Abdullah Hakim Quick – Dawah A Prophetic Legacy- Necessity and Approaches

Abdullah Hakim Quick
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The speakers discuss the importance of spreadling the message of da tet to everyone, particularly those with control over their environment. They stress the need to apply the message to individuals, rather than just their national nationality, and emphasize the importance of understanding the message and applying it to oneself. The speakers also discuss the community's struggles with crime and involvement in local organizations, as well as the dower booth and community interactions with local people. They announce a summer series of special programs and express their intention to continue with the dower booth and community interactions.

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			All praise are due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds,
		
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			and peace and blessings
		
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			be constantly showered
		
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			upon our beloved prophet Muhammad,
		
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			his family, his companions, and all those who
		
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			call to his way
		
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			and establish his sunnah
		
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			to the day of judgement.
		
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			As to what follows,
		
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			This is the 3rd part of our summer
		
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			series,
		
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			of
		
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			interactions
		
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			with the community
		
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			to keep things going, and we're now at
		
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			the end of the summer.
		
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			And,
		
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			this is a special program
		
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			because it's connected
		
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			not only to the main
		
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			body here,
		
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			but tomorrow
		
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			as well, tomorrow evening
		
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			at the new Muslim corner.
		
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			There will also be a feedback.
		
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			This is like a report back,
		
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			that will be happening. So it's today and
		
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			tomorrow as well in case somebody misses
		
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			the slide presentation.
		
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			And,
		
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			we are looking at the the topic of,
		
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			Adawa,
		
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			the call to Allah,
		
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			that this is a prophetic
		
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			legacy.
		
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			And this is one of the forgotten,
		
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			aspects
		
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			of Islam.
		
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			But it is so important
		
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			that you will see that it is the
		
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			essence of the message of all of the
		
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			prophets.
		
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			And so we want to look at Dawah
		
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			itself,
		
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			especially for those,
		
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			young people, those activists
		
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			who are online,
		
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			those here,
		
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			and for the future, to understand something about
		
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			Dawah,
		
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			and then,
		
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			to look at a practical application of the
		
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			principles
		
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			that we are talking about.
		
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			So when we look at the issue of
		
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			dawah,
		
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			it comes from the Arabic,
		
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			which means to call,
		
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			or to invite.
		
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			This is a general
		
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			concept.
		
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			But we are talking about a
		
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			and one of the
		
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			scholarly definitions
		
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			for dawah
		
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			is to encourage humanity
		
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			to righteousness
		
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			and divine guidance.
		
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			In joining righteousness, forbidding evil,
		
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			in order that they would attain
		
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			success
		
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			in this life and the hereafter.
		
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			So the essence of dua
		
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			is not just a word,
		
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			but it is
		
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			an action.
		
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			There's a process,
		
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			that
		
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			the great prophets and messengers went through,
		
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			with their people.
		
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			Prophet Muhammad was
		
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			the seal,
		
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			of the prophets and messengers.
		
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			And his,
		
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			responsibility
		
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			was not like the other prophets because he
		
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			not only
		
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			had to call his people living in Mecca
		
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			and in the Hejaz area of Arabia,
		
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			but he was also
		
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			given the responsibility
		
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			to call all of humanity.
		
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			And even further,
		
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			he was a prophet to the jinn
		
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			as well. Creatures made from smokeless fire.
		
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			And so
		
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			the call to itself,
		
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			begins
		
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			with the prophet himself,
		
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			and then it starts to spread out.
		
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			So everybody who accepts Islam,
		
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			once they are able to secure themselves,
		
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			then
		
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			they have a responsibility
		
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			whether male, female,
		
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			young, especially if a person reaches puberty,
		
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			there is a responsibility
		
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			to reach out to others,
		
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			and not just hold the message to ourself,
		
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			but we have to actually be able to,
		
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			engage with other people. And the province all
		
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			settled them said in one authentic
		
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			that you should spread
		
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			this message
		
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			even if it is one
		
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			verse,
		
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			even if it is one sign.
		
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			And
		
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			is the plural
		
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			form in Arabic.
		
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			So that includes
		
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			male and female.
		
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			It also,
		
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			is dealing with not only a group, but
		
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			individuals as well.
		
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			So this is an individual,
		
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			type of job in a sense we all
		
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			need to try to do something.
		
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			But in terms of the actual,
		
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			legal,
		
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			reality of Dawa,
		
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			the scholars consider it to be
		
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			And means it is a compulsory
		
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			act
		
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			that has to be done
		
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			by somebody in the community.
		
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			And if it's not done,
		
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			then the whole community is in sin.
		
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			And so if somebody dies, if a Muslim
		
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			dies,
		
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			then it is that
		
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			Janaza has to be done for that Muslim.
		
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			And if nobody, if there are Muslims in
		
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			the area and nobody does
		
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			for the fallen brother or sister,
		
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			then the whole community
		
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			is is actually living in sin.
		
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			So this is
		
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			the
		
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			the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the
		
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			That is
		
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			on all of the Muslims
		
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			wherever they are.
		
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			And it has great rewards.
		
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			And the prophet
		
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			said, if Allah guides
		
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			one person
		
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			through you,
		
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			it is better
		
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			than the most expensive red camel. In other
		
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			words, it is the most valuable thing
		
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			that can happen to you
		
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			if some if Allah guides a person on
		
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			your hands.
		
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			Because you will get the blessings
		
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			of that person. When that person is doing
		
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			good deeds,
		
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			you will get the blessing according to the
		
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			prophet
		
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			without taking away from the blessings of the
		
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			person.
		
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			So, Dawah really is,
		
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			the essence of the message.
		
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			And you'll see that all of the prophets
		
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			had to be involved in this.
		
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			Some of them weren't successful,
		
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			but they had to make the effort.
		
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			And
		
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			to look at Dawa itself, to understand it,
		
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			and I wanna go just a little bit
		
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			into the science of Dawa
		
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			because there is a science,
		
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			behind this.
		
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			And and looking at the science of dawah,
		
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			you have,
		
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			what is called,
		
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			and Adaiya.
		
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			For those who study Arabic language,
		
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			you know, you have a construction. They say
		
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			Mudaf
		
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			Mudaf Ilehi.
		
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			So you say,
		
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			kitab,
		
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			book.
		
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			And you say kitabola.
		
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			So when when something is, you know, connected
		
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			to the other words
		
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			called.
		
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			So so the scholars of Dawa, because it
		
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			is a science as well,
		
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			tried to break it down so that a
		
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			person could have,
		
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			a scientific understanding to be able to understand
		
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			really what they are doing and to apply
		
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			Dawa,
		
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			in its essence,
		
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			anywhere you found themselves. So Al Madru
		
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			is the one who is being called.
		
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			Al Madru.
		
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			So if you called somebody
		
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			to come to a wedding,
		
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			then that person receives your invitation.
		
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			Okay. So that's.
		
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			In this case, we're dealing with a dawah
		
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			Then Al Madru,
		
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			is all of humanity.
		
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			So it is our responsibility
		
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			that this message should get to all of
		
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			humanity.
		
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			When the prophet
		
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			was in his final,
		
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			years, final part of his life at the
		
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			Arafat sermon,
		
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			he said that those people present
		
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			should spread this message, take this message
		
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			to all those who are not present.
		
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			So he put it on the shoulders of
		
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			the companions
		
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			that they should take this out.
		
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			And even though they were accustomed to the
		
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			Arabian Peninsula,
		
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			everybody has their own type of food,
		
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			their own environment.
		
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			The majority of the companions
		
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			died outside of Hejaz.
		
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			Outside of the Mecca and Medina area, the
		
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			majority of the command did not
		
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			die in their own area.
		
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			They went out.
		
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			And so this is important because in in
		
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			in in some cases, we tend to think
		
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			that there are certain type of people
		
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			who we should spread the message to other
		
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			ones we don't.
		
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			But that's not the case. Like in the
		
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			case of Musa alaihi salam,
		
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			he spread the message. His job, he had
		
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			to go to Faron.
		
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			He had to go to pharaoh and
		
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			spread the message.
		
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			So, technically speaking,
		
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			the message needs to be spread to all
		
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			people. However,
		
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			high they think they are or powerful they
		
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			think they are, the message in one way
		
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			or another
		
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			needs to get to them.
		
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			Also to the poorest people,
		
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			to those who don't have access,
		
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			to media, who don't have power, the message
		
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			is supposed to get to them as well.
		
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			And so this is important in certain parts
		
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			of the world.
		
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			You will see
		
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			that,
		
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			it was a mistake.
		
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			It's a weakness sometimes,
		
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			on the part of the Muslims,
		
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			but it happens.
		
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			For example,
		
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			I was in Malaysia
		
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			in the city of Kuala Lumpur,
		
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			and
		
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			there is a certain section as you go
		
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			toward the university.
		
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			There's a a turn off and it says
		
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			Orang Asli,
		
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			area.
		
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			And Orang Asli,
		
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			these are the original
		
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			people of Malaysia.
		
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			The original Malaysians.
		
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			And in in Australia, they use the word,
		
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			Aborigines.
		
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			Here would
		
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			be first nations or indigenous,
		
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			native people. So the indigenous people,
		
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			of Malaysia
		
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			were actually a people
		
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			who
		
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			descendants who came from Africa to be straightforward.
		
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			Because all human beings originally came from Africa
		
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			and spread. So the orangusli
		
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			of Malaysia
		
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			are actually African,
		
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			people,
		
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			And they live in certain areas.
		
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			And maybe it was a weakness. I don't
		
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			know exactly what happened.
		
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			But
		
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			when the Malays, which you know as Malaysians
		
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			came, they came from Thailand.
		
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			So when they migrated south and then they
		
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			populated
		
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			and they had embraced Islam,
		
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			they did not do dawah to the Orang
		
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			Asli.
		
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			So the majority of the Orang Asli people,
		
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			maybe 90% of them today, are Christians.
		
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			The Christians went to the Orang Asli,
		
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			and the Muslim did not do this. And
		
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			that is a mistake.
		
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			Because it was a responsibility
		
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			of the Muslims.
		
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			Especially how Allah blessed Malaysia with its climate,
		
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			and, you know, with its
		
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			natural resources.
		
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			It was their responsibility
		
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			to go to the people,
		
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			and it's still their responsibility
		
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			to do that.
		
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			And so
		
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			this is the first
		
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			section
		
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			of, you could say, principles of dawah.
		
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			The foundations of dawah. The second is.
		
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			What are you calling to? What is the
		
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			message
		
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			that you're calling to?
		
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			And it is scholars agree that the essence
		
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			of the message
		
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			has to be the book of Allah and
		
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			the sunnah of prophet Muhammad That's
		
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			what we're calling to. We're not calling to
		
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			our
		
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			leader.
		
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			We're not calling to our national nationality.
		
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			We're not calling to our organizations,
		
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			but we're calling to Islam itself
		
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			submission to the will of Allah.
		
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			And that is really important point,
		
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			when we're going out to people
		
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			to recognize that,
		
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			we are open minded. We can be very
		
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			open minded.
		
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			The the message is a broad message.
		
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			And if we're dealing with,
		
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			the Quran itself
		
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			and the prophetic methodology,
		
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			we can then apply
		
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			this message
		
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			to the people.
		
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			And the scholars look at different people. When
		
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			you are going out,
		
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			in the field,
		
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			there are people who
		
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			the message
		
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			has come to,
		
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			and they accepted it. And those are the
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			There are people who
		
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			the message came to them
		
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			and
		
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			they
		
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			refused to accept it.
		
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			Those people are the kufa
		
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			or the kafirun.
		
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			But there are some people who are in
		
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			the original
		
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			condition,
		
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			and the message has not come to them
		
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			yet properly.
		
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			They have not understood it.
		
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			And scholars agree that
		
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			a person who's in that condition
		
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			is under the mercy of Allah.
		
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			Allah can decide
		
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			to punish that person
		
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			or to forgive them.
		
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			And I remember being in Guyana,
		
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			and we went, south along one of the
		
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			rivers,
		
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			which is Amazon territory when you start to
		
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			go to the jungle areas.
		
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			And we came across
		
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			the Arawak,
		
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			people.
		
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			And I spoke with the leader of the
		
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			Arawak
		
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			there, and I asked him about their concept
		
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			of god.
		
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			Do you have a concept of the great
		
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			spirit?
		
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			And he said, yes.
		
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			We believe in our we we believe in
		
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			so he said,
		
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			so they have a concept of the great
		
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			spirit.
		
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			So according to our understanding, because we're not
		
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			Christians. The Christians would come in an area
		
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			and say, you're infidels.
		
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			If you don't accept the blood of Jesus,
		
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			you're going to *.
		
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			That's not opposition.
		
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			Opposition is that the people who live deep
		
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			in the Amazon region,
		
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			who never heard
		
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			of Jesus, Moses, Mohammed,
		
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			none none of these people.
		
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			If a person believes in one god
		
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			and lives a good life,
		
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			Then technically speaking, that person
		
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			is a Muslim.
		
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			And they are under
		
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			the shadow of Allah. Allah will decide
		
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			whether that person will enter paradise or hellfire.
		
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			Even though the Quran has been revealed
		
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			and it is on earth, but it didn't
		
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			reach that person.
		
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			Okay? So this is the essence of our
		
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			message,
		
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			in terms of,
		
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			going out in the path and our responsibility.
		
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			The third part is Adaiya.
		
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			And Adaiya is the one who calls.
		
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			And there are there's a lot of studies
		
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			done on this and, you know, there's this
		
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			but there's basic
		
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			qualities that we need,
		
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			to go out in the path,
		
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			especially today. Because today's situation has changed a
		
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			lot,
		
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			in, how we are
		
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			dealing with people and the tensions and whatever.
		
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			So
		
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			there's a few
		
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			qualities
		
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			I wanna talk about. Number 1
		
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			is that the person who's going out to
		
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			give the message
		
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			should have basic knowledge
		
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			of the message.
		
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			And that they don't have to be a
		
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			scholar,
		
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			but they need to at least
		
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			have a a decent under their faith needs
		
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			to be intact.
		
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			Right? Their belief in Allah, their their, you
		
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			know, and angels and his book. Right? The
		
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			sections of iman and, you know, whatnot.
		
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			And they should
		
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			know the basic of halal and haram.
		
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			So if they know this, then at least
		
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			they are
		
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			grounded enough,
		
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			to go out, you know, to somebody and
		
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			to spread the message. But the second part
		
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			is they need to apply it to themselves.
		
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			So they have to be actively
		
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			applying Islam
		
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			to themselves. And those who go out in
		
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			the path
		
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			have found
		
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			that, it actually helps the one who's going
		
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			in the path.
		
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			Because when you're out there giving dua to
		
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			people and you and you start talking about
		
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			certain principles
		
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			and certain issues,
		
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			there's a voice in the back of your
		
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			head. Am I doing this myself?
		
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			So you might go home and say, okay.
		
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			You debated about prayer.
		
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			Right? And, you know, are we actually doing
		
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			our prayers?
		
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			You debated about telling the truth. Do we
		
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			tell lies?
		
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			So it actually helps the person who is
		
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			doing
		
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			dawah, but the basic application is necessary.
		
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			3,
		
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			that the person who does dawah, especially today,
		
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			needs to seek their reward
		
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			from Allah
		
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			and not from people.
		
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			Because if you do it to to to
		
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			think that you're gonna get, you know,
		
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			a high salary or you're gonna become famous,
		
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			then this is not the right work for
		
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			you because this work
		
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			is is supposed it is for Allah
		
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			The reward is great.
		
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			The most valuable thing on earth
		
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			you can get.
		
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			Okay? But the intention,
		
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			the
		
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			the sincerity
		
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			has to be there for the person who
		
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			is going out on the path.
		
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			Next is a sabar,
		
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			and that is patience.
		
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			That going out on the path requires,
		
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			the ability to,
		
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			not overreact.
		
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			Especially today with Islamophobia
		
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			being out there and the things that we
		
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			have to face,
		
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			it's not easy, but patience
		
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			has always been one of the greatest
		
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			qualities.
		
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			Now there's 2 areas
		
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			that that is specific to our situation today.
		
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			And that is that the people who are
		
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			representing
		
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			Islam
		
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			need to be
		
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			courageous
		
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			and humble at the same time.
		
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			Normally, when you think of somebody who's courageous,
		
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			then that person is powerful and
		
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			almost appearing to be arrogant.
		
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			But the best caller to Islam is
		
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			is a courageous person,
		
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			unafraid to go into certain areas and to
		
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			do what they're humble as well.
		
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			Humility.
		
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			And and and that is the quality
		
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			of even some of the greatest martial artists
		
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			in the world.
		
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			The more a person learns the science of
		
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			self defense,
		
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			they actually become more humble.
		
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			So courage and humility
		
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			and very polite.
		
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			We have to be polite. And if somebody
		
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			insults you,
		
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			because they will be insulting you. You don't
		
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			insult back.
		
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			They say a bad word and you throw
		
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			a bigger bad word back at them. No.
		
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			You have to you have to you have
		
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			to take it.
		
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			You have to be able to withstand,
		
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			being insulted
		
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			and sometimes even being physically harmed.
		
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			And the last point of the so many,
		
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			issues and qualities
		
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			is open mindedness
		
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			and commitment.
		
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			So the person needs to be multizim.
		
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			That means they are committed to their faith.
		
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			But open minded.
		
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			And and and that is a special quality
		
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			today because if we are used to talking
		
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			to a certain type of people,
		
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			if we're only used to functioning Islamically
		
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			in the masjid
		
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			and you go out on the streets, what
		
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			are you gonna do
		
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			when you face something
		
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			that you've never heard of before?
		
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			How you gonna handle it?
		
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			So we're committed but open minded.
		
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			I remember years ago,
		
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			here in Toronto, we were on the streets
		
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			in Yonge Street,
		
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			doing dawah.
		
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			And this group came and they had gray
		
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			shirts on and they had this cross
		
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			with horns.
		
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			The cross and horns around it.
		
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			So we said, what is this?
		
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			Because normally, the horns
		
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			are connected
		
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			associated with the devil. Right?
		
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			And the cross with Jesus.
		
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			K. So this is a new group on
		
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			the street. They said, what is this? They
		
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			said, Jesus said,
		
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			love your enemies.
		
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			Who is the greatest enemy of mankind but
		
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			Satan?
		
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			So they were a type of church of
		
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			Satan
		
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			that was coming up under Christianity.
		
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			Now how are you gonna handle this? Right?
		
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			We had to reason with them. Right? You
		
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			gotta reason with them.
		
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			So we're committed to our faith, but now
		
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			I wanna understand
		
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			how did this person come to this
		
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			this understanding?
		
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			And how can I help them out of
		
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			it? You see? So you're gonna run into
		
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			all types of things,
		
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			out in the path of Allah
		
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			And,
		
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			in terms of methodology, I just wanna touch
		
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			on the methodology,
		
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			there
		
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			without going into too much details.
		
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			But Allah
		
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			tells us in
		
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			verse 1 2025.
		
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			Call to the way of your lord with
		
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			wisdom
		
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			and fear preaching
		
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			and debate with them
		
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			in the best way.
		
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			These are some of the principles of giving
		
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			dua itself.
		
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			And so the key word here is hikmah,
		
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			wisdom.
		
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			And in Arabic, hikmah is
		
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			putting things in the proper perspective.
		
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			Okay. So this is a key quality
		
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			of, the dawah itself.
		
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			In terms
		
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			of the practical application today,
		
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			to gain wisdom
		
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			and because the verse says
		
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			so so so the Quran is gonna give
		
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			you a lot of wisdom.
		
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			The prophetic stories gives you a lot of
		
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			wisdom.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Age gives wisdom.
		
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			But there's some other things that we need
		
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			to know now. Because we're in a very
		
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			conflicting,
		
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			complicated
		
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			situation.
		
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			Number 1,
		
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			we need to know
		
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			non
		
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			Muslim
		
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			politics.
		
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			We have to know if you're gonna call
		
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			to Allah,
		
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			you can't be somebody buried in the Masjid
		
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			and then go out on the street and
		
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			then start talking to people.
		
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			We have to know what is happening in
		
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			the society.
		
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			What are the trends?
		
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			In society.
		
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			What are some of the latest events that
		
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			have gone on?
		
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			What what, you know, what's going on on
		
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			the streets? If you're gonna go on the
		
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			streets, you need to know what's happening on
		
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			the streets.
		
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			Even to go further, we need to know
		
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			something about what they call pop culture.
		
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			What is the especially amongst the youth.
		
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			What is the pop culture? What are the
		
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			trends?
		
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			Because this is gonna come at us.
		
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			And the youth might talk to us with
		
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			certain vocabularies
		
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			that we're not even aware of.
		
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			All of this gives us the wisdom
		
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			to say the right thing
		
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			at the right time.
		
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			Okay? And this is something that we
		
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			workshop.
		
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			We go out in the path, and the
		
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			more you're in the path,
		
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			the more you're able to,
		
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			gain this wisdom.
		
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			Next is
		
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			and this is a special point. I believe
		
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			that wherever you are, we need to know
		
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			the history of Islam in the particular area
		
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			where we are calling.
		
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			K. So when you understand the history of
		
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			Islam,
		
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			what was the relationship of Muslims to the
		
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			people in the past?
		
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			It gives you an understanding about what to
		
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			do today.
		
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			We also need to know
		
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			what are some of the movements
		
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			that are impacting
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			Impacting Muslims.
		
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			I was in a situation in,
		
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			in Cape Town, South Africa,
		
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			and there were different
		
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			religions there. And, you know, it was an
		
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			open forum.
		
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			And a group came on the side and
		
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			start passing out,
		
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			pamphlets.
		
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			And so I looked I I asked for
		
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			a pamphlet and I looked at it and
		
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			they were calling to the Ahmadiyya Qadiyani movement.
		
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			Gulam Ahmed.
		
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			And we're dealing with non muslims.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			So I called the person on the side
		
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			and I said to him,
		
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			you need to stand down.
		
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			Because your call
		
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			is now a complication. We're calling
		
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			to Islam.
		
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			We're calling to prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			We're calling to the Quran. You're talking about
		
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			a movement that started
		
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			like in the 19th century. So
		
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			so stand down. So he he stood down,
		
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			and we got the pamphlets.
		
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			He tried to
		
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			put them on the side, but we confiscated
		
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			all of the pamphlets.
		
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			But if you don't know who the Cardianis
		
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			are,
		
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			you might have a problem because they might
		
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			give something out in your name.
		
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			Not calling to Muhammad ibn Abdullah but calling
		
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			to Gulam
		
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			Ahmed.
		
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			Right? The liar prophet,
		
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			you know, who came, in Indo Pakistani subcontinent.
		
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			We also need to know
		
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			anti Islamic
		
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			elements. The things
		
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			which how we're being attacked. You've gotta be
		
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			prepared for this
		
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			Because it will come to you in different
		
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			ways.
		
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			You you understand their symbols and and and
		
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			and their signs and something about them. And
		
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			this gives us the wisdom
		
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			to go in the path.
		
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			So I want to give you, instead of
		
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			going theoretical, I wanna give you a practical
		
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			application.
		
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			Time is not with us,
		
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			so we're gonna go through it tonight. And
		
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			tomorrow night, for those who want more, in
		
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			detail at the new Muslim,
		
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			corner, which will be upstairs at 7:30,
		
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			we'll be going in more depth,
		
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			over this. So this is a Dawa Islamic
		
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			awareness,
		
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			week program that I just came back, you
		
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			know, from,
		
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			on Thursday,
		
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			last, Thursday.
		
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			And I I was in Trinidad and Tobago,
		
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			right, for,
		
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			a week.
		
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			And this program
		
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			so this is the base base of of
		
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			the the Americas as you may know. For
		
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			those of you of you who who are
		
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			not aware of Trinidad, are there any Trinidadians
		
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			here?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			For those of you who might not know,
		
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			if you look down by Venezuela,
		
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			if you can see that,
		
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			just above Venezuela is Trinidad.
		
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			So Trinidad is literally,
		
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			right off the coast of South America.
		
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			And even in terms of
		
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			the environment, they say that
		
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			the trees
		
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			and the animals
		
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			in Trinidad are different than you'd find in
		
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			Jamaica
		
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			and in other Caribbean Islands because Trinidad actually
		
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			broke away from South America
		
00:33:06 --> 00:33:07
			in the past.
		
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			So literally, it is a piece of South
		
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			America in the water.
		
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			Okay. And Tobago is a small island there
		
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			and and and Trinidad and Tobago,
		
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			make up, this country.
		
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			And,
		
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			again, because time is not with us,
		
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			one of the key issues to understand the
		
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			presence of Muslims
		
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			there in this region.
		
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			It was during the Atlantic slave trade.
		
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			And that's from 1500
		
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			to 18 70
		
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			that African people were captured
		
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			and taken to the Americas
		
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			as prisoners of war and enslaved people. And
		
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			you can see here those arrows
		
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			going from,
		
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			West Africa and Central Africa.
		
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			It shows you the ports and where they
		
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			took the slaves to, from different parts of
		
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			West and Central Africa.
		
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			Okay? So,
		
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			this is millions of people who came into,
		
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			the region. Now we have documented proof that
		
00:34:08 --> 00:34:10
			somewhere between 15 to 30 percent
		
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			of the African,
		
00:34:12 --> 00:34:13
			enslaved people
		
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			were Muslims.
		
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			1 out of 3.
		
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			And in some areas, it was more than
		
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			1 out of 3 was Muslims.
		
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			And that's something that people didn't realize,
		
00:34:24 --> 00:34:24
			before.
		
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			But,
		
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			really the first presence,
		
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			of organized Islam came with the African people,
		
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			who were enslaved and came into the how
		
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			do you get this proof?
		
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			There's a number of eyewitness reports, written documents.
		
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			There are autobiographies
		
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			and records.
		
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			Like you see to the left there, that's
		
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			Arabic written by a person who was enslaved.
		
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			So there were there were scholars amongst the
		
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			people who were enslaved,
		
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			who came into the Americas
		
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			reason. Some of them wrote the Quran, the
		
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			whole Quran from memory.
		
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			And and we have some of these books,
		
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			today.
		
00:35:02 --> 00:35:04
			This is just a couple examples
		
00:35:04 --> 00:35:05
			in the region itself.
		
00:35:06 --> 00:35:08
			These are some documents of a liberated African
		
00:35:09 --> 00:35:10
			slave at Carmichael.
		
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			This is in Nassau, Bahamas.
		
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			Okay. So this came to the surface.
		
00:35:16 --> 00:35:18
			It's in it's in the archives there in,
		
00:35:19 --> 00:35:19
			Nassau.
		
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			And, so this is Arabic writing,
		
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			and there are whole islands. The island of
		
00:35:25 --> 00:35:25
			Exuma,
		
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			there in the in the Bahamas chain was
		
00:35:28 --> 00:35:29
			majority Muslims.
		
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			Okay. Now this is from in Jamaica.
		
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			In Jamaica, Mohammed Kaaba
		
00:35:37 --> 00:35:39
			from Buka in Malinke of Guinea. He was
		
00:35:39 --> 00:35:41
			studying to be a judge and he was
		
00:35:41 --> 00:35:44
			captured at 20 years old and deported to
		
00:35:44 --> 00:35:46
			Jamaica. He was studying Akadi. He's gonna be
		
00:35:46 --> 00:35:47
			a judge.
		
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			This this is a learned person. He was
		
00:35:50 --> 00:35:52
			captured during a war, taken to the coastline,
		
00:35:53 --> 00:35:54
			and sent to Jamaica.
		
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			And Abu Bakr Siddiq
		
00:35:58 --> 00:35:59
			was a scholar from Timbuktu.
		
00:36:00 --> 00:36:02
			You heard of the Timbuktu, the great city
		
00:36:02 --> 00:36:04
			of knowledge there in Mali. He was captured
		
00:36:04 --> 00:36:06
			and taken to Jamaica in 18/34,
		
00:36:07 --> 00:36:10
			but he wrote extensively in Arabic. So see
		
00:36:10 --> 00:36:12
			the writing is there. These are some of
		
00:36:12 --> 00:36:12
			the Arabic writings.
		
00:36:13 --> 00:36:15
			And in Jamaica and in Haiti
		
00:36:16 --> 00:36:17
			and in Suriname
		
00:36:17 --> 00:36:18
			and Brazil
		
00:36:18 --> 00:36:21
			and in many parts during the slavery period,
		
00:36:22 --> 00:36:24
			we actually have documented evidence
		
00:36:24 --> 00:36:26
			of the presence of these people.
		
00:36:27 --> 00:36:28
			And
		
00:36:29 --> 00:36:31
			But in Trinidad itself,
		
00:36:32 --> 00:36:34
			Trinidad is probably
		
00:36:34 --> 00:36:36
			we have more documentation
		
00:36:37 --> 00:36:39
			about presence of African Muslims
		
00:36:40 --> 00:36:42
			than maybe anywhere else in the whole region.
		
00:36:42 --> 00:36:44
			That's something special about Trinidad.
		
00:36:45 --> 00:36:48
			And not only during the slavery period,
		
00:36:48 --> 00:36:50
			but in the 19th century,
		
00:36:50 --> 00:36:51
			when the British,
		
00:36:52 --> 00:36:54
			started to bring indentured laborers,
		
00:36:54 --> 00:36:55
			they also,
		
00:36:56 --> 00:36:57
			hired
		
00:36:57 --> 00:37:01
			and contracted people to serve in their military.
		
00:37:01 --> 00:37:03
			And this was called the West Indian
		
00:37:04 --> 00:37:04
			regiment.
		
00:37:05 --> 00:37:07
			They even used these people in the Napoleonic
		
00:37:08 --> 00:37:09
			to fight Napoleon
		
00:37:09 --> 00:37:11
			and whatnot. It's interesting if you if you
		
00:37:11 --> 00:37:12
			if you look at the,
		
00:37:13 --> 00:37:15
			the the clothing of the people. Can anybody
		
00:37:15 --> 00:37:17
			does that look like something that you've seen
		
00:37:17 --> 00:37:17
			before?
		
00:37:18 --> 00:37:20
			Look at the dress of of the African
		
00:37:20 --> 00:37:22
			people there. Has anybody ever seen this dress
		
00:37:22 --> 00:37:22
			before?
		
00:37:24 --> 00:37:25
			It's Turkish.
		
00:37:25 --> 00:37:27
			It's Ottoman dress.
		
00:37:27 --> 00:37:29
			So if you if you study the Ottoman
		
00:37:29 --> 00:37:30
			Empire,
		
00:37:30 --> 00:37:32
			what the British was so impressed by the
		
00:37:32 --> 00:37:33
			Ottomans
		
00:37:34 --> 00:37:37
			that they actually started to use Ottoman dress,
		
00:37:38 --> 00:37:40
			either coming from Turkiye or Algeria
		
00:37:41 --> 00:37:43
			where the Ottomans were controlling as well. And
		
00:37:43 --> 00:37:44
			this became
		
00:37:44 --> 00:37:45
			the dress of
		
00:37:46 --> 00:37:48
			the regiment. All these these people were not
		
00:37:48 --> 00:37:49
			all Muslims. Most of them maybe were not
		
00:37:49 --> 00:37:50
			even Muslims.
		
00:37:51 --> 00:37:53
			But you see the dress. It's got Turkish
		
00:37:53 --> 00:37:55
			pants. It's got a like a turban and
		
00:37:55 --> 00:37:56
			a red cap,
		
00:37:57 --> 00:37:57
			there.
		
00:37:57 --> 00:37:59
			So this is the West Indian,
		
00:37:59 --> 00:38:03
			regiment. Now there was one person who was
		
00:38:03 --> 00:38:05
			was originally cap captured. He he joined He
		
00:38:05 --> 00:38:07
			was in the regiment. His name was Eunice
		
00:38:07 --> 00:38:09
			Mohammed Baas.
		
00:38:10 --> 00:38:12
			And Eunice Mohammed was very active person
		
00:38:13 --> 00:38:15
			and he formed a community in Port of
		
00:38:15 --> 00:38:16
			Spain.
		
00:38:17 --> 00:38:19
			And he went around to the different
		
00:38:19 --> 00:38:20
			first slave ships
		
00:38:21 --> 00:38:23
			in different areas to find Muslims.
		
00:38:23 --> 00:38:24
			And,
		
00:38:25 --> 00:38:25
			he,
		
00:38:26 --> 00:38:28
			was able to form a community
		
00:38:29 --> 00:38:30
			and he along with,
		
00:38:31 --> 00:38:34
			you know, others formed this Mandingo community. I
		
00:38:34 --> 00:38:36
			think we're coming close to the time now.
		
00:38:37 --> 00:38:38
			We still got time.
		
00:38:38 --> 00:38:39
			Okay. So,
		
00:38:40 --> 00:38:42
			Eunice Mohammed Bath,
		
00:38:42 --> 00:38:44
			he was a community and religious leader.
		
00:38:44 --> 00:38:47
			Okay. Enslaved, transported to Trinidad.
		
00:38:48 --> 00:38:50
			So you see the biography 1804.
		
00:38:51 --> 00:38:53
			He was able to purchase his own freedom
		
00:38:53 --> 00:38:55
			and he went on to be the leader
		
00:38:55 --> 00:38:56
			of the Mandingo
		
00:38:56 --> 00:38:58
			population. These are the Mande people of West
		
00:38:58 --> 00:39:01
			Africa and Trinidad. He was described as the
		
00:39:01 --> 00:39:03
			chief priest and patriarch
		
00:39:04 --> 00:39:04
			of the entire
		
00:39:05 --> 00:39:06
			Muslim population
		
00:39:06 --> 00:39:07
			of the colony.
		
00:39:08 --> 00:39:10
			So so the British, when they were dealing
		
00:39:10 --> 00:39:11
			with Muslims,
		
00:39:11 --> 00:39:14
			African Muslims at the time in the colony,
		
00:39:14 --> 00:39:17
			Eunice Mohammed Baas was considered to be representative
		
00:39:17 --> 00:39:18
			in the Trinidad area.
		
00:39:19 --> 00:39:21
			Okay. And he made a petition
		
00:39:21 --> 00:39:23
			to the British government to repatriate
		
00:39:24 --> 00:39:26
			the Mandingo community in, to Africa.
		
00:39:27 --> 00:39:29
			But the British rejected this.
		
00:39:30 --> 00:39:31
			They didn't wanna get involved in this.
		
00:39:32 --> 00:39:34
			Okay. But his area,
		
00:39:35 --> 00:39:37
			Eunice Mohammed bath, is the area. There's a
		
00:39:37 --> 00:39:39
			bath street now on in Port of Spain.
		
00:39:40 --> 00:39:43
			It's generally known where his masjid was and,
		
00:39:43 --> 00:39:44
			it's a very interesting,
		
00:39:45 --> 00:39:45
			story.
		
00:39:46 --> 00:39:47
			Another
		
00:39:47 --> 00:39:49
			interesting person, Mohammed Sisi.
		
00:39:50 --> 00:39:51
			Okay. And he,
		
00:39:53 --> 00:39:55
			was part of the
		
00:39:55 --> 00:39:55
			West
		
00:39:56 --> 00:39:59
			Indian regiment as well. You can see the
		
00:39:59 --> 00:39:59
			dress
		
00:40:00 --> 00:40:01
			of the West Indian regiment.
		
00:40:02 --> 00:40:03
			And,
		
00:40:04 --> 00:40:06
			they disbanded the group in Trinidad,
		
00:40:07 --> 00:40:09
			and some of them settled in Port of
		
00:40:09 --> 00:40:10
			Spain.
		
00:40:10 --> 00:40:12
			And in the south of of of Trinidad,
		
00:40:13 --> 00:40:14
			they were given land in
		
00:40:15 --> 00:40:16
			in in the Manzanilla
		
00:40:16 --> 00:40:17
			area.
		
00:40:17 --> 00:40:19
			Okay. Sorry. In the northeast
		
00:40:19 --> 00:40:20
			section of Trinidad.
		
00:40:21 --> 00:40:23
			Okay. And this became,
		
00:40:24 --> 00:40:25
			an Islamic area.
		
00:40:26 --> 00:40:27
			So they literally had a community.
		
00:40:28 --> 00:40:29
			They had an amir.
		
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			They were growing crops.
		
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			And it is said that when port of
		
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			when a port of Spain, when there was
		
00:40:35 --> 00:40:36
			a drought, they actually
		
00:40:37 --> 00:40:37
			fed
		
00:40:38 --> 00:40:38
			the city.
		
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			That's how well they were doing.
		
00:40:41 --> 00:40:43
			And there's some traces of their land,
		
00:40:44 --> 00:40:46
			that is still there.
		
00:40:47 --> 00:40:49
			They petitioned to the British government,
		
00:40:50 --> 00:40:51
			to to they wanted to go back to
		
00:40:51 --> 00:40:54
			Africa, but they refused to do that.
		
00:40:55 --> 00:40:55
			But,
		
00:40:56 --> 00:40:57
			he himself, very interesting,
		
00:40:58 --> 00:41:00
			he was actually able to make it back
		
00:41:00 --> 00:41:02
			to his home country in Gambia.
		
00:41:02 --> 00:41:04
			You know, Senegal, Gambia, where he was from
		
00:41:04 --> 00:41:06
			Gambia. He made it back,
		
00:41:07 --> 00:41:08
			to his own, village
		
00:41:09 --> 00:41:10
			there in Gambia,
		
00:41:10 --> 00:41:11
			but his community,
		
00:41:12 --> 00:41:13
			continued on.
		
00:41:13 --> 00:41:15
			So the African Muslims there
		
00:41:16 --> 00:41:18
			have, a strong past.
		
00:41:19 --> 00:41:21
			There's there's a very strong past that's there.
		
00:41:22 --> 00:41:23
			So we organized,
		
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			along with the Islamic dawah movement.
		
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			Okay. We organized,
		
00:41:29 --> 00:41:29
			this week
		
00:41:30 --> 00:41:31
			from August,
		
00:41:31 --> 00:41:32
			9th to 17th
		
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			was the Dawah week.
		
00:41:35 --> 00:41:37
			And it first began with,
		
00:41:38 --> 00:41:39
			a Khutba
		
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			that was done in the Jama Masjid
		
00:41:42 --> 00:41:43
			there in Port of Spain.
		
00:41:44 --> 00:41:45
			Now
		
00:41:45 --> 00:41:47
			for those of you who are not, Trinidadians,
		
00:41:49 --> 00:41:51
			most of our activities were
		
00:41:51 --> 00:41:52
			in
		
00:41:52 --> 00:41:55
			sort of the north central area. You can
		
00:41:55 --> 00:41:57
			see Port of Spain to the left, and
		
00:41:57 --> 00:41:59
			then you see the north central area of
		
00:41:59 --> 00:42:00
			San Juan,
		
00:42:00 --> 00:42:00
			Tunapuna,
		
00:42:01 --> 00:42:01
			Arima,
		
00:42:02 --> 00:42:02
			Chaguanas,
		
00:42:03 --> 00:42:05
			and these areas there. This is where we
		
00:42:05 --> 00:42:06
			concentrated,
		
00:42:07 --> 00:42:08
			the efforts
		
00:42:08 --> 00:42:09
			because,
		
00:42:09 --> 00:42:12
			unfortunately, there's so much traffic in Trinidad. It's
		
00:42:12 --> 00:42:13
			like Toronto now.
		
00:42:13 --> 00:42:15
			There's so much traffic that that it it's
		
00:42:16 --> 00:42:17
			it takes a a long time,
		
00:42:18 --> 00:42:20
			to go from one part to another. So
		
00:42:20 --> 00:42:22
			this was the Jumuah Masjid in in the
		
00:42:22 --> 00:42:24
			Jammu Masjid. Now you can see the side
		
00:42:24 --> 00:42:26
			of this Masjid. One of the issues now,
		
00:42:26 --> 00:42:27
			remember Hikma,
		
00:42:27 --> 00:42:28
			wisdom.
		
00:42:29 --> 00:42:31
			One of the big issues now in Port
		
00:42:31 --> 00:42:33
			of Spain is crime.
		
00:42:34 --> 00:42:35
			The gangsters.
		
00:42:35 --> 00:42:37
			The gangs are controlling
		
00:42:37 --> 00:42:39
			certain sections of the town.
		
00:42:40 --> 00:42:42
			And we had decided to do the there
		
00:42:43 --> 00:42:44
			in the JAMA Masjid.
		
00:42:46 --> 00:42:46
			And,
		
00:42:47 --> 00:42:48
			we came in on the other side. I
		
00:42:48 --> 00:42:49
			wanted to go to the front of the
		
00:42:49 --> 00:42:51
			Masjid here. This is called the East Dry
		
00:42:51 --> 00:42:52
			River,
		
00:42:53 --> 00:42:54
			in Masjid, the Jama Masjid.
		
00:42:54 --> 00:42:57
			And, the police were there, and they said
		
00:42:57 --> 00:42:59
			you can't go on the other side
		
00:43:00 --> 00:43:02
			because the the gangs are there. And
		
00:43:03 --> 00:43:05
			but so many cars came that they had
		
00:43:05 --> 00:43:06
			to send a special squad
		
00:43:07 --> 00:43:09
			to ring the area where the cars were
		
00:43:09 --> 00:43:12
			because the gangs in certain areas there are
		
00:43:12 --> 00:43:13
			carrying automatic weapons.
		
00:43:15 --> 00:43:16
			But, you
		
00:43:18 --> 00:43:19
			can see some of the brothers, the strong
		
00:43:19 --> 00:43:20
			brothers are there.
		
00:43:21 --> 00:43:24
			The masjid was packed and even overflowing on
		
00:43:24 --> 00:43:24
			the outside,
		
00:43:25 --> 00:43:26
			and we began,
		
00:43:26 --> 00:43:28
			you know, our program of,
		
00:43:29 --> 00:43:29
			Islamic awareness.
		
00:43:32 --> 00:43:34
			Following this was a was a TV,
		
00:43:34 --> 00:43:35
			interview with the IBN,
		
00:43:36 --> 00:43:38
			you know, programmed to put out a a
		
00:43:38 --> 00:43:40
			message, you know, on television.
		
00:43:41 --> 00:43:41
			And
		
00:43:41 --> 00:43:43
			then we did a special dinner,
		
00:43:43 --> 00:43:44
			dinner for Dawa,
		
00:43:46 --> 00:43:48
			there and community support,
		
00:43:49 --> 00:43:50
			for the call to Allah.
		
00:43:51 --> 00:43:52
			It was well attended.
		
00:43:53 --> 00:43:55
			It was held at the University of the
		
00:43:55 --> 00:43:55
			West Indies,
		
00:43:56 --> 00:43:57
			campus.
		
00:43:58 --> 00:43:58
			There,
		
00:43:59 --> 00:44:00
			and,
		
00:44:00 --> 00:44:02
			it was well attended,
		
00:44:02 --> 00:44:03
			there.
		
00:44:04 --> 00:44:07
			And the question that was being that we
		
00:44:07 --> 00:44:10
			spoke about that night is why the world
		
00:44:10 --> 00:44:11
			needs Islam.
		
00:44:12 --> 00:44:14
			So this is now outreach.
		
00:44:15 --> 00:44:17
			Why does the world need Islam?
		
00:44:17 --> 00:44:19
			These are the messages that we're giving out
		
00:44:20 --> 00:44:21
			to the public, radio, television,
		
00:44:22 --> 00:44:23
			on the streets.
		
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			This is part of the wisdom of Dawah.
		
00:44:27 --> 00:44:27
			And,
		
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			yeah, this is part of the community there.
		
00:44:31 --> 00:44:32
			Well attended dinner.
		
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			Then we went to Mashrul Hadi in Charlieville.
		
00:44:37 --> 00:44:37
			Alhamdulillah,
		
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			the the the topic was Palestine and the
		
00:44:41 --> 00:44:42
			Muslim Ummah.
		
00:44:43 --> 00:44:44
			Alhamdulillah,
		
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			in Trinidad, they have a strong Palestinian
		
00:44:47 --> 00:44:48
			support group.
		
00:44:49 --> 00:44:49
			And
		
00:44:50 --> 00:44:51
			they went to the streets,
		
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			and the ambassador of Palestine in the region
		
00:44:55 --> 00:44:56
			came to Trinidad.
		
00:44:57 --> 00:45:00
			And even Riyadh Mansoor, he's the representative of
		
00:45:00 --> 00:45:02
			the Palestinians in the UN. He came to
		
00:45:02 --> 00:45:03
			Trinidad.
		
00:45:03 --> 00:45:05
			And so, this is Masjid Al Hadi.
		
00:45:06 --> 00:45:06
			There,
		
00:45:07 --> 00:45:09
			one of the centers of the resistance movement,
		
00:45:10 --> 00:45:12
			there in Trinidad. Trinidad has a high consciousness
		
00:45:13 --> 00:45:15
			in terms of things that are going on.
		
00:45:15 --> 00:45:17
			The place was packed,
		
00:45:18 --> 00:45:20
			and and the spirit was high
		
00:45:20 --> 00:45:22
			in dealing with resistance.
		
00:45:22 --> 00:45:25
			And people understood the importance of understanding
		
00:45:26 --> 00:45:27
			the history of Palestine.
		
00:45:28 --> 00:45:30
			And that's part of the wisdom of Dawah
		
00:45:30 --> 00:45:32
			that we need to know
		
00:45:32 --> 00:45:34
			the history of things that came before
		
00:45:35 --> 00:45:37
			us. And so this is some shots,
		
00:45:38 --> 00:45:39
			there from,
		
00:45:39 --> 00:45:40
			Masjid,
		
00:45:40 --> 00:45:41
			Al Hadi,
		
00:45:42 --> 00:45:43
			there in Charlieville.
		
00:45:44 --> 00:45:46
			And we had boots
		
00:45:46 --> 00:45:48
			in different areas, San Juan and Arima,
		
00:45:50 --> 00:45:51
			in different sections. So this is how a
		
00:45:51 --> 00:45:54
			typical Dawa booth would look. You're entering into
		
00:45:54 --> 00:45:56
			the main super this is your metro soup
		
00:45:56 --> 00:45:57
			supermarket.
		
00:45:58 --> 00:45:59
			They are the extra
		
00:46:00 --> 00:46:01
			supermarket. And right next to it,
		
00:46:02 --> 00:46:04
			we worked out a relationship with the owner
		
00:46:04 --> 00:46:06
			of the of the of the, our shop.
		
00:46:06 --> 00:46:08
			And so we set a dower booth. You
		
00:46:08 --> 00:46:10
			can see the sister right there. And, so
		
00:46:10 --> 00:46:12
			this is the where we had the dower
		
00:46:12 --> 00:46:13
			booth set up
		
00:46:13 --> 00:46:15
			as the people are entering into,
		
00:46:16 --> 00:46:17
			the marketplace,
		
00:46:18 --> 00:46:19
			and they are engaged
		
00:46:20 --> 00:46:22
			in a positive way with the message,
		
00:46:23 --> 00:46:24
			a positive message,
		
00:46:25 --> 00:46:25
			for Islam.
		
00:46:26 --> 00:46:28
			Then we had a the next day, we
		
00:46:28 --> 00:46:29
			had a community interaction
		
00:46:30 --> 00:46:32
			with one of the solid communities in Port
		
00:46:32 --> 00:46:34
			of Spain. This is again in that really
		
00:46:34 --> 00:46:35
			tough area there.
		
00:46:36 --> 00:46:38
			And the brother on the right with his
		
00:46:38 --> 00:46:41
			family, Kwesi, Atiba, he was here in Toronto
		
00:46:41 --> 00:46:42
			for a long time.
		
00:46:42 --> 00:46:44
			And, he's one of the leaders, there in
		
00:46:44 --> 00:46:45
			the community,
		
00:46:46 --> 00:46:47
			there.
		
00:46:47 --> 00:46:50
			Interestingly enough, he has been chosen by the
		
00:46:50 --> 00:46:51
			government of Trinidad
		
00:46:51 --> 00:46:52
			to a 3,
		
00:46:54 --> 00:46:55
			person committee.
		
00:46:55 --> 00:46:57
			And what they're doing, they're repatriating
		
00:46:58 --> 00:46:59
			some of the,
		
00:46:59 --> 00:47:00
			Trinidadian
		
00:47:00 --> 00:47:02
			families who were who were caught with ISIS.
		
00:47:03 --> 00:47:04
			Remember the ISIS situation?
		
00:47:04 --> 00:47:05
			Well, some of the families
		
00:47:06 --> 00:47:07
			are caught in
		
00:47:08 --> 00:47:09
			these huge,
		
00:47:09 --> 00:47:10
			desert
		
00:47:10 --> 00:47:11
			tent places.
		
00:47:11 --> 00:47:13
			So the government is now considering to to
		
00:47:13 --> 00:47:14
			repatriate,
		
00:47:15 --> 00:47:17
			because the women and the children are still
		
00:47:17 --> 00:47:20
			there. And so, Quacy is part of the
		
00:47:20 --> 00:47:20
			deck committee,
		
00:47:21 --> 00:47:23
			chosen by the government to work out a
		
00:47:23 --> 00:47:24
			strategy for repatriation,
		
00:47:25 --> 00:47:27
			you know, of the families back, to Trinidad.
		
00:47:29 --> 00:47:31
			Following this, we went, to a place called
		
00:47:31 --> 00:47:33
			Enterprise. This is a section in Chaguanas.
		
00:47:34 --> 00:47:36
			It's a very tough area, actually. There are
		
00:47:36 --> 00:47:37
			strong gangs,
		
00:47:38 --> 00:47:40
			in this area. We had open house.
		
00:47:40 --> 00:47:42
			So they went to the neighbors, and we
		
00:47:42 --> 00:47:44
			brought the neighbors in. The food was there.
		
00:47:44 --> 00:47:46
			And as a general call,
		
00:47:47 --> 00:47:48
			to Islam was done,
		
00:47:48 --> 00:47:50
			in the masjid, the enterprise
		
00:47:50 --> 00:47:51
			community
		
00:47:51 --> 00:47:52
			masjid.
		
00:47:53 --> 00:47:55
			K? Then we had a webinar
		
00:47:55 --> 00:47:58
			online dealing Islamic solution to crime
		
00:47:59 --> 00:48:00
			and social problems.
		
00:48:01 --> 00:48:03
			Okay. So that was something for the online
		
00:48:03 --> 00:48:03
			community,
		
00:48:04 --> 00:48:06
			who couldn't necessarily make it out,
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:07
			to the programs.
		
00:48:08 --> 00:48:09
			So these are some of the,
		
00:48:10 --> 00:48:13
			things that we did. It's a practical application
		
00:48:13 --> 00:48:13
			of
		
00:48:14 --> 00:48:16
			a dawah, the call to Allah, and the
		
00:48:16 --> 00:48:19
			wisdom that was needed in this circumstance.
		
00:48:19 --> 00:48:21
			So I wanna open up the floor for
		
00:48:21 --> 00:48:22
			any feedback or questions,
		
00:48:23 --> 00:48:25
			that anybody has concerning Trinidad,
		
00:48:26 --> 00:48:28
			Tobago, and the Dawa movement that is happening
		
00:48:28 --> 00:48:29
			there.
		
00:48:30 --> 00:48:31
			Floor is open for any questions,
		
00:48:32 --> 00:48:33
			federal questions.
		
00:48:53 --> 00:48:55
			Well, really, for, you know, for us, in
		
00:48:55 --> 00:48:57
			terms of the different negative movements that are
		
00:48:57 --> 00:49:00
			out there, our message is a positive message.
		
00:49:01 --> 00:49:02
			Right? So so
		
00:49:02 --> 00:49:04
			the point is that, you know, people
		
00:49:05 --> 00:49:07
			still do not have a good understanding about
		
00:49:07 --> 00:49:09
			what what Islam is.
		
00:49:09 --> 00:49:11
			The media says one thing.
		
00:49:12 --> 00:49:13
			But do they know what the Islamic message
		
00:49:13 --> 00:49:14
			actually is?
		
00:49:15 --> 00:49:18
			So we can counteract these movements with a
		
00:49:18 --> 00:49:19
			positive message.
		
00:49:20 --> 00:49:22
			That is the way of, prophet Muhammad sallallahu
		
00:49:22 --> 00:49:22
			alaihi wa sallam.
		
00:49:23 --> 00:49:27
			Now any other, general questions, anybody has?
		
00:49:27 --> 00:49:29
			Floor is open, for any questions.
		
00:49:30 --> 00:49:31
			This is concerning,
		
00:49:32 --> 00:49:33
			the Dawa,
		
00:49:33 --> 00:49:35
			in this Caribbean region
		
00:49:36 --> 00:49:38
			in the Caribbean region. Trinidad is,
		
00:49:39 --> 00:49:40
			I would say, a unique
		
00:49:42 --> 00:49:43
			island in that region
		
00:49:43 --> 00:49:44
			because of the past.
		
00:49:45 --> 00:49:47
			It has such a deep past,
		
00:49:48 --> 00:49:49
			in terms of
		
00:49:49 --> 00:49:52
			documented evidence. We can connect things
		
00:49:52 --> 00:49:55
			directly from way back in the slavery period.
		
00:49:55 --> 00:49:57
			Of course, the indentured labor period as you
		
00:49:57 --> 00:49:58
			know, just like in Guyana,
		
00:49:59 --> 00:50:01
			waves of Muslims came also from India
		
00:50:01 --> 00:50:03
			and other places as well.
		
00:50:04 --> 00:50:06
			And then there were also economic migrants that
		
00:50:06 --> 00:50:07
			came
		
00:50:08 --> 00:50:10
			from Syria and the Arab world who came
		
00:50:10 --> 00:50:12
			in this region as well.
		
00:50:13 --> 00:50:15
			So so Trinidad as a port city,
		
00:50:16 --> 00:50:18
			has always been a place where there's a
		
00:50:18 --> 00:50:19
			lot of information
		
00:50:20 --> 00:50:21
			and a lot of interaction
		
00:50:22 --> 00:50:23
			that goes on. So it is unique,
		
00:50:24 --> 00:50:27
			but it it's just a reflection of the
		
00:50:27 --> 00:50:27
			potential,
		
00:50:28 --> 00:50:30
			of the Caribbean region for the spread of
		
00:50:30 --> 00:50:30
			Islam.
		
00:50:31 --> 00:50:33
			Floor is open for any other question anybody,
		
00:50:34 --> 00:50:35
			may have.
		
00:51:22 --> 00:51:24
			Yes. So so right. So this is a
		
00:51:24 --> 00:51:25
			good question about,
		
00:51:25 --> 00:51:28
			there were there was a wave of African
		
00:51:28 --> 00:51:29
			people enslaved,
		
00:51:29 --> 00:51:32
			then the indentured laborers came from India and
		
00:51:32 --> 00:51:32
			Java,
		
00:51:33 --> 00:51:35
			Indonesia as well. But there's waves that came,
		
00:51:35 --> 00:51:37
			but the most dominant group
		
00:51:38 --> 00:51:39
			right now are the Indian,
		
00:51:39 --> 00:51:41
			Muslims that are there.
		
00:51:41 --> 00:51:43
			I would look at the type of
		
00:51:44 --> 00:51:47
			relationship they had with the colonial system.
		
00:51:47 --> 00:51:48
			Slavery
		
00:51:48 --> 00:51:50
			totally destroys your culture.
		
00:51:51 --> 00:51:54
			So the slaves were brutalized, their names were
		
00:51:54 --> 00:51:56
			taken away, their religion was taken away. So
		
00:51:56 --> 00:51:58
			even though there were scholars amongst them, for
		
00:51:58 --> 00:52:01
			the most part, Islam was crushed.
		
00:52:02 --> 00:52:03
			Totally crushed.
		
00:52:04 --> 00:52:06
			And they were not allowed to, like, own
		
00:52:06 --> 00:52:07
			property and
		
00:52:08 --> 00:52:09
			maintain stable families.
		
00:52:10 --> 00:52:13
			So it's only recently now in 20th century
		
00:52:13 --> 00:52:15
			that African people have begun to now come
		
00:52:15 --> 00:52:18
			back into Islam. Whereas during the indentured labor
		
00:52:18 --> 00:52:18
			period,
		
00:52:20 --> 00:52:21
			the people, as you know,
		
00:52:21 --> 00:52:24
			were able to at least maintain their identity.
		
00:52:25 --> 00:52:27
			And, it was really rough,
		
00:52:27 --> 00:52:29
			but they could even have a piece of
		
00:52:29 --> 00:52:29
			land
		
00:52:30 --> 00:52:33
			and, eventually even build. So resistance was done
		
00:52:33 --> 00:52:35
			through the building of masjids and madrasas
		
00:52:35 --> 00:52:38
			that was there. So therefore, the colonial system
		
00:52:38 --> 00:52:39
			actually,
		
00:52:40 --> 00:52:42
			enabled them to a certain extent
		
00:52:42 --> 00:52:43
			to preserve,
		
00:52:45 --> 00:52:46
			their faith. Whereas in in the case of
		
00:52:46 --> 00:52:47
			the Africans,
		
00:52:47 --> 00:52:49
			it was totally crushed.
		
00:52:50 --> 00:52:52
			Their names were taken away. Their identity was
		
00:52:52 --> 00:52:53
			taken away. Christianity
		
00:52:54 --> 00:52:55
			was forced upon them.
		
00:52:56 --> 00:52:58
			And so they were not able to return,
		
00:52:59 --> 00:53:01
			you know, to their original, you know, roots
		
00:53:01 --> 00:53:01
			as well.
		
00:53:02 --> 00:53:04
			The Arabs that came,
		
00:53:04 --> 00:53:06
			you know, maybe 90% of the Arabs who
		
00:53:06 --> 00:53:08
			came to the region were Christians.
		
00:53:09 --> 00:53:10
			Well, you don't find that many,
		
00:53:11 --> 00:53:11
			Arab,
		
00:53:12 --> 00:53:14
			Muslims who are in the region. But in
		
00:53:14 --> 00:53:15
			certain places,
		
00:53:15 --> 00:53:16
			if you go to,
		
00:53:17 --> 00:53:18
			Virgin Islands and,
		
00:53:18 --> 00:53:20
			you know, some other places, you'll see Arab
		
00:53:20 --> 00:53:22
			business people who are there, who are who
		
00:53:22 --> 00:53:22
			identify,
		
00:53:23 --> 00:53:24
			with Islam.
		
00:53:25 --> 00:53:28
			Now, any other general questions, we have before
		
00:53:28 --> 00:53:28
			we,
		
00:53:29 --> 00:53:31
			break for Salat and Mavrib? Floor is open
		
00:53:31 --> 00:53:32
			for any questions.
		
00:53:41 --> 00:53:44
			So this is the last, of our summer
		
00:53:44 --> 00:53:44
			series.
		
00:53:45 --> 00:53:47
			And inshallah, we want to we will be
		
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			continuing on with these special programs,
		
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			that will be coming here and there, leading
		
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			into October, which would be Islamic history month.
		
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			Inshallah, we want to have, again, our series,
		
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			you know, to be there.
		
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			And we pray that Allah would enable,
		
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			those people in the Dawah movement to be
		
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			strong and to continue
		
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			and to grow from strength to strength.
		
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			May Allah bless the members of the Islamic
		
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			Dawa movement
		
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			and those on the ground
		
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			who are carrying the banner of Islam.