Abdur-Raheem McCarthy – The Ideal Muslim – Shaped By The Quran

Abdur-Raheem McCarthy
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The speaker discusses two young people's stories about being far from Islam, including a mountain on a side that can transform one's life. They stress the importance of hearing the Qur Q hangs on a mountain and giving family members to others. The transcript also touches on the power of the Qur Q Luca on a mountain and the need for good conduct. The Q distribute the book "The Q" as an ideal source of guidance for individuals, and guidance for those with taqwa is emphasized.

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			In the
		
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			name
		
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			of Allah, the
		
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			Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
		
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			In today's khutbah, I'm going to start off
		
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			with an amazing story.
		
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			A life-changing story for two young individuals
		
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			from this ummah.
		
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			Two young men, who like many of our
		
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			youth today, took a path other than the
		
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			path of Islam.
		
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			Falling into different acts of haram and being
		
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			far away from the path of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			One of them became a robber, a thief,
		
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			who was feared in the area that he
		
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			lived in.
		
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			Anyone who entered his area, he would rob
		
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			them and steal from them.
		
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			The second individual, like many of the youth
		
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			today, was busy with music and having fun.
		
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			One night, he gathered with his friends to
		
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			listen to music and to drink alcohol.
		
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			And something happened.
		
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			And the first individual who was the robber,
		
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			he was going one night to climb up
		
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			to a house to be in a haram
		
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			act with a young lady.
		
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			So imagine these individuals, the level that they've
		
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			reached of being astray, being far away from
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So far so, that they're committing these major
		
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			sins.
		
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			But both of them, subhanallah, they heard an
		
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			ayah, one ayah, one verse from the Qur
		
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			'an that not only inspired them, but it
		
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			changed their lives until they became, not just
		
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			to make tawbah, but to become from the
		
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			great imams of this deen.
		
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			Do you know who they are?
		
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			And do you know what the verse that
		
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			they heard?
		
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			Both of them heard the same verse that
		
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			changed their life.
		
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			They are al-Fudayl ibn Ayyad and Abdullah
		
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			ibn Mubarak rahimuhum Allah ta'ala.
		
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			Both of them, before they became these great
		
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			imams, they were far away from Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			And then one night, as al-Fudayl ibn
		
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			Ayyad, who was the robber, he's climbing up
		
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			to be with this young lady, climbing up
		
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			the house in secret.
		
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			He hears the qari reading during the night.
		
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			And Abdullah ibn Mubarak, as he's gathered to
		
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			listen to the music and drink alcohol with
		
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			his friends, he hears the same verse from
		
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			surah al-Hadid, verse 16, when Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala said, أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
		
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			أَن تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنِ
		
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			الْحَقِّ Has it not come time for those
		
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			who believe, for their hearts to become humbly
		
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			submissive to the message of Allah and to
		
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			what He has sent down from the truth?
		
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			When they heard this verse, both of them
		
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			said, بَلَا رَبِّ لَا قَدْئَانَ Of course, our
		
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			Lord, the time has come.
		
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			And one might ask, how can one verse
		
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			be the reason not for them just making
		
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			tawbah, but to become from the great imams
		
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			of Islam?
		
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			And this wallahi is from the power of
		
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			the Qur'an.
		
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			How it can transform one's life?
		
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			Just one verse could be the reason someone
		
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			makes tawbah to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us in
		
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			surah al-Hashr about the power of the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			And I want you to picture this before
		
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			I mention the ayah.
		
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			The power of a mountain.
		
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			If you were to go online and look
		
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			what a government has to go through to
		
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			destroy or to demolish a mountain, to open
		
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			it up for a road, the area for
		
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			a road, it's very difficult to remove a
		
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			mountain.
		
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			But look at the power of the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			Allah gives us the example in surah al
		
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			-Hashr, لَوْ أَنزَلْنَا هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ عَلَى جَبَلٍ لَا
		
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			رَأَيْتَهُ خَاشِعًۭ مُتَصَدِّعًۭ مِنْ خَشَّةِ اللَّهِ That if
		
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			we sit down this Qur'an upon a
		
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			jabal, upon a mountain, you would find it
		
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			coming apart out of the fear of Allah.
		
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			وَتِلْكَ الْأَمْثَالُ نَضْرِبُهَا لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ And
		
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			these are the examples that Allah gives to
		
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			the people for them to think and to
		
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			reflect and to contemplate.
		
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			لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ And this is a message to
		
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			all of us when we hear this.
		
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			If this is the impact of the Qur
		
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			'an upon a mountain, how should it be
		
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			upon our hearts?
		
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			When Abdullah ibn Mubarak and al-Fudayl ibn
		
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			Iyad رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمَا When they heard this
		
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			verse, has the time not come for your
		
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			hearts to become humbly submissive and to return
		
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			to Allah, to act upon your deen?
		
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			All they needed to do was to hear
		
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			that one verse.
		
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			And alhamdulillah, it was the reason for their
		
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			transformation and becoming the great imams of this
		
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			ummah that they became.
		
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			And subhanAllah, throughout history, just hearing the Qur
		
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			'an has been a reason for the hidayah,
		
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			for the guidance of the people.
		
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			During the time of the Prophet ﷺ, Uthman
		
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			ibn Mad'un, during the time in Mecca,
		
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			he was walking down the road before he
		
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			became Muslim.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ, he saw him walking
		
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			and he told him, تفضل, come in.
		
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			He invited him into his house as a
		
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			way, opportunity to give him da'wah.
		
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			And as he's sitting there with the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ, Allah sent down the verse from Surah
		
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			An-Nahl.
		
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			Verse 90 إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَادِلِ وَالإِحْسَانِ وَإِيتَائِذِ
		
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			الْقُرْبَى وَيَنْهَى عَنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنْكَرِ وَالْبَغْيِ يَعِذَكُمْ
		
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			لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ That Allah, He orders us, and
		
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			look at what came in this verse, how
		
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			powerful one verse of the Qur'an is.
		
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			That Allah has ordered us to have إِنَّ
		
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			اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَادِلِ وَالإِحْسَانِ وَإِيتَائِذِ الْقُرْبَى العدل, to
		
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			have justice.
		
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			الإحسان, to have good conduct and to give
		
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			those who are close to you and your
		
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			family.
		
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			And He forbids us from الفحشاء, all that
		
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			is منكر, and in bad conduct, and also
		
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			from البغي, which is to be oppressive.
		
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			As a reminder, Allah says, I'm reminding you,
		
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			perhaps that you will be reminded.
		
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			Hearing this one verse and the beauty that
		
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			came in this verse, Uthman ibn Mad'un
		
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			رضي الله عنه accepted Islam.
		
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			During the time of Medina, one of the
		
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			Sahaba before he accepted Islam, he said that
		
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			he was Ju'aym al-Muta'im رضي
		
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			الله عنه, he said that, as I was
		
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			coming and the Prophet ﷺ was reading from
		
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			Surat al-Tur until he came to the
		
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			verses, أَمْ خُلِقُوا مِنْ غَيْرِ شَيْئٍ أَمْ هُمُ
		
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			الْخَالِقُونَ أَمْ خَلَقُوا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ بَلَّا يُوقِنُونَ أَمْ
		
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			عِنْدَهُمْ خَزَائِنُ رَبِّكَ أَمْ هُمُنُ سَيْطِرُونَ In these
		
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			three verses, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			ask a very powerful question to mankind, and
		
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			this in the days we live in is
		
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			the question of why we were created, why
		
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			we were here.
		
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			Allah gives three or four possibilities in these
		
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			ayats.
		
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			When he said, were they created from nothing?
		
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			Or did they create themselves?
		
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			Or are they the ones who created the
		
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			heavens and the earth?
		
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			If it's not one of these three, he
		
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			said, بَلَّا يُوقِنُونَ In fact, they have no
		
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			certainty.
		
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			The only certainty is that Allah is their
		
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			creator.
		
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			And then he said, do they have the
		
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			خَزَائِن؟
		
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			Do they have the treasures of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala?
		
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			Or are they the ones that are in
		
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			control?
		
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			Here in these three ayats, and look at
		
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			the power of the Qur'an once again,
		
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			and he's an Arab who understands the power
		
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			of the Arabic language.
		
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			He said, كَادَ قَلْبِي يَطِيرُ He said, my
		
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			heart almost flew out of my chest.
		
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			Because you know the reality, the power of
		
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			these ayat.
		
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			He immediately accepted Islam after that.
		
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			And don't just think that these stories are
		
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			from back in the day.
		
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			Nowadays, it won't have the same impact on
		
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			us the Qur'an if we hear it.
		
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			And perhaps, oh, they're Arabs, they understood the
		
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			power of the Qur'an, but we don't
		
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			understand Arabic.
		
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			So it's not gonna have the same impact.
		
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			A beautiful clip that went viral during the
		
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			time of the genocide that was happening to
		
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			our brothers and sisters in Palestine.
		
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			An American lady, she said she found a
		
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			verse when she started reading through the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			Why was she reading the Qur'an in
		
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			the first place?
		
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			Because when the people are seeing this massacre
		
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			of our brothers and sisters, and they see
		
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			the Muslim having sabr, and he's going through
		
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			this mosibah, this crisis, and he's saying, الحمد
		
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			لله The only time they heard before الحمد
		
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			لله was when Khabib, may Allah bless him,
		
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			when he was victorious, he said الحمد لله,
		
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			it's from Allah, not from me.
		
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			So they heard الحمد لله there, but now
		
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			they're hearing الحمد لله again.
		
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			But now, as they're being massacred during a
		
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			genocide, they're saying الحمد لله.
		
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			What is this deen?
		
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			What is this iman that they have?
		
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			Where do they get this from?
		
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			How can a person find his dead children,
		
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			his child decapitated?
		
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			And he says الحمد لله.
		
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			What is this deen?
		
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			What is iman?
		
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			Where does it come from?
		
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			They said it comes from the Qur'an.
		
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			It comes from their book, the Qur'an.
		
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			So non-Muslims around the world, they want
		
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			to read the Qur'an.
		
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			They want to read the Qur'an.
		
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			So she starts reading the Qur'an from
		
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			the beginning until she comes to chapter 4,
		
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			Surah An-Nisa verse 56.
		
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			And she read the verse and she said,
		
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			before this genocide, I would have told you
		
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			this verse is hardcore.
		
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			It's too much.
		
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			I won't accept this.
		
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			A non-Muslim, not accepting it's from Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			What is this verse?
		
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			And subhanAllah, you wouldn't think this would be
		
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			a verse of hidayah, honestly.
		
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			It's a very harsh verse about the hereafter,
		
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			what happens to these evil individuals.
		
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			Allah said, إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِنَا سَوْفَ نُسْلِيهِمْ
		
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			نَارًا كُلَّمَا نَضِجَتْ جُلُودُهُمْ بَدَّلْنَاهُمْ جُلُودًا غَيْرَهَا
		
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			لِيَذُوقُوا الْعَذَابِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ عَزِيزًا حَكِيمًا In
		
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			this verse, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
		
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			that those who disbelieve in our signs barely
		
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			will make them go into the hellfire.
		
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			Every time that their skin is burnt away,
		
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			بَدَّلْنَاهُمْ لَهُمْ Allah said, بَدَّلْنَاهُمْ that we will
		
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			give them new skin back.
		
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			We'll give them new skin back.
		
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			Why?
		
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			لِيَذُوقُوا الْعَذَابِ So that they will taste the
		
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			punishment to get what they deserve for what
		
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			they did in this dunya.
		
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			So they will be punished again and again
		
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			and time and time again.
		
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			And Allah ended the verse saying, إِنَّ اللَّهَ
		
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			كَانَ عَزِيزًا حَكِيمًا That indeed Allah is the
		
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			one and Almighty, العَزِيز and Al-Hakim, the
		
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			All-Wise, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			She said, after seeing what I saw happened
		
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			to the Palestinians, she said, now I understand
		
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			the wisdom behind this verse.
		
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			Of course, it's from Al-Hakim, the All
		
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			-Wise, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			But she understood, and this was a reason
		
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			for her being guided closer to Islam.
		
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			والحمد لله Time and time again, you'll see
		
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			this is the power of the Qur'an.
		
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			And this is why Allah sent down the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			If you open up chapter 14, surah Ibrahim,
		
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			what is the message that comes to you
		
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			right away?
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ
		
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			إِلَيْكَ A book that we have sent down
		
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			for you.
		
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			Why?
		
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			So we can put it on our shelves,
		
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			and it looks so beautiful, mashallah, tabarakallah.
		
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			So we can come into the masjid, and
		
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			maybe some people see them kiss the Qur
		
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			'an and put it back on the shelf.
		
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			We put it high on top of the
		
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			TV in our houses, as we watch the
		
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			Hollywood movies invade our house and corrupt our
		
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			children and how they think, and it corrupts
		
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			their aqidah and their belief system, corrupts us
		
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			as well.
		
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			We put the Qur'an on top for
		
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			barakah.
		
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			Allah said, كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ لِتُخْرِجَ النَّاسِ مِنَ
		
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			الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِمْ إِلَى صِرَاطِ الْعَزِيزِ
		
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			الْحَمِيدِ A book that we sent down so
		
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			you can take the people out of the
		
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			darkness to the light, by the permission of
		
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			their Lord, to the path of Al-Aziz
		
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			Al-Hameed, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the
		
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			Almighty Al-Hameed, the All Praiseworthy.
		
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			This is the objective of the Qur'an
		
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			for us to be guided through the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			If you look at some of the sifat,
		
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			the characteristics that transform the lives that we're
		
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			in so much need of, when Allah said
		
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			in Surah Yunus, يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسِ O Mankind!
		
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			قَدْ جَاتْكُمْ مَوْعِذَتُمْ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ A Mu'idah
		
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			has come to you from your Rabb.
		
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			A reminder, a warning.
		
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			وَشِفَاءْ لِمَا فِي السُّدُورِ And a cure for
		
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			that what's in the hearts.
		
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			وَهُدَى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ And a source of guidance
		
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			and rahmah, mercy for the believers.
		
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			This is the power of the Qur'an.
		
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			Allah tells us about the Qur'an, إِنَّ
		
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			هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ يَهْدِي لِلَّتِيهِ أَقْوَمٌ That indeed this
		
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			Qur'an, it guides that which is more
		
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			suitable, that which is Aqam, that which is
		
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			more suitable, that which is better.
		
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			And that the meaning of this is in
		
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			every single aspect of life.
		
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			The Qur'an guides you to that which
		
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			is better and your Ikhlaq, how you think.
		
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			Say, how can we have an ideal Muslim?
		
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			It comes back into how you think and
		
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			the Iman you have in your heart.
		
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			And that is all formed and shaped from
		
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			what comes in the Qur'an.
		
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			إِنَّ هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ يَهْدِي لِلَّتِيهِ أَقْوَمٌ That this
		
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			Qur'an, it guides that which is more
		
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			suitable, that which is better.
		
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			بَارَكَ اللَّهُ لِيُّ لَكُمْ فِي الْقُرْآنِ وَالسُّنَّةِ وَنَفْعَنِي
		
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			وَإِيَاكُمْ بِمَا فِيهِ مَا مَنَ الْآيَةِ وَالْحِكْمَةِ أَقُولُ
		
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			قَوْلِ هَذَا وَاسْتَغْفِرَ اللَّهَ لِيُّ لَكُمْ فَاسْتَغْفِرُوهُ إِنَّهُ
		
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			هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ بسم
		
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			الله وكفه والصلاة والسلام على النبي المصطفى وبعد.
		
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			My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, one
		
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			might ask himself, if I want to change,
		
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			if I want the Qur'an to be
		
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			a source of guidance for me, a message
		
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			that's sent to us, there's a missing ingredient
		
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			sometimes that we have, but it's mentioned right
		
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			as soon as you open the Qur'an,
		
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			if you pay attention to it.
		
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			As soon as you open the Qur'an,
		
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			after you read Surah Al-Fatihah, on the
		
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			second page, what does Allah tell us?
		
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			Alif Lam Mim ذَٰلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ
		
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			That this is the book, there's no doubt
		
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			about it.
		
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			And that's a very powerful message to start
		
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			the Qur'an, subhanAllah.
		
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			No doubt about this book.
		
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			ذَٰلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ What is this
		
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			Qur'an?
		
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			It's huda.
		
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			It's guidance.
		
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			But guidance for who?
		
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			لِلْمُتَّقِينَ It's a source of guidance for those
		
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			who have taqwa, the pious ones.
		
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			And here's that key missing element that sometimes
		
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			we have, that if you are someone who
		
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			has taqwa, you're gonna be closer to hidayah.
		
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			Especially if you read the Qur'an looking
		
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			for hidayah.
		
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			As some of the scholars said, مَنْ قَرَىٰ
		
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			الْقُرْآنِ طَالِبًا لِلْهِدَايَةِ هَدَاهُ اللَّهُ That whoever reads
		
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			the Qur'an and he wants to be
		
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			guided, that Allah will guide him.
		
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			I guarantee inshaAllah ta'ala.
		
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			However, what I want to end the khutbah
		
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			with is a message for all of us.
		
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			That in these stories that we started off
		
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			with today, الفضيل المعياض and Abdullah ibn Mubarak
		
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			رحمة الله عليهما These individuals had went astray
		
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			and the Qur'an came to them and
		
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			they were not looking for guidance.
		
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			The Qur'an came to them, they heard
		
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			this ayah, this one ayah, and they were
		
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			not looking for guidance.
		
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			And yet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guided
		
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			them.
		
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			So for us, for our ummah, for our
		
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			children, for our family, for our societies, if
		
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			we look through guidance to the Qur'an
		
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			inshaAllah ta'ala Allah will give us the
		
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			tawfiq and all of us will be guided
		
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			b'idn Allah ta'ala.
		
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			وارضى اللهم للخلفاء الراشدين أبي بكر عمر عثمان
		
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			وعلي وان سائر الصحابة أجمعين واذل الشرك والمشركين
		
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			وادمر اللهم أعداك أعدادين اللهم أتي نفوسنا تقواها
		
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			وزكيها أنت خير من زكاها أنت وليها ومولاها
		
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			ربنا إننا ظلمنا أنفسنا وإن لم تغفلنا وترحمنا
		
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			لنكننا من الخاسرين اللهم اغفر للمسلمين والمسلمات والمؤمنين
		
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			والمؤمنات الأحياء منهم والأموات يا الله يا غفار
		
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			forgive us and all of our Muslim brothers
		
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			who are alive and those who have tasted
		
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			death يا الله grant your guidance and mercy
		
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			upon us your humble servants and upon our
		
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			leaders particularly our ruler راجع فرلس تونكو سيد
		
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			سراج الدين ابن المرحوم تونكو سيد بطرة جمال
		
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			الله and راجع مودى فرلس تونكو سيد فايز
		
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			الدين Putra, Ibn Tuanku, Sayyid Siraj-ud-Din
		
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			Jamal-Allahi, and all the members of the
		
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			royal family, so that they will be able
		
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			to adhere to your book in the Sunnah
		
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			of your Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		
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			Ya Allah, prolong their lives in prosperity, safety,
		
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			and good health, and may they rule just
		
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			and fairly, Ya Rabbil Alameen.
		
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			Ya Hayyu Ya Qayyum, save our Muslim brothers
		
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			and sisters who are being oppressed in Palestine
		
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			and in Sudan and all around the world,
		
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			Ya Rabbil Alameen.