Abdullah Hakim Quick – The New Muslim Corner – The Personality Of The Prophet Muhammad

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			I'll praise the due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon
		
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			our beloved Prophet Muhammad, the master of the
		
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			first and the last, his family, his companions
		
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			and all those who call to his way
		
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			and establish his sunnah to the day of
		
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			judgment.
		
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			As to what follows, As-salamu alaykum wa
		
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			rahmatullah.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, this is a continuation of our New
		
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			Muslim Corner.
		
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			We took a break because of the season
		
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			and the different events, people going away.
		
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			But inshallah, we're, you know, going back on
		
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			and moving through this month and next because
		
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			we're coming close to the month of Ramadan.
		
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			And the purpose of the New Muslim Corner,
		
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			initially, was to just have a place where
		
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			Muslims, new Muslims could gather, those even interested
		
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			in Islam, and hear about the foundations, the
		
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			fundamentals of the faith, and then also have
		
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			a chance to ask questions.
		
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			So this is the type of atmosphere, non
		
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			-political, non-judgmental type of atmosphere where anybody
		
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			is free to ask questions concerning Islam and
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			And we recognize the fact that the key
		
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			element above all other different discussions and different
		
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			understandings of what is a Muslim is the
		
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			Kalima.
		
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			Because you could say, like, what is a
		
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			Muslim?
		
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			What distinguishes a Muslim from other people?
		
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			And somebody might say, well, they look a
		
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			certain way, they have a certain color, they
		
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			speak a certain language, they eat certain foods.
		
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			None of that is correct.
		
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			The real essence of what distinguishes Muslims from
		
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			people of other faiths is in this Kalima
		
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			here, or in this statement, which is, la
		
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			ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			And that is that there is no God
		
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			but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.
		
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			So this is the beginning of the road
		
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			for a new Muslim.
		
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			That is, when a person says this sincerely,
		
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			they enter into Islam.
		
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			And hopefully it is the end of the
		
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			road, that when a person is leaving this
		
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			world, making a transition, that these words can
		
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			actually be on their lips.
		
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			And so we need to understand the Kalima
		
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			as much as we possibly can.
		
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			And this is a study which you will
		
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			find will continue throughout your life.
		
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			It never ends.
		
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			And people are studying this on different levels.
		
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			But we want to do a base analysis.
		
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			And I want to review some, a few
		
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			points in this.
		
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			For those who are just coming online, we
		
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			have now a large online following.
		
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			And we can go deeper into this as
		
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			well.
		
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			But after we review some aspects of the
		
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			first part of the Kalima, then we'll go
		
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			on to the second part.
		
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			So the first part is about the oneness
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			And there are many faiths, there are many
		
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			understandings, there are many beliefs that have the
		
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			concept of one God.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So this is what we say Tawheed, or
		
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			unity.
		
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			The unity of the concept of one.
		
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			And in the Kalima, we start off by
		
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			saying la ilaha.
		
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			We say there's no God.
		
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			We wiped the slate clean, there's nobody, nothing.
		
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			La ilaha.
		
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			And then we say illa, except Allah.
		
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			So we have then cleared our thinking and
		
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			our minds of any type of belief, or
		
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			any entity other than Allah.
		
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			And this is an important statement in Arabic.
		
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			Because Arabic is a very expressive language, as
		
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			we have learned.
		
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			And for the people who speak Arabic, and
		
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			especially the people around the time of Prophet
		
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			Muhammad, peace be upon him, that's 1400 years
		
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			ago, they were masters of their language.
		
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			So they were all speaking a classical form
		
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			of Arabic.
		
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			So language to them was extremely important.
		
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			Language is important today as well.
		
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			It's very important.
		
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			But it may not appear to be as
		
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			important, because we have a lot of devices
		
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			that are around us.
		
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			But the essence of social media itself is
		
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			language.
		
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			It's you're expressing yourself.
		
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			And sometimes you do it with words, sometimes
		
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			you do it body language.
		
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			But language is the way that human beings
		
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			communicate their understanding.
		
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			So in this case, it started off by
		
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			saying, no deity, no God, that's a negation.
		
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			Okay, so in the mind of the person,
		
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			the Arabic speaking person, la.
		
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			So that begins it.
		
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			And that la cleared everything.
		
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			And then we put it in illa, except
		
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			Allah.
		
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			That's the confirmation.
		
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			And with this confirmation, we believe that Allah
		
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			is the only one who deserves complete worship.
		
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			But to say that you believe in one
		
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			God is something that many people do.
		
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			And I can remember years ago, I mentioned
		
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			this in an earlier class, I'll mention it
		
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			again, that I was doing Islamic work on
		
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			the island of Jamaica.
		
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			Okay, where people are very expressive and very
		
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			much believe in God.
		
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			And they say that there's more churches per
		
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			square foot in Jamaica than maybe anywhere else
		
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			in the Western world.
		
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			And that's something that's rooted in the culture.
		
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			And the Muslim community was very small.
		
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			And we were cooperating with Christians and other
		
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			people as well.
		
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			And so we had a gathering and we
		
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			needed ovens in order to do cooking.
		
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			So we borrowed the ovens from the Pentecostals.
		
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			And this is one of the denominations of
		
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			Christianity.
		
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			And so when we were returning the ovens,
		
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			you know, to their church ground, some of
		
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			the brothers started to get into a debate.
		
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			And they were debating with the people, they
		
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			had been watching a famous Muslim named Ahmed
		
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			Didat.
		
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			Maybe some of you may have heard of
		
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			him before.
		
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			And so he had these special methods, you
		
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			know, of helping Christians to understand Islam and
		
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			also to defend Islam.
		
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			So they were in a hot debate with
		
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			the group of Christians.
		
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			And the basis of their argument was, we
		
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			believe in one God and you believe in
		
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			three.
		
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			So if you say, Father, Son, Holy Ghost,
		
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			the Trinity concept, that's three.
		
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			So that's not Tawhid.
		
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			And our belief is only in Allah.
		
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			And so they were going back and forth
		
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			and the preacher came.
		
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			So when the preacher listened to this, he
		
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			turned to the Muslims and he said, no,
		
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			we also believe in one God.
		
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			So we're the same.
		
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			So the brothers who were involved, they were
		
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			a little bit confused.
		
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			And I came walking along and I thought,
		
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			I heard the debate.
		
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			And so I said to the preacher, you
		
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			believe in one God?
		
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			He said, yes.
		
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			So I said, who is the God?
		
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			And he said, Jesus.
		
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			So he did believe in one God.
		
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			But the one God is a man, has
		
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			the qualities of a human being.
		
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			And as we learned the Quran, the last
		
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			revelation, you know, states when it describes Jesus
		
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			and his mother, Mary, may Allah be pleased
		
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			with them, it says, the two of them
		
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			used to eat food.
		
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			So this might sound like a very rough
		
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			way of explaining it, but this is deep.
		
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			Because if they eat food, that means they
		
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			have weakness.
		
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			They're hungry and they're weak.
		
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			And that cannot be the divine being, the
		
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			ultimate being, who has power over all things
		
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			and who created the heavens and the earth.
		
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			So just saying you believe in one God
		
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			is not enough.
		
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			And that needs to be defined.
		
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			And we have been looking at some of
		
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			the details of Tawheed.
		
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			The first is that we accept that Allah
		
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			is one in his rule.
		
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			He is a Rabb.
		
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			He is the Lord.
		
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			He is the Lord of all humanity.
		
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			There's no rival to him.
		
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			And that is called Tawheed al-Rububiyah, right,
		
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			that we have a unity of lordship, a
		
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			unity of lordship.
		
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			And I mentioned today, in the Jumu'ah,
		
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			we were talking about, I was talking about
		
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			the LA wildfires.
		
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			And when the fire was really burning hot,
		
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			one of the officials turned and said, in
		
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			American English, because there's different dialects of English,
		
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			in the American language, he said, mother nature
		
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			owned us.
		
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			Okay, so that's an American expression.
		
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			So he said, mother nature owned us.
		
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			Okay, meaning controlled us and we're slaves.
		
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			But the reality is that not mother nature
		
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			that owned you, it is Allah who owned
		
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			you.
		
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			So right now, you have very little power.
		
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			And when the blast of those fires hit
		
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			that land and it's not a day of
		
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			joy for us, because we have, you know,
		
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			it's human being suffering, people have to just
		
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			throw up their hands and run.
		
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			Okay, so that is the Lord.
		
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			That is lordship.
		
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			Okay, so that's the first part of our
		
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			Tawheed.
		
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			The second part is that Allah is one
		
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			in his names and descriptions.
		
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			There is nothing similar to Allah.
		
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			And so that is what we call Tawheed
		
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			al-Asma' wa-Sifat.
		
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			And that is that when we are talking
		
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			about Allah has knowledge over all things, that
		
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			means al-'aleem, he has knowledge of everything.
		
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			Everything in the past, present, and the future.
		
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			And that's something that's impossible for any created
		
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			being to have.
		
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			And so these are the names of Allah.
		
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			There's 99 plus names, but 99 famous names,
		
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			the names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			That's a very interesting study.
		
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			The third part of Tawheed is that Allah
		
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			is one in his divinity and his worship.
		
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			There is no partner with Allah.
		
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			And that is Tawheed al-Uluhiyah or Tawheed
		
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			al-Ibadah, that Allah is the only divine
		
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			being and so therefore we should only worship
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So these are the three parts.
		
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			When we are saying Tawheed, we have to
		
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			have a unity, not just in the statement,
		
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			but it's in our understanding and actions, the
		
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			things that come out of our statements.
		
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			And the opposite of Tawheed that we found
		
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			out is shirk.
		
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			And shirk is polytheism.
		
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			And that is to associate partners with Allah.
		
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			And a polytheist does believe in a creator,
		
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			but the polytheist will go through other creatures,
		
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			created beings, to go to the creator.
		
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			Maybe even make an idol or a statue
		
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			to go to the creator.
		
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			And that we found out is the most
		
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			grievous sin that a person could possibly commit.
		
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			It is shirk.
		
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			And it's something that we try our best
		
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			to understand and we'll be going over forms
		
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			of shirk as we go along in the
		
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			beginning of our classes in order to strengthen
		
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			our understanding.
		
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			Now the second part of the Kalima is
		
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			Muhammad or Rasulullah.
		
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			Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, peace be
		
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			upon him.
		
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			And that is the part that most people
		
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			will have some difficulty in understanding the second
		
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			part.
		
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			The first part for people who are still
		
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			on the natural, fitrah way of looking at
		
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			life, that there's a creator, a divine being,
		
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			that one can be understood.
		
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			But unless the individual has some understanding of
		
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			who Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, is,
		
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			unless he has some understanding of this, then
		
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			it takes a little time to understand this
		
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			and to accept Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon
		
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			him, as the messenger.
		
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			And we have been looking at his life.
		
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			And by looking at a seerah, this is
		
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			the prophetic biography, we actually get the living
		
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			examples, the living form and practice of Islam.
		
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			And we recognize that Prophet Muhammad, peace be
		
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			upon him, this is over 1400 years ago,
		
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			in Mecca, which is now Saudi Arabia.
		
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			It was not Saudi Arabia then, it's just
		
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			the Arabian Peninsula.
		
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			And there in the city of Mecca, he
		
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			was coming from a noble family, not necessarily
		
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			rich, but they were connected with the Quraysh,
		
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			which was actually connected to Ismail, Prophet Ismail,
		
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			Ismail, and Prophet Abraham, peace be upon them.
		
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			And he had a natural dispensation to the
		
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			belief in one God.
		
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			And from when he was young, he did
		
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			not say the things that many other people
		
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			said.
		
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			Once he was traveling on a journey as
		
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			a young man, and a Christian monk was
		
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			on the road, and Muhammad was part of
		
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			the caravan.
		
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			And the monk came down and spoke to
		
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			the leader of the caravan, his uncle Abu
		
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			Talib, and asked about this young man.
		
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			And when he got to talk to the
		
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			Prophet, peace be upon him, he asked him
		
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			some questions, and then he asked him to
		
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			swear by the gods, because that's normally what
		
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			pagan Arabs would do, and he refused to
		
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			do it, he said he doesn't do that.
		
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			Okay, so he recognized there's something different about
		
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			this young man, and he confessed to Abu
		
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			Talib that he was waiting on this hill
		
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			for caravans to go by, for certain signs,
		
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			and he saw as their caravan came, there
		
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			was actually a cloud that was shielding it
		
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			from the sun.
		
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			And so he told Abu Talib, take this
		
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			young man back, don't go to Syria, because
		
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			if you go there, the enemies of Islam,
		
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			they find out about him, they'll take his
		
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			life.
		
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			And so from an early age, he had
		
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			an inclination to the belief in one God,
		
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			and by the time he reached 40, he
		
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			was meditating in a mountain, and the angel
		
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			Gabriel came to him, and started to reveal
		
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			the final message, Al-Qur'an.
		
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			This was revealed over 23 years, and we
		
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			have studied and seen that the first part
		
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			of his life, the Meccan period, was 13
		
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			years.
		
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			The second part, the Medina period, is 10
		
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			years.
		
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			And during the Meccan period, the Muslims were
		
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			tested, insulted, driven out of their homes, but
		
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			they maintained their belief in one God, to
		
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			the point where they had to actually to
		
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			migrate, they had to leave Mecca.
		
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			And they went to Yathrib, in the north,
		
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			later to be known as Al-Madinah al
		
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			-Manawarah, the Lighted City.
		
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			And there, they established a community.
		
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			Again, this is a review for us to
		
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			understand who this person is.
		
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			They established a community that not only had
		
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			Muslims, it also had people of the traditional
		
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			Arab religion, and it had Jewish people as
		
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			well, were all living in the city.
		
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			It was dominated by the Prophet and the
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			Other people were allowed to live in the
		
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			city, and they were not forced to accept
		
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			Islam.
		
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			As long as they were living in peace,
		
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			and had a civil understanding, they were allowed
		
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			to live.
		
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			And this is one of the first times,
		
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			historically, and you look at different parts of
		
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			the world, that this is done, that a
		
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			minority group is actually given rights within the
		
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			majority city-state.
		
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			Normally, it's master and slave.
		
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			But this was a totally different situation.
		
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			The Quraish, the believers in many gods of
		
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			Mecca, responded and attacked.
		
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			So a number of attacks we saw came
		
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			against the believers in Medina, and they were
		
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			able to resist.
		
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			They resisted this.
		
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			They held on to their faith.
		
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			And after a few years went by, they
		
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			wanted to go back to Mecca to visit
		
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			their homes.
		
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			And they set out to do a lesser
		
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			pilgrimage called Umrah.
		
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			That's a lesser pilgrimage.
		
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			The pagans used to make pilgrimage to Mecca
		
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			to their idols.
		
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			This, of course, was a pilgrimage for the
		
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			belief in one God.
		
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			But the Quraish met them, and finally a
		
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			treaty was made, where the Muslims had to
		
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			return to Medina without making Umrah, and then
		
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			following that, they could come back to Mecca,
		
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			and they could visit the town that they
		
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			had missed for so long.
		
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			And this, at first, appeared to be a
		
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			loss, because they were turned around.
		
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			But later they realized it was a major
		
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			victory for the Muslims.
		
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			They returned into Mecca, and the politias went
		
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			into the hills, and so the Muslims were
		
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			able, they had the town free.
		
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			They were able to circumambulate the Kaaba, visit
		
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			their homes, what was left of their homes.
		
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			They were able to smell the air and
		
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			be back in their homes.
		
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			It was a great victory for them.
		
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			And so that is considered to be one
		
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			of the major turning points, because the word
		
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			spread around that without violence, that Muhammad, peace
		
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			be upon him, entered into Mecca.
		
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			And this is important, because when you look
		
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			at his life, you will not see a
		
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			large amount of violent operations being done, as
		
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			much of the propaganda actually is put out
		
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			there today.
		
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			And so by the seventh year after the
		
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			migration, okay, then this was a consolidation of
		
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			the power of the Muslims in Medina.
		
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			And at that time, there were famous people
		
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			from amongst the Quraish, who actually began to
		
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			embrace Islam.
		
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			They were so impressed.
		
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			One was named Khalid ibn al-Warid, radiyallahu
		
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			anhu, who was a great general, and he
		
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			embraced Islam at that time.
		
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			And then Amr ibn al-As, radiyallahu anhu,
		
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			was actually a great leader as well.
		
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			And if you remember the story of the
		
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			migration to Ethiopia, that the Quraish sent two
		
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			people to represent Mecca to the king of
		
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			Ethiopia, al-Habasha, one of them was Amr
		
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			ibn al-As.
		
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			So that's the level that he was, in
		
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			terms of the Quraish itself.
		
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			And he embraced Islam.
		
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			And so this is a major turning point.
		
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			But Mecca was still in the hands of
		
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			the Quraish.
		
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			And so through inspiration, in the eighth year,
		
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			then the Prophet realized, now we need to
		
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			end this.
		
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			And so he gathered together his companions, over
		
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			10,000, and they went down to Mecca,
		
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			and were on the outside surrounding the city.
		
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			Abu Sufyan, the leader of the Quraish, came
		
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			out.
		
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			And despite what people may have heard or
		
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			think, the Prophet, peace be upon him, he
		
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			made an amnesty.
		
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			So he's now entering into the town.
		
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			And so he made an amnesty where he
		
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			said that anybody who goes into the house
		
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			of Abu Sufyan is safe.
		
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			Anybody who is not fighting the believers, he's
		
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			safe.
		
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			So Mecca then became a sanctuary.
		
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			It became a sanctuary for the belief in
		
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			one God.
		
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			And this is something, because people even recently,
		
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			with Muslims in Syria, taking over in Syria,
		
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			in Damascus.
		
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			And so they said, okay, what are they
		
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			going to do?
		
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			If they are so-called fundamentalist Muslims, they'll
		
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			slaughter everybody.
		
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			But it's the opposite.
		
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			If they were following the way of a
		
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			Prophet Muhammad, it is, you know, they would
		
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			lean toward peace, and they did that.
		
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			And so they entered into Damascus.
		
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			This is just recently, a few weeks ago,
		
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			and they entered in peacefully.
		
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			And it's a great struggle now, so many
		
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			confusions that are there.
		
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			But they were actually following what we call
		
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			Sunnah.
		
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			They were following the Sunnah.
		
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			And it is reported that when the Prophet
		
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			came into Mecca, he did not come as
		
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			a great Caesar, a great victory, with slaves
		
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			in front of him, and flowers, and all
		
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			the things.
		
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			No, he came riding his camel, and he
		
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			had his head bowed.
		
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			He had a black turban on, and his
		
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			head was bowed in humility.
		
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			So he was very humble at that time
		
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			when they came into Mecca.
		
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			And what they did do is purify the
		
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			house completely.
		
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			And so all of the idols that had
		
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			been put up, originally the house was built
		
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			by Ibrahim, Abraham, peace be upon him, for
		
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			the belief in one God.
		
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			It had deteriorated to 360 gods.
		
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			All of the idols were taken out.
		
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			Even those idols that were in the surrounding
		
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			areas of Mecca were actually taken down.
		
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			And so that land became a purified area
		
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			for believers who believe in one God, and
		
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			we say the word Haram, and that is
		
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			that those who enter into it need to
		
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			believe in this one God.
		
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			It is a special place that is there.
		
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			And I'll never forget, remembering our hero, Ahmed
		
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			Didat, he was in a classic debate with
		
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			one of the Christian evangelists whose name was
		
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			Jimmy Swaggart.
		
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			And so this was a classical debate, because
		
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			Swaggart at the time, and this is a
		
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			number of years ago, was one of the
		
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			strongest Christian evangelists in America, and he challenged
		
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			Didat, who was a South African Muslim, and
		
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			he challenged him, and so Swaggart was arguing
		
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			with him, and Swaggart said to Didat, I
		
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			want to go to Mecca.
		
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			I want to go to Mecca.
		
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			Can I go to Mecca?
		
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			And so Ahmed Didat said, yes, you can
		
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			go.
		
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			And that shocked everybody.
		
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			Yes, you can.
		
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			So Swaggart then said, what can I do?
		
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			What do I have to do to go?
		
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			And so Didat said, it's very easy.
		
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			Just say, la ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah.
		
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			Say that the kalima, that you believe in
		
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			one God, and Muhammad is his messenger, then
		
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			you can go in.
		
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			And this took the air out of Swaggart,
		
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			not really wanting to go to Mecca, right,
		
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			but trying to just make fun of Islam.
		
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			But the reality is that the belief in
		
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			one God stood strong, and continues to stand
		
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			strong, and all the superstitions were put to
		
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			an end.
		
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			People had an understanding of the jinn.
		
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			These are creatures of smokeless fire, even the
		
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			name ghoul, like you will say ghoul, like
		
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			a ghost and a ghoul.
		
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			So in English you say ghoul, right, and
		
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			that's like a demonic, a really evil ghost.
		
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			Okay, and this is in Christian understanding, but
		
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			the word ghoul comes from Arabic, al ghoul.
		
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			And that was one of the names for
		
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			an evil jinni.
		
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			Okay, and even within literature, the word jinni
		
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			was made into fables.
		
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			They say the genie, right, you know the
		
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			genie and the lamp, right, that comes from
		
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			the word jinni.
		
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			But the concept of the jinn is real,
		
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			and superstition is very real.
		
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			And so the Muslims entered into the town,
		
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			they liberated it.
		
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			People at that point began to enter into
		
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			Islam in large numbers.
		
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			It started in Mecca itself, because naturally they
		
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			were afraid.
		
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			There's an army that comes in after having
		
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			attacked, the Meccans had attacked Medina, number of
		
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			times killed many people, tortured people.
		
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			But the Muslims came back, and then the
		
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			Prophet, peace be upon him, said to the
		
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			Meccans, okay, what do you think, what do
		
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			you think about me?
		
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			And they said, you're the best of us,
		
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			you are from our family, they were afraid.
		
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			And he said, what do you think that
		
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			I'm going to do to you?
		
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			And they were afraid, and he said, you
		
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			can go, you're free.
		
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			So you are free, this is a town
		
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			of peace.
		
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			So he established Mecca as a town of
		
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			peace.
		
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			Okay, and the Qur'an says that whoever
		
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			enters into Mecca is safe, you're in a
		
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			safe ground, meaning that the Muslims should make
		
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			that person safe, right, because it is a
		
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			safe area.
		
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			And that was the establishment of Mecca.
		
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			It's called sometimes the conquest of Mecca, but
		
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			really the opening of Mecca.
		
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			And it shows the personality of the Prophet,
		
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			peace be upon him, wanting peace, wanting to
		
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			forgive, even though the people had insulted him,
		
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			had to kill his own family members, but
		
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			they were forgiven.
		
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			And that is the essence of the Islamic
		
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			message, and part of the reason why Islam
		
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			spread so fast, and in the areas where
		
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			Muslims went to, those areas are still Islamic
		
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			for the most part.
		
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			Up until today, within the first hundred years,
		
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			the places it went to, that those areas
		
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			are still fundamentally Muslim after 1,400 years.
		
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			Okay, this is unheard of.
		
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			There's no other way of life where something
		
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			like this has happened.
		
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			So this tells us more about Prophet Muhammad,
		
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			peace be upon him, the seal of the
		
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			prophets and the messengers, not the first, because
		
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			we believe prophethood started with Adam, alayhis salaam,
		
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			the first human being.
		
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			There were over 124,000 prophets and messengers.
		
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			Prophets came to China, prophets came to India,
		
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			prophets came to Africa, to Europe, to the
		
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			Americas.
		
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			Every nation and every tribe, at one point,
		
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			received a messenger.
		
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			And so that was the essence of Islam,
		
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			the Islamic message, and that is the opening
		
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			of Mecca.
		
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			It's an extremely important time.
		
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			It is considered one of the greatest victories
		
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			in the history of Islam, because by doing
		
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			this, they have consolidated themselves, they have consolidated
		
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			the belief in one God, and established Mecca.
		
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			You know, as a base, alhamdulillah, our praises
		
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			to Allah, up until today, it is still
		
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			a source of peace, and there are millions
		
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			of people who are going to Mecca up
		
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			until today, and it has maintained its sanctity
		
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			despite a number of attacks and a number
		
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			of threats over the centuries, it has maintained
		
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			the sanctity and the belief in one God.
		
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			So I want to open up the floor
		
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			here for any questions that anybody may have.
		
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			We are restricted now, at eight o'clock
		
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			we have Isha prayer, but the floor is
		
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			open for any general questions concerning Tawheed, the
		
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			belief in one God, any of the sections
		
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			of Tawheed, also the life of Prophet Muhammad,
		
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			peace be upon him, and specifically we're looking
		
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			at the opening of Mecca.
		
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			So I want to open the floor for
		
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			any questions that anybody may have.
		
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			The floor is open.
		
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			Check online for me and see if anything
		
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			came into the chat.
		
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			Okay, so now this is our, in the
		
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			few moments that we do have, the floor
		
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			is open for any general questions anybody has.
		
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			That's part of the purpose of our New
		
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			Muslim Corner.
		
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			If you have questions about, you know, different
		
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			issues and things you want to clear up,
		
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			this is an opportunity to ask the questions
		
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			that anybody may have.
		
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			Okay, this is a question, it used to
		
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			be a big question here in the 70s,
		
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			and I remember back in the 70s going
		
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			to special cheese shops and things like that,
		
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			and if you know Toronto before, the only
		
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			place we could get cheese was in Kensington
		
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			Market, if you know on Spadina, right?
		
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			That's the only place, because you could ask
		
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			them, does it have animal rennet or vegetable
		
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			rennet, you know, inside of it?
		
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			But basically that has eased up in terms
		
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			of how people are dealing with rennet now,
		
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			because of the processes, the chemical, you know,
		
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			processes that, you know, it goes through.
		
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			It is better, of course, to have vegetable
		
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			rennet, and of course, if the rennet is
		
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			made from pork, then it's definitely not permitted.
		
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			This is like, I believe it's a coagulant.
		
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			It's something that helps it to get its
		
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			gummy nature within the cheese itself, in the
		
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			process of making cheese.
		
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			Okay, it's a small thing that is, you
		
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			know, a small little element, but to be
		
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			safe, it's better to have vegetable rennet in
		
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			the cheese, and generally speaking, because of the
		
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			vegetarian nature of things overcoming, that most of
		
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			the cheeses are made now with vegetable rennet.
		
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			So it's not a big issue with us
		
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			now, like it was before.
		
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			Yeah, so if it just says that, then
		
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			we basically say it's okay.
		
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			It's not a major issue now, you know,
		
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			and so these things have come up, and
		
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			I remember there was a big scare, because
		
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			this one Muslim businessman, he made this announcement,
		
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			he said, you know, I have halal milk,
		
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			right, and I'm now giving a halal milk.
		
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			This caused a scare, because if he has
		
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			halal milk, that means all the other milk
		
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			is, is, is haram.
		
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			It's prohibited, and this caused a scare, and
		
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			it was a big meeting of the Imams,
		
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			and you know, whatever, and they called in
		
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			a Muslim scientist, you know, to understand it,
		
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			and somehow, you know, he had some theory
		
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			that within the process of making of the
		
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			milk, that there was something that might have
		
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			been taken out of, you know, pork, or
		
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			something like this, some chemical, but it was
		
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			so far down the line, it was totally
		
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			irrelevant.
		
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			He really wanted to make a business move,
		
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			you know, right, and become a millionaire overnight,
		
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			okay, and so we recognized, no, that this
		
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			is not a claim, that all other milks,
		
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			you know, haram, although there is halal yogurt,
		
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			you can get, and I actually prefer to
		
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			have the halal yogurt, just to be safe,
		
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			but that doesn't mean the other yogurts are
		
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			actually haram.
		
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			Monodiglycerides, they have, you know, it gets into
		
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			a chemical thing, yeah, but
		
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			this really has not, is not a major
		
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			issue, you know, for us at this point,
		
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			you know, in terms of that, looking at,
		
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			you know, halal milk, you know, halal yogurt,
		
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			although the halal yogurt is, it's always nice
		
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			to have halal on the thing, you know,
		
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			like that, you know, it's a good marketing
		
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			strategy, actually.
		
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			He was a genius, but we had to
		
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			stop him publicly from what he was trying
		
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			to do.
		
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			Now, question.
		
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			Yeah, you know, the concept of dua, of
		
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			prayer itself, is something that we constantly do.
		
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			Actually, the word salat itself, the essence of
		
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			the word itself, means dua.
		
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			So the essence of prayer, making salat, is
		
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			that we're making a dua, because within the
		
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			Fatiha, we're saying, guide us to the straight
		
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			path, that's a prayer, we are praying to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			But we recognize that dua is not something
		
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			that is done on just special occasions, or
		
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			in circles, or anything like that, that if
		
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			you look at the life of the Prophet,
		
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			peace be upon him, he was in touch
		
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			with Allah, making his prayers constantly, and everything
		
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			that he was doing.
		
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			And so that is going outside of the
		
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			house, we're coming in, eating food, going to
		
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			bed, different actions, and you can actually get
		
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			books, where they've actually shown you the different
		
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			duas for different occasions, and different things that
		
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			you can do, from the Sunnah, you know,
		
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			as well.
		
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			But if you're making a formal dua, where
		
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			you want to really, you know, turn to
		
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			Allah, you know, specifically, then, you know, it
		
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			is recommended that you begin with salawat, you
		
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			begin with saying, Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad,
		
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			you send peace and blessings to the Prophet
		
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			in the beginning, right?
		
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			And you know, and then, you know, make
		
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			the prayer.
		
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			And what is important about the dua, is
		
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			not the number, it is sincerity.
		
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			And this is really important, and I remember,
		
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			you know, going to Mecca, and many of
		
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			you, inshallah, if you haven't gone, you may
		
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			go.
		
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			Times have changed, now everybody has cell phones,
		
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			and you know, whatever.
		
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			But before, they used to have a mutawwaf,
		
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			who was there, people would take you around,
		
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			and they actually are reciting, Allahumma, Allahumma, Anta
		
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			Rabbi, and then you repeat after them, and
		
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			you go around.
		
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			You even have books, as you're going around
		
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			the Kaaba, each circuit, which duas to make.
		
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			So some people spend so much time trying
		
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			to read the book, that they lose the
		
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			sincerity.
		
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			The important things about the prayer, is being
		
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			sincere to Allah.
		
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			That is the essence of the prayer.
		
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			So even if you made one dua, one
		
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			prayer, sincerely, that is better than another person
		
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			making a hundred, just reading it.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, you know, that's generally the formula, you
		
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			know, for doing it, but we should try
		
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			to learn as many of these prayers as
		
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			we can, for different actions that we are
		
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			doing.
		
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			When the Prophet, peace be upon him, was
		
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			sitting at a table, and there was a
		
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			young man, and the young man started to
		
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			eat, and the Prophet told him, Semmillah, he
		
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			said, you know, say Bismillah, right, and eat
		
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			with your right hand, and eat from the
		
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			food that's in front of you.
		
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			Now that might sound strange to us, because
		
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			we're in an individualistic society.
		
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			We all have our plate, but in a
		
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			group setting, you'll have a group plate, and
		
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			you know, so you should eat from the
		
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			food that's in front of you, because it's
		
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			very rude and un-Islamic that everybody's about
		
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			to eat from the plate, and you reach
		
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			over across, you know, and take somebody's chicken
		
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			from the other side of the plate.
		
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			No.
		
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			So that food is right in front of
		
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			you, and eat with your right hand.
		
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			Okay, so all these things are the etiquettes,
		
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			but Bismillah in the beginning, you know, and
		
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			there's even other forms, there's even, you know,
		
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			more that you can say, but at least
		
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			to say, you know, Bismillah every time, you
		
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			know, before you are eating food, and all
		
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			the things that we do in life, we
		
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			need to remember the Creator of the heavens
		
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			and the earth.
		
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			Floor is open for any other general questions.
		
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			Oh yeah, saying out loud, you know, that
		
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			there's no particular way that you have to
		
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			do it, whether it's out loud, or whether
		
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			it is silent.
		
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			You can do it either way.
		
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			Imam al-Shafi'i, Rahimahullah, you know, he
		
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			emphasized that for certain prayers, certain du'as
		
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			that you're making, you should say it out
		
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			loud.
		
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			Like you're making an intention for fasting in
		
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			Ramadan, or you're making umrah, you're making hajj,
		
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			you know, labaikallahuma labaik.
		
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			So you say, I'm doing this for Allah.
		
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			You can't forget to say that, right?
		
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			Because if you forget to say that, you
		
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			can ruin the whole hajj.
		
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			So he's saying to be sure, say it
		
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			out loud.
		
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			But he didn't mean that every single thing
		
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			has to be said out loud.
		
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			It can be either silent, or it can
		
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			be said out loud.
		
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			But generally speaking, you will see that Muslims
		
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			in their prayers and in their gatherings would
		
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			tend to do things silently, and not necessarily
		
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			all out loud there.
		
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			But what you will find, it is said
		
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			that when the prayers were over amongst the
		
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			Sahaba, and the Imam said, you know, the
		
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			taslim, then you would hear people would say,
		
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			la ilaha illallah, la ilaha illallah.
		
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			They would start to make, you know, different
		
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			du'as, you know, to themselves.
		
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			You would hear the sound of the people
		
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			making the du'as.
		
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			So we'll
		
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			be closing the class now.
		
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			Have a safe journey home for those online.
		
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			Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.