Abdullah Hakim Quick – New Muslim Corner – Persecution And Migration

Abdullah Hakim Quick
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The speaker discusses a series of sessions on Islam, including the importance of peace and blessings for Muslims, the persecution of Muslims, and the third stage of the conflict, which is the most brutal and brutal phase of the conflict. The conflict is a revolution against slavery and slavery in China, India, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, and is a wake-up dream where one would become a slave. The transcript describes the struggles of Bilal "time Raba's life as a slave and his struggles with slavery, including the extreme persecution of the prophet sallali Alaihi wa Sallam, the return of some Muslims to Ethiopia, and the return of some Muslims to Ethiopia. The importance of acceptance and development in new Muslims who come into Islam is emphasized, and lessons are given on the importance of acceptance and development in new Muslims who come into Islam.

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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 be showered upon our
		
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			beloved prophet Muhammad,
		
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			the master of the first and the last,
		
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			and his family, his companions, and all those
		
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			who call to his way and establish his
		
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			sunnah to the day of judgment.
		
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			As to what follows,
		
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			my beloved brothers and sisters, to our viewers,
		
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			to our friends, assalamu alaykum wa Rahmatullah.
		
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			Alhamdulillah,
		
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			this is another opportunity,
		
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			for our new Muslim corner.
		
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			And this,
		
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			series of sessions,
		
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			is developed
		
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			in order to give,
		
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			new Muslims
		
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			a solid foundation
		
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			in the basic understanding of Islam,
		
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			to separate Islam from culture,
		
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			and also to give,
		
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			some time
		
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			for questions.
		
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			That if people had questions about certain aspects,
		
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			of Islamic lifestyle,
		
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			we could give an answer
		
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			that would be more relevant,
		
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			than what you may get,
		
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			in a general masjid.
		
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			So this is our continuation
		
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			of our understanding of the second part of
		
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			the kalimah.
		
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			We know that the kalimah, la ilaha illallah
		
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			Muhammadu Rasool Allah, sallam.
		
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			This is the basic
		
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			statement of Islam.
		
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			It is what enters you into Islam and
		
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			inshallah,
		
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			is the end of the road.
		
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			And to understand
		
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			the first part
		
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			is something that is easy for most people,
		
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			at least to conceptualize
		
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			that there is a creator,
		
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			that there is a power
		
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			above all, and that the systems that are
		
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			set up in the universe,
		
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			were not made by chance.
		
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			But it is intelligent
		
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			design.
		
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			It is divine,
		
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			coordination
		
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			by the creator of the heavens and the
		
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			earth.
		
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			The second part,
		
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			of the,
		
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			Islamic
		
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			Kalima
		
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			and that is that Muhammad
		
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			is his messenger.
		
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			This,
		
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			is something that for many people,
		
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			is difficult
		
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			because they don't even know
		
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			who prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam was.
		
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			They may have even heard a lot of
		
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			negative
		
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			information.
		
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			So in a sense, when we are dealing
		
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			with this, we have to do,
		
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			what is called deconstruction.
		
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			So we're deconstructing
		
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			wrong wrong concepts,
		
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			concerning the prophet, peace be upon him, and
		
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			his companions.
		
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			And also to try to give
		
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			more of a background,
		
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			for the world
		
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			at that time.
		
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			This is 14 over 1400 years ago,
		
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			and
		
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			definitions
		
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			that are being used,
		
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			in those days are not the same as
		
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			definitions now.
		
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			We find this in the Quran itself.
		
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			We find this in,
		
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			sayings of the prophet, peace of pardon me.
		
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			It's important to understand,
		
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			what is called Aspaba Nizul,
		
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			the reasons for the revelations.
		
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			For instance, just to give you an idea,
		
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			in the chapter called Surah Yusuf,
		
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			it speaks about,
		
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			a group of people coming along a caravan,
		
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			coming along.
		
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			And,
		
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			this is the caravan that eventually picked up
		
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			prophet, Yusuf alaihi sallam who had been thrown
		
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			in the well.
		
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			So the Quran says wajahat
		
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			sayyara.
		
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			It says that the caravan is coming. So
		
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			the term that is being used is sayyara.
		
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			But if you say sayyada in modern day
		
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			Arabic, then they wanna know is Toyota,
		
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			is it Mercedes Benz, sayyada is an automobile,
		
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			it's a car.
		
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			But in old Arabic,
		
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			it meant,
		
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			the moving
		
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			group of people
		
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			through the desert that we now know as
		
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			caravan.
		
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			And so the time framework
		
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			influenced
		
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			the term itself.
		
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			So what we are looking at,
		
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			in the life of the prophet, peace be
		
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			upon him,
		
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			is not as
		
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			much of the propaganda of the world has
		
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			projected about the prophet
		
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			that he was an aggressive person
		
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			and that Muslims were
		
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			the aggressors.
		
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			They got their religion and then they tried
		
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			to enforce this
		
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			upon other people.
		
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			So this is the negative narrative
		
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			that is given,
		
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			about Islam, but the reality,
		
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			is something completely different.
		
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			And we found out that the first part
		
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			of the life of the prophet, peace be
		
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			upon him, this is what is called the
		
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			Meccan period.
		
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			It was 13 years. His his whole prophethood
		
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			was 23 years.
		
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			Right? So the largest part of his prophethood
		
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			is in Mecca.
		
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			That's the that's the Meccan period.
		
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			In this
		
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			time period,
		
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			Muslims were not allowed
		
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			to defend themselves.
		
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			So therefore, in bringing
		
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			tawhid,
		
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			the oneness of God,
		
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			it was a revolution.
		
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			But today, some people might say it was
		
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			it was a nonviolent,
		
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			civil disobedience
		
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			in a sense. It's nonviolent
		
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			revolution.
		
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			So it is bringing about change
		
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			through preaching and lifestyle
		
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			and doing good deeds and having patience,
		
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			under the circumstances.
		
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			And that eventually
		
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			led
		
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			to the time when Muslims had to leave
		
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			Mecca
		
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			and travel to other parts. So we are
		
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			in the Meccan period,
		
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			now in the first few years
		
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			after the prophethood began.
		
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			And the message of the oneness of God
		
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			was a direct
		
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			confrontation
		
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			because Mecca had been ruled by
		
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			people who believe in many gods
		
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			and Mecca had become not only a religious
		
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			center
		
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			but also an economic center.
		
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			So to say there's only 1 god
		
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			and is not Latin, is not Uzza and
		
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			Suwah
		
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			and not the 360 gods
		
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			worshiped by the Arabs,
		
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			inside of the house, inside of the Kaaba.
		
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			To say that
		
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			is is to take away the reason to
		
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			be,
		
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			for Mecca itself.
		
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			So, therefore, this was,
		
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			in a sense,
		
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			it was a confrontation.
		
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			And although the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			and his companions
		
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			stayed to themselves,
		
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			they tried to avoid
		
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			negative,
		
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			conflict,
		
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			persecution came.
		
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			This persecution we found out
		
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			began with insults and lies
		
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			and,
		
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			different types of torment
		
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			that came upon the Muslims.
		
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			And the third stage
		
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			of the of of the persecution that we
		
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			have reached now,
		
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			the 3rd stage,
		
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			was the most brutal stage
		
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			and that included torture
		
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			and murder
		
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			of defenseless Muslims.
		
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			Again, this is a counternarrative
		
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			to what you may have heard. Muslims were
		
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			not the powerful people
		
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			enforcing Islam upon Mecca
		
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			and upon other religions.
		
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			They just wanted to worship Allah.
		
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			But because of that
		
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			they were tortured.
		
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			And there are so many stories of individuals,
		
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			who were able to,
		
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			deal with this
		
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			terrible,
		
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			type of
		
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			reaction,
		
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			this torture.
		
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			For Christians,
		
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			looking upon the life of Isa alaihis salam,
		
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			Jesus Christ
		
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			as they would say,
		
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			they look upon Jesus as 1 who brought
		
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			the message of peace
		
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			and he was
		
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			punished. His followers were punished.
		
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			They sacrificed.
		
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			And the Christians look at the early days
		
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			of Christianity,
		
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			as a time of open sacrifice,
		
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			not realizing
		
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			that
		
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			this is something that happened to all of
		
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			the prophets.
		
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			And prophet Muhammad sallallahu and his companions,
		
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			were,
		
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			shining examples
		
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			of patients under,
		
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			trying circumstances.
		
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			And normally, when people speak about,
		
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			punishment and torture, the name that first comes
		
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			up is,
		
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			Bilal ibn Raba Radiullah.
		
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			And Bilal,
		
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			was,
		
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			a slave.
		
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			He was enslaved person,
		
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			from East Africa. We used the term
		
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			Ethiopian.
		
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			There's a general term that they use, al
		
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			habasha.
		
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			But because we are now more advanced, you
		
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			know, in our understanding
		
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			of geography and history,
		
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			al Habashah really referred to East Africa.
		
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			So it could extend from Port Sudan,
		
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			right down into Djibouti
		
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			and,
		
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			Somalia
		
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			and that then and and, Eritrea,
		
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			right along the coast of East Africa.
		
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			And there's just a general term that was
		
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			being used, by the Arabs at that time
		
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			where they would say Al Habasha.
		
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			So Bilal
		
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			was from that part of the world, and
		
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			he had been captured
		
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			and he was enslaved.
		
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			And slavery was not something that was only
		
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			restricted,
		
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			to African people.
		
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			Slavery had no,
		
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			racial connotation.
		
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			And we learned
		
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			that even the word slave
		
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			actually comes from Slav
		
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			because the Romans were taking
		
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			the Slavic people. This is before the time
		
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			of prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. They were
		
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			taking
		
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			Slavic people,
		
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			blonde hair and blue eyes,
		
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			as their slaves.
		
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			And there were so many blonde haired, blue
		
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			eyed
		
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			slaves
		
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			who were Slavs
		
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			that the term, which might have been something
		
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			different before, they just said, well, that person's
		
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			a slave
		
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			or that person's a slave.
		
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			And that's the opposite of what you might
		
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			think today. Right?
		
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			Because
		
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			names and terminologies
		
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			change,
		
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			with time.
		
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			So anybody
		
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			could become a slave. If you did not
		
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			have a tribe in back of you, if
		
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			you did not had have power and you
		
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			were caught
		
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			by the different,
		
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			Arab tribes
		
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			who were there, then you would become a
		
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			slave.
		
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			And slavery
		
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			existed in China, India,
		
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			Africa,
		
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			Europe,
		
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			even the Americas here
		
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			amongst the indigenous people.
		
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			Because how it came about in many of
		
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			the cases is prisoners of war.
		
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			So when war was fought between 2 nations,
		
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			those who were captured
		
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			were then taken as used as servants
		
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			and slaves integrated into the societies.
		
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			So this is, Bilal ibn Rabah,
		
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			radiAllahu, may Allah be pleased with him,
		
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			who suffered,
		
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			under his so called master, Umayyah.
		
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			And,
		
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			he when
		
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			a big rock was even put on his
		
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			chest,
		
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			Bilal refused to submit and he said,
		
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			which means 1. He kept saying 1 God.
		
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			1 God. 1 God. That's a revolution
		
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			because by saying 1
		
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			you're opposing
		
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			the many gods.
		
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			Okay. And Bilal,
		
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			because of his
		
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			sacrifice,
		
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			was so dear to the prophet, peace be
		
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			upon him,
		
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			that on 1 occasion,
		
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			prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that
		
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			he had a vision. He would get visions.
		
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			Remember the revelation came in different forms.
		
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			And 1 of the forms of revelation is
		
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			sort of like a a waking dream,
		
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			that he would had. And he had 1
		
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			of these dreams,
		
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			where he was awake and
		
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			he heard somebody coming.
		
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			Now if you can recall your brother, your
		
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			sister, your mother, your father, you're living in
		
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			the same house and say your brother, you
		
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			know, has got big feet and when he
		
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			comes, you know that's him in the hall.
		
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			You don't even have to look.
		
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			You know that's Ali,
		
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			because Ali makes this sound.
		
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			And that's how people are when they're familiar
		
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			with each other.
		
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			So the prophet
		
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			now
		
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			just project with him.
		
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			He's projecting
		
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			entering paradise.
		
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			So he's in paradise,
		
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			and he says that he he can hear
		
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			the footsteps of Bilal
		
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			because Bilal was so close to him
		
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			that he he knew his footsteps,
		
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			and he said he could hear his footsteps.
		
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			So Bilal was 1 of the people
		
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			who was promised paradise before he died,
		
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			And his sacrifice is
		
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			well recorded.
		
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			With the man, Ibn Affan,
		
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			who became 1 of the great leaders of
		
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			Islam, he married,
		
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			2 of the daughters of the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, 1 had passed away,
		
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			with man
		
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			was also tortured.
		
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			Even though he came from a
		
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			noble family of Quresh,
		
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			they reacted against him
		
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			and would even put straw on him and
		
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			light it on fire, and he he suffered.
		
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			The fam Mus'ab ibn Umayr.
		
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			And these are all stories when you get
		
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			a chance, you can read these stories.
		
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			They're amazing stories. Mus'ab ibn Umayr,
		
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			is his story is really
		
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			amazing. He was,
		
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			the fashion statement of Mecca.
		
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			Now I'm using this term because
		
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			today with the modern movie stars
		
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			and the heroes,
		
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			you have certain people that when they come
		
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			in,
		
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			they're like a fashion statement.
		
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			So whatever clothes that they wear,
		
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			everybody wants to wear those clothes.
		
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			K? We see it going on now amongst
		
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			the youth.
		
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			I'm not gonna mention any names,
		
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			but you'll see certain people you mention a
		
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			name. Whatever they wear, everybody wants to wear
		
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			it. So Mus'ab
		
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			was 1 of the rich
		
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			young men in Mecca,
		
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			highly intelligent,
		
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			and well dressed.
		
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			He had the nicest Yemeni cloaks,
		
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			the nicest shoes,
		
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			pure silk and cotton,
		
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			and whatever he would wear, everybody else wanted
		
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			to get it too.
		
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			And Musaab accepted Islam,
		
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			and his mother who was who was his
		
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			guardian at the time,
		
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			It's a long story, but when she found
		
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			out, she basically locked him up
		
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			and expelled him and he act actually had
		
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			to migrate.
		
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			And when he came back and his mother
		
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			totally,
		
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			you know, divorced any divorced any relationship with
		
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			him,
		
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			Musab became homeless.
		
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			Now imagine
		
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			being a wealthy, rich, young man
		
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			that everybody in the city wants to look
		
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			like,
		
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			and then he became homeless.
		
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			To the extent where he came into the
		
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			house where the Muslims were underground
		
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			and he had rags on.
		
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			You know homeless people. Right?
		
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			He had rags on.
		
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			And when they the sahaba looked at him,
		
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			they could not believe their eyes
		
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			like what he suffered
		
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			for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And because of this, the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam,
		
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			when they eventually made the major migration and
		
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			you'll see this,
		
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			Mus'ab
		
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			was the 1st ambassador of Islam.
		
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			He represented Islam,
		
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			to Medina, to Yathrib
		
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			because he was really eloquent,
		
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			and because of the sacrifice that he had
		
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			made.
		
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			Also, another story, and there are so many
		
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			stories,
		
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			but these are some of the most famous
		
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			ones, it is the family of Yasser.
		
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			So Yasser was, an Arab man
		
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			who had been enslaved,
		
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			And,
		
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			his wife, Sumayya,
		
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			many,
		
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			historians
		
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			are now bringing out the fact
		
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			that she also was from East Africa. She
		
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			was an African.
		
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			You think that Bilal was the only African,
		
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			amongst the Sahaba but that's not true.
		
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			Many reports are showing that she also had
		
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			that type of origin.
		
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			And their son, Ammar.
		
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			And Ammar,
		
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			famous companion.
		
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			So these 3 is called Ali Yasser.
		
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			And they embraced Islam
		
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			and they were being tortured by their
		
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			so called masters
		
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			really bad.
		
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			And this is now whipping and
		
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			stones and fire and all types of things.
		
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			Muslims were not allowed
		
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			to fight back.
		
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			And so the prophet
		
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			then 1 time came by the place where
		
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			they were being tortured.
		
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			And he said,
		
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			He said, have patience family of Yasir.
		
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			Your place
		
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			is in paradise.
		
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			So they were also
		
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			amongst the people who were promised paradise
		
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			before they died.
		
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			And Sumeya,
		
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			may Allah be pleased with her because of
		
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			the stance that she took
		
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			not, backing off.
		
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			She was,
		
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			martyred, she was killed
		
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			by her master, stabbed in her abdomen,
		
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			and she died. She was the 1st person
		
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			to die for Islam. So you know the
		
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			word shahid. Right? Shahid means the madas.
		
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			She was number 1.
		
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			Okay. Now these are the illustrious companions
		
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			who set the stage. So this is how
		
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			intense
		
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			the persecution
		
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			was,
		
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			and
		
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			it it it reached the point.
		
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			And torture is something, you know, may Allah
		
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			forbid. We see things happening in the world.
		
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			May Allah forbid that this would happen to
		
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			anybody.
		
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			But torture is something that,
		
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			a person can lose their senses
		
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			when they're under torture.
		
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			Ammar came to the prophet
		
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			1 time, and he said,
		
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			I have destroyed myself.
		
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			And the prophet said, how? He said, I
		
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			said. I said. I said disbelief.
		
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			In other words, I I said, he was
		
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			being tortured so bad, he said, okay. Allah
		
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			is not god.
		
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			Because he wasn't controlling himself. Right? So the
		
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			prophet said to him, how was your heart?
		
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			And he said, my heart was strong in
		
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			faith.
		
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			So then the prophet said then you're still
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			And this is a precedent that is set
		
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			for people who are in, undergoing intense suffering,
		
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			and persecution.
		
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			And,
		
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			Ama
		
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			later became
		
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			illustrious companion,
		
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			as well his life is something,
		
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			which is an amazing thing,
		
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			to read about.
		
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			And,
		
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			it got so bad.
		
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			And this is the 5th year of the
		
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			prophethood.
		
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			So this prophet was 40 years old, remember,
		
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			when he got the revelation. So this he's
		
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			45 now.
		
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			So it's 5 years after the prophethood began.
		
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			It was so intense
		
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			that that
		
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			through revelation,
		
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			the prophet,
		
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			enabled his companions to migrate.
		
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			And
		
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			he
		
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			recommended a place for them to migrate.
		
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			Now you you look at the map of
		
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			the Muslim world today,
		
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			and you'll see,
		
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			Mecca, Medina,
		
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			then North
		
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			Syria,
		
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			right, Yemen in the south,
		
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			Iraq,
		
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			all the countries. Right? Then on, you know,
		
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			on the western side, Ethiopia.
		
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			He actually told them not to go to
		
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			Yemen,
		
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			not to go to Iraq,
		
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			not to go to Syria,
		
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			but he told them to go to Al
		
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			Habashah.
		
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			And
		
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			he said to them,
		
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			if you go to Abyssinia,
		
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			Al Habashah,
		
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			meaning it's it's now
		
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			Eritrea,
		
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			Ethiopia.
		
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			If you go to Abyssinia, it would be
		
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			better for you for in it there is
		
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			a king
		
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			who will not tolerate oppression.
		
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			It is a land of truth.
		
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			This is an important statement.
		
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			He's saying that Ethiopia
		
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			is a land of truth.
		
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			Go until such time as Allah shall relieve
		
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			you from your distress.
		
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			So this is found in the Muslim of
		
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			Imam Ahmed. This authentic.
		
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			And,
		
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			the king who was there was a Christian
		
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			king.
		
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			Remember the Christians,
		
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			you had different types of Christians, those who
		
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			believe in Trinity,
		
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			and there were some who believed in 1
		
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			God.
		
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			And Christianity had gone up the Nile south,
		
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			so he was a Christian king. And the
		
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			title for for kings
		
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			in the Aksumite empire because the empire was
		
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			called Aksum.
		
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			Remember, it was the great empire.
		
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			Right? The 1 had the elephants
		
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			that attacked Mecca.
		
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			This is 1 of the 4 great,
		
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			empires of the world.
		
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			Okay? So he told them, go to Ethiopia.
		
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			Go to Al Habasha.
		
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			And
		
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			the title was An Najashi.
		
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			An Najashi. That's how we say it in
		
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			Arabic.
		
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			In English, they say Nagas.
		
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			So you might see it written in some
		
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			of the books, the Nagas.
		
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			In the language of Najashi Tigre,
		
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			if you know Ethiopia, he's a Tigre man,
		
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			they say Nagash.
		
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			Nagash is the actual name.
		
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			K? And these are just so but his
		
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			name was Ashamah,
		
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			Ashamah
		
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			An Najashi.
		
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			K? So he was a great king,
		
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			an amazing empire,
		
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			there. And so the companions went across. They
		
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			crossed the Red Sea,
		
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			12 men and 4 women,
		
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			and amongst them was Uthman ibn Affan. Remember,
		
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			Uthman was being tortured.
		
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			So he was allowed to migrate.
		
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			He had married the daughter of the prophet,
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Ruqayhi. So they made
		
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			the journey,
		
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			and, they settled there,
		
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			for a period of time.
		
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			And when the Quraish,
		
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			found out about,
		
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			their settlement,
		
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			the Quraish
		
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			sent out
		
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			ambassadors to bring them back.
		
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			But the Muslims came out with Najashi.
		
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			They went to his court,
		
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			and they read from,
		
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			they read from the the Quran,
		
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			sort of, they read from, sort of Miriam,
		
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			the chapter on Mary.
		
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			And Najashi cried when he heard this.
		
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			And he said, this is the same as
		
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			our religion. You're safe.
		
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			He said it in words.
		
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			K? So this is what is called the
		
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			first
		
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			migration.
		
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			So this is the first movement
		
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			out of Mecca itself.
		
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			Now,
		
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			word came to the Muslims
		
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			that things had changed in Mecca,
		
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			that the the Quraysh had embraced Islam. What
		
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			actually
		
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			happened
		
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			was the the revealing of a chapter called
		
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			Surat Najim,
		
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			the star.
		
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			And Surat Najim
		
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			is an awe inspiring,
		
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			chapter of the Quran, rhythmic
		
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			verses
		
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			and they read it down by the Kaaba.
		
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			Muslims read it down by the Kaaba. It
		
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			was so awe inspiring in Arabic
		
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			and there's a part where it says prostrate.
		
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			The Quraysh got caught up in this and
		
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			so they all prostrated
		
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			because language is so important to them.
		
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			And so when Quraysh prostrated,
		
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			some people on the periphery
		
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			saw this and they ran.
		
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			They went on a car. They just left
		
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			the city and they start spreading the word
		
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			that Quresh had embraced Islam.
		
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			They had not embraced Islam.
		
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			They were only caught up in the moment.
		
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			And
		
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			after that,
		
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			they continued
		
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			in their,
		
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			wickedness,
		
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			but the message spread all the way to
		
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			Ethiopia.
		
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			And because of that, some of the Muslims
		
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			then returned. They returned
		
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			because they wanted to come home
		
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			and they found out it was actually worse
		
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			than it was before.
		
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			And for those of you who are more
		
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			advanced students,
		
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			this
		
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			scenario surrounding
		
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			Suraj and Nejem,
		
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			this was
		
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			the basis of
		
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			the writings of, a Salman Rushdie.
		
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			Salman Rushdie who who wrote,
		
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			you know, the the the
		
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			the wickedness, what he calls satanic
		
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			verses.
		
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			That was the name of this book. It's
		
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			a big book.
		
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			This might be before some of your time.
		
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			But this was a big thing. Some of
		
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			you remember, though. Right? Salman Richter, he's a
		
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			brilliant writer,
		
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			but he's a shaytan.
		
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			And he started to,
		
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			he said satanic verses are these verses in
		
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			Surat Al Najm.
		
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			And he described
		
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			Mecca.
		
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			It was a historical
		
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			novel
		
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			where you sort of write the truth in
		
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			a fictional way.
		
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			So he described Mecca
		
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			and he said some terrible things about the
		
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			companions.
		
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			He described prostitution amongst them. He used racist
		
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			terminologies,
		
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			and and this was the, you know, his
		
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			inspiration,
		
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			were were these verses.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Now
		
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			because of this situation,
		
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			the Muslims had to go back to Ethiopia
		
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			again.
		
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			So the second part
		
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			of the first migration came about.
		
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			And this 1 had
		
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			83 men and 19 women.
		
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			And they went through these pictures I took
		
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			myself, this is in Ethiopia itself,
		
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			in the area of Aksum as you're traveling
		
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			through the countryside.
		
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			It's beautiful environment. See that? Yeah. This is
		
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			this is another 1 here.
		
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			That that's another 1. Beautiful environment.
		
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			And, so this is the hills
		
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			that are there. So this is where the
		
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			companions actually went through going and it's because,
		
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			Axsome is very high.
		
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			It's highlands.
		
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			It's mountainous.
		
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			And so they took refuge,
		
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			and,
		
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			yes. So this is now when this is
		
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			the Tigray highlands. It's called Tigray land now.
		
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			They're in Ethiopia.
		
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			And this is where this is the time,
		
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			when they sent the delegation
		
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			to bring them back, Ahmad ibn Abbas,
		
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			Dilar ibn Abi Rabiya.
		
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			They sent them to bring them back,
		
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			okay, the Quraish.
		
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			And,
		
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			but the king,
		
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			when he heard from Jaffa
		
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			reading Suramariam,
		
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			he he wept
		
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			and his whole court cried and he said,
		
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			this is the same as us.
		
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			And he gave protection. And this is a
		
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			place in Axum
		
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			which is called the Ark of the Covenant.
		
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			So Ethiopians believe
		
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			that the covenant, this chest that had the
		
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			scrolls and it was the power chest of,
		
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			prophet Suleiman.
		
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			So they believe that he gave this to
		
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			his son, Menelik.
		
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			Because remember Suleiman married Bilqis,
		
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			right, Ethiopian,
		
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			queen,
		
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			and his son is Menelik.
		
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			So they believe that he gave this,
		
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			chest to Menelik.
		
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			It has superpowers in it according to superstition,
		
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			and it's housed in this building.
		
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			It's there now.
		
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			They will not allow anybody to come inside
		
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			this place.
		
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			Queen Elizabeth came,
		
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			and they wouldn't let her in.
		
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			That's how stubborn they are.
		
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			And 1 person
		
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			lives in this building. See there's 1 outside
		
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			there?
		
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			He looks like a Muslim too, but he's
		
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			a Christian.
		
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			1 person lives inside and takes care of
		
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			whatever is inside of them,
		
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			and that person who's on the inside
		
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			never comes out.
		
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			He lives inside his whole life.
		
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			And when he's about to die, they elect
		
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			somebody else and he goes in.
		
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			And we have a problem with 10 days
		
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			in Ramadan.
		
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			Like, we have a problem
		
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			staying in the mosque. Right?
		
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			His whole life
		
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			inside of this building.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So they're serious in their Christianity. They're serious.
		
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			Okay? And that was
		
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			the belief. And Najashi himself
		
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			okay.
		
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			Alright. Let's go back.
		
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			Najashi himself,
		
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			he,
		
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			embraced Islam
		
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			secretly.
		
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			He couldn't openly,
		
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			say because it's a Christian kingdom, the trinitarians
		
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			who believe in 3,
		
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			and those who believe in 1, they were
		
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			struggling against each other.
		
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			So he couldn't announce
		
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			that he was,
		
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			a Muslim,
		
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			but he embraced Islam.
		
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			And word got out
		
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			that the Muslims were there, and the the
		
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			Christian Trinitarians
		
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			started to rebel.
		
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			There was a revolution there,
		
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			in,
		
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			Aksum in Ethiopia.
		
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			And but alhamdulillah the Muslims were able to
		
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			overcome
		
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			what they had to overcome.
		
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			They hid themselves.
		
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			Najashi was victorious,
		
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			and he remained in Islam,
		
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			and he eventually,
		
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			passed away.
		
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			And he died as a Muslim.
		
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			And prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
		
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			when the word came to him in Revelation,
		
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			he then
		
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			lined up the Muslims
		
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			and he said,
		
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			1 of your brothers has died.
		
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			Make
		
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			janaza
		
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			for the absent person.
		
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			That's the first time it was ever made.
		
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			It was for Najashi.
		
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			Okay. And
		
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			this is a great achievement.
		
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			And what it shows
		
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			and the point we're making tonight
		
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			is that
		
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			the Muslims who went across into Africa, what
		
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			is now known as Africa, because now they
		
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			say Asia on 1 side, Africa on the
		
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			other side, These are made up terms.
		
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			Okay. But the Muslims who went across,
		
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			they did not go as Arab conquerors conquering
		
00:35:05 --> 00:35:05
			African people.
		
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			They went as refugees.
		
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			It's very important point.
		
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			Secondly,
		
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			it's a Muslim,
		
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			group
		
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			and
		
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			Christians.
		
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			So this is real interfaith. Right?
		
00:35:22 --> 00:35:24
			It's not phony interfaith.
		
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			This is a real,
		
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			unity,
		
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			between the Muslims and the Christians who believe
		
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			in 1 God.
		
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			So this is the first part
		
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			of this famous,
		
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			migration we're taking tonight.
		
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			Next class we want to look at
		
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			a little bit more,
		
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			in terms of,
		
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			this important migration.
		
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			I wanna open up the floor,
		
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			for any questions, that anybody may have,
		
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			concerning this.
		
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			K? This is the first migration.
		
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			Floor is open for any questions.
		
00:36:17 --> 00:36:19
			Yes. So we want to look at that
		
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			in more details next week,
		
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			because this is an important, you know, you
		
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			know, area to understand.
		
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			But just to answer your question is, were
		
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			there any more,
		
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			East African I'm using this term East African.
		
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			Right?
		
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			You know, Muslims because it could be all
		
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			up and down the coastline.
		
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			Were there any more people
		
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			of so called African origin,
		
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			who were Muslim? Yes.
		
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			Number 1 with Bilal,
		
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			did you know that Bilal had a brother?
		
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			This is a shock. What's the last person?
		
00:36:51 --> 00:36:53
			Person's name? His name was Khaled.
		
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			Khaled ibn Rabah.
		
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			Okay? And it's in the books.
		
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			But Muslims don't bring these things out because
		
00:37:01 --> 00:37:03
			they're details that didn't make
		
00:37:04 --> 00:37:06
			important thing before, but Khaled is well known
		
00:37:06 --> 00:37:08
			to the point where after the death of
		
00:37:08 --> 00:37:09
			the prophetess of salam, when they were in
		
00:37:09 --> 00:37:11
			Damascus, Bilal died in Damascus.
		
00:37:12 --> 00:37:14
			And Khaled wanted to get married
		
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			to 1 of the Arab tribes at the
		
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			time,
		
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			and they were reluctant
		
00:37:19 --> 00:37:21
			because they have their tribalism too. Right? He's
		
00:37:21 --> 00:37:22
			Ethiopian too. Right?
		
00:37:23 --> 00:37:24
			They have their tribalism.
		
00:37:25 --> 00:37:27
			And then, Bilal came on the scene.
		
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			And when they saw Bilal, they said,
		
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			hear and obey.
		
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			Do the marriage.
		
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			Called it. Did you know
		
00:37:37 --> 00:37:39
			that Bilal had a sister?
		
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			This is really a shock.
		
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			Gafira.
		
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			Gafira
		
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			bintraba.
		
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			Radilawanna.
		
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			It was a bint. Raffira.
		
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			She was she was she was amongst her
		
00:37:55 --> 00:37:56
			companions.
		
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			Spinel's sister, man. Oh, no. No. No. Why
		
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			do they use this, like
		
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			Yeah. But obit means the daughter of.
		
00:38:07 --> 00:38:10
			Oh. Yeah. Rabah was like their father. Okay.
		
00:38:10 --> 00:38:10
			Okay?
		
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			Also,
		
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			the prophet, peace be upon him, said take
		
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			the Quran
		
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			from 4 people
		
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			who had, like, the best,
		
00:38:20 --> 00:38:21
			recitations.
		
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			And in in in 1 hadith, he said,
		
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			1 of the 4 was a person named
		
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			Sal Salem,
		
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			Mola,
		
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			Abu Huthayf Abu Huthayfah.
		
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			Salem.
		
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			K. So he was 1 of the 4
		
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			top Quran readers.
		
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			He was East African as well.
		
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			So there's a lot of names, and I'll
		
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			go over more of them,
		
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			next week. 1 of the brother named Muhajah.
		
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			It go comes later in the battle of
		
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			Beidah when they had their major confrontation.
		
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			Muhajah was the first person to die in
		
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			the battle of Beidah.
		
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			K?
		
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			And
		
00:39:05 --> 00:39:06
			remember,
		
00:39:07 --> 00:39:09
			the dry nurse of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi
		
00:39:09 --> 00:39:11
			wa sallam, was like his mother. Does anybody
		
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			remember her name?
		
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			We covered this. Anybody remember?
		
00:39:18 --> 00:39:19
			Hajah? No.
		
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			That's back with Ibrahim, alayhis salaam.
		
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			Think back. Remember her name?
		
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			It starts with an h, though. Right? Yeah.
		
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			It starts with h.
		
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			They said Halima.
		
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			Not Halima. Halima
		
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			was the was the wet nurse.
		
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			Halima
		
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			fed him.
		
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			Her name was Amen.
		
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			Barakah was the was the name, but Amen
		
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			is what she's known as. Remember when the
		
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			prophetess
		
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			mother
		
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			was going to visit, her husband who had
		
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			died,
		
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			Amina,
		
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			and then she was on the road
		
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			and her servant was there. That's Omayemin.
		
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			She was East African.
		
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			And
		
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			Amedda got really sick
		
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			and on her deathbed, she said, take my
		
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			son,
		
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			take him as your son.
		
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			You're his mother.
		
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			And from that time, the prophet, peace be
		
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			upon him, said,
		
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			she never left me either physically or mentally.
		
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			And whenever he would see her because eventually,
		
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			you know, whatever slavery they had was gone.
		
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			You know? And she got married,
		
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			with Zaid,
		
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			and her son was very famous. Does anybody
		
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			know what her son's name is, advanced students?
		
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			Usama. Excellent.
		
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			Usama.
		
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			Everybody knows Osama. Right?
		
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			Not Bin Laden. Right?
		
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			That's where he gets the name from, Osama.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Usama
		
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			was the was the son of Amen.
		
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			K? They were all East African
		
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			amongst the companions.
		
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			And there's a lot more. I'm gonna go
		
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			over some of more of the names with
		
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			you next week, you know, inshallah
		
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			because this will take time to settle in.
		
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			Right? It's a shock for most people, you
		
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			know, when you hear this. But this is
		
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			something which is hidden in plain sight
		
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			and has always been there.
		
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			So floor is open for any questions, that
		
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			anybody has. Yes. Floor.
		
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			We know that because the companions,
		
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			they knew they knew they were there.
		
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			And 15 Sahabas
		
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			died in Ethiopia.
		
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			So in this place, Aksum, there's a there's
		
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			a city now in Aksum called Nagash
		
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			named after the king. It's there right now.
		
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			His grave is there.
		
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			You can visit his grave and there's also
		
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			15 sahabas died while they were there because
		
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			they were there for a few years.
		
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			15 of them died. They're buried there in
		
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			Nagash.
		
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			Okay. So they knew
		
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			according to what we understand it was Jibreel
		
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			alaihis salam, the angel who informed the prophet
		
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			of his death.
		
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			Okay. But but the companions knew
		
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			and it was confirmed by them, you know,
		
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			when they when they because they all eventually
		
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			went to Medina.
		
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			They all eventually left, Ethiopia.
		
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			So do the Christians still believe that he
		
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			was a Christian, like, in their history?
		
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			The Christians in their history
		
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			don't,
		
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			they don't say that he was a Muslim
		
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			because it was, you know, secretly he had
		
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			embraced,
		
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			you know, Islam.
		
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			And, you know, they they don't say that
		
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			in the history. Yeah. Do the Jawshi also
		
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			write on the church?
		
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			Yeah. Next week, inshallah,
		
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			we will we're gonna go over this, you
		
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			know, and give you more details,
		
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			showing the prophet's letter to Najashi and what
		
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			came back
		
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			because there's a there's a there's a lot
		
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			more to this story,
		
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			but what we're establishing tonight is the persecution
		
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			and then the fact that they migrated into
		
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			Africa. Right?
		
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			Not attack attacking Africans to make them slaves.
		
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			That's propaganda.
		
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			You see? That's racist propaganda
		
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			against Arabs and Islamophobia.
		
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			The reason why Muslims went there,
		
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			they were refugees,
		
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			and Christians
		
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			took them in,
		
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			gave them a place to stay
		
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			and refuge.
		
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			You see? And they worked together.
		
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			So that's really interfaith relationships.
		
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			Online, are there are there any other questions?
		
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			And alhamdulillah, I was able to stop praying
		
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			on my job. Love you for the sake
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			Masha'allah.
		
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			You know, our brother or sister,
		
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			you know, prayed on the job. You know,
		
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			it's it's important for us not to be
		
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			afraid to be Muslim.
		
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			You know, stand up, you know, for your
		
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			faith. We have the right to do this.
		
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			This is a very important concept. So the
		
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			floor is open for any general questions now,
		
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			that we have at this point,
		
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			in our new Muslim corner.
		
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			Floor is open.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			I'm trying to think how do I frame
		
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			this. I
		
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			what what is sort of the difference between
		
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			suffering
		
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			and enduring?
		
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			And enduring. Enduring.
		
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			Because I think that, you know, have obviously
		
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			given
		
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			And as you said, you gave an example
		
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			of there was a case, you know, he
		
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			had said something
		
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			that was disbelief, but in his heart, he
		
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			held on. Mhmm. So
		
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			and Allah doesn't want us to put us
		
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			in harm's way.
		
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			And there's so much love and mercy
		
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			difference? Well, we we we we recognize that
		
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			life in life is suffering.
		
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			Because just the fact of being a human
		
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			being,
		
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			we have to go through pain.
		
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			And
		
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			women know that more than men because of
		
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			childbirth. Right?
		
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			And that but that pain makes a bond.
		
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			When we when you get a cut
		
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			for the cut to heal,
		
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			it hurts more than when you got the
		
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			cut, normally.
		
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			The healing process.
		
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			So in life, there is pain.
		
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			But the question is, how do you deal
		
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			with the pain?
		
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			And we are told, you know, to,
		
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			embrace the pain in a sense
		
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			this is where the your endurance is sober.
		
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			So the word sober
		
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			is patience and endurance,
		
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			perseverance,
		
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			under that, and then that suffering,
		
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			can become a source of blessing.
		
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			And it can also become a source of
		
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			strength,
		
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			you know, for the Muslim,
		
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			you know, who who who goes through
		
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			whatever mental or physical
		
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			suffering that they have to go through.
		
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			And life is short and Allah is merciful,
		
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			to us.
		
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			You may have had some pain in your
		
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			life.
		
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			We all have pain, even men. Men have
		
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			a lot of pains too.
		
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			You know, not as much as women physically
		
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			in their body. But, you know, when you
		
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			had that pain,
		
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			after a couple years, it's you don't remember
		
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			it
		
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			like it was.
		
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			That's Allah's mercy.
		
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			Because otherwise, we would be afraid to go
		
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			outside.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So that is the way this is life.
		
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			And if we can endure what we're going
		
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			through,
		
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			then inshallah,
		
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			we will gain a blessing for that.
		
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			Question?
		
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			The question is,
		
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			back in Mecca when the chapter of Surat
		
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			An Najm was being read,
		
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			and it's a very melodic,
		
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			you know, type of captivating.
		
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			And everybody's following it along, and it says,
		
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			you know, you know,
		
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			make prostration
		
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			to Allah. And and the Quraysh did believe
		
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			in Allah,
		
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			but they believe in idols to go to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			They're mushroking. Right? Polytheists.
		
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			So it's saying
		
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			prostrate to Allah.
		
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			And for them, they were so captivated in
		
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			the moment
		
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			they did that.
		
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			And some people thought
		
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			that they had embraced Islam, but they had
		
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			not embraced Islam.
		
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			They were just captivated,
		
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			you know, by the recitation at that moment
		
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			And,
		
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			you know, they they they renounced whatever
		
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			people thought, and they became worse
		
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			in torturing the Muslims than before.
		
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			Okay? So that pro prostration alone does not,
		
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			mean that you're a Muslim.
		
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			You enter Islam when you take your shahada.
		
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			Right? You gotta be a witness
		
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			in the oneness of Allah and the prophethood
		
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			of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That's how
		
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			you enter Islam,
		
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			because many people prostrate for many different reasons.
		
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			Now any other general questions, anybody has?
		
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			What are the lessons? What are the
		
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			lessons you're talking about? There are many lessons.
		
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			Of course, we have to recognize
		
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			that
		
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			the early Muslims were persecuted.
		
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			Just that alone is a lesson
		
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			because the propaganda is that Islam is the
		
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			1 that's aggressive and harms people to accept
		
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			Islam, but, no, it was the opposite.
		
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			That they went through this,
		
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			suffering,
		
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			and through that suffering it is in a
		
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			sense a type of,
		
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			purification.
		
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			So literally
		
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			and you'll see the Quran that is revealed.
		
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			When you read a chapter of the Quran,
		
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			it will say Meccan period
		
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			on on the top or Medina period.
		
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			So the chapters that say Meccan period,
		
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			these is what these were the chapters revealed
		
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			in the 1st 13 years.
		
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			And these generally will be about oneness of
		
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			god,
		
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			next life,
		
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			purity of heart.
		
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			It's character building.
		
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			It was in the Medina period.
		
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			That is where you get solados
		
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			established,
		
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			zakat
		
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			fasting,
		
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			nation building.
		
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			That's after they migrated.
		
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			See? 10 in the 10 years.
		
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			1st period,
		
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			you know, this is a time of purification.
		
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			So we see that the the the companions
		
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			in a sense
		
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			had to go through a lot
		
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			before they actually
		
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			had the right to establish Islam. And so
		
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			what this means also, another important lesson, especially
		
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			for our new Muslim Corner, is that Islam
		
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			came in stages.
		
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			So these Muslims here, some who died
		
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			and went to paradise, they never even made
		
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			5 salats
		
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			because 5 salat didn't come to Medina. Right?
		
00:50:13 --> 00:50:15
			You see? They never fasted in Ramadan.
		
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			They never paid zakat.
		
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			They never made Hajj,
		
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			but yet they're considered to be in paradise
		
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			on the highest level.
		
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			You see?
		
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			So so this shows us,
		
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			a lot about this time period.
		
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			And for a new Muslim who comes into
		
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			Islam,
		
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			a new Muslim also comes in in stages.
		
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			You don't have to do everything
		
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			immediately.
		
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			Right? You you come into Islam,
		
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			you know, at the pace you can, try
		
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			as much as you possibly can,
		
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			and then
		
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			develop
		
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			yourself into Islam. And that's the way Islam
		
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			is supposed to be. We're not supposed to
		
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			be extremists.
		
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			Right? We go stage by stage.
		
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			Any other general questions that anybody has?
		
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			So,
		
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			that will be our lesson for tonight because
		
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			we have some other,
		
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			you know, business that we're doing, you know,
		
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			amongst,
		
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			you know, students as well.
		
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			And alhamdulillah,
		
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			next week, inshallah, we will learn more about
		
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			this important migration,
		
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			some more startling information,
		
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			maybe not as surprising as Bilal's brother and
		
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			sister. Right?
		
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			That 1 you'll never forget. Right?
		
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			Not as surprising as that, but, inshallah, some
		
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			more very interesting information,
		
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			next week. Have a safe journey home.