
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			to our brothers and sisters in Bangladesh and
		
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			everywhere in the world.
		
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			And I pray that
		
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			the tyrants
		
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			feel the fear in their hearts when they
		
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			see their fellow tyrants fall.
		
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			So my point is not to point, pointificate
		
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			about this or this, you know, political circumstance.
		
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			I'm just giving some
		
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			visuals or some observation we can make about
		
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			when the ummah when the water is not
		
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			clear and and and purified,
		
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			and we just land in a situation that,
		
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			Hey, we could do good with this. We
		
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			end up not doing good with it because
		
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			we just there was it was filthy. It's
		
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			like drinking,
		
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			filthy water. You get sicker.
		
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			So you need to get working on your
		
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			filters. Okay. So that's filter number 1. The
		
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			1st generation died out.
		
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			Let's take a look now at filter number
		
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			2, which is the ayah that we just
		
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			recited.
		
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			After Talut, who was born and raised in
		
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			that difficult situation, he gets of age. He
		
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			was raised in a righteous household.
		
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			He
		
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			was seeking 'alim. He was in the company
		
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			of
		
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			the prophets. He learned and so on. Eventually,
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala appointed him. And through
		
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			the prophet, Allah told the people,
		
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			Allah has sent you a king.
		
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			And this king is by the name of
		
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			Talut.
		
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			And they knew Talut. They knew his history,
		
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			they knew his heritage. They said, Him?
		
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			This is filter number 2. They said,
		
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			why should he be a leader?
		
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			They had to throw that in there. They
		
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			said, two reasons why we don't think he
		
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			should be the leader. Number 1, we are
		
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			more worthy of leadership or or kingship than
		
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			him. What did they mean by that? We
		
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			have better bloodlines.
		
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			We are descendants of so and so and
		
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			so and so. We are the elites of
		
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			society, wealth wealth wise and this wise and
		
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			so on. It didn't make sense to them
		
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			that this poor man receives well, this man,
		
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			sorry, of doesn't have the same lineage as
		
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			us. That was our first objection.
		
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			Objection number 2,
		
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			He's not rich.
		
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			How could we have a leader who's not
		
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			rich?
		
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			And looking down upon him because of his
		
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			financial status.
		
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			And then Allah or the prophet says,
		
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			why did Allah choose him?
		
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			Because he has more 'ilm, and he is
		
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			worthy. And Allah gives leadership and kingship to
		
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			whomever he wills.
		
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			And ultimately, He finalized it and said, This
		
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			is Allah's choosing.
		
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			You either sign on or you can leave.
		
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			And that was filter number 2.
		
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			From that generation, technically for that generation, it
		
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			was filter number 1, but you get the
		
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			point. That generation,
		
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			a sizable chunk of them refused to follow
		
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			his leadership.
		
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			Filter number 2.
		
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			So by the way, just so we're clear,
		
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			when people refuse to follow righteous leadership, they
		
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			don't just die out. They're still here.
		
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			They just go about their own ways and
		
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			cause fitna or go about dunya lifestyles or
		
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			whatever. But they're still part of the Ummah
		
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			at the time of Tawut. They were part
		
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			of the nation. They did whatever they were
		
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			doing, but they just were not going to
		
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			be amongst the victorious crowd who ultimately
		
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			have the great success and they get the
		
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			edger with Allah
		
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			Okay? Because they went against integrity and they
		
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			were still holding on to arrogance, still holding
		
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			on to,
		
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			things that are unimportant in the eyes of
		
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			God, like,
		
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			his bloodline,
		
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			like his wealth. And they were overlooking the
		
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			fact that he was more righteous, that he
		
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			had more knowledge, that he was appoint the
		
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			prophet told them that this man was appointed.
		
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			They did not get over that. They still
		
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			had that arrogance within them. So Allah says,
		
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			you are unworthy.
		
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			Next, you get filtered out and now the
		
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			group has gotten smaller. We put it through
		
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			the 2nd filter. It looks a lot cleaner,
		
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			but there's still more filters. This is the
		
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			sunnah of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			You will not find a change in the
		
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			sunnah of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Next. Next
		
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			filter.
		
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			So now you have the group of people
		
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			who
		
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			overcame their arrogance or overcame
		
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			any objection to Talut, and they said, if
		
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			god chose him, we will submit.
		
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			And the Jewish narrations mentioned the Islamic narrations
		
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			don't mention the number. They just say it
		
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			was a large army.
		
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			But the Jewish narrators mentioned that it was
		
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			80,000.
		
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			80,000.
		
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			And this was again, the numbers are not
		
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			the most accurate, but it gives us a
		
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			visual. Other numbers of, like, the bigger crowds,
		
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			although the timelines might not be the most
		
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			accurate, they mentioned 600,000.
		
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			So perhaps the population was 600,000
		
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			and then the people who actually signed on
		
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			were 80,000.
		
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			So you can see the filtration process left
		
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			a huge chunk.
		
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			Okay, so 80,000 sincere people, believers,
		
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			said, You know what? We accept we will
		
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			submit to Allah's choice
		
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			and we will follow Talut as our king.
		
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			So then Allah,
		
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			through his prophet, trained Talut to be the
		
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			king who will receive the victory. Who will
		
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			go and fight who?
		
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			Jalut, right? Goliath. And the prophet that was
		
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			a young man at the time, he wasn't
		
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			the prophet yet, in his army was
		
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			Who
		
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			killed Goliath?
		
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			David, Dawud. Dawud,
		
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			it's estimated, was a teenager at the time.
		
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			And of course, he killed the biggest soldier
		
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			that, the tyrants had. But we're getting there,
		
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			InshaAllah. So that was that army.
		
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			So
		
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			Allah sends him with the 80,000
		
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			troops or the 80,000 sincere believers. Keep in
		
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			mind, these are sincere people.
		
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			And this is a lesson for us all.
		
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			Just because you're sincere,
		
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			doesn't mean you're absolved from being tested.
		
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			In fact, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sends his
		
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			most difficult tests to his strongest soldiers.
		
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			And this is a paraphrasing of a hadith
		
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			of our beloved prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam. So, you know,
		
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			Ashadun Nasibala and Al Anbiya Thumma Akrabu Fil
		
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			Akrab. Right? That
		
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			the people who receive the strongest tests are
		
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			the prophets,
		
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			and then those who are most righteous, and
		
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			then who those who are after them, and
		
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			so on and so forth.
		
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			So
		
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			if you pass the first filter, you anticipate
		
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			there's another one coming eventually.
		
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			Right? Allah says in the Quran, we will
		
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			surely test you.
		
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			Everything everybody is this dunya is darubala. It's
		
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			a a, abode of testing and fitna. Right?
		
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			So we should not let our guard down.
		
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			We should also not get arrogant and complacent
		
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			and say, well, I passed a few tests.
		
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			You know? This what's happening in Gaza, I
		
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			supported, I donated, I I posted, I amplified,
		
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			I went to protests. I'm a good person.
		
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			Like, I don't deserve any any test after
		
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			this. If you have that personality or that
		
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			sort of mindset, then you've misunderstood how dunya
		
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			operates. Also, it's very arrogant.
		
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			It's very arrogant because it assumes that God
		
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			needs you or that the few dollars that
		
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			you donated,
		
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			changed the world. Alhamdulillah, I pray that Allah
		
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			accepts everything we did, but we are doing
		
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			it for ourselves.
		
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			Whoever purifies their soul, they're doing it for
		
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			your you're doing it for your own self.
		
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			You need this more than the people you
		
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			are helping. And Allah is not in need
		
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			of us, right?
		
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			Allah is
		
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			the self sufficient and we are the ones
		
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			in full need of Him. Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Alright.
		
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			80,000 troops with talut. We are filter number
		
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			3 now, right?
		
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			And these are sincere people. They passed a
		
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			few tests so far, but there's always more
		
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			tests because
		
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			the closer we get to go time, the
		
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			closer we get to total victory, the more
		
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			pure people you need to be able to
		
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			withstand the tests that come with that.
		
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			Okay. 80,000.
		
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			Allah
		
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			wanted him to test his people because don't
		
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			forget, not these 80,000,
		
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			not all of them came with full submission
		
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			and full willingness.
		
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			They didn't like Tawut a lot, most of
		
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			them. But eventually, they submitted. They got over,
		
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			Alhamdulillah, they got over their
		
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			insincere objections and said, Fine. Okay. We'll take
		
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			this guy. And then they were falling. That's
		
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			not you don't do you want people like
		
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			that in your army?
		
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			Like, they're barely holding on, you know? They're
		
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			barely,
		
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			what's the word? They're barely obedient to you.
		
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			He's the king. Not only he's the king,
		
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			he's the leader of the army. I need
		
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			full I need when he makes a command,
		
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			he needs them to say, sir, yes, sir.
		
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			He says, go left. They go left. Go
		
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			right. Stop. We all stop. Put yourself in
		
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			harm's way for the for the sake of
		
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			the ummah. They put themselves that's what you
		
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			need from soldiers. Right? That's why they train
		
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			and they drill and they so on. These
		
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			people were not ready just yet. So
		
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			Allah sends a test their way.
		
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			The famous ayah and Surat Al Baqarah,
		
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			Allah will test you now with a river.
		
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			Very simple test for a huge army.
		
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			As we are marching towards the holy land,
		
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			we will come across a huge river.
		
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			Flowing water. It was during the summer. It
		
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			was a hot time. Everyone is extremely thirsty.
		
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			They had their water that they're carrying, but
		
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			it's, you know, it's running out and so
		
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			on and so forth. And you're about to
		
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			come to a fresh flow flowing
		
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			river,
		
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			cold and beautiful and so on. On their
		
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			way there, before they got to the river,
		
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			they know it's coming, you know, they know
		
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			the geography. He says,
		
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			This is a test from Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			When we get to the river 80,000 troops,
		
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			you are forbidden from drinking from it whatsoever.
		
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			Whoever drinks from it, this is as far
		
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			as you go. You cannot continue with the
		
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			army.
		
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			Whoever does not even taste it, you may
		
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			proceed.
		
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			And then he added as an afterthought,
		
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			You are allowed to take 1 handful
		
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			of water.
		
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			If you are that, like extremely thirsty or
		
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			you just cannot, if you I will overlook
		
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			one handful.
		
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			It doesn't even say
		
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			like with his 2 hands. You're allowed one
		
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			handful like this.
		
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			So I I I'm I'm still reading tafsir
		
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			to find out what is the wisdom of
		
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			that little exception.
		
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			I'm sure there's a wisdom there because there's
		
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			gotta be something.
		
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			Perhaps, I'm just guessing here, it's a psychology
		
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			thing. Some people,
		
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			if they take just one sip, they feel
		
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			like they got something.
		
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			Other
		
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			people, they say,
		
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			I know myself. I cannot open that door.
		
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			I'm better off not even touching it.
		
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			Do you guys agree?
		
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			There's 2 personality types. Some people say, you
		
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			know what? If I just take a little
		
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			if I take a tiny nap, 10 minute
		
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			nap, I'm refreshed.
		
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			Other people say, If
		
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			I close my eyes,
		
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			I'm going to wake up 5 hours from
		
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			now. Right? So subhanAllah, perhaps that is one
		
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			of the wisdoms there. I'm still researching it.
		
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			Has anybody come across the tafsir of this,
		
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			some of the wisdom behind this, You're allowed
		
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			one handful?
		
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			But they were both allowed. The ones who
		
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			do not touch it and the ones who
		
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			take one sip are allowed to pass.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			Perhaps.
		
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			Perhaps. Because even in the ayah, it's added
		
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			as an afterthought.
		
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			So he says the full statement,
		
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			whoever drinks from it, is not from me.
		
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			They may not proceed. And whoever does not
		
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			touch it, let me at amhu,
		
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			does not even taste the water. They may
		
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			proceed. And then as an afterthought, I said,
		
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			whoever takes one handful, you can also proceed.
		
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			So there's wisdom there. I'm sure that we
		
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			have to study that in terms of leadership
		
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			and human psychology. There's some wisdom. I that
		
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			that's what I came across or what I
		
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			sort of speculated
		
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			about the whole napping for 10 minutes versus
		
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			I can't allow myself to close my eyes.
		
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			If I do, I'm done for. Right? The
		
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			2 different personality types,
		
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			in in the followers.
		
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			What did Allah say in the same ayah?
		
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			How many of them drank?
		
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			Allah
		
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			says
		
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			it.
		
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			Almost all of them drank.
		
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			Almost all of them failed the test.
		
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			And the Jewish narrations from the Israt Lafayette,
		
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			they say, out of the 80,000 troops, how
		
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			many proceeded?
		
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			Give us throw a number.
		
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			Well, 40 is tiny. No. It's more than
		
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			that.
		
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			Keep keep in mind our percentages here.
		
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			This is 5%.
		
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			The the narrations the Jewish narrations say 4,000
		
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			troops continued and they are the ones who
		
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			fought that, fought Goliath, Jalut. 4,000 troops.
		
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			So if you do the math, 4,000 out
		
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			of 80,000?
		
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			What percentage is that?
		
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			I know it's nighttime,
		
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			4,000 4 out of 80,000?
		
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			Come on.
		
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			5%. It's about 5%. We're right. Close to
		
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			the 3.5. Right? Not bad.
		
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			So
		
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			and by the way, again, I just wanna
		
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			reiterate because these numbers, I don't want someone
		
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			later to say, oh my god. The numbers
		
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			are wrong. I mean, these are israeliata that
		
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			the prophet,
		
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			permitted us to to benefit from them and
		
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			to speculate and to to to add to
		
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			the story and the details and so on.
		
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			Anyway, this is from the Quran.
		
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			All of them drank except for a little.
		
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			That's Allah's words
		
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			except for a handful, except for a few.
		
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			Keep in mind, these are people who were
		
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			sincere. They
		
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			passed the first test but the series of
		
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			filters goes on and most of them drank
		
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			and they were forbidden from proceeding.
		
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			There's a wisdom here. There's a lesson. And
		
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			in fact, this is the lesson that I
		
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			chose to touch on in the Khutba earlier.
		
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			Is that this was a luxury that was
		
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			presented to them. It was free. It was
		
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			from God.
		
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			They didn't
		
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			forbidding themselves from this,
		
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			they would say, why? It's a river. It's
		
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			free. Like, this is not,
		
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			like, it's not like we're spending more money
		
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			or doing it's just it's it's available. Why
		
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			shouldn't we take it?
		
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			This is a mentality that I find sometimes
		
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			in myself, may Allah forgive me, but sometimes
		
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			I find it in my community here because
		
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			we are gifted with so much,
		
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			in terms of our quality of life, our
		
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			standard of living here in America. And we
		
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			always ask Allah never ask Allah to remove
		
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			your blessings. Never. That is not the way
		
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			to say, I want to become more, ikhshawshinu.
		
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			Right? I want to become more tough and
		
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			rough. You don't say, Oh Allah, take away
		
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			my blessings. Never. In fact, you ask Allah
		
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			always to increase your blessings and to keep
		
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			them.
		
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			Oh Allah,
		
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			allow prolong or allow me to keep the
		
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			blessings you have granted me. And the way
		
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			you keep your blessings is to show gratitude
		
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			to Allah. Right?
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said in the Quran,
		
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			it is Allah's decree
		
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			that if you are grateful, He will increase
		
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			you. So that's the number one way to
		
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			keep the blessings.
		
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			But
		
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			when they are present, it does not mean
		
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			you have to indulge.
		
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			That is a lesson for us now. Allah
		
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			blessed you with, masha Allah, a very high
		
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			paying job.
		
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			That's great. Don't throw the money in the
		
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			garbage.
		
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			But you also are not obligated to buy
		
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			the big to upgrade your house now just
		
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			because you have the money.
		
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			You get the difference? I'm not saying the
		
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			money is haram. Now you have so you
		
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			have an extra you have, excess
		
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			disposable income.
		
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			The the the American mindset or the western
		
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			mindset or the hedonistic mindset is okay. What
		
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			there's, there's a few terms for it. I
		
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			think they call it is it lifestyle creep?
		
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			Lifestyle creep, I think, is one of the
		
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			terms. Anyway, there's there's they've done studies that
		
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			when a person's income goes up, their lifestyle
		
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			matches it even if they don't intend it.
		
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			They just start spending more because,
		
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			their psychology says, well, I have more to
		
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			spend. So they start upgrading all the things
		
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			and then they realize
		
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			even when my income went up 20%,
		
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			my savings didn't go up 20%.
		
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			My lifestyle went up 20%. So I still
		
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			have the same amount of savings.
		
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			So what was the point of going up
		
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			20%? I just started wasting more money. I
		
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			started upgrading the house even though my kids
		
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			are getting ready to move out. I don't
		
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			need a bigger house. I got a better
		
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			car just because I felt inadequate because my
		
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			friend got a nice car, and I have
		
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			money. Why not?
		
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			That is what we're trying to combat with
		
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			the Jummah earlier.
		
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			That is what's meant here. Just because luxuries
		
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			are present,
		
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			doesn't mean you are obligated to indulge.
		
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			Just because you have, doesn't mean you have
		
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			to spend. Now go spend for good. Allah
		
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			increased your income 20%. Your donations should increase
		
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			20%.
		
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			I'm not saying all your extra money goes
		
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			to donations.
		
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			That's like a high level. That's that's not
		
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			even close. I was about to say that's
		
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			Abu Bakr level,
		
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			That's not even close to Abu Bakr's level,
		
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			but it's still good.
		
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			But
		
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			if and I want you to reflect on
		
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			this.
		
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			If your income went up, but your donations
		
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			didn't,
		
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			there's a real problem there.
		
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			You get what I'm saying? You say, well,
		
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			no, this extra money is for me, but
		
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			like Allah just gave you extra before what
		
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			you had before, from compared to what you
		
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			had before. So the more Allah gives you,
		
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			the more you give and that's how you
		
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			show thankfulness and so on and so forth.
		
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			So there's a big difference between
		
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			nam and blessings
		
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			and the gifts of Allah versus luxuries and
		
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			comforts. Oh, the more I get, the more
		
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			I use and I spend and I indulge.
		
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			So So one of the wisdoms of this
		
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			test was just because it's available, doesn't mean
		
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			you have to take it. And Allah wanted
		
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			to filter them because what was coming next
		
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			was much harder.
		
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			The next test, fighting the actual army of
		
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			tyrants who were much better equipped than the
		
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			believers,
		
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			they needed to have full obedience. That was
		
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			one of the number one,
		
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			tests here was, will they have full tolerance
		
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			and obedience of their leader that Allah appointed,
		
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			or will they only do what they feel
		
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			like doing? And when it's go time, when
		
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			it's battle time, there's no time to deal
		
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			with people, you know, going behind the leader
		
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			and doing what they want and messing up
		
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			the army.
		
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			So they were better off in the eyes
		
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			of Allah. Pay attention.
		
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			They were better off in the eyes of
		
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			Allah. Sorry, I don't mean that disrespectfully. I
		
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			know we have actually a lot of elders
		
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			here. I'm used to this language because I
		
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			deal with youth, so forgive me for that.
		
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			I meant, like, pay attention to this. It's
		
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			very important.
		
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			In the eyes of Allah, they were better
		
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			off as an army of 4,000 sincere people
		
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			compared to 80,000 people with some sincere, some
		
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			half half, some not so much.
		
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			And me and you, we can we will
		
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			always take the 80,000. I mean, come on.
		
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			Right? That's 20 times more people. We're like,
		
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			hey, I'll take it. It's a lot more.
		
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			I'll make it work.
		
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			But no. Allah says no. In the eyes
		
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			of God, the 4,000 sincere people were way
		
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			better than that 80,000.
		
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			And victory would not have come if they
		
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			went with the initial 80,000.
		
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			Isn't that interesting?
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			And it really makes you think of our
		
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			Ummah today.
		
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			And I don't
		
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			lanu zakki and fusana, right? We don't claim
		
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			that we're the sincere ones. I would love
		
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			if Allah chooses me and you amongst those
		
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			3.5%.
		
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			I pray that Allah makes us amongst them.
		
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			But I will never claim that that's me.
		
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			Only Allah will tell us on the day
		
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			of judgment if we are worthy or if
		
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			we're the ones who get filtered.
		
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			But it makes you think,
		
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			we don't need
		
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			all 2,000,000,000 people to get back on their
		
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			deen. I would love to see it, but
		
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			that's just not the sunnah of Allah in
		
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			the world.
		
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			So I don't lose hope. I actually increased
		
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			my hope. I said, okay. We don't need
		
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			to convince all of America
		
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			to stop funding these wars.
		
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			We just need an active,
		
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			sincere,
		
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			small but powerful,
		
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			and high integrity group of people.
		
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			And that's always been the case throughout history.
		
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			And Allah prefers,
		
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			as He has shown us over and over
		
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			in the Quran, Allah prefers the smaller, sincere
		
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			group compared to the much larger,
		
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			mixed
		
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			group. Some sincere,
		
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			some half half, some not sincere, and so
		
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			on and so forth. In fact, I think
		
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			we mentioned this ayah a few weeks ago,
		
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			where Allah says in Surat Tawbah about the
		
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			Munafiqeen, about the hypocrites,
		
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			When Allah
		
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			commanded his Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, to accept
		
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			their excuses, when they made the most flimsy
		
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			excuses to avoid the battle. They were trying
		
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			to avoid the battle of Tabuk in Surat
		
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			Tawba.
		
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			And they made some poor excuses. The Prophet
		
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			said, you're excused. You're excused. The Sahaba,
		
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			the sincere Sahaba, they saw this and they
		
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			some of them,
		
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			they didn't care. You know, they're Abu Bakr
		
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			level. And some of them,
		
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			they're Sahaba. They're the best of the best,
		
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			but you know, they're human too. So they
		
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			said, Prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam was accepting
		
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			these guys. They're obviously lying. Their excuse is
		
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			useless.
		
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			And they felt like, you know, I I
		
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			I had a better excuse. I had a
		
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			genuine excuse that's better than this guy, but
		
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			it was it didn't pass.
		
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			And this munafiq came and lied, and the
		
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			prophet just turned a blind eye to him.
		
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			And, you know, Shaitan came to him and
		
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			said, maybe you should have been excused. Maybe
		
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			you should have made an excuse. You get
		
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			it? That's part of the story of Surah
		
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			Tawba, the whole Surah. That's why it's called
		
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			Surah Tawba because some of the Sahaba who
		
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			made a mistake on that battle, they they
		
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			made Tawba to Allah.
		
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			So what happened was
		
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			Allah revealed in Surah Tawba why he let
		
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			those he told his prophet to let those
		
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			go.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was not fooled
		
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			by their lies,
		
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			but Allah explained why he excused them from
		
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			the battle.
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			It's one of my favorite ayat in the
		
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			whole Quran.
		
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			Allah says, The reason why Allah told his
		
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			prophet, Take every excuse from any munafiq.
		
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			You know they're lying, they know they're lying,
		
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			the people know they're lying. Just don't accept
		
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			them and don't let them go to the
		
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			battle. Allah says,
		
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			Had they marched out with you,
		
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			they would not have increased you in any
		
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			good,
		
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			nothing but evil and foulness and corruption and
		
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			weakness.
		
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			And on top of
		
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			that, for the entire journey, Tabuk was a
		
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			long journey in the summer desert. They had
		
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			to go all the way north. Tabuk
		
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			is still called Tabuk today on on a
		
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			map. It's I wanna say, like, probably a
		
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			1000 kilometers from from, from Medina. Maybe 800
		
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			kilometers, something. It's very far. So they marched,
		
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			they marched weeks
		
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			to go north in the summer desert.
		
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			And Allah says, had they joined you on
		
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			that journey,
		
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			They would have spent the entire journey
		
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			whispering in people's ears like, Oh my God,
		
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			it's so hot. Because it was the summertime.
		
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			Why are we doing? We're gonna fight it
		
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			was a battle against the Romans. Are we
		
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			gonna fight the Romans?
		
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			Come on. Look at their army. Oh my
		
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			god. What's going on? They would have weakened
		
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			the army the entire way with their excuses
		
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			and this, and the ummah is this, and
		
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			the ummah is that, and the evil people
		
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			are better than us, and they outrank us,
		
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			and this and that, and they're smarter than
		
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			us.
		
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			They are seeking nothing but fitna.
		
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			And then Allah
		
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			says the final word.
		
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			And some amongst you, oh sincere believers, would
		
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			lend them an ear.
		
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			Some of you are Abu Bakr's
		
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			level. You don't hear a word the Munafiqeen
		
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			say. You keep going, Allah. Let's keep planting
		
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			seeds. I don't care how dark it is.
		
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			I'm gonna keep installing lights.
		
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			Other amongst you are sincere. You're good believers,
		
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			but you fall for these tricks.
		
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			So Allah says, I I made sure they
		
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			don't come and spoil. If they came with
		
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			you, all would have been lost, even though
		
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			your numbers would have increased double and triple
		
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			and quadruple.
		
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			So Allah says, don't be saddened by the
		
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			fact that Allah filters out the evil and
		
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			the filth.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So when it's go time, Allah sends his
		
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			strongest tests. And yes, sometimes you have to
		
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			leave luxuries behind, and sometimes you have to
		
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			show and prove to Allah that you are
		
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			worthy by donating extra, by giving extra.
		
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			Right? Just like Sa'at al Osra, and part
		
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			part of which was a tabooq when,
		
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			Uthman
		
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			kept giving and giving and giving and giving.
		
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			Under normal circumstances, you don't have to do
		
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			that. But
		
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			do you want to get the highest level
		
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			with Allah or not? Do you want to
		
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			be worthy of being the last 3% or
		
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			not? Right?
		
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			So
		
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			and part part of what's something to reflect
		
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			on is like, have you ever heard of
		
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			something called * Week?
		
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			It's in the US army.
		
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			* * week. It's a navy, I think
		
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			it is. Navy SEALs. You know, Navy SEALs
		
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			are like the elite of the there's something
		
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			they call it * week, which is based
		
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			on the title. They part of their training,
		
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			they put them through a week of what
		
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			they call *. Right? They just
		
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			they deprive them of sleep. They make them
		
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			stay for, like, 10 hours in freezing cold
		
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			water. They make them carry logs on top
		
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			of their head for, like, 50 miles. They
		
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			destroy them.
		
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			And they say that more than physical, this
		
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			thing is mental
		
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			to see who's going to survive and become
		
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			the top of the top.
		
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			And this reminds me of the story of
		
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			Talut with this final filter.
		
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			So ultimately, 95%
		
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			of his troops got filtered out and Allah
		
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			sent the final group of people.
		
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			And they,
		
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			when they reached this final group of people,
		
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			small percentage,
		
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			tiny percentage, when they finally reached,
		
00:52:03 --> 00:52:03
			the tyrant,
		
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			Jalut and his army,
		
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			they almost faltered at the very end as
		
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			well.
		
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			So even though this is the best of
		
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			the best of the best,
		
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			and they saw the army standing in front
		
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			of them, they saw that we have less
		
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			numbers, we have less weapons, we have everything
		
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			worse than them,
		
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			they still
		
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			said What did they say? The phrasing in
		
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			the Quran?
		
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			Again, this is the best of the best
		
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			of the best. They get there at the
		
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			end, and you know, finally they're there and
		
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			they say, Allah says, Fight now, and Allah
		
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			will give you the holy land. And they
		
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			said, We have no power or might against
		
00:52:38 --> 00:52:38
			Jalut,
		
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			Goliath, and his army. Like, we're gonna lose.
		
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			And then the sincere amongst them said, No
		
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			no no no no.
		
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			Didn't we go through all this? Didn't Allah
		
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			promise us?
		
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			And even if we lose, or if we
		
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			don't win this particular battle, we will be
		
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			shuhada in the eyes of Allah.
		
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			They needed to have that mindset, even though
		
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			they were guaranteed victory.
		
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			But they needed to say, I'm here submitting
		
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			to Allah regardless. And then Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala gave them victory.
		
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			And
		
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			they, had victory over them by Allah's permission.
		
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			And David killed Goliath. Dawud
		
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			was a young man, and he killed their
		
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			biggest and most,
		
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			powerful leader.
		
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			And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala shows you, that
		
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			pattern over and over. So let's go, just
		
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			very quickly go through the layers of filters.
		
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			The first filter was the 40 years
		
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			wandering in the desert. The 1st generation who
		
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			was the most arrogant, they died out.
		
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			And because they were raised the the 2nd
		
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			generation was raised in the desert, they got
		
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			raised in hardship.
		
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			And even though that's something we don't like,
		
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			it created some good in the sense that
		
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			they were worthy of victory and they were
		
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			willing to take it. 2nd filter
		
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			was the commandment to follow Talut. He was
		
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			not from the elites. He was not rich,
		
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			but he was a wise and honest, capable
		
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			leader who had alm, as Allah says in
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			Most chose not to follow him.
		
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			3rd
		
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			filter.
		
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			Those who did follow him, and we said
		
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			it was estimated to be 80,000,
		
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			Allah commanded him to test their resolve with
		
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			the river.
		
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			And 95%
		
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			failed that test.
		
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			And finally, the last,
		
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			group,
		
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			which was 4,000, a small percentage,
		
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			they saw how big and well equipped the
		
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			army
		
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			was. Their resolve crumbled again, except for a
		
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			smaller group amongst them who,
		
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			rallied the troops and they went forward. And
		
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			then the few finally got victory. And those
		
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			were the most sincere of them all. So
		
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			the lesson here is brothers and sisters, amongst
		
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			the things that we covered is never give
		
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			up hope. Never think that
		
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			the the external metrics matter. Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala controls all and Allah will reward you
		
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			for the seeds that you plant.
		
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			We pray that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala includes
		
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			us amongst the most sincere, the ones who
		
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			are most worthy.
		
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			Never
		
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			be too saddened by how dark the world
		
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			is.
		
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			Just get to work installing the lights.
		
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			Right? That's our job. And I pray that
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			put a spark in our hearts through this.
		
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			At the end of the day, their number
		
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			was just about 3.5%
		
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			because the 5% of the army, we didn't
		
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			factor in the previous filters. If you do
		
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			the math, it probably goes down into the
		
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			3. I want you guys to look this
		
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			up, but I want you to reflect on
		
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			this.
		
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			I've come across a number of,
		
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			of of discussions about the concept of such
		
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			a tiny percent of people making the most
		
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			major change.
		
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			And there's something that we can't discuss now
		
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			because I don't even have the answer for,
		
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			and the time is out
		
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			up. But the concept of
		
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			is this are we should we
		
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			should we be actively shrinking our numbers?
		
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			Or should we still be trying to grow
		
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			the Ummah and do dawah and and and
		
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			make as many connections as possible and and
		
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			so on and so forth. Right?
		
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			Our job is to grow the Ummah. Our
		
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			job is to connect with as many people
		
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			as possible on principle.
		
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			If there's no principles, don't connect. What's the
		
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			point? What's the point of having flimsy alliances
		
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			that are not based on integrity and principles?
		
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			We've learned that in the past 10 months.
		
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			So many of these so called allies
		
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			from liberals or or conservatives or whatever. And,
		
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			for Palestine, when our babies are dying, they
		
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			turn their back on us 1000%.
		
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			Where did that alliance go? Where did we
		
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			we made all the we watered down our
		
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			faith in order to appeal to them, and
		
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			where are they now? Completely useless when the
		
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			time gets tough and when we really need
		
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			help.
		
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			So our job is to grow the Ummah,
		
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			make alliances,
		
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			but base it on integrity and strength and
		
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			foundation. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala from Himself
		
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			will do the filtering.
		
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			Allah will send tests and not everybody's going
		
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			to make it to the next stage. And
		
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			I pray that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala uses
		
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			us and does not replace us. And I
		
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			pray that Allah allows us to be the
		
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			most worthy. And I pray that Allah accepts
		
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			from us and rewards us. I think we
		
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			have a few moments inshallah for for questions
		
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			before,
		
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			is that is that good?
		
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			Okay, so let's let anybody have any questions
		
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			or comments?
		
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			Any thought?
		
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			Are you guys interested in this concept, the
		
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			3.5 percent?
		
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			I am fascinated by it. I think Insha'Allah
		
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			Ta'ala,
		
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			this gives me hope for the Ummah.
		
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			A lot of the attempted changes in our
		
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			lifetime
		
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			did not pan out,
		
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			but the hearts are still there. I remember
		
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			reading an article that said,
		
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			I don't wanna again, I don't wanna get
		
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			people think I'm trying to be political here,
		
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			like, specifically, but they said
		
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			all those revolutions or attempted revolutions in the
		
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			Arab world, as well as Pakistan, as well
		
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			as these countries, Bangladesh now,
		
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			Bangladesh is new, inshallah. We have a lot
		
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			of hope for it, but the other ones
		
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			with that seemingly failed in the past decade
		
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			or 2.
		
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			This article said, where do you think those
		
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			people went?
		
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			Millions upon millions of people. They're still there.
		
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			They still feel the same feelings. They the
		
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			government has gotten more tyrannical. So they said
		
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			that
		
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			that means another wave is coming of people
		
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			who want change.
		
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			It's just a matter of time. And perhaps
		
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			the next wave will be wiser and and
		
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			more filtered and smarter and will have better
		
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			techniques and so
		
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			on.
		
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			But the worst thing a person can do
		
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			is to lose hope
		
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			when the tides have already turned. We're seeing
		
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			the tides have turned against the Zionists. We
		
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			see the tides have turned. People have been
		
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			exposed more than ever before.
		
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			So you can't lose hope when things are
		
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			already heading in a better direction. It still
		
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			might be a long way up, but at
		
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			least we're moving up.
		
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			Anything yes, brother?
		
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			Mhmm.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Crashed.
		
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			No.
		
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			It's
		
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			Allah's sunnah to humiliate the oppressors
		
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			by
		
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			catching them off guard and letting
		
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			a a a force that, by Dunya standards,
		
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			is weaker than they are,
		
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			completely decimates them. I remember similar to what
		
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			you said is,
		
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			earlier this year when the Yemeni rebels were
		
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			threatening to cut off the Internet cables in
		
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			the Red Sea, And the markets were
		
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			if they this is like
		
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			you thought you have all the powers in
		
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			the world. You can't stop a few people
		
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			in a boat. And, it
		
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			just goes to show you, Allah controls all
		
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			things, and nobody has absolute power no matter
		
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			what they think.
		
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			Similar concept we talked about before about the
		
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			social media.
		
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			They have created all these mechanisms to through
		
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			TikTok and these to keep our kids
		
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			foolish and watching videos and garbage and so
		
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			on. The same tools were used to spread
		
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			awareness, and they couldn't contain it. And they're
		
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			trying. They're still trying, but they're they they've
		
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			gotten better at it censoring, but they still
		
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			have not been able to contain it. And
		
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			the same tools were used to spread the
		
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			truth against the evils that these people spread.
		
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			I think it's a very powerful thought. We
		
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			should always have hope, and we should never
		
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			be no matter how dark it is, you
		
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			say, Kholas, the only thing left for me
		
01:00:07 --> 01:00:09
			to do is keep planting seeds and keep
		
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			installing new lights until it stops being dark.
		
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			Right? Jazakumullah khair.
		
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			Any last words brothers?
		
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			Jazakumullah khairan, everybody for your time. I pray
		
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			that it was worthy. I pray that InshaAllah
		
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			you study the story of Talut. There's a
		
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			lot that I left out because obviously we
		
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			can't cover it all, but it's a very
		
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			fascinating story. And it's very fascinating that Allah
		
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			exalted this man and mentioned him in the
		
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			Quran and the bible and the Torah despite
		
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			him not being a prophet. So there's a
		
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			lot of wisdom for us to extract there.