Abdullah Hakim Quick – The New Muslim Corner – The Prophet And Superstitions

Abdullah Hakim Quick
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The importance of Islam as a means of survival for new Muslims is emphasized, as individuals must continually review their understanding of God. superstitions such as shrooming, the use of garments talismans, and the use of shrooming are discussed, along with the history of animals and their superstitions. The speakers emphasize the importance of shattering people and dealing with polytheism in order to stay on the path of being believers in one God. Pranksters use shrooming and garments talismans to gain bad luck, and the use of shrooming to disrespect Muslims and their culture is discussed. Pranksters use shrooming and garments talismans to wake up the person who has died, and the importance of praying directly to Allah is emphasized.

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			بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم.
		
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			الحمد لله رب العالمين.
		
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			وصلى الله تعالى على سيد المرسلين وعاليه وصحبه
		
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			وبركه وسلم.
		
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			All praise are due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon
		
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			all of the Prophets, and especially our beloved
		
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			Prophet Muhammad, his family, his companions, to the
		
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			Day of Judgment.
		
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			As to what follows, السلام عليكم ورحمة الله.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, we are continuing on with our new
		
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			Muslim corner, and that is to provide some
		
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			foundational information on a consistent basis, and then
		
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			open up the floor for questions that people
		
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			may have concerning different issues in Islam.
		
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			And we have seen consistently that the main
		
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			description of a Muslim is موحد, that that
		
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			person believes in one God.
		
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			And that really is the key.
		
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			It is not a racial thing.
		
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			It's not language.
		
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			The early followers of Noah, نوح عليه السلام,
		
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			were Muslims.
		
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			The followers of Abraham, إبراهيم عليه السلام, were
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			We believe the followers of Moses, موسى عليه
		
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			السلام, were Muslims.
		
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			Because Muslim only means one who submits to
		
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			do the will of God.
		
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			And so the essence of Islam is that
		
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			monotheism.
		
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			Is that submission to the Creator.
		
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			But we recognize that it is critical for
		
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			new Muslims, and really for all Muslims, to
		
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			review monotheism.
		
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			Because monotheism, since it is the essence of
		
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			Islam, it is constantly under attack.
		
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			The attack comes not only intentionally, but sometimes
		
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			it comes unintentionally.
		
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			Sometimes people, because of their culture, they live
		
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			in a certain part of the world.
		
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			They live in a place where the tree
		
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			is very important.
		
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			In some desert areas, savannah, there are huge
		
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			trees that are there.
		
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			Sometimes you live in an area like Egypt,
		
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			for instance, where the Nile, the river, is
		
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			the source of life.
		
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			Without the Nile, the whole of Egypt would
		
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			be a desert.
		
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			So sometimes rituals and understandings develop based upon
		
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			power.
		
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			The power of certain parts of creation.
		
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			And so, out of survival, people have developed
		
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			their cultures and shaped their cultures around surviving
		
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			in a certain environment, in a certain place.
		
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			And so this is what makes what they
		
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			call culture.
		
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			Because your culture is so many different things.
		
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			It's not only just your language or your
		
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			food, but your customs as well.
		
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			It's the way you function in the society.
		
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			So therefore, we constantly review our understanding of
		
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			tawhid, the oneness of God, to the fact
		
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			that Allah is, we accept Allah as a
		
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			Rabb, or the Lord, who has no rival.
		
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			There is no rival to the Creator.
		
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			He is the one who ultimately has power
		
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			over all things.
		
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			There are certain aspects of power that people
		
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			have.
		
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			There are certain aspects of power that animals
		
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			have.
		
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			But it's not the ultimate power.
		
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			So the ultimate power is the Lord.
		
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			Secondly, our Lord has special names, special descriptions,
		
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			that no other creation can possibly have.
		
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			Nobody can have knowledge of all things.
		
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			Nobody can see all things.
		
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			Nobody can hear all things.
		
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			And I remember seeing a Muslim in a
		
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			debate with a non-Muslim, and the non
		
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			-Muslim was really aggressive and shouting in his
		
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			face, to the point where the non-Muslim
		
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			said, I'm God.
		
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			Okay, so what do you think about that?
		
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			So the Muslim just put his hand over
		
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			the non-Muslim's eyes, like that, and then
		
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			he put fingers in back of it.
		
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			So he said, how many fingers do I
		
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			have up?
		
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			And the non-Muslim said, I don't know.
		
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			So he said, how can you be God
		
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			if my hand is right in front of
		
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			your face and you can't see what I
		
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			have up?
		
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			You see?
		
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			Something as simple as that is showing that
		
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			human beings have weaknesses and Allah is Al
		
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			-Basiyah, the one who sees all things, Al
		
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			-Sami'ah, and the one who hears all
		
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			things.
		
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			Okay, so Allah is one and special in
		
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			His names and descriptions.
		
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			Thirdly is that Allah is one in His
		
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			divinity as the divine creator of the heavens
		
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			and the earth, and so therefore we worship
		
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			only Allah.
		
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			And so we have to constantly review this
		
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			because worship can come in many different forms.
		
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			Also the fact that the opposite of Tawhid,
		
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			Shirk, polytheism comes in many forms, and we
		
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			need to understand these forms because sometimes they
		
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			creep in on us and we recently have
		
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			gone through the Christmas season in this part
		
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			of the world, and then the New Years,
		
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			and you can see how the culture and
		
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			how the superstitions of nature-worshipping societies crept
		
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			into the belief in one God.
		
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			So Shirk is polytheism.
		
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			It's association of partners with Allah.
		
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			And that is the opposite of Tawhid, and
		
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			it is the gravest thing, it is the
		
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			worst possible thing that a person can commit.
		
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			Now, in Shirk, the classical form of Shirk
		
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			that we would think about would be bowing
		
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			down to an idol.
		
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			So you would go to the idol instead
		
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			of directly to the Creator.
		
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			You would pray directly.
		
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			You would go through the idol.
		
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			So it becomes like a partner to the
		
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			Creator.
		
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			And that comes in many different ways of
		
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			life, many different religions.
		
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			In different parts of the world, one of
		
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			the big forms of religion that's not really
		
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			given a formal title, although it is very
		
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			formal in the place, that is ancestor worship.
		
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			And that is that people in China, and
		
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			I encountered this also in southern Africa, they
		
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			believe that their parents who have gone over,
		
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			the soul has gone over to the next
		
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			life, and so therefore if they keep the
		
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			connection with their ancestors, with their parents, then
		
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			their parents who are over on the other
		
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			side are closer to God.
		
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			And so they structure their religion around taking
		
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			care of the ancestors.
		
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			And in West Africa they have a thing
		
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			which is called libations.
		
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			And you might see this happen in different
		
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			ceremonies, not knowing what it is.
		
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			And that is before they start the ceremony,
		
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			they pour some alcohol on the ground in
		
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			order to satisfy the spirits.
		
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			So I don't know their intention is to
		
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			give the spirit a drink before they start
		
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			their program.
		
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			But this is libations.
		
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			It's a connection with their ancestors.
		
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			So another form of shirk in worship, and
		
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			that is the wearing of garments talismans, amulets,
		
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			and then doing un-Islamic chants to seek
		
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			protection from Allah or to gain benefit.
		
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			So the intention of doing these things is
		
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			as a protective one initially, but also it
		
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			can be used for benefits.
		
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			And you're going to see that in many
		
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			cultures this actually comes out.
		
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			And one might say, okay, this is being
		
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			too meticulous and picky.
		
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			Leave it alone.
		
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			It's the people's culture.
		
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			But this is a serious thing.
		
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			So the point where the Prophet, peace be
		
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			upon him, said, So he said, and that
		
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			is un-Islamic chants.
		
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			And that is the talismans.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And tiwala.
		
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			And so this is the charms, superstitious type
		
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			of things.
		
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			These are all forms of shirk.
		
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			And these superstitions penetrate society.
		
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			Even in the Western societies, because Western people,
		
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			because of secularism, there was a break from
		
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			religion in Europe.
		
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			So they consider that they are not religious.
		
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			They don't have superstition.
		
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			But yet in this society, there's a lot
		
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			of superstitions.
		
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			You even see sometimes a person is a
		
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			mainstream journalist or whatever, and they say something,
		
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			and they go, they knock on wood.
		
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			You ever see anybody do that?
		
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			They knock on wood.
		
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			I mean, I don't know the whole story
		
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			behind that knocking on wood.
		
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			It would be interesting to look it up.
		
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			All of it has a story.
		
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			But people are still doing things similar to
		
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			that.
		
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			One of the big superstitions has to do
		
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			with the black cat.
		
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			So this superstition is with animals, certain animals,
		
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			certain colors, numbers.
		
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			There's a lot of superstition in this.
		
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			And it comes in the societies for different
		
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			reasons.
		
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			Over time, it has developed.
		
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			And the cat itself, innocent in a sense,
		
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			but the superstition of the black cat.
		
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			And they say that if the black cat
		
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			crosses your path, okay, then you, it's like
		
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			a curse.
		
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			It's like bad luck or something.
		
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			Has anybody ever had a black cat cross
		
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			their path?
		
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			Yeah?
		
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			Did you feel anything inside yourself?
		
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			Okay, so you're all right.
		
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			And sometimes, even though people who might know
		
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			this are practicing Muslim, and the black cat
		
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			crosses your path, something comes in the back
		
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			of your mind.
		
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			Okay, is something going to happen to me?
		
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			Okay, but that has nothing to do with
		
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			your future.
		
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			That cat crossing your path has nothing to
		
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			do with your future.
		
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			You see?
		
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			So this is called a tiara.
		
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			It's called a tiara.
		
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			And tiara, this is a dangerous thing which
		
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			is categorized also by the Prophet as being
		
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			a form of shirk.
		
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			And it comes in different numbers.
		
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			The Chinese have a number of superstitions.
		
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			India, Europe, you'll see this in many cases.
		
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			There is a superstition with the number 13.
		
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			And I don't know if they're still doing
		
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			this or not, but in your apartment building,
		
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			do you have a 13th floor?
		
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			No.
		
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			You'll find that there's no 13th floor.
		
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			So why would they not want to have
		
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			a 13th floor?
		
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			Superstition, tiara, that people would be afraid to
		
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			live on the 13th floor, feeling that they
		
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			could be cursed.
		
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			And it's interesting to look at some of
		
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			the reasoning behind this, and it comes in
		
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			many cultures.
		
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			In Christianity, there were 13 people at the
		
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			Last Supper, but that included Judas.
		
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			And Judas was the one that went against
		
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			Christ according to the Christian traditions.
		
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			But Judas was rumored to be the last
		
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			person.
		
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			So they had the Last Supper, the 12
		
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			disciples, there's 12 disciples, but then Judas came,
		
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			he's number 13, and he turned against Jesus.
		
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			So within Christianity, this superstition developed.
		
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			Amongst the Viking people, the Scandinavian people of
		
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			the north, Loki was the 13th god in
		
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			the story of Norngest, when uninvited guests showed
		
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			up at an infant's birthday party, bringing a
		
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			number of guests to 13, and the last
		
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			of the guests cursed the child.
		
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			So it's a cursed thing, 13 amongst Scandinavian
		
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			people, whether you're from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland,
		
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			all in that area, there's a lot of
		
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			superstition around 13.
		
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			Even the ancient Persians, they were wary about
		
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			the number of 13, because they believed that
		
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			the 12 constellations of the zodiac would each
		
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			rule the earth for a thousand years, but
		
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			after the cycle ended in the 13th millennia,
		
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			the sky and the earth would collapse into
		
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			chaos.
		
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			So it's the 13th millennia.
		
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			I don't know whether this is considered to
		
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			be the 13th, there's enough chaos going on,
		
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			but 13 is there.
		
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			And they even connected it with days of
		
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			the week, like Friday the 13th.
		
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			So if Friday the 13th is supposed to
		
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			be a dangerous day, somebody wakes up and
		
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			they say, today is Friday the 13th.
		
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			See, a lot of these superstitions are being
		
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			brought back, but 30, 40 years ago, they
		
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			were really big in the society.
		
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			And some foolish Muslims even, you know, on
		
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			Juma it's the 13th, they get afraid, because
		
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			you're going to make Juma, but it's Friday
		
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			the 13th.
		
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			Because sometimes Juma falls on 13.
		
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			You see?
		
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			So what is our relationship with the number
		
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			13?
		
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			Okay, so these are superstitions that develop based
		
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			upon numbers.
		
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			Does anybody else know any superstitions based on
		
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			numbers?
		
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			Chinese have the number 4.
		
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			That's right, okay.
		
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			So number 4, the Chinese have.
		
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			Lots of people think that three digits of
		
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			the same number are angel numbers, like 444
		
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			or 333, and they wear it on their
		
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			neck, because it's their angel number.
		
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			Okay, yeah.
		
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			The Chinese also have, because I remember we
		
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			were looking for a house, and if you
		
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			come to a street that has a corner,
		
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			like it's like a triangle, and the houses
		
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			go around it, you know, it's sort of
		
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			like you're going around a bend, and you
		
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			come to the place where the bend sort
		
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			of meets, they won't buy that house on
		
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			the bend.
		
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			That's strictly out, because they believe that in
		
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			that house, whether it's demons or whatever it
		
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			is, that they cannot, that's a superstition.
		
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			And it's something that we have to now
		
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			think about, because these things are rooted within
		
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			our culture.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			And breaking the mirror was another one.
		
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			And it's interesting, when you look at the
		
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			background, the Romans were the first people to
		
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			create glass mirrors, they claim, probably not.
		
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			Anyhow, they also believe that their invention had
		
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			the potential to steal part of the soul
		
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			of the person using it.
		
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			So you're looking in that mirror, and it
		
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			could steal your soul.
		
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			If a person's reflection was distorted while using
		
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			the mirror, then their soul would be corrupted
		
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			and trapped as a result.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			But then they said the Romans did believe
		
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			your soul could be renewed after seven years.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			And until that point, the person would suffer
		
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			from bad luck, since they did not have
		
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			a whole healthy soul to fight off evil.
		
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			So when you break in a mirror, seven
		
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			years bad luck.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So these things come within our cultures.
		
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			Think about your culture, wherever you come from,
		
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			or your people, some of the stories you
		
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			were told when you were young.
		
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			I remember a person was from Afghanistan, and
		
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			they said that in the morning, when the
		
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			rooster gets up, if you're living in a
		
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			rural situation, if the rooster faces your house,
		
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			and then crows out, it then makes its
		
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			crowing sound towards you, someone's going to die.
		
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			Someone's going to die if it happened to
		
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			face the house.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So there's a lot of superstitions around birds
		
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			themselves.
		
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			Of course, the raven, the crows and the
		
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			ravens.
		
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			So there's a lot of superstitions surrounding the
		
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			ravens and what they can actually bring.
		
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			One interesting one, which was an urban phenomena,
		
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			but it happened with building of the cities,
		
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			and that is walking under a ladder.
		
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			Walking under a ladder.
		
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			And I can recall being young, growing up
		
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			in America, that you come to a person
		
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			with a ladder, and you think twice.
		
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			I mean, we were rebellious.
		
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			We'd walk under the ladder anyway and see
		
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			what's going to happen.
		
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			But people would say no.
		
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			And it turns out that the early Christians
		
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			felt the triangle was a sacred sign.
		
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			You see?
		
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			It's sacred, representing the Trinity, Father, Son, Holy
		
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			Spirit.
		
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			So when the ladder was pushed against the
		
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			wall, it formed the shape of a triangle.
		
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			And thus, by walking under it, you're breaking
		
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			the triangle.
		
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			This was such a bad thing that the
		
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			early Christians would often label anyone who walked
		
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			under a ladder to be a witch or
		
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			working with Satan.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And that could be dangerous because witches in
		
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			some parts of Europe and America, they would
		
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			burn you alive.
		
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			So these are superstitions that pervade our culture.
		
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			Can anybody think of any other superstitions from
		
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			their own cultures or things that you've heard
		
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			from your family that is there?
		
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			When you go to the house to walk
		
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			backwards.
		
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			Okay, so it's based upon like the djinn,
		
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			right?
		
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			Any other understandings of walking backwards to the
		
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			house?
		
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			So the djinn, because I know in some
		
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			countries, I think it was in Malaysia or
		
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			Pakistan, they say the djinns, you can tell
		
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			the footprints because they walk with their feet
		
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			backwards.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Right.
		
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			If you look at their feet, they get
		
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			scared.
		
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			Right.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			I was saying this is one too.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			I mean, they also have superstitions which are
		
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			good luck.
		
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			So like the four-leaf clover and horseshoe
		
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			and there's different forms of, you know, symbols
		
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			and signs that are supposed to bring good
		
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			luck to you as well.
		
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			Now, the question that comes up that somebody
		
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			may say is, okay, this is Indian culture,
		
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			European culture, African culture, has nothing to do
		
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			with Islam.
		
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			Islam is just praying and fasting and whatever.
		
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			But we have to recognize, and again, we're
		
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			going to go to the life of Prophet
		
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			Muhammad, peace be upon him, because this is
		
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			where your living example of Islam is when
		
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			it's practiced.
		
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			And we were at the opening of Mecca,
		
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			the conquest of Mecca in the eighth year
		
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			after the hijrah, after the Prophet migrated to
		
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			Medina.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			And we found out about the personality of
		
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			Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, that although
		
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			he and his followers had been tortured and
		
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			insulted and driven out, that he basically gave
		
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			a general amnesty to the city.
		
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			General amnesty.
		
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			He said, you can go, you can go
		
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			free.
		
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			And Mecca became a sanctuary.
		
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			So from that time, they wanted to root
		
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			out all forms of superstition, all forms of
		
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			idolatry out of Mecca.
		
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			So that at least there would be somewhere
		
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			in the world where if a person wanted
		
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			to believe in one God, and wanted to
		
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			be free of all this, they could go
		
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			to that place.
		
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			So that was the original intention.
		
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			And this is something serious, because, you know,
		
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			one of the dangers today is that we
		
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			take in Western culture, people just start, you
		
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			know, bring in the West, they bring everything
		
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			in from the West, not realizing that some
		
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			of the things that they're bringing in from
		
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			the West is actually shirk.
		
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			It's polytheism, it's people's superstition that has been
		
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			transferred into like culture, the culture.
		
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			So Mecca became clear of superstitions, which meant
		
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			they had to review their culture to see
		
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			if there are things inside of it that
		
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			are actually wrong.
		
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			There's a question coming online.
		
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			Yeah, so the question is, is walking in
		
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			the homes, your home with your feet backwards,
		
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			you know, the same like walking with your
		
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			right foot or your left foot.
		
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			No, because that's based on a superstition.
		
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			It's based on this understanding of the jinn.
		
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			But walking, using your right, this is sunnah.
		
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			The sunnah is a way of Prophet Muhammad,
		
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			peace be upon him, because generally we use
		
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			the right side for positive, you know, things
		
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			and the left side, you know, sometimes for
		
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			things that are unclean or, you know, ending
		
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			things.
		
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			So, you know, we eat with our right
		
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			hand.
		
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			You know, when you shake somebody's hand, you
		
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			should shake with your right hand.
		
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			If you put your left hand out to
		
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			a Muslim, okay, this is an insult.
		
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			So, you know, and it's only in the
		
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			case where the person, you know, is wounded.
		
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			But even in that case, they might do
		
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			something else other than just shaking with their
		
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			left hand.
		
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			So it's the sunnah to enter with the
		
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			right and to leave with the left.
		
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			That's not superstition.
		
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			Okay, so there's no superstitious curse or anything
		
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			that's going to be done.
		
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			It is a way to follow the lifestyle
		
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			of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Now, with the opening of Mecca, people came
		
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			into Islam in large numbers.
		
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			And the word started to spread around the
		
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			Arabian Peninsula.
		
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			Some of the tribes, however, were hostile.
		
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			And they refused to get involved with Islam.
		
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			They wanted to continue their pagan traditions.
		
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			And the Prophet, peace be upon him, wanted
		
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			to clear the whole of Arabian Peninsula, at
		
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			least of idolatry.
		
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			And one of the tribes in particular was
		
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			the tribe of the Hawazin.
		
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			And this is in an area outside of
		
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			Mecca.
		
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			I believe it's going, you know, a little
		
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			bit toward the east and south.
		
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			But these are the Hawazin people.
		
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			And they were powerful people who had strong
		
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			agriculture.
		
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			But especially they had a lot of husbandry
		
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			animals.
		
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			So they had thousands of sheep, goats, camels.
		
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			So they were a respected group of the
		
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			Hawazin.
		
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			But they refused to accept Islam.
		
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			That's one thing.
		
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			But they also announced their hostility, that they
		
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			were going to fight Muslims.
		
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			They would cut off the roads and they
		
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			would punish anybody who embraced Islam, you know,
		
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			that they found in their community or coming
		
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			through their community.
		
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			And their leader, one of their leaders, Malik
		
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			ibn Auf, he gathered them together.
		
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			After they made this announcement, the bulk of
		
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			them, they gathered in a huge valley which
		
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			is called Hunayn.
		
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			Okay, so this Hunayn, you know, becomes a
		
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			very important battle or confrontation in Islamic history.
		
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			So the Prophet, peace be upon him, left.
		
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			It was the 19th of Shawwal.
		
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			So this is now after the opening of
		
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			Mecca.
		
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			And he left with 12,000.
		
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			So this is now a large number.
		
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			The Muslims had never had a number like
		
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			this.
		
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			Okay, but the difference was that in the
		
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			past they were smaller in number, but their
		
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			faith was strong.
		
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			You had people who had suffered and gone
		
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			through changes 13 years in Mecca.
		
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			So their belief in one God was solidified.
		
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			They had gone through trouble in Medina.
		
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			Their city had been attacked.
		
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			They suffered in many different ways.
		
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			So they were strong believers.
		
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			Now the 12,000 included a few thousand
		
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			from those who just embraced Islam.
		
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			So they're new Muslims.
		
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			Okay, so a person would take the Shahada,
		
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			and this is our reality.
		
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			You come into Islam, but you still have
		
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			a lot of traditions with you.
		
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			Those traditions, superstitions, they don't go overnight.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ was very keen to
		
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			confront this.
		
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			And so as they moved towards Qunayn, they
		
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			came across a valley, and there was a
		
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			tree in that valley called Thata Anwat.
		
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			Okay, and this is a tree in Arabia.
		
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			I just picked it out.
		
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			It's not actually Thata Anwat.
		
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			But it is strange, because when you look
		
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			at this, you see everything else is dead,
		
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			and there's the tree.
		
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			So it looked like that tree is getting
		
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			water from somewhere, not from the sky, because
		
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			it's a desert.
		
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			So it is very odd when sometimes you
		
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			find these huge trees like this in the
		
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			middle of the desert.
		
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			This particular tree, Thata Anwat, this particular tree,
		
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			they believed had sacred power in it.
		
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			It had special power.
		
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			And so before they would go into a
		
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			battle, they would hang their swords and their
		
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			spears, whatever weapons, their armor, whatever it was,
		
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			they would put it on the tree, believing
		
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			that by putting the weapon on the tree,
		
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			you become invincible.
		
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			It gives special power to the weapons.
		
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			So they came across Thata Anwat, and there
		
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			were people amongst the Muslims who used to
		
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			believe this.
		
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			So they said to the Prophet ﷺ, اجعل
		
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			لنا Thata Anwat, come Allahum Thata Anwat, make
		
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			a tree like this for us, because the
		
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			pagans have a tree.
		
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			And at that point, the Prophet ﷺ became
		
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			extremely angry.
		
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			And they described him even really getting angry.
		
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			And he said, الله أكبر, and that means
		
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			Allah is greater than anything else.
		
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			And he said, you are an ignorant people.
		
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			You're an ignorant people.
		
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			And you're following the way of those who
		
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			came before.
		
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			You're following their ways.
		
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			And so he was really upset by this,
		
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			which shows his emphasis on dealing with superstition,
		
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			this tiara, and rooting it out of the
		
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			culture, even though it's part of the culture.
		
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			And somebody will say, well, you know, hanging
		
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			your weapons on the tree, this is Arab
		
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			culture.
		
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			Because everybody is now looking at cultures and
		
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			saying, well, if it's African culture or if
		
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			it's Arab culture, it's okay.
		
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			But no.
		
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			He connected it with jahiliyyah, ignorance.
		
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			And he got really upset.
		
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			And that is a good example of why
		
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			it's important for Muslims not to follow the
		
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			ways of the people of the book.
		
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			What had happened to them should not happen
		
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			to us.
		
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			And we saw this with Christmas.
		
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			Remember the Christmas tree and the fact that
		
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			people put that tree in the house, looking
		
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			at the tree as a type of amulet.
		
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			It's like warding off evil and it will
		
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			bring you benefit.
		
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			And the people of the North believe there's
		
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			something sacred about the tree because it's still
		
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			alive.
		
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			It's wintertime.
		
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			The evergreen is still alive.
		
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			Just like this data on what?
		
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			So it is still alive.
		
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			And so he crushed the idea.
		
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			No compromise.
		
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			No compromise with superstition.
		
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			No compromise with talismans and amulets and all
		
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			of these ways because it leads directly to
		
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			shirk.
		
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			And shirk is the worst possible thing that
		
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			a person can do.
		
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			So this is the living example of the
		
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			Prophet, peace be upon him.
		
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			Eventually they made it to the area of
		
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			Hunayn and the Hawazin people set a trap.
		
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			So as they entered into the valley, suddenly
		
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			they realized that from the sides of the
		
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			valley arrows were pouring down and stones and
		
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			whatnot and the Hawazin attacked them viciously.
		
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			And so this was a near defeat to
		
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			the point where somebody even shouted out in
		
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			the midst of the battle, I killed Muhammad.
		
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			I killed him.
		
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			And that sent shockwaves through the believers, especially
		
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			the new Muslims.
		
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			You can imagine how they felt.
		
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			And the Prophet, peace be upon him, at
		
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			that point had to make a statement.
		
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			He doesn't normally make this statement and this
		
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			is important for people to understand with our
		
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			identities too.
		
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			Because sometimes people will enter Islam and they
		
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			want to leave their identity altogether.
		
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			They want to leave their family name.
		
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			They want to leave everything.
		
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			No.
		
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			The Prophet, peace be upon him, said, He
		
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			said, I am the Prophet, no doubt.
		
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			I am the son of Abdul Muttalib, meaning
		
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			the grandson.
		
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			So in other words, he quoted his family,
		
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			his lineage.
		
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			So when he said his lineage, they said,
		
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			that's him.
		
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			And then he put down this idea and
		
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			eventually, although the new Muslims were shaken, but
		
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			the believers who were strong tried and tested.
		
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			They held their ground and they were able
		
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			to overcome the disbelievers in this battle, the
		
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			Battle of Hunayn.
		
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			And this is, there's a lot of lessons
		
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			that come out of this Battle of Hunayn,
		
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			really important lessons.
		
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			This is how you become familiar with the
		
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			Prophet, with his life, with his character, with
		
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			his stance on certain issues.
		
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			This is how we understand that this is
		
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			the last messenger.
		
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			This is the one who will deal with
		
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			polytheism in all of its forms.
		
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			This is the one who will help us
		
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			to stay on the straight path and to
		
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			be believers in one God.
		
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			So I want to open up the floor
		
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			for any questions anybody may have concerning superstitions,
		
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			dealing with Hunayn, or anything concerning.
		
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			The floor is open.
		
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			Yes, so this is a very good question.
		
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			Don't some people visit the graves of pious
		
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			people within their cultures?
		
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			Yes, they do visit the graves of pious
		
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			people, but that is considered to be shirk
		
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			because they are going to the graves and
		
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			they're actually praying to the person in the
		
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			grave.
		
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			And there are a couple of them.
		
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			There's one in India, a famous one in
		
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			Ajmer.
		
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			And I can remember being in a Muslim
		
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			community.
		
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			I don't want to say which country it
		
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			is so we're not getting into names of
		
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			countries.
		
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			But this particular group, this particular group, they
		
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			went to the grave.
		
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			Okay, I'm going to be specific then.
		
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			I was in Cape Town, and this is
		
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			in South Africa.
		
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			And you know, Nelson Mandela is a famous
		
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			liberator there, and he stayed in jail for
		
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			many years on Robben Island.
		
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			But what people don't know is that there
		
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			were other people who were on Robben Island
		
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			before him, and amongst them there were Muslims.
		
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			And one Muslim imam in particular stood up
		
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			against apartheid, and he died and he was
		
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			buried there in Robben Island.
		
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			And the apartheid government, in order to appease
		
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			the Muslims, they built a type of dome
		
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			over the grave, a dome for them.
		
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			Although some say his grave was actually not
		
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			there.
		
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			But they built this dome for the Muslims.
		
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			It's supposed to be the grave of this
		
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			imam.
		
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			And so there was one particular group who
		
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			were from the people within the Muslim world,
		
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			they are grave worshippers.
		
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			They've carried their grave worshipping into Islam.
		
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			And they went down to this grave, and
		
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			they made tawaf around it.
		
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			Tawaf is like, you know, you go around
		
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			the Kaaba, you go, you circle.
		
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			They made tawaf around the grave, because this
		
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			is what these people do.
		
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			They made tawaf, and then they made a
		
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			big pot of daal, of like lentils, and
		
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			made some duas.
		
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			And so this lentils, supposedly it's like blessed
		
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			lentils, because it's made by the grave.
		
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			And so people will come to get a
		
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			bowl of this lentils, and they're praying to
		
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			this saint.
		
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			Praying to the saint.
		
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			And this appeared in South African newspaper.
		
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			And it appeared on the television, showing Muslims
		
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			going around the grave.
		
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			So one of the imams, Jazahullah Khair, may
		
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			Allah reward him and protect him, he made
		
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			a statement publicly.
		
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			And he said, this is not Islam.
		
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			This is not Islam.
		
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			Because Muslims do not pray to saints, they
		
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			do not pray to graves.
		
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			And there was an uproar for this group.
		
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			And they challenged this imam.
		
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			They challenged him to a duel.
		
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			And the journalist came, he said, what is
		
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			your proof?
		
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			He said, my proof is very clear.
		
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			It's in the opening chapter of the Quran
		
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			called Al-Fatiha.
		
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			And it says, إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِيدُ Every
		
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			time you pray, you say you alone, Allah,
		
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			do we worship.
		
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			And from you alone, do we seek assistance.
		
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			End of story.
		
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			We're saying it all the time.
		
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			And this is something else.
		
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			And they challenged this imam.
		
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			And he was a brave individual.
		
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			And we had an emergency meeting because they
		
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			challenged him to a duel.
		
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			And that would have been dangerous because South
		
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			Africa at that time and now can be
		
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			a dangerous place.
		
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			Cape Town can be a dangerous place.
		
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			And so they challenged him to a duel.
		
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			He said, I'm going to the duel.
		
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			And he was a lawyer too.
		
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			And they brought in one of their maulanas
		
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			came in specially.
		
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			But this imam was a lawyer.
		
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			And he would have destroyed it.
		
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			And we told him, don't go to the
		
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			debate because they're going to physically assault you.
		
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			So we held him back and he didn't
		
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			go.
		
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			And they had an empty chair.
		
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			And they had their maulana make a point.
		
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			And then they waved their swords at the
		
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			empty chair, which would have been our sheikh
		
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			was in the chair, right?
		
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			They all had swords waving it at him.
		
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			So yes, there are fanatics and there are
		
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			people like this in the Muslim world.
		
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			But it has nothing to do with Islam.
		
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			Grave worship is considered to be one of
		
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			the major forms of shirk.
		
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			Praying to the graves, hoping that that person
		
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			in the grave is going to pray to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			We visit the graves.
		
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			But we pray to Allah for the person
		
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			in the grave.
		
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			See the difference in the two?
		
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			You don't pray to the grave, to the
		
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			person.
		
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			You pray to Allah for the person.
		
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			And you should face the qibla and not
		
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			the grave.
		
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			Question?
		
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			So this is another question altogether.
		
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			We say rest in peace and whatnot, but
		
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			we do not make the prayer of Muslims
		
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			for a person who has died outside of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			We're not allowed to make a prayer for
		
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			that person.
		
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			Then we say rest in peace.
		
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			But not the prayer for a Muslim because
		
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			it's supposed to be for one who believes
		
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			in one God.
		
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			Any other questions online?
		
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			The floor is now generally open.
		
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			Yes, so sleep, making wudu, ablution.
		
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			One of the things that breaks ablution is
		
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			sleep.
		
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			And that is a deep sleep.
		
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			Now sleep is one of the words in
		
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			Arabic where they have like a lot of
		
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			different names of sleep.
		
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			There are like 25 different words in Arabic
		
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			for sleep.
		
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			Like you have light sleep, you have, we
		
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			have what we call, even in English we
		
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			say he had a nap.
		
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			Okay, they're napping.
		
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			Or they're dozing, right?
		
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			Dozing, we have words for it too.
		
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			Dozing out.
		
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			So if you, or if the person for
		
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			instance just dozed out like this, but they're
		
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			still in their consciousness, but they just, you
		
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			know, dozed out, then that's okay.
		
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			But if they're in a deep sleep, right?
		
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			If they really, you know, they've gone down
		
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			into a different level of, you know, rem.
		
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			They're in a different level, then that breaks
		
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			the wudu.
		
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			So you would have to come, do the
		
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			wudu over.
		
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			Question second.
		
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			So if the person misses a prayer, then
		
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			this is called qada, which means to make
		
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			it up.
		
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			You try to make it up as soon
		
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			as possible, to make up the prayer.
		
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			Sometimes, yeah, so as soon as possible.
		
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			And, you know, the prayer can be done
		
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			at any time.
		
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			The qada can be done at any time.
		
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			It's just you make the intention and say,
		
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			because, you know, I missed this particular prayer
		
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			and I'm going to make it up.
		
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			So if it's Isha time and I fall
		
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			asleep before Isha and I have to make
		
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			it up in the morning, do I have
		
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			to pray Isha before I pray Fajr or
		
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			can I pray Fajr and then pray Isha?
		
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			So you fell asleep at Isha all the
		
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			way until Fajr.
		
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			Before Isha.
		
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			Right, before.
		
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			Right.
		
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			So when Fajr comes in, you would first
		
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			do your Fajr prayer and then you do
		
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			the qada of Isha afterwards.
		
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			Okay, any final questions that anybody has before
		
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			we break up the class?
		
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			What's that?
		
00:46:07 --> 00:46:10
			Okay, this has taken us into another area.
		
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			You know, Tawassul itself, you know, using, you
		
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			know, the name of individuals and even the
		
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			prophet, you know, so that this is a
		
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			kind of a controversial question.
		
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			You know, maybe in the next, you know,
		
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			period, you know, we could try to deal
		
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			with that.
		
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			But it's a subject in itself.
		
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			The safest thing is to be praying directly,
		
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			you know, to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			unless it is something that comes from the
		
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			sunnah to use different things, right?
		
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			Because in one hadith, the prophet, peace be
		
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			upon him, said, I seek refuge in the
		
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			complete words of Allah from the evil he
		
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			has created.
		
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			So that's something permissible.
		
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			So we try to stay within the sunnah.
		
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			So in visiting of the graves, because time
		
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			is short, based on, you know, when Aisha,
		
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			you know, with the prophet, peace be upon
		
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			him, told her, when you visit the graves,
		
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			and this is a woman, by the way,
		
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			so it's permissible, because, you know, he went
		
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			out to the grave and, you know, he
		
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			sent somebody in back of him and she
		
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			ran.
		
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			And he found that it was her.
		
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			So he said to her, he didn't say,
		
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			you know, woman, don't go to graves.
		
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			No, he said, when you visit the grave,
		
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			which is a proof that a woman can
		
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			visit the grave, he said that, you know,
		
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			basically that you should remember the next life,
		
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			you know, you should pray, you know, you
		
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			know, for the person.
		
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			Do not, don't walk on top of the
		
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			graves.
		
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			So he gave some of the rules concerning
		
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			visiting the graves.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So we're going to close the class.