Abdullah Hakim Quick – The New Muslim Corner – Exaggeration Of Saints

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The importance of religion in driving people to apply Islam is discussed, including the use of religion in shaping people's lives and the use of the word saint in cultural practices. The discussion also touches on racism and the danger of confusion among Muslims, as well as the importance of fasting on Mondays and Thursdays for religious Islam. The speakers stress the need to be aware of cultural practices and avoid dangerous situations, as it is a major thing for religious Islam.

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			بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين
		
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			والصلاة والسلام على سيد الأولين والآخرين نبينا محمد
		
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			وعلى آله وصحبه وبرك وسلم All praise is
		
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			due to Allah, Lord of the Worlds and
		
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			peace and blessings be upon our beloved Prophet
		
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			Muhammad the Master of the First and the
		
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			Last 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 As to
		
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			what follows, السلام عليكم ورحمة الله Alhamdulillah, this
		
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			is our New Muslim Corner and we have
		
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			established this time on Fridays in order to
		
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			give those who are interested in Islam those
		
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			who have recently embraced Islam and those who
		
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			are reviving their faith an opportunity to listen
		
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			to the basic elements within the faith without
		
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			getting caught up in a lot of the
		
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			politics and a lot of the tribal tensions
		
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			and cultural divisions that we find sometimes in
		
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			the main Muslim community So this is an
		
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			opportunity to drink from the fresh water of
		
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			Islam and then also to ask certain questions
		
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			that may be troubling you concerning how to
		
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			apply Islam to your life and it is
		
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			critical for those who have recently embraced Islam
		
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			to be able to separate Islam from culture
		
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			because the culture of people has an impact
		
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			on how they practice their faith but it
		
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			is not necessarily from Islam itself In many
		
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			cases, the culture of the people comes from
		
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			other religions religions that worshipped the sun or
		
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			worshipped trees or worshipped people and so sometimes
		
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			it gets confusing for somebody who embraces Islam
		
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			and begins naturally to imitate the one who
		
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			gives them the faith and I can recall
		
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			waves of Muslims coming into the faith here
		
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			in North America and in Europe and when
		
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			they were taught by people from India and
		
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			Pakistan they tended to take up the culture
		
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			even sometimes changing their accent if they were
		
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			helped into Islam by Arabic speaking people then
		
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			they would take on Arab culture but after
		
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			a while, once a person is grounded in
		
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			the faith and realizes that there is a
		
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			difference between the cultures and the faith they
		
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			are able to express it through their own
		
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			culture their own part of the world their
		
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			own linguistic group and so, the key element
		
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			that we learned is Tawheed and that is
		
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			the oneness of Allah monotheism that is the
		
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			quality that separates Muslims from people of other
		
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			faith and that is the quality that we
		
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			continue to work with and to take it
		
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			to a higher level and you'll find that
		
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			this discussion will go on through the whole
		
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			of your life on different levels some people
		
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			take it to a very deep level but
		
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			I want to just touch on certain elements
		
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			and today, tonight I want to reemphasize some
		
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			of the points that we looked at before
		
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			and to make it a little formal so
		
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			that you could see where it's going because
		
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			eventually this may come into a major discussion
		
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			especially if you continue on into Islamic scholarship
		
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			and so, there is a tendency amongst people
		
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			to give excessive praise to pious individuals, male
		
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			or female there is a tendency to want
		
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			to aggrandize or to exaggerate in love those
		
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			individuals who are powerful who are very helpful
		
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			and that's found in many different parts of
		
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			the world and it is said through our
		
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			traditions that in ancient times there was a
		
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			very powerful person a really good person leading
		
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			his people and then when he passed away
		
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			they wanted to, for the next generation to
		
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			have an image of him so at least
		
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			the people could see what he looked like
		
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			because those who didn't see him wouldn't get
		
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			that effect because the way he looked his
		
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			character, his personality was very enticing and it
		
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			helped the people to worship the creator so
		
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			they drew a picture and when the next
		
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			generation came along that picture wasn't enough they
		
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			wanted to have some idea you know, give
		
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			us more of his body language so they
		
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			then made a type of sculpture they did
		
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			a statue of what this individual looked like
		
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			when the next generation came along who did
		
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			not necessarily have the basic teachings of monotheism
		
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			that the originator had they started worshiping the
		
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			statue and so this is how idol worship
		
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			came and we find especially in the prophethood
		
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			of Nabi Noah that within his time you
		
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			find a major movement of idol worship coming
		
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			in amongst the people and this spread all
		
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			around the world based upon where individuals were
		
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			I know from my experience in traveling in
		
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			the African continent that there's a great emphasis
		
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			on the African continent on spiritual strength spiritual
		
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			strength and so therefore you'll find in the
		
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			rivers you'll find in some of the objects
		
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			worship is strong and so amongst the people
		
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			also the leaders would tend to be very
		
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			strong and you'll find that the person who
		
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			is the speaker the preacher always has to
		
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			be very charismatic in many other cultures in
		
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			the world the preacher may be very low
		
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			-key and very soft you can hardly make
		
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			him up but generally within African culture the
		
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			preacher has to be animated strongly animated and
		
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			that is because of that spirit power the
		
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			spirit power and so it is easy within
		
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			cultures like that for these powerful individuals to
		
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			be loved and to be worshipped and I
		
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			can remember being in the Arabian Peninsula and
		
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			meeting groups of the Arabs and one of
		
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			the royal families and the royal family generally
		
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			tended to be taller and stronger than the
		
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			other people so literally in some cultures you
		
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			could look at the people and see who
		
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			is like the strongest one in the group
		
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			or the tallest that would tend to be
		
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			the leaders because it's a natural thing for
		
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			people to want to to follow strength now
		
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			the danger in that is that the prophet
		
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			Muhammad peace be upon him was very aware
		
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			of shirk of polytheism and even at the
		
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			time of his death he said to the
		
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			people don't do to me what the Christians
		
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			and other people have done to their prophets
		
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			don't make my grave a place of worship
		
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			ok and he kept saying it to them
		
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			in one case he even said that the
		
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			curse of Allah is on the Jews and
		
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			the Christians those Jews and Christians who took
		
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			the graves of their prophets to be houses
		
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			of worship ok and in one tradition he
		
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			is reported to have said do not praise
		
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			me excessively as the Christians did to the
		
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			son of Mary verily I am merely a
		
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			slave so refer to me as Abdullah wa
		
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			Rasulullah right meaning the slave of Allah and
		
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			his messenger and of course when you say
		
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			the word Abd because generally in English when
		
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			we say slave we think of somebody who
		
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			is very lowly and they are being tortured
		
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			and they are on a plantation but Abd
		
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			actually the root of it is Ibadah it's
		
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			a type of worship as well so being
		
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			a slave of Allah really means a worshiper
		
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			so sometimes people might even say servant might
		
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			be a better word but the literal word
		
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			is slave in any event what he is
		
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			saying is do not excessively praise me now
		
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			you are going to find as you travel
		
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			in the Muslim world that in some cases
		
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			the people go overboard they go too far
		
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			in dealing with the prophet peace and blessings
		
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			be upon him and this can actually lead
		
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			to forms of shirk and that is where
		
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			you are actually giving power to objects and
		
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			you are praying to the individual to get
		
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			to Allah you can even make an idol
		
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			of the prophet peace and blessings be upon
		
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			him and you can see that he was
		
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			trying to say that I am Rasul Allah
		
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			so Rasul means a messenger and Risalah is
		
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			the message so literally like he is the
		
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			mailman he is just bringing you a message
		
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			but he is not God he is trying
		
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			to make that clear because human beings have
		
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			weaknesses and even in the case of the
		
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			prophet peace be upon him as a man
		
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			he had weaknesses as a messenger when the
		
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			message came through him it was hear and
		
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			obey he was delivering from the creator but
		
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			as a man he had his opinion and
		
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			in some cases when for instance in planting
		
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			crops in Medina he gave some advice about
		
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			planting the crops and it was the Medina
		
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			people who came to him to show him
		
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			that we plant our crops in a different
		
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			way because the bees are carrying pollen and
		
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			we have pollination this is different than Mecca
		
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			because Mecca is really dry whereas Medina is
		
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			wet and there is a lot of vegetation
		
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			so they were showing him that this is
		
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			a different style he accepted this because this
		
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			is not a revelation from Allah saying that
		
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			you have to do it this way so
		
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			he is admitting that you are right and
		
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			I am wrong and this is important because
		
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			there is a tendency for us to put
		
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			a lot of emphasis on individuals and there
		
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			is nothing wrong with that but every person
		
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			has weaknesses and sometimes if we put too
		
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			much emphasis on an individual that person becomes
		
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			our main reason why we are Muslim for
		
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			instance that is a mistake because that person
		
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			might one day fall or that person may
		
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			make a mistake so this is a very
		
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			important point and the terminology you will see
		
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			later on is called gholu so the term
		
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			is gholu and so this is exaggeration and
		
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			it is found in many different religions you
		
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			will find that especially in Buddhism there is
		
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			heavy gholu and the Buddhas like this is
		
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			a depiction of a Buddha and you will
		
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			see different Buddhas that are cut out of
		
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			mountains but when you look at Buddha's life
		
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			himself he was a Hindu prince and he
		
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			was actually against idol worship and he refused
		
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			to worship idols he refused extreme Hinduism and
		
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			gave up his riches and went on the
		
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			road to find enlightenment so this is a
		
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			person now who is against idol worship and
		
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			then the biggest idols in the world are
		
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			him look at the contradiction as they say
		
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			he might roll in his grave if he
		
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			ever knew the size of the Buddhas that
		
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			are in his name Isa Jesus the son
		
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			of Mary peace be upon him a humble
		
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			messenger of Allah a very simple person usually
		
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			didn't wear shoes very humble in his lifestyle
		
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			exaggeration and in Surah Nisa the verse of
		
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			the women verse 171 Allah says Ya Ahlul
		
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			Kitab la taghlu fi dinikum it says oh
		
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			people of the book do not exaggerate in
		
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			your religion do not exaggerate because the things
		
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			that they do with Jesus go to extremes
		
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			and on the left they found this piece
		
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			of cloak like a woollen piece of material
		
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			and they believed that the image of Christ
		
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			was in it I believe it was in
		
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			Turin in France and so it looks something
		
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			like this there on the left so they
		
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			believed that this was actually on his face
		
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			something that he covered himself with and they
		
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			had this and they went to extremes and
		
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			you will find this happening in many parts
		
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			of the world in Hispanic speaking parts of
		
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			the world in Mexico in Spain and other
		
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			things you will find people making pilgrimages to
		
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			churches where they said somebody had a vision
		
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			of Christ where something happened in that church
		
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			and it becomes a place of pilgrimage ok
		
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			so they exaggerate different things about the individual
		
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			that person you know there in the picture
		
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			that you see that they say could be
		
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			Michelangelo's uncle that he drew in the Sistine
		
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			Chapel but this is not actually the image
		
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			of Christ or Isa Alayhi Salam that is
		
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			described in the literature because he definitely was
		
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			not Germanic or from the northern peoples he
		
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			was Semitic and the Semitic people in those
		
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			times were generally brown skinned people there are
		
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			even some controversies coming up with depictions of
		
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			Jesus and Mary coming out of Russia and
		
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			Turkey and other places where they actually have
		
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			them as African looking people so it is
		
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			totally different and he is even described in
		
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			the Bible as having hair like lamb's wool
		
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			and skin like burnt brass so it is
		
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			totally different and the danger in this is
		
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			not only shirk because they made him into
		
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			like the son of God or God but
		
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			also racism because if this is the picture
		
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			of the son of God or God then
		
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			anybody who looks like this is God like
		
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			because you are now focusing on the image
		
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			is God like and people have a tendency
		
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			to want to make Jesus to look like
		
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			them for us as Muslims it is not
		
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			an important issue to us because the color
		
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			of the prophet or the physical nationality is
		
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			not important to us although we do have
		
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			descriptions we do have descriptions and Isa is
		
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			described as a person having a type of
		
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			tan complexion and is here in a type
		
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			of curls that are sort of wet in
		
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			some of the descriptions coming in so racism
		
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			can come through this exaggeration as well so
		
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			what this leads to and I just want
		
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			to emphasize this point again for those who
		
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			are listening maybe for the first time online
		
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			and to confirm it and that is intercession
		
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			with the dead so this is an issue
		
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			now that the scholars have had to look
		
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			at seriously that is because Islam was spreading
		
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			into areas where there were saints, there were
		
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			gurus there were people who led the different
		
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			religions who had graves and these graves were
		
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			the centers of religious practice ok so in
		
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			this intercession now ok where you're taking the
		
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			call shafa'ah where you want intercession that
		
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			the living person directs his prayer to the
		
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			dead saint ok so the prayer is to
		
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			the saint and strangely enough even Muslims have
		
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			gotten into this so the religious person, the
		
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			living person is praying to the dead saint
		
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			hoping that the pious man will be able
		
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			to win special favors with God and surprisingly
		
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			enough when we had a discussion some years
		
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			ago about amulets and how the prophet used
		
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			to tear amulets off his followers necks and
		
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			take them off the animals and told them
		
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			whoever hangs one of these amulets that becomes
		
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			your protector in other words Allah is no
		
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			longer your protector this amulet hanging is something
		
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			which is practiced in many different places and
		
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			so we had a discussion in one of
		
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			the masjids in Toronto and so some of
		
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			the people were convinced when they heard the
		
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			hadiths and what not so they brought some
		
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			of the amulets to the office and a
		
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			friend of mine Dr. Siddiqui from India, he
		
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			was an expert in Persian language he was
		
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			an expert and so we opened up the
		
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			amulets so generally the amulet is a little
		
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			package it's like a leather pouch and then
		
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			there's naqsh so inside of it there may
		
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			be a type of crossword puzzle looking thing
		
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			and writing around it, that's what you find
		
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			inside it, most people don't open up their
		
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			amulets because they're superstitious but that's what we
		
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			were finding inside of these amulets and sometimes
		
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			they were even trying to write verses of
		
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			the Quran or things like this but one
		
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			amulet we opened up, it was saying Ya
		
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			Abdul Qadir it's calling out to Abdul Qadir
		
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			Jailani who was a great scholar a pious
		
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			person in Baghdad who didn't believe in this,
		
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			but they went to extremes with him and
		
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			they were saying Ya Abdul Qadir we are
		
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			swimming in our sins save us that's literally
		
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			what they were saying in Persian that they
		
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			wanted Abdul Qadir to save them that's shirk
		
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			and even though the people thought that they
		
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			were doing something really pious they were literally
		
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			involved in an open form of shirk so
		
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			that's how dangerous this can be and now
		
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			there may be somebody who's accepting Islam and
		
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			the other people want to hang amulets on
		
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			them they want to make them do cultural
		
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			things like they do so if our foundation
		
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			is strong if our Tawhid is strong then
		
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			we can avoid this we cannot fall into
		
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			this and there are many different verses about
		
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			this in verse 255 Allah was saying who
		
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			dares intercede with me without my permission so
		
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			nobody can intercede with the creator without the
		
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			creator's submission so this is the area of
		
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			intercession I want to open up the floor
		
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			if there's any questions that anybody has on
		
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			anything concerning this so
		
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			the best way to respect our scholars who
		
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			have had an impact on our life is
		
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			to pray for them and really as in
		
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			the case that came with the Prophet if
		
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			you really respect the scholar you should follow
		
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			them, you should follow their teachings, so it's
		
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			not a matter of just idolizing the person,
		
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			so there's a difference between idolizing and listening
		
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			to that person following their instructions following their
		
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			guidance the danger is what has happened in
		
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			some Muslim countries you will find that when
		
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			the saint or the wali, the pious person
		
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			passes away then they will put his grave
		
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			sometimes next to the masjid and then it
		
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			will go sometimes in the masjid or sometimes
		
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			there's a grave and they build a masjid
		
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			around it so you're literally in the masjid
		
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			and then on the side there's a room,
		
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			and in that room is the grave okay
		
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			and this even happened to the Prophet peace
		
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			be upon him because when Rasulullah peace be
		
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			upon him died, he died in the house
		
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			of Aisha and her house was attached to
		
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			the mosque so he could leave her house
		
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			and walk right in, so he died right
		
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			there and they buried him where he died,
		
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			because this is where prophets are supposed to
		
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			be buried so they buried him there and
		
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			for a long time that was where his
		
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			grave was, and the masjid was on the
		
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			other side.
		
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			Now, when people started pouring into Medina, they
		
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			had to extend the masjid so they extended
		
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			it on one side, eventually they extended it
		
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			around where the grave was okay, especially below
		
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			it and then on top of it until
		
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			it actually became inside of the masjid now
		
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			this was a problem for people who have
		
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			this mentality of praying to the person and
		
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			not to Allah this can be a problem
		
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			and so the way they set up the
		
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			grave is that you don't know exactly where
		
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			his grave is so if you're a grave
		
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			worshipper who wants to actually focus your dua
		
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			exactly to him you won't know exactly you
		
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			know the general area but you won't know
		
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			exactly where it is but still there has
		
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			to be constant reminders to the people of
		
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			not to pray to the prophet peace be
		
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			upon him but we're coming from cultures where
		
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			this is very important and so the people
		
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			will still tend to do this and I
		
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			remember being a student in Medina and we
		
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			used to study in the prophet's mosque so
		
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			we're there doing our lessons and what not
		
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			and then you look by where the grave
		
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			is and so there are individuals coming and
		
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			they're like cutting off their hair and trying
		
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			to stick it in the cage because they
		
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			have a cage and then there's a grave
		
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			they're putting their hair in the grave or
		
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			they're writing notes and the poor Bedouin guy
		
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			who's standing there guarding the grave people wonder
		
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			why they look so mean right and you'd
		
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			be mean too if you see what the
		
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			people are doing because they're literally hanging on
		
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			the cage and he's got to sweep this
		
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			thing up every day so one day he's
		
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			sweeping up and so he said what does
		
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			it say he opened up one of the
		
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			things and it said Ya Rasulullah, O Messenger
		
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			of Allah I owe so many rupees or
		
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			dollars please pay my debts they're like asking
		
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			him for things in the note and if
		
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			they can get it in there then they'll
		
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			get an answer or if their hair somehow
		
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			is inside there then that hair is connected
		
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			to them, you see and then they can
		
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			get forgiveness from Allah this is from other
		
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			religions yes no doubt in the time of
		
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			the Prophet there were certain miracles with the
		
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			body of the Prophet he even took his
		
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			saliva he actually rubbed it on Ali's eye
		
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			one time he was going blind he was
		
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			wounded and it was healed so there were
		
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			certain things that happened specifically with him but
		
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			that was in his time and so it
		
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			is not all of the other things that
		
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			are around here and we used to sit
		
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			there and there was one brother from Morocco
		
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			Maymoon, I don't know where he is may
		
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			Allah help him and he was a really
		
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			fired up brother from Morocco and the people
		
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			used to the Qibla was here and the
		
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			grave was there and the people would go
		
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			face like this and they were like you're
		
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			praying and they would literally walk out the
		
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			mosque like this, backwards the Qibla is there,
		
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			right and they walk out backwards you might
		
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			still see that if you go to Mecca
		
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			and Medina not as much but you'll see
		
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			people like this facing the grave so he
		
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			used to go and he used to turn
		
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			them like this and he'd go to the
		
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			next person and turn him and then he
		
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			finishes but when he gets to the last
		
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			one the other one turns back and they're
		
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			all turning back and he's getting blessings for
		
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			his effort but this is something deep and
		
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			it's even rooted in some of these religions
		
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			like in the case of ancestor worship and
		
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			this is a common form of belief to
		
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			the point where in China this is like
		
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			25% of humanity the majority still have
		
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			this ancestor worship in southern Africa they also
		
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			have ancestor worship so you're talking millions of
		
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			people and if you go to China, I
		
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			happen to be there on this special holiday
		
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			they have for their ancestors and what they
		
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			would do is they go to the graves
		
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			and they sweep the graves so they sweep
		
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			and clean the graves nothing wrong with that
		
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			but they sweep the graves and then they
		
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			burn money at the grave, burn it so
		
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			they're literally burning it and they believe that
		
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			that money that they burn that their ancestor
		
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			on the other side is going to get
		
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			the money and I don't know if there's
		
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			a difference in exchange with the US dollar
		
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			and the rupee or the naira or whatever
		
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			it is in * on the other side
		
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			but they're burning if you burn a US
		
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			dollar, that's a good one so they were
		
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			literally burning it and we went to the
		
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			graveyard of the Muslims and there were some
		
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			Muslims sweeping the grave and we said no,
		
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			please they didn't burn money though they just
		
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			took the holiday to visit their relatives but
		
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			they're seeking the blessings of these individuals okay
		
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			and as I mentioned before just to consolidate
		
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			this for those who may not have heard
		
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			exactly or you want to actually get more
		
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			proofs behind it for instance, in Christianity in
		
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			the Catholic Church they designated certain saints to
		
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			bring results so Saint Anthony of Thebes was
		
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			the one for lost so you would pray
		
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			to Saint Anthony okay and Saint Jude was
		
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			the one for the impossible incurable diseases or
		
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			broken marriages and the Beatles made a song,
		
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			hey Jude don't let us down, hey Jude
		
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			so they called out to Jude so this
		
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			is because of Saint Jude Saint Christopher was
		
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			for the blessings on the journey and in
		
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			my city in Cambridge in Massachusetts it was
		
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			like the Saint Christopher Episcopalian Church so it
		
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			was for Saint Christopher okay so they would
		
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			pray to the specific saints for specific issues
		
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			so this was an issue and this is
		
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			where the Baraka so what some Muslims translated
		
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			that and they call it Baraka Tabarruk so
		
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			you rub certain things so they will think
		
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			they will come and you will see this
		
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			if you go to Mecca or Medina, not
		
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			as much today but you're going to see
		
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			it you'll go to Medina and you'll go
		
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			to Mecca, especially in Medina and you'll see
		
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			they'll come to the wall or they'll come
		
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			to the cage and they're rubbing they're rubbing
		
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			they're rubbing this is Tabarruk they believe that
		
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			there is like a type of power in
		
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			the object and they have these different objects
		
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			there is one object they claim that they
		
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			have the hair of the prophet there's different
		
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			claims one of them came to Toronto they
		
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			actually had the hair of the prophet I
		
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			think they had it up in Brampton or
		
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			something like that in one of the big
		
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			places and so people are going there and
		
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			they're on this thing and they're like if
		
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			you can rub this thing and touch it
		
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			and see it this is Tabarruk so this
		
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			is Shirk and it's rampant and this is
		
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			a dangerous thing for the Muslim Ummah to
		
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			be involved in these intercessions and for this
		
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			Tabarruk this is a dangerous thing but unfortunately
		
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			it is widespread I want to open the
		
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			floor for any questions that anybody may have
		
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			concerning this this Tabarruk thing is, you're going
		
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			to find it in different parts of the
		
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			world yes
		
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			this is a good point in terms of
		
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			the amulets itself is that sometimes people will
		
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			wear like for instance you'll get Ayatul Kursi
		
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			the verse of the throne and they put
		
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			it in a necklace or something like that
		
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			or the name Allah or something like that
		
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			and the scholars say that if it is
		
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			worn for beauty because it's a nice necklace
		
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			then there's nothing wrong with that as long
		
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			as it's not worn for its power so
		
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			there's a difference so the only problem is
		
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			that if you have the Quran or you
		
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			have the name of Allah when you go
		
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			to the washroom you have to take it
		
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			off you can't wear it into the washroom
		
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			so that's the thing you have to be
		
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			aware of but if it is worn for
		
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			beauty there's nothing wrong with that also if
		
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			there are practices done by the Prophet himself
		
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			and his companions then that could be permissible
		
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			and there is some proof of they used
		
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			to write the Quran on the Loh on
		
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			the tablets and with a type of charcoal
		
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			and then they would wash it off and
		
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			then they would drink it and that was
		
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			a practice that is allowable amongst the early
		
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			Muslims especially with the Quran itself but the
		
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			actual cure is from Allah it's not from
		
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			the Loh the tablet or it's not from
		
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			the ink ok so the intention is very
		
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			important involved in this now question yeah who
		
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			is non-Muslim participate in a practice as
		
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			a Muslim should
		
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			you do anything as a Muslim in terms
		
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			of seeking forgiveness because you didn't actually participate
		
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			in it but it was done on your
		
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			behalf ok the question is if somebody did
		
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			one of these practices on your behalf are
		
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			you responsible no the person is not responsible
		
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			unless they do it themselves however if they're
		
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			asked can I do this for you it
		
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			is better to say no you don't have
		
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			to do that make dua for me like
		
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			pray to Allah what can be done for
		
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			an individual if you want to do something
		
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			for you can give sadaqa you can give
		
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			charity for that person asking Allah to give
		
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			the blessing for the person you can make
		
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			an umrah you can do something for the
		
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			person if the person died you could make
		
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			hajj but you have to have made hajj
		
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			yourself first for yourself then you could make
		
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			it for somebody else that is permissible but
		
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			again these are the cultural things that we
		
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			have to watch out for and you might
		
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			run into these things as new Muslims and
		
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			you have to be aware and the people
		
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			don't do it out of an evil spirit
		
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			in many cases it's ignorance they think that
		
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			this is Islamic practice but it's really their
		
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			culture any other questions concerning this floor is
		
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			open for any general questions anybody has concerning
		
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			issues in Islam so we're dealing with the
		
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			issue of seeking the blessings and again this
		
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			is something when you travel in the Muslim
		
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			world you're gonna you might be a little
		
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			shocked when you come to certain places and
		
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			in some places in India and Pakistan you
		
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			might think that this masjid is like a
		
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			Hindu place but it's not it's actually Muslims
		
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			still being affected by Hinduism and we have
		
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			to try to avoid this as much as
		
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			we possibly can question yes I mean the
		
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			word saint itself is not actually our I
		
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			mean we have Wali and Awliya so you
		
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			might translate that as saint but really some
		
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			say it's the friend of Allah they use
		
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			other words because saint it is a loaded
		
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			word in English because generally saint would be
		
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			like Saint Jude or Saint Christopher you know
		
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			it has the wrong concepts involved in it
		
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			so was it mentioned on the stage or
		
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			was it just by individuals no on the
		
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			stage so in other words before bringing the
		
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			person up no no no so Sheikh Hamza
		
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			Yusuf he talks about saints I'm very confused
		
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			by it yeah I mean
		
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			obviously he doesn't mean it in a Christian
		
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			sense but you know it would be better
		
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			if he didn't use the term saint he
		
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			might confuse people relative to that but it's
		
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			this concept of Wali and the Awliya the
		
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			problem with that too is getting too much
		
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			into the discussion of who is the Awliya
		
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			is that it starts to set up this
		
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			category of people and the Quran itself is
		
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			saying Allah and the Awliya Allah that verily
		
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			the friends of Allah have nothing to fear
		
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			nothing to be afraid of they are those
		
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			who believed and they had Taqwa the consciousness
		
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			of Allah they can be a Wali doesn't
		
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			have to be the person with the long
		
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			beard and the tall hat and you know
		
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			reading Quran all the time and constantly you
		
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			know like that doesn't have to necessarily be
		
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			that the Wali could be the person who
		
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			is clean in the mosque like you don't
		
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			even know who the Wali is because it's
		
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			something between that person and Allah it's not
		
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			supposed to be a public thing and usually
		
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			if the person was somebody of that caliber
		
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			and they found out that somebody is saying
		
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			that they would reject it they would not
		
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			want to be called that so it is
		
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			dangerous because it sets up a type of
		
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			class of people and this is where you
		
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			get your class and if you haven't read
		
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			certain things or gone to certain institutions or
		
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			studies then don't talk you have nothing to
		
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			say and that's a mistake that's not in
		
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			the Sunnah because the Prophet ﷺ and his
		
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			companions in terms of that they were not
		
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			into this thing at all and this is
		
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			one of the dangers that unfortunately we have
		
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			fallen into in terms of dealing with pious
		
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			people any other questions online so
		
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			you know the Sunnah of gaining Barakah is
		
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			first to you know to practice our Islam
		
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			to do all the things that are compulsory
		
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			and then you have the Nafilah so you
		
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			have your prayers your Fard prayers compulsory and
		
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			then you have extra prayers that you can
		
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			do so you do the Nafilah things like
		
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			that then the Prophet ﷺ showed a number
		
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			of ways that we can do extra prayers
		
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			for different things fasting we can gain extra
		
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			blessings by fasting on Mondays and Thursdays and
		
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			the three white nights in the middle of
		
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			the month you know and so to give
		
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			in charity give in a special way so
		
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			there's many ways with the right intention that
		
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			you can get blessings but it is not
		
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			necessarily joining a particular group or going to
		
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			a particular place see this is where the
		
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			danger came in going to Mecca to Medina
		
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			to Jerusalem that we are encouraged to do
		
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			but other than that we can go for
		
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			knowledge we can go but when it becomes
		
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			like a religious pilgrimage this is the danger
		
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			and you see in Hinduism how now millions
		
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			are going to the Ganges River you know
		
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			and whatever you see these so called religious
		
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			pilgrimages that people do sometimes for the strangest
		
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			things into the strangest places and Muslims have
		
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			fallen into some of this they've actually made
		
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			you have Hajj one of our brothers made
		
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			Hajj and he got mixed up because he
		
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			couldn't speak Arabic so he got stuck with
		
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			a group because there were so many people
		
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			and he was lost and they could speak
		
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			English and they were doing all types of
		
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			different things going to this grave and doing
		
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			this on a tree and collecting dirt at
		
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			this place and he was doing all these
		
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			things and when he finally got back to
		
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			us we said what happened to you he
		
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			had made like an alternative Hajj with this
		
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			other group not even knowing what he was
		
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			doing because they had all these things that
		
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			they were doing like some place where the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ he had taken dirt and put
		
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			it on somebody and healed them because there's
		
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			many miracles, the Prophet had miracles like this
		
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			and people thought that this area was where
		
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			he did that so they still dig holes
		
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			there to get the dirt and you can
		
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			take this dirt back home and sell it
		
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			you get a lot of money too if
		
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			this dirt came from that hole so you
		
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			have to know your fundamentals and keep your
		
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			tawhid very tight because of so much cultural
		
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			things that are surrounding us and taking us
		
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			off the mark where we're supposed to be
		
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			so this issue of Barakah Tabarruk it is
		
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			a major thing however on the other extreme
		
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			people who do not respect the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			and people who do not know his life
		
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			and actually do Salawat that means sending peace
		
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			and blessings to him and trying to be
		
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			to Sunnah some people can get too cold
		
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			hearted and they become like scientific Muslims where
		
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			they don't have the spirituality that's a mistake
		
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			too so that can go to another extreme
		
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			so that love and sanctity needs to be
		
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			there and that belief in miracles and Karama
		
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			Karama is a miracle that can come to
		
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			an average person Morjaza is the miracle that
		
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			comes to the Prophets like the water opening
		
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			for Musa Isa healing the blind and the
		
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			sick Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Isra and Mi'raj
		
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			he's traveling above the heavens and he cured
		
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			certain people but there's Karama so Karama is
		
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			a miracle that can come to Muslims for
		
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			instance in the case of Omar ibn Khattab
		
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			one of the great companions that one time
		
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			Omar the armies of the Muslims were in
		
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			Iraq and he was in Medina and they
		
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			were coming to a mountain and the Persian
		
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			army was had an ambush on the other
		
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			side of the mountain and the leader was
		
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			called Saria and so Omar was given the
		
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			Khutbah in Medina and he was inspired in
		
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			the middle of the Khutbah he said Ya
		
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			Saria al-Jabal the mountain and he didn't
		
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			know why he said that and the people
		
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			said okay Omar you know but then they
		
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			said when they came back later on they
		
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			said they heard Omar's voice saying watch out
		
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			for the mountain and they didn't go around
		
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			and they defeated the Persian army that's a
		
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			recorded miracle but you can't say you're going
		
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			to have miracles before it happens that's the
		
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			problem when you start producing miracles or you
		
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			start to claim to be a miracle maker
		
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			that's the danger you see and that's what
		
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			gets into this shirk type of relationship with
		
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			individual this saint type of things where it
		
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			starts to get into that this is a
		
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			major mistake and again it takes away from
		
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			the simplicity of Islam because when you see
		
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			the relationship of the Prophet with his companions
		
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			it is human relationships simple relationships that they
		
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			had and it's the love that they're showing
		
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			it's not necessarily waters opening up all the
		
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			time it's things that we can do ourselves
		
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			it's not too late and there still is
		
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			Karama and those individuals who are involved in
		
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			struggle especially when they're under fire like stories
		
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			coming out of Gaza stories came out of
		
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			Afghanistan of miraculous things that have happened people
		
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			being saved and things going on miraculous things
		
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			still it is happening to the individuals so
		
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			it's not too late because as we understood
		
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			there are thousands, hundreds and thousands of angels
		
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			that are there and the power of Allah
		
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			Azawajal is still with us today I think
		
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			we're going to close now and Inshallah we
		
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			will continue on next week with our class
		
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			we have entered into the month of Shaban
		
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			and so if you can whatever good deeds
		
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			you can do it's a good time, fasting
		
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			like Mondays, Thursdays, try to fast as much
		
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			as you can the Prophet used to fast
		
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			in Shaban more than any other month except
		
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			Ramadan so this is a time to do
		
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			a lot of the fasting and to do
		
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			as much good as you possibly can do
		
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			so have a safe journey home ...
		
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