Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – No Need to be Sad The Blessings of This Umma

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The importance of Islam in protecting against evil behavior is emphasized, as many Muslims are feeling vulnerable. Proactive behavior and trust in Allah's teachings are also discussed, along with the use of words like "has" and "has been" to indicate emotions and actions. The importance of honoring the Prophet's teachings and following the right path is emphasized, along with the use of shaytan and "has" to express pride and confidence in oneself. The use of "has" and "has been" to indicate emotions and actions is also discussed. The importance of belief in the Prophet's teachings and avoiding giving things upside is emphasized, along with the use of " um authorization" to remind people to avoid giving things upside.
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim

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Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam Woerden will Ruthie

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Ramadan Delilah Mead?

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What are the early he will be here you have a look over seldom at the

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Sleeman cathedral Elomi Dean a mother. So my dear respected

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brothers and sisters, it's nice to be here this evening for your

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annual gathering. May Allah subhanaw taala accept it and may

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Allah subhanho wa Taala preserve our iman and our children's Eman.

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Currently, if you've been following the news as a Muslim,

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for many people, it's very worrying time.

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Constantly in the media for the last several months, there's been

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problems, whether that's mean somebody shooting somebody else in

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the name of Islam, whether it means the government passing

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different laws and bills for what we would assume to be anti

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Islamic, or Islamophobic. Many Muslims are feeling very

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vulnerable.

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So when you feel that way,

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it's important for us to understand that as Muslims,

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there's never a bad situation.

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We always have to act proactively.

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And we always have to have our trust in Allah subhanho wa taala.

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So today, what I want to mention is what kind of approach should we

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have in this time and age? Because Muslims, it's very important for

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Muslims to be the ones who have the answers Muslims, we say that

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the Prophet sallallahu Sallam taught us everything. So if we are

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undergoing a situation right now, when we feel that everybody is

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against us, people are doing bad things in our name. Governments

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are making bad policies

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that we think is going to affect us very negatively, and so on and

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so forth. So what does that mean that we must do? The Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, I Japan the Umbrella Movement for

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in Umrah, hula hula who hired

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What are astonishing state, it is for the believer. The believer has

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a very astonishing states. Because anything, any matter that the

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believer confronts any issue that happens, anything that happens to

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us, there's always you can turn it into goodness. Then the Prophet

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salallahu alayhi wa sallam said that if some calamity overcomes a

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believer, and he has patience, he perseveres, he knows the way to

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deal with it keeps his trust in Allah subhanho wa taala, because

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that's what patience is. Patience is not giving up. Patience is to

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understand that Allah wants me to be able to bear this to learn from

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this and to not complain, then this will be good for him. Then

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the prophets of Allah, Who are you some said, on the other hand, if a

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person is prosperous, if he's not in affliction, but good things are

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happening Mashallah.

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Then even that is good because if the person makes sugar for Shaka

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Rafa who will fade and then if he is thankful to Allah subhanho wa

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taala, then that is good for him as well. So clearly, this is a

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time for us both to make sugar and to make supper. The reason is that

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still compared to many parts of the world, many countries in the

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world and in fact, many countries in the west or Europe, England

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still fares better Hamdulillah we have a lot of freedom to do this.

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If we wanted to do this same program in a particular Muslim

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countries, we would have to have taken licenses and permits from

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months in advance, to have to, to have the permission to gather like

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this. We just keep a program here and we do it. We don't have to ask

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anybody. There's a lot of freedoms Alhamdulillah that we have here.

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However, they are passing security bills. Throughout Europe, there is

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a lot of Islamophobia. There is a lot of people who are saying

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Muslims are like this and Muslims are like that. And there are many

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surveys and statistics that are coming up in this regard. What I

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want to do today is I want to mention a number of Hadith in

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which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam spoke about us.

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He spoke about people not of his time, he spoke spoke about people

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that were going to come when I read these Hadith, these are

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hardly heard about the baraka to have the hill Ummah, the blessing

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of this ummah, the fact that we are in this ummah, regardless that

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we've come 1400 years after a soul allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,

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but the prophets of Allah Islam remembered us before he departed

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this world. And he mentioned a number of things about us. And

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this is the most amazing thing there's a hadith that is related

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by Imam Buhari from Abdullah Huebner Amara, the Allah one

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Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, in nama Ajay LUCAM in

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nama Janu comfy agilely Madhava Menon, umami ma Bina sala de sala

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de la casa de la Marguerite Bishop's he said that

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The example of your time, the example of the time of this oma in

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comparison to the previous nations that we've had before us is just

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like the time between ourselves and Mother him. In a daytime in

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the day in a normal situation, the time between us or tomography is

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the shortest time especially if you go with the later Hanafy time.

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I know you guys most of you are Shafi. Right? So Shabbos have a

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slightly earlier answer time, but still from fajr to the hair is a

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very long time, especially if you look in summer, from the her to

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answer is again very long, but from answer tomorrow be shorter.

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So he said that your time among the people in comparison to the

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people of the past is just like from us or to Margaret. And then

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the prophets of Allah Islam gave an example. He said, we're in

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number methylglucose. We're methadone. Yeah. Who do you want

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nasaka Raju Lin, is that man is stamina or Merlin.

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Your example is like a per is like a person, an individual who wants

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people to work for him on a building site on a construction

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site. He wants people to come and work for him. So he goes at

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federal time. And he says, who will work for me from Fudger from

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now until the time for this many hours. And I'll give them each one

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measure. I'll give them one measure of payment. Right? I'll

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give them I'll give them one measure of payment. The rotten,

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rotten. It's an Arabic measure. So the who'd said we will work from

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fajr to Doha, and they came they worked and Allah subhanaw taala

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gave each of them clear autumn key rods, one measure one measure.

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Then he announced again, this labor announces again from the her

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to ask them who will work for me they will also get one period one

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key rods, the NESARA, the Nazarenes the Christians they came

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and they said we will work from this time to this time. So they

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worked and Allah subhanho wa Taala gave them their reward. So this is

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an example of this is an example that the profit and loss team is

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providing. Then he said who will work for me from Ossur to Maghrib,

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which is the last part of the day, but I will give them two key rods

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each. I'll give them two measures each. So the Muslim in the

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believers Omar Muhammad Sallallahu sallam said we will work for this

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time. So they worked for the shorter time. But at the end of

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the time, they were given two key routes each. Now the other two

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groups that came along and they said why is it that we work for

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longer, longer hours, they work for shorter hours we were given

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one they were given to so Allah subhanho wa Taala asks them

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Allah subhanaw taala said hello Varun two Min haccombe che have i

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oppressed you in any way? Have I not given you your due? Right?

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What I promised you didn't I give that to you? They said yes you

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did. So he said then whatever I give to anybody else is my grace I

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can give to whomever, whomever I wish. So this is just an example

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of us coming as the final nation but Allah subhanho wa Taala having

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promised us greater rewards. This is for the entire Amantha the Day

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of Judgment.

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Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the Quran, yah yah Latina Amen

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otaku Allah what Amina will be or Sunni he you take him give lay in

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Emirati? Oh people who believe or people who believe it the hula

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have fear of Allah subhanaw taala and believe in His Messenger what

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Amina will be Rasulullah he believes in His Messenger, true

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belief by observing the prophetic way by fulfilling the prophetic

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sunnah by following his guidance by exemplifying his character by

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embodying his behavior. This is exactly what is required of us,

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for us to benefit from this Quranic verse. So Allah says, oh,

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people who believe have taqwa, believe in the messenger. And

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Allah you tick on the fly in Emirati, Allah will give you two

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nodes of His mercy. Gift lane, in Arabic is when you see a donkey in

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certain third world countries, you will normally see that when a

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donkey carries a load, they'll normally have two bags, two huge

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bags on both sides being attached in the middle. And on both sides,

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they will put lots of weight to whatever they want to carry,

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whatever it may be. So if you have only one side, it will be

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lopsided, they'll drop off. So they have to put equal weight on

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both sides. That's what you call Gifu. GIF GIF lane. So you'll give

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you two loads, two loads of mercy. That's what Allah subhanaw taala

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said, If we follow the messenger, and we have that word is no doubt

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that the Mercy will shine upon us. Allah has rivers of mercy are

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constantly flowing, if he gives us even one drop from them.

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Subhanallah that is sufficient. And Allah has so much mercy. He's

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only caused 1% of His mercy to descend in the world, and anybody

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you see acting mercifully in the world, all over from the beginning

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of time.

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At the end of time, that amounts only to one person of Allah's

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mercy. You see mothers, how merciful they are, they are the

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greatest examples of mercy. When it comes to their children, they

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will be willing to do anything for their children, their mercy will

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state, the Merciful nature, how you see mothers act with their

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children, that's a state of mercy. Now you see all of the mercy of

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the world, every mother in the world who have ever lived in this

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world to come together, anybody else that shows mercy that amounts

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only to one person of the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala. Allah has

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99% of mercy that he has not yet expended, but we want His mercy

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and Allah says we'll give you two loads of mercy. Then next hadith

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is related by Imam Muslim.

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Abu Huraira, the Allahu Allah. He says that the surah allah

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said again, this is the prophets of

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Allah, as I'm remembering us 1400 years ago, about the people of his

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Alma that were still going to come, he said, In in them in a

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shed the Umatilla the hook been NASA near kudu and the Yabba doo

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ahead to whom la Ronnie be early he was

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the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, the most intensely in love.

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The people who love me most intensely out of my ummah, are

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people who will come after me.

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People who will come after me, each one of them would be willing

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to sacrifice their wealth and families if they could see me.

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So the prophets of Allah Islam is thinking ahead of people who are

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still going to come not the sahaba. The Sahaba have a very

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high status already. But the prophets of Allah Islam said that

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the people who are most intense, with most intense love for me are

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people who will come after me. They're willing to sacrifice and

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today you see that situation. People who have the true love for

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the prophets, Allah loves him in their heart. They do everything

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because you can only do things you can you can only

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copy someone, emulate someone, practice in their footsteps and

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love them. If you have love for them. Is the only reason you can

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have this. There's another Hadith which is related by both Imam

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Bukhari and Imam Muslim from where we are the Allah Juan.

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Margarita the Allahu Anhu says that I heard Rasulullah sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam saying law is looming, almighty Merton ka

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Emerton be amarilla they will always remain from my ummah, a

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group of people who will always be upholding the matter of Allah, who

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will always have the true religion with them and do it will be doing

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the right thing. That Allah subhanho wa Taala wants Leia do

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Roman Hodeida home, those who forsake them who abandon them,

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that will not bother them in the least, they will not harm them at

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all. Because their faith is so strong. While I'm and harder for

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him or anybody who opposes them, it will not change them in the

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least had Dr. Mercola, where Humala vertic until the matter of

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Allah will come or the matter of Allah will be decreed, and they

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will be in that situation, whether that means their death will come

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upon them, or whether that means the day of judgment will come

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about or whether the matter that Allah has decreed will be

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completed. Lots of groups today around the world

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they claim to be

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they claim to use this hadith for themselves. This hadith is

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definitely ambiguous as to who it's relating to. There's no doubt

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that many people can abuse this hadith and use it to say Our way

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is the right thing. But what you have to realize is that only that

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group can claim to be following this hadith, who also fulfill

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every other aspect of the religion. If you have groups who

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say this hadith is for them, but the main people they are fighting

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with are other Muslimeen and they're killing other Muslims or

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shinda or instead of being a sheep their oil kufr rowhammer obey

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Nahum, they're the opposite they are shut down and Kufa, Shindo and

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Lucinda mean that they are harsh against other Muslims, they kill

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them for nothing, just because they follow a different path, then

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how can they be this group?

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One has to understand that, that for a person to be fully on the

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path he has to fulfill everything, not just one aspect of the faith.

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But for any of us to want to have the loads of mercy and for special

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Rama from Allah subhanaw taala we're going to have to get closer

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to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam. The next hadith is

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related by Imam pyramid Ephraim AnnaSophia Lavon who UNASUR the

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Allahu Anhu says that a Zulu allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,

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again another Hadith in which the Prophet salallahu Salam is giving

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glad tidings, optimism and hope for people even after the Sahaba

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when we look at the time of the Sahaba we think mashallah they

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have they've taken huge amounts of reward with them. They have

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accomplished

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Great, great, great things in this world. But it doesn't mean that we

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cannot also gain high status as well. Not as high as the sahaba.

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Maybe, for sure, but it at least in the sight of Allah subhanaw

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taala. We can also hope for gender to Triodos in the hereafter. So,

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said method automatically

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method will matter. The example and the parable of my ummah is

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like the rain, when it rains for two hours. Do you know which parts

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of the rain cause the crop crops to grow the first part, the second

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part, or the final part, which part of the rain brought the

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baraka drop the nourishment, only Allah knows, and he says like

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that, my ummah is like the rain. My alma is like the rain. La

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Eudora, a woman who hailed as a hero, whether it's the beginning

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part of it is good. Or the last part, he's giving optimism here,

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that Subhanallah you could come wherever you want, anytime in

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history, but it depends on how you act, how you behave and how you

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approach things. And Allah subhanho wa Taala will provide

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goodness in you what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said

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one Hadith that really really is of great benefits. The prophets of

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Allah Islam said set D to work Haribo Hadith in Buhari said they

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do work on rebou. Another version it says said they do what apps you

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suddenly do means hit the mark. What caribou means get close our

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entire life, our perspective, our ambitions, our dreams and desires.

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Our plans need to be in the right direction. If our focus is that

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one day we are gonna die, we want to please Allah subhanho wa Taala

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in the world, we want to follow in the footsteps of Rasulullah

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sallallahu alayhi wasallam we want to make sure we're trying the

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right thing, then we're hitting the mark. If we make a mistake,

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then and Allah knows we'll make mistakes. This is how He's created

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us week. He knows when make mistakes, but then the prophets of

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Allah some said, Oh God, he boo or get close. And then he said What

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up Shiro and accept the glad tidings, you do what you have to

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do, just try to aim in the right direction. Don't aim in the wrong

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direction. Your your whole dream of your life should not be for

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anything other than the pleasure of Allah subhanho wa Taala and

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gender thorofare dose, then everything in our life bill. If we

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if that's our desire, then everything in our life will come

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close to that if we're aiming in the wrong direction. If our entire

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ambition in our life is just something worldly, we're aiming in

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the wrong directions and not in the right direction. We're not

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even getting close. Once that perspective is in mind, believe

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me, everything in this life becomes easy. Many people shaytaan

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deceives them by making them think that if you become a righteous, if

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you start becoming a better worshiper, life suddenly becomes

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boring. life suddenly becomes dull and dry. Believe me, it doesn't

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ask all of those people who practice ask those people who

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practice their life is not boring. Allah subhanaw taala provides

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great, great, great amounts of

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pleasure, the faith, and the mercy that you get is amazing. Once I

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was in the shop, which was selling some a Muslim person who had a

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Muslim video shop and some Muslim books, and he was this was in

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America when I used to live there. And he was selling some

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Diwali cards, and I said, brought the decision if you don't need to

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do this.

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And this is what he told me. He said, If you want to live in this

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country and be successful, you're gonna have to do this. He wasn't

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even born in that country. He came from Pakistan, I was born in the

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West. And I'm telling him that you don't know what you're speaking

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about. You don't have to do these things to be successful. This is a

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choice you're making. This is the shaytaan making you do this. I was

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born in the West Alhamdulillah Allah gives us feeds this provides

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us sufficiently without having to inshallah commit these kinds of

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neurons. So you don't have to do that. But this is the deception.

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Literally, this is what he told me is that if you want to be

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successful, and you want to be in this country, then this is the

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kind of stuff you're going to have to do.

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And we know that's not true, but this is how shaytan does things.

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Now we may not be doing ship, we may not be selling ship, but we

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may be doing on minor levels, other things which we think is

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necessary. You know, cheating the system wherever there's many

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things that we may be doing Allah subhanaw taala protect us. We

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don't need to well, mainly De La Jolla, Houma. kraja Whoever fears

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Allah, Allah will find an open opening for him. We'll find an

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opening for him. When were you talking law, your resume in high

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school I act as if this is the most beautiful one. Whoever fears

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Allah, Allah will provide him from a direction he never thought

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about. I've seen many kids

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Seems like this. Allah just wants us to do that several, he wants to

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see a struggle of it. And then he opens up in the Marler city usara

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with every difficulty that comes ease, with every difficulty that

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comes ease. In fact, one Hadith says that never will you have two

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difficulties without an ease. The ease has to come. But Allah just

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wants to see how we go. There's a student who is from Morocco. He

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moved to California afterwards, but he was in Texas before he was

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studying, and he had a small amount of money that his father

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would send, fees were expensive. On one occasion, he was out of

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money. Now he had to get a job. The only job he could find was a

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job in a gas station, a petrol station, but it sold wine. And

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that's why he didn't want to work there. Everybody around him, even

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the person who was guiding the Muslim, Islamic Society at

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university, say, look, you're in a state, you don't have any money.

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This is halal for you this job. But he had Taqwa. And he said no,

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and he just stayed hungry for a few more days. Allah subhanho wa

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Taala then gave him a job at the university, which then paid his

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fees and gave him money on top. If he had taken that petrol station

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job, it would have been maybe just enough to cover his fees, you were

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still needed some more money. You just wait a few more days for the

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sake of Allah and Allah provides, but this is the mercy on this

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ummah. This is the way to attract this mercy on this ummah. Then the

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next Hadith I want to mention is Imam Bihac. He relates his

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insurable Eman from Hungary no Schreib from his father and from

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his grandfather. He says that a surah allah sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam said,

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once Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he was sitting with his

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companions. And he said to his companions

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are you will hulky gerbil in a jungle in a calm Iman? And which

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part of which type of creation? Who do you think is whose Iman is

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most astonishing?

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Whose belief is Moses astonishing? Like why would somebody believe

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believe the reason for their belief is so astonishing? So the

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Sahaba They replied, Allah, Allah Iike, the angels and the prophets

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of Allah some said, why should their faith be astonishing? When

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they are by Allah subhanaw taala they're seeing huge miracles and

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the sorts of things happening each day in the heavens. Their Eman is

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not astonishing, they must believe. So then they said,

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then the be the prophets, the prophets of Allah Islam said, why?

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When he Mala you mean on why should they not believe when they

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have having special revelation come to them they're seeing

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angels, they should definitely believe because for them, it's

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easy to believe. Then Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said

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in the art Jabril Hardy

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ILAHA Imana

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those people who have the most astonishing faith is luck, Coleman

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yaku Luna birdie again a group that will come after me.

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Yet you do in a social fun

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fi hockey turbine, they will find scriptures in which they will be

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in which they will be the written book they will find in which will

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be the message for them the Quran, you know in the mafia, and they

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will believe in that believers in the unseen believers in what the

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soul of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has left behind for us the

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Quran, this is what you and I believe. We haven't seen the

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messenger SallAllahu Oleoresin.

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But we believe in this and we have strong faith people have strong

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faith today.

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So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said their Iman is more

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astonishing than anybody else's email.

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Then, there's another Hadith is again related by Imam Bay hockey.

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From Abdul Rahman YBNL Hagia Rami,

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he says that

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one of those so he did not hear this directly from a surah Allah

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salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. He said that somebody who heard this

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from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam related to me that the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,

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in Nauvoo, say a corner of the earth he heard the hill Almighty

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Coleman level, mythical urging, awarding him

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that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said soon there will be

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a people

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from the end times of this ummah, from the latter part of this

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nation, this community, this ummah,

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they will be given similar reward to the people, the first people of

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this ummah.

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They will be given reward like the earlier people of this ummah, like

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the Sahaba etcetera. Why yet Maroondah Bill Maher, Rufio and

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Hernandez mancha because they will enjoy

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In good, and they will prohibit from evil. When you're Catarina al

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Phaeton, and they will fight with the people who cause fitna. Now

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this fighting could be in many different versions, people causing

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fitna you're, you're helping to solve the matter for them, you're

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hoping to resolve the issues for them. There's many, many

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manifestations of this. But the one thing which we are losing from

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our community, because of individualism is that people are

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now very, are not concerned about what other people are doing. We

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look the other way. If you see your own friend sometime doing the

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wrong thing, you have no ability to say Brother, we shouldn't do

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this.

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Now see what is gone from this Oma.

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In fact, one of the poet's he said, they don't want us to do a

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marinara, often the honeymoon come when everybody stops doing it,

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then nobody will tell anybody anything, then everybody is free

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to do as much evil as possible. So today, you see your friends,

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children doing something wrong. You don't have the guts to say

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anything, because your friend, or that child's father will come and

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say Why are you speaking about life, my children?

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Number one, we don't have any wisdom in the way we correct

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people. And number two, we're not willing to accept any kind of

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criticism. When that happens, then this brings about degeneration of

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the ummah.

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I was sitting, I remember,

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there were two people sitting both items, and one set day. And then

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the other one day, one person ate very quickly, the other one was

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visiting. He said, shake what I want to mention too, if you don't

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mind, you eat too fast. And that's bad for you.

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And the person said, just like Alafaya, can you say that to

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somebody?

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He said, Just like allow him he says, Look, I'm saying this with

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all with all sincerity. Right? He said that and other persons that

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just love him. On another occasion, the one was with the

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other one, and the other one hadn't finished, he left a few

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grains of rice, etc. In his lakes as many people do. So check. I

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think it's a good idea. If you clean that up. We shouldn't leave

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anything you said JazakAllah for reminding me. People know, but

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they just need a friendly reminder. Today what happens is if

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somebody comes and tells me something, I will try to think of

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10 things about what I know of him and immediately on the defensive.

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I will start saying but you do this, you do this, you do this,

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and we shouldn't do that. When I was an Imam, the other Imam once

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came and told me that I just want to mention a few things to you.

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Now there's about five things I there's the five criticisms I have

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of my fellow Imam which I haven't been able to tell him yet at that

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point. He came in he said to me,

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shake you do this, that and the other. And I said JazakAllah

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Hayden, I agree with this, this one this is my reason for doing

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so. Now, I did not tell him and I also want to mention five things

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about you.

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At that time, it would be the wrong time to do it. I accepted

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what he said and I thanked him. This is the nasiha

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we have to be able to do this but on a nice way sin with sincerity.

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That is how you will get the Bersih there is how the ummah will

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stay up.

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Final tolerations to give us more optimism.

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam said in a hadith narrated by

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Muhammad in his Muslim from Abu Umar Radi Allahu Anhu Rasulullah

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, to burn him and Ronnie, what am I

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gonna be

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glad tidings for the one who saw me and believed in me. Somebody

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who sees me the prophets Allah was saying like the Sahaba and they

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believed in me, glad tidings for him. But then the prophets of

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Allah Allah sent him again. He never forgets his Alma Subhanallah

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he never forgets us. He said, What tuba saba. Amma rotten, lemon,

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lemon Yoni lemon lamb, your oni wa MonaVie seven times glad tidings

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for the ones who have not seen me for the one who has not seen me

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but still believes in me.

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This is the thought of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, this

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is his love for his ummah, the progeny of his former

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Why did the prophets of Allah Islam not allow the angel to

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destroy the people in in

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in five, because he said that that the future generations will become

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believers. That's the that's the thought of Rasulullah sallallahu

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Sallam the final Hadith. Imam Timothy relates in a sound chain,

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Hadith and Hasson banzuke know Hakeem relates that from his

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father, father and grandfather from Missoula Sinhala Why do you

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send them?

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He said, There's a verse in the Quran condom hydro Amma rigidly

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nurse

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You are the best of nations. This is what Allah says you are the

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best of nations that have been extracted for the people because

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that moving them out of it and hold it Mancha, the prophets of

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the Lord is giving Tafseer of this verse he says unto unto the Munna,

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Submarino mutton, you are completing 70 nations from before

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you, you are at the end of 70 nations. And then he said, What an

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Tumhari Ruha what a crumble ha Allah Allah, you are the best of

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them, the choices of them and most noble of them in the sight of

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Allah subhanho wa Taala This is what our messenger sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam thoughts about us And subhanAllah living in this

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country with all the the government attacks and the media

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attacks on us and so on and so forth. We sometimes feel a bit

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insecure, vulnerable. Some people begin to question their faith, is

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it worth being a Muslim less people who are on the fringe, this

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causes a lot of commotion for them. Recently, I had the

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opportunity to go and visit Muslims in West Africa, in

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Mauritania and Senegal. And I have to say subhanallah the believers I

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saw there, gave me great hope that we're not alone.

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You see the African Muslims there, And subhanAllah the kind of iman

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that they have it uplifted my spirits. It gave me a new breath

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of life, innocence, new sense of optimism. We have huge amounts of

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people who are praying to Allah subhanaw taala. One of them

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related to me from one of the pious and greatest Allah ma of the

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last 14 years. Sheikh Ibrahim the US related one statement of his

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the sheikh Ibrahim used to say in ni la oral man, what our fee per

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year I'll minimum that I see many trials and tribulations. But in

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the fold and inside wrapped up in these trials and tribulations, I

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see great bounties and gifts, and Subhan. Allah with what is

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happening in the recent times, it has opened up the Muslim community

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to behave better with their neighbors. How many Muslims have

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now started worrying about homeless people? How many Muslim

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communities and masajid have now started worrying about what the

00:32:24 --> 00:32:28

politicians are saying? How many have they started talking about

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feeding the poor, gathering food for people and helping people out.

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It's a time for us to wake up. Allah is only going to change us

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if we try to change. That's why my final dua is that Oh Allah, You

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grant us your mercy. You show us the way ahead. And you take us out

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of these times into much better times. And show us the right way

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ahead. We're here with our annual hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen

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JazakAllah Aden for I'm extremely honored to be here, just like

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Allah for this program. May Allah subhanaw taala rewards you all may

00:33:01 --> 00:33:04

Allah subhanho wa Taala take this Masjid from strength to strength

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working with Dhawan and Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen

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