Abdullah Hakim Quick – New Muslim Corner – Treaty Of Hudaibiyah

Abdullah Hakim Quick
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The speakers discuss the importance of Islam, including its cultural aspect, including its cultural aspect, and the importance of avoiding causing confusion with the use of Halloween as a time of year. They also discuss the life of Prophet Muhammad and the importance of not delaying events, particularly in regards to wealth and loans. The conversation touches on the history and importance of peace, including the return of Muslims to Afghanistan and the success of Islam in cities around the world. The speakers emphasize the importance of peace and understanding the concept of the truce, which is agreed upon, but not done. The discussion also touches on the idea of "interest-free loans" and the importance of history and peace in the world.

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			Alhamdulillah, wa salatu wa salam wa rasool Allah
		
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			wa barak to you.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah.
		
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			So alhamdulillah, this again is a continuation of
		
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			our New Muslim Corner.
		
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			And the intention, of course, is to provide
		
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			that space for those who have recently embraced
		
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			Islam and for those who are reviving their
		
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			faith.
		
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			And we are looking at the foundations, the
		
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			foundations of the religion itself.
		
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			Of course, the two parts of the major
		
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			statement of belief is that there is no
		
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			God but Allah.
		
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			That is what we call tawhid, right, the
		
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			oneness of God.
		
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			And then Muhammad is his messenger.
		
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			That's risalah, so that's the prophethood.
		
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			So these are the two foundations.
		
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			And in looking back at some of the
		
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			key points that we had made about the
		
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			first part, the first foundation of tawhid, and
		
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			that is that one of our great scholars,
		
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			Sidi Abdul Rahman al-Akhtari, a North African
		
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			scholar, in part of his text, he had
		
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			written about what is required of a new
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			And this is a different way of approaching
		
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			this issue, and I found it very refreshing,
		
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			especially for those who are embracing Islam.
		
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			And he began by saying, to correct and
		
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			authenticate your faith.
		
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			So in other words, he's assuming that the
		
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			person who is a new Muslim has a
		
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			faith.
		
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			And that's very important because the Christian missionaries
		
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			looked at non-Christians as infidels.
		
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			And many religions look at people who are
		
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			not practitioners as total infidels that have no
		
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			religion at all.
		
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			They're like animals.
		
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			That's not the Islamic position.
		
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			What the position is that you need to
		
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			correct your faith.
		
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			If there's something wrong with your concept of
		
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			the faith, then correct that and then authenticate
		
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			it to make sure that the sources that
		
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			you're using in order to establish your faith
		
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			are authentic or as authentic as possible.
		
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			And this is a big question, especially for
		
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			the Christian community where there has been a
		
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			lot of changes and additions and interruptions and
		
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			confusions in the name of culture.
		
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			And we see now that people's religion, especially
		
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			in the Western countries, in Canada where we
		
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			are and in America, much of the West,
		
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			the religion has become so watered down that
		
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			it sort of becomes part of the culture.
		
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			And if you were to say, what is
		
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			Canadian culture?
		
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			So this is a big question.
		
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			What is Canadian culture?
		
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			Somebody might say maple syrup and certain British
		
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			or French type of, but that's from Britain,
		
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			that's from France.
		
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			I mean, real Canadian culture would be the
		
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			indigenous people because Canada is an Iroquois word,
		
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			the first nation's word.
		
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			This is a big village.
		
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			Okay, so, but when the colonists came, when
		
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			they settled, took over the land and imposed
		
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			their culture upon the indigenous people, you know,
		
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			then certain Christian holidays and traditions came into
		
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			the culture.
		
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			These traditions had gone through changes from the
		
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			time of Jesus, peace be upon him, going
		
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			into Europe, we found out that they were
		
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			mixed with a lot of the pagan cultural
		
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			beliefs.
		
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			So the beliefs of Astray or Easter as
		
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			the goddess of the spring.
		
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			So Easter becomes this spring celebration, which is
		
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			pre-Jesus.
		
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			Okay, so it's all mixed up now.
		
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			Christmas becomes the winter solstice celebration.
		
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			That's before Jesus.
		
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			We're just going through a stage right now
		
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			or a time of the year, it's Halloween.
		
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			And so Halloween somehow is being pushed as
		
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			Canadian culture.
		
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			And for Muslims, it's confusing who have children
		
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			in other religions, you know, whose children are
		
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			in the school system, because, you know, Halloween,
		
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			if we go historically, we see it has
		
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			nothing to do with Christianity.
		
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			It's all's hallow evening, it's the time of
		
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			Samhain.
		
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			And it's like a pagan belief, they believe
		
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			that the souls of the dead were haunting
		
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			people.
		
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			It's like a satanic type of cult, Druid
		
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			ceremonies.
		
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			And it got mixed up with Christianity again.
		
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			So it becomes, the Christians co-opted it
		
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			and they said all hallows evening.
		
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			Meaning the dead, in respect of the dead,
		
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			this is the evening.
		
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			And then November 1st is like your, you
		
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			know, when you give thanks for the creation,
		
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			for the vegetables and the good.
		
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			So all hallows evening becomes Halloween.
		
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			But the practices have nothing to do with
		
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			Christianity.
		
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			So this is the culture confused with so
		
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			-called religion.
		
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			And somebody coming from outside might think that
		
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			this is a Christian way of doing things,
		
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			you're in a Christian country, but has nothing
		
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			to do with Christianity.
		
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			So we have to correct and authenticate, and
		
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			Christians have to correct and authenticate their faith
		
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			to be sure that this is the real
		
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			teachings of Jesus, or it is a mix
		
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			-up.
		
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			And authenticate it.
		
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			Is it really coming from Jesus, who spoke
		
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			Hebrew and Aramaic, not Greek?
		
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			And the oldest scrolls are the Dead Sea
		
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			Scrolls.
		
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			So is this really authentic?
		
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			So these are some of the questions that
		
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			Sidi Abdur Rahman is saying, even for a
		
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			person who comes into Islam, you have a
		
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			faith, and it's gonna impact you.
		
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			And it's not all wrong.
		
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			And as a Christian, you will find out
		
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			that much of your faith, maybe 80%
		
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			of the faith itself, is the same, it's
		
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			just how we implement it.
		
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			So authenticate it, correct it.
		
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			And then he also said to seek knowledge
		
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			of your obligations.
		
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			So as a new Muslim, find out those
		
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			obligations that have come through the revelation, things
		
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			that you're supposed to do in terms of
		
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			your purification, your prayers and your fasting.
		
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			You know, try to get familiar with this
		
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			as soon as you can.
		
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			And stay within the limits commanded by God.
		
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			So there are certain limits in terms of
		
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			what we eat and our lifestyle and whatnot,
		
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			get familiar with these things.
		
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			And then he made a very important statement,
		
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			and that is to make a sincere repentance.
		
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			So whatever happened in the past, repent from
		
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			these things, which means you recognize the sins
		
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			of the past, you're turning to Allah, you
		
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			regret evil actions, and you firmly intend not
		
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			to return to the sin, and you compensate
		
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			any injustice that was done.
		
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			And then you avoid unlawful deeds.
		
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			Now, we want to look at the last
		
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			part of what Sidi Abdel Rahman said tonight.
		
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			And that was, he said, for a person
		
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			who has just come into Islam, and these
		
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			are things that we try to do, we're
		
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			changing our lifestyle now.
		
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			Okay, so he said, do not take wealth
		
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			of others by force.
		
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			Do not take wealth of others by force.
		
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			And this is something that can get played
		
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			out in many different ways.
		
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			But don't be an aggressor, especially by force.
		
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			And we're in a society now in the
		
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			West that some people call dog-eat-dog
		
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			society, a capitalist society.
		
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			Okay, only the strong will survive.
		
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			It's like a jungle.
		
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			That's not the Islamic approach to force, especially
		
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			with wealth.
		
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			And he said, do not earn wealth through
		
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			acts of intercession or borrowing.
		
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			Now, this is something that comes about in
		
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			different societies, but it's when you sort of
		
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			like intercede, you're playing games to get your
		
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			wealth.
		
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			We have a lot of games that go
		
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			on in the banks, especially with loans and
		
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			mortgages.
		
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			And you have people who gain their money
		
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			just by interceding and getting people to take
		
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			a mortgage or to take a loan.
		
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			And then the whole borrowing type of thing.
		
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			The lending system.
		
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			He said, you want to change your lifestyle?
		
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			Come out of the lending system.
		
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			Okay, we believe in buying and selling, right?
		
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			And the products has intrinsic value, right?
		
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			And we sell that for something.
		
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			We're straightforward.
		
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			The price can go up and down, but
		
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			it's clear.
		
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			Okay, so have clear economic dealings.
		
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			So he's given advice as to what direction
		
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			we should take.
		
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			And then he made an advice, which is
		
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			very important one, which will stay with you
		
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			throughout your Islam, inshallah.
		
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			He said, do not delay your Salat after
		
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			the prescribed times.
		
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			So if there are times within a framework
		
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			that you should make it, try not to
		
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			delay your Salat.
		
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			This is a good advice.
		
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			And it keeps the rhythm of the lifestyle
		
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			of a Muslim.
		
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			So these are some of the points that
		
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			Sidi Abdur Rahman made in terms of what
		
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			is required of a new Muslim.
		
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			Does anybody have any questions on any of
		
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			this?
		
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			If it's clear, some of it may seem
		
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			a little bit unclear.
		
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			He's coming from a society that is a
		
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			few hundred years ago in North Africa.
		
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			But still, it's very relevant what he's saying.
		
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			In other words, what he's saying, when you
		
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			become a Muslim, it's not just a statement.
		
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			It's not just eating halal food, right?
		
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			It's not just changing your name, assuming somebody
		
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			else's identity, no.
		
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			You have to change your behavior, change your
		
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			lifestyle.
		
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			And realize that if you have force, if
		
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			Allah has given you force, you maybe have
		
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			force with your mouth, with your hands, physical
		
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			force, whatever it is, right?
		
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			Beware of it.
		
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			Because you can be called to account for
		
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			any force that you use in the wrong
		
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			way.
		
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			So we want to look at the life
		
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			of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, to
		
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			continue to get familiar with Muhammad Rasulullah.
		
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			And that is that Muhammad is the messenger
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			Peace and blessings be upon him.
		
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			And to get familiar with him, we recognize
		
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			that Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was
		
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			granted prophethood at the age of 40.
		
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			Okay, so that would be around 610 AD.
		
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			And he stayed in Mecca, that was his
		
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			hometown, for about 13 years.
		
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			And then he migrated to Medina.
		
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			Okay, so there's the Meccan period of 13
		
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			years, and then there's the Medina period of
		
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			10 years.
		
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			So what connects the two periods is the
		
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			hijrah, and that is the migration.
		
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			So our calendar begins with the hijrah itself.
		
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			It was chosen by the companions.
		
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			And so this is six years after the
		
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			hijrah, after the migration to Medina.
		
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			And the Prophet, peace be upon him, he
		
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			had a dream.
		
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			And we learned from our text that part
		
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			of the revelation that comes to the prophets
		
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			comes through their dreams.
		
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			And what is left of prophethood is dreams.
		
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			It's righteous dreams that are given to believers.
		
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			The only difference is that we can't say
		
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			that the dream that we had is true
		
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			until it happens.
		
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			If it didn't happen, you cannot say it's
		
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			a true dream, whereas prophets actually got guidance
		
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			through their dream.
		
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			So in this case, the Prophet had a
		
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			dream where he was making the lesser pilgrimage
		
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			that is going from outside of Mecca and
		
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			donning certain garments, taking off your normal clothes,
		
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			carrying animals, going to the house of Allah,
		
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			the Kaaba, sacrificing animals.
		
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			This is called Umrah.
		
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			So Umrah is lesser pilgrimage.
		
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			And that can be made at any time
		
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			in the year.
		
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			So he saw himself in the dream making
		
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			this Umrah.
		
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			And he told his companions and he prepared
		
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			them and he said, this must be the
		
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			time.
		
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			Because the Quraysh who had attacked them a
		
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			number of times, we learned in the Battle
		
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			of the Trench, that was the final solution.
		
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			It didn't work.
		
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			And so now it's six years after the
		
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			hijrah.
		
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			Time has gone by, people are accepting Islam.
		
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			The attitudes have changed.
		
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			So he said, maybe now it's time for
		
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			us to go back to Mecca and to
		
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			visit the house.
		
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			And his intention was not to go for
		
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			warfare.
		
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			So he gathered his companions around and there
		
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			was about 1400 men and 70 cows.
		
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			And they set out for Mecca.
		
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			And there's a simple garment, Ihram garments that
		
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			they wore.
		
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			And they set out for Mecca.
		
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			And of course, word came to Quraysh because
		
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			there's spies along the way.
		
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			So the information reached Mecca that they were
		
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			actually on their way.
		
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			Now, the Meccans did not know because they
		
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			had attacked three times.
		
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			So they thought that maybe this is a
		
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			counter-attack.
		
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			And so they set an ambush.
		
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			And finally, they met the Muslims at a
		
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			place called Al-Hudaibiyah, okay?
		
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			And the Muslims then camped there and sent
		
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			out Uthman ibn Affan, Radi-Allahu Anhu, who
		
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			was one of the great companions.
		
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			He sent out Uthman to the Meccans to
		
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			negotiate because they didn't come to fight.
		
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			And you have, in the way they used
		
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			to dress, you have a sword, your main
		
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			fighting sword, and then you have another dagger
		
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			or hanja that you wear that you use
		
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			for different things.
		
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			It can be used for fighting, but normally
		
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			for different types of activities.
		
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			And that was the dress of the Muslim
		
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			and the Arabs.
		
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			And they say that that's one of the
		
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			things that the people of Arabian Peninsula, you
		
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			know, the Omanis and the Yemenis, especially the
		
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			Omanis.
		
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			They say the Omanis have three things.
		
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			They still have it in their dress that
		
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			the Arabs used to have.
		
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			Three things.
		
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			One is the hanja.
		
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			So if you ever see a formal occasion
		
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			where the Omani is, or the Yemenis too,
		
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			they have this dagger.
		
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			Okay, secondly is the imamah.
		
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			It's a turban.
		
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			And the third is asar.
		
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			It's like a cane or a staff.
		
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			Okay, so these three things, it's not compulsory,
		
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			but it was part of the culture that
		
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			was where the Arabs, Muslims especially, were known
		
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			for.
		
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			So they met at Hudaybiyyah, and Uthman was
		
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			sent out in order to negotiate.
		
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			And word came back to the Muslims that
		
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			Uthman had been killed.
		
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			Now this was serious because Uthman had married
		
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			the daughter of the Prophet, peace be upon
		
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			him.
		
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			He actually married two of his daughters.
		
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			One of his daughters he was married to
		
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			and she passed away.
		
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			And then the Prophet married him to another
		
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			one of his daughters.
		
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			He's the only person ever to marry two
		
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			daughters of a Prophet.
		
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			Very important person.
		
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			And the word came back that he was
		
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			assassinated.
		
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			And so the Muslims now said, now we're
		
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			gonna fight.
		
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			And they took a pledge underneath a tree
		
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			in Hudaybiyyah that they would be ready to
		
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			fight to the death.
		
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			But finally, word came that he had not
		
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			been killed.
		
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			And so they began a negotiation.
		
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			And again, this is interesting because they try
		
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			to push Muslims as though they're being very
		
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			hard.
		
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			And when it comes to treaties, and you
		
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			see this issue about the truce and about
		
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			ceasefire, right?
		
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			Big thing in the media now.
		
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			Who's gonna agree to the ceasefire, right?
		
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			But you'll see that historically, and even from
		
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			these times, Muslims are taught to agree a
		
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			lot of things.
		
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			We want peace.
		
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			So we'll bend over backwards for peace.
		
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			Anything that's reasonable.
		
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			So they came together and they were gonna
		
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			write a treaty.
		
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			Right, and it said in the beginning, the
		
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			writer Ali ibn Abi Talib was one of
		
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			the scribes.
		
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			And he wrote on the top of the
		
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			page, Bismillah Rahman Rahim.
		
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			In the name of Allah, most gracious, most
		
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			merciful.
		
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			That's how we start off things.
		
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			The Quraish said, we don't know this Rahman
		
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			and Rahim.
		
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			Erase it.
		
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			Ali of course said, I'll never erase this.
		
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			But the Prophet, peace be upon him, he
		
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			said, erase it.
		
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			We don't need it.
		
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			So you say, Bismillah Rahman Rahim.
		
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			In your name, O Allah.
		
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			Then it said from Muhammad, the messenger of
		
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			Allah, you know, to the Quraish, they said,
		
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			no, we don't know him as the messenger
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			Erase it.
		
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			And Ali was ready to fight.
		
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			Prophet said, no, erase it.
		
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			We don't need it.
		
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			You see, he wants to come to peace.
		
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			Not gonna get caught up on ego type
		
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			things and whatever.
		
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			And so the agreement was, without going into
		
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			all the details, and you can see, it
		
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			seems like it's really in favor of the
		
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			Quraish.
		
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			So the agreement was that the Muslims must
		
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			return to Medina.
		
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			You're not gonna go to Mecca and make
		
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			Umrah.
		
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			So the whole purpose of your trip is
		
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			canceled.
		
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			It's like a failure, like for some people.
		
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			So you can't go back to Medina.
		
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			You must return, and next year, you can
		
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			come back, but you come back for three
		
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			days.
		
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			And you'll have Mecca to yourself for three
		
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			days.
		
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			But that's next year.
		
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			The second point is that when you come,
		
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			you could have light armor.
		
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			That could be allowed.
		
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			And war, warfare, ceasefire should be for 10
		
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			years.
		
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			10 years ceasefire, okay?
		
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			So that's excellent.
		
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			For us, that's excellent.
		
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			10 years of peace.
		
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			Because Islam can't spread really properly in war.
		
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			So 10 years ceasefire.
		
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			But then they said, anybody who escapes from
		
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			Mecca and goes to Medina to take refuge
		
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			with the Muslims must be returned to the
		
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			Quraish.
		
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			You cannot keep this person if they ran
		
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			away from us to become a Muslim.
		
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			Now this one is kind of strange.
		
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			Okay, but the Prophet accepted it.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And whoever wished to make a treaty with
		
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			either side could be free.
		
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			So if somebody leaves Medina and goes to
		
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			Mecca, they don't have to return.
		
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			Okay, you can go either way.
		
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			So this sounds really kind of lopsided, right?
		
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			But the Prophet, peace be upon him, he
		
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			agreed, okay?
		
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			But this was strange.
		
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			And Ali and even Umar bin Khattab, who
		
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			was a great companion, he didn't want to
		
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			accept this.
		
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			He said, this is really strange.
		
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			And the Prophet, peace be upon him, he
		
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			said to his companions, now we have to
		
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			take off the Haram garments, sacrifice our animals,
		
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			we're gonna go back to Medina.
		
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			Nobody moved.
		
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			Nobody moved.
		
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			And it was strange, because normally everything he
		
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			says, they move, right?
		
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			Nobody moved.
		
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			And so the Prophet went into his tent.
		
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			And his wife, Umm Salama, Radhi Allahu Anha,
		
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			who was his chief advisor, she was there
		
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			watching the events, because she had come along
		
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			for the Umrah.
		
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			And she was his chief advisor.
		
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			And she said, what's happening?
		
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			And the Prophet said, they're not moving, I'm
		
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			telling them, we're going back to Medina.
		
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			And so she said to him, very wise
		
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			advice, she said, don't say it, do it.
		
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			In other words, don't just say, take off
		
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			your Haram garments, go out there and take
		
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			off your garments, begin the sacrifice, prepare to
		
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			go to Medina, and they will naturally follow
		
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			you.
		
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			Because Muslims are conditioned to follow the Prophet,
		
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			peace and blessings be upon him, and he
		
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			went out and did it, and everybody followed.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So, and the Prophet, peace and blessings be
		
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			upon him, gave special blessings for those who
		
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			carried this out.
		
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			And they returned to Medina.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Now, some strange things happened.
		
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			There was a person by the name of
		
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			Abu Basir.
		
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			Remember the agreement, if you accept Islam and
		
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			you take refuge in Medina, you gotta be
		
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			sent back.
		
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			And you know what the Quraish would do
		
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			to somebody who's probably gonna be sent back.
		
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			Abu Basir accepted Islam, and then he was
		
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			told, you have to go back.
		
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			That's the agreement.
		
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			So, but what he did was, instead of
		
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			going back to Mecca, he escaped to the
		
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			coast, somewhere around what is now Jeddah, and
		
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			along the coast, he escaped there, and other
		
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			people who wanted to go to Medina but
		
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			couldn't because of the treaty, they went with
		
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			Abu Basir.
		
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			And he waged guerrilla warfare against the Quraish.
		
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			Okay, from there, attacking their caravans, and whatever.
		
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			And he had at least 70 Muslims with
		
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			him who had joined there.
		
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			The Quraish then, because of Abu Basir, they
		
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			said, we want to change the agreement.
		
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			So that clause about Muslims escaping and going
		
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			back to, having to go back to where
		
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			they came from, dropped.
		
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			So the clause is completely dropped.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And so, from there, peace, remember, period of
		
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			time now, there's no fighting going on.
		
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			So peace reigns the land.
		
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			Okay, and the dawah is now clear.
		
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			The call to Islam is clear, and people
		
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			are being sent out, giving the dawah, calling
		
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			people to Islam.
		
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			Islam is then spreading faster than it ever
		
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			was before.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And so this was a major victory and
		
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			the fighting that would have happened in Hudaybiyyah,
		
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			it was averted.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Now, and Muslims, because they negotiated together with
		
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			Quraish, the other tribes are looking at this.
		
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			And what that means is that Muslims are
		
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			equal to Quraish in negotiations.
		
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			So all of these things are very important
		
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			in tribal type of understandings.
		
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			And so because of this, the Muslims then,
		
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			the following year, they made their Umrah.
		
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			And it is reported that they went down
		
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			into Mecca.
		
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			The Quraish emptied out the city.
		
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			Because when you come into Mecca, there's some
		
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			hills surrounding the Kaaba.
		
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			Okay, times have changed now, because they've built
		
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			all these giant clock towers and all kinds
		
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			of things, which is sort of like blocking.
		
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			But before, I remember when I, alhamdulillah, made
		
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			it the first time, this is back way
		
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			back, that is 1973, right?
		
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			Okay, and when you entered Mecca at that
		
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			time, and then you come to the hills,
		
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			you go up in the hill, and then
		
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			you look down, the Kaaba is amazing thing.
		
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			It's the biggest building anywhere in the city.
		
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			Okay, and all the emphasis is on the
		
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			Kaaba.
		
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			That's the problem now, because this giant clock
		
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			tower, you know, is the Eye of Sorin,
		
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			this thing that's up there.
		
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			This giant tower is up there.
		
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			But that's not how it was supposed to
		
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			be.
		
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			The Kaaba is the center.
		
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			Okay, and so they came down the hills,
		
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			and it was, Mecca was free for them.
		
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			They made Umrah, and they went back to
		
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			their old homes.
		
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			Remember, they had been driven out of Mecca
		
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			to Medina, and they had been suffering.
		
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			Now they were free to come back, and
		
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			it was amazing feeling.
		
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			They didn't have to fight.
		
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			They were back in the house of Allah
		
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			again.
		
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			You know, that is the first house, you
		
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			know, built for the worship of one God.
		
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			It was an amazing victory for the Muslims.
		
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			And Umar ibn al-Khattab, who was one
		
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			of their great companions, and he was given
		
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			the ability to disagree with the Prophet on
		
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			certain issues.
		
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			He really had disagreed with going back to
		
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			Medina.
		
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			This treaty, he did not like this treaty.
		
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			And he reluctantly agreed.
		
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			He had to agree, but he reluctantly agreed.
		
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			To the treaty.
		
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			And then, after this, at the time of
		
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			this Umrah, there's a chapter called Surah al
		
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			-Fath, which is the chapter of the victory,
		
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			where Allah is saying, inna fatahna laka fathan
		
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			mubeena, that verily, we have opened up for
		
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			you.
		
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			We have given you a great victory.
		
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			This is a great victory.
		
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			And then Umar ibn al-Khattab then said,
		
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			now I understand, O Messenger of Allah.
		
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			Now I understand.
		
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			Because if they had not agreed with the
		
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			treaty, and they fought the Quraysh at that
		
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			point, they didn't have their armor, they didn't
		
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			have their weapons of war, they would have
		
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			lost a lot of people.
		
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			* confusion.
		
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			But having patience, and making a treaty that
		
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			seems to be against you, it actually turned
		
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			out to be for them.
		
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			Right, so this is a concept.
		
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			It's the Treaty of al-Hudaybiyyah.
		
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			This is a tactical concept.
		
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			And you may have Hudaybiyyah situations in your
		
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			own life.
		
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			That is where it seems like the agreement
		
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			that you're making, or the treaty with somebody,
		
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			it seems a little bit against you, but
		
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			it's gonna get you peace, and it's gonna
		
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			solve the problem, then it's okay, take the
		
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			blow.
		
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			Because the greater good, you see, the greater
		
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			good, this is the Hudaybiyyah Treaty.
		
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			Okay, and this is a tactic that people
		
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			use in confrontations.
		
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			Okay, and this turned out to be a
		
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			great victory, and is considered to be one
		
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			of the key turning points in early Islamic
		
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			history, without warfare.
		
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			Without fighting.
		
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			And you'll see that some of the greatest
		
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			victories for the Muslims was not fighting.
		
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			Because this wrong concept, that Islam is force,
		
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			and it's accepted with force, the wrong concept.
		
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			And this is one of the proofs of
		
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			the fact that the intention is peace and
		
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			justice in the land.
		
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			So this is the Treaty of al-Hudaybiyyah.
		
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			And again, it shows who the prophet is,
		
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			his personality, how the revelation affected him and
		
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			his people.
		
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			Okay, and this has affected people over the
		
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			years, 1400 years plus.
		
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			This has affected people all over the world.
		
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			There has never been any leader.
		
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			There has never been any movement that has
		
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			had far-reaching impact that the movement of
		
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			Islam has had with this details.
		
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			Does not exist.
		
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			So I wanna open up the floor for
		
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			any questions that anybody may have concerning the
		
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			Treaty of al-Hudaybiyyah and this part of
		
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			the prophet's life.
		
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			So the floor is open.
		
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			Any questions online that anybody has?
		
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			Floor is open.
		
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			Floor is open for any questions that anybody
		
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			may have concerning this.
		
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			Again, this is the use of force and
		
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			this is tactics that Muslims have.
		
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			And sometimes the best tactic is not meeting
		
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			force with force, right?
		
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			Even in martial arts, this is like Aikido,
		
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			right?
		
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			The difference between karate and Aikido, right?
		
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			They will not meet force with force in
		
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			Aikido.
		
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			So they'll take your force and they use
		
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			it against you, right?
		
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			Okay, so this is a concept.
		
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			That's very important concept within our Islam and
		
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			how we deal.
		
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			Floor is open for any questions anybody may
		
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			have concerning this.
		
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			Otherwise, the floor is open for any general
		
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			questions anybody may have concerning Islam itself, issues.
		
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			Floor is open for discussions.
		
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			The Muslim countries that you know, there's actually
		
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			no country that's completely Islamic country.
		
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			They have Muslim majority people in many of
		
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			the countries.
		
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			But if it was a Muslim country, then
		
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			they would not use the interest and usury
		
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			system.
		
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			They would not be under the International Monetary
		
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			Fund.
		
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			They have a different way of going about
		
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			business.
		
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			So what it would be within the Islamic
		
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			system is that when you go to the
		
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			bank and you wanna, you take out a
		
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			loan on this house and you gotta pay
		
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			back and then there's interest tacked onto it.
		
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			So you will pay back the interest and
		
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			then you pay back the loan.
		
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			It might take a long time to pay
		
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			it back, right?
		
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			If you don't pay, you can lose.
		
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			You will lose your mortgage, you might lose
		
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			the house.
		
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			The bank never loses.
		
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			Okay, the person who takes out the mortgage.
		
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			The Islamic system is, it's a cooperative system
		
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			in the sense it's a partnership.
		
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			So in other words, if there was a
		
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			house worth a certain amount of money, then
		
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			you're a partner with the bank.
		
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			So if it fails, if there's some failure
		
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			in the project or if something goes wrong,
		
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			the bank is your partner.
		
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			It's not your controller.
		
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			It's a cooperative, it's more of a cooperative
		
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			system.
		
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			You pay them back, but it's not like
		
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			the punishment of how interest is put on
		
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			people's lives.
		
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			And it makes it very difficult for Muslims.
		
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			It can be a complicated discussion.
		
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			There have been groups, Muslim groups that have
		
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			tried to have interest-free loans and interest
		
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			-free mortgages and whatnot.
		
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			One is the Ansar, Ansar Co-op, which
		
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			is located here in Scarborough.
		
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			And so there are groups that have done
		
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			that where you could possibly buy a house
		
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			without having to go into a regular interest
		
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			-bearing mortgage or a mortgage-bearing mortgage, okay?
		
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			There's discussions about whether you are allowed to
		
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			do it or not.
		
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			I'm not a mufti to give decisions about
		
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			what is permissible, what is not permissible, but
		
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			the Islamic way would not be the same
		
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			as the interest system here.
		
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			Wouldn't be the same.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Floor is open for any other general questions
		
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			anybody may have, yeah.
		
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			Yeah, so the question is, is it the
		
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			duty of Muslims to give dawah?
		
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			And that is the call to Islam.
		
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			And Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, balighu
		
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			anni walau ayah.
		
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			He said, spread this message from me even
		
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			if it is one verse.
		
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			And that was plural.
		
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			And so everybody is supposed to be involved
		
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			in dawah, but that does not mean that
		
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			everybody has to stand on the corner of
		
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			dawah.
		
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			You can't just stand there and be condescending
		
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			and give out flyers and debate with Christians.
		
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			No.
		
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			You can give dawah to somebody just by
		
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			being a good neighbor, right?
		
00:38:55 --> 00:38:57
			Just by sharing certain things.
		
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			And the people say to you, why are
		
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			you doing this?
		
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			You say, because I'm a Muslim.
		
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			And then they might say, what is a
		
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			Muslim?
		
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			And you explain to them, that's dawah.
		
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			So everybody is supposed to be doing that.
		
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			All Muslims are supposed to be ambassadors of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Because we're living in a non-Muslim country.
		
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			And technically speaking, with this migration to Medina,
		
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			Muslims for centuries never lived in non-Muslim
		
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			countries.
		
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			Okay, unless they were there for diplomatic reasons
		
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			or business reasons or something like that.
		
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			But you don't live in a non-Muslim
		
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			country, right?
		
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			With interest there and alcohol and pigs running
		
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			around and all types.
		
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			You don't live in a society like this,
		
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			right?
		
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			But the precedent that's been set with the
		
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			world wars and with the confusions is that
		
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			in the colonial period, where our countries were
		
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			conquered, they were colonized, that some Muslim countries
		
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			are actually worse than this country in terms
		
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			of justice.
		
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			So there is a reason why people have
		
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			to leave their countries and come to a
		
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			place, for instance, like Canada.
		
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			There are some valid reasons.
		
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			But we shouldn't just eat food and go
		
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			to Metro and think that we're living the
		
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			best lifestyle.
		
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			We're still supposed to do something for Islam.
		
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			Everybody is supposed to be doing that.
		
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			You mean a duty like, what do you
		
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			mean?
		
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			Like to correct the other Muslim from something?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			It's someone that's your friend that does pray
		
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			a lot or does all their, fulfills all
		
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			their duties to Allah.
		
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			But like, how does that look amongst Muslims
		
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			or is it?
		
00:41:01 --> 00:41:05
			Yes, so the relationship of Muslims to Muslims,
		
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			we do have a duty to our brothers
		
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			and sisters that we give advice, we help
		
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			as much as possible.
		
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			If a person's got a problem, we should
		
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			give them nasiha and advice and help.
		
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			Yes, we do have a duty.
		
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			But we should not be imposing on other
		
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			people because sometimes some Muslims get it in
		
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			their mind they're supposed to be correcting everybody
		
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			around and we're like their police force or
		
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			something.
		
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			This is the wrong concept, but we do
		
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			have a duty.
		
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			And there's different methodologies about how you get
		
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			an idea across to somebody.
		
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			It can be even done in a very
		
00:41:44 --> 00:41:45
			respectful way.
		
00:41:46 --> 00:41:47
			But you can help people.
		
00:41:48 --> 00:41:49
			That's compassion, right?
		
00:41:49 --> 00:41:51
			You have to have a feeling of empathy,
		
00:41:51 --> 00:41:52
			especially for other Muslims.
		
00:41:55 --> 00:42:00
			What, the concept itself?
		
00:42:07 --> 00:42:11
			Just empathy, having compassion and having feelings for
		
00:42:11 --> 00:42:13
			other people, just in general, that's a general
		
00:42:13 --> 00:42:14
			concept.
		
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			There's a question online?
		
00:42:15 --> 00:42:16
			Yep.
		
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			Next year, when Muslims went for Umrah?
		
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			Mm-hmm.
		
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			What happened?
		
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			Was the Prophet with the team next year
		
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			when Muslims went for Umrah?
		
00:42:28 --> 00:42:30
			Yes, so after the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, the
		
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			following year, they went back and the Prophet,
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, was there.
		
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			Okay, and so they made the Umrah and
		
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			it was an amazing experience that they had.
		
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			Do you show that Muslims can make compromises
		
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			in difficult circumstances?
		
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			Would it be too much to say that
		
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			it entails that one has to accept oppression?
		
00:42:53 --> 00:42:55
			Yes, so this is the point.
		
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			Can Muslims make compromises?
		
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			So this shows that you can make compromises
		
00:43:03 --> 00:43:07
			in order to meet your greater goal than
		
00:43:07 --> 00:43:09
			you can make compromises.
		
00:43:09 --> 00:43:12
			And this is a prophetic example of this.
		
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			Some people feel that you gotta be rigid
		
00:43:14 --> 00:43:15
			in every single thing.
		
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			Rigidity.
		
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			But that's ignorance, that's not wisdom.
		
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			You know, and so compromise is an important
		
00:43:26 --> 00:43:26
			thing.
		
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			There was one leader in Islam.
		
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			I don't wanna say the names of people
		
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			because it gets into, but this leader, he
		
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			was leading his people, and they said, how
		
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			do you have peace in dealing with these
		
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			people?
		
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			And he said, it's like a rope.
		
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			Somebody's pulling on the rope.
		
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			He said, when they pull too hard, I
		
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			let it go.
		
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			And when they let go, I pull.
		
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			Like it's like wisdom in how he's dealing
		
00:43:47 --> 00:43:48
			with people.
		
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			So compromise is wisdom.
		
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			So in this case, it was compromise.
		
00:43:54 --> 00:43:58
			Just imagine today, you wanna write Bismillah ar
		
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			-Rahman ar-Rahim, and someone said, erase that.
		
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			Some brothers were like, we wanna go to
		
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			war based on that.
		
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			Okay, this is the prophet himself.
		
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			He said, erase it from the treaty.
		
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			Erase that it says Muhammad Rasulullah, just Muhammad
		
00:44:17 --> 00:44:18
			ibn Abdullah.
		
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			That's a big compromise, but he did it.
		
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			And later, when the year went by, peace
		
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			in the land, they went to Mecca, it
		
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			was opened up, everything changed for them.
		
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			The respect of all the Arabian Peninsula came
		
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			for the Muslims, because they were in Mecca
		
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			back at the Kaaba.
		
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			You know, calling out for the one God,
		
00:44:44 --> 00:44:48
			making towaf, it was a major victory for
		
00:44:48 --> 00:44:48
			them.
		
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			Because of the compromise.
		
00:44:50 --> 00:44:53
			So yes, it definitely shows, it's part of
		
00:44:53 --> 00:44:55
			the wisdom of dealing in contracts.
		
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			There's another question online for us before we
		
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			come here.
		
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			Yeah, go ahead.
		
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			How did the news travel that?
		
00:45:07 --> 00:45:09
			Yeah, I mean, basically, they travel because they're
		
00:45:09 --> 00:45:14
			constantly moving with caravans and horseback riders carry
		
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			information as well.
		
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			Not like today, takes time, but the information
		
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			does travel.
		
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			I don't know, I don't think that they
		
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			use pigeons.
		
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			Pigeons might not survive in the Saudi desert.
		
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			So, but basically, it's a slow way of
		
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			moving, but it moved.
		
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			Now, any other general questions anybody has?
		
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			Floor is open for any questions concerning Islam.
		
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			This treaty.
		
00:45:52 --> 00:45:56
			Yes, so these points of the Hudaybiyyah, in
		
00:45:56 --> 00:45:58
			the Seerah books, it actually spells out the
		
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			points.
		
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			I translated it for you, but actually it
		
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			spelled out what were the different sections that
		
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			were on it.
		
00:46:07 --> 00:46:12
			The ones that we saw there in terms
		
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			of, okay, that people who, all the points
		
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			that we said, it was definitely, it was
		
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			written down.
		
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			So this is a famous treaty, and alhamdulillah,
		
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			it averted war, was man was safe, and
		
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			the Muslims were safe.
		
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			And again, Dawah spread.
		
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			So with peace, with general peace in the
		
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			land, the message of Islam started to go
		
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			much further and faster than it ever went
		
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			before.
		
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			Okay, so this was a very important move.
		
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			And I emphasize this point, because there's a
		
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			stereotype of Muslims always being the aggressors.
		
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			And you even see in these treaties going
		
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			on in the Middle East and any, where
		
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			they always stereotype the Muslim, they don't agree
		
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			for the ceasefire.
		
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			They're always, it's a stereotype.
		
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			But in actuality, it's the opposite.
		
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			It's the opposite.
		
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			We're usually the underdogs.
		
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			We're usually the ones who are being overwhelmed,
		
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			like what's happening over there.
		
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			And so in this case, they compromised, but
		
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			got the victory.
		
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			And that's really how Islam spread throughout the
		
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			world.
		
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			It was not through war.
		
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			It was through peaceful relationships.
		
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			Flow is open for any other questions anybody
		
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			has, concerning any other issues.
		
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			So in this, in the life of the
		
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			prophet, peace be upon him, you are getting
		
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			his actions in war and peace.
		
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			Because sometimes people will say, Islam is a
		
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			religion of peace.
		
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			Okay, but that's a wrong statement.
		
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			Because Islam isn't just a religion of peace.
		
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			And it isn't just a religion of war.
		
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			That's what the stereotype is.
		
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			It's a religion for war and peace.
		
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			So it's how do you act when you're
		
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			in a state of war?
		
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			How do you act in peace?
		
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			How do you maintain peace?
		
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			How do you establish justice?
		
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			And this is what we learn to understand
		
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			Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			So we leave you with these thoughts.
		
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			And again, we'll see you next week.
		
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			There's gonna be a big change in our
		
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			time next week.
		
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			We'll have longer classes.
		
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			Hopefully go back to our old way of
		
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			functioning next week, inshallah.
		
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			So we'll see you then.
		
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			Wa akhira da'wana, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.
		
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			Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.