Abdul Nasir Jangda – Reflections on Gaza

Abdul Nasir Jangda
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The speakers discuss the meaning of Sabra in Arabic language, including its use as a fruit to pursue life of enjoyment and happiness. They also touch on the importance of honoring individuals and finding the right person to act on situations. The shuhada and pride of shuhada are emphasized, along with the importance of finding comfort in oneself and remaining resilience. The speakers also touch on the shuhada and pride of shuhada in context of Islam, emphasizing the importance of finding comfort and winning in the face of adversity.
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I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed

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Satan.

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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most

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Merciful.

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O you who have believed!

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Seek help through patience and prayer.

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And do not say to those who are

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killed in the cause of Allah, that they

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should die.

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Nay, they are alive, but

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you perceive it not.

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And We will surely try

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with a thing of fear and

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distress, and a loss of

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wealth and persons and fruits.

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And give good tidings to the patient We

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belong to Allah, and to Him we shall

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return.

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Those will have blessings from their Lord and

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mercy.

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And those are the

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ones Allah has spoken the truth about.

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in the aftermath of the Battle of Uhud.

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And we all have some idea about what

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occurred exactly in the Battle of Uhud and

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how tragic it personally was for the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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But just to be able to kind of

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revisit that, and to be able to understand

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and appreciate the gravity of that.

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The Prophet ﷺ on that day, he suffered

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the loss of many of his nearest and

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dearest companions.

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These were people that the Prophet ﷺ had

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invested 15 years into.

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They were the product of 15 years of

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effort and struggle and du'as and struggling

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by the Prophet ﷺ.

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And amongst them obviously were also very near

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and dear family members of the Prophet ﷺ.

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Hamza ﷺ who was not only killed, but

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then his body was mutilated.

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And when the Prophet ﷺ saw the body

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of Hamza ﷺ, it struck him so severely

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that the Sahaba ﷺ say that we saw

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the Prophet ﷺ have like a visceral physical

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reaction to seeing the body of Hamza ﷺ.

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And Hamza ﷺ was one of the younger

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amongst his siblings.

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And one of the older amongst his siblings,

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amongst the children of Abdul Muttalib, Hamza was

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one of the more younger ones.

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He was only two years older than the

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Prophet ﷺ.

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So they grew up like brothers.

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And one of the more older children of

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Abdul Muttalib was actually the mother of Az

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-Zubayr ibn al-Awam ﷺ.

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His name was Safiya, Ummah Rasul Allah ﷺ,

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Safiya ﷺ.

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And because Hamza was one of the younger

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children of Abdul Muttalib, he was basically practically

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raised by Safiya.

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She was like a mother to him.

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And the Prophet ﷺ told Zubayr ﷺ, do

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not let your mother come and see her

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Hamza in this condition.

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And when she heard the news, as the

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Prophet ﷺ expected, she prepared a kafan, a

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shroud, and she started walking her way towards

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the battlefield of Uhud.

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And Zubayr ﷺ stopped her and said, no,

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no, no, you should not go.

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And she said, I've heard what they did

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to my brother.

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I've heard the news.

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And so I've brought something to cover his

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body with and move out of my way.

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And he tried to keep stopping her.

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And she shoved him aside and she said,

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get out of my way.

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And as she started to walk by him,

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then he finally resorted to his last effort.

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And he said, the Prophet ﷺ has asked

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you not to go.

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And when she heard that, she stopped right

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where she was.

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She immediately just froze.

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She turned around and she handed the sheets

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to him.

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And she said that, go and take care

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of my brother.

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And eventually the Prophet ﷺ, when Zubayr told

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him about the interaction that he had had

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with his mother, the Prophet ﷺ then did

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permit her to be able to come after

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they had kind of covered his body.

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And she came and she said, Asbir wa

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ahtasib, I am patient and Allah will reward

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me for this tragic loss of mine.

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And in the aftermath of all of this,

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all of this heartache and all of this

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devastation, Allah revealed these verses upon the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اِسْتَعِينُوا بِالصَّبْرِ وَالصَّلَاةِ That

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all you who believe, seek the help of

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Allah ﷻ through patience and prayer.

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And I was talking about this just yesterday

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in another gathering, that a lot of times

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when we talk about sabr, patience, we actually

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shortchange the meaning of sabr by simply translating

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it as patience.

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Sabr also has the meaning of somebody really

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digging their heels into the ground.

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Because a lot of times patience has this

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meaning that we just lie down and then

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take everything lying down.

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But in actuality, the word sabr in the

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Arabic language, and that's how it's used in

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the Qur'an, it also contains the meaning

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of somebody digging their heels into the ground

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and standing firm and not relenting and resisting

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and continuing to resist and refusing to budge,

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refusing to move.

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And so when Allah is saying, seek the

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help and the aid and the assistance of

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Allah through sabr, Allah is saying that stay

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on course.

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Part of how you will attract the help

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and the mercy of Allah is by staying

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the course, by staying firm, was salah, and

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then continuing to pray to Allah ﷻ.

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And indeed Allah is with those people who

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stand strong and stand firm, who are resilient,

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especially felt in this context always, that the

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better translation of sabirin and sabr is resilience.

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And the sabirin here in these verses is

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actually describing people that are extremely resilient.

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وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَن يُقْتَلُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتٍ

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And Allah ﷻ says that do not say

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about the people who were killed in the

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way of Allah that they are just simply

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dead.

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بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ Rather they are alive.

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And the hadith of Sahih Bukhari, in the

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tafsir of these ayat, the Prophet ﷺ tells

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us that the souls of the martyrs are

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placed within these beautiful green birds in the

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highest levels of paradise under the shade of

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the throne and the arsh of Allah, and

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they fly around in paradise wherever they'd like,

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whatever they'd want to do, and they continue

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to just live this life of enjoyment and

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bliss and happiness awaiting the day of judgment

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when everyone will be resurrected and then their

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souls will be restored to their earthly bodies.

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And when their souls will be returned back

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to their earthly bodies, they've been alive and

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living and enjoying paradise this entire time.

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When their souls are restored, Allah ﷻ will

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grant the martyrs a very particular distinction.

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And at first when you hear it, it's

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a bit jarring, but it ultimately, it is

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the ultimate badge of honor.

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And the distinction that Allah ﷻ will grant

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them is when they are resurrected on the

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day of judgment, their wounds will be with

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them.

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The wounds that they suffered in the way

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of Allah ﷻ, they will show those wounds.

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Their wounds will be open, they'll be fresh,

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the blood will be coming out of those

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wounds.

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And it sounds a bit jarring, it sounds

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almost like a, you know, kind of a

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disservice.

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Why are they gonna be like, you know,

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showing those wounds that were inflicted upon them?

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But it will be the ultimate badge of

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honor.

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And of course, Allah ﷻ knows everything, but

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Allah will ask them in front of all

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of the creation, all of humanity, اَمَامَ الْخَلَائِقِ

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كُلِّهَا Allah will ask them in front of

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all of the human beings, مِنَ أَوَّلِهِمِ الْآخِرِهِمِ

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that what happened to you?

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What is this?

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And they'll respond by saying, يا رب, o

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Allah, I suffered this in your way.

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This was done to me because of what

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I believed.

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And Allah ﷻ will then announce in front

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of all of the creation that you made

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this sacrifice.

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And in exchange of that, you will have

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paradise.

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And they'll be granted entry into Jannatul Firdaus,

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the highest stages of paradise, in front of

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all of humanity, before even the reckoning begins,

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and before anyone else has any opportunity of

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anything.

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They'll be entered into paradise ahead of everyone

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else.

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And that's why Allah says, وَلَكِن لَّا تَشْعُرُونَ

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That in this world, and the way that

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this world works, and how limited the minds

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of people are in this world, when people

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are killed, when people's lives are taken unjustly,

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that a lot of times, people perceive them

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to be the ones who lost in this

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situation.

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The world perceives them plainly, but the world

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perceives them to be the losers.

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And that's why Allah is saying, وَلَكِن لَّا

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تَشْعُرُونَ You just don't realize.

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You have your math all wrong.

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But these are the people that have attained

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the ultimate status and the ultimate distinction and

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honor.

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And that's how we reflect on the people

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that were taken.

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Now going forward, Allah ﷻ says, the lesson

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that you have to take from them, and

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actually before I even go forward, I wanted

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to mention just a couple of things.

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There are remarkable things.

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There's this beautiful book that's written on the

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history of Al-Madinah al-Munawarah that actually

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the author talks about that when he was

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a child, there were these terrible storms and

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floods in that region of Madinah.

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And it led to some of the bodies

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of the martyrs in Uhud becoming uncovered.

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All the ground was washed away.

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And he talks about his eyewitness account that

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when they saw the bodies of the shuhada

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of Uhud, they were so fresh as the

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day that they were buried.

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That that was their honor and distinction granted

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to them by Allah.

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Now going forward Allah says, وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُمْ بِشَيْءٍ مِّنَ

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الْخَوْفِ A lot of times, and of course,

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we oppose the injustice.

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And we pray against the oppressors and we

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pray for the oppressed.

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And we don't want this to happen.

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But Allah is also telling us that this

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is also the law and the rule that

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Allah has set down in this dunya.

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وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُمْ بِشَيْءٍ مِّنَ الْخَوْفِ We will test you

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with this fear, والجوع, starvation, hunger.

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وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ الْأَمْوَالِ وَالْأَنفُسِ وَالْثَمَرَاتِ And a decrease

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in wealth and in life and then in

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fruits.

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And I explained this before as well that

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Imam Shafi'i r.a he actually explains

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that Allah has already talked about that He

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will decrease your property.

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So the crops are already included within that.

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Allah already said that you will suffer starvation.

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The loss of crops is already addressed there.

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This ثَمَرَاتِ is actually referenced in an authentic

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narration at Tirmidhi in which the Prophet ﷺ

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tells us that when the soul of a

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child is taken, that when the angel of

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death goes before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

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Allah asks the angel of death and of

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course the hadith says that Allah knows everything.

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But Allah asks the angel of death, أَخَذْتَ

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ثَمْرَةَ قَلْبِهِ You took away the fruit of

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the heart of My servant.

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ثَمْرَةُ الْقَلْبِ لِيَنَ الْوَلَدَ ثَمْرَةُ الْقَلْبِ The child

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is the fruit of the heart of the

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parents.

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It's an expression in the Arabic language like

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we say the apple of one's eye.

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The most precious thing in the world is

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a child.

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And Allah says to the angel of death,

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You took away the most precious thing in

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the world to My servant, his child.

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He says, Yes, Ya Rabb, it was Your

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will.

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And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala announces

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that let them know that because of this

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sacrifice, they will all be reunited in Jannah.

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They'll all be reunited in paradise.

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وَبَشِّرُ الصَّابِرِينَ And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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says that the good news is for those

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that are resilient in the face of all

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of this difficulty and adversity.

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أَلَّذِينَ إِذَا أَصَابَتُمْ مُصِيبًا That when they are

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afflicted with a terrible calamity, قَالُوا إِنَّا لِلَّهِ

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وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَجِعُونَ They say to Allah, Do

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we belong to Him?

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Are we all returning?

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أُولَئِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ صَلَوَاتًا مِّن رَبِّهِمْ وَرَحْمَةً Those are

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the people, Allah showers His special blessings upon

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them and His mercy upon them.

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وَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُخْتَدُونَ And those are the people

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that are rightly guided.

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I wanted to emphasize three things here tonight.

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Number one, by sharing these particular verses, I

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wanted to remind myself, renew my perspective, that

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the tens of thousands, the hundreds of thousands

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of our brothers and sisters whose lives have

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been taken, who have been killed, who have

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been murdered in Gaza and beyond, that they

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are shuhada, that they are martyrs.

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And this is what Allah tells us about

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the status and the level and the distinction

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of the martyrs and it's a very important

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reminder that we all need to have.

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That we understand their status with Allah and

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we are able to find at least some

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modicum of comfort in the fact that they

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are honored and distinguished with Allah ﷻ.

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And they have attained the highest status that

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any member of this ummah can ever achieve

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and that is the status of the shuhada,

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the martyrs.

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The second thing I wanted to emphasize was

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that while we remind ourselves of this, we

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also don't sit there and then kind of

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wallow in just sadness and misery and pain.

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But those that are left behind have a

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responsibility upon us.

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When the daughter of Hamza رضي الله تعالى

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عنه was still in Mecca and they wanted

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to bring her back to Medina, Ali ibn

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Abi Talib, Jafar ibn Abi Talib, Zayd ibn

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Haritha, they were all debating and arguing with

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each other about who would have the honor

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of taking care of the daughter of Hamza

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رضي الله تعالى عنه.

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They understood their job and their responsibility to

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those that are left behind.

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That we have a job to do.

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We are their family.

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When the Prophet ﷺ was coming back from

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the Battle of Uhud, having buried his uncle

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who had been mutilated horrifically, the Prophet ﷺ

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sees a boy, Al-Bashir.

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He sees him and he's crying because his

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father has died, has been killed, was a

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martyr in Uhud.

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And he sees him crying and the Prophet

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ﷺ stops his animal and he lifts him

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up and picks him up and puts him

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on the animal with him.

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And then he holds him and hugs him

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and shushes him until he stops crying, calms

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him.

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And then he says to him, أما ترضى

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أن أكون أنا أباك وعائشة أمك Don't worry,

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you're not alone.

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I'll be your father, Aisha will be your

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mother.

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Then he ordered all the Sahaba رضي الله

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تعالى عنهم and some of the other boys

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that were standing there waiting for their fathers

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and brothers to come back but they were

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all buried in Uhud.

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The Prophet ﷺ ordered those Sahaba that pick

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up these children and comfort them and take

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care of them.

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They are our responsibility.

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There's that sense of family that we can't

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just use the lip service that we are

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a family, we're an ummah.

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But we have to have that real concern

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and do whatever is in our capacity to

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continue to speak against the oppression, push back

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against the oppression, donate, contribute and whatever other

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means there is to help and aid and

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assist.

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But we have to stay committed.

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It's our job, it's our responsibility.

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It's not just something that we look at,

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Oh, these doctors, they mashallah, they went to

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Gaza very nice and we clap for them

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and it's good that they did that.

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But it's our collective responsibility to constantly concern

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ourselves with what we can do.

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When the Prophet ﷺ had barely completed burying

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Hamza radiyallahu ta'ala anhu, the Prophet ﷺ

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across the field, he saw Jabir bin Abdullah

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radiyallahu ta'ala anhu.

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His father had been killed in Uhud.

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Shaheed.

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And he saw Jabir and Jabir was crying.

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He's barely 18, 19 years old.

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He's a young man, he had seven little

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sisters.

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His father was like his best friend.

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He was his oldest child.

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So they were very close.

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And he saw him crying, he saw him

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destroyed, devastated.

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His whole life, his whole world had been

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turned upside down.

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And the Prophet ﷺ put his own pain

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on hold and he walked across the battlefield

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and he went there and he just went

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and he just hugged Jabir.

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And Jabir cried on the shoulder of the

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Prophet ﷺ, cried and cried and cried.

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And the Prophet ﷺ just held him and

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let him cry his heart out.

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And then he told him, he said, why

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do you worry?

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He said, you know your father's soul, from

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the moment your father fell in the battlefield,

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Allah sent angels from the heavens to cover

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your father's body with their wings so even

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the sunlight would not hit his body.

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Do you know your father's soul when it

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was presented before Allah?

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Allah asked your father's soul that if I

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give you another opportunity, what would you do?

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And he said, I would give my life

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for you again.

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If I give you another opportunity, what would

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you do?

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I would give my life for you again.

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If I give you another opportunity, what would

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you do?

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I would give my life for you again.

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And he said that a hundred times over.

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Fast forward even a few years later, one

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time the Prophet ﷺ was sitting, he had

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received a gift from Yemen.

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And it was this cloak and it had

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a very nice border, very beautiful cloak.

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And the Prophet ﷺ was wearing it when

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he gave the khutbah, Jumu'ah.

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And after Jumu'ah, some of the young

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men of the Sahaba, they came up and

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they started, they used to be so friendly

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with the Prophet ﷺ.

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They came up and they started touching it

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and they started saying, wow, this is really

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nice.

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And they were touching it and checking it

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out.

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And the Prophet ﷺ saw Jabir in the

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corner.

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And he could tell that he was sad,

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he was probably missing his dad.

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And the Prophet ﷺ immediately said, he goes,

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you think this is nice?

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And they said, yeah.

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And he said it kind of loud, do

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you think this is nice?

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And they said, yeah.

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He said, you know what's nicer?

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They said, what?

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He said the handkerchief of Jabir's father in

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Jannah is better than this cloak.

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It's constantly comforting.

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It's our job.

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When they were on their way back to

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Medina and Jabir was sad and his head

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is hung and he's riding his camel.

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The Prophet ﷺ knows he has a lot

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of responsibility.

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How is he gonna take care of this

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whole family by himself?

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He's a young man, he's barely a man,

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he's a kid.

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He's a teenager.

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The Prophet ﷺ said, mashallah, your camel is

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very good.

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He said, يَا لَهَا يَا رَسُولُ اللهِ You

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can have it.

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He said, no, no, I didn't say that.

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He said, it's very good.

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How much would you sell it to me

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for?

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He goes, it's yours.

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He said, no, no, don't do that.

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Then he asked another Sahabi, how much does

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this camel sell for?

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He said, 2,000 dirham.

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The Prophet ﷺ said, I'll buy it from

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you for 4,000 dirham.

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He said, it's yours, O Messenger of Allah.

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He said, 4,000 dirham.

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So what are you gonna do?

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You don't argue with the Prophet ﷺ.

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He said, سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا Like, what are you

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gonna do?

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So when they got back to Medina, the

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Prophet ﷺ said, okay, bring the camel.

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So when he brought him, the Prophet ﷺ

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gave him the 4,000 dirham and said,

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just leave the camel outside.

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And a little while later, the Prophet ﷺ

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called one of the Sahaba, and he said,

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you see the camel that's outside?

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He said, go drop it off at Jabir's

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house and tell him that it's a gift

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from me.

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Because it was his job.

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Because he understood that.

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When the news came from Mu'tada Ja'far

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bin Abi Talib, who was like a little

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brother to the Prophet ﷺ.

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أَشْبَهْتَ خَلْقِي وَخُلُقِي He said, you're just like

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me.

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You look like me.

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You walk like me.

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You talk like me.

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Ja'far was so beloved to the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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His cousin, he was like a little baby

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brother to him.

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And when Ja'far was shaheed in Ghazwa

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Mu'tah, and the Prophet ﷺ heard that his

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wife is very distraught, Asmaa bint Abi Umais.

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The Prophet ﷺ went over to their home.

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And he sat down.

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And he said that, he told her, he

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said that, you know, Ja'far is in

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paradise.

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Allah gave him, because she had heard the

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news that they had butchered him in the

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battlefield, the enemy.

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And the Prophet ﷺ said that, Allah gave

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Ja'far wings.

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And he's flying around in paradise.

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That's why I call him Ja'far al

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-Tayyar.

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And she said, O Messenger of Allah, I

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have no doubt about that.

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That's not why I'm sad.

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I'm sad because of these boys.

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She had two, three little boys.

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She said they lost their father.

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Who's gonna look after them?

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The Prophet ﷺ said, I will.

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Then he called them over and he put

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them in his lap.

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And they were little boys.

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So their hair was all over the place.

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And so the Prophet ﷺ said, you got

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something?

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And she said, yeah.

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And he fixed their hair.

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Sitting there.

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Can you imagine this picture?

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The Prophet ﷺ sitting there, combing and brushing

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their hair.

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Fixing them up.

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He fixed them up.

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And he said, look how beautiful they look.

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Look how beautiful they are.

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It's our job.

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It's our job.

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And so that's the second point I wanted

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to make that we have to remain committed.

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We have to stay the course, the resilience.

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And the third thing that I wanted to

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mention and emphasize and we'll put this into

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practice and act on this here.

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And that is, the third thing is that

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we continue to make du'a.

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So we have the correct perspective.

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We remain hopeful.

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We continue to put in the work.

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And then we continue to make du'a.

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And so inshallah, we'll end and conclude with

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a du'a.

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And I'll offer a short du'a.

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And inshallah, just, you know, start sending salawat

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on the Prophet ﷺ.

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Be in the right state of mind and

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in the right frame of mind.

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And that we ask Allah ﷻ for the

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acceptance of our du'as and our prayers

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here tonight.

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As-salāmu

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ʿalaykum

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wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

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O Allah!

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Have mercy upon the Ummah of the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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O Allah!

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Aid and help the Ummah of the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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O Allah!

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All of our brothers and sisters, all the

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innocent people who have been lost, who have

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been killed, who have been murdered.

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O Allah!

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Count them amongst the shuhada.

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Grant them the highest levels in Jannat al

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-Firdaws al-'A'la.

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Place them in the company of the Prophet

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ﷺ and the nabiyeen, the siddiqeen, the shuhada,

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the salihin.

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O Allah!

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Those that remain behind, O Allah!

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Grant them strength and thabat.

00:31:43 --> 00:31:45

Grant them conviction and strength in the face

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of such brutality and adversity.

00:31:48 --> 00:31:48

O Allah!

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Give them the resilience and the strength they

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need to continue.

00:31:52 --> 00:31:52

O Allah!

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Defeat the oppressors and remove them from the

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oppressed.

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O Allah!

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Remove the oppressors and deal with them swiftly

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and justly.

00:32:03 --> 00:32:04

O Allah!

00:32:04 --> 00:32:05

Forgive us for our shortcomings.

00:32:05 --> 00:32:07

Forgive us for our negligence.

00:32:07 --> 00:32:08

O Allah!

00:32:08 --> 00:32:09

Forgive us for our laziness.

00:32:10 --> 00:32:10

O Allah!

00:32:10 --> 00:32:12

Forgive us for not fulfilling our responsibility.

00:32:13 --> 00:32:13

O Allah!

00:32:14 --> 00:32:16

Allow us to be a part of the

00:32:16 --> 00:32:19

means of bringing relief and victory to our

00:32:19 --> 00:32:20

brothers and sisters.

00:32:20 --> 00:32:21

O Allah!

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Grant them victory, grant them dignity, grant them

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honor, grant them peace, grant them tranquility.

00:32:27 --> 00:32:27

Ya Rabb al-'Alamin.

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Subhana rabbika rabb al-'izzati amma yasifoon, wa salamun

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ala al-mursaleen, walhamdulillahi rabbil'alamin.

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Insha'Allah, please everyone, take your time, as

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much time as you would like.

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But insha'Allah, on your way out, there's

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some chai that is being sold in the

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foyer, in the lobby area, and all the

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proceeds are a part of our fundraising campaign

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for Gaza.

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Alhamdulillah, the seminary students, the Bloom children, the

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entire community here at Qalam has been working

00:33:04 --> 00:33:08

very diligently about raising funds and awareness about

00:33:08 --> 00:33:09

what's going on in Gaza.

00:33:09 --> 00:33:11

So insha'Allah, the chai that's being sold

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is also contributing to that.

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So please, insha'Allah, partake of that and

00:33:14 --> 00:33:15

participate in that.

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Jazakumullahu khairan.

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Barakallahu feekum.

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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

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