Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Hasan al Basri

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speakers stress the importance of both the heart and mind to be productive and prevent sin, as it is crucial for success in the face of sin. They also emphasize the need for both the heart and mind to be strong and productive, as it is crucial for success in the face of sin. The speakers stress the importance of learning from people who have experienced sin and the need for more people to come into the country. They stress the importance of achieving goals through one's values and the heart for their success in learning.

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			As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
		
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			This recording has been produced by White Thread
		
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			Press, fulfilling the educational and spiritual needs of
		
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			contemporary Muslims.
		
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			Bismillāhir-Rahmānir-Rahīm.
		
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			Al-ḥamdu liLlāhi Rabbil-ʿālamīn, wa-s-salātu
		
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			wa-s-salāmu ʿalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-alá
		
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			ālihi wa-sahbihi ajma'īn.
		
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			Ammā baʿd, faqad qāla Allāhu tabārak wa ta
		
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			'ālā fil-Qur'ānil-Majīd wa-l-Furqānil
		
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			-Ḥamīd.
		
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			Wa antumul aʿlawna in kuntum mu'minīn.
		
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			Respected brothers and sisters, it's important for Muslims
		
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			to look back into our history, the history
		
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			of Islam over the generations, from the time
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ, continuing on through the
		
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			time of the Sahaba and the successors, those
		
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			who saw the Sahaba, the Tabi'īn and
		
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			then the Tabi'ūn.
		
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			And thereafter, through the later generations until we
		
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			see what we have today.
		
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			Now, many people feel differently about our current
		
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			situation.
		
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			Muslims from different areas would look at our
		
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			current situation in different lights.
		
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			We would have different perspectives.
		
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			However, man can never become disengaged from his
		
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			history.
		
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			No nation, in fact no nation, no people,
		
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			can become disengaged and separated from their history
		
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			and look at themselves in terms of what
		
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			is around them only.
		
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			We learn many lessons from history.
		
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			In fact, it's well understood, but not always
		
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			realized, not always taken to heart, that history
		
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			replays itself.
		
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			The cycle begins, it completes, and then another
		
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			cycle begins again.
		
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			So, if we look back in history, there's
		
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			a lot of lessons to be learned.
		
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			In fact, much of the challenges that we
		
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			face today, Muslims have faced such challenges or
		
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			worse challenges.
		
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			The challenges of the Tartars, for example, challenges
		
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			from people who had become apostate after the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ passed away, so on and so
		
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			forth.
		
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			The intensity might be different.
		
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			But otherwise, there's a great likelihood and there's
		
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			a lot of lessons to be learned.
		
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			The student of history, the one who studies
		
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			history, he'll have a great understanding and perspective.
		
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			He'll be able to act more prudently.
		
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			And that is what's important.
		
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			We today are extremely busy in what's our
		
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			next appointment or our next project, that we
		
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			don't have much time to relate back to
		
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			history and Muslim history at that.
		
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			I mean, the furthest a person goes if
		
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			they study Islamic history is they begin to
		
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			study the seer of the Prophet ﷺ, which
		
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			is great, which is extremely needed to learn
		
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			from the Prophet ﷺ's life and his biography.
		
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			But for a lot of people, they find
		
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			it very difficult to apply the life of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ and his times to our
		
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			times.
		
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			Because they think that the Prophet ﷺ who
		
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			was Mu'ayyid bil Wahi, he was one
		
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			who was supported by the revelations and Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala was taking care of
		
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			him and the mu'ajizat, which means his
		
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			miracles.
		
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			Jibril a.s. was visiting the Muslims.
		
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			It was definitely a different era.
		
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			I mean, there's no doubt about it.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ said, خَيْرُكُمْ قَرْنِي ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ
		
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			يَلُونَهُمْ That the best of the ummah is
		
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			my generation followed by those who will come
		
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			after them, followed by those who will come
		
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			after them, which means the first three generations.
		
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			There's no doubt about that.
		
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			So for a lot of people, they think
		
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			that it is impossible for us to have
		
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			a good Muslim society, good people, good believers,
		
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			because we don't have revelations coming down in
		
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			our midst.
		
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			Subhanallah, there was one of the sahaba, when
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ passed away, the companion began
		
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			to weep.
		
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			He said, now the revelations have stopped coming.
		
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			When there was a question, when an issue
		
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			arose, when the Muslims were confronted with situation,
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ would have a revelation if
		
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			he wasn't directly inspired.
		
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			Jibreel ﷺ would come, different forms of wahi
		
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			and revelation that Allah ﷻ would send to
		
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			him.
		
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			However, many, many challenges, many problems crept up
		
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			into the Muslim ummah after the time of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ as well.
		
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			And learning about those as well really, really
		
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			helps us.
		
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			Hence, Sheikh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, who passed
		
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			away a few years ago, mashaAllah, well respected,
		
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			celebrated scholar, both in the Indian subcontinent and
		
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			the Arab world.
		
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			He wrote in Urdu, what he called, Tarih
		
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			Dawat o Azeemat, which is basically Saviors of
		
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			Islamic Spirits.
		
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			This book has been translated into numerous languages.
		
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			In English, it's called Saviors of Islamic Spirit.
		
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			Now, what he's done in this is, he's
		
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			looked from after the time of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ, what was the situation in the ummah,
		
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			and who did Allah ﷻ use to bring
		
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			the ummah out of that challenge that they
		
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			were facing.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ said in a hadith, that
		
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			every century, there's going to be a mujaddid,
		
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			someone who will revive the faith for them.
		
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			According to the majority of scholars, it does
		
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			not have to be restricted to just one
		
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			personality.
		
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			There may be one who's more dominant than
		
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			others, but according to the kind of more
		
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			general opinion, it could be people from every
		
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			field or science of Islam, someone in hadith,
		
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			someone in tafsir, someone in dawah, etc, etc.
		
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			So now, what Sheikh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi
		
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			has done is that he's not spoken about
		
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			the mujaddideen or the revivers.
		
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			He's spoken about situations, different parts of the
		
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			Muslim world, such situations which could have been
		
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			considered the time of degeneration for Muslims.
		
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			The time when the Muslims were supposed to
		
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			be at a brink, and how Allah ﷻ
		
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			allowed Islam to survive and brought it back
		
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			and elevated the kalima la ilaha illallah.
		
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			And that gives us a lot of hope
		
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			because at no time did Islam fall over
		
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			that brink.
		
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			It got very close.
		
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			For example, with the Tartars, it was about
		
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			to be wiped out.
		
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			They killed literally hundreds of thousands.
		
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			But Allah ﷻ loves this faith, and the
		
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			dua of the Prophet ﷺ has been accepted
		
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			that this ummah, this nation is not going
		
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			to be rooted out as some previous nations
		
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			were, where the complete nation or the complete
		
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			people of that prophet were killed and were
		
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			punished and they perished.
		
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			This is not going to happen.
		
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			Other than the fact that the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			is a prophet for all of mankind until
		
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			not just mankind, but jinn and all the
		
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			other creatures, until the day of judgment.
		
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			So this faith has to endure.
		
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			And the prophecies that the Prophet ﷺ has
		
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			mentioned in regards to the deen spreading throughout
		
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			the world, that's not our topic of today.
		
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			So I'm going to speak about one aspect
		
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			of our Muslim history, in fact about one
		
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			personality.
		
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			But before we speak about the personality of
		
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			Hassan Basri rahimahullah, who's considered and celebrated by
		
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			mashallah, one and all, considered to be one
		
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			of the greatest of the pious people that
		
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			lived in the past, one of the greatest
		
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			muhaddithin, in a sense, mufassirin.
		
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			Mashallah, master of all sciences and someone who
		
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			had that profound heart and that intelligent mind
		
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			that was needed to give hope and blow
		
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			the spirits of iman into the hearts of
		
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			people.
		
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			Basically what happened is after the death of
		
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			Umar ibn Abdulaziz, who in just around two
		
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			and half years managed to change the focus
		
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			of the Muslim world, who became a khalif,
		
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			not by default, but because the children of
		
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			Sulaiman ibn Abdul Malik could not become the
		
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			sultan.
		
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			They were too young.
		
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			So one of the scholars was sitting at
		
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			his side just before his deathbed.
		
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			He suggested to him that his cousin, Umar
		
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			ibn Abdulaziz should become the khalif.
		
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			And he accepted, alhamdulillah, but two and half
		
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			years.
		
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			After he passed away though, the other khalifs
		
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			that came after him, Yazid the second, they
		
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			went back to the old ways of the
		
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			umayyad, which was a way of draining out
		
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			the baytul mal.
		
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			But subhanallah, they were very wealthy at that
		
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			time, conquests were taking place.
		
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			They would actively take part in spreading Islam
		
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			all over the world.
		
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			The baytul mal would be filled, but that
		
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			would be used by the khalif and their
		
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			families, the families of Marwan, the families of
		
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			the umayyads basically.
		
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			And the ulama considered that the time of
		
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			jahiliyyah was coming back.
		
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			There was a complete reversal of state policy.
		
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			Umar ibn Abdulaziz had made it such that
		
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			people on the street began to speak about
		
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			how many qada prayers you had made up
		
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			and how much I had made up.
		
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			On the streets, the talk became how much
		
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			Quran have you memorized as opposed to which
		
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			team won or what's the latest on this
		
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			so-and-so case.
		
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			It was about how much Quran one had
		
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			memorized, how many qada prayers, make up prayers
		
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			one had made up.
		
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			But unfortunately after he passed away, Yazid the
		
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			second took it back and it seemed as
		
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			if he was going back to that same
		
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			type of jahiliyyah that had prevailed before during
		
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			the umayyads.
		
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			The demands of his kinsmen would be filled
		
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			from the baytul mal and the pursuit of
		
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			pleasure instead of religion became the activity of
		
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			the day and the problem with this kind
		
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			of a thing, especially when it comes from
		
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			the top is that you have the upward
		
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			movement, you have the downward movement.
		
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			The upward movement works, but it takes much
		
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			longer.
		
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			The downward movement is much faster more effective
		
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			when you've got the ruling party and the
		
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			elite which were the umayyads and their friends
		
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			and their kinsmen, they were in pursuit of
		
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			luxury and opulence and indolence just completely obsessed
		
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			with worldly pursuits because of the wealth that
		
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			they had.
		
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			When that was the situation of the elite
		
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			naturally that kind of an idea that kind
		
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			of a trait passes on to the common
		
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			people until it completely takes over the community
		
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			at large and that was the danger here.
		
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			So no people's rights were taken, inheritance was
		
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			not given properly and they basically abused their
		
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			positions as being the rulers.
		
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			So again Islam went to that precarious edge,
		
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			the abyss of destruction of degeneration, but as
		
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			always Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala always send someone
		
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			that will revive the faith.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam on one occasion,
		
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			he had just completed the prayer and he
		
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			noticed that immediately after he completed the prayer
		
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			many of the sahaba hurried away because one
		
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			of the zakat collectors had just come back
		
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			with a lot of goods and merchandise collected
		
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			goods from other areas and they were poor.
		
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			So they went to take part of this
		
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			and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam smiled at
		
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			that.
		
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			He knew their poverty, he knew their state,
		
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			they were in a poverty stricken state.
		
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			So he smiled but then immediately became serious
		
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			and he said it's مَلْفَقْرُ أَخْشَىٰ عَلَيْكُمْ It's
		
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			not poverty that I fear on you.
		
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			Poverty, that's not what I fear.
		
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			A lot of time in poverty people go
		
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			back towards Allah.
		
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			Although there's another hadith which mentions that sometimes
		
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			poverty also leads to kufr or unbelief because
		
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			of complaints, but for the most part when
		
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			person is afflicted by poverty, they come back
		
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			to Allah.
		
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			وَلَكِنْ أَخْشَىٰ أَنْ تُبْسَطَ عَلَيْكُمُ الدُّنْيَا كَمَا بُسِطَتْ
		
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			عَلَىٰ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ I fear he said
		
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			that the dunya will open up itself, the
		
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			treasures of the world will open up itself
		
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			to you just as it did for the
		
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			people of the past and then you will
		
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			begin to vie with each other, compete with
		
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			each other to acquire it just as the
		
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			people before you did.
		
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			فَتُهْلِكُكُمْ كَمَا أَهْلَكَتْهُمْ And then it will destroy
		
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			you just like it destroyed the people of
		
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			the past.
		
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			So he warned them immediately there.
		
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			There's another hadith which mentions that there will
		
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			be different types of trials for the believers,
		
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			for the Muslim ummah and one of them
		
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			is going to be the fitnatus sarraa, which
		
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			means the fitna of prosperity, believe it or
		
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			not.
		
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			And in another narration, it actually mentions that
		
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			the wealth will come from under your feet.
		
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			Today, how easy it is to spend money
		
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			for any one of us.
		
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			Without having money today, you can spend, you
		
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			can have what you like.
		
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			Fitna of prosperity where deals were done in
		
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			thousand, today they're done in billions.
		
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			A million is not a big deal anymore.
		
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			You become a millionaire overnight if you have
		
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			the right things to work with today.
		
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			The world has definitely opened up to us.
		
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			So he warned them and it seemed that
		
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			that time this was the case.
		
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			Mashallah, many conquests had been made.
		
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			People had come into Islam.
		
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			The wealth were brought to the feet of
		
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			the Umayyads and the Darul Khilafa and they
		
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			were just indulging in that.
		
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			However, as always there are the people of
		
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			Allah, the Rijalullah that will keep the Ummah
		
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			strong and steadfast and as long as they
		
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			remain, as long as we have these people,
		
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			then the Ummah will have some hope.
		
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			So through their sermons, through their teachings, through
		
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			their durs and through their advising others and
		
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			counseling them, they kept the Islamic world from
		
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			being swept away and they kept the knowledge
		
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			of light and truth alive.
		
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			Who are these people?
		
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			These were some of the greatest Tabi'een,
		
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			Saeed ibn al-Musayyib, who is considered the
		
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			leader of the Tabi'een, Muhammad ibn Sirin,
		
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			the great interpreter of dreams, great Muhaddith as
		
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			well, Allama al-Shaabi, another great Muhaddith and
		
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			at the forefront of them all was Hassan
		
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			Basri who was unparalleled.
		
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			They saved the Muslim world from acquiescing into
		
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			an utterly agnostic and characterless spiritually enfeebled society.
		
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			Hassan Basri was born in 21 AH, which
		
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			means just 10 to 11 years after the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam left this world.
		
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			His father's name was Yassar and he was
		
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			an emancipated slave of Zaid ibn Thabit, the
		
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			great companion Zaid ibn Thabit.
		
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			But the thing was that his mother used
		
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			to be a slave girl and work for
		
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			one of the wives of the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasalam, Umm Salama radiyallahu anha.
		
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			So basically he was brought up in the
		
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			house or room of Umm Salama radiyallahu anha
		
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			and when his mom was busy working and
		
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			he began to cry or weep, Umm Salama
		
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			radiyallahu anha would take him and nurse him,
		
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			pretend to nurse him.
		
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			So he got the barakah of the household
		
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			of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasalam.
		
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			But in terms of his character, in terms
		
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			of his knowledge, he was peerless in that
		
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			regard, very distinguished, very amicable character, very considerate
		
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			disposition in the way he acted with people.
		
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			And when he spoke he was enchanting, people
		
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			would cry.
		
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			In fact, it mentions that many of the
		
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			Sahaba were not parallel to him in the
		
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			way he spoke.
		
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			When he spoke, you would see as reporters
		
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			have mentioned, eyes brimming with tears and this
		
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			can only come if the words come from
		
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			the heart, if the heart and the tongue
		
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			come together.
		
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			Along with this, he was just not very
		
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			pious and righteous in terms of knowledge.
		
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			He excelled many.
		
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			In fact, if you study tafsir, you'll notice
		
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			Qal al-Hassan, Qal al-Hassan, Qal al
		
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			-Hassan, Hassan says this, this is Hassan al
		
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			-Basri's opinion.
		
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			He studied fiqh, he has opinions in fiqh,
		
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			all subjects, all sciences.
		
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			He was a teacher of them all.
		
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			He excelled all the scholars of his time
		
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			and he was well aware of the ills
		
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			of the society.
		
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			Now look at this person.
		
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			He was born in 21 AH, which is
		
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			still a glorious time, just after the time
		
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			of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the
		
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			time of the Sahaba.
		
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			He had seen the Muslim world go from
		
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			what it was to what it had now
		
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			become, the Umayyad and their corruption, meaning the
		
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			Caliphs of the Umayyad, how they had become.
		
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			So he was able to contrast between the
		
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			two.
		
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			He was a veteran in that sense.
		
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			He'd seen it all.
		
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			He was able to show the difference between
		
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			the two times.
		
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			He was able to express that in his
		
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			lectures and he knew the ways to get
		
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			around it.
		
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			He knew where the ills had crept in
		
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			from.
		
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			He knew the remedies and the cures for
		
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			such ills to be lifted from the Muslim
		
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			Ummah.
		
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			His congregation would always cry in his lectures.
		
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			In fact Abu Amr Ibn Al Ala says
		
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			that Hasan Basri was more eloquent than Hajjaj
		
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			Ibn Yusuf.
		
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			Now just to give you an understanding, Hajjaj
		
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			Ibn Yusuf was a governor under Abdul Malik
		
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			Ibn Marwan.
		
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			So he was considered to be one of
		
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			the foremost governors and he was one of
		
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			the most tyrannical and merciless of them.
		
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			The amount of people he killed are just
		
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			about uncountable.
		
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			500,000 people were killed, some of the
		
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			best of the people of that time.
		
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			Sahaba he killed, he killed for the most
		
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			minute of excuses.
		
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			When he died there were 50,000 people
		
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			rotting in his prisons.
		
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			This person was completely merciless.
		
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			However, he was very eloquent.
		
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			He could have the same group of people
		
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			cry and sympathize with him just out of
		
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			his speech.
		
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			So on one occasion he spoke and he
		
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			basically made them feel guilty of the way
		
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			they felt about him, extremely eloquent.
		
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			His khutbah, however, Hasan Basri was more eloquent
		
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			according to many scholars than Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf,
		
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			way more eloquent.
		
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			In fact his khutbah have gone down into
		
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			classical Arabic literature and normally studying Arabic literature
		
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			of that period would entail that you study
		
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			that as well.
		
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			Inshallah at the end we will go through
		
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			just one of his more famous khutbahs.
		
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			You'll see that despite his brevity, despite being
		
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			so brief, complete abstinence from superfluous language, just
		
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			very pithy to the point succinct language that
		
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			envelops meanings that basically comprises of volumes of
		
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			meaning and wisdom.
		
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			So he was extremely eloquent.
		
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			So that along with this live heart, along
		
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			with this spiritual connection with Allah subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala, along with the experience that he had
		
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			of seeing the different generations, you can imagine
		
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			the effect that he had on the people.
		
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			Rabi Ibn Anas, maybe one of his students.
		
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			He says that I spent 10 years with
		
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			Hasan Basri and in every talk that he
		
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			gave or every lecture that he delivered there
		
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			was something new that I learned.
		
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			Now understand the magnitude of this, understand the
		
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			significance of what is being said by him.
		
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			Nowadays, it's the time of specialization where you
		
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			become specialist not in medicine anymore, but either
		
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			as a cardiologist or a pathologist or a
		
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			civil engineer or a military engineer or another
		
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			aspect of engineering.
		
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			If you spend even two years with somebody
		
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			in any field, you would probably, unless you
		
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			had unflinching faith in that person, you would
		
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			probably think I've heard everything.
		
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			How much are you going to speak about?
		
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			How much difference are you going to make
		
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			one khutbah from another after you've given 10
		
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			or 20 or 30 or 40 khutbahs?
		
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			But Hasan Basri with his knowledge that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala had given him, his student
		
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			says that for 10 years I stayed with
		
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			him and I learned something new in every
		
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			single talk that he gave.
		
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			So you can imagine the scope of his
		
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			knowledge by just this one statement and Imam
		
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			Ghazali, Abu Hamid Ghazali writes that there's a
		
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			consensus among the Muslim scholars that the teachings
		
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			of Hasan Basri and his conduct, his teaching
		
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			and his conduct were the teaching and conduct
		
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			of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			He would bring back memories of the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			He would practically manifest what you would read
		
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			in hadith about the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			This is how people felt and Ghazali reckons
		
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			that everybody agrees on what Hasan Basri, the
		
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			way he taught and his conduct and people
		
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			just were irresistibly attracted to him.
		
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			And of course, this is something from Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
		
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			There's a hadith in which the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam said that when Allah subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala loves a person, he calls Jibreel and
		
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			he tells Jibreel, Oh Jibreel, I love this
		
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			person, so you love him too.
		
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			Jibreel takes this message and he spreads it
		
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			to the inhabitants of the heavens, the other
		
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			angels.
		
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			They begin to love him.
		
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			Now the angels, they come down onto the
		
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			earth to fulfill their responsibilities on the earth
		
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			to bring provisions and the rain and the
		
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			crops, etc, etc.
		
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			They have this new spread on the earth
		
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			until the love of that person enters into
		
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			the heart of everybody.
		
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			So people begin to love that person.
		
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			So wherever the person is, they realize him
		
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			and you will see this in certain countries
		
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			where if a particular pious person, a scholar
		
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			is traveling to another city, the news just
		
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			spreads.
		
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			There's no need for posters, promotions.
		
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			There's no need for advertisement.
		
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			There's no need for any emailing.
		
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			Just the word will spread and people will
		
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			come and I've seen this happen in India
		
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			where if a scholar, a great scholar is
		
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			just traveling from Delhi to Bombay at every
		
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			train station, you'll have a massive group of
		
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			people from each city.
		
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			They know what time this train is coming.
		
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			It's going to stop here for five minutes
		
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			or 10 minutes and all he does, he
		
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			comes to the door.
		
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			He gives a few minutes of advice.
		
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			He may shake hands with everybody or if
		
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			the time does not allow, then people will
		
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			just come to see this pious person and
		
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			I've personally seen this when I was studying
		
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			in India.
		
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			I heard that at Surat station, which is
		
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			in Gujarat, this certain scholar is coming at
		
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			12 o'clock at night because he was
		
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			going through the overnight train and mashallah, there
		
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			was a group of people there that had
		
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			just come out of their homes.
		
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			There was no poster campaign, nothing of that
		
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			nature.
		
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			This is the love that Allah subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala places into the hearts of people for
		
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			the awliya Allah, that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
		
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			befriends, takes care and brings close the pious
		
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			people, those who are righteous and those who
		
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			fulfill the commands of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
		
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			and Hassan Basri was definitely at the highest
		
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			peak of this.
		
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			His sermons were on the transitory nature of
		
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			the world, the temporary nature of the world
		
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			because his whole argument with the people was
		
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			about the indulgence in the world.
		
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			Now Ghazali writes as well that when people
		
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			have too much hope in Allah, when it
		
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			becomes exaggerated, where the only thing they see
		
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			about Allah is that he's Rahman and Rahim
		
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			and they forget that he's also Qahhar and
		
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			the one who will punish, then Imam Ghazali
		
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			mentions that it's not then a good idea
		
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			to bring too many verses of hope and
		
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			ahadith that talk about hope because you're really
		
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			just helping the people to go further the
		
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			wrong way.
		
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			In that case, you need to try to
		
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			bring it the other way to try to
		
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			make the people balance themselves in their state
		
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			of being between hope and fear.
		
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			This is the state that is required from
		
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			a believer that we also have the hope
		
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			in Allah that we don't go to a
		
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			situation where we despair, but neither should we
		
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			have so much hope that we do the
		
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			wrong deeds purposely and we just entertain hopes
		
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			in Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala that we have
		
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			no fear for him.
		
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			So likewise, he spoke about the temporary nature
		
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			of the world, the transitory nature of the
		
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			world and how to develop the faith in
		
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			such a situation and righteousness and how to
		
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			have reverence for Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and
		
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			how to eliminate the indulgence that people had
		
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			for the world or in the world and
		
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			this was the perfect topic of the day
		
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			because of people's stress on materialism and the
		
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			sensual desires that were being followed at that
		
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			time and he used to paint a picture
		
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			of the Umayyads and he used to contrast
		
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			that with the picture of the Sahaba and
		
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			try to instill into the heart of the
		
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			people the love of the pious times of
		
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			the great times.
		
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			His voice would be very forceful when he
		
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			spoke.
		
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			He spoke in a very forceful voice and
		
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			the fire in his heart was reflected in
		
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			his voice over the sorrow of the degeneration
		
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			of the Muslim Ummah and you're talking about
		
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			just within the first hundred years after the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam passed away, just within
		
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			the first hundred years.
		
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			Now imagine that someone who's lived between the
		
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			two and how effective he's going to be.
		
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			One of the statements he makes is really
		
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			something worth pondering over.
		
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			He says that my sermons, my talks, they
		
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			don't lack anything.
		
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			What he means is that in terms of
		
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			their delivery, in terms of their contents, in
		
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			terms of what they contain, they're perfect.
		
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			So he used to say that it is
		
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			the people who have lost the warmth of
		
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			the heart to be a recipient of this
		
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			message.
		
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			You have to remember any talk that is
		
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			given, any knowledge that is being transferred, there
		
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			is an interaction that takes place between the
		
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			teacher and the student, between the speaker and
		
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			the listener.
		
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			If both of their hearts are open, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala will let it flow because
		
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			really the speaker or the teacher is merely
		
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			an intermediary or an agent from Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa'ta'ala that is a pipeline.
		
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			The knowledge comes from way behind and that's
		
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			why it's important to have a chain that
		
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			goes back to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam through the scholars.
		
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			If the heart is open for the speaker
		
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			and the hearts are open for the people
		
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			who sit and listen in the durus or
		
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			in the lectures and they make an intention
		
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			that oh Allah give me the tawfiq to
		
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			understand what the speaker says and allow me
		
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			to benefit from it.
		
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			Then Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala will have it
		
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			done.
		
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			We're basically in the midst of this all
		
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			we are, we're just tools from Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa'ta'ala to pass this message along.
		
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			So Hasan Basri.
		
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			I mean, this is a bold statement.
		
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			This is a very insightful statement to say
		
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			that my sermons don't lack anything.
		
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			Now, he's not saying this out of pride.
		
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			He's actually lamenting over the state of the
		
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			ummah that I can give as great a
		
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			sermon as I want.
		
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			But if the people did not listen, this
		
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			was of course in the time of the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, who better than
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, who greater
		
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			than the messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam, but people like Abu Jahl and Umayyah
		
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			and others who would sometimes become slightly affected
		
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			and influenced, but then the kufr would take
		
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			over and the shaitan would seal their hearts
		
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			and everything had to be filtered.
		
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			Hence, they would not get the guidance.
		
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			lahum qulubu la yafqahuna biha, walhum a'yunu
		
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			la yubsiruna biha hearts that don't comprehend and
		
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			understand, eyes that do not see the truth.
		
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			And this is the case.
		
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			So now along with all of this, he
		
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			was very outspoken against any ill in the
		
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			society.
		
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			In fact, against the ruling party themselves, which
		
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			is considered you don't speak against them for
		
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			your own safety.
		
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			That's what normally people understand.
		
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			That's the focus.
		
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			That's the perspective people have.
		
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			He was outspoken against any ill or malady
		
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			that crept into the ummah, any corruption that
		
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			was instigated, even against Yazid.
		
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			In fact, on one occasion, he was mentioning
		
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			something about an incident that had taken place
		
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			and he said, you must not take part
		
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			in that.
		
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			So somebody said, what about if Yazid, the
		
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			khalif of the time tells us to do?
		
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			He said, even if Yazid tells you to
		
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			do that.
		
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			So he didn't fear anybody.
		
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			His fear was with Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
		
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			What was the problem?
		
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			Why was it that this kind of an
		
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			atmosphere, this kind of a situation was allowed
		
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			to prevail?
		
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			Why was it that it was not curbed
		
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			from the people?
		
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			Now understand this, that during the time of
		
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			Abu Bakr as-Siddiq in the short time
		
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			of his khilafah, he was not able to
		
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			expand the Muslim lands because he had to
		
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			take care of a lot of problems that
		
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			had crept up at home where people had
		
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			started claiming to be prophets after the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		
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			Many began to say we will take this
		
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			of Islam, but we will not pay zakat.
		
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			He had to deal with this and quell
		
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			the uprisings.
		
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			However, when the time of Umar came and
		
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			in his longer period Islam spread far and
		
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			wide, come to the time of Uthman radhiallahu
		
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			anhu, Islam had gone all the way up
		
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			to Azerbaijan, Armenia in the Transox area above
		
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			Persia, just above the whole of Persia had
		
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			come in.
		
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			Likewise on this side, Amr ibn al-Asa
		
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			radhiallahu anhu had gone into Egypt, had taken
		
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			parts of Egypt and Syria, Damascus, Jerusalem and
		
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			the areas around there had also been taken
		
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			in time of Umar radhiallahu anhu.
		
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			So now Islam had spread far and wide.
		
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			Now understand the Muslim caliphate at that time
		
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			or the Muslim rule to be the superpower
		
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			of the world.
		
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			They had taken down the Persians, the Romans
		
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			were shivering on one side and so much
		
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			of their land had been taken away.
		
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			Imagine the Muslim ummah as the superpower of
		
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			the world.
		
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			What happens when there's a superpower?
		
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			Everybody wants to become associated, wants to become
		
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			affiliated or wants to integrate and assimilate.
		
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			Why?
		
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			They may in their hearts of hearts not
		
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			agree with what happens but just to gain
		
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			the favors, to stay out of possible attack,
		
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			to stay away from possible enmity, just to
		
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			curry the favors they would embrace Islam and
		
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			this is what happening.
		
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			So many people became Muslim of the localities
		
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			that had been overcome by Islam.
		
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			So many of those people became Muslim by
		
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			name.
		
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			So now you had whole masses of people
		
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			in different areas.
		
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			Now remember Hassan Basri was in Basra.
		
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			Basra is in Iraq.
		
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			Basra and Kufa were two cities that were
		
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			established by the Muslims because when the sahaba,
		
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			the thousands of sahaba that moved to Iraq,
		
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			they did not like the weather.
		
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			So Umar radhiallahu anhu sent two sahaba.
		
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			I believe one was Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman
		
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			and the other one may have been Salman
		
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			al-Farsi and he sent one north and
		
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			he sent one south and they both met
		
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			up in a place that was at the
		
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			bank of one of the great rivers there
		
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			and they established Kufa.
		
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			Kufa and Basra, Basra was later established.
		
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			They were both established by Muslims.
		
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			However, people had come in from other areas
		
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			because they were the centers of knowledge and
		
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			they were the centers of much of what
		
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			was happening at that time.
		
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			So there was a lot of material gain
		
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			as well from becoming Muslim or from coming
		
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			under the Muslim rule.
		
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			So much of the elite of other people
		
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			became Muslim, but they did not leave their
		
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			ways of ignorance.
		
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			They did not leave their corrupt ways and
		
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			they continued in that same way.
		
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			Hence, that was the situation where Hassan Basri
		
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			lived.
		
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			Now, although many would think that hypocrisy or
		
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			nifaaq or something that is restricted to the
		
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			time of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			This was a passing phase that when the
		
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			revelations were coming down, there were people who
		
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			did not want to convert and become Muslim.
		
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			They outwardly professed to be Muslims and believers,
		
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			but inside they had no Islam and they
		
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			had no faith.
		
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			So many scholars say that there is no
		
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			such thing as nifaaq or aqeedah, which means
		
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			nifaaq of belief.
		
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			There's no such thing anymore.
		
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			That was something that was only seen in
		
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			the time of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			However, nifaaq is actually very close to insincerity
		
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			and insincerity is a human failing.
		
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			It's a problem that everybody has to deal
		
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			with, ostentation, not doing something for the sake
		
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			of Allah, but doing it for another motive,
		
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			an ulterior gain.
		
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			So many entered into Islam for this reason,
		
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			purely for the sake of gaining something and
		
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			they were not brave enough.
		
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			In fact, a lot of people were not
		
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			brave enough to forsake Islam openly.
		
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			They hated Islam, but they were not able
		
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			to forsake Islam openly.
		
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			So that's why they remain under that.
		
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			Hassan Basri, another bold statement he makes, he
		
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			believed that hypocrisy was still in the Muslim
		
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			Ummah during his time and especially among the
		
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			ruling elite.
		
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			Once somebody asked him that do hypocrites still
		
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			exist?
		
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			Are there still munafiqeen?
		
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			And this is what he said.
		
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			He said if the hypocrites desert the streets
		
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			of Basra, you will find it hard to
		
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			live in the city.
		
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			If the hypocrites were to leave, the city
		
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			would shut down.
		
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			I mean, that's a statement that only someone
		
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			at that level can make and get away
		
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			with it.
		
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			He believed that most people just paid lip
		
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			service to Islam.
		
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			They didn't really strive to even learn the
		
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			religion and to get closer to Allah, to
		
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			fill their hearts with Iman.
		
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			They did not even strive to do that.
		
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			So this was the main theme of Hassan
		
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			Basri's lectures and his sermons, the call for
		
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			reformation of the hearts, the call to enliven
		
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			the heart and he would highlight the hypocritical
		
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			traits of people that infested the Ummah and
		
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			that many wanted to keep hidden, just like
		
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			in the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam, the hypocrites would have a private meeting,
		
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			they would make a plan, they would have
		
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			an idea and Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala would
		
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			reveal a verse about that and the verse
		
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			the next day would be spread among the
		
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			Ummah and how would they feel.
		
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			Hassan Basri would gauge these ideas, hypocritical traits
		
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			within the society and that would be the
		
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			focus of his sermon.
		
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			Let us for a moment look at our
		
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			situation in America.
		
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			For the most part, especially for the youth,
		
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			I'm not speaking about the first generation who
		
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			came from Muslim countries who had an upbringing
		
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			that was surrounded by Islam to a certain
		
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			degree, weak Islam or corrupt versions or culture,
		
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			but there was still Islam and it's very
		
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			difficult for these people to completely wash their
		
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			hands away.
		
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			For the most part, they understand the right
		
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			from the wrong, even if they don't follow
		
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			it.
		
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			The generation that is being born in this
		
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			country, which is the second generation born and
		
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			bred American or British for that matter, although
		
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			I believe it's more in America because what
		
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			happens then is they grow up and hardly
		
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			are they given an Islamic education.
		
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			I asked twice in two full rooms in
		
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			Durus that I had with young MSA students,
		
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			how many of you have had more than
		
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			a Sunday school education, Sunday school Islamic education
		
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			while you were growing up and in one
		
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			gathering only one person said they had, in
		
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			another gathering of about 150 to 200 people,
		
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			seven or eight people said that they had.
		
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			Now imagine that this is the Islam that
		
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			is being taught to the children.
		
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			This is the proportion most students learn.
		
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			In fact, most born Muslims who are born
		
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			in America, they learn about their faith only
		
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			when they get to university through the MSA
		
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			and those are the lucky ones, those who
		
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			associate themselves with the Muslim group on campus.
		
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			They are those who listen to inspirational scholars
		
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			and who get drawn into being proud about
		
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			their faith.
		
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			Otherwise, where we see in the last few
		
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			months, we've seen many different problems and fitna
		
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			in the ummah of people trying to do
		
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			things that are unprecedented literally.
		
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			One of the reasons for these things is
		
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			because many people who are born in a
		
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			Muslim family, even if they have not been
		
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			imparted with any Islamic education, will feel an
		
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			association with Islam.
		
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			They will want to be Muslim.
		
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			What is it to be a Muslim?
		
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			That's the question.
		
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			What is it to be a Muslim?
		
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			They don't have access to scholars.
		
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			They may have not necessarily associated themselves with
		
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			the right people on campus.
		
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			Maybe an MSA or a good MSA did
		
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			not exist.
		
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			So now they set off on their own
		
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			path of discovering their faith.
		
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			And if you notice when you read their
		
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			memoirs, when you read their biographies, the one
		
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			thing that you will find is that I
		
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			went to discover my religion.
		
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			I was in pursuit of the truth of
		
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			my religion.
		
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			And when there is no scholarly input and
		
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			education in that regard, then the shaitan takes
		
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			over and gives you great ideas of what
		
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			Islam is supposed to be and that Islam
		
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			has been lost and this is what Islam
		
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			was.
		
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			So they set out as prophets to reform
		
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			the religion and they come up with things
		
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			which are unprecedented.
		
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			This I believe is a great problem.
		
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			So when we say that we have many
		
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			youth who are Muslim, what kind of Islam
		
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			are we talking about?
		
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			Is it the same as what Hassan Basri
		
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			considered in Basra?
		
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			This is not a judgment for me to
		
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			make.
		
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			The reason I say this is for every
		
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			listener to think and to see where we
		
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			are and to see where our friends are
		
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			or people that we know and try to
		
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			help to have this faith come into the
		
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			hearts in the right way.
		
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			So many people are very sincere.
		
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			They are extremely sincere.
		
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			They want to do something for their faith,
		
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			but they lack the guidance.
		
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			Qadi Iyad mentions where Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
		
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			says in the Quran, That Allah is going
		
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			to test you to see who is the
		
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			best of action.
		
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			He says, That the action needs to fulfill
		
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			two conditions.
		
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			One is that it needs to be khalis
		
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			for the sake of Allah, sincerity.
		
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			The other one is that it needs to
		
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			be sawad.
		
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			sawad means it needs to be correct.
		
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			It needs to go according some principles.
		
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			People have many different ideas, but they basically
		
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			contravene some fundamental aspects of religion.
		
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			So that's sincerity in that regard is wasted.
		
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			This is why it's extremely important for all
		
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			of us to look at ourselves and others
		
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			and try to help in a sincere way
		
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			to bring about a turn for the better.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala send a person like
		
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			Hassan Basri, but we can all strive to
		
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			take part of the reward that will be
		
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			given to those who help others in reviving
		
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			their faith.
		
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			Now, it was of course very difficult for
		
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			these sermons, these calls of Reformation, these advices
		
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			and these admonishments to hit empty ears.
		
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			It was very difficult.
		
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			It could not be ignored by society.
		
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			These calls were such that were from the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam that spoke to the
		
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			nature of man that came to change the
		
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			way people thought and did things, the way
		
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			people were supposed to live on this world.
		
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			This was to give them that kind of
		
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			guidance.
		
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			Many people at the hands of Hassan Basri
		
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			made solemn repentance, sincere repentance from their bad
		
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			ways.
		
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			They gave up their previous ways and he
		
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			would prescribe to each one individual measures to
		
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			eradicate the vices in their lives and how
		
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			to imbue the true content of Iman into
		
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			their hearts and he spent a full 60
		
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			years doing this.
		
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			His preaching was for 60 years.
		
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			He was given a long life.
		
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			He uplifted the people morally and according to
		
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			the biographers, it's difficult to understand exactly how
		
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			many people were reformed.
		
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			But of course that runs into uncountable numbers.
		
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			Awam Ibn Hawshab says that if you looked
		
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			at Hassan Basri, he did what the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasalam did which was night and
		
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			day striving for himself with Allah in the
		
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			depths of the night and in the daytime
		
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			teaching someone.
		
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			His situation was such that at any time
		
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			he would be teaching somebody hadith, he would
		
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			be answering a fiqh question.
		
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			He would be counseling somebody on a personal
		
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			situation.
		
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			He would be giving somebody advice on how
		
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			to build their Iman and their faith.
		
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			He would be telling somebody how to eradicate
		
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			a vice or a problem in their life.
		
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			Constantly throughout the day doing something or the
		
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			other and this has been the way of
		
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			the great ulama of the past.
		
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			This has been the way of the ulama
		
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			of the past.
		
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			It says regarding Sheikh Zakariya Al-Ansari, the
		
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			great Shafi'i scholar, his student Sheikh Abdul
		
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			Wahab Al-Sha'rani, he mentions that when
		
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			I would be studying with Sheikh Zakariya Al
		
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			-Ansari, when I would be studying with my
		
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			Sheikh and I came across a word or
		
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			something that I needed to go and check
		
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			in the dictionary or look at, now normally
		
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			the teacher would just wait.
		
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			He said immediately my teacher would begin to
		
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			make dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala, not
		
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			even to waste that time.
		
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			He immediately began to say Allah, Allah and
		
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			take that time in doing the dhikr of
		
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			Allah and then restart the dars once I
		
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			was ready to begin with, not a moment
		
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			was wasted, not a moment was wasted.
		
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			And this was the situation with all of
		
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			them, Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani, all the great
		
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			scholars and Hassan Basri was actually a role
		
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			model in that regard.
		
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			And as with everybody else, people have to
		
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			leave this world.
		
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			They have a time beyond which they cannot
		
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			go.
		
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			Hassan Basri had earned the affection of everybody
		
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			in Basra.
		
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			Everybody in Basra loved him due to his
		
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			sincerity.
		
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			Even he said something bitter to them, they
		
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			loved him.
		
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			So he passed away in 110 AH at
		
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			the age of 89.
		
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			The entire population of Basra came out.
		
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			Now understand something, have you ever thought that
		
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			if you die where you live, how many
		
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			people would come to your janazah?
		
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			Has that ever occurred to you?
		
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			Or are we too young for that?
		
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			You know, really think about it, when we
		
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			have conflicts with people, especially in our own
		
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			locality, with our own relatives, with our own
		
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			masjid colleagues, people who worship with us.
		
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			These are the people who will carry our
		
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			janazah on the day that we die.
		
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			These are the people who will pray on
		
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			us.
		
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			There's a hadith of the prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam, which says that if a hundred people
		
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			pray for a person at his death, then
		
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			there is great reward for that person.
		
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			There is forgiveness for that person.
		
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			So where a hundred people come out for
		
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			us, especially as days go by, people become
		
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			more busy.
		
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			Now Hasan Basri, with his status that he
		
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			had acquired among the people, the entire population
		
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			of Basra came out to attend his funeral.
		
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			Basra was a big city.
		
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			It took place on Friday.
		
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			This was the first time in the history
		
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			of Basra that the main masjid, the jami'
		
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			masjid of Basra remained empty for us to
		
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			pray.
		
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			Everybody was at the graveyard.
		
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			His students continued his preaching after his death
		
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			and he was buried.
		
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			His students continued their preaching and after 22
		
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			years, the Umayyad caliphate came to an end
		
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			and the children of Abbas and the Abbasids,
		
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			they took the caliphate.
		
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			Relatively better for the most part.
		
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			The Abbasids were relatively better for the most
		
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			part, although there were some among them who
		
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			you could compare with many of the Umayyads.
		
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			And again, some Umayyads were very good and
		
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			pious as well.
		
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			Hasan Basri, the whole of Basra goes out.
		
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			Likewise, Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal, when he passed
		
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			away later on in Baghdad, 800,000 men
		
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			and 50,000 women came out for his
		
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			funeral.
		
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			Imagine the lines, miles of people, 800,000
		
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			people in those days.
		
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			They walked to the graveyard from all parts
		
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			of the city and 50,000 women.
		
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			I'm going to go through one of the
		
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			famous sermons of Hasan Basri, and this is
		
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			part of Al-Adab Al-Arabi, which is
		
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			Arabic literature.
		
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			You normally study this.
		
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			Sheikh Abul Hasan Ayn Nadwi has also put
		
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			this as a select passage in his book
		
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			Al-Mukhtarat Al-Adab Al-Arabi.
		
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			And the way it begins, Hasan Basri begins
		
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			to say, So anyway, I'm
		
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			going to read the translation for you.
		
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			He says, Now
		
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			each person here used to look at himself
		
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			and see how this applies and we make
		
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			dua to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala that Allah
		
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			reform us in what we lack.
		
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			They talk but do not act, knowledge is
		
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			there but without endurance, faith they have but
		
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			no conviction.
		
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			People come here simply to go away.
		
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			They acknowledge the truth then deny it.
		
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			And make things lawful and unlawful at their
		
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			sweet will.
		
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			Is your religion a sensual delight?
		
00:44:07 --> 00:44:09
			Is your religion just something on your tongue?
		
00:44:09 --> 00:44:12
			If you are asked, do you have faith
		
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			in the day of judgment?
		
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			You say yes, but no, it is not.
		
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			So I swear by the Lord of the
		
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			day of requital that your answer is wrong.
		
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			It's only beseeming for the faithful that he
		
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			should be sound of faith and a man
		
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			of conviction.
		
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			His knowledge entails forbearance as moderation is an
		
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			adornment of the learned.
		
00:44:34 --> 00:44:38
			He is wise but soft-hearted, well-dressed
		
00:44:38 --> 00:44:41
			and restrained in order to conceal his indigence,
		
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			never prodigal even if a man of substance
		
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			comes in front of him, charitable and compassionate
		
00:44:48 --> 00:44:52
			to the destitute, large-hearted and generous in
		
00:44:52 --> 00:44:55
			giving to the kinsfolk their due, strenuous and
		
00:44:55 --> 00:44:59
			unflinching in providing justice to others, never crosses
		
00:44:59 --> 00:45:01
			the prescribed limits in favoring his near and
		
00:45:01 --> 00:45:04
			dear ones, nor does he find fault or
		
00:45:04 --> 00:45:06
			cut out the errors of those whom he
		
00:45:06 --> 00:45:07
			dislikes.
		
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			A Muslim is indifferent to the revilings and
		
00:45:11 --> 00:45:15
			tauntings, folics and sports and backbitings.
		
00:45:15 --> 00:45:19
			He never runs after that which is not
		
00:45:19 --> 00:45:21
			his right, nor does he deny what he
		
00:45:21 --> 00:45:22
			owes to others.
		
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			He never debases himself in seeking an apology,
		
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			nor takes delight in the misfortune or misdeed
		
00:45:29 --> 00:45:34
			of others, humble and submissive, devoted and enchanted
		
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			as a faithful is in his prayers.
		
00:45:37 --> 00:45:39
			He is a messenger of cheer.
		
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			His endurance is owing to the awe of
		
00:45:41 --> 00:45:41
			God.
		
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			His silence is for meditation.
		
00:45:44 --> 00:45:47
			When he's silent, he's meditating and reflection.
		
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			He pays attention for edification and instruction.
		
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			When he listens, he listens to learn.
		
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			He seeks company of the learner for acquiring
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			He keeps silent to avoid transgression.
		
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			And if he speaks, he speaks to spread
		
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			virtue.
		
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			Imagine if we could do that, to just
		
00:46:04 --> 00:46:08
			avoid speaking except to spread virtue that the
		
00:46:08 --> 00:46:09
			only thing that comes from our tongue is
		
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			good and we are conscious about it.
		
00:46:13 --> 00:46:16
			A Muslim is pleased when he acts virtuously
		
00:46:16 --> 00:46:18
			and treats forgiveness from the Lord when he
		
00:46:18 --> 00:46:21
			goes astray, complains when he is aggrieved only
		
00:46:21 --> 00:46:23
			to make up for the loss sustained.
		
00:46:23 --> 00:46:26
			He is patient and prudent when an illiterate
		
00:46:26 --> 00:46:29
			joins issue with him, proves enduring when ill
		
00:46:29 --> 00:46:29
			-treated.
		
00:46:30 --> 00:46:32
			He is never unjust and never seeks support
		
00:46:32 --> 00:46:36
			or protection from anyone save Allah Almighty, dignified
		
00:46:36 --> 00:46:39
			in the company of their friends, praising God
		
00:46:39 --> 00:46:41
			when they are left alone, content with the
		
00:46:41 --> 00:46:45
			lawful gains, grateful when easy of means, resigned
		
00:46:45 --> 00:46:49
			when in distress, remembering God Almighty among the
		
00:46:49 --> 00:46:51
			indolent and craving the grace of God when
		
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			among the pious.
		
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			Such, he says at the end, such were
		
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			the companions of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam,
		
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			their associates and friends, no matter what station
		
00:47:02 --> 00:47:05
			they occupied in life, they were held in
		
00:47:05 --> 00:47:08
			high esteem by their compatriots and when they
		
00:47:08 --> 00:47:10
			died, their spirit took flight to the blessed
		
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			companionship of the high one as the most
		
00:47:13 --> 00:47:14
			celebrated souls.
		
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			Oh Muslims, these were your righteous ancestors.
		
00:47:18 --> 00:47:20
			But when you deviated from the right path,
		
00:47:20 --> 00:47:24
			God Almighty too withheld his blessings from you.
		
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			No, Allah changes not the condition of a
		
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			folk until they first change that which is
		
00:47:30 --> 00:47:33
			in their hearts and if Allah wills misfortune
		
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			for a folk, there is none that can
		
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			repel it nor do they have a defender
		
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			besides Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
		
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			So in this short sermon, he brings together
		
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			all of the great characteristics of the Sahaba
		
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			and what the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam encouraged
		
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			us to have.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala give us the ability
		
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			to imbue ourselves with this character and for
		
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			us to propagate this faith.
		
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			Remember, we need two things.
		
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			One thing is not sufficient.
		
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			The ulema mentioned that you need a heart
		
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			and a mind to be successful and as
		
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			one scholar explained it and for those who
		
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			understand Urdu would appreciate it.
		
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			He said it's necessary for a person to
		
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			have a darakta huwa dil and parakta huwa
		
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			dimaag which basically means a very active mind
		
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			that he's able to gain the knowledge and
		
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			understand things and comprehend.
		
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			But at the same time he needs to
		
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			have a heart, a soft moving heart that
		
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			calls out to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
		
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			If you have too much knowledge, but no
		
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			heart, it will lead to ostentation.
		
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			knowledge in itself brings you to feel high
		
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			and mighty of yourself when you come out
		
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			of your classes and you've just understood the
		
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			issue that the teacher was talking about.
		
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			Don't you feel that subhanAllah, I know I
		
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			have understood this and these other people don't.
		
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			shaitaan just naturally brings that thought in you.
		
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			knowledge in its nature brings, it brings ostentation,
		
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			pride and arrogance.
		
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			If you don't have the heart that is
		
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			filled with spirituality, then that knowledge will get
		
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			out of hand just as it did with
		
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			shaitaan, la'anahullah.
		
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			likewise, if you have a very inspired heart,
		
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			but no knowledge, then there is a path
		
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			of bid'ah.
		
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			There's a path of innovation.
		
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			There is a path where shaitaan will make
		
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			you do things in utmost sincerity on your
		
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			behalf, but it will be incorrect and it
		
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			may lead to further corruption in the ummah.
		
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			So both of these things are necessary.
		
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			You learn the knowledge from the people who
		
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			have acquired it from the prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam and his successors and you will find
		
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			the knowledge of the heart also as Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala says in the Quran, Be
		
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			with the truthful people, be with the truthful
		
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			ones, those who have really rectified themselves, those
		
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			who have purified their hearts, who are constantly
		
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			engaged with Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala, who as
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said, when you
		
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			see them, they remind you of Allah and
		
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			that's what's important.
		
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			They remind you of Allah.
		
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			They put that fear in you.
		
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			They make you remember your wrongdoings.
		
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			They make you feel ashamed and guilty and
		
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			that is what leads to tawbah and repentance.
		
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			And once the baggage of sin is taken
		
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			off our heads, off our hearts, off ourselves,
		
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			off our record books and they are forgiven,
		
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			then our heart opens up and we want
		
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			to do good.
		
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			Now, remember sin is something that beckons to
		
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			another sin.
		
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			Once a sin, you do another sin.
		
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			It's a downhill roll to *.
		
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			The paradise is an uphill climb.
		
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			ala inna sil'atallahi ghaliya, ala inna sil
		
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			'atallahi al-jannah that verily the merchandise of
		
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			Allah is expensive.
		
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			It doesn't come cheap.
		
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			Verily, the merchandise of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
		
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			is paradise.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala create means for
		
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			us to have more ulama come in this
		
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			country.
		
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			Nobody wants to come from other countries.
		
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			I speak to scholars.
		
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			I know in South Africa and in England
		
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			who have studied Mashallah sharia for years and
		
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			they think that America is worse than we
		
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			actually feel it and they say they wonder
		
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			how I live here.
		
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			They wonder how I live here away from
		
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			family and everybody but to leave their families,
		
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			to leave the great Islamic atmosphere that they
		
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			have in their masjids where for one regular
		
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			prayer maghrib in our local mosque in London,
		
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			in England, you will have about 70 people
		
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			just for maghrib prayer on a Tuesday or
		
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			a Wednesday where there'll be three masjids that
		
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			will be packed out within a five-minute
		
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			walking distance.
		
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			They're not in competition.
		
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			It's just that there's so many people living
		
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			close together that they can't just fit in
		
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			that one masjid and it's convenient just to
		
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			go two minutes to the masjid next door
		
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			to your house.
		
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			Five minutes.
		
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			This is not an exaggeration here for many
		
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			of us.
		
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			It's a 15-minute drive.
		
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			It's a five-minute drive.
		
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			It's a 10-minute drive and there's all
		
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			the formalities.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala make Islam a thriving.
		
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			There are many positive things.
		
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			There's no need to be pessimistic.
		
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			There are more masjids mashaAllah today, more apparent
		
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			Muslims manifesting themselves in all fields in America
		
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			today than they were 10 years ago.
		
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			So we have a great room for optimism,
		
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			but the vehicle of Islam is continuing.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is going to have
		
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			his nur completed even though those who dislike
		
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			it, dislike it.
		
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			Islam is continuing.
		
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			Islam is growing.
		
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			Now, it's whether we take part or we
		
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			step aside.
		
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			It's up to us.
		
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			It's our decision.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala rise from among
		
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			us scholars and people of Allah.
		
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			Sheikh Abu Hassan ibn Nadwi said that there
		
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			are not many people of Allah, rijalullah, people
		
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			who are mashaAllah associated with Allah, the spiritual
		
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			people in this country to stabilize the effects
		
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			that we get from other places.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala create from among
		
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			us that same yearning so that we can
		
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			also have success in that regard from our
		
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			children, from the next generation so that the
		
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			spirit of Islam can grow much stronger and
		
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			be easier to follow and Allah remove the
		
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			obstacles from our path.
		
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			end of that inshallah, you will have gotten
		
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			the basics of most of the most important
		
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			topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot
		
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			more confident.
		
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			You don't have to leave lectures behind, you
		
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			can continue to listen to lectures, but you
		
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			need to have this more sustained study as
		
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			well.
		
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