Abdul Rahman Chao – 2024-06-29

Abdul Rahman Chao
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The cycle of the Islamic calendar is discussed, including the Battle of Al Qadisiy volume and the Iranian Empire's use of pillows and dresses. The importance of being a servant of Allah is emphasized, as it is not just a recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized recognized
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In the 15th year of the Hijra of

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the Islamic calendar,

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during the Caliphate of Umar ibn Al Khattab

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radiAllahu an.

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Just

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a few years ago,

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the Muslims were on the back pedal still

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trying to defend themselves from the Meccans.

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And it's only been 5 years that the

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prophet as salam had just passed away.

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And the Muslims were already knocking on the

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doorsteps of

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the Byzantine Empire

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and the Persians.

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So in the Maraka of Al Qadisiyyah,

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the Battle of Al Qadisiyyah,

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Amr Al Khattab had sent

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1 of the,

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1 of the individuals who was promised Jannah

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Saad ibn Abu Aqas,

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who was promised paradise.

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He was a leader of the army.

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And when they had reached the Persian Empire

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on the outskirts,

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the Persian Empire,

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the the Sassanias, the Sassanid Persians,

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they had amassed an army of 80, 000.

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And in some narrations,

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over a 100000 troops.

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And the commander of that army

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was none other than

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the Sabad,

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the leader

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known as Rustum

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Farghzad.

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And he was of,

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he was of nobility and he was the

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army commander.

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And so he

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had situated himself

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in the back of the

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army center right.

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He had a big tent.

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He had a high platform.

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He was wearing his crown.

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And he had pillows and

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gold clothing. And he was pretty much decked

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out in everything.

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And he had this big carpet lining the

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way from where he was sitting inside his

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tent to the entrance of the tent. I

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want you to imagine the scene.

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And there were royal guards

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flanking the side of this red carpet.

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So he sent a message to Sa'd ibn

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Rabi Waqqas. He says, send me someone who

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has intellect. So I can

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parley with, so I can have a conversation

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with.

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So Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas sends

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none other than

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Ribiri ibn Amir radiAllahu ta'ala An. A companion

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of the prophet who

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was very poor.

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He didn't care about wearing fancy clothes. He

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wore clothes that were

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very modest.

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In fact, in the eyes of the Persians,

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they thought he was

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terribly dressed.

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He rode a very short horse.

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It was a hairy horse.

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And when he came in,

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he didn't dismount.

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He actually came into the tent with his

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horse.

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And he the horse was trotting over

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this fancy carpet that they had laid out.

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And so they tried to stop him.

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So finally, he gets down

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and he ties

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his horse to 1 of the cushions on

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the ground.

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And you know, when the horse came in,

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I was walking around. It actually messed up

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some of the pillows.

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He gets off the horse, the guard say,

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give us your weapons.

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He says, no you called me here. I

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didn't come here because I wanted to. You

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requested

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me to come here. So I'm going to

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come in the way how I come.

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Look at the dignity Masha'Allah.

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Look at

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the honor that he has, the shut off

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that he has for himself.

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So now he gets up the horse and

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he's using his spear and he's getting closer

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and closer to Rustum.

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And the spearhead

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is actually on the bottom instead of on

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the top. So as he's walking,

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he's inevitably poking holes through all these pillows.

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These fancy gold pillows and he doesn't care.

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So Rustam said, why are you here?

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So Rubaiy ibn Aamer he says.

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Verily Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has sent us

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So that we can bring people the servants

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of Allah

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from the worship of the creation

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to the worship of Allah.

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We were sent to bring people out from

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the worship of the creation to the worship

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of Allah.

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From the constriction,

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and the tightness, and the oppression

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of the world

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to the vastness of Islam.

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And from the oppression of other religions

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to the justice of Islam.

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So Rus'an said

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okay give us some time. We will go

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back and write to our leaders and we

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will think about it.

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Prophet Muhammad says how many how how much

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time do you need?

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1 day? 2 days to think about it?

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He says no no no no we need

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more time. He says no. We're gonna give

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you 3 days. The prophet never gave his

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enemies except only 3 days for them to

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think about.

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So he said okay.

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After a while,

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Rivaib Al Amr leaves and Nur Rustam says

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to his advisors. What do you think about

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what he says? Have you seen someone so

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eloquent,

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so clear in his intellect and the way

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how he explained himself?

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They started shaming him. They said, you

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would abandon

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your religion for this dog?

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You would abandon everything for this dog here?

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You're gonna leave your religion for this?

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No.

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Look, they said, Look at the way how

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he dresses. Look how ugly and simple how

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he dresses. Ruston said, No. Don't look at

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his clothes.

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Lacan,

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look at his speech. Look at his character.

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Look at the intellect of what Look at

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what the stuff that he's talking about. Look

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at the context of what he's saying. You

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have never seen a person talk like this.

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Brothers and sisters, you look at this story.

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You cannot help but see that

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this dialogue between Ribi'i ibn Amer and Rustum

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is nothing less than

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the perfect example of what it means for

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this companion to demonstrate

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the essence of having a strong Muslim identity.

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And when I When we talk about the

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issue of identity,

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I'm not talking about the social norms on

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the outside Whereas when someone says, oh, how

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are you and what do you do?

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That you say, well I'm a computer engineer

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or I'm a lawyer or I'm a doctor.

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There's nothing wrong with that. But what I'm

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talking about is

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what do you view yourself inside your heart?

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At night, when you are sitting there by

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yourself,

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how do you view yourself? What is your

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identity?

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But then sisters, the fundamental

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identity

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that should that should govern our entire way

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of life is that you know

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that you are a servant of Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala. That you are a slave of

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Allah before anything else. Before you're an Arab.

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Before you are from Pakistan or India.

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Before you are from this country or that

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country. Before your passport to nationality.

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Before your job.

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Before what college you graduated from. Your first

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identity is I am a servant of Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And a Muslim,

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Abdulillah.

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I am a Muslim and I'm a servant

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of Allah.

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That should be your first thing that comes

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to your mind. Allah tells us in the

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Quran,

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I have not created the humans and the

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jinn except that they worship.

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And because we live in the west where

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this word being a slave of Allah. The

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word slave is has a has a historical

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context to it. We are afraid of identifying

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as I'm a slave of Allah. Servant of

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Allah. I'm not talking about you go out

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into the street and say, who are you?

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I'm a slave of Allah. I'm talking about

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how you view yourself.

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But this title of

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you are a servant of Allah, a slave

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of Allah. This is a title of honor

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that Allah has given us.

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Allah calls his prophets and messengers

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servants and slaves.

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Glory be to the 1 who,

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in which his servant traveled through the night

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and went up to talk to Muhammad alaihi

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wa sallam. How did he describe him? As

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his slave.

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Allah describes

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Dawud alaihis salatu wa sallam. What did he

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describe me as? He described him as a

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servant of Allah. As a slave of Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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And so brothers and sisters,

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when we say we are a servant of

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Allah.

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It's not

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this philosophical idea that's too hard to understand.

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It's simply a mindset.

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That everything that you do is governed by

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what does the Quran tell me to do?

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What does the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

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teach me to do?

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So when you go to China for example.

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When you tell people in China,

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I am a Muslim.

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They most people don't know what that means.

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But you have to tell them oh I'm

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a hui

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which is the Chinese word for Muslim.

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Ahui Muslim. Then they're like, ah. The people

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who don't eat pork.

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And if you think about that, is that

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what Islam teaches us? That our identity is

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based on what we eat and what we

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don't eat?

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No. And if you look in the West,

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at best when you say, oh I'm a

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Muslim.

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What do the people outside think?

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Ah, the women wear hijab and you fast

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during Ramadan. That's the nice version. And then,

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you have the nasty version what goes on

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right now. Right? The violent people. The so

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and so. The people who oppress others. Right?

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They tell our story for us.

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But brothers and sisters,

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when you are

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a Muslim.

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What it means

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is that

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there is no Muslim mode on when you're

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in the Masjid. Muslim mode off at work.

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Muslim mode on when you're around other Muslims.

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Muslim mode off when you're out clubbing.

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No,

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you should be Muslim mode on

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all the time.

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Alhamdulillah wa sallam al Rasoolah wa sallam alaalahu

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sahibhi ijmaain Nabad. Don't

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get me wrong brothers and sisters.

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We are not saying

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that the Muslim identity

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is only limited to this.

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We are saying that this is the bedrock

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of your identity.

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So while the people on the outside think

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that the identity of a Muslim woman is

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the hijab.

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We say to them, if the hijab is

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worn

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but there is no concept of why I'm

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wearing it for the sake of Allah

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then we have a problem.

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When we have a person who is practicing

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certain rituals of Islam that identifies them as

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Muslim,

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But they're not really understanding that why do

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I do this? Why do I pray 5

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times a day? Why do I get up

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for fajr? Why do I fast Ramadan?

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Then when something bad happens to them, they

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end up quitting all of these things about,

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what they used to practice in Islam. Why?

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Because that concept of I am a servant

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of Allah, and I obey his commandments. And

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I stay away from all the things that

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he has committed, commanded me to stay away

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from.

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Out the door because they have a crisis

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of faith.

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A companion by the name of Salman al

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Farisi.

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He was once I was once having conversation

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with

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some of the pagan,

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Meccans. And they said

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your companion even

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teaches you how to use the bathroom?

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And he said, yes. Muhammad taught us

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even how to use the bathroom.

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And there's no shame in that. We are

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living in a time, brothers and sisters, that

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when you talk about that your identity

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is Yani, as a Muslim or you are

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religious to some religion.

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The atheists and the liberals, they always are

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projecting

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onto religious people.

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Ah, they think they're better than everyone else.

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Ah, these are the nut cases. These are

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the religious people who are enlightened.

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So which leads us brothers and sisters

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to why is it important

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that you understand that the fundamental identity

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of your existence is to worship Allah?

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It's like what the Rebbe ibn Aamer says.

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That you are liberated from the constriction of

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this dunya

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to the freedom and vastness of the dunya

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and the Akhra.

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So when they say to you, but you

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are of this nationality. Why are you Muslim?

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I'm not bound by these

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rules. But you're an American. Why are you

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wearing hijab? I'm not bound by these rules.

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So you're not going to submit to the

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constriction

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and the beliefs that other people impose onto

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you.

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That's what it means to be free.

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And so the non Muslims, they will always

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be trying

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to misguide us and lead us into other

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temptations.

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Because they know, when you, as a Muslim,

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know your worth and value is that you

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are not going to bow down to someone

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else, and what they say who you are,

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you can't be controlled.

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So when you look at the people of

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Gaza right now,

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They are demonstrating for us what it means

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that they know that there's no 1, but

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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So when people are saying, when el Arab?

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When Hakam el Arab? Where are the Muslim

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rulers? No.

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We do not depend on them. When you're

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a Muslim, you know that your job and

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your boss they are the means to your

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risk and your sustenance.

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So, when you lose your job

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and your identity is not Oh, my entire

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identity is because I'm an engineer. Because when

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you get laid off. We as a Muslim

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we know Allah is in charge. Allah is

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going to provide. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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will continue to give not the company.

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That's the benefit of having that strong belief

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of knowing that you are the servant of

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the law. So that when other people say

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to you, you need to conform.

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You need to assimilate.

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You know that the only thing you need

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to assimilate to is to assimilate to what

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the Quran says. To assimilate to what the

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Hadith of the prophet says.

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And therefore brothers and sisters,

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when you think about this conversation between Rustam

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and Rebbe ibn Amer.

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Think about the verse in the Quran where

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes the religion as

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a dye. As a color dye. Allah says

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in Quran, Subghatullah.

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What does Subghatullah mean? Sabratullah is originally from

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the word, a dye that used to color

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your clothes.

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But why does Allah describe his religion in

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Islam as a dye?

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Because when you take clothes and you dye

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it,

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you put it into indigo or whatever color

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it is. You expect the color to stay.

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Because when you wash the clothes and it

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bleeds out constantly, and it ruins other clothes.

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You're like, well I don't like the quality

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of this.

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So Islam is a religion

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where the effects of your deen are shown

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on this.

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It doesn't just simply fade away. It's a

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process where the more you practice the stronger

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that die. That religion of Islam

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is a part of who you are.

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