Abdul Nasir Jangda – Reflections on Isrāʾ wal-Miraj

Abdul Nasir Jangda
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The importance of preserving the connection between the Prophet Muhammad Islam and the life and legacy of the Prophet Muhammad Islam is discussed in various interviews and legends. The Prophet provides comfort to those who have lost their spiritual source and is linked to a narration of a woman who found comfort in a place called[unsure]. The Prophet provides gifts and guidance to those who have experienced a crisis and is called for by God. The interviewer discusses the importance of belief in the church's life and the extension of the Prophet's day. The speaker emphasizes the importance of belief in the church's life and encourages listeners to stay connected to Him until their last breath.

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			Bismillah walhamdulillah wa salatu wasalamu ala rasulillah wa
		
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			ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in, assalamu alaikum
		
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			warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.
		
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			The grandson of Sa'ad bin Abi Waqas
		
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			radiallahu ta'ala anhu.
		
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			Sa'ad bin Abi Waqas is one of
		
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			the illustrious companions of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			He was by the side of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ since the very early days of Islam
		
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			in Mecca.
		
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			And he fought by the side of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ through all the different battles.
		
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			He has the distinction of being known as
		
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			awwalu man ramaa bi sahmin fee sabeelillah.
		
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			He was the first one to launch an
		
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			arrow in the battle defending Islam.
		
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			And so there are many accolades to the
		
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			name of Sa'ad bin Abi Waqas.
		
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			His grandson says something really interesting and remarkable.
		
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			He says that my father, who was the
		
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			son of Sa'ad bin Abi Waqas, he
		
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			said that he used to teach us the
		
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			life and the seerah of the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			every day.
		
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			In the home, every day we would talk
		
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			about the life, the events, the lessons from
		
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			the life of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			It was something that was a part of
		
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			our lives.
		
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			It was akin to eating food.
		
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			Just like a family gets together and eats
		
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			food every single day, we would sit and
		
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			we would talk about the life of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ every single day.
		
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			And he says that he would teach us
		
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			and talk to us about the life of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ just like he would teach
		
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			us a seerah from the Qur'an.
		
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			And just think about when we have small
		
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			children, or maybe we experience it ourselves with
		
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			our parents, and how you recite the seerah
		
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			every day and you go over it verse
		
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			after verse and make sure you've memorized it.
		
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			That is how they would impart the life
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ to us.
		
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			And he used to say, هذا مآثر آبائكم
		
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			This is the legacy of the people that
		
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			came before you.
		
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			This is your heritage.
		
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			This is your heritage.
		
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			فلا تضيعها So don't lose it.
		
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			And so since that time, it has been
		
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			a part of our tradition, a part of
		
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			our way of life, a part of our
		
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			culture, that we preserve and we maintain this
		
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			connection to the life of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And so in the spirit of that, that's
		
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			done in many different ways.
		
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			We probably all have a seerah book sitting
		
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			at home somewhere on our shelves.
		
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			We regularly have different classes or lectures or,
		
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			you know, courses on the life of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			But another way to really practically preserve that
		
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			connection to the life of the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			is that throughout the calendar year, the lunar
		
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			calendar, the Islamic calendar, throughout the calendar year,
		
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			it's a very good practice.
		
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			And it's been a part of our tradition,
		
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			as I was stating before, throughout 1,400
		
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			years, that whenever the month of Rajab comes
		
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			around, we have a little bit of a
		
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			discussion where we get together, we sit, and
		
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			we reflect on the journey of al-Isra
		
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			wal-Mi'raj.
		
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			Similarly to how about halfway through the month
		
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			of Ramadan, on the 17th of Ramadan, we
		
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			sit and we reflect on the Battle of
		
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			Badr.
		
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			And in the month of Shawwal, we reflect
		
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			on the Battle of Uhud.
		
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			And so on and so forth.
		
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			And during the month of Rabi al-Awwal,
		
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			we'll talk about the birth and the passing
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			So in light of that, in spirit of
		
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			that, we want to preserve this, you know,
		
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			this connection to the life of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			So I thought that it would be fitting
		
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			for us to take out a little bit
		
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			of time here tonight, not make it too
		
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			long, not keep it too long, so that
		
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			everyone can get home, but still spend at
		
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			least a few moments remembering and reflecting and
		
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			taking lessons, connecting to our heritage.
		
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			The more important heritage.
		
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			Not where my grandfather was born or where
		
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			my great-grandfather was from.
		
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			All those things are good and important.
		
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			The more important heritage that we all have
		
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			is the life and the legacy of the
		
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			Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
		
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			So in the spirit of that, I wanted
		
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			to take out some time for us to
		
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			talk about and reflect on the journey of
		
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			al-israa wal-mi'raj.
		
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			We might have heard this word a lot,
		
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			al-israa wal-mi'raj.
		
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			What does it actually mean?
		
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			Al-israa, it means to travel a long
		
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			distance by night, at night time.
		
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			And that refers to the first part of
		
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			this miraculous night for the Prophet ﷺ, where
		
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			he traveled from Mecca to Jerusalem.
		
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			Allah ﷻ tells us about this in the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَى بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلًا That all glory
		
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			belongs to the one who took his servant
		
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			on this miraculous journey at night.
		
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			من المسجد الحرام from the sacred house of
		
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			Allah in Mecca إلى المسجد الأقصى to the
		
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			sacred house of worship, the sacred house of
		
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			Allah in Jerusalem, in Al-Quds, in Palestine.
		
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			المسجد الأقصى الذي باركنا حوله that is surrounded
		
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			by blessings, that is the blessed land, the
		
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			holy land.
		
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			لِنُرِيَهُ مِنْ آيَتِنَا And we wanted to show
		
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			him so many signs of our greatness on
		
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			that night so that then he could bring
		
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			it back to the rest of humanity.
		
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			And that's exactly what transpired on that night.
		
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			This night came at a time of great
		
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			tragedy and difficulty for the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Just a few months before this night, the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ had lost the man who raised
		
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			him, Abu Talib.
		
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			And then three weeks after that, the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ lost the love of his life, the
		
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			mother of his children, the very first believer,
		
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			our mother Khadija رضي الله تعالى عنها back
		
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			to back.
		
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			Lost the man who raised him and his
		
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			wife.
		
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			at that same time because of the absence
		
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			of Abu Talib defending the Prophet ﷺ, the
		
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			vicious animals in Mecca, they unleashed their fury
		
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			upon the Prophet ﷺ physically.
		
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			And they started assaulting him and attacking him.
		
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			And so he went to try to explore
		
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			greener pastures in Ta'if.
		
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			But when he went to Ta'if, the
		
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			people of Ta'if chased him out of
		
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			town, throwing rocks at him, stoning him for
		
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			three miles.
		
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			To the point where he bled so much
		
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			that his sandals became soaked in blood and
		
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			dried and became glued to his feet.
		
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			So he had gone through all of these
		
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			difficulties, all of these adversities, great personal tragedy.
		
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			When he even tried to come back home
		
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			to Mecca after this horrific experience in Ta
		
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			'if, when he tried to come back home
		
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			to Mecca, they didn't allow him to enter
		
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			into Mecca for three days.
		
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			Until one of the non-Muslim leaders of
		
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			Mecca vouched for the Prophet ﷺ and brought
		
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			him in on his guarantee.
		
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			It seemed like it was just tragedy after
		
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			tragedy after tragedy after tragedy.
		
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			And his heart was so heavy.
		
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			And Allah ﷻ provided the Prophet ﷺ the
		
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			healing, the comfort, the confidence, the faith, the
		
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			serenity, the tranquility that he needed by taking
		
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			him on this miraculous journey of al-Isra
		
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			wal-Mi'raj.
		
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			So what happened is the Prophet ﷺ tells
		
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			us that the angels came to him and
		
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			laid him down there in front of the
		
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			Ka'bah and they cleansed and washed his
		
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			heart.
		
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			And then he, Jibreel ﷺ asked him to
		
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			board to sit on the Buraq, this miraculous
		
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			creature that travels at the speed of light.
		
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			And then took him from Mecca to Jerusalem.
		
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			And he stopped and he prayed along the
		
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			way.
		
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			Jibreel ﷺ after every second, because they were
		
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			traveling so fast, after just a couple of
		
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			seconds, he would stop him and then he
		
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			would say please offer prayer here.
		
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			And so first they offered prayer at Medina.
		
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			And that was kind of a good news,
		
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			a foreshadowing that you will be given a
		
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			home in Medina.
		
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			And then he asked them to stop and
		
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			pray at the place where Allah spoke to
		
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			the Prophet Musa ﷺ.
		
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			Then he asked them to stop and pray
		
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			at the place where Isa ﷺ was miraculously
		
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			born.
		
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			And then finally they arrived there at Masjid
		
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			Al-Aqsa.
		
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			And when he arrives there he finds that
		
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			all the souls of all the prophets and
		
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			messengers throughout human history that have been sent
		
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			from Adam ﷺ to the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			There's a narration in the Musnad of Imam
		
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			Ahmad that says over 100,000 prophets were
		
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			sent.
		
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			Over.
		
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			It doesn't give a maximum number.
		
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			It says the minimum number is 100,000.
		
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			Over.
		
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			And the Quran says وَلِكُلِّ قَوْمٍ هَادُ وَلِكُلِّ
		
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			أُمَّةٍ رَسُولٍ Every group of people throughout human
		
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			history received a prophet and a messenger.
		
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			You can just imagine hundreds of thousands, if
		
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			not millions of prophets gathered.
		
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			All of their souls.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ think about how overwhelming
		
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			that moment is.
		
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			And the comfort was provided to the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			That you're struggling right now.
		
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			You're in pain right now.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ never felt alone but just
		
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			it's teaching us the lesson.
		
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			Any one of us in that kind of
		
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			a situation, the person who raised you, who
		
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			was your whole family as a child, his
		
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			father had died, his mother had died, his
		
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			grandfather had died, he didn't have any siblings.
		
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			That man, his uncle, was his whole family.
		
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			He was everything to him.
		
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			He was mother, father, grandfather, uncle.
		
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			He was everything.
		
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			Big brother.
		
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			He was everything.
		
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			That the man who was your entire family
		
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			growing up, he's gone.
		
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			He passed away.
		
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			And then his wife, the mother of his
		
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			children, his partner in life, the first person
		
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			to believe in him, to follow him, to
		
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			accept him.
		
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			She's passed away.
		
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			So think about, put yourself in the shoes
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ and how alone a
		
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			person would feel.
		
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			How lonely you would be.
		
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			And Allah ﷻ provided the comfort to the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ that moment that you're not alone.
		
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			إِنَّكَ لَمِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ You belong to a fraternity
		
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			and a brotherhood of hundreds of thousands of
		
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			Prophets and Messengers.
		
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			You're not alone.
		
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			You were never alone.
		
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			You will never be alone.
		
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			Everyone is with you.
		
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			And then to honor the Prophet ﷺ, the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ was instructed by the angel Jibreel
		
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			to lead all the souls of all the
		
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			Prophets throughout history to lead them all in
		
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			prayer at Masjid Al-Aqsa.
		
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			And after leading them in prayer, then Jibreel
		
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			ﷺ said to the Prophet ﷺ that now
		
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			Allah has called you for a tour of
		
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			the heavens.
		
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			You will leave this worldly realm and you
		
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			will enter into the otherworldly realm.
		
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			No human being before you has gone and
		
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			just visited the otherworldly realm and come back.
		
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			Isa ﷺ will.
		
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			Isa ﷺ was lifted up by Allah but
		
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			he will come back at the end of
		
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			time.
		
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			But before the Prophet ﷺ, no human being
		
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			had been given the privilege, the honor of
		
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			going to that otherworldly realm and then coming
		
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			back to tell all of human beings about
		
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			it, about his experience.
		
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			And so the Prophet ﷺ is called and
		
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			he leaves this worldly realm and there are
		
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			angels waiting at the gates, guarding the gates
		
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			of that heavenly realm.
		
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			And Jibreel ﷺ knocks on the door, knocks
		
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			on the gates of heaven.
		
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			They say, who's there?
		
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			He says, this is Jibreel.
		
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			But you're not alone.
		
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			He said, no, Muhammad ﷺ is there.
		
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			Look at this, the angels standing at the
		
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			gates.
		
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			They say, it's time?
		
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			This is the time?
		
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			That tells you that from the moment these
		
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			angels were created, only Allah knows how many
		
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			eons ago, from the moment that these angels
		
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			were created and posted at this gate, they
		
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			were told that a time will come when
		
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			the most beloved creation of Allah, Muhammadun Rasulullah
		
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			ﷺ will come and will tour the heavens.
		
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			And that will be the greatest day of
		
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			your angelic life.
		
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			That you will welcome and escort the greatest
		
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			of Allah's creation into the heavens.
		
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			The gates opened and the Prophet ﷺ comes
		
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			through.
		
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			And all the angels وَمَا يَعْلَمُوا جُنُودَ رَبِّكَ
		
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			إِلَّهُ We can't even count how many angels.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ said I can't even fathom
		
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			how I can't tell you how many angels
		
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			were there.
		
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			I've never seen so much creation in my
		
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			life.
		
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			They're all welcoming the Prophet.
		
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			مَرْحَبًا بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ مَرْحَبًا بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ مَرْحَبًا بِالنَّبِيِّ
		
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			الصَّالِحِ The righteous Prophet has come.
		
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			And then same way he receives this grand
		
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			welcome at each of the stages of the
		
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			heavens.
		
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			And he is greeted at each of the
		
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			stages of the heavens by one of his
		
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			Prophets, by one of his brothers, the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			At the first stage is Adam ﷺ.
		
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			At the second stage it's Isa and Yahya
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			At the third stage it's Yusuf ﷺ.
		
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			At the fourth stage it's the Prophet Idrees
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			At the fifth stage it's Harun ﷺ.
		
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			At the sixth stage it is Musa ﷺ.
		
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			And at the seventh stage of the heavens,
		
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			the final stage, it is the Prophet Ibrahim
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			And he takes the Prophet ﷺ and he
		
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			goes and he sits with him in the,
		
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			you know, nearby al-Bayt al-Ma'mur, which
		
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			is the Ka'bah of the heavens.
		
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			And this Ka'bah of the heavens, angels
		
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			are appointed there to perform tawaf and get
		
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			this, once an angel has been given the
		
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			opportunity to perform tawaf there, they never get
		
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			an opportunity to perform tawaf again for the
		
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			rest of time.
		
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			70,000, that's the number in the narration,
		
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			excuse me, 70,000 angels every day worship
		
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			at al-Bayt al-Ma'mur, the Ka'bah
		
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			of the heavens.
		
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			And an angel for the entirety of time
		
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			only gets one opportunity to worship there.
		
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			There's no math.
		
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			There's no AI model that can do that
		
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			for you.
		
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			There's no math.
		
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			وَمَا يَعْلَمُ جُنُودَ رَبِّكَ إِلَّهُ That is the
		
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			greatness of Allah.
		
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			And Ibrahim ﷺ, he shows the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			that there's this area where there are all
		
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			these countless children, babies.
		
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			And they're sitting and they're playing and they're
		
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			crawling and they're looked after by these nurses,
		
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			these nannies.
		
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			He says to the Prophet Ibrahim ﷺ, what
		
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			is this, ya Khalilullah?
		
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			And he said, all the babies, all the
		
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			children of the believers that pass away in
		
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			infancy and childhood, they are brought here to
		
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			heaven.
		
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			And they are under my watch and supervision.
		
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			And they stay here.
		
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			And Allah ﷻ has created these special nannies
		
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			of the heavens who look after them and
		
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			take care of them.
		
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			And that was giving comfort to the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ because by this time the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			had lost two young boys.
		
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			One was a little bit older and one
		
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			was very young.
		
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			And eventually in Medina then he would lose
		
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			a third son as well, as a baby,
		
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			as an infant.
		
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			And then the Prophet Jibreel ﷺ says to
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ, we need to proceed.
		
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			And then they go to this reaches point,
		
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			Sidratul Muntaha, there's this great tree there.
		
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			And Jibreel ﷺ stops and the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			is told to walk forward and he asked
		
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			Jibreel, you're not going to come forward?
		
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			And he said, this is where I stop
		
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			but this is where you continue.
		
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			You will go where no creation has ever
		
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			gone before.
		
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			And then the Prophet ﷺ said that the
		
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			tree wrapped, he went into sajdah, the tree
		
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			wrapped around him and then he was in
		
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			the presence of Allah.
		
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			And Allah spoke to him.
		
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			And he had a conversation with Allah.
		
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			ثُمَّدَنَا فَتَدَلَّا فَكَانَ قَعْبَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْأَدَنَا Nearness to
		
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			Allah that we can't even imagine our father.
		
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			And then Allah gave gifts to the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ but in actuality they were gifts to
		
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			us.
		
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			One of the gifts that Allah gave to
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ to deliver to us was
		
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			he said that here's a gift for your
		
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			Ummah.
		
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			Whoever from your Ummah will make the intention
		
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			to do a good deed, the angels will
		
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			write a good deed for him and every
		
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			good deed is multiplied by 10, minimum 10.
		
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			Then if they follow through and they do
		
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			the good deed, another good deed is written
		
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			for them.
		
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			And again, every good deed is multiplied by
		
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			a minimum of 10.
		
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			If they don't end up following through with
		
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			the intention to do the good deed, I
		
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			tell the angels leave the 10 good deeds
		
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			that you wrote for them.
		
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			And if the person makes the intention to
		
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			commit a sin, I tell the angels don't
		
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			write the sin yet, not until he does
		
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			it.
		
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			And then if he commits the sin, I
		
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			tell the angels to write only one sin
		
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			and do not multiply it.
		
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			And then if he repents after committing the
		
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			sin, I tell the angels erase it.
		
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			But if he makes the intention to commit
		
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			a sin and then does not follow through
		
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			with committing the sin, I tell the angels
		
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			to write a good deed because resisting the
		
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			temptation is a good deed.
		
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			And every good deed is multiplied by a
		
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			minimum of 10 times.
		
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			This is a gift for your Ummah.
		
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			And then Allah ﷻ bestowed many gifts.
		
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			Another one of the gifts was that Allah
		
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			ﷻ gave 50 prayers in a day.
		
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			That just as you have come here to
		
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			talk to me, your Ummah will have the
		
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			ability to talk to me throughout the day
		
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			by offering this Salah, this prayer.
		
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			50 prayers in a day.
		
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			Then as they are returning back, Musa ﷺ
		
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			asks the Prophet ﷺ, what did Allah ﷻ
		
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			give you to take home to your Ummah,
		
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			to your followers?
		
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			And he said, gave 50 prayers in a
		
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			day.
		
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			He said that's too much.
		
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			You need to ask for some ease for
		
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			your Ummah.
		
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			They won't be able to do 50 prayers.
		
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			So then the Prophet ﷺ goes back and
		
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			asks Allah ﷻ, please make it lighter for
		
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			my Ummah.
		
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			So Allah ﷻ decreases five prayers.
		
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			Then he comes back.
		
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			Musa ﷺ says, what happened now?
		
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			Now it's five less, 45.
		
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			He says, you need to ask for more
		
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			ease.
		
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			He goes back again, requests again.
		
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			Now it's decreased to 40.
		
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			Then he goes back and Musa ﷺ says
		
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			that's still too much.
		
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			And then he goes back and requests for
		
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			more ease and now 35.
		
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			Then he tells Musa ﷺ, he says that's
		
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			too much.
		
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			He goes back and he requests again.
		
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			He says, okay, 30.
		
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			Then he comes and Musa ﷺ says that's
		
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			too much.
		
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			So he goes back and requests more ease
		
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			and it becomes 25.
		
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			Then he comes and Musa ﷺ says that's
		
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			still too much.
		
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			So he goes back and requests more ease
		
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			and Allah ﷻ makes it 20.
		
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			Then he goes and again Musa ﷺ says
		
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			that's way too much.
		
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			He goes back and request again.
		
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			It becomes 15.
		
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			Then Musa ﷺ says that's still too much.
		
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			So he goes back, requests again.
		
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			It becomes 10.
		
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			Then he's returning and Musa ﷺ says that's
		
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			still too much.
		
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			So he goes back and requests again, it
		
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			becomes 5.
		
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			And then he comes back and Musa ﷺ
		
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			says that's still too much.
		
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			My Ummah had to do two and they
		
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			couldn't keep up with it.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ says, no, I'm not
		
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			going back again.
		
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			An announcement is made in the heavens.
		
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			It is five prayers in a day.
		
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			But whoever will offer these five, I will
		
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			give them the reward of 50.
		
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			And I mentioned this entire process back and
		
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			forth and back and forth and back and
		
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			forth.
		
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			Instead of just saying, he kept on going
		
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			back and forth until it became five, I
		
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			mention it because I got tired of talking
		
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			about it.
		
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			You got tired of hearing it.
		
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			We get the math.
		
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			It kept on decreasing until it got to
		
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			five.
		
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			But imagine the Prophet ﷺ going back over
		
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			and over and over and over and over
		
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			and over and over again, even though he
		
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			was totally fine with 50.
		
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			And he could have totally done 50.
		
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			But he did it for you and me,
		
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			for us, for our sake, on our behalf,
		
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			because that's how much he cared about us.
		
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			And so then he brings these five prayers
		
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			back.
		
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			While the Prophet ﷺ, before the journey ended,
		
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			Allah ﷻ gave him a tour and a
		
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			glimpse of paradise and * and many, many
		
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			different things he saw.
		
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			For instance, one thing he saw, I'll just
		
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			share one, one thing.
		
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			One thing he saw in paradise was that
		
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			there are these people and they take a
		
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			seed and they put it into the ground.
		
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			And as soon as they put it into
		
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			the ground, immediately it sprouts and it starts
		
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			growing and it becomes a whole tree and
		
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			the branches come out of it and the
		
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			fruits come out of the branches and the
		
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			fruits are ripe and ready.
		
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			And I described it over like five seconds,
		
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			but the Prophet ﷺ said they put the
		
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			seed and immediately it occurs in a second.
		
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			They take the fruit and they take a
		
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			bite.
		
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			And then they go and they put another
		
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			seed and immediately same thing occurs.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ said, ما هذا يا جبريل,
		
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			what's this?
		
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			And he said, this is the reward of
		
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			the people who used to pray their salah
		
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			regularly.
		
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			That this is how Allah will multiply their
		
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			rewards.
		
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			Every good deed they did in the world,
		
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			every salah they prayed becomes multiple rewards.
		
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			This is symbolic of the reward of the
		
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			people who took care of their prayers every
		
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			day.
		
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			And I'll share one of the glimpses of
		
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			the punishment in *.
		
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			May Allah protect us all.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ saw, it's very scary, but
		
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			it's supposed to be.
		
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			Saw that these people in *, they're grabbed
		
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			by these very tough, strong, powerful angels.
		
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			They're grabbed and then they're pinned down.
		
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			And the angel reaches inside their mouth and
		
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			pulls out their tongue.
		
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			And then they bring these big, like imagine
		
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			like gardening shears that are being like heated
		
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			in the fire.
		
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			They're red and severed their tongue.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ felt the pain.
		
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			He was very soft hearted.
		
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			He was very empathetic.
		
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			ما هذا يا جبريل.
		
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			Why, why, O Jibreel, why?
		
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			Jibreel ﷺ tells the Prophet ﷺ, these are
		
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			the people who used to backbite other people.
		
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			When they talk about other people, pick at
		
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			people's flaws and faults and shortcomings and tragedies
		
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			and difficulties, backbiting.
		
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			Talking about people behind their back.
		
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			These are the people that indulge in that.
		
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			This is their punishment.
		
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			May Allah forgive us and may Allah protect
		
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			us.
		
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			But it's a powerful reminder of the consequences.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ then comes back.
		
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			On his way back, strategically, Jibreel ﷺ slows
		
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			down at a couple of places.
		
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			Right outside, a little bit a ways from
		
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			Mecca, he slows down and the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			sees that this trade caravan from Mecca is
		
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			on its way back.
		
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			But they're stopped, they're stalled at about a
		
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			day's journey, half a day's journey from Mecca
		
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			because they're searching.
		
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			They lost one of their camels.
		
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			The camel was loaded with a lot of
		
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			the goods that they were bringing back and
		
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			they lost the camel.
		
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			So they're looking for it.
		
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			And then the Prophet ﷺ, because he's flying
		
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			over, he can see that on the other
		
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			side of the valley, he sees the camel
		
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			just kind of wandering about over there.
		
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			And then the Prophet ﷺ returns back at
		
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			night.
		
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			All of this transpired in one night.
		
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			And when he returns back, he rushes to
		
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			the Haram because he wants to share this
		
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			remarkable experience.
		
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			This is the most remarkable experience that any
		
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			human being has ever had.
		
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			And he runs into Abu Jahl.
		
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			He's the worst disbeliever.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ called him the pharaoh, the
		
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			pharaoh of my ummah.
		
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			And Abu Jahl says, why are you so
		
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			excited so early in the morning?
		
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			He says, I had this unbelievable experience.
		
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			And he says, really?
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ starts to tell him.
		
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			And he says, wait, wait, wait, everybody needs
		
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			to hear this.
		
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			He's, of course, doing that to try to
		
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			create a spectacle, gather the mob.
		
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			So he starts gathering people.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ goes inside the Haram and
		
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			Abu Jahl is out there gathering people.
		
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			Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him,
		
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			sees Abu Jahl gathering people and he goes,
		
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			this guy's never up to any good.
		
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			And he goes to him, he says, what
		
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			are you doing?
		
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			He says, you hear what your buddy's saying?
		
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			Then Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with
		
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			him, says, I don't trust you.
		
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			I don't believe a word that comes out
		
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			of your mouth.
		
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			But I accept and believe everything and anything
		
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			that Muhammad Rasulullah ﷺ said.
		
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			And then Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased
		
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			with him, goes inside to get the back
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			When the Prophet ﷺ starts telling them the
		
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			story of everything that transpired, then they start
		
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			to believe it.
		
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			And then you start to say, well, what's
		
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			your proof?
		
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			Anybody can tell a fancy story, what's your
		
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			proof?
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ says, you guys are
		
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			waiting for that caravan to come back, right?
		
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			They say, yeah, but everybody knows.
		
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			The caravan went, of course it's gotta come
		
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			back.
		
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			He says, they've been delayed.
		
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			Okay, they were delayed because they lost a
		
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			camel carrying a lot of the goods.
		
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			You'll find out when they get back.
		
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			They should be back by the end of
		
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			the day.
		
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			Okay, we'll see, pending, right?
		
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			And then one of them says, hey, you
		
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			know what?
		
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			Some of us have been to Jerusalem as
		
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			well because they used to go on their
		
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			trade caravans.
		
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			We've seen it, describe it to us.
		
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			We'll know whether you've been there or not.
		
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			Now, obviously the Prophet ﷺ went there at
		
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			night.
		
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			He was there for a few moments and
		
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			he was a little preoccupied with the fact
		
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			that he was leading all the souls of
		
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			Prophets in prayer.
		
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			He wasn't there taking pictures, right?
		
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			Posting it on his story.
		
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			He didn't have time for that.
		
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			He wasn't there studying like, you know, the
		
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			doors here and the windows there.
		
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			But now they put him on the spot.
		
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			Allah sends the Prophet Jibreel ﷺ.
		
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			The Prophet Jibreel ﷺ comes in front of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And the narration says he opens up one
		
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			of his wings and onto his wing is
		
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			the whole Al-Aqsa projected.
		
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			And then Jibreel ﷺ starts pointing at specific
		
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			things and it zooms in on it.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ, some of the narration
		
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			say it looked like he was looking at
		
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			something.
		
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			And he said, well, there's a door over
		
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			here and the door is kind of broken.
		
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			There's a window there that's cracked.
		
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			There's this many pillars and the pillars are
		
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			these colors and this.
		
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			And he starts describing it in so much
		
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			detail that they're blown away.
		
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			They're flabbergasted.
		
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			Astonished, what is this?
		
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			And as the Prophet ﷺ is giving every
		
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			little detail of Al-Aqsa, Abu Bakr ﷺ
		
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			who sits right in front of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ and he starts saying, Sadaqt, Sadaqt, Sadaqt.
		
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			You speak the truth, you speak the truth,
		
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			you speak the truth, you speak the truth.
		
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			Just there, just, you know, rallying behind the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And it means so much to the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ how loyal Abu Bakr is.
		
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			That the Prophet ﷺ stops and he points
		
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			at Abu Bakr and he says, Anta Siddiq.
		
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			You are the most loyal believer.
		
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			That's how he got his title, Al-Siddiq.
		
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			And to kind of fast forward, as this
		
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			is mentioned in the narration of Sahih Muslim,
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ said that the caravan should
		
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			arrive by the evening.
		
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			It took them a little longer than expected
		
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			to find the camel.
		
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			So they got delayed.
		
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			Now, the thing is, they didn't travel at
		
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			night.
		
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			So they started making it back to Mecca,
		
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			but the daytime was running out.
		
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			And if nighttime would have come, they would
		
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			have had to camp out outside of Mecca.
		
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			Especially Mecca, the terrain is very rough.
		
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			Even when you go today outside of Mecca,
		
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			it's rough.
		
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			Awali Mecca, it's rough.
		
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			So you can't travel at night.
		
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			You'll fall, you'll get hurt.
		
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			But nighttime is coming.
		
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			But the Prophet ﷺ said they'll arrive this
		
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			evening.
		
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			So the hadith of Sahih Muslim mentions that
		
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			Allah ﷻ extended that day.
		
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			You know how like in wintertime?
		
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			By like 5, 36 o'clock, it's dark
		
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			outside.
		
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			But in the summertime.
		
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			Right.
		
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			It doesn't get dark till 9 p.m.
		
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			Allah ﷻ extended that day so much so
		
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			that the people in Mecca started freaking out
		
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			like, is it just me or will this
		
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			day not end?
		
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			Because they used to work until sunset.
		
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			So they're working and then they're working and
		
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			then they're working and they're like, what is
		
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			going on?
		
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			Why won't this day end?
		
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			This is the longest work day of all
		
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			time.
		
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			Right.
		
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			And subhanAllah, Allah ﷻ extended that day.
		
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			So that the caravan could arrive.
		
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			And as soon as the caravan arrived, a
		
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			bunch of the leaders of Mecca ran out
		
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			and were like, hey.
		
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			Did you guys lose a camel?
		
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			They say, yeah, we did.
		
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			How do you know?
		
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			And they said, where did you find the
		
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			camel?
		
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			And they said, we found it on the
		
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			other side of the valley.
		
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			They said, oh, no.
		
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			So you cannot tell anybody.
		
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			This this day is here.
		
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			And that was the truth of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			But of course, many of them didn't still
		
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			believe.
		
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			Because belief at the end of the day
		
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			isn't based off of, can you prove this
		
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			to me?
		
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			Can you prove that to me?
		
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			Belief, iman, is sincere.
		
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			It comes from the heart.
		
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			It is a yearning to live one's life
		
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			with purpose and truth.
		
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			That's where iman comes from.
		
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			And then that day, Jibreel ﷺ came to
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ and led the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			in prayer over the next two days, showing
		
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			him the timings of the five times daily
		
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			prayer.
		
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			And that's.
		
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			The great legacy of this night of al
		
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			-Isaw al-Mi'raj.
		
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			That it's a reminder of the fact.
		
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			Number one, we talked about we're never alone.
		
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			We always have Allah with us.
		
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			When we're isolated.
		
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			We have Allah with us.
		
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			And when we're in the middle of a
		
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			room full of people, we still have Allah
		
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			with us.
		
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			That's the thing.
		
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			Even when you're surrounded by people and there's
		
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			a lot of noise and you're talking and
		
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			you're laughing and it's great and fantastic.
		
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			How do I still not forget Allah?
		
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			That's salah.
		
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			That's our connection.
		
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			That when Salat al-Maghrib comes in, whether
		
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			I'm sitting by myself or I'm sitting in
		
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			a room full of friends.
		
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			Hayya ala al-salah, hayya ala al-falah.
		
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			I will go and I will talk to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			That's the great lesson and the legacy of
		
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			this remarkable night.
		
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			And so I encourage everyone to make time
		
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			to learn more about the life of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ in general, but particularly about al
		
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			-Isaw al-Mi'raj.
		
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			There's so much detail on al-Isaw al
		
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			-Mi'raj.
		
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			This is not, what I've presented here tonight
		
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			is not even a summary.
		
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			It's just a glance.
		
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			The most extensive work on the life of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ was authored by the great
		
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			scholar, al-Salihi from Ash-Sham in 13
		
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			volumes called Subul al-Huda wal-Rashad.
		
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			And in that work, his section on the
		
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			Mi'raj, al-Israw al-Mi'raj, this
		
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			night journey of the Prophet ﷺ is 200
		
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			pages.
		
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			And even someone like myself who doesn't know
		
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			much and doesn't understand all of it, in
		
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			the detailed seerah classes that I had taught,
		
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			which became the podcast, the seerah podcast, we
		
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			covered al-Israw al-Mi'raj over seven
		
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			sessions.
		
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			That's over seven hours, almost eight hours.
		
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			And that, I felt, was scratching the surface.
		
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			That was a summary.
		
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			That was a summary.
		
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			So there's so much for us to learn.
		
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			So I encourage everyone, go listen to the
		
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			sessions on the podcast, pick up a book,
		
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			a work of the seerah, the sealed nectar,
		
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			Prophet of Mercy, Nabi al-Rahma, Rahiq al
		
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			-Makhtum, whatever it may be.
		
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			We have a class every semester here at
		
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			the academy, on the seerah of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ, at Qalam Academy.
		
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			I encourage everyone that continue to learn about
		
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			the seerah in general, but particularly about al
		
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			-Israw al-Mi'raj.
		
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			The big takeaway is take advantage of this
		
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			opportunity.
		
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			As-salatu mi'raj al-mu'min.
		
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			This salah, and it doesn't have to be
		
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			the five times daily prayer.
		
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			I could just, I get a phone call,
		
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			something that stresses me out, it's something that
		
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			upsets me, it's something that is pleasing to
		
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			me, whatever it may be.
		
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			I get a message, I get a call.
		
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			I don't even need it to be one
		
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			of the five times obligatory prayers.
		
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			I could go right now, make wudu, face
		
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			the qiblah, stand up, pray two rak'ahs,
		
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			and talk to Allah.
		
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			That channel is always open.
		
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			Just as the Prophet ﷺ had that experience
		
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			of al-mi'raj, salah is our mi
		
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			'raj.
		
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			So take advantage of that opportunity.
		
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			May Allah ﷻ grant us the tawfiq and
		
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			the ability to learn the life of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, to follow in the footsteps of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ, to live our lives in
		
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			accordance with the practice, the tradition, the sunnah
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And may Allah ﷻ give us a powerful
		
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			connection to Allah in our salah.
		
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			May Allah ﷻ make us steadfast and consistent
		
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			upon our salah.
		
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			And may Allah ﷻ allow us to remain
		
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			connected to Him until our very last breath
		
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			in this world, and grant us His forgiveness
		
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			and His mercy in the afterlife.
		
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			Ameen.